If Grace Is True

Why God Will Save Every Person

BY PHILIP GULLEY, JAMES MULHOLLAND
I don't think many liberal Quakers will find anything at all unusual in the idea that God will not damn people to eternal perdition for not believing in Him/Her in the correct manner. But this is a hugely controversial book to some Friends in the more evangelical traditions. Using stories from their own lives the authors meditate on Christian Universalism and how a true and loving relationship with God is indeed salvation. Includes an appendix of Universalist Bible quotes and thought through the ages. This new edition has an afterward and discussion questions.

HarperOne 2010 242 PP. Paper

$14.99 (in stock)

If The Church Were Christian Hardcover

Rediscovering The Values Of Jesus

BY PHILIP GULLEY
Noted and eloquent Quaker, Philip Gulley's latest theological volume in his "if" series, in which Gulley puts the Christ back in Christian. "What IF Christians actually began to take their Christ seriously?" The answer to that question could change the world. - Shane Claiborne. "Filled with memorable, insightful and revealing stories. I recommend it." - Marcus Borg. Suggested Price 23.95 Our price $21.55

HarperOne 2010 224 PP. Cloth

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If The Church Were Christian

Rediscovering The Values Of Jesus

BY PHILIP GULLEY
In If the Church Were Christian Philip Gulley provides a profound picture of what the church could look like if it refocused on the priorities of Jesus. A noted and eloquent Quaker, his latest theological volume in his "If" series, in which puts the Christ, back in Christian. "What IF Christians actually began to take their Christ seriously?" The answer to that question could change the world. - Shane Claiborne. "Filled with memorable, insightful and revealing stories. I recommend it." - Marcus Borg.

HarperOne 2011 197 PP. Paper

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Is God A Delusion?

A Reply To Religion's Cultured Despisers

BY ERIC REITAN
Eric Reitan (co author of Pendle Hill pamphlet #322 on "Nonviolence and Community"), looks at the fierce critics of religion and asks if they really address the idea of religion as a distinctive type of consciousness, hoping for, and acting as if there is a deeper reality, rather than treating religion as an infallible holy doctrine. Can theism say yes to both reason and a human soul? "Clear, penetrating, and thought-provoking, Reitan's work is a bracing tonic for those in danger of being lulled into intellectual sleep by the strident claims of the 'new atheists'."- Kenneth Miller, Brown University

Wiley Blackwell 2008 264 PP. Paper

$24.95 (in stock)

Jerusalem

KAREN ARMSTRONG
Unfolds a complex story of spiritual upheaval and political transformation--from King David's capital to an administrative outpost of the Roman Empire, from the cosmopolitan city sanctified by Christ to the spiritual center conquered and glorified by Muslims, from the gleaming prize of European Crusaders to the bullet-ridden symbol of the present-day Arab-Israeli conflict.

Ballantine 2005 512 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)

Jesus And The Disinherited

BY HOWARD THURMAN
"A masterful interpretation of how God works in our lives. Thurman was one of the foremost preachers and theologians of the twentieth century, and much of his work centered on the relevance of the Christian message to the contemporary struggles of black people. In this, Thurman's masterwork, he argues that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is not just a map for getting to the next world, but a guidebook for the empowerment of the poor and disenfranchised in this world." - from Sacred Fire

Beacon Press 1996 112 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Jesus For President

Politics For Ordinary Radicals

BY SHANE CLAIBORNE AND CHRIS HAW
Jesus for President is a radical manifesto to awaken the Christian political imagination, reminding us that our ultimate hope lies not in partisan political options but in Jesus and the church as a people "set apart" from this world. Jesus for President is a collaboration of Shane Claiborne's writing and stories, Chris Haw's reflections and research, and Chico Fajardo-Heflin's art and design. Drawing upon the work of biblical theologians, the lessons of church history, and the examples of modern-day saints and ordinary radicals, Jesus for President stirs the imagination of what the Church could look like if it placed its faith in Jesus instead of Caesar.

Zondervan 2008 355 PP. Paper

$16.99 (in stock)

Keeping God's Silence (277)

Towards A Theological Ethics Of Communication

BY RACHEL MUERS
The British Quaker theologians 800,000 word PhD thesis on Silence. This is indeed written in very dense theological language, based on three themes, Feminist philosophical reflection on silence, a reading of Bonheoffer's ethics and the author's life as a Quaker. She tellingly quotes Gemma Fiumara paraphrasing Wittgenstein "Only when we know how to be silent will that of which we cannot speak begin to tell us something". The central theological claim explored in the book is that God listens, and that God's listening is integral to who God is.SECONDHAND COPY IN GOOD CONDITION. NEW ITS $50 plus so this rare example of quaker Theology is abargain.

Blackell 2004 272 PP. Paper

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Letters To A Young Doubter

BY WILLIAM SLOANE-COFFIN
In Letters to a Young Poet, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke advised to "be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves," for gradually, "you will live into the answers." These words have long struck renowned preacher and activist William Sloane Coffin as a wise way to view a growing and evolving life. In an exchange of letters over the months of an academic year, Coffin writes an imagined friend, a bright, young college student, answering his questions and giving his typically sage advice about problems of faith, the difficulties of personal life, and the ever-more confusing and complex problems of today's world.

Westminster John Knox Press 2005 200 PP. Cloth

$14.95 (in stock)

Living The Heart Of Christianity

A Guide To Putting Your Faith Into Action

BY MARCUS BORG
Marcus Borg's The Heart of Christianity struck a chord for countless Christians across this country. Small groups have been reading this influential book, hoping to put into practice Borg's helpful suggestions for how we can be passionate believers today. Living the Heart of Christianity includes both an individual or participant's guide as well as a guide for group leaders, allowing the reader to engage with the issues that lie at the heart of Christianity today.

HarperSanFrancisco 2006 151 PP. Paper

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Models Of God

Theology For An Ecological, Nuclear Age

BY SALLIE MCFAGUE
In this award-winning text, theologian Sallie McFague challenges Christians' usual speech about God as a kind of monarch. She probes instead three other possible metaphors for God-as mother, lover, and friend.

Fortress 1987 240 PP. Paper

$12.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Mood Of Christmas & Other Celebrations

BY HOWARD THURMAN
"There must always be remaining in every ones life some place for the singing of angels...where the commonplace is shot through with new glory" Howard Thurman .These brief meditations incorporate the hope, celebration, love, compassion and blessing of the Christmas season and other celebrations and encourage us to find them throughout the year.

FUP 1973 127 PP. Paper

$12.00 (in stock)

Naming The Powers

The Language Of Power In The New Testament

BY WALTER WINK
For Wink `the Powers' are understood as social forces, religious, moral and political structures (the tyrant, the market, the school, the courts, race, and nation) They make themselves the hand servants of the worst of human emotions and motivations and facilitate actions leading to inequality, injustice and ecological destruction, making such actions appear `logical' and `inevitable,' causing good people to act accordingly, even as they may personally regret the results. This quartet of books names, unmasks and shows how one can engage with these powers producing a powerful new theology of nonviolence.

Fortess Books 1983 Paper

$19.00 (in stock)

Navigating The Living Waters Of John

On Wading With Children And Swimming With Elephants - Php 352

BY PAUL ANDERSON
An exploration of the theologically puzzling and spiritually satisfying Gospel of John.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2001 32 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

A New Christianity For A New World

Why A Traditional Faith Is Dying And How A New Faith Is Being Born

BY JOHN SHELBY SPONG
Religious reformer Spong builds upon the program he initiated in Why Christianity Must Change or Die as he outlines what he believes is an authentic faith for a new millennium.

HarperSan Francisco 2002 304 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

On Being A Christian (723)

HANS KUNG
SECONDHAND BOOKin good condition with dustjacket, looks alittle aged I guess. If you like your theology intense, and in huge chunks then this is the book for you - a real doorstop of book. One of the leading catholic thinkers till the pope excomunicated him. The Proust of theologians.

P<Doubleday 1974 719 PP. Cloth

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The Ordinary Radicals

A Conspiracy Of Faith On The Margins Of Empire

FEATURING SHAINE CLAIBORNE, CHRIS HAW, BRIAN MACLAREN
Traveling across the United States on a tour to promote the book "Jesus for President", Shane Claiborne and a rag-tag group of "ordinary radicals" interpret Biblical history and its correlation with the current state of American politics. Director Jamie Moffett examines this growing movement and interviews Becky Garrison, Shane Claiborne, Jim Wallis, Brian McLaren, Tony Campolo, John Perkins, Brooke Sexton, Michael Heneise, St. Margret Mckenna, Logan Laituri, Zack Exley, Aaron Weiss and many more Ordinary Radicals.

Potter Street Records 2008 100 MINS Dvd

$20.00 (in stock)

A People's History Of Christianity

The Other Side Of The Story

BY DIANA BUTLER BASS
In the same spirit as Howard Zinn's groundbreaking work The People's History of the United States, Butler Bass's A People's History of Christianity brings to life the movements, personalities, and spiritual disciplines that have always informed and ignited Christian worship and social activism. In A People's History of Christianity, historian and religion expert Diana Butler Bass reveals an alternate history that includes a deep social ethic and far-reaching inclusivity: "the other side of the story" is not a modern phenomenon, but has always been practiced within the church. Quakers arrive on page 220.

HarperOne 2011 370 PP. Paper

$14.99 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Powers That Be

Theology For A New Millenium

BY WALTER WINK
In The Powers That Be renowned theologian and biblical scholar Walter Wink helps us reformulate our ancient religious concepts - such as God and Satan, angels and demons, principalities and powers - light of what we now know. Wink's theology is shaped as much by his experience in the civil rights movement and the fight against apartheid in South Africa, as by his study of the Bible. This is in large part a digest of his Powers trilogy, particularly the third volume-Engaging the Powers.

Galilee 1999 224 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

Prophetic Stream

Php 256

BY WILLIAM TABER
A call to revive the prophetic message in Quaker worship and ministry and in Christianity.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1984 Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Putting Away Childish Things

A Novel Of Modern Faith

BY MARCUS BORG
Borg explores modern (and old) Christian ideas in a novel. Kate is a popular professor a small midwestern town. She loves her job, is happy with her personal and spiritual life. Then things start to go wrong. A job offer, but at the same college as an old flame. In the classroom, students ask for her views on the Bible, & homosexuality -answering honestly she finds herself a target of outraged parents. This novel is an engaging way for readers to learn about the important issues dividing Christians today. Along the way, we join with the characters to ask the hard questions such as what does the Bible really teach? Who is Jesus? What is the nature of faith today?

HarperOne 2011 386 PP. Paper

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Quakerism, A Theology For Our Time

American Edition

BY PATRICIA A WILLIAMS
Like Barclay's Apology of 1676 this is a substantial work on Quaker theology, yet it is written for the general reader. It elucidates the Quaker theology of the Inward Light, as found in Barclay and in George Fox. In their theology, the primary authority is the power within all people that can transform them into loving, compassionate, and peaceful people. Modern Biblical criticism and the discoveries of science enhance the original Quakerism and render it uniquely suited to our time. The author has taught at Universities in Australia, Canada, and the United States. Currently, she lives 'off the grid' in the mountains of Virginia in a solar home she built herself.

BBOTW 2008 198 PP. Paper

$13.95 (in stock)

Reading The Bible Again For The First Time

Taking The Bible Seriously But Not Literally

BY MARCUS BORG
Growing numbers of people are unwilling to abandon the world of science and historical thinking for their faith and are searching for an enlightened, integrated way to be believers and to understand the Bible. Marcus Borg offers a new understanding of scripture that respects both tradition and reality. Moving away from the narrow literalism that drives so many away from the profound richness of the bible, this book blends the best of biblical scholarship with a concern for authentic faith and how it can be lived today.

HarperSanFrancisco 2002 321 PP. Paper

$14.95 (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)

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)

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)

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

$27.50 (in stock)

Signs Of Salvation

New Life Where Grace And Truth Meet - A Biblical Meditation

BY BEN RICHMOND
In the Bible, God acts to save people - in this world - from all sorts of dangers and evil. God saves us from enemies, so that we can live free from fear and at peace. God saves us from economic oppression, so that we can afford to be generous. God forgives our sins, heals our wounds, and speaks intimately in our hearts. There is no salvation, the author contends, without "signs of salvation" because salvation is for this world and the next. Richmond presents a joyful invitation to a new relationship with God, who has chosen to come in love.

Friends United Press 2005 253 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

Soul Graffiti

Making A Life In The Way Of Jesus

BY MARK SCANDRETTE, FOREWORD BY SHANE CLAIBORNE
Mark, a writer and leader in the Emergent church movement, uses stories from his life and the lives of the people he has encountered in his home in San Francisco's Mission District to explore what "good news of God" might mean for our particular time and place. He seeks to answer the question: "How can we be about making a life in the way of Jesus?" He integrates theological insight with awareness of human psychology, culture, and daily life. Written to appeal to the sensibilities of those who inhabit a post-Christendom milieu, Mark Scandrette's deepest hope is to give readers greater motivation for, and a fuller sense of what it means to make a life in, the way of Jesus.

Josey-Bass 2008 272 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)