Wilt Thou Go On My Errand?

Three 18th Century Journals Of Quaker Women Ministers

EDITED BY MARGARET HOPE BACON
Three journals which chronicle the spiritual awakenings and lively adventures of traveling ministers Susanna Morris, Elizabeth Hudson and Ann Moore. This book is a testament to the freedom of expression and activity resulting from the Religious Society's honoring of the value of these women's voices.

Pendle Hill 1994 400 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

Windows And Mirrors

Relections On The War In Afghanistan - A Catalog

BY AFSC AND THE GODWIN TERNBACH MUSEUM
Windows and Mirrors is a traveling exhibit of artists and children's depictions of the war in Afghanistan. These "windows" on a war torn country are also "mirrors" reflecting our identity as a nation at war. Active peacemaking involves making known what is hidden and that is what the artists in this exhibition have tried to do. The panels are shown in color and there is an explanation of the image and biography of the Artist who created it - around 38 panels in all.

AFS and the Godwin-Ternbach Museum 2010 100 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

Windows For The Crown Prince

Akihito Of Japan

BY ELIZABETH GRAY VINING
In 1946, Japanese Emperor Hirohito selected Quaker Elizabeth Gray Vining to be a tutor for the Crown Prince, the future Emperor Akihito, a position she held for 4 years. She was eventually to be a tutor to most of the Imperial Family, including Empress Nagako. After returning to the U.S., she maintained a close, lifelong relationship with the family. This is her story of the "Windows" she tried to open for the future emporer.

Tuttle 2000 320 PP. Paper

$1.50 (in stock)

A Wing And A Prayer (6112)

A Message Of Faith And Hope

BY KATHARINE JEFFERTS SCHORI
Katharine Jefferts Schori is the first woman to serve as Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the USA. She was an oceanographer before she was a priest, and is also a pilot, often piloting her own plane to remote congregations inNevada when she was bishop there to spread her passionate message of reconciliation and peace. This book introduces Jefferts Schori and her platform to the wider church - and to the world. SECONDHAND BOOK. Paperback in good condition.

Moorehouse 2007 168 PP. Paper

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Winstanley; Warts And All

BY KEVIN BROWNLOW
The story of the making of the film "Winstanley," written by its director Kevin Brownlow, telling what went wrong (everything), and how the film was kept from audiences all over the world, but was declared a work of genius in France. Winstanley was a contemporary of Fox - maybe a Quaker- and one of the world's first occupiers as leader of the Diggers.

UKA Press 2009 303 PP. Paper

$16.95 (in stock)

The Winter Road

BY TERRY HOKENSON
17 year-old Willa's Quaker mother is away. Still distressed by the death of her brother, Willa feels she needs to prove herself. When Uncle Jordy's drinking threatens to disrupt her mother's workshop tour of remote native villages, Willa jumps in his plane and flies the cold Canadian route alone to pick her up.

Front Street 2006 174 PP. Cloth

$5.00 (in stock)

Wisdom Jesus

Transforming Heart And Mind--a New Perspective On Christ And His Message

BY CYNTHIA BOURGEAULT
Strongly recommended for workshop 16 Jesus: Revolutionary or mystic. Looking anew at Jesus and approaching the Gospels as though for the first time, Cynthia Bourgeault a student of Thomas Keating is a masterful guide to Jesus's vision and to the traditional contemplative practices you can use to experience the heart of his teachings for yourself.

Shambala 2008 223 PP. Paper

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Wisdom Of Group Decisions - Paperback

Principles And Practical Tips For Collaboration

BY CRAIG FRESHLEY
A collection of 100 one-page tips for making thoughtful, equitable, lasting group decisions for meetings , communities, organizations, governments, families, and our planet. Each tip is a provocative meditation and the book as a whole is a complete toolkit. The book is based on Caroline Estes' simple premise that "We each have a piece of the truth and we make our best decisions when we put all our pieces together." Freshley is a Quaker and while this book is not spiritually rooted, much of it is inspired by the Quaker idea of consensus.

Good Group Decisions 2010 134 PP. Paper

$12.00 (in stock)

Wisdom Of Menopause (099)

CHRISTIANE NORTHRUP
SECOND HAND COPY, fair condition hardback with dustjacket. The author of "Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom" brings her unique blend of life-changing insights and up-to-the-minute medical advice to a waiting audience of more than 30 million baby-boomer women who are face-to-face with "the change". Dr. Northrup maintains that menopause is a mind/body revolution that brings women the greatest opportunity for growth since adolescence.

Bantam 2001 601 PP. Cloth

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The Wisdom To Know The Difference

When To Make A Change - And When To Let Go

BY EILEEN FLANAGAN
Based on the Serenity Prayer, Eileen Flanagan's newest book The Wisdom to Know the Difference: When to Make a Change-and When to Let Go is full of stories of people finding thecourage to change their lives (and sometimes the world), as well as stories of letting go and finding peace. The fascinating people interviewed include a Katrina evacuee, a mother who became an outspoken peace activist after her son was killed in Iraq, and a cattle rancher who went from bankruptcy to winning Paul Newman's "most generous business" award. "Eileen Flanagan's delightful book is a source of wisdom and encouragement to which you'll returne again and again." - Brent Bill. Reduced by 10% till Sep 5th.

Tarcher 2010 288 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

Wisdom's Daughters

Stories Of Women Around Jesus

BY ELIZABETH WATSON
Beloved modern Quaker theologian, Elizabeth Watson, tells the life of Jesus through the eyes and hearts of fourteen New Testament women. It is an imaginative, tested resource for spiritual nurture to be used by groups or for individual study and devotions.

Pilgrim 1997 144 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

The Witch Of Blackbird Pond

BY ELIZABETH GEORGE-SPEARE, ILLUSTRATED BY BARRY MOSER
Orphan Kit Tyler knows her new home in the bleak, cold Connecticut Colony will never be like the shimmering Caribbean islands she left behind. When she makes friends with an old Quaker woman she meets in the meadow, the association leads to an accusation of witchcraft against Kit. Ages 9-13.

Bantam Doubleday Dell 1958 250 PP. Paper

$6.99 (in stock)

With Head And Heart (622)

An Autobiography

BY HOWARD THURMAN
SECONDHAND COPY - hardback in fair condition with dustjacket. Handsome volume of Thurmans autobiography. an influential American author, philosopher, theologian, educator and civil rights leader. Thurman traveled broadly, heading Christian missions and meeting with world figures such as Mahatma Gandhi. When Thurman asked Gandhi what message he should take back to the United States, Gandhi said he regretted not having made nonviolence more visible as a practice worldwide and suggested some American Black men would succeed where he had failed.

HBJ 1979 260 PP Cloth

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Without Apology

A Manifesto Of Liberal Quaker Theology

BY CHUCK FAGER
Chuck Fager brings his wit to the serious task of laying out a distinctive, optimistic examination of the essence and prospects of today's liberal Quakerism.

Kimo Press 1996 125 PP. Paper

$11.95 (in stock)

Without Nightfall Upon The Spirit

Php 311

BY MARY MORRISON
"To preside over the disintegration of one's own body, looking on as sight and hearing, strength, speed, and short-term memory deteriorate, calls for a heroism that is no less impressive for being quiet and patient.. Anyone who watches aging closely and with a sympathetic eye can sometimes be lost in admiration for the aging and their gallantry. Where does this gallantry come from? How are we going to find it in ourselves as we need it?" asks the author in her introduction. This essay on aging will help us recognize the source of dignity and ways to nurture the integrity of aging.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1994 31 PP. Paper

$6.50 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Witness In Washington (3187)

Fifty Years Of Friendly Persuasion

BY EDWARD F. SNYDER AND OTHERS; EDITED BY TOM MULLEN
SECOND HAND COPY. A history of Friends Committee on National Legislation. Contributors include Don Reeves, Joe Volk and Wilmer Cooper.Good condition paperback, covers the first 50 years work of FCNL, what it did and how succesful it was.

Friends United Press 1995 256 PP. Paper

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Witnessing The Varieties Of Truth

DIAZ & MALETA
SEYM Michener Lecture booklet from 2000

SEYM 2000 30 PP. Paper

$3.00 (in stock)

Wobbling Home

A Spiritual Walk With Parkinsons

BY JIM ATWELL
This second collection of columns, "Wobbling Home," is a deeply insightful meditation on his illness, his Christian faith, and his journey's end. Raised a Roman Catholic, Jim has been a Quaker for forty years. Viewing his life as a "Parkie" through the lens of Quakerism, he sees the disease as emanating from the same loving Source that gives him life -- a Source which also manipulates his body and brain at random times and in mysterious ways. He shares not only his own thoughts and reactions, but also those of his loving wife Anne and other Parkies and their spouses as well.

Square Circle 2010 190 PP. Paper

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A Woman Of Salt

BY MARY POTTER ENGEL
A Woman of Salt is a complex novel that confronts the dangers of introspection and the healing power of imagination. In a crisis brought on by a call to her from her dying mother it chronicles the spiritual journey of a tormented woman searching for rest, the story of a forty-year struggle of a skeptic and religious runaway whose fate is haunted by a longing for God that she resists at every turn.

Counterpoint 2001 238 PP. Paper

$2.50 (in stock)

The Woman Said Yes

Encounters With Life And Death

BY JESSAMYN WEST
Jessamyn West's mother was a woman of strong Quaker conviction. When Jessamyn, newly married and diagnosed with tuberculosis was sent home to die, her mother helped her find the strength to live and the experience gave her a lifelong appreciation of the sanctity of life which was reinforced by the sad death of her sister. The author of many novels and short stories with a Quaker theme, here she writes a short but pithy memoir of her extraordinary life.

HBJ 1986 180 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Women For All Seasons

The Story Of The Women's International League For Peace And Freedom

BY CATHERINE FOSTER
Founded in the early days of World War I by twelve hundred suffragists from twelve countries, the goal of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom has been nothing less than the end of all wars. Catherine Foster details the history of WILPF's feminist founding to its work through the last century on world peace and human rights. Inclues an interview with Philadelphia Quaker Mildred ScottOlmstead and portraits of a diverse, international member- ship that has fought to create a world free from war and oppression

University of Georgia Press 1993 230 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Women In The Seventeenth-century Quaker Community

A Literary Study Of Political Identities, 1650-1700

BY CATIE GILL
Starts with an introduction to Quakerism in the 1650s. then accounts of their sufferings and petitions., followed by a discussion of post-Restoration Quaker writing. Gill shows that of nearly 4,000 Quaker texts published between 1650 and 1699, 220 were authored by women, and one-fifth of all women publishing in seventeenth-century England were Quakers when women authors overall amounted to only one percent of the total. Especially helpful to other scholars will be the extensive bibliography of Quaker publications, with cross-referencing for each contributor to collectively authored texts and notations about signers of petitions.

Ashgate 2002 256 PP. Cloth

$69.95 (in stock)

Women Of Power And Presence

The Spiritual Formation Of Four Quaker Women Ministers - Php 294

BY MAUREEN GRAHAM
Spiritual and psychological development of Rebecca Jones, Rachel Hicks, Elizabeth Fry, and Lucretia Mott.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1990 40 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Woody Guthrie

Poet Of The People

BONNIE CHRISTENSEN
Woody Guthrie spent his life putting into words and music what the rest of America was thinking. He roamed from coast to coast and captured the despair of those displaced by the Great Depression and the dust bowl, eulogized workers, and celebrated the great natural beauty of America. This is an introductory biography presented as a picture book with a brief lyrical text and powerful, hand-tinted, woodcut-like illustrations. It includes the complete lyrics to "This Land Is Your Land" and excerpts from his other songs. A book for all ages, it makes this talented and tragic man accessible to young children and will please his older folksinging fans with its stunning art.

Dragonfly books 2001 32 PP. Paper

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Woodyboye

Songs Of Woody Guthrie (and Tales Worth Telling) Volume Two

BY THE JOEL RAFAEL BAND
Following his successful 3 CD set of 1994, Joel wanted to present more of the unpublished and unrecorded lyrics Guthrie left behind after his 1967 death. "I was looking for songs that would show off his tremendous lyric skills and his appetite for diverse subject matter, and for songs that would demonstrate his timeless sense of how things work and the way things are." His trio is joined on various tracks by guests Jackson Browne, Jimmy LaFave, Arlo Guthrie, the Burns Sisters, Jennifer Warnes & Van Dyke Parks.

Appleseed 2005 46 MINUTES Disk

$4.00 (in stock)

The Word Within

Essays On Prophetic Quaker Faith

BY PATRICIA DALLMANN
In these nine essays, the author argues for the necessity of reclaiming prophetic Quaker faith within present-day Liberal Meetings, hoping that Friends might once again offer an authentic challenge and vital response to the human condition. Including -The gift of the scriptures, From heaven or of men: an essay on discernment, John 8 and 9: a lesson for prophetic ministers, The cross in Quaker Faith.

Foundation Publications 2009 84 PP. Paper

$10.95 (in stock)

A Worker Justice Reader

Essential Writings On Religion And Labor

EDITED BY JOY HEINE
Based in Chicago, the national organization Interfaith Worker Justice has brought together key writings that identify and explain essential labor and economic issues from a religious perspectives, including Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Muslim. Designed for educational use, whether in traditional courses or community outreach, this is an indispensable resource for those concerned with contemporary labor issues and workers rights. With sidebars, tables, illustrations, and suggested readings, A Worker Justice Reader offers a wide range of data and detail for study, reflection, and action.

Orbis 2010 215 PP. Paper

$24.00 (in stock)

Working For Peace

A Handbook Of Practical Psychology And Other Tools

BY RACHEL MACNAIR
The complete guidebook to the psycology of social activism. Forty active peace workers -- psychologists, social workers, communication specialists and other professionals -- offer detailed practical guidance on getting yourself together, maintaining an effective group of volunteers, and getting the word out to the larger community. "Working for Peace is filled with practical steps that every person can take to become a doctor to the planet. Our global survival is dependent on it." - Helen Caldicott

Impact Publishers 2006 300PP. Paper

$17.95 (in stock)

Works Of Isaac Penington Volume 4

BY ISAAC PENINGTON
This republication of Penington's Collected Works improves on the last edition (1863) by giving dates for most articles, and including a few items that were not in earlier collections. Contains Penington's posthumously published writings, plus a new 38-page index to the 4-volume set.

Quaker Heritage Press 1997 474 PP. Cloth

$20.00 (in stock)

Works Of Isaac Penington Volume 3

BY ISAAC PENINGTON
This republication of Penington's Collected Works improves on the last edition (1863) by giving dates for most articles, and including a few items that were not in earlier collections. Contains Penington's writings from 1667 to about 1678, including 83 pages of Penington's personal letters of advice and admonition.

Quaker Heritage Press 1996 538 PP. Cloth

$21.00 (in stock)