Apocalyptic Witness

A Radical Calling For Our Own Times Pendle Hill Pamphlet 279

BY WILLIAM DURLAND
William Durland was born in 1931. He was raised Catholic and attended Loyola and Georgetown colleges, remaining in the church until a mystical experience led him to Christian pacifism and later Quakerism. He has written extensively on peace issues. Since 1970, he and his wife Genie have coordinated nonviolent protest in the form of tax resistance and active peacemaking. He argued four different cases involving war tax resistance before the Supreme Court during the 1980s. Living with God and living as if the Kingdom of God has already come is the witness the author discusses in this pamphlet.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2006 34 PP. Paper

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The Apocryphal Jesus

Legends Of The Early Church

BY J K ELLIOTT
An abridged version of "The Apocryphal New Testament", which Elliott published in 1994. Designed for the general reader, clergy and student, the book collects the most interesting of the early Christian texts about Jesus that didn't make the Bible, ranging from stories of his birth in a cave, his childhood escapades, and his secret sayings, to his descent to the underworld, the torments of Hell, Saint Paul baptizing a lion, the death of Pontius Pilate, and many others.

Oxford Univ Press 2008 232 PP. Paper

$12.50 (in stock)

Apology For The True Christian Divinity

BY ROBERT BARCLAY
A reprint of Barclay's translation of his Latin Apology into English, which was first published in 1678. A "full explanation and vindication of Quaker principles and doctrines." Includes an introduction by Licia Kuenning. Preferred by many to the modernized English of the Dean Freiday edition.

Quaker Heritage Press 2002 536 PP. Cloth

$24.00 (in stock)

The Apple - Pip Princess

BY JANE RAY
With sumptuous artwork, Jane Ray tells an original fairy tale of a humble princess whose love for nature's beauty restores a kingdom. Once there was a kingdom full of laughter, happiness, trees, and birdsong. But when the queen dies, the land becomes quiet and barren, and everyone is filled with sadness. What will make the kingdom bloom again? Can Serenity, the youngest of three princesses, bring hope and life back to her kingdom with a single apple pip - a precious seed left to her by her mother? This original fairy tale is brought to life and exquisitely illustrated by the internationally renowned Jane Ray.

Candlewick 2008 32 PP. Cloth

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Approaching The Quran

The Early Revelations Second Edition

INTRODUCED AND TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL SELLS
This new edition from Quaker Michael Sells offers, important new translations of Quranic suras, details of the controversy over teaching about Islam and the Quran in American Universities, an Introduction to the Quran, commentaries on the suras, a glossary, discussion of the sound nature and gender aspects of the Arabic text. These are translations of the suras, associated with the first revelations to the Prophet Muhammad. Complex and powerful, most appear at the end of the Qur'an's written text and are commonly reached only by the most resolute reader of existing English translations. Containing the Qur'an's prophetic and revelatory passages, the suras offer a vision of a meaningful and just lif.

2007 224 PP. Paper

$22.95 (in stock)

Approaching The Gospels Together

BY MARY MORRISON
Suggestions for a lively, searching study of the gospels, using Sharman's Records of the Life of Jesus as the study text.

Pendle Hill 1986 157 PP. Cloth

$15.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Araboolies Of Liberty Street

BY SAM SWOPE, ILLUSTRATED BY BARRY ROOT
The kids of Liberty Street join forces to help the Araboolies when mean General Pinch orders to have them removed by the Army because they look different.

Sunburst 2001 32 PP. Paper

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The Arrow Over The Door

BY JOSEPH BRUCHAC, ILLUSTRATED BY JAMES WATLING
An historical novel based on the true story of a meeting of Quakers and Indians during the Revolutionary War in Saratoga, New York, which was chronicled in the records of New York Yearly Meeting. It is told in the alternating viewpoints of an Abenaki boy and a Quaker boy. Ages 7-9.

Penguin 2002 89 PP. Paper

$4.99 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Arrowhead To Hand Axe

In Search Of Ecological Gu Idance

BY KEITH HELMUTH
Helmuth's agrarian, woodland childhood, Mennonite culture of community service, encounters with stone age tools, environmental education, family economics, farming business and career in community development combine with the Quaker ethos to create his ecological world view. Equity, peace and the integrity of Creation become a single, multi-faceted vision that brings the conundrum of economics into full view. He talks of religion and the market economy being in dialogue. He speaks of fatalism and acknowledges that for him pondering the beauty of the cosmos and the nurturing earth renew faith. For the author Quaker testimonies gain new focus within the ecological worldview.

Argenta Friends Press 2004 44 PP. Paper

$4.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Art Of Power

Paperback

BY THICH NHAT HANH
Power is one of the central issues in our lives. From work to personal relationships, the struggle for power plays a pivotal role and more often than not prevents us from attaining freedom and happiness. The bottom-line mentality in our culture seeps unnoticed into every other part of our lives. Thich Nhat Hanh illustrates how our current understanding of power leads us on a never ending search for external markers like job title or salary. This me-first approach to life may have originated in the business world, but the stress, fear, and anxiety it causes are being felt by all of us everyday. Hanh teaches us that true power comes from within and that what we seek we already have.

HarperCollins Paper

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An Art Of Small Resurrections

Surviving The Texas Death Chamber - Php 408

BY WALTER LONG
Jesus taught his followers to love their enemies and to forgive. How can these messages of compassion be reconciled with a policy of putting to death those whom we have judged to be wrongdoers against society? Walter Long, a defense attorney for Texas death row inmates, says that they cannot. He wrestles with the apparent contradiction between the teachings of Jesus and widespread tolerance for government violence in a state where most citizens identify themselves as Christian. He explores the impact of a particular execution of great renown - the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth - and looks for his own understanding of that event and of the man and his message.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2010 36 PP. Paper

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Arthur Morgan Of The T V A

F D R 's Utopian

BY ROY TALBERT
Arthur Morgan is a now rather overlooked Humanist Quaker, a member of the Yellow Springs meeting in Ohio. My goodness he did a lot of things: He helped found the still lively Celo community in N Carolina and was a keen Utopian, founding several other organizations to promote true community. Best known as President of the TVA, close associate of Roosevelt and promoter of many cooperative schemes, notably the town of Norris in Tennessee. He later worked for AFSC.

University Press of Mississippi 1987 218 PP. Cloth

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As Good As Anybody

Martin Luther King Jr. And Abraham Joshua Heschel's Amazing March Toward Freedom

BY RICHARD MICHELSON AND RAUL COLON
Aimed at children grades 2-5, but enjoyable for kids of all ages, As Good As Anybody is an articulately written and beautifully illustrated book. Michelson draws meaningful parallels between the childhoods of Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel while Colon's rich hues evoke them effortlessly. King and Heschel's powerful and important friendship is the books centerpiece and it provides children with a good introduction to the civil rights movement.

Knopf 2008 38 PP. Cloth

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Assimilation Blues

Black Families In White Communities - Who Succeeds And Why?

BY BEVERLY DANIEL-TATUM
An exploration of racial identity and family, as seen through the lens of 10 Black families living in a predominantly white, affluent community What does it mean to be Black in a white, middle-class community? Is it the ultimate symbol of success? Or will one pay in isolation, alienation, rootlessness? What price must one pay for paradise? Is the price too high? Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism and author of Why are all the Black Kids sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, interviewed black families in depth to identify the sacrifices and achievements necessary to survive and prosper in a white community.

Basic Books 2000 139 PP. Paper

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At Home With Friends

A History Of Friends Homes In Greensboro, North Carolina

BY DAVID STANFIELD
A history of Friends Homes in Greensboro NC: The first fifty years.

2006 123 PP. Paper

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Attention Games

101 Fun, Easy Games That Help Kids Learn To Focus

BY BARBARA SHER
If you want to focus children's attention, you first have to capture their interest. Attention Games is filled with interesting and child-tested activities that can help children of all ages become better at focusing and paying attention. From the author of Spirit Games.

Jossey-Bass 2006 184 PP. Paper

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Augustus And His Smile

WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY CATHERINE RAYNER
Augustus the tiger was sad. And he had lost his smile. So he did a huge tigery stretch and set off to find it. Stunning illustrations celebrate the beauty of the world and the simple happiness it brings us when we open our eyes to it.

Good Books 2006 28 PP. Cloth

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Authentic Teaching Of Jesus

A Very Literal, Less Anthropomorhic Translation

TRANSLATED BY JOHN MICHAEL WINE
Personal Note: I've striven to be faithful to the text, but one's life experience certainly makes itself felt during the translation process. As a member of an unprogrammed Friends Meeting, I work to be true to the historic Quaker testimonies. Peace, Equality, Integrity, Simplicity. I believe these values are at the core of Jesus' message as found in the New Testament. Disclaimer: Though I've taken under graduate as well as seminary level courses in NT Greek, I make no claim to be an authority in the ancient Koine tongue.- The Translator. An inspired and new reading of the New Testament starting from the origional language showing the nuances of so many words.

Create Space 2012 72 PP. Paper

$11.85 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Authority And The Early Quakers

BY JACK DOBBS
Early Quakers recognized neither the bible, nor the church , and certainly not the state, as their supreme authority. They claimed the spirit of Christ, the inward light, as the authority in which they placed their absolute trust. They believed that if only they could understand it, that spirit could give unity to a Quaker meeting as it jointly searched for the will of god. Dobbs looks at these ideas and how they began and changed in the early years of Quakerism.

Martin Hartog 2006 269 PP. Paper

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Authority, Leadership And Concern

A Study In Motive And Administration In Quaker Relief Work - Swarthmore Lecture 1949

BY ROGER WILSON
From 1940 to 1946, Roger Wilson was General Secretary of the Friends Relief Service. Soon after his wartime experience, in 1949 he delivered the Swarthmore Lecture, and applied his clear thinking and his understanding of Quaker processes to examine how a religious concern can be made manifest in practical work, and what needs to be considered so that this can be organized. 'The true "concern" is a gift from God, a leading of his Spirit which may not be denied.' How is the authority for this held by a human organization? What kind of people does it need to lead and carry out its work?

Britain Yearly Meeting 2007 92 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

The Authority Of Our Meetings Is The Power Of God

Php 365

BY PAUL LACEY
The author holds in creative tension the individual and corporate responsibilities in our monthly meetings to witness to the power and authority of God.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2003 40 PP. Paper

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Autobiographical Writings Of Early Quaker Women

EDITED BY DAVID BOOY
SECONDHAND COPY AS NEW. Modern Quaker women have been discussed and quoted fairly extensively, relatively few of their texts are readily or widely available. The chief purpose of this edition is to rectify this state of affairs in one central area - that of autobiographical writing. The edition contains substantial excerpts from a range of self-writings by Quaker women, composed between the 1650s and circa 1710: letters, testimonies, memoirs, accounts of spiritual development, narratives of persecution and imprisonment. This volume includes many excerpts not available in other editions including writings by Elizabeth Hooten, Alice Curwen, Elizabeth Stirredge, Anne Docwra, and Alice Hays.

Ashgate 2004 230 PP. Cloth

$35.00 (in stock)

An Autobiography

The Story Of My Experiments With Truth

BY MOHANDAS GANDHI
Translated by Mahadev Desai and with a New Preface. In his autobiography Gandhi recounts the story of his life and how he developed his concept of active nonviolent resistance, which inspired his own and so many other social change movements. All royalties earned on this book are paid to the Navajivan Trust, founded by Gandhi, for use in carrying on his work.

Beacon 1957 526 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Autobiography Of Allen Jay (1831 - 1910)

EDITED WITH A FOREWORD BY JOSHUA BROWN
If you want to understand Quakerism in the 1600s you have to read Fox's journal, for the 1700's Woolmans Journal and for the complex challenges and changes faced by Friends in 1800's you have to read the Autrobiography of Allen Jay. Born just after the Hicksite Orthodox separation he grew up in the unprogrammed tradition, but was soon active as a preacher in the programmed tradition and worked to change Quakerisms relationship to the world as he believed early Friends would have wanted.

FUP 2010 420 PP. Paper

$25.00 (in stock)

Autumn's Brightness

BY DAISY NEWMAN
Recently widowed, Diligence (Dilly) finds herself confronted with a friendship she is not sure she is ready to continue with even though he, Durand, is attentive, attractive and someone she cannot forget. Another Kendal novel that will capture the reader as 52-year-old Dilly's life unfolds.

Friends United Press 1991 250 PP. Paper

$12.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Awaken Your Senses

Exercises For Exploring The Wonder Of God

BY J BRENT BILL, BETH BOORAM
"With Awaken Your Senses, Brent Bill and Beth Booram have given us a superb resource for seeking the God of life through sensuous experience, a way of knowing that has been sadly neglected--and too often held suspect--by the church. How did a faith based on the claim that 'the Word became flesh' become so divorced from bodily, incarnate knowledge? Here is a beautiful book that will help us reclaim our bodies, our senses and our relationship with God."--Parker Palmer

IVP 2012 208 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Awakening To Earth

Natural Awareness As A Spiritual Practice

BY BILL CAHALAN
A collection of essays and activities designed to help the reader to practice natural awareness.

FCUN 2001 24 PP. Paper

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The Back Bench

A Novel

BY MARGARET HOPE BACON
It's 1837, and fourteen-year-old Quaker Myra Harlan's mother has died, forcing her to leave her home and family in the country to live in Philadelphia. Shocked by the racism she sees all around her and caught in the aftermath of the Orthodox-Hicksite split in the Religious Society of Friends, Myra longs for her mother and struggles to make friends until she finds the Female Anti-Slavery Society, Lucretia Mott, Sarah Douglass, and - ultimately - herself.

Quaker Press of FGC 2007 127 PP. Paper

$13.00 (in stock)

Back To Africa

Benjamin Coates And The Colonization Movement In America, 1848-1880

EDITED BY EMMA J. LAPSANSKY-WERNER, MARGARET HOPE BACON
Benjamin Coates was one of the best-known white supportersof African colonization in 19th century America. A Quaker from Philadelphia, he was committed to helping Black Americans relocate to West Africa. At the heart of the volume is a collection of over 150 recently recovered letters, eitherwritten by Coates or addressed to him between 1848 and 1880. Lapsansky and Bacon have provided a far-reaching essay that places them in the context. They led a team of young scholars who annotated the letters. This book provide new insight into the alliances and divisions within the antislavery movement, making it essential reading for every student of black studies or Quaker history.

Penn State Press 2007 368 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

Backyard Birding

Using Natural Gardening To Attract Birds

BY JUKIE ZICKFOOSE
Backyard Birding show you how to lay out the welcome mat for feathered friends by considering all of their needs, including year-round water, food, shelter, and housing. Whether you're looking to create a hummingbird garden, install a water feature, create perches for birds, or simply let a corner of your property run wild, you'll find all of the inspiration and information you need here in Backyard Birding. Many black and white illustrations, or rather purple and white.

Skyhorse Publishing 2011 244 PP. Paper

$8.50 (in stock)