The Rich Heritage Of Quakerism

BY WALTER R. WILLIAMS, WITH ADDITIONAL MATERIAL BY PAUL ANDERSON
An evangelical Friend looks at the history of Quakerism and offers biographies of its leaders. Paul Anderson, professor at George Fox University, has written an epilogue adding major developments that have taken place within Quakerism since this book was first published in 1962. Anderson also examines issues confronting Quakers entering the twenty-first century.SECONDHAND COPY. Fair condition paperback.Barclay press

1987 330 PP. Paper

$12.00 (in stock)

The Riddles Of The Fourth Gospel

An Introduction To John

BY PAUL N ANDERSON
Paul Anderson is the leading Quaker bible scholar. Here he looks at the literary, historical, and theological aspects of the Fourth Gospel., evaluating methods others have used and looking at questions of the Gospels authorship and composition in relation to the other synoptic gospels.

Fortress 2011 288 PP. Paper

$22.00 (in stock)

Right Relationship

Building A Whole Earth Economy

BY PETER BROWN AND GEOFFREY GARVER
What is right relationship? A thing is right when it preserves the integrity, resilience, & beauty of the commonwealth of life and wrong when it does otherwise. Unlimited growth & wealth are seen as "natural law" and nothing can be done to alter this - even if it means damaging the Earth's ecological & social systems. We face a moral choice: bring the economy into right relationship with the planet & its inhabitants, or suffer the consequences - the increasing destruction of Earth's life support systems & social structures. This book presents a proposal for bringing our world into alignment. A project of the Quaker Institute for the Future.

Berret-Koehler 2009 192 PP. Paper

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Rights On The Line / Derechos Sobre La Linea

Three-disk Dvd Set

COPRODUCED BY AFSC, WITNESS, AND ACLU
Developed as a tool for community education and human rights advocacy, RIGHTS ON THE LINE explores the true nature of the vigilante movement, contrasting their media-savvy public message with the reality of their night-time raids against border crossers and threatening posture toward border communities. This 25-minute video includes interviews with border residents, border crossers, human rights activists, and members of the Minuteman Project themselves. AFSC.

AFSC 25 MINS Disk

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Ripening Of Quaker Worship

BY DAVID BILLS
David Bills points out in this 1998 pamphlet that "We are about to enter the fifth century during which Quaker worship has taken place." Bills traces the basic evolution of Friends over the century, discussing their origins and developments in styles of worship and places of worship and attitudes toward evangelical ministry. Bills's speech also comes with an imperative, though: He urges Friends toward more and better worship, and encourages them to focus on the unique practices and beliefs that set them apart from the "generic Protestant" mainstream.

p.SEYM Publications 1998 28 PP. Paper

$3.00 (in stock)

Rise Up Singing

15th Anniversary Edition

EDITED BY ANNIE & PETER BLOOD-PATTERSON
Sing for days with this song book. Includes words and chords for over 1200 songs from every possible region, culture, and category imaginable. Encourages people to teach songs to one another.

Sing Out 2004 281 PP Spiral Bound

$22.95 (in stock)

Rise Up Singing - Leader's Edition

Large Print

EDITED BY ANNIE & PETER BLOOD-PATTERSON
Now Available! A large print edition for leader's or for anyone who finds the type in the original edition just too small. Sing for days with this song book. Includes words and chords for over 1200 songs from every possible region, culture, and category imaginable. Encourages people to teach songs to one another.

Sing Out 2004 281 PP. Looseleaf

$29.95 (in stock)

Rites Of Passage In Children

BY RICHARD ELDRIDGE
Directives for adults on how to allow our children to pass into our world based on rites of passage from Adam and Eve through modern literature.

Friends Council on Education 1989 13 PP. Paper

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A Road Less Traveled

Living Pastoral Ministry Among Friends In New England - Beacon Hill Friends House Listen! Series

BY MAGGIE EDMONSON
Maggie Edundson's exploration of the call to ministry takes the form of a journal describing a week in the life of a modern Friend following a call to pastoral Ministry. Like the journals of Friends travelling in the ministry centuries ago, this has much to teach us about being Quaker. Taken from a lecture in the "Listen!" series given in November 2007.

Beacon Hill Friends House 2008 41 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Road To Greenham Common (1)

BY JILL LIDDINGTON
The Greenham Common peace camp was a nineteen year witness against nuclear armament in Berkshire, England, founded & maintained exclusively by women. Originally established to protest the American airbase in Berkshire and the stationi ng of 96 cruise missiles there, it survived despite years of harassment, intimidation, and legal wrangling. Calling upon many little known auto-biographies and minute books, Linddington traces the story, which includes many Quakers, as far back as the women's peace societies of the 1820s.SECONDHAND COPY- a slightly shabby but readable paperback>

1989 349 PP. Paper

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The Road To Peace

Writings On Peace And Justice

BY HENRI NOUWEN
Henri Nouwen believed following Christ required active involvement with the powerless of the world. This volume thoroughly integrates Nouwen's spiritual beliefs and social concerns and comprises dozens of essays, interviews, and writings such as his reflections on the March on Selma in 1965, the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr., the legacy of Oscar Romero, and his work with handicapped people at the L'Arche community.

Orbis 2002 256 PP. Paper

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Rober Valentine 1717-1786

A Rural Storekeeper Who Became An Eminent Friend

BY FRANCIS G. BROWN
Born in Ireland in 1717, his family settled in Chester county in 1724. From being a rural storekeeper he became an eminent public Friend among Philadelphia Quakers. He once wrote "Friends should not slubber and daub things over in a deceitful manner but should stand plumb for the truth".

Self published 2009 94 PP. Paper

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Robert K. Greenleaf

A Life Of Servant Leadership

BY DON FRICK
A biography of the founder of Servant Leadership, authorized by his surviving children. Greenleaf's work has influenced everything from management training and education to corporate ethics and religious missions. In1935 Greenleaf became a convinced Quaker (though he did have problems with the peace testimony during WWII) and Quakerism, as well as early involvement with the cooperative movement, greatly influenced his thinking.

Berrett Kohler 2004 432 PP. Cloth

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Robot Novels, Caves Of Steel, Naked Sun (110)

BY ISAAC ASIMOV
Some nice Science Fiction hardbacks - not that quakerly - but these and murder mysteries do seem to be popular among Friends!. These books are all in pretty good condition hardback with tidy dustjackets. Science Fiction Book Club Editions.

Various Publishers 1957 404 PP. Cloth

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Roll, Jordan, Roll (45637)

The World The Slaves Made

BY EUGENE D. GENOVESE
Secondhand Copy. Hardback with jacket (slight tear) in fair to good condition. Presented by the H. H. Mosher Fund of NYYM to Margaret H. and S. Allen Bacon, 1975. The then Marxist historian presents his Bancroft Prize winning reexamination of American slavery --more from the slaves point of view than previous histories.

Pantheon 1972 823 PP. Cloth

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The Romantics Guide (832)

BY MICHAEL WEBB
SECONDHAND COPY, paper good condition! Actual title is "The RoMANtic's Guide: Hundreds of Creative Tips for a Lifetime of Love" and like me this guy claims to be " The worlds most romantic husband" - maybe with more authority. Excellent book if you are not British.

Hyperion 2000 200 PP. Paper

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Romiette And Julio

BY SHARON DRAPER
When Romiette Cappelle meets Julio Montague, she feels as though she has met the soul mate who can rescue her from her recurring nightmare about fire and water. But like the Shakespearean characters whose names echo theirs, Romiette and Julio discover that not everyone approves of their budding romance. In their case, it is because Romiette is African-American and Julio is Hispanic, and the Devildogs, a dangerous local gang, violently oppose their interracial relationship.

Simon Pulse 1999 320 PP. Paper

$6.99 (in stock)

Room Temperature

BY NICHOLSON BAKER
A young house husband is feeding his baby daughter from a bottle. The book is a 20 minute reverie of his thoughts in that cozy place. He reflects on peanut butter, air nozzles in airplanes and the microscopic interactions of love - among other things.

Vintage 1984 116 PP. Paper

$10.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Rooted In Christianity, Open To New Light

Quaker Spiritual Diversity

BY ALEX WILDWOOD AND TIM PEAT ASHWORTH
Contemporary Quaker meetings encounter unprecedented diversity of belief and religious language. How do we better understand - and work creatively with - the tension between traditional Christian faith and emerging expressions of Quakerism? The two authors developed Woodbrooke's 'Rooted in Christianity, Open to New Light' project, which has travelled around many Quaker meetings in Britain. This is the book arising from the project, in which they explore the issues that spiritual diversity raises for Quakers individually and corporately, and the challenges and rewards of being a diverse, inclusive community of faith.

Pronoun Press 2009 100 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)

Rooted In Faith (412)

Meditations From The Reformers

BY BERNARD BANGLEY
SECONDHAND paperback in toppo condition. Rooted in Faith: Daily Readings from the Early Protestant Church contains 365 daily devotional readings taken from the writings of early Protestant authors, carefully selected and modernized by Bernard Bangley.

Paraclete 2003 274 PP. Paper

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The Roots And Fruits Of A Powerful Peace Testimony

Speaking Truth With Power

BY BRUCE BIRCHARD
Friends are called to live truth in word and action both inwardly and outwardly. Never before has there been a greater need to understand and fully live the peace testimony than now. Bruce Birchard examines what it means to overcome fear and live in love to make way for the light that takes away the occasion of all war.

Quaker Press of FGC 2004 24 PP Paper

$7.00 (in stock)

Rosa

BY NIKKI GIOVANNI, ILLUSTRATED BY BRYAN COLLIER
"She had not sought this moment but she was ready for it. When the policeman bent down to ask `Auntie, are you going to move?' all the strength of all the people through all those many years joined in her. She said, `No.'" This book presents an inspiring account of an event that shaped American history. Fifty years after her refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, Mrs. Rosa Parks is still one of the most important figures in the American civil rights movement. This picture- book tribute to Mrs. Parks is a celebration of her courageous action and the events that followed.

Macmillan 2007 40 PP. Paper

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Rosalind Franklin And Dna (4190)

BY ANNE SAYRE
SECONDHAND. Hardback with dustjacket, not pristine but quite a nice copy. British pioneer x ray crystallographer who probed Fine structure of coal and graphite, and was not sufficiently acknowledged in the discovery of the structure of DNA. No Quaker connection.

WW Norton 1975 221 PP. Cloth

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Rosetta, Rosetta, Sit By Me!

BY LINDA WALVOORD, ILLUSTRATED BY ERIC VELASQUEZ
Frederick Douglass's daughter tells her own story of segregation and triumph "Rosetta, Rosetta, Sit by me!" That's what the white girls at Miss Tracy's Female Seminary (a Quaker school) yell when Rosetta, Frederick Douglass's nine-year-old daughter, shows up on the first day of school. But things don't turn out the way she expects. Not only does she have to study in a classroom all by herself, but she's also kept apart at recess. Told in Rosetta's voice, and illustrated throughout, this remarkable chapter book includes a biographical endnote, time line, reproductions of a letter from Rosetta to her father and Frederick Douglass's newspaper and source notes.

Marshall Cavendish 2004 96 PP. Cloth

$14.95 (in stock)

Rufus Jones

Essential Writings

EDITED BY KERRY WALTERS
This book is a long needed collection of writings of a well-beloved Quaker mystic and social activist whose thought and life influenced Friends and non-Friends alike. "No one has articulated - or lived - Quaker sensibilities more deeply than Rufus Jones. This superbly edited collection of his writings makes Rufus Jones, the tradition that shaped him, and his rich experience of the divine available to those many seekers. They will, I am confident, be grateful." - Parker Palmer

Orbis 2001 144 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)

Ruth And The Green Book

BY CALVIN RAMSEY
Ruth and the Green Book is the story of one black familys trip from Chicago to Alabama by car in the late 1940s. Along the way they encounter prejudice, but they also discover The Green Book, a real guide to accommodations which was published for decades to aid African-American travelers as they faced prejudice on the roads across the country.

Carolrhoda 2010 32 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (in stock)

Ruth's Gift

A Family Legend Expanded

BY CATHY GASKILL
A novel for all ages! The story of the union that created the internationally renowned Jones family from its humble American origins in the mid-19th century. This romantic novel includes detailed descriptions of a Quaker wedding and a meeting for worship. Introduction by T. Canby Jones.

Canmore 1998 143 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Ryan And Jimmy

And The Well In Africa That Brought Them Together

BY HERB SHOVELLER
Ryan in Ontario learns at school it costs $70 to dig a well in Uganda to provide clean water for a whole village. His parents tell him he must earn the money himself, and he starts on household chores, then the media publicize it and money rolls in. A well is dug in Agweo where a young orphan named Akana Jimmy longs for a chance to thank Ryan in person. When they finally meet, an unbreakable bond unites these boys from very different backgrounds, and a long and sometimes life-threatening journey begins.

Kids Can Press 2008 55 PP. Paper

$9.95 (in stock)

Sacred Compass Participant's Guide

BY BRENT BILL, ROBERT GIBSON
A companion guide to use with the book "Sacred Compass" designed for personal growth or for group use. Contains description of the key concepts together with exercises and scriptural references. In Sacred Compass Brent Bill draws on the quiet beauty of the Quaker path to show how spiritual discernment is more about sensing God's presence than it is about making the right decisions. As you use this book to chart your own spiritual course, you will find yourself led to unexpected places, comforted by the knowledge that God uses all of our experiences to enrich and educate us.

Paraclete Press 2011 27 PP. Paper

$5.99 (in stock)

Sacred Compass

The Way Of Spiritual Discernment

BY BRENT BILL
A compass makes a good metaphor for our spiritual lives and the work of discerning God's will for them. the divine compass points us the mind and love of God. Our sacred compass operates in our souls and calls us to life with God. The sacred compass leads us on a life of pilgrimage - a hike to wholeness and holiness. Keeping our soul's eyes on the sacred compass leads us to the holy discovery that we can move through life with purpose and promise, even in those times when we may not sense with certainty what that purpose and promise are. "Brent Bill has written one of the finest books on discernment and divine guidance that I have seen in a very long time." -Richard J. Foster

Paraclete 2008 190 PP. Cloth

$19.95 (in stock)