Peaceable Kingdom Lost

The Paxton Boys And The Destruction Of William Penn's Holy Experiment

BY KEVIN KENNY
William Penn established Pennsylvania in 1682 as a "holy experiment" in which Europeans and Indians could live together in harmony. In this book, historian Kevin Kenny explains how this Peaceable Kingdom--benevolent, Quaker, pacifist--gradually disintegrated in the eighteenth century, with disastrous consequences for Native Americans. "Kenny concludes that the Boys' attitude toward the Indians and their attacks on the ruling powers presaged the military and political activities of the American Revolution and the new nation's mistreatment of the Indians." - Publishers Weekly

Oxford University Press 2009 304 PP. Cloth

$29.95 (in stock)

The Peaceable Kingdom

Lessons For All Ages To Assist In Exploring The Friends Peace Testimony

EDITED AND UPDATED BY CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AT YEARLY MEETING GROUP
A new curriculum exploring the peace testimony and adapted from "Blessed are the Peacemakers," an older Philadelphia Yearly Meeting curriculum. This packet includes activities for teachers in First-day schools to use in creating lessons about peace for children, as well as for intergenerational gatherings. The activities are planned to begin with the inward search for peace, to envision peace in the home and community, and to explore peacemaking in the world.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 2003 35 PP. Looseleaf

$11.00 (in stock)

The Peaceable Kingdom Jigsaw Puzzle

1000 Peice Quality Puzzle

BY EDWARD HICKS AND A SAW
Edward Hicks ( 1780-1849) was a devout Quaker and this subject (which he painted more than 60 times) is his utopian vision of Isaiah "the wolf shall also dwell with the lamb...and a little child shall lead them" . In the background William Penn can be seen presenting a treaty to the Lenape Indians who had just sold him land near Philadelphia for 1,200 pounds. A sturdy bright quality puzzle of 1,000 pieces. Cannot ship Media Mail.

Pomegranite 1846 1000 PIECES Boxed

$12.00 (in stock)

Peaceful Heroes

BY JONAH WINTER, SEAN ADDY
Renowned picture-book biographer Jonah Winter writes of the peaceful heroes, who are willing to die for a cause, but never to kill for a cause. From the ultimate hero, Jesus of Nazareth, to obvious choices like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Aung San Suu Kyi and Sojourner Truth to the ordinary man who lives in Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina, Jonah Winter brings children a series of remarkable stories about a very few of the bravest people history has known.

Arthur Levine Books 2009 64 PP. Cloth

$17.99 (in stock)

Peaceful Heroes 2

Ten One-act Plays

BY ROSALIE REGEN
Ten more plays about Friends, this volume including "The Wedding of William Penn", "Prudence Crandall", and "Richard and the Runaway Slave".

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1988 88 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Peaceful Heroes 1

Fourteen One-act Plays

BY ROSALIE REGEN
A wonderful collection of fourteen plays about Friends including "The Man in Leather Breeches", "Master John", and "Rufus Jones and the Gestapo". For junior and senior high students and adults. Adaptable for younger children.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1962 189 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Peaceful Piggy Meditation - Paperback

BY KERRY LEE MACLEAN
The author brings experiences as a meditation therapist to this storybook guide, and her bright, gently whimsical paintings show how this simple ritual can do so much for children and their families. "There's nary a lotus blossom or a Bodhisattva to be found in the bright paintings of disarming piggies who tease their siblings, get mad, play video games, but also 'know when to take a break, find a quiet spot adn just breathe, breathe, breathe.'" - Booklist

Albert Whitman 2006 32 PP. Paper

$6.95 (in stock)

Peaceful Piggy Yoga

BY KERRY LEE MACLEAN
Kerry Lee MacLean brings her experience as a yoga instructor and children's meditation therapist to this unique guide, along with the bright, amusing piggy paintings that have become her trademark in Peaceful Piggy Meditation. This fun and informative picture book guide shows kids (and piggies) n classic yoga poses, complete with instructions.

Whitman 2008 32 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (in stock)

Peacejam

A Billion Acts Of Peace

BY IVAN SUVANJIEFF AND DAWN GIFFORD ENGLE
The Dalai Lama, the Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Costa Rican president Oscar Arias and political rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi are just some of the Nobel Peace Laureates who have joined the PeaceJam Foundation in their Global Call to Action. This book profiles all of these laureates and their work with teens around the world as they combine forces to help stop the spread of disease, promote women's rights, provide equitable access to food and water, and more. Combining profiles of the laureates- including personal bios-heartwarming tales of the youth and their projects, and tips on how readers can get involved, this is a comprehensive guide to the PeaceJam Foundation.

Penguin 2008 208 PP. Paper

$16.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Peacemaking Circles And Urban Youth

Bringing Justice Home

BY C BOYES-WATSON

Paper

$20.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Peacework

Prayer, Resistance, Community

BY HENRI NOUWEN
Henri Nouwen wrote this book twenty years ago as his personal response in a time of heightening Cold War tensions. Its publication now, in a new era of fear and violence, is particularly timely. On the one hand Peacework represents a passionate call to all Christians to embrace Jesus' ethic of peacemaking as an "unconditional, unlimited, and uncompromising" demand. But Nouwen goes on to show that peacemaking is more than a matter of carrying placards or opposing war. "Nobody can be a Christian without being a peacemaker. . . What we are called to is a life of peacemaking in which all that we do, say, think or dream is part of our concern to bring peace to our world." -From the book

Orbis 2005 256 PP. Cloth

$20.00 (in stock)

Peacework Quilt

365 Meditative Offerings

BY JUDITH PERRY CARPENTER
A collection of poetic meditations on her spiritual journey. "I enjoyed reading this wise and gentle book. Judith Carpenter's warm-hearted approach to the spiritual life both nourishes your spirit and invites you to go deeper. This book will be helpful to anyone looking for soulful accompaniment on the journey towards a deeper peace" Catherine Whitmire Quaker and author of Plain living: A Quaker Path To Simplicity

Seafire Press 2009 243 PP. Paper

$20.00 (in stock)

Peanut Butter Jellyfish

BY PEANUT BUTTER JELLYFISH
Lisa Wildman Denise Mitkus David McCullough The musicians of Peanut Butter Jellyfish use their experience as parents and educators to choose songs promoting tolerance, caring for the earth and its creatures, fun kids' favorites, and soothing lullabies. Peanut Butter Jellyfish brings you family-friendly music for children of all ages. Some of us are also members of Group W

PBJF 2006 17 TRACKS Disk

$15.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

A Peculiar People

The Rediscovery Of Primitive Christianity

BY JOSEPH JOHN GURNEY
Gurney (1788-1847), Elizabeth Fry's brother, was a birthright Friend and a recorded minister. He traveled extensively in America, and Europe working for peace, penal reform, and the abolition of slavery. But he was divisive in America, his view that Quakers had forsaken the Bible for the Inner light led to a major split in Quakerism that persists to today. This book presents his views on the radical nature of Quakerism.

Friends United Press 2008 508 PP. Paper

$25.00 (in stock)

Peculiar Power

A Quaker Woman Preacher In Eighteenth-century America

BY CRISTINE LEVENDUSKI
Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713-1755) wrote "Remarkable Experiences". In it she recorded her religious search but also told of the highly unusual events that had shaped her life: eloping at 14, being kidnapped, preventing a shipboard mutiny, enduring a harsh term of indentured servitude, and suffering relentless religious persecution. Her experiences as an English immigrant, a servant, an itinerant, a Quaker, and a woman placed her far outside the colonial cultural mainstream, but drawing power from her marginalized position she became in her thirties a respected leader among Quakers, thereby breaking the "suffer and be still" silence imposed on 18C women.

Smithsonian 1996 171 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Penn

BY ELIZABETH GRAY VINING
Penn's life emerges from this classic biography as a story of courage, honesty and faith.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1986 298 PP. Paper

$9.00 (in stock)

The Pennsylvania Colony

BY MARTIN HINTZ
A nicely illustrated but brief introduction to the founding of Pennsylvania. It is well illustrated and a good starting point for very young folks, though some ideas (i.e That Quakers only meet once a month for worship) need an adult correction.

Capstone Press 2006 32 PP. Paper

$7.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Pennterra

BY JUDITH MOFFETT
A Quaker colony in space! But it is a strange planet they have landed on, and complications arise as more colonists arrive from Earth unwilling to accept the empathic warnings of the planets native life, the Hrossa. But be warned there is a strange sexual subtext to the book although that is all explained at the end. This is a reissue of the long out of print original edition

Fantastic Books 2009 288 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)

The People Called Quakers

BY ELTON TRUEBLOOD
This volume is more philosophical than historical. It is an effort to depict a people who represent one element in radical Christianity and their ideas and insights. The book attempts to sum up the many avenues Quakerism has explored and to see it as an entire movement containing contrasting and complementary emphases. The author sees this book as especially valuable to those of other faiths interested in exploring Quakerism.

Friends United Press 1966 298 PP. Paper

$17.00 (in stock)

People Once Were Welcome Here

BY STEVE DEASY
Steve Deasy is the Detroit-based performing songwriter who brought down the house at this year's FGC Gathering; A socially conscious writer in the tradition of Dylan and Seeger, but with the contemporary musicality of new folk, classic rock, pop, and jazz influences. This album, his newest, includes songs of peace, protest, and a tribute to John Woolman.

Red Cedar River Records 2010 11 TRACKS Disk

$15.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

A People's History Of The United States

1492-present

BY HOWARD ZINN
Consistently lauded for its lively, readable prose, this revised and updated edition of A People's History of the United States turns traditional textbook history on its head. Howard Zinn infuses the often-submerged voices of blacks, women, American Indians, war resisters, and poor laborers of all nationalities into this thorough narrative that spans American history from Christopher Columbus's arrival to an afterword on the Clinton presidency. "One reason these atrocities are still with us is that we have learned to bury them in a mass of other facts, as radioactive wastes are buried in containers in the earth." - Howard Zinn

Harper Perennial 2003 730 PP. Paper

$18.95 (in stock)

A People's History Of Christianity

The Other Side Of The Story

BY DIANA BUTLER BASS
In the same spirit as Howard Zinn's groundbreaking work The People's History of the United States, Butler Bass's A People's History of Christianity brings to life the movements, personalities, and spiritual disciplines that have always informed and ignited Christian worship and social activism. In A People's History of Christianity, historian and religion expert Diana Butler Bass reveals an alternate history that includes a deep social ethic and far-reaching inclusivity: "the other side of the story" is not a modern phenomenon, but has always been practiced within the church. Quakers arrive on page 220.

HarperOne 2011 370 PP. Paper

$14.99 (out of stock but can be backordered)

A Perfect Freedom

Religious Liberty In Pennsylvania

BY J. WILLIAM FROST
Frost uses a wide variety of historical sources to trace the development of religious freedom in Pennsylvania from the founding of the colony up to World War II. Quakers figure prominently throughout. "Given the importance of the Pennsylvania story to the development of religious liberty in America, it is surprising-as J. William Frost notes-that this story has received so little attention. Here, at last, we have the vital narrative offered in impressive and illuminating detail."-Edwin S. Gaustad, American Historical Review

Pennsylvania State Press 1990 220 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

A Persistent Peace

One Man's Struggle For A Nonviolent World

BY JOHN DEAR
A Persistent Peace, John Dear's autobiography, invites readers to follow the decades-long journey and spiritual growth of this nationally known peace activist, and to witness his bold, decisive, often unpopular actions before government officials, military higher-ups, and even hostile representatives of the Church. With heroes such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela, it should come as no surprise that John's activism has taken him to many places including war zones all over the world.

Loyola Press 2008 440 PP. Cloth

$22.95 (in stock)

Personal Companion (566)

HENDRIX AND HUNT
SECONDHAND COPY In good condition. Full title: The Personal Companion : Meditations and Exercises for Keeping the Love you Find by the happy couple writing team. Combining practical advice, humor, and enlightening wisdom, these daily meditations and exercises provide powerful insights that can help anyone create unlimited possibilities for finding -- and keeping -- love.Whatever your history, whatever your heartache, your dreams of finding a truly compatible mate are completely achievable, not through luck or extraordinary skill, but by taking daily steps toward inner growth and positive change.

Pocket Books 1995 365 DAYS Paper

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Peruginos Path, Renaisance Painter (84)

NANCY CLOUSE
SECONDHAND COPY-as new. A look for mid school kids at a renaisance painters world in Italy. Lots of painting for popes...

Eerdmans 1997 32 PP. Cloth

$3.50 USED - availability checked Feb 11th 3:39am EST

Peter, Paul & Mary Magdalene

The Followers Of Jesus In History And Legend

BY BART EHRMAN
SECONDHAND COPY. HArdback in good condition. With a dustjacket. An engaging tour of the early Christian church, illuminating the lives of three of Jesus' most intriguing followers: Simon Peter, Paul of Tarsus, and Mary Magdalene. In this lively work, Ehrman separates fact from fiction, presenting complicated historical issues in a clear and informative way. A serious book but vibrantly written and leavened with many colorful stories, "Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene" will appeal to anyone curious about the early Christian church and the lives of these important figures.

Oxford University Press Cloth

$8.00 (in stock)

Philadelphia Friends Schools

BY FRIENDS COUNCIL ON EDUCATION WITH JANET CHANCE
In 1689, William Penn established a Friends Public School in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This book includes well annotated images from the 10 Friends schools founded in or near Philadelphia before the 20th century: Abington Friends School, Frankford Friends, Friends Central, Friends Select, George School, Germantown Friends, Greene Street Friends, Plymouth Meeting, William Penn Charter, and Westtown. Philadelphia Friends Schools tells the photographic story of an educational philosophy rooted in three centuries of faith and practice.

Arcadia 2009 127 PP. Paper

$21.99 (in stock)

Philena's Friendship Quilt

A Quaker Farewell To Ohio

BY LYNDA SALTER CHENOWETH
Fabric archeologist Chenoweth discovers the story behind a Quaker signature quilt made in Ohio, in 1853 to reveal not only the identity of the quilt recipient and details of her life and community but also the hidden design element created by the deliberate placement of names on the quilt's surface. The final chapter tells of the life of Philena Evaline Cooper born in Clearfield County, Pa, in 1822, until her death in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1915.

Ohio University Press 2008 104 PP. Paper

$22.95 (in stock)

The Phoenix Trip (10090)

Notes On Aquaker Mission To Haiphong

BY ELIZABETH JELINEK BOARDMAN
SECONDHAND. Paperback in reasonable condition. In March 1967, members of AQAG (A Quaker action Group) sailed to North Vietnam in the yacht Phoenix, carrying medical supplies for North Vietnamese wounded by American bombing. The protest generated wide media coverage. In the early seventies, AQAG, having abandoned its goal of transforming the Society of Friends, evolved into the Movement for a New Society, a self-styled "transformational network" which would play key role in the anti-nuclear movement of the 1970s.

Celo Press 1985 173 PP. Paper

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