Iron Finns

BY MICHAEL RESMAN
After his father's death in an underground iron mine, Matti replaces him on the timbering crew. His uncle promises to get him a safe job above ground in exchange for allowing Socialists to meet at the family farm and plot to win to the 1920 governor's race. Matti finds danger, love and loss while learning a trade and developing his spiritually. Author Michael Resman is a Quaker, and with Finnish and American ancestor's who worked in mines like these, he brings a broad perspective to this tale.

North Star Press of St. Cloud 2008 276 PP. Paper

$12.95 (in stock)

Special Education As A Spiritual Journey

Php #390

BY MICHAEL RESMAN
How are we to understand God in a world where children suffer from devastating disabilities? And how are we to live meaningfully in such a world? Michael Resman, who works in special education as an occupational therapist, has had much occasion to grapple with such questions. The answers he found for himself come not from church teachings, nor from his own reasonings, but from mystical insight, or as early Friends would say, from spiritual "openings." Many early Friends wrote accounts of "God's dealings" with them, in the hope that their journals would prove useful to others. This is such an account.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2007 35 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)