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The Practice Of Discernment In Everyday Life
BY CAROL ANN SMITH AND EUGENE MERZ The authors invite you to become more attentive to the way the Spirit leads you and to perceive more clearly God's presence and action in the world. "In our overly busy world, making daily life a prayer has become ever more important. Drawing from Ignatian spirituality, this valuable volume provides clear and down-to-earth guidance for those seeking to live in the presence of God." - Bernard Cooke
Ave Maria Press 2006 222 PP. Paper
$16.95 (low stock)
How A Man's Life Is Shaped By His Relationship With His Father
BY SAMUEL OSHERSON Harvard psychologist Samuel Osherson shows how a man's unreconciled childhood images of his father affects his relationships with his wife, children, friends, and boss--and how it can lead to a profound sense of loneliness, vulnerability, and rage. Osherson shows how every man can resolve the inner conflict of the father-son relationship and begin to develop a new sense of strength and purpose in his family life and career.
Comtemporary Books 1987 240 PP. Paper
$10.00 (backorder)
Quakerism's Place In A Globalized Future
BY DANIEL SEEGER The 2001 SEYM Michener Lecture.
SEYM 2001 22 PP. Paper
$4.00 (in stock)
BY DOROTHY REICHARDT Eight 2-hour units cover the sweep of history and variety of literature in the Bible. Includes a section on sharing feelings about the Bible, historical charts, references to George Fox's Journal, meditations on listening to God, and discussion questions. Used in QSP (Quaker Studies Program).
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1991 Looseleaf
$12.00 (low stock)
A True Story How Children Can Help Create World Peace Through Toys
BY CHARLOTTE PACK In 1926 with tensions rising between the two countries, the United States sent 12,739 Friendship Dolls to Japan. Ellen C. was one of those dolls, the book follows her from Wilmington, Ohio to Nagasaki, Japan and learns how friendship can overcome even war. Finding the Friendship Dolls shows how children can appreciate the people and culture of another country even in troubled times. Although this story happened many years ago, children today still have the same power to make a difference through children's diplomacy - the act of children simply sharing their friendship. It is time for a children's peace movement, and this book leads the way.
Peace Resource Centre, Wilmington College 2009 47 PP. Paper
$14.95 (in stock)
A Movement Between Inner Knowledge And Outer Action - Php 400
BY FRANCES IRENE TABER Subtitled " a movement between inner knowledge and outer action". This pamphlet explores the spiritual basis of Friends' testimony of simplicity. It looks at how it evolved from early Friends efforts to live in away that fostered spiritual richness in their lives and how it continues to speak today in the lives of those who seek to find not merely balance but wholeness to their inward and outward lives. A rich and fascinating essay to mark the pamphlet series reaching Four hundred!
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2009 28 PP. Paper
$6.50 (in stock)
Poets And The Crisis Of Faith - Php 310
BY JOHN LAMPEN Poems can help express mystical experience.
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1993 40 PP. Paper
$6.50 (backorder)
Robert Fulton And The American Dream
BY KIRKPATRICK SALE From a leading environmentalist thinker, chairman of the Schumacher Society . Set against a brilliant portrait of a dynamic period in history, The Fire of His Genius tells the story of the fiercely driven man whose invention of the steam boat opened up America's interior to waves of settlers, created and sustained industrial and plantation economies in the nation's heartland, and facilitated the destruction of the remaining Indian civilizations. Probing Fulton's genius but also laying bare the darker side of the man -- and the darker side of the American dream -- Kirkpatrick Sale tells an extraordinary tale with deftness, zest, and unflagging verve.
Touchstone 2002 242 PP. Paper
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Norman Morrison's Legacy In Vietnam And At Home - Php 381
BY ANNE MORRISON-WELSH Anne Morrison Welsh tells the moving story of her husband's self-sacrifice at the Pentagon in November 1965 in a desperate effort to help end a war he abhorred. Quaker Norman Morrison felt led to make this extreme statement in the manner of Vietnamese Buddhist monks. In telling her husband's story, the author also shares her own spiritual journey of forgiveness, acceptance and gradual recovery from life's wounds. A 1999 visit to Vietnam was healing for Anne Morrison Welsh as she and her daughters met with many Vietnamese who shared with her the extraordinary impact that Norman Morrison's act had on their hearts and minds.
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2006 39 PP Paper
What The Gospels Really Teach About Jesus' Birth
BY MARCUS BORG AND JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN In The First Christmas, two of today's top Jesus scholars, Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan, join forces to show how history has biased our reading of the nativity story as it appears in the gospels of Matthew and Luke. As they did for Easter in their previous book, The Last Week, here they explore the beginning of the life of Christ, peeling away the sentimentalism that has built up over the last two thousand years around this most well known of all stories to reveal the truth of what the gospels actually say. Borg and Crossan help us to see this well-known narrative afresh by answering the question, "What do these stories mean?"
HarperOne 2009 272 PP. Paper
$13.99 (in stock)
Reclaiming The Radical Visionary Behind The Church's Conservative Icon
BY MARCUS BORG, JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN Borg and Crossan contend there are "Three Pauls" in the New Testament: "The Radical Paul" (of the seven genuine letters), "The Conservative Paul" (of the three disputed epistles), and "The Reactionary Paul" (of the three inauthentic letters). By closely examining this progression of Paul's letters-from the authentic to the inauthentic-the authors show how the apostle was slowly but steadily "deradicalized" to fit Roman social norms in regards to slavery, patriarchy, and patronage. In truth, Paul was an appealing apostle of Jesus whose vision of life "in Christ" is remarkably faithful to the message of Jesus himself.
HarperOne 2009 240 PP. Cloth
$24.99 (backorder)
BY SUE MONK KIDD In Firstlight, author Sue Monk Kidd offers readers an intimate glimpse into the early years of her journey as both writer and spiritual seeker. Drawn from her early writings for Guideposts and other publications, these personal reflections and essays are organized around thirteen spiritual motifs and interwoven to create a compelling narrative about the author's spiritual awakening. Included are writings about the author's multiple roles as mother, daughter, wife, nurse, and writer; recollections about her extensive travels; reflections on her childhood and marriage; and musings on a stream of ordinary moments -- all of which added richness and meaning to the author's journey.
Penguin 2007 227 PP. Paper
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BY THE FGC COMMITTEE FOR MINISTRY ON RACISM AND WREN ALMITRA This guide is designed to help readers explore more deeply the issues discussed in the book Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship: Quakers, African Americans and the Myth of Racial Justice by Donna McDaniel and Vanessa Julye. Filled with quotes, queries, and suggested activities, the guide can be used in meetings, reading groups, or individually.
Quaker Press of FGC 2009 Looseleaf
$18.00 (backorder)
Quakers, African Americans And The Myth Of Racial Justice
BY DONNA MCDANIEL AND VANESSA JULYE There is a common misconception that most Quakers assisted fugitive slaves and involved themselves in civil rights activism because of their belief in equality. While there were Friends committed to ending enslavement and post-enslavement injustices, Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship reveals that racism has been as insidious, complex, and pervasive among Friends as it has been generally among people of European descent. The book documents the spiritual and practical impacts of discrimination in the Religious Society of Friends in the belief that understanding the truth of our past is vital to achieving a diverse, inclusive community in the future.
Quaker Press of FGC 2009 548 PP. Cloth
$45.00 (in stock)
BY FGC'S COMMITTEE FOR MINISTRY ON RACISM AND WREN ALMITRA This is a downloadable .pdf version of the study guide. When you order, after we confirm your purchase, we will send you a link to download the publication. This guide is designed to help readers explore more deeply the issues discussed in the book Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship: Quakers, African Americans and the Myth of Racial Justice by Donna McDaniel and Vanessa Julye. Filled with quotes, queries, and suggested activities, the guide can be used in meetings, reading groups, or individually.
Quaker Press of FGC 2009 PDF DOWNLOAD Blank
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Quaker Press of FGC 2009 548 PP. Paper
$28.00 (in stock)
What Did Jesus Really Say? The Search For The Authentic Words Of Jesus
BY ROBERT FUNK, ROY HOOVER, THE JESUS SEMINAR An extremely useful Bible study resource for the individual or meeting. Using the texts of the four gospels plus the Gospel of Thomas, the Jesus Seminar "color code" the words of Jesus. Those in red they attribute to be most reliably spoken by Him. They grade the words in five shades from red to black. Black represents those words that they think others ascribe to Jesus. Very full commentaries on each quotation give context, comparisons with the other Gospels and scholarship on issues raised.
HarperSF 1997 554 PP. Paper
BARBOUR, HUGH
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What Past Climate Changes Reveal About The Current Threat - And How To Counter It
BY WALLACE S. BROECKER A collaboration between an earth scientist and a science writer. Fixing Climate takes an unconventional approach to the vitally important issue of global warming. Wallace Broecker warned about the possible consequences of global warming decades before the concept entered popular consciousness. The time to reduce carbon emissions has already passed in his opinion, and large and small scale projects to reduce carbon dioxide directly are needed. Told by skilled science journalist Robert Kunzig, Fixing Climate is a timely and informative story that makes for riveting reading.
Hill and Wang 2008 272 PP. Cloth
$25.00 (low stock)
William Penn Lecture
TOOMER, JEAN
1979 Paper
$2.00 (in stock)
BY PATRICIA HAMPL Her writing is well known to friends from gathering workshops on spiritual storytelling that have used "I Could tell you stories" and made that book a best seller for us. This book tells the story of her parents a debonair Czech father, whose floral work gave him entrée to St. Paul society, and her mother a distrustful Irishwoman with an uncanny ability to tell a tale. Written while her mother was dying, it is a telling of life's lived with passion and spirit that created and enriched her own.
Harcourt 2007 227 PP. Paper
BY LAURA KINSALE Something different! Voted by some as one of the top 10 romance novels of all time. The "rakehell" the Duke of Jervault comes upon hard times and a mental breakdown and is befriended by a plain Quaker girl, Maddy Timms…Could it be his redemption and her big romance…
Avon 1992 553 PP. Paper
$7.99 (in stock)
Poems
BY HENRY TAYLOR Quaker poet Henry Taylor's 1986 Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poetry. Here he is immersing himself in the beauty of the Blue Ridge mountains, pleasures for which a real farmer has neither the time or inclination. An anti-modernist in pursuit of states of grace, Taylor revels in such things as a "frisbee floating like milkweed," women's hands and "the charming old songs in their illegible syllables." His affection for his region is faithful and unmixed, and produces sweet variety in his moderate pastoral.
Louisiana State University Press 1986 55 PP. Paper
Servant Leadership For The 21st Century
EDITED BY LARRY SPEARS AND MICHELE LAWRENCE This important work provides an inspirational collection of 25 essays on servant-leadership, with a significant focus on the practice of servant-leadership in organizational and business settings.
Wiley 2001 416 PP. Cloth
BY EUGENE GENDLIN Rex Ambler in the Experiment with Light strongly recommends this technique as a tool for increasing one's intuitive awareness. Based on research at the University of Chicago, Focusing is a technique of self therapy that teaches one to identify personal problems and a series of steps that can be taken to address them.
Bantam Books 1982 188 PP. Paper
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Seth Barch BRACELET Boxed
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CRAFTED BY SETH BARCH Hammered from nearly two feet of silver, this bracelet can be worn two different ways. Open, it wraps from about two inches about the wrist-bone down to drape comfortably across the back of the hand; when closed it makes an attractive bangle or slips easily into any bag. Springy, it snaps open and flat with ease. I will need to contact you after purchase to ensure a proper fit. Shipping to US destinations is included in the price.
Set Barch BRACELET Boxed
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Leading As An Ordinary Radical
BY SHANE CLAIBORNE AND JOHN PERKINS Shane Claiborne and John Perkins know the hopes and longings of this age. One is young; the other is decades older. One is a self-proclaimed reformed redneck who now lives in the inner city and has become a voice for compassionate change; the other is an evangelical African-American voice for civil rights who once was almost beaten to death by police in Mississippi, and went on to counsel three presidents and launch a reconciliation movement. You would be hard pressed to find a more unlikely duo, yet Claiborne and Perkins now lead the way toward freedom for all. In a world hungry for radical hope, their stories will guide as we walk down the rugged road to another world.
Regal 2009 224 PP. Paper
$14.99 (in stock)
More About Young Children And Worship
BY SONJA STEWART A follow up to Young Children and Worship. The author builds on that book and the Godly Play ideas of Jerome Berryman. Contains 34 stories from the New Testament about Jesus' life, with suggested words and instructions on presentation and the materials you can prepare for them so that the children (aged 3-7 approximately) can best hear and respond to them.
Geneva Westminster 2000 272 PP. Paper
$29.95 (low stock)
BY LAWRENCE APSEY Paperback, fair condition. Signed by the author. The autobiography of a Quaker who worked for peace in many ways and in many places. In particular he was a leader in development of the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) and Children's Creative Response to Conflict (CCRC). SECONDHAND COPY.
Kim Pathways 1991 272 PP. Paper
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Fit For Freedom, Not For Friendship - Paperback
Faith And Practice Of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (paper)
Celebrating The Quaker Way
Friends For 350 Years
Four Doors To Meeting For Worship
Give A Goat
Einstein's God
Amish Grace
The Florist's Daughter
Early Zimbabwe
