Faithful Voices

Oral Readings Exploring Beliefs In Action

BY ED SCHWARTZ
Need a workshop idea, a way of building community, material for religious education? Faithful Voices can be the answer. Each person featured lived his or her deeply held beliefs, leaving a legacy in writing and deeds. Each script includes a brief biography and is followed by queries. About half the subjects are well known Quakers including Margaret Fell, Rufus Jones, and John Woolman. Also featured are people as diverse as Dorothy Day and Martin Luther King, Jr. Suitable for groups of any size and age from 12 on up or mixed ages, the material is read aloud twice so that everyone both speaks and listens. No preparation is required. Queries are provided for discussion.

Quaker Press of FGC 2005 104 PP Paper

$7.00 (in stock)

Falling To Heaven

A Novel

BY JEANNE PETERSON
In 1954 Emma and Gerald Kittredge leave their secure Quaker community for a Tibetan town. Their neighbors are Dorje and Rinchen, and their sons. The arrival of Maoist soldiers shatters everything. Gerald is captured by the soldiers, leaving a pregnant Emma to rely on her Tibetan neighbors. Told in three distinct voices rich in their respective spiritual traditions, Falling to Heaven is ultimately a novel about faith: losing it and rediscovering it in places you'd never expect.

Thomas Dunne 2010 326 PP. Cloth

$9.00 (in stock)

Falling Upward

A Spirituality For The Two Halves Of Life

BY RICHARD ROHR
Most of us tend to think of the second half of life as largely about getting old, dealing with health issues, and letting go of life, but the whole thesis of this book is exactly the opposite. What looks like falling down can largely be experienced as "falling upward." With rare insight, Rohr takes us on a journey to give us an understanding of how the heartbreaks, disappointments, and first loves of life are actually stepping stones to the spiritual joys that the second half of life has in store for us.

Jossey Bass 2011 198 PP. Cloth

$19.95 (in stock)

Families Valued

Parenting And Politics For The Good Of All Children

BY JACK NELSON-PALLMEYER
A father explores how the needs of children can change personal and social priorities.

Friendship Press 1996 276 PP Paper

$9.95 (in stock)

Families Valued

Study Guide

NELSON-PALLMEYER, JA

1997 Paper

$2.00 (in stock)

The Family Story Bible

A Delight To Read And To Hear Read

BY RALPH MILTON, ILLUSTRATED BY MARGARET KYLE
A fresh contemporary perspective on the bible, stories of both men and women, told in inclusive language. A comprehensive selection from both Old and New testaments, including areas often neglected in children's bibles such as the Prophets, Wisdom literature and Letters of the early Church.

Westminster John Knox Press 1996 288 PP. Cloth

$24.95 (in stock)

Farmer Duck

BY MARTIN WADDELL, ILLUSTRATED BY HELEN OXENBURY
The story of a duck who does all the work on the farm while the lazy farmer lays in bed eating and shouting out orders. The duck's friends concoct a plan to help the duck. A simple story which explores several important themes including fairness, justice and friendship. This has been called Animal Farm for three-year-olds. Ages 2-7.

Candlewick 1996 40 PP. Paper

$6.99 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Fate Of Africa

From The Hopes Of Freedom To The Heart Of Despair; A History Of Fifty Years Of Independence

BY MICHAEL MEREDITH
Today, with few exceptions, African countries are effectively bankrupt, prone to civil strife, subject to dictatorial rule, weighed down by debt, and heavily dependent on Western assistance for survival. What went wrong? Focusing on the key personalities, events and themes of the independence era, Martin Meredith's magisterial history seeks to explore and explain the myriad problems that Africa has faced in the past half-century, and faces still. Acclaimed by reviewers and readers from across the political spectrum, The Fate of Africa is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how it came to this sad state.

Public Affairs 2006 752 PP Paper

$13.50 (in stock)

Fear And Yoga In New Jersey

BY DEBRA GALLANT
Nina a New Jersey yoga teacher, should be calmly guiding her high powered students through their savasanas and their chakras. Instead she is worried about...everything: the leaking fountain that caused a litigious students to slip and fall; her husband's job was outsourced to the Phillipines; and a hurricane is bearing down on her parents home in Florida. To complicate matters, her teenage son Adam is showing an interest in having a Bar Mitzvah-even though Nina, never a fan of her Jewish heritage, signed the family up at the local Unitarian Church.

St Martins 2008 256 PP. Cloth

$3.50 (in stock)

Feeding People Is Easy

BY COLIN TUDGE
Colin Tudge has worked with British Quakers in this field. Here he shows that it would be possible to feed the world, forever, without damaging the environment or cruelty to animals. The book shows how governments and the food industry have created the major problems so much of the world faces today. It proposes a new global food chain based on principles of sound biology and justice.

Pari Publishing 2007 155 PP. Paper

$16.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Fellowships, Conferences And Associations

The Limits Of The Liberal Quaker Reinvention Of Meeting Polity

BY ELIZABETH CAZDEN
A look at the "confusion and disagreement" about how meetings govern themselves. Cazden reviews classical Quaker models and then looks at the "alternate model that has come to characterize liberal unprogrammed ('Friends General Conference-type') meetings in North America." An important read for anyone trying to understand contemporary Quaker debates over same-sex marriage, the meaning of membership, the role of committees and issues of leadership in the Religious Society of Friends.

Beacon Hill Friends House 2004 36 PP. Paper

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Feminist Family Values Forum

BY GLORIA STEINUM, ANGELA DAVIS, MARIA JIMENEZ, MILIANI TRASK
A forum given on Mothers day 1996, many contributions from Feminists well known and little known on family values from a feminist perspective.

Plain View Press 1996 130 PP. Paper

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Field Notes From A Catastrophe

Man, Nature, And Climate Change

BY ELIZABETH KOLBERT
Long known for her insightful and thought-provoking political journalism, author Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial and increasingly urgent subject of global warming. In what began as groundbreaking three-part series in the New Yorker, for which she won a National Magazine Award in 2006, Kolbert cuts through the competing rhetoric and political agendas to elucidate for Americans what is really going on with the global environment and asks what, if anything, can be done to save our planet. Now updated and with a new afterword, Field Notes from a Catastrophe is the book to read on the defining issue and greatest challenge of our times.

Bloomsbury 2006 240 PP. Paper

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Fierce Legion Of Friends

A History Of Human Rights Campaigns And Campaigners

BY LINDA RABBEN
"As a longtime fighter for human rights, I was moved and inspired by Fierce Legion of Friends. It's encouraging to know whose shoulders we stand on: the millions of people who have worked for human rights for more than 200 years. I recommend this book to anybody who wants incentive to keep working for social justice."-Nancy Pelosi. "A stirring history of human rights campaigns over the centuries--vividly described, intelligently assessed." -- Howard Zinn

University of Wisconsin Press 2001 271 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Final Gifts

Understanding The Special Awareness, Needs And Communications Of The Dying

BY MAGGIE CALLANAN AND PATRICIA KELLEY
"Impressive insights into the experience of dying, offered by two hospice nurses with a gift for listening. The `final gifts' of the title are the comfort and enlightenment offered by the dying to those attending them, and in return, the peace and reassurance offered to the dying by those who hear their needs. .[The authors] offer practical advice not only to involved family members but also to professional caregivers on how to recognize, understand, and respond to a dying person's messages. No lugubriousness or false cheerfulness here, but acute observations and astute advice on a difficult topic." - Kirkus Reviews

Bantam Books 1997 256 PP. Paper

$17.00 (in stock)

Finding Community

How To Join An Ecovillage Or Intentional Community

BY DIANA LEAFE CHRISTIAN
Intentional communities or ecovillages are an appealing choice for like-minded people who seek to create a family-oriented and ecologically sustainable lifestyle. However, the notion of an intentional community can still be a tremendous leap for some-deterred perhaps by a misguided vision of eking out a hardscrabble existence with little reward. In fact, successful ecovillages thrive because of the combined skills and resources of their members. Finding Community presents a thorough overview of ecovillages and intentional communities and offers solid advice on how to research thoroughly, visit thoughtfully, evaluate intelligently, and join gracefully.

New Society Publishers 2007 234 PP. Paper

$24.95 (in stock)

Finding Freedom

Writings From Death Row

BY JARVIS JAY MASTERS
Incarcerated in San Quentin at the age of 19 for armed robbery, Jarvis Masters was accused four years later of participating in a conspiracy that resulted in the death of a prison guard. Finding Freedom is a collection of prison stories - sometimes shocking, sometimes sad, often funny, always immediate - told against a background of extreme violence and aggression. Masters' commitment to nonviolence leads him more and more into the role of peacemaker as he tries to put compassion into action. We see Masters meditating amid chaos and squalor, touching the hearts and minds of those around him.

Padma Publishing 1997 179 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)

Finding Our Sacred Ground

Quakerism's Place In A Globalized Future

BY DANIEL SEEGER
The 2001 SEYM Michener Lecture.

SEYM 2001 22 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Finding Our Voice

Our Truth, Community, And Journey As Australian Young Friends

BY AUSTRALIAN YOUNG FRIENDS
The 2010 James Backhouse Lecture is a collective presentation by a group of Australian Young Friends. They say in their introduction, "One theme that has emerged strongly is: 'Whose Friends are we?' What role does the Religious Society of Friends play in our lives? Do we feel we are friends with older Quakers? Or are we, like the early Quakers, simply young 'Friends of the Truth,' striving to live our lives with integrity? We invite you to share with us an attempt to answer some of these questions through an exploration of what it means to call oneself a Young Friend. Within this framework we explore the expectations placed on us as young people within a spiritual community."

Australia YM 2010 62 PP. Paper

$9.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Finding Our Way In The Bible

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 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Finding The Friendship Dolls

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)

Finding The Taproot Of Simplicity

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)

Findings

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 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Fire In The Heart

How White Activists Embrace Racial Justice

BY MARK R WARREN
Drawing extensively on rich interview material, Mark Warren shows how white Americans can develop a commitment to racial justice, not just because it is the right thing to do, but because they embrace the cause as their own. Contrary to much contemporary thinking on racial issues focused on altruism or interest, Warren finds that cognitive and rational processes alone do little to move white people to action. Rather, the motivation to take and sustain racial justice is profoundly moral and relational. Warren shows how white activists come to find common cause with people of color when their core values are engaged.

Oxford University Press 2010 320 PP. Paper

$24.95 (in stock)

The Fire Of His Genius

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

$2.50 (in stock)

Fire Of The Heart

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

$6.50 (in stock)

First Among Friends

George Fox & The Creation Of Quakerism

BY LARRY INGLE
SECONDHAND. Now $60 in paperback if new. Good condition, but evidence of coffee stains on edge." First among Friends is a landmark work of Quaker history. Anyone who seeks to understand the origins and essence of the Society of Friends could do no better than to read it. Certainly every Friends' meeting should own it, and every Friend should read it. The book's scholarship is pioneering, its style solicitous, and its insights into the tumultuous, history-making life of George Fox are numerous and eye-opening. This benchmark work secures Larry Ingle's stature as the leading American historian of Quakerism." -Chuck Fager

Oxford Univ Press 1996 407 PP. Paper

$60.00 (in stock)

The First Book Of Moses, Called Genesis (with An Introductio

AUTHORIZED KING JAMES VERSION
A stand-alone pocket-sized printing of the Book of Genesis, Authorized King James version. Part of a series of "Pocket Canons" that intends the books of the Bible to be read "as literary works in their own right" (from the introductory note). This book has an introduction by writer E.L. Doctorow.

Grove Press 1999 126 Paper

$1.25 (in stock)

The First Christmas

BY CAROLINE HEYER
An illustrated account of the birth of Jesus for reading aloud or for young readers. This story is told simply and with plain language and emphasizes the religious importance of Christmas to Christians, apart from cultural traditions.

Ideals Children's Books-Ideals Publications 2007 32 PP. Cloth

$3.50 (in stock)

The First Paul

Reclaiming The Radical Visionary Behind The Church's Conservative Icon

BY MARCUS J. BORG AND JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN
Borg and Crossan contend that 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 224 PP. Paper

$13.99 (in stock)