Eternal Life

A New Vision: Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven And Hell

BY JOHN SHELBY SPONG
Bishop Spong is known for his controversial ideas and fighting for minority rights. In Eternal Life: A New Vision, a remarkable spiritual journey about his lifelong struggle with the questions of God and death, he reveals how he came to a new conviction about eternal life. God, says Spong, is ultimately one, and each of us is part of that oneness. We do not live on after death as children who have been rewarded with heaven or punished with hell but as part of the life and being of God, sharing in God's eternity, which is beyond the barriers of time and space.

HarperOne 2010 288PP. Paper

$14.99 (in stock)

Eternal Life -hardback

A New Vision: Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven And Hell

BY JOHN SHELBY SPONG
Bishop John Shelby Spong is known for his controversial ideas and fighting for minority rights. In Eternal Life: A New Vision, a remarkable spiritual journey about his lifelong struggle with the questions of God and death, he reveals how he came to a new conviction about eternal life. God, says Spong, is ultimately one, and each of us is part of that oneness. We do not live on after death as children who have been rewarded with heaven or punished with hell but as part of the life and being of God, sharing in God's eternity, which is beyond the barriers of time and space. Spong argues that the discovery of the eternal can be found within each of us if we go deeply into ourselves.

HarperOne 2009 288 PP. Cloth

$24.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Eternal Promise

A Sequel To A Testament Of Devotion

BY THOMAS KELLY, FOREWORD BY HOWARD MACY
The Eternal Promise includes two of Thomas Kelly's classic essays, "The Gathered Meeting" and "Hasten unto God." Published in this edition is also an essay entitled, "Have You Ever Seen a Miracle?" of which Douglas Steere wrote, "It is Thomas Kelly at his absolute best and will pierce the hearts of ever so many readers."

Friends United Press 1991 165 PP. Paper

$13.00 (in stock)

Ethical Business Relationships

Partnerships In Peace

BY LEE THOMAS JR
"This book is about my mentors, the lessons they taught me, and the lessons they are still teaching me today. It's about ethical principles in buisness, something instilled in me by my parents and many others. It's about translating those principles into ethical behavior in the workplace. It's about how we always should be striving to be honest and honorable in our dealings. It's about how we need to form peaceful partnerships so that everyone comes out a winner. It's about ethical values driving the way we manage business. And finally, it's about trying to discern God's will for us as we face the often difficult challenges of doing business today." - The author

Thomas 2005 151 PP Cloth

$16.95 (in stock)

Ethical Wills

Putting Your Values On Paper, 2nd Edition

BY BARRY BAINES
Having a living will is an essential element in ensuring that the way in which you would like to spend your last days will be respected. It informs both family and doctors of your medical treatment preferences in specific situations. An ethical will is a complementary text that communicates personal values, beliefs, blessings, and advice to relatives and to future generations. It can be more meaningful to friends and family than any material possession you could bequeath to them. Together, living and ethical wills ensure that your wishes and hopes are "on the record," not to be lost, ignored, or forgotten.

Da Capo 2006 240 PP. Cloth

$15.95 (in stock)

The Ethics And Efficacy Of The Global War On Terrorism

Fighting Terror With Terror

EDITED BY JOHN ARNALDI, CHARLES WEBEL

2011 284 PP. Cloth

$90.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Etty Hillesum

An Interupted Life And Letters From Westerbrook

BY ETTY HILLESUM
Etty Hillesum died in Auchswitz at the age of 29. The diary and letters combined here are a powerful story of spiritual growth in a very dark time.

Owl Books 1996 376 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)

Evalyn Parry Live At Lula

BY EVALYN PARRY
Quaker and 2011 gathering plenary Singer presents an inspired evening of song, spoken word and theatre on her first live DVD, recorded in Toronto in 2006. Includes bonus rehearsal footage, interview plus videos of Weed Free and Once in a Blue Moon. Songs include 'The gay rover' and 'requiem for acivic.

Borealis Recordings 2006 70 MINS Disk

$15.00 (in stock)

Evangelical Disenchantment

Nine Portraits Of Faith And Doubt

BY DAVID HEMPTON
looks at evangelicalism through the lens of well-known folk who once evangelical, but who later repudiated it. Recounts the faith journeys of 9 artists, social reformers, and public intellectuals including such diverse figures as George Eliot, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Vincent van Gogh, and James Baldwin. Within their highly individual stories, Hempton finds not only clues to the development of these particular creative men and women but also myriad insights into the strengths and weaknesses of one of the fastest growing religious traditions in the modern world.

Yale 2008 230 PP. Cloth

$8.50 (in stock)

Evangelical Friends History

Cd-rom

BY JIM LESHANA
A CD-ROM with video, audio, and text for a 12-lesson survey of the Evangelical Friends Church from its origins in the 17th century to the present. Includes lectures, historical Friends documents and pictures, questions for personal reflection and group discussion, and quizzes to help grasp key concepts. A useful resource for those studying or worshiping with Friends from the evangelical tradition.

Friends Center (EFCSW) 2003 CD-ROM Disk

$19.95 (in stock)

Every Man Heart Lay Down

BY LORENZ GRAHAM
Here is the story of the birth of Jesus retold in the idiom of Liberians newly acquainted with the English language. To the storytellers of Liberia, Bible stories become poems, or spoken songs. So it is with this simple and tender version of the Nativity.

Boyds Mills Press 1993 48 PP. Cloth

$19.95 (in stock)

Every War Has Two Losers

William Stafford On Peac And War

BY WILLIAM STAFFORD
For most of the 20th century, from WW I until his death in 1993, American poet and pacifist William Stafford remained convinced that wars don't work. In his poetry and other writings, he showed that it is crucial to think independently when fanatics act and to speak for reconciliation when nations take sides. This book collects the antiwar writings, journal excerpts, pacifist poems, interviews, and an account of his own near-hanging at the hands of American patriots. He assesses U.S. political habits and suggests that there are always alternative approaches to aggression. Includes newly published excerpts from William Stafford's daily journal from 1951 to 1991.

Milkweed 2003 168 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

Everybody Says Freedom

A History Of The Civil Rights Movement In Songs And Pictures

BY PETE SEEGER AND BOB REISER
This book is an engaging collection of songs from the Civil Rights movement, illustrated with pictures and accompanied by profiles of artists and activists and tales of the ordinary people who were motivated to action. The book is organized by location and movement, and provides an in-depth and vivid look at the spirit of the protest movements.

W.W . Norton and Company 1990 266 PP. Paper

$18.95 (in stock)

Everyday Antiracism

Getting Real About Race In School

EDITED BY MICA POLLOCK
Contributors including Beverly Daniel Tatum, Sonia Nieto, and Pedro Noguera describe concrete ways to analyze classroom interactions that may or may not be "racial," deal with racial inequality and "diversity," and teach to high standards across racial lines. Topics range from using racial incidents as teachable moments, responding to the "n-word", and dealing daily with achievement gaps, and helping parents fight ethnic and racial misconceptions about their children. Questions following each essay prompt readers to examine and discuss everyday issues of race and opportunity in their own classrooms and schools.

New Press 2006 368 PP. Paper

$24.95 (in stock)

Everyday Simplicity

A Practical Guide To Spiritual Growth

BY ROBERT WICKS
Everyday Simplicity helps us better recognize the everyday gestures of God and discover an inner peace and joy we can share with others. Wicks describes a spiritual life readily accessible to everyone. It requires opening our eyes, appreciating our lives as they are now, and developing a true sense of ourselves in the image and likeness of God. Wicks provides a clear explanation of how to develop this deeply-anchored inner life.

Sorin Books 2000 207 PP. Paper

$12.95 (in stock)

Everything Must Change

Jesus, Global Crises, And A Revolution Of Hope

BY BRIAN MCLAREN
Many Christian leaders are beginning to realize that for the millions of young adults who have recently dropped out of church, Christianity is a failed religion. Why? Because it has focused on dealing with individual spiritual needs to the exclusion of concerns about environmental, social and justice issues. McLaren asks how do the life and teaching of Jesus address the most critical problems in our world today?

Thomas Nelson 2007 327 PP. Cloth

$21.99 (in stock)

Everywhere Babies

BY SUSAN MEYERS, ILLUSTRATED BY MARLEE FRAZEE
This book provides a wonderful way to welcome babies into the world and for parents to tell their babies all the ways they love them. The diversity of families depicted as visible parts of the community makes this book very special. Lesbian and gay parents, inter-racial couples, breastfeeding and bottle-feeding mothers, single parents, and adoptive families are all joyfully celebrated in this wise, sometimes funny, and exuberant ode to Babyhood.

Harcourt Brace 2001 32 PP. Cloth

$16.00 (in stock)

Everywhere Babies - Board Book

BY SUSAN MEYERS, ILLUSTRATED BY MARLEE FRAZEE
This book provides a wonderful way to welcome babies into the world and for parents to tell their babies all the ways they love them. The diversity of families depicted as visible parts of the community makes this book very special. Lesbian and gay parents, inter-racial couples, breastfeeding and bottle-feeding mothers, single parents, and adoptive families are all joyfully celebrated in this wise, sometimes funny, and exuberant ode to Babyhood.

Harcourt Brace 2004 30 PP. Blank

$6.95 (in stock)

Evidence

BY MARY OLIVER
Evidence is a collection of forty-seven poems on all of Mary Oliver's classic themes. She writes perceptively about grief and mortality, love and nature, and the spiritual sustenance she draws from their gifts. Ever grateful for the bounty that is offered to us daily by the natural world, Oliver is attentive to the mysteries it imparts. The arresting beauty she finds in rivers and stones, willows and field corn, the mockingbird's "embellishments" or the last hours of darkness permeates her poems.

Beacon 2010 88 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)

The Evolution Of Faith

How God Is Creating A Better Christianity

BY PHILIP GULLEY
That troublesome Quaker pastor from Indiana has been busy writing again. Rebelling against the narrowness of mind and spirit in some of American Christendom. He asks what if there was another way? What if God wanted us to grow and change, both in our theology and our beliefs? He invites us to put aside obedience to antiquated claims and worldviews, and discover what we really believe. Instead of looking for answers outside ourselves, Gulley encourages us to look within & develop our own apologetics, a belief system open to change. In this paradigm, faith should always be seen as a work in progress.

HarperOne 2011 212 PP. Cloth

$22.49 (in stock)

The Evolutionary Potential Of Quakerism Revisited

Kenneth Boulding & John Bellers

BY KEITH HELMUTH
"I suggest the Society of Friends has a great intellectual task ahead of it, the task in question is spiritual as well as intellectual, in the sense that it involves not merely abstract knowledge, but love and community... The search today is for a human identity which will permit us to live in peace" -Kenneth Boulding 1964. "He that doth not write whilst he is alive, can't Speak when he is dead. And if a Man shall not be heard in the age, and the Country he lives in, if what he writes is for the general good of Mankind, he may be more minded in other Countries, or in succeeding Generations." - John Bellers 1699

Chapel Hill Editions 2011 55 PP. Paper

$7.00 (in stock)

The Excellent Mrs Fry

Unlikely Heroine

BY ANNE ISBA
Quaker Elizabeth Fry's name is inextricably linked with prison reform, but there was more to her career than that. Elizabeth Fry supported the anti-slavery movement, and campaigned tirelessly across Europe for poor relief and prison reform. She also found time to have 11 children! She was driven by religious conviction and found in her work a satisfaction that sadly eluded her in her private life. Prison reform is still as controversial as it was 200 years ago. This moving and important book casts light on a woman whose brave fight continues to this day.

Continuum 2010 369 PP. Cloth

$44.95 (in stock)

The Existential Theology Of Nikos Kazantkakis

Php 359

BY HOWARD DOSSOR
A lively exposition of what kind of theology can come of a belief that we are not immortal, and therefore must value and live our lives as if we are heading into an abyss at death. What kind of force can illumine our way, if this life is all we have of existence? Dossor's discussion of what Kazantkakis' theology gives us insight on how to live fully, joyfully and faithfully.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2002 40 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Expectant Listening

Finding God's Thread Of Guidance - Php 388

BY MICHAEL WAJDA
Out of a great hunger for God's love and guidance, Michael Wajda has spent his adult life seeking to experience the presence of God. In small ways and large, his search has been answered. In this pamphlet, he offers readers his personal story and tells what he has learned about the practice of "Expectant Listening." He encourages individuals to notice the variety of ways in which God comes to them in their lives, revealing God's "deep, long thread of guidance."

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2007 32 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Experiencing God

Three Spiritual Practices

BY ARTHUR LARRABEE
This essay presents the practices of dissolving attachments, dying into fear, and embracing paradox as powerful ways to God.

Larrabee 1998 28 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

An Experiment In Faith

Quaker Women Transcending Differences - Php 323

BY MARGERY POST-ABBOTT
This essay describes the interactions among a worship group of evangelical and liberal women Friends who have taken seriously the work to understand and to uphold forms of faith which move beyond misconceptions of one another.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1995 30 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Experiment With Light Mp3s

A Set Of 9 Audio Files And 3 Text Files In .pdf Format

BY REX AMBLER, RE-MASTERED BY MADISON MONTHLY MEETING
These are the remastered Mp3 audio files, prepared by Madison Monthly Meeting, of Rex Ambler's 'Experiment with Light' process lectures and meditations. Ambler examines early Friends experiences of the Light and then describes a practice for modern Friends that can help them access the Light to transform themselves and, then, to look more outwardly. "The discipline of light as practiced by early Friends is a practical discipline which opens up the truth about ourselves and the world and transforms our relationship with them." Audio files include a lecture by Rex Ambler on the process and five meditations for individuals and groups. An outline for a 4-session course included. Mp3 download.

Ambler 2009 MP3S AND PDF Audio

$12.00 (in stock)

Exploration In Art

Journey Of A Mother And Daughter

BY JUDITH AND ANNEKE BENDER
"Exploration in Art: The Journey of a Mother and Daughter" presents the artistic ventures of a mother and daughter. Judy Bender's beautiful watercolor/dyes paintings and Anneke Bender's poignant poetry move between independent expression and coming together in mood, subject, and world view.

Produccicones de La Hamaca 2011 69 PP. Paper

$25.00 (in stock)

Exploring Faith Questions

Journeys Of Spirituality And Discovery

BY ANNE MARTIN
Recommended by the FGC Religious education committee, this resource invites new Christians or indeed anyone who wants to deepen their faith to join in a reflection process of 13 central questions of Christianity and faith. It is designed to be used in a small group setting, and includes useful information on forming covenant groups, meeting outlines, and developing spiritual practices. Questions are presented in ways that encourage prayer, reflection, and discussion.

United Church Publishing House (Canada) 2004 168 PP. Spiral Bound

$16.95 (in stock)

Exploring Heaven

What Great Christian Thinkers Tell Us About Our Afterlife With God

BY ARTHUR ROBERTS
Drawing on a wealth of Christian thought though the ages, the well known evangelical Quaker theologian illuminates his personal vision of heaven--a world free of evil and suffering, where he believes humans will work and learn, continuing the process of discipleship started on earth. Remaindered books, title not currently available new.

HarperCollins 2003 240 PP. Blank

$5.00 (in stock)