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Reflections From A Prayer Vigil For Peace

Php 358

BY JOHN GALLERY
The author shares reflections born of his participation in an extended prayer vigil for peace. It includes thoughts on sowing peace, faithfulness, prayer and a section on Timothy McVeigh (a United States citizen executed for bombing an Oklahoma City federal building in 1995 as an act of terrorism).

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2001 40 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Reflections On Quaker Worship

BY ESTHER GREENLEAF-MURER
An expanded collection of short essays intended to guide members and attenders in entering into corporate worship. Includes thoughts on tardiness, space between messages and vocal ministry for children. Formerly titled "From Worship & Minstry."

Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting 2003 30 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Reflections On Simplicity

Php 244

BY ELAINE PREVALLET
This is the author's description of her lifelong concern with the process of simplicity, a gift which often eludes one's grasp. She discusses the inner dynamic of simplicity and its relation to other values.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1982 32 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Reflections On The Theme "...but Who Is My Neighbor?"

2007 Fgc Gathering Plenary Address

BY KODY HERSH AND JOANNA HOYT
In this plenary talk from the 2007 Gathering, young adult Friends Kody Hersh and Joanna Hoyt speak to the Gathering theme from their personal experiences. Kody Hersh considers how needs, love, and constant service play out when we live in community - and urges us to answer Jesus's call to lay aside our social status in order to realize spiritual gifts and radical compassion. Joanna Hoyt speaks from her experiences working and living at a Catholic Worker farm in New York, and explores the vital relationship between love of God and love of neighbor, calling us to radical simplicity, fellowship and inclusion. Both speakers offer challenging, inspiring and nourishing visions of community.

Quaker Press 2007 AUDIO Audio

$12.00 (in stock)

Refusing War, Affirming Peace

A History Of Civilian Public Service At Cascade Locks

BY JEFFREY KOVAC
A history of Campy #21, a Civilian Public Service Camp which stood out as community of conscientious objectors during World War II.

Oregon State University Press 2009 192 PP. Paper

$21.95 (in stock)

Regulars And Refugees

Audio Cd

BY CARRIE NEWCOMER
A fascinating conceptual work, 'Regulars and Refugees.' Carrie delves into the stories of the patrons at Betty's Diner, a fictitious restaurant where souls both tragic and triumphant dine side-by-side. The result is a touching, bittersweet glimpse at life, love, and humanity itself delivered with an unerring melodic sense and rich, expressive alto voice.

Philo 2005 55 MINUTES Audio

$16.99 (in stock)

Reinhold Niebuhr

BY ROBIN LOVIN
A concise and accessible guide to the life and theology of Reinhold Niebuhr. Barrack Obama has stated that Niebuhrs' Christian theology was very influential in his spiritual development.

Abingdon Press 2007 85 PP. Paper

$12.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Reinvention Of Edison Thomas

BY JACQUELENE HOUTMAN
Science geek Eddy Thomas can invent useful devices to do anything, except solve his bully problem. Eddy Thomas can read a college physics book, but he can't read the emotions on the faces of his classmates at Drayton Middle School. He can spend hours tinkering with an invention, but he can't stand more than a few minutes in a noisy crowd, like the crowd at the science fair, which Eddy fails to win. When the local school crossing guard is laid off, Eddy is haunted by thoughts of the potentially disastrous consequences and invents a traffic-calming device, using parts he has scavenged from discarded machines. Quaker author. Was $17.95 now $14.35.

Front Sstreet 2010 189 PP. Cloth

$14.35 (in stock)

Released - Print

BROWN, EMILY
RELEASED. In an Edition of 14. "In 2008 I made a suite of prints based on Friends testimonies, each with an extract of text from PYM's Faith and Practice. My hope was to convey visually some qualities commonly found in Friends' writings and practices. There are five prints in limited editions. They are 15 x 22 inches on sturdy archival paper, signed and dated on the reverse side. Each print has both an original line etching on gampi paper and a digital print on which it is set. They are for sale unframed. Very suitable for offices, hospitals, retirement communities, colleges, schools, social service agencies, and homes." - - Emily Brown's web site: www.emilybrown.net

Emily Brown 2008 PRINT Blank

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Religion And Peacebuilding

EDITED BY HAROLD COWARD AND GORDON SMITH
Acknowledging that religion can motivate either violence or compassion, this book looks at how a variety of world religions - Aboriginal, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Confucian, and Christian - can and do work for peace. Examples given are from Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Cambodia, and South Africa. A book of great scope and significance.

SUNY Press 2003 352 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

The Religious World Of Antislavery Women

Spirituality In The Lives Of Five Abolitionist Lecturers

BY ANNA SPEICHER
Did radical abolitionist women abandon the constraints of religion in order to pursue their personal and political goals? The 19C reformers who are the subjects of this book Angelina and Sarah Grimke, Sallie Holley, Abby Kelley, and Lucretia Mott-did, indeed, reject what they found to be the repressive features of the Christianity of their day. Their religiosity, however, remained fundamental to their world view. This book explores the dimensions of this evolving faith, which was critical in shaping their decisions and actions throughout their lives and highlights the leadership that these women exercised within the antislavery community.

Syracuse University Press 1999 242 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

Remember William Penn 1644-1944 (82)

A Tercentenary Memorial

BY THE WILLIAM PENN TERCENTENARY COMMITTEE
SECONDHAND COPY. No Jacket. Blue cloth cover with gold gilt imprint, show some signs of fading from age and wear. Inside tricolored map. Printed on several different papers in sections and bound together. A detailed biography with some of the associated writings of William Penn on the occasion of his 300th year anniversary. Nice fold out picture of Philadelphia in 1944!

Pennsylvania Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 1944 ? PP. Cloth

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The Reminiscences Of Levi Coffin

EDITED BY BEN RICHMOND
Levi Coffin was first called "president of the Underground Railroad" by frustrated slave hunters in the years leading up to the Civil War. Coffin's autobiographical window on the times includes hundreds of dramatic stories of the risks that attended slaves and those who helped them in their escape to freedom.

Friends United Press 2001 430 PP. Paper

$25.00 (in stock)

Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible

Nrsv Edition

EDITED BY RICHARD FOSTER, WALTER BRUEGGEMAN, EUGENE PETERSON, DALLAS WILLARD
In this major new Bible, the foremost names in Christian spirituality and biblical scholarship, including Richard Foster, Dallas Willard, Eugene Peterson and Walter Brueggemann, come together to provide a unique study Bible that rediscovers Scripture as living and active text of spiritual formation. NRSV translation.

HarperSanFrancisco 2005 2416 PP. Cloth

$39.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Report From The Middle

Reflections On Divisions Among Friends Today - Two Essays

BY DOUGLAS GWYN, FOREWORD BY ELIZABETH CAZDEN
The two essays published here are "Sense and Sensibilities: Quaker Bispirituality Today" and "Standing with the Lamb," the talk that Doug Gwyn presented at the FUM triennial in 2005. He says, "Because the light of Christ is in all people, spiritual freedom is followed immediately by a humanistic, civil implication. If Christ is to have freedom to work with whomever he chooses, then human society must be a level playing field. Society must be free, open, inclusive, egalitarian, just. Excluding people is excluding potential channels for Christ's work."

Beacon Hill Friends House 2005 36 PP Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Rescuing The Bible From Fundamentalism

A Bishop Rethinks The Meaning Of Scripture

BY JOHN SHELBY SPONG
Spong lifts the Bible out of the prejudices and cultural biases that have justified wars and slavery in its name, and opens up the Bible's message of hope for all.

HarperSF 1992 267 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

Resident Aliens

Life In The Christian Colony

BY STANLEY HAUERWAS AND WILLIAM WILLIMON
"This book is a good introduction to the philosophy of Hauerwas, the most garrulously outspoken post-Liberal Christian in America. He bucks conventional wisdom to welcome the decline of religiousity in America, celebrating it as a time when Christians can stop being blind patriots and return to our historic counter-cultural faith witness. An outspoken pacifist, I often forget that Hauerwas isn't a Friend!"-from Martin Kelley's FGC "Staff Picks."

Abingdon 1989 175 PP Paper

$17.00 (in stock)

Resistance And Obedience To God

Memoirs Of David Ferris 1707-1779

EDITED BY MARTHA PAXSON-GRUNDY
Resistance and Obedience to God is a rich example of a life lived in the struggle to find and live God's will. Anyone interested in American religious history, Quaker history, spiritual development, religious education and ministry will find this chronicle of Ferris's life a fascinating documentation of life in the 18th century and the moral and ethical development of a Quaker minister. A contemporary of JohnWoolman, Ferris was a member of Wilmington Monthly Meeting who traveled extensively in the ministry. The introductory essay grounds the reader in religious and social developments leading up to the Great Awakening and what followed.

Quaker Press of FGC 2001 176 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

Resource Guide To Be Used By A Same Sex Couple

BY THE FAMILY RELATIONS COMMITTEE OF PHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING
Acknowledges divided judgments of Friends while honoring all couples. Includes advices, queries, and bibliography. Use with Marriage in the Light.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1988 14 PP. Paper

$3.00 (in stock)

Respectful Parents, Respectful Kids

7 Keys To Turn Family Conflict Into Co-operation

BY SURA HART AND VICTORIA KINDLE HODSON
This handbook urges parents to move beyond typical discipline techniques by creating an environment based on mutual respect, emotional safety, and positive, open communication. The seven outlined principles redefine the parent-dominated family by teaching parents how to achieve mutual parent/child respect without being submissive, set firm limits without using demands or coercion, and empower children to open up, cooperate, and realize their own innate potential. Based on Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication process, the framework helps parents break down the barriers to outstanding relationships with their kids by avoiding destructive language and habits.

Puddledancer Press 2006 208 PP. Paper

$17.95 (in stock)

Rethinking Human Nature (942)

A Christian Materialist Alternative To The Soul

BY KEVIN CORCORAN
SECONDHAND BOOK-probably unread. in good condition. Fascinating philosophy - What are we as human persons? Are we immaterial souls capable of disembodied existence or merely animals destined to dust? For centuries, scholars have debated this issue, and that debate continues today. But the question of human nature can no longer remain a topic for discussion within the hallowed halls of the academy. End-of-life ethical decisions, human cloning, fetal tissue transplants, and stem cell research all reveal the urgency and the importance of the question for ordinary people.

Baker academic 2006 153 PP. Paper

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Reticulated Pony Tail Decoration

Sterling And Coin Silver

CRAFTED BY SETH BARCH
Multiple, 1in high, 1in diameter.This piece has a hook on the back designed to slip securely through a hair elastic. Sterling and coin silver, 1in high, 1in diameter: this particular piece will likely be too small for v someone with curly or thick hair. Larger versions are available on request but, due to the nature of the reticulation process, will be wrinkled differently. Price includes shipping to US destinations.

Seth Barch PONY TAIL Boxed

$75.00 Availability checked Feb 11th 3:39am EST

Return To Japan (777)

VINING
SECONDHAND COPY- Libray copy BUT SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Fair condition with tatty dustjacket. The quaker tutor to the Crown prince returns to his Royal

1960 285 PP. Cloth

$16.00 USED - availability checked Feb 11th 3:39am EST

Rev James D Mcmanus

The Civil Rights Years - The Movement In Microcosm

BY PAUL WAHRHAFTIG
While there are many nationally recognized heroes of the Civil Rights Movement, little is known of the unheralded rural and small town activists. The Rev. J.D. McManus was one such activist who struggled to make Civil Rights a reality in his corner of the nation. His amazing story is told in the new book by Paul Wahrhaftig and gives us new insights into the realities of organizing for and implementing civil rights in the rural and small town South.

Fickle Press 2006 190 PP. Paper

$12.50 (in stock)

Revealing God

A New Theology From Science And Jesus

BY PATRICIA WILLIAMS
In the first part of this book, Patricia Williams describes Barclay's theology, the theology of early Quakerism. In doing so, she also depicts the theology underlying contemporary unprogrammed Quaker worship. Part two demonstrates that modern biblical criticism supports and even enhances early Quaker theology. The third part shows that contemporary science also upholds and enhances early Quaker theology.

Infinity Publishing 2008 190 PP. Paper

$13.95 (in stock)

Revelation And The Religions

BY AVERY DULLES

1999 28 PP. Paper

$3.50 (in stock)

A Revolutionary Gospel

BY LEWIS BENSON
Lewis Benson wrote the articles that this pamphlet is based on back in 1974. He talks of the truly Revolutionary Gospel early Friends had discovered, that would enable them, indeed require them, to rebuild Christianity from "New Foundations".

Tract Association 1974 15 PP. Paper

$0.50 (in stock)

Revolutionary Quaker Witness

Learning From The Lamb's War Of The 1650's

BY DOUG GWYN
What were they thinking? What were the spiritual and social roots of the activism our Quaker forbearers were known for? Doug Gwyn provides a short guide to the history of Quaker beginnings, focussing on the aspects that enabled the first Friends to truly 'tear down the pillars of the world' as one version of the George Fox song has it. Gwyn applies his understanding of this dynamic to our current sense of impasse in the face of the world's ills, and comes up with some challenging answers.

Beacon Hill Friends House 2009 34 PP. Paper