One World, Many Religions

The Ways We Worship

BY MARY POPE-OSBORNE
This book is a clear, fascinating introduction to world religions. "This exceptional handsome volume offers middle graders a thoughtful overview of major world religions..Points of controversy are met with candor and delicacy." - The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.

Alfred A. Knopf 1996 86 PP Cloth

$19.95 (in stock)

One World, One Day

BY BARBARA KERLEY
This sophisticated yet elegant picture book uses exquisite, moving photographs from top international photographers and Kerley's poetic text to follow the course of one day to convey a simple yet profound concept: the world's inhabitants are a global family.

National Geographic Society 2009 40 PP. Cloth

$17.95 (in stock)

The One-straw Revolution

An Introduction To Natural Farming

BY MASANOBU FUKUOKA
Long out of print in the West - there was a limited availability edition from Friends Center in Rasulia India (whose ideas where much influenced by this book). This manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith in the wholeness and balance of the natural world. Wendell Berry in his preface: "the book is valuable to us because it is at once practical and philosophical. It is an inspiring, necessary book about agriculture because it is not just about agriculture."

NYRB 2009 200 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

Open - Faith And Practice Of Freedom Friends Church

BY FREEDOM FRIENDS CHURCH
Freedom Friends Church in Salem Oregon is a "Uniting Meeting" founded in 2004. Since then it has received members by transfer from FGC, FUM and Evangelical Friends International, though a majority of its members are new to Quakerism. Their website says - "Teaching the ways of Friends is an important part of our mission. We set out to be Christ-centered, Quaker, and inclusive. We are semi-programmed, lightly pastoral and socially progressive. We believe in continuing revelation. Our Faith and Practice reflects all these things." The last 28 pages are a glossary.

Freedom Friends Church 2009 67 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

Open Mind, Open Heart

The Contemplative Dimension Of The Gospel

BY THOMAS KEATING
In print since 1986 this remains one of the best introductions to a specifically Christian form of meditation. It gives an overview of what contemplative prayer both is and isn't, discusses the history of contemplative prayer in the Christian tradition and then explores step by step the process of Centering Prayer, briefly exploring its origins in the ancient church and then demonstrating its use as "a sign of one's intention" to surrender to God.

Continuum 1997 148 PP. Paper

$16.95 (in stock)

Open Moral Communities

SEMOUR MANDLEBRAM
The book is divided into three parts. The first part sets out the role of communities in the creation of moral orders and discusses the implications of three prevalent myths about community. The second part discusses six terms--theory, story, time, city, tool, and plan--that figure prominently in both professional and lay constructions of public orders. The third part presents two cases in which ambiguous moral claims for redemption and justice challenge the pluralism of the open myth. One concerns exclusionary zoning in New Jersey, the other the 1985 attack on the MOVE compound in West Philadelphia.

MIT 2000 258 PP. Cloth

$6.00 (in stock)

Open To New Light

Quaker Spirituality In Historical And Philosophical Context

BY LESLIE STEVENSON
This book is about "the meaning of life" or "the spiritual quest". It offers a selective and critical evaluation of some central strands of Western religious and philosophical thought over two and a half thousand years. It starts with Socrates' philosophy of life, and the Greek tradition of philosophy that he initiated. It gives its own "take" on the teaching of Jesus, and on the long and controversial history of Christianity. There is a chapter devoted to George Fox and the beginning of the Quaker movement. It recommends a non-literal interpretation of language about God, with some reference to Austin Farrer on "poetic truth". Sadly a tad expensive!

Imprint Academic 2012 182 PP. Paper

$34.90 (in stock)

Opening Doors To Quaker Religious Education

BY MARY SNYDER
Religious educators will find these practical, tested ideas, based on current developmental and educational theories, invaluable to their work. The five sections of Opening Doors to Quaker Religious Education cover every age group from First Day School to adult curriculum, offering storytelling techniques and story, art and drama activities to make the substance of Quakerism alive.

Quaker Press of FGC 1999 144 PP. Paper

$16.95 (in stock)

Opening The Quaker Time Capsule

BY THOMAS HAMM
"The author chose `Opening the Quaker Time Capsule' as the subject of this 2001 Weed Lecture. His review of Quaker mores and thought at the turn of the 20th century holds insights and lessons, as well as amusing sidelights, on Quakerism for us as we begin the 21st. All manner of Friends can benefit from this survey of where we have been as we consider where we are and where we are going." - Hugh Barbour, from the Introduction

Beacon Hill Friends House 2004 27 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Opening The Scriptures

Bible Lessons From The 2005 Annual Gathering Of Friends

BY TOM GATES
By popular demand the Bible talks given at the 2005 Annual Gathering of Friends now appear in printed form, a booklet containing the text, footnotes and the readings handed to participants. Tom Gates explores the Bible through the eyes of early Friends and how their understanding can shed light on the Bible for contemporary Friends. "Tom Gates' presentations, delivered at the FGC Gathering 2005, are truly inspired illuminations of the thought and witness of George Fox. For those of us who were present, Tom `opened' George Fox to us in very much the same way that those who were contemporaries of George Fox said that he, George Fox, opened the scriptures to them." - Art Larrabee

Quaker Press of FGC 2005 64 PP. Paper

$9.95 (in stock)

Oppose And Propose

Lessons From Movement For A New Society

BY ANDREW CORNELL
Where do the tactics, strategies, and lifestyles of today's activists come from? Many ways of doing radical politics pioneered by Movement for a New Society in the 1970s and 1980s have become central to anti-authoritarian social movements: consensus decision making, spokescouncils, communal living, unlearning oppressive behavior, and co-operatively owned businesses. Andrew Cornell's important contribution to US political history uses this story to raise crucial questions for activists today. "Oppose and Propose" is an engaging and accessible study, every page offers new insights.

AK Press 2011 200 PP. Paper

$12.00 (in stock)

The Ordinary Radicals

A Conspiracy Of Faith On The Margins Of Empire

FEATURING SHAINE CLAIBORNE, CHRIS HAW, BRIAN MACLAREN
Traveling across the United States on a tour to promote the book "Jesus for President", Shane Claiborne and a rag-tag group of "ordinary radicals" interpret Biblical history and its correlation with the current state of American politics. Director Jamie Moffett examines this growing movement and interviews Becky Garrison, Shane Claiborne, Jim Wallis, Brian McLaren, Tony Campolo, John Perkins, Brooke Sexton, Michael Heneise, St. Margret Mckenna, Logan Laituri, Zack Exley, Aaron Weiss and many more Ordinary Radicals.

Potter Street Records 2008 100 MINS Dvd

$20.00 (in stock)

Orville

A Dog Story

BY HAVEN KIMMEL
A big, ugly dog is happy to meet a farmer and his wife who decide to give him a name and a home, but not so happy when they chain him to the barn. All Orville can do is bark to tell the world how unhappy he is, and the more he barks, the more he is left alone. But everything changes when Sally MacIntosh moves into the little house across the road and Orville falls in love. The beautifully crafted text by Quaker author Kimmel blends wry humor with the poignant twang of a country-and-western song and is accompanied by dreamy, spare watercolor-and-ink illustrations for a fresh, original picture book that will resonate with anyone who has ever felt lonely or misunderstood.

Clarion 2003 32 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

The Other Bible (734)

EDITED BY WILLIS BARNSTONE
Gathered here for the first time in one comprehensive volume are excerpted ancient holy texts from Judeo-Christian traditions that were excluded from the official canon of the Old and New Testaments. The Other Bible is a unique sourcebook of essential selections from Jewish Psudepigrapha, early Kabbalah, Haggadah, Midrash, Christian Apocrypha, and Gnostic scriptures. Huge great doorstop of a book, fair condition but a bit frayed round the edges.

HarperSanfrancisco 1984 742 PP. Paper

$10.50 USED - availability checked Feb 11th 3:39am EST

Other Lands Have Dreams (091)

From Baghdad To Pekin Prison

BY KATHY KELLY
In 2004, human rights activist Kathy Kelly, was sent to Pekin Federal Prison for leading a protest at the School of the Americas. While in prison, Kelly's organization, Voices in the Wilderness, was targeted by a US State Department lawsuit charging that Kelly violated US sanctions when she took humanitarian aid to Iraq during numerous visits over the last five years.Here Kelly recounts such trips to Iraq, tells the largely unknown story of the School of the Americas, and describes daily life inside a federal prison where America's poor are warehoused. SECONDHAND very good condition.

AK 2005 173 PP. Paper

$8.00 USED - availability checked Feb 11th 3:39am EST

Other People's Children

Cultural Conflict In The Classroom

BY LISA DELPIT
Too often Children of color, other minorities and poor children become victims of a school system that somehow sees them as damaged and dangerous. Lisa Delpit in this now classic book shows a way for teachers to actually celebrate not just acknowledge diversity, to build on their children's home cultures to educate and equip them for the world.

The New Press 2006 223 PP. Paper

$17.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Other Side

BY JACQUELINE WOODSON, ILLUSTRATED BY EARL LEWIS
Clover has always wondered why a fence separates the black side of town from the white side. But this summer when Annie, a white girl from the other side, begins to sit on the fence, Clover grows more curious about the reason why the fence is there and about the daring girl who sits on it, rain or shine. And one day, feeling very brave, Clover approaches Annie. After all, why should a fence stand in the way of friendship? Beautifully rendered in Earl B. Lewis's striking illustrations, Jacqueline Woodson gives us a moving, lyrical narrative told in the hopeful voice of a child confused about the fence someone else has built in her yard and the racial tension that divides her world.

Putnam 2001 32 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (in stock)

The Other Side Of The Coin

The Emerging Vision Of Economics And Our Place In The World

BY DAVID ORRELL
"Comprehensive look at the new understandings in economics and how we think about money" -Keith Helmuth. The author forges what is ultimately a new science of money. Part economic theory, part science, part popular history, and part manifesto. He is inspired to do this by new sciences such as complexity and network theory, science-related movements like environmentalism, and social movements like feminism.

Key Porter Books 2008 376 PP. Paper

$26.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Other Way To Listen

BY BYRD BAYLOR
The book features a young person who tells about learning to listen to nature from an older man who can hear "wildflower seeds burst open, beginning to grow underground." The narrator tells of practicing this kind of listening and of the gradual awakening she experiences in moments of hearing the earth singing "the oldest sound in the world." In this book Byrd Baylor offers up a spare and accessible portrait of deep listening and an excellent tool for talking about what kind of inner experiences one can have in the silence of worship. This book is a selection of Philadelphia Yearly Meeeting's project One Book, One Yearly Meeting.

Simon and Schuster 1997 32 PP. Paper

$6.99 (in stock)

Our Final Hour (933)

A Scientist's Warning: How Terror, Error, And Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future In This Century--on Earth And Beyond

BY MARTIN REES
SECONDHAND hardback with nice jacket, if alittle garrish. A scientist known for unraveling the complexities of the universe over millions of years, Sir Rees now warns that humankind is potentially the maker of its own demise--and that of the cosmos. With clarity and precision, he maps out the ways technology could destroy the species and foreclose the potential of a living universe whose evolution has just begun.

Basic Books 2003 225 PP. Cloth

$4.00 USED - availability checked Feb 11th 3:39am EST

Our Nest

BY REEVE LINDBERGH, ILLUSTRATED BY JILL MCELMURRY
"This cozy rhyming story makes a complete circle as it looks at different types of `nests' in nature. It opens with a young boy at bedtime, then moves out into the world to describe how a mouse nestles in an old garden glove, a chipmunk sleeps in a brush pile, fish rest in brooks and oceans, boats find safety in the harbor, and space makes a nest for the stars and planets. The focus returns to the boy's bedroom where his mother gives him a goodnight kiss...." - School Library Journal

Candlewick 2004 32 PP Cloth

$15.99 (in stock)

Out Of Hitler's Reach

The Scattergood Hostel For European Refugees, 1939-1943

BY MICHAEL LUICK-THRAMS
From 1939 to 1943, close to 185 refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe found refuge at Scattergood, a temporary hostel in what had been (and now is) a Quaker boarding school near West Branch, Iowa. Telling the stories of the refugees' backgrounds, their flight from Europe, and their lives in the United States, this book is a fascinating history.

Luick-Thrams 1996 321 PP. Paper

$20.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Out Of The Silence

Quaker Perspectives On Pastoral Care And Counseling

BY BILL RATLIFF
This anthology of Quaker perspectives on caregiving will aid pastors, chaplains, seminary teachers and students as well as health counselors, psychologists, social workers and psychiatrists. The theory of Quaker practice is wedded to the experience of the professional caregiver to present a relationship-centered model for caregiving.

Pendle Hill 2001 320 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)

Outreach Ideabook

Suggestions For Attracting And Nurturing Newcomers And Enriching Quaker Meetings

BY THE OUTREACH COMMITTEE OF PHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING
This is a collection of materials for meetings, which offer suggestions on how to be a welcoming community. This manual includes pieces which examine how to make the meeting known locally, practices of other Meetings and common stumbling blocks in developing a considered approach to outreach and responding to new attenders.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1986 77 PP. Looseleaf

$18.00 (in stock)

Over The Highest Mountains

A Memoir Of Unexpected Heroism In France During World War Ii

BY ALICE RESCH-SYNNESTVEDT
"Heroism took many forms during the Holocaust. The ordinary decency of a few people - exhibited in the most difficult circumstances - was a flickering flame of light in a world of all-consuming darkness. This moving, almost exuberant memoir of one young Norwegian woman who worked with the Quakers from 1939 to 1945, gives us an outsider's glimpse into the transit camps and the deportation trains that was the world the Jews in France during the Shoah. She guides us through the religious integrity and human solidarity that led her to side with the victims, and not with their oppressors. One is grateful for such a memoir, more grateful for such a person." - Micheal Berenbaum

Intentional Productions 2005 268 PP. Paper

$17.95 (in stock)

Overcoming Our Racism

The Journey To Liberation

BY DERALD WING SUE
"This uncompromising anti-racist manifesto written for a white audience is concerned less with Klansmen and skinheads than with the white woman clutching her purse when minority teenagers draw near; the white man flinching at getting in an elevator full of black men; even the well-meaning but patronizing liberal teacher in a ghetto school. Sue, a Chinese-American psychologist, argues that the countless daily slights inflicted by such `unconscious and unintentional racists,' do more harm to minorities than the occasional hate-crime. The book includes a seven-phase program for reconstructing a non-racist white identity." - Publishers Weekly

Jossey Bass 2003 297 PP. Cloth

$22.95 (in stock)

Owning The Lord's Prayer

BY PAUL BUCKLEY
This is a selection of the author's personal reflections on individual passages from the Lord's Prayer. It is his "best effort at letting the prayer speak" to him. In each section, a few words from the prayer are presented alongside a scriptural passage that seems related to the words from the prayer. These are followed by some of the author's thoughts that have arisen in his meditations on the prayer. He invites readers, in a group or alone, to meditate on the prayer as they read these mediations and create his or her own petitions.

Buckley 2005 27 PP. Paper

$3.00 (in stock)

Oxford Study Bible

Revised English Bible With The Apocrypha

EDITED BY M. JACK SUGGS, KATHERINE DOOB SAKENFELD, AND JAMES R. MUELLE
A one-volume resource to introduce readers to the Bible by giving a complete overview of biblical history and scholarship as well as direct commentary on the text. Its features include 23 indispensable articles on the history, literary background, and cultural influences of the Bible, the complete text of the acclaimed Revised English Bible with the Apocrypha, fully revised and updated page-by-page textual annotations, a special index to people, places, and themes in the Bible, and full color Bible maps with index.

Oxford University Press 1992 1824 PP. Paper

$34.99 (in stock)

Parallel Communities

The Underground Railroad In South Jersey

BY DENNIS RIZZO
For slaves escaping on the Underground Railroad, names like Springtown and Snow Hill promised sanctuary and salvation. Under the pressures of racial prejudice, free blacks, runaway slaves and even many Native Americans formed island communities on the periphery of many South Jersey towns. These primarily African American communities preserved traditions, acted like extended families and created a social bond between diverse peoples; together they formed parallel communities based on, but independent of, the larger towns and villages.

The History Press 2008 160 PP. Paper

$19.99 (in stock)

Passage

BY ANDY GOLDSWORTHY
"`I don't know what will happen but look forward to whatever changes occur,' writes sculptor Goldsworthy, a statement that can stand as his credo. An artist who works with nature in nature, he creates astonishingly subtle, ephemeral, seemingly impossible, and elegantly mysterious works out of stone, sticks, leaves, stalks, ice, and sand, constructions vulnerable to sun, wind, storms, tides, and time. . His newest [book] covers many recent works--including Garden of Stones, a Holocaust memorial in New York City and the subject of an essay by Simon Schama--and tracks his ongoing involvement with an ancient tradition, the building of cairns." - Booklist, starred review

Abrams 2004 168 PP Cloth

$54.00 (in stock)