Sacred Contracts

Awakening Your Divine

MYSS, CAROLINE
SECONDHAND Paperback in fair condition.As a medical intuitive, Myss has found that people often don't understand their purpose in life. To help people find this purpose, she has developed a process for deciphering one's own contract using a theory of archetypes that builds on the work of Jung, Plato, and contemporary thinkers.

Three Rivers Press 2002 441 PP. Paper

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The Sacred Harp

1991 Revision

EDITED BY HUGH MCGRAW, ET AL
A "shape note" singing classic considered to be the best collection of sacred songs, hymns, odes, and anthems ever offered the singing public for general use. First compiled in 1844 by Benjamin Franklin White, it has been revised only four times.

Sacred Harp 1991 573 HYMNS Cloth

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Sacred Ordinary

Sermons And Addresses

BY ARTHUR O. ROBERTS
A celebration of nearly forty years of public ministry, bringing together pulpit and pen, to offer the eyes what was previously presented to the ears. Throughout the fifty sermons and addresses you will find idealistic reflections alongside down-to-earth, practical advice, followed by plain-speaking poetic verse.

Barclay Press 2006 313 PP. Paper

$19.00 (in stock)

Sacred Rhythms

Arranging Our Lives For Spiritual Transformation

BY RUTH HALEY BARTON
Picking up on the monastic tradition of creating a "rule of life" that allows for regular space for the practice of the spiritual disciplines, this book takes you more deeply into understanding seven key disciplines along with practical ideas for weaving them into everyday life. Each chapter includes exercises to help you begin the practices--individually and in a group context.

IVP 2006 189 PP. Cloth

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Sacred Spaces

Stations On A Celtic Way

BY MARGARET SILF
Celtic spirituality sees the visible and invisible, the material and spiritual worlds as one. There are certain places that allow those in the material world to see a more spiritual one. These are places like hilltops; wells; springs; burial grounds; thresholds. The book has beautiful pictures, Margaret Silfs reflections and appropriate scripture and legend.

Paraclete Press 2010 189 PP. Cloth

$15.00 (in stock)

Sacred Trust

A Quaker Family Since 1816

BY THEODORA ELKINTON WARING
"Theodora Waring's memoir is punctuated by nourishing spirit-led experiences, educational and professional accomplishments, and her participation in the lives of her five children and their families. Anyone reading this book will be drawn into a remarkable life story" Larry Miller former General secretary of FGC

Barvel Pond Press 2007 319 PP. Paper

$25.00 (in stock)

Sadhana

A Way To God - Christian Exercises In Eastern Form

BY ANTHONY DEMELLO
The author presents a series of spiritual exercises for entering the contemplative state - blending psychology, spiritual therapy, and practices from both Eastern and Western traditions.

Image Books 1984 140 PP. Paper

$11.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Sails On The Horizon

A Novel Of The Napoleonic Wars

BY JAY WORRALL
In 1797 Napoleon Bonaparte is fighting England on land and sea. 25 year-old Charles Edgemont is 2nd lieutenant aboard the British ship Argonaut. When orders come for the Argonaut to attack, he leads his gun crews bravely-until the deaths of the other officers elevate him to commander. For refusing to yield to enemy fire, Charles is promoted, becoming wealthy beyond his wildest dreams. Yet upon his return home, his newfound riches prove no help when it comes to winning the heart of Quaker Penelope Brown, who regards war as sinful and soldiers as little better than murderers. Changing Penelope's mind may just be the hardest battle Charles has ever fought and it could change his life.

Random House 2006 284 PP. Paper

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The Saint And The Sultan

The Crusades, Islam, And Francis Of Assisi's Mission Of Peace

BY PAUL MOSES
"An intriguing examination of the extraordinary-and little known meeting between St. Francis of Assisi and Islamic leader Sultan Malik Al-Kamil that has strong resonance in today's divided world." For many of us, St. Francis of Assisi is known as a poor monk and a lover of animals. However, these images are sadly incomplete, because they ignore an equally important and more challenging aspect of his life -- his unwavering commitment to seeking peace. In "The Saint and the Sultan," Paul Moses recovers Francis' s message of peace through the largely forgotten story of his daring mission to end the crusades.

Doubleday 2009 293 PP. Cloth

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Saint Francis Of Assisi

A Life Of Joy

BY ROBERT KENNEDY JR, ILLUSTRATED BY DENNIS NOLAN
Francis of Assisi turned away from his life of wealth and privilege to live with lepers, the "untouchables" of his society. He preached the idea of the sanctity of all life, becoming an advocate of animal rights and environmentalism in a time when even human life often had little value. He found joy in owning nothing, and giving everything away. The story of Saint Francis of Assisi's life is inspiring and radical. It bears important messages for American children living in a culture of casual abundance and waste. Francis of Assisi's life has been an inspiration to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and in this book he re-tells Francis's life to inspire his own children and children everywhere.

Hyperion 2005 32 PP. Cloth

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Saint Francis Sings To Brother Sun

A Celebration Of His Kinship With Nature

BY KAREN PANDELL, ILLUSTRATED BY BIJOU LETORD
More than eight hundred years ago, a privileged young man cast off his worldly possessions to live an austere life amid nature, where his gentleness and compassionate words drew even wild creatures to his feet. The now-legendary Saint Francis of Assisi receives a fitting tribute in this elegant, inviting volume, in which stanzas of the "Canticle of Brother Sun" are interwoven with nature tales about the man who composed this sacred song and followed by an author's note, biography, bibliography, and source notes. Illustrated by Bijou Le Tord in delicate, graceful charcoal drawings highlighted with gold, reflecting both the saint's simplicity and his joyous spirit.

Candlewick 2005 64 PP. Cloth

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Salsa Stories

BY LULU DELACRE
Welcome to Carmen Teresa's festive home, where relatives, friends, and neighbors from all over Latin America gather to celebrate New Year's Day. Dona Josepha gives Carmen Teresa a blank notebook, and everyone suggests that she fill it with stories that the guests remember from childhood. So begins a unique collection of tales told by a charming cast of characters. In the end, Carmen Teresa decides to create a cookbook filled with recipes for the dishes mentioned in each story.

Scholastic 2000 105 PP. Cloth

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Sanctuary Of The Soul

Journey Into Meditative Prayer

BY RICHARD FOSTER
Quaker pastor Richard Foster - best-selling author of Celebration of Discipline - looks at meditative prayer with a biblical background , he gives methods, shares insights from classical Christian writers, and reflections from his own experience. This introduction guides you in practicing extended meditative prayer alone and in community.

IVP 2011 164 PP. Cloth

$16.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Sanctuary Of The Soul

Selected Writings Of Thomas Kelly

EDITED BY KEITH BEASLEY-TOPLIFFE
This book is a selection of short excerpts from Kelly's works appropriate for devotional use or as an introduction to his writing. Excerpts include `Experiencing the Presence,' `The Nature of Holy Obedience,' `Insights from George Fox,' and `Five Varieties of Prayer.'

Upper Room 1997 72 PP. Paper

$6.00 (in stock)

Sarah Mapps Douglass, Faithful Attender Of Quaker Meeting

View From The Back Bench

BY MARGARET HOPE BACON, FOREWORD BY VANESSA JULYE
Understanding the past is often key to changing the present. After 165 years the legacy of Sarah Mapps Douglass, African American scholar, educator, abolitionist, artist and faithful attender of Quaker meeting has much to say to Friends in the 21st century, especially those concerned with racism and the lack of racial diversity within the Religious Society of Friends. In the foreword Vanessa Julye places the lessons from Sarah Mapps Douglass' life in a vivid and painful contemporary context. In the biography that follows Margaret Hope Bacon explores Sarah's life.

Quaker Press of FGC 2003 34 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

Sarah's Story

BY BILL HARLEY
Sarah can't think of a story to tell her class - until a talking ant leads her to its anthill and the ant queen sends her on a mission. A story by New England Friend and acclaimed storyteller Bill Harley. For ages 3 -8.

Ten Speed Press 2006 32 PP. Paper

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Saving Erasmus

A Novel

BY STEVEN CLEAVER
A modern-day Jonah tries desperately to save the small town of Erasmus only to discover that he, himself, is the one who needs saving. "Saving Erasmus had me hooked from the very first page. Clever, witty, and profound, everything a good book should be." - Philip Gulley

Paraclete 2007 182 PP. Cloth

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Saving Paradise

How Christianity Traded Love Of This World For Crucifixion And Empire

BY RITA NAKASHIMA BROCK, REBECCA ANN PARKER
During their first millennium, Christians filled their sanctuaries with images of Christ as a living presence-as a shepherd, teacher, healer, or an enthroned god. He is serene and surrounded by lush scenes, depictions of this world as paradise. Yet once he appeared as crucified, dying was virtually all Jesus seemed able to do, and paradise disappeared from the earth. Saving Paradise turns a fascinating new lens on Christianity, from its first centuries to the present day, asking how its early vision of beauty evolved into a vision of torture, and what changes in society and theology marked that evolution. It also retrieves a Christianity that the world sorely needs today.

Beacon Press 2009 576 PP. Cloth

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Sawdust Carpets

BY AMELIA LAU CARLING
The Lau family travels to Antigua, Guatemala to visit their cousins. Although the Laus are Chinese and Buddhist, they adore the pageantry of Easter, and Easter in Antigua is exciting. The best part is seeing the elaborate carpets made of colored sawdust, which the processions walk over and destroy. On the morning of the most important procession, the heroine is invited to make her very own sawdust carpet. But why, she wonders, make something so beautiful, only to have it be ruined? Guatemalan and Chinese religious observances, dragon boat races and Easter processions, all weave in and out of this story.

Groundwood 2005 32 PP. Cloth

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Say Something - Paperback

BY PEGGY MOSS, LEA LYON
At this school there are some children who push and tease and bully. Sometimes they hurt other kids by just ignoring them. The girl in this story sees it happening, but she would never do these mean things herself. Then one day something happens that shows her that being a silent bystander isn't enough. Will she take some steps on her own to help another kid? Ages 4-8.

Tilbury House Publishers 2010 32 PP. Paper

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The Sayings Of The Desert Fathers

TRANSLATED BY BENEDICTA WARD
This book is a classic of Christian mysticism-the collected words of the 4th century ascetic monks who fled to the desert to discover closeness with God.

Cistercian 1984 269 PP. Paper

$12.95 (in stock)

Schweitzer

A Biography

BY GEORGE MARSHALL AND DAVID POLING
An accomplished organist and interpreter of Bach, a crusader for world peace, and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Schweitzer made his philosophy of "reverence for life" an ethic for the world. The hospital he founded in Lambarene (still in operation in present-day Gabon) is a model of what Europeans might have given to Africans throughout colonial history. This biography probes beyond his timeworn image as "the old man in the pith helmet" to portray the philosopher, scholar, husband, father, humanitarian, and liberal rebel within a conservative church.

JohnsHopkins 2000 348 PP. Paper

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Science And The Unseen World

BY ARTHUR STANLEY EDDINGTON
George Ellis has written a new introduction to the Swarthmore lecture from 1929. Quaker astronomer Eddington contends that when we ask the question "What are we to think of it all? What is it all about?" that the answer must embrace, but not be limited to, the scientific answer. His lecture explores this in a delightful way, that remains fully relevant today.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2007 48 PP. Paper

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Science In Faith And Hope

An Interaction

BY GEORGE ELLIS
In May 2004, the South African cosmologist George was awarded the Templeton Prize for progress toward research or discoveries about spiritual realities. On his visit to London to receive the prize, he gave a talk about the interaction of science and religion, at an event organised by Quaker Quest at Friends House. This pamphlet is an edited version of the talk. Physics alone cannot account for intentional factors in everyday life. So how do theories of the universe relate to human ethics and values, to faith and hope? "His is an open and expanding vision rather than a closed and final one" -John Cornwell, The Tablet

Britain YM 2004 44 PP. Paper

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Scottish Quakers And Aearly America (224)

BY DAVID DOBSON
SECONDHAND COPY, slim pamphlet that looks older than it is.Basicly just alist in alphabetical order with as many details as he could find of any Scotts Quakers who emigrated in that 50 year time period.

David Dobson 1998 52 PP. Paper

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The Search For A Nonviolent Future

A Promise Of Peace For Ourselves, Our Families And Our World

BY MICHAEL NAGLER
Beginning with the achievements of Mahatma Gandhi, and following the legacy of nonviolence through the struggles against Nazism in Europe, racism in America, oppression in China and Latin America, and ethnic conflicts in Africa and Bosnia, Michael Nagler unveils a hidden history. Nonviolence, he proposes, has proven its power against arms and social injustice wherever it has been correctly understood and applied. Nagler's approach is not only historical but also spiritual, drawing on the experience of Gandhi and other activists and teachers. Individual chapters include `A Way Out of Hell,' `The Sweet Sound of Order,'' and `A Clear Picture of Peace.' New edition of his earlier book.

Inner Ocean 2004 336 PP. Paper

$18.95 (in stock)

Searching For The Real Jesus

Php 330

BY ROLAND WARREN
For early Friends truth meant that Jesus had come to put humans in contact with God. Roland Warren, with reverence for scripture, explores the thinking of contemporary scholars who debate the historical veracity of Jesus.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1997 36 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

The Seashell On The Mountaintop

A Story Of Science, Sainthood, And The Humble Genius Who Discovered A New History Of The Earth

BY ALAN CUTLER
Seventeenth-century scientists were baffled: How did the fossils of seashells find their way to the tops of mountains? Nicolaus Steno, hailed as "the founder of Geology," solved the puzzle by exploring beyond the pages of the Bible and looking directly at the clues left in the layers of the Earth. With his groundbreaking answer to the fossil question, Steno confounded religious and scientific thinking, setting the stage for the modern science. At the same time his ideas were undermining the Bible's authoritative claim as to the age of the planet, Steno was entering the priesthood and rising to bishop. He would ultimately become venerated as a saint, beatified in 1988.

HighBridge 2003 5 3/4 HR. Disk

$7.00 (in stock)

The Second Period Of Quakerism

BY WILLIAM BRAITHWAITE
Sequel to The Beginnings of Quakerism , this volume covers the years 1660 to 1725. Second edition revised by Henry J. Cadbury.

Sessions of York 1979 607 PP. Paper

$28.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Secret Gospel Of Thomas

New Perspectives On His Message

BY ELAINE PAGELS
This is the audio record of Pagels' lecture to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Friends at Arch Street Meetinghouse in May of 2005. Disc 1 features the entirety of the prepared talk in which Pagels shared her `scholar's journey,' various stages of her research into the Gnostic writings found at Nag Hammadi, and a detailed look at John and its approach to the apostle Thomas. Included are ten minutes of her replies to questions from the floor. In disc 2 Pagels responds to written questions from the audience. Also included is a downloadable .pdf file containing translations of the Gospels of Thomas and Mary.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 2005 2 AUDIO CDS Audio

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