I Am God's Paintbrush

BY SANDY EISENBERG SASSO
This simple book will help you and your child explore spirituality interactively through colors, songs and dance. Your child will delight in turning the sturdy pages to see the beautiful colors of God's world. For children of all faiths, all backgrounds.

Skylight Paths 2009 24 PP. Paper

$7.99 (in stock)

I Am Quaker

BY FELICE BLANC
A young Friends explains the beliefs and practices of her faith. Ages 3-8.

Rosen 1999 24 PP. Cloth

$12.95 (in stock)

I Call You Friend

Four Women's Stories Of Race, Faith, And Friendship

BY JO KADLECEK, PAMELA TOUSSAINT
Four women - two black and two white - tell of their personal journeys toward self discovery, understanding, healing, and justice, and conclude with the story of their friendships. Through vulnerable, vivid story-telling, these women confront the personal challenges, corporate injustices, and religious hypocrisies that ironically have led them toward a passionate commitment for racial reconciliation and healing on the most personal level.

Broadman & Holman Publishers 1999 246 PP. Paper

$8.00 (low stock)

I Can Make A Difference

A Treasury To Inspire Our Children

EDITED BY MARIAN WRIGHT-EDELMAN, ILLUSTRATED BY BARRY MOSER
Edelman has compiled inspiring quotations, stories, poems and songs related to values of compassion, peace, and justice. She has organized the book according to principles, which she illuminates with introductions and quotations. Each selection illustrates how to make a difference "by loving myself and others as God loves us," "by being courageous," "by caring and serving," "by being honest and telling the truth," "by being grateful for the gift and wonders of life," "by being nonviolent and working for peace," or "by being faithful and struggling for what I believe." The stories and quotations are many-layered, metaphorical and rich.

Amistad 2005 112 PP. Cloth

$19.99 (in stock)

I Could Tell You Stories

Sojourns In The Land Of Memory

BY PATRICIA HAMPL
Memoir has become the signature genre of our age. In this timely gathering, Patricia Hampl, one of our most elegant practitioners, "weaves personal stories and grand ideas into shimmering bolts of prose" (Minneapolis Star Tribune) as she explores the autobiographical writing that has enchanted or bedeviled her. Subjects engaging Hampl's attention include her family's response to her writing, the ethics of writing about family and friends, St. Augustine's Confessions, reflections on reading Walt Whitman during the Vietnam War, and an early experience reviewing Sylvia Plath. The word that unites the impulse within all the pieces is "Remember!" This book is required for Workshop #70.

W. W. Norton Paper

$14.95 (low stock)

I Don't Believe In Atheists

BY CHRIS HEDGES
Hedges observes that there are two especially polarized sides to the debate on faith and religion in America: the fundamentalists who see religious faith as their prerogative, and the new atheists who brand all religious belief as irrational and dangerous. The new atheists do not make moral arguments about religion. Rather, they have created a new form of fundamentalism about the omnipotence of human reason. He makes an impassioned, intelligent case against religious and secular fundamentalism, which seeks to divide the world into those worthy of moral and intellectual consideration and those who should be condemned, silenced and eradicated.

Free Press 2008 224 PP. Cloth

$25.00 (low stock)

I Don't Believe In Atheists - Audiobook On Four Cds

WRITTEN AND READ BY CHRIS HEDGES
The author argues that there are two radical and dangerous sides to the debate on faith and religion in America, Christian fundamentalists and New Atheists, who brand all religious belief as irrational. Too often, the majority, those committed to tolerance and compassion as well as their faith, are caught in the middle. He accuses both sides of generating a simplified worldview of us vs. them, intolerance toward certain behaviors, and of utilizing false myths of human progress or moral superiority. He makes way for new, moderate voices to join the debate.

Highbridge 2008 5 HOURS Disk

$12.50 (low stock)

I Have A Dream - Illustrated Edition

BY MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
This large format book features the full text of the famous "I have a Dream" speech with illustrations by fifteen award winning and well known artists. There is also a brief biography of Dr King and short notes on how the speech inspired the illustrators.

Scholastic 2007 40 PP. Paper

$6.99 (in stock)

I Have Always Wanted To Be Jewish

And Now, Thanks To The Religious Society Of Friends, I Am - Php 350

BY CLAIRE GORFINKEL
The author's story of her spiritual journey through Quakerism home to Judaism.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2000 32 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

I Heard God Laughing

Poems Of Hope And Joy

BY HAFIZ, TRANSLATED BY DANIEL LADINSKY
Hafiz captures the many forms and stages of love. His poetry outlines the stages of the mystic's path of love-a journey in which love dissolves personal boundaries and limitations to join larger processes of growth and transformation. With this collection, Ladinsky has succeeded brilliantly in translating the essence of one of Islam's greatest poetic and spiritual voices. If you haven't yet had the delight of dining with Daniel Ladinsky's sweet, playful renderings of the musings of the great saints, I Heard God Laughing is a perfect appetizer.

Penguin 2006 112 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

I Love Dirt!

52 Activities To Help You And Your Kids Discover The Wonders Of Nature

BY JENNIFER WARD AND SUSIE GHAHREMANI
Packed with activities to help kids discover the wonders of nature, this collection offers alternatives to electronic games and gets kids and caregivers outside. Each activity presents a project meant to promote exploration, stimulate imagination, and heighten a sense of wonder. "There may be no better way to ensure the well-being of the natural world tomorrow than to introduce children to its many small wonders today. Through a series of accessible activities designed to engage young minds and all five senses, this book reminds us of - even celebrates - the magic to be found right outside our own back doors." - Todd Christopher

Trumpeter Press 2008 153 PP. Paper

$14.00 (low stock)

I Love You, Miss Huddleston

And Other Inappropriate Longings Of My Indiana Childhood

BY PHILIP GULLEY
We are transported to 1970's Danville, Indiana, the everyone-knows-your-business town where Gulley still lives today, to witness the uproarious story of Gulley's young life, including his infatuation with his comely sixth-grade teacher, his dalliance with sin-eating meat on Friday and inappropriate activities with a mannequin named Ginger - and his checkered start with organized religion.

HarperOne 2009 200 PP. Cloth

$21.99 (in stock)

I Saw Ramallah

BY MOURID BARGHOUTI
Mourid Barghouti spent thirty years in exile shuttling among the world's cities; separated from his family for years at a time; never certain whether he was a visitor, a refugee, a citizen, or a guest. As he returns home to Palestine for the first time since the 6 day war, Barghouti crosses a wooden bridge over the Jordan River into Ramallah and is unable to recognize the city of his youth. A tour de force of memory and reflection, lamentation and resilience, I Saw Ramallah is a deeply humane book, essential to any balanced understanding of today's Middle East.

Vintage 2003 208 PP. Paper

$12.95 (low stock)

I Speak For My Slave Sister (303)

The Life Of Abby Kelley Foster

BY MARGARET HOPE BACON
SECONDHAND COPY. Slightly torn jacket. Good condition Written in the lively and accessible style well known to readers of Bacon's books Abbey Foster comes alive as the prototypical Quaker activist, strong enough to discipline even her fiery anti-clerical husband Stephen Foster (not the song writer). After her first important speech on slavery the hall was burned down, but she continued on to a life of uninterrupted and principled work on behalf of the rights of African Americans and women.

Thomas Y Crowell Co 1974 235 PP. Cloth

$12.00 USED - availability checked Mar 12th 2:39am CST

I Take Thee, Serenity

BY DAISY NEWMAN
Serenity discovers love and her Friendly heritage.

FUP 1975 314 PP. Paper

$20.00 (low stock)

I Wanna Play

BY BILL HARLEY
Get ready to shake, rattle, roll, strum, howl and sway with Bill as he serenades kids and families with his characteristic silliness, hilarity, and poignancy on his newest musical recording "I Wanna Play". The 12 new songs on "I Wanna Play", including the long-awaited and much-loved Barbie's Head is Missing, are hilarious, sweet, silly and touching, and have a world music feel.

Round River Records 2007 48 MIN Disk

$15.00 (low stock)

I Want To Be Free

BY JOSEPH SLATE
A runaway slave still has his ankle chain. As long as it remains, and as long as the Big Man hunts him, he'll never truly be free. Rescuing an orphaned slave child from certain capture gives him the strength to keep moving on, and miraculously, the child's love and gratitude are all that is needed to destroy the shackle once and for all. Ages 6-8.

Putnam 2008 32 PP Cloth

$16.99 (backorder)

I Wanted To Know All About God

BY VIRGINIA KROLL, ILLUSTRATED BY DEBRA REID-JENKINS
LESSON IN A BOOK AVAILABLE! This book invites children to experience God more fully in their daily lives.

Eerdmans 1994 32 PP. Paper

$8.50 (in stock)

I Will Hold You 'til You Sleep

BY LINDA ZUCKERMAN, ILLUSTRATED BY JON J. MUTH
Here is the rare book that not only expresses a parent's love for their child, but offers a hope for what that love will become. It begins with a wish at bedtime, as parents hold their children tight and hope their love will cradle them, safe and sound. It continues through the day their children have grown up, proud and strong, and can pass that love on to someone else. This is a book that goes beyond a parent's "I love you" to the generous wish that our children will make the world a better place.

Scholastic 2006 32 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (in stock)

I Wonder As I Wander

BY GWENYTH SWAIN, ILLUSTRATED BY RONALD HIMLER
"A moving story of hope and love, woven around a Christmas hymn. In an author's note, Swain explains how, in 1933, a girl named Annie Morgan sang the title song to John Jacob Niles, a collector of folksongs, at a revival in Murphy, NC. The fictionalized tale that follows describes how Annie mourns for her mother: `I still can't figure how she could have died in spring, when there's so much life just bursting from the ground and the tree branches.' She and her itinerant preacher father wander the country, speaking to any folks who will listen to them. Annie composes a song to express her religious questions, which she sings to a crowd. . This book is a treasure."-School Library Journal

Eerdmans 2003 32 PP. Cloth

$16.00 (in stock)

I'd Rather Teach Peace

BY COLMAN MCCARTHY
This is the story of one man's passion for peace education, as seen during one semester in six schools where risk-taking students found themselves challenged and inspired by an unconventional course and by a man who believes that if we don't teach our children peace someone else will teach them violence.

Orbis 2002 140 PP Cloth

$18.00 (low stock)

Ida B. Wells

Let The Truth Be Told

BY WALTER DEAN MYERS
Ida B. Wells was an extraordinary woman. Long before boycotts, sit-ins, and freedom rides, Ida B. Wells was hard at work to better the lives of African Americans. An activist, educator, writer, journalist, suffragette, and pioneering voice against the horror of lynching, she used fierce determination and the power of the pen to educate the world about the unequal treatment of blacks in the United States. Walter Dean Myers tells the story of this legendary figure, which blends harmoniously with the historically detailed watercolor paintings of illustrator Bonnie Christensen. For ages 9-12

HarperCollins 2008 37 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (backorder)

If A Bus Could Talk

The Story Of Rosa Parks

BY FAITH RINGGOLD
If a bus could talk, it would tell the story of a young African-American girl named Rosa who had to walk miles to her one-room schoolhouse in Alabama while white children rode to their school in a bus. It would tell how the adult Rosa rode to and from work on a segregated city bus and couldn't sit in the same row as a white person. It would tell of the fateful day when Rosa refused to give up her seat to a white man and how that act of courage inspired others around the world to stand up for freedom. In this book a bus does talk, and on her way to school a girl named Marcie learns why Rosa Parks is the mother of the Civil Rights movement. Ages 8-12.

Aladdin 2003 32 PP. Paper

$7.99 (low stock)

If God Is Love

Rediscovering Grace In An Ungracious World

BY JAMES MULHOLLAND AND PHILIP GULLEY
In If Grace Is True, pastors Philip Gulley and James Mulholland revealed their belief that God will save every person. They now explore the implications of this belief and its power to change every area of our lives. They attempt to answer one question: If we took God's love seriously, what would our world look like? Gulley and Mulholland argue that what we believe is crucial and dramatically affects the way we live and interact in the world. Beliefs have power. The belief in a literal hell, where people suffer eternally, has often been used by the Church to justify hate and violence, which contradict what Jesus taught about love and grace. The authors present a new vision.

HaperSanFrancisco 2005 288 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

If Grace Is True - Paper

Why God Will Save Every Person

BY PHILIP GULLEY AND JAMES MULHOLLAND
If Grace is True is a challenging book for many Christians. The authors' personal experience of God's grace leads them to reject the view that God will save only some people and the rest will be damned. "Gulley and Mulholland's stirring manifesto on the central role of universalism in Christianity will provoke traditionalists and encourage new ways of thinking about the nature and purpose of the Christian faith." - Publishers Weekly

HarperCollins 2004 225 PP. Paper

$13.95 (in stock)

If The Church Were Christian

Rediscovering The Values Of Jesus

BY PHILIP GULLEY
Noted and eloquent Quaker, Philip Gulley's latest theological volume in his "if" series, in which Gulley puts the Christ back in Christian. "What IF Christians actually began to take their Christ seriously?" The answer to that question could change the world. - Shane Claiborne. "Filled with memorable, insightful and revealing stories. I recommend it." - Marcus Borg.

HarperOne 2010 224 PP. Cloth

$23.95 (in stock)

If The World Were A Village

A Book About The World's People

BY DAVID SMITH, ILLUSTRATED BY SHELAGH ARMSTRONG
"To make the idea of a world of 6.2 billion people more understandable, Smith suggests that children imagine the population of the world as a village of just 100 people. That's one person representing 62 million people in the real world. Surprising, even shocking statistics follow.. Each double-page, picture-book spread relates a few consciousness-raising facts about such topics as nationalities, food, language, and religion. .Armstrong's large acrylic paintings, nice complements to the text, look like stained glass windows, with blocks of intense color outlined in thick black lines. This highly informative book will get kids thinking and asking questions." - Booklist

2002 32 PP. Cloth

$18.95 (low stock)

If You Come Softly

BY JACQUELINE WOODSON
A new young love is special and rare, but the world around Ellie and Miah doesn't see it like that. After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions. Will their love survive? An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. A BCCB Blue Ribbon Book.

Speak 1998 181 PP. Paper

$6.99 (in stock)

The Iliad

Or, The Poem Of Force - Php 91

BY SIMONE WEIL
Originally written in 1940 after the fall of France, this essay may be read as an indirect commentary on that event, which symbolized extreme modern force.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet Paper

$6.50 (low stock)

Illuminated Life

Monastic Wisdom For Seekers Of Light

BY JOAN CHITTISTER
An ancient alphabet of spiritual values that will help readers experience peace and love in the midst of distractions and deadlines, during life's daily routine and in its defining moments.

Orbis 2000 142 PP. Cloth

$18.00 (backorder)