Daily Readings From Quaker Spirituality

EDITED BY EDWARD CELL
A fine introduction to Quaker thought with nearly 70 one-page spiritual writings by prominent Friends. Contributors range from Fox, Woolman, Nayler and Penn to Kenneth Boulding, Thomas Kelly, Rufus Jones, and Jessamyn West. Ideal for inquirers or as a daily devotional for seasoned Friends.

Templegate 1987 96 PP. Paper

$4.95 (in stock)

Daily Readings From Quaker Writings - Volume 2

Ancient And Modern

EDITED BY LINDA RENFER
Readings from Quaker literature spanning more than 300 years that includes writings of more than 150 Friends from early times to the present. Good at your bedside or as a gift.

Serenity 1995 374 PP. Cloth

$31.95 (in stock)

The Dance Between Hope And Fear

BY JOHN CALVI
Questions and answers, poetry and prayers about healing and being a healer.

Southeastern Yearly Meeting 1992 23 PP. Paper

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Dancer

NOLA TURKINGTON
Bau knows as many dances as there are seeds in a calabash rattle but she does not know the magic rainbull dance - only the rainmaiden knows that. Then drought seizes the land, a drought so terrible that Bau's grandmother sends her to the Tsodilo Hills in search of the reain maiden, for now Bau must dance as she has never deanced before, to bring rain to the Kalahari people.

Blank

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Dancing Deer And The Foolish Hunter

BY ELISA KLEVEN
A hunter thinks his fortune is made when he captures a dancing deer. Back at his house, however, the poor creature can't dance but she can talk. She tells him that, to dance, she needs birdsong. The hunter captures some birds, but they won't sing without the whistling of the pines, and the pine branches he brings won't whistle without sea breezes, and so on. Learning finally that all things have a place in nature, the hunter agrees to let everything he has captured go free but only if the deer will give him dancing lessons. For readers 4 - 8.

Dutton 2002 32 PP. Cloth

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Dancing With God Through The Storm

Mysticism And Mental Illness - Php 344

BY JENNIFER ELAM
Elam explores the connection of mysticism to mental illness in this moving essay. Included are the stories of many Friends describing their experience of mysticism, as well as reproductions of the authors' paintings. NOTE She also has a book with exactly the same title published in 2002-see separate listing.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1999 48 PP. Paper

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Dancing With God Through The Storm, Book

Mysticism And Mental Illness

BY JENNIFER ELAM
This is a book length expansion of Elam's pamphlet on the same subject. "As a person who has experienced both mysticism and mental illness, I can testify to the large opening this book provides. May you read it and be similarly opened!" - A project participant

Way Opens Press 2002 189 PP. Paper

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The Dandelion Seed

BY JOSEPH ANTHONY & CHRIS ARBO
The humble dandelion. By roadside, mountainside, in flower beds, lawns and woods it flowers every month of the year throughout the world, a fitting symbol of life. Its journey is a bit like our journey, filled with challenge, wonder and beauty. This popular, simple book is beautiful and touching.

Dawn Publications 1997 32 PP. Paper

$8.95 (in stock)

Dao De Jing

A Philosophical Translation

BY ROGER AMES, DAVID HALL
In this elegant volume, Ames and Hall feature the original Chinese texts of the Dao de Jing and translate them into crisp, chiseled English that reads like poetry. Each of the eighty-one brief chapters is followed by clear, thought-provoking commentary exploring the layers of meaning in the text. The book's extensive introduction is a model of accessible scholarship in which Ames and Hall consider the origin of the text, place the emergence of Daoist philosophy in its historical and political context, and outline its central tenets.

Ballantine Books 2003 256 PP. Paper

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Darby

What Happens When You Tell The Tr

FUQUA, JONATHAN
In 1926, Darby Carmichael starts an unexpected career as a newspaper reporter for the Bennettsville Times, and finds some true stories it is difficult to report.

Candlewick Press 2006 242 PP. Paper

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Darfur Diaries

Stories Of Survival

BY JEN MARLOWE AND OTHERS
In late 2004 a team of three independent filmmakers trekked to Darfurian refugee camps in eastern Chad and crept across the border into Darfur. They met dozens of Darfurians, and spoke with them about their history, hopes and fears, and the tragedy they are living. Their stories and testimonies, woven together through the personal experience of the filmmakers, and conveyed with political and historical context, provide a much-needed account to help understand Darfur. These are people whose lives, homes, safety and rights deserve to be protected as vigilantly as those of peoples all over the world.

Nation Books 2007 259 PP. Paper

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Dark Night Journey

Inward Re-patterning Toward A Life Centered In God

BY SANDRA CRONK
The dark night aptly describes the situation of those who have had a growing sense of God's presence, direction, and consolation and are suddenly bereft of that experience. Aridity, meaninglessness, loss, and pain are hardly the milestones expected on a journey toward God. The author brings a unique perspective to her interpretation of this powerful pathway, and offers sensitive guidance to dark night travelers and those who seek to understand and nurture them.

Pendle Hill 2001 179 PP. Paper

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Daughters Of Light

Quaker Women Preaching And Prophesying In The Colonies And Abroad, 1700-1775

BY REBECCA LARSON
"With meticulous scholarship and graceful style, Rebecca Larson tells the story of the eighteenth century Quaker women ministers who criss-crossed the Atlantic, preaching the Inner Light, and changing forever the perception of women's roles. The authority with which Quaker women later spoke in the reform movements can be traced to these spiritual predecessors." - Margaret Hope Bacon.

University of North Carolina Press 2000 416 PP. Paper

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Day Of Tears

BY JULIUS LESTER
Tells the story of several characters including Emma, a slave owned by gambler Pierce Butler and caretaker of his two daughters. Emma wants to teach his daughters, one opposes slavery and supports it to have kind hearts. Meanwhile, Pierce decides to cash in his "assets" and host the largest slave auction in American history. On that day, the skies open up and weep endlessly on the proceedings below, using the multiple voices of enslaved Africans and their owners, Julius Lester has taken a little-known event in American history and transformed it into a heartbreaking and powerfully dramatic epic on slavery, and the struggle to affirm humanity.

Hyperion 2007 177 PP. Paper

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Days Of Jubilee

BY PAT & FREDERICK MCKISSACK
For two and a half centuries African-American slaves sang about, prayed for, and waited on their long anticipated freedom - a day of Jubilee. But freedom didn't come for slaves at the same time. This book chronicles the various stages of U.S. emancipation beginning with those slaves who were freed for their service during the Revolutionary War, to those who were freed by the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. Using slave narratives, letters, diaries, military orders, and other documents, the McKissacks invite young readers to celebrate coming to freedom and the Days of Jubilee.

Scholastic 2003 129 PP. Cloth

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Dealing Creatively With Death

A Manual Of Death Education And Simple Burial, 14th Edition

BY EARNEST MORGAN
This book is a small encyclopedia on death-related problems: social, emotional, philosophical and practical. It is written simply and sensitively, drawing substantially on direct experience.

Barclay House 2001 163 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

Dealing With Difficult Behavior In Meeting For Worship

Meeting The Needs Of The Many While Responding To The Needs Of The Few

BY THE MINISTRY AND NURTURE COMMITTEE OF FRIENDS GENERAL CONFERENCE
We've changed the size and the title but otherwise this is the same pamphlet as 'The Wounded Meeting.' The new title, formerly the sub-title, more clearly reflects the contents. When someone disrupts meeting for worship, what can the meeting community do? Explore your options and find caring solutions.

Quaker Press of FGC 2002 27 PP. Paper

$8.00 (in stock)

Dear Benjamin Banneker

BY ANDREA DAVIS-PINKNEY, ILLUSTRATED BY BRIAN PINKNEY
Though the fact that Banneker regularly attended meeting for worship is not mentioned, this is a very good short biography of this remarkable free Black man: an accomplished astronomer and mathematician and the first Black man to publish an almanac. He also wrote Thomas Jefferson as incredibly eloquent letter (which is excerpted here) speaking against slavery. Ages 6-9.

Harcourt 1998 32 PP. Paper

$7.00 (in stock)

Dear Dods

Letters From A Conscientious Objector In Wwii

BY ARTHUR BRYANT
Art Bryant became a CO in 1943, serving in various camps and as a firefighter in the CPS. Mostly told through excerpts from letters to "Dods" that give an authentic view from the inside; written more than 60 years ago and pouring out his heart as he shares his life with his wife. They tell of the struggle he and others experienced seeking to serve conscience and country while conscripted into often conflicting circumstances.

AuthorHouse 2009 243 PP. Cloth

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Dear Friends And Sisters

25 Short Biographies Of Quaker Women

BY GIL SKIDMORE
A collection of 25 biographies of lesser-known Quaker women from the 17th to the 20th century from the United Kingdom, Sweden and the United States. Women featured include a printer, a poet, a doctor and a scientist.

Sowle Press 1998 56 PP. Paper

$12.00 (backorder)

Dear Friends And Brethren

25 Biographies Of Quaker Men

GIL SKIDMORE
By popular request Gil Skidmore has now written a companion volume to Dear Friends and Sisters. These accounts of lesser known Quaker men include artists and scientists, writers and bankers, some conventional, some radical and some highly eccentric.

Sowle Press 2000 64 PP. Paper

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Dear Gift Of Life

A Man's Encounter With Death - Php 142

BY BRADFORD SMITH
The journal and poetry of this faithful Friend in the months before his death from cancer.

Pendle Hill 1993 38 PP. Paper

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The Death Of Innocents

An Eyewitness Account Of Wrongful Executions

BY HELEN PREJEAN
Sister Helen Prejean traces the historical underpinnings of executions in this country, demonstrating that it is no accident that over 80 percent of executions in the past twenty-five years have been carried out in the former slave states. She also raises profound constitutional questions about an appeals system that decides most death cases on procedural grounds without ever examining their merits. To date, well over one hundred wrongfully convicted persons have been freed from death row. If constitutional protections - due process, assistance of counsel, and equal justice under law - are truly being respected, how is it possible that these people were convicted in the first place?

Vintage 2006 336 PP. Paper

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The Debt

What America Owes To Blacks

BY RANDALL ROBINSON
"I have tried in these pages to sketch the outlines of a story that stretches from the dawn of civilization to the present. The dilemma of blacks in the world cannot possibly be understood without taking the long view of history. My intent is to stimulate, not sate. To pose the question. To invite the debate. To cause America to compensate, after three and a half centuries, for a long-avoided wrong." - from the introduction

Plume 2000 262 PP. Paper

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Deep Economy

The Wealth Of Communities And The Durable Future - Paperback

BY BILL MCKIBBEN
In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. Deep Economy makes the compelling case for moving beyond "growth" as the paramount economic ideal and pursuing prosperity in a more local direction, with regions producing more of their own food, generating more of their own energy, and even creating more of their own culture and entertainment. Our purchases need not be at odds with the things we truly value, McKibben argues, and the more we nurture the essential humanity of our economy, the more we will recapture our own

Holt 2008 272 PP. Paper

$14.00 (low stock)

Deep Purple Pendant With Colorful Dichroic Foil

CRAFTED BY LIZ PERCH
Deep purple pendant with colorful dichroic foil on 16-18 adjustable gold plated snake chain Not in stock in Philadelphia, ships from Savannah Georgia. Postage included in price.

Savannah Sparkle 2010 Boxed

$27.00 Availability checked Mar 10th 3:00pm CST

Deepening The Spiritual Life Of The Meeting

BY EDWARD HOARE
"How do we deepen the spiritual life of the meeting?" "Since there were no birthright Friends in the 1650s, what made them Quakers?" The author approaches these questions based on conviction, conversion, and convincement.$1.50 each (fewer than 10). $1.25 each (10-49). $.85 each (50 or more).

Quaker Press of FGC 1994 10 PP. Tract

0-10 $1.50, 10-50 $1.25, 50 or more $0.85 (in stock)

Delayed Justice For Sale

BY ASHLEY DICKERSON
The astonishing life story of Mahala Ashley Dickerson, Alabama's first black female attorney. Told simply and eloquently, it is a story of almost unbelievable courage in the face of adversity. The daughter of country schoolteachers, Mahala graduated cum laude from Fisk University. Then, at Howard Law School, she encounters some of the leading legal minds of her time, such as Thurgood Marshall, Spottswood Robinson, Howard Jenkins, James Washington, George Hayes, Willian Hastie and John Bussey. Launching her career soon afterward, she is soon setting precedents and scoring major victories in Alabama, Indiana, and Alaska.

Acres 1998 233 PP. Paper

$12.00 (in stock)

Description Of The Qualifications Necessary

To A Gospel Minister; Advice To Ministers And Elders Among The People Called Quakers

BY SAMUEL BOWNAS
Friends seeking to nurture and deepen ministry in their meetings will find remarkably clear, specific and relevant guidance in this classic work. "Qualification, as this eighteenth century Friend uses the word, implies that one has gone through a process of personal transformation which reorients the ego, the will, and the attention so that one can be trusted purely to receive and purely to give forth an inspired message." (William Taber, from the Introduction) Bownas offers advice on 'qualifying' vocal ministry and other forms of ministry. A careful reading of the book can help Friends learn to discern the difference between the ego and Divine will.

Pendle Hill/Tract Association 1989 104 PP. Cloth

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Desert Father

In The Desert With Saint Anthony

BY JAMES COWAN
James Cowan's quest to understand the desert spirituality of St Anthony takes him to Egypt, to the monastery that still exists near the site of Anthony's hermitage, where he meets the monk who becomes his guide and mentor on the journey. He comes to regard Anthony and the colorful men and women who shared his lifestyle in the 4th through 7th centuries with affection and awe. Our modern efforts toward liberation may look different from theirs, he concludes, but the ultimate goal is no different, and Anthony remains a luminous model for anyone who passionately seeks to know God.

Shambala 2004 240 PP. Cloth

$6.50 (in stock)