40 Day Journey With Parker Palmer

EDITED BY HENRY FRENCH
Drawing from his published works, editor Henry French selects 40 passages from Palmer's writings that reflect Palmer's spiritual journey and invites readers to explore their own spirituality under the guidance of this noted author. When the 40-day journey is over, it will no longer be the guide's description of the journey that stirs the reader's longing for God, but rather the reader's experience of the journey that grounds her or his faith and life. The book contains a short introduction to Parker Palmer's life and offers forty chapters, which include readings from his writings, Scripture passages, queries, journal-reflection exercises, and prayer.

Augsburg Fortress Press 2008 112 PP. Paper

$12.99 (in stock)

Awaken Your Senses

Exercises For Exploring The Wonder Of God

BY J BRENT BILL, BETH BOORAM
"With Awaken Your Senses, Brent Bill and Beth Booram have given us a superb resource for seeking the God of life through sensuous experience, a way of knowing that has been sadly neglected--and too often held suspect--by the church. How did a faith based on the claim that 'the Word became flesh' become so divorced from bodily, incarnate knowledge? Here is a beautiful book that will help us reclaim our bodies, our senses and our relationship with God."--Parker Palmer

IVP 2012 208 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Being Faithful As Friends

Individually And Corporately

BY DEBORAH FISCH
In this record of Deborah's ministry as the Weed lecturer, she tells stories of her moving experiences of listening to God and finding the way, in community, to be faithful to the calls she hears. She tells many stories of the ways individual Friends have ministered to her and helped her to be faithful and of how an individual meeting can find the strength and the Spirit to be faithful to the portion of Light it is asked to offer to the world. Deborah offers many small lessons from her own life on learning to live out of radical Love.

Beacon Hill Friends House 2006 32 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

The Case For God

BY KAREN ARMSTRONG
This book moves from the stone age to the present detailing the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, & Hinduism, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion in our own time. Why has God become so unbelievable to so many? She makes a powerful, argument for drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our polarized age, but cautions us that religion was never supposed to provide answers that lie within the competence of human reason.

Anchor Books 2009 330 PP. Paper

$16.95 (in stock)

Consider The Blackbird

Reflections On Spirituality And Language

BY HARVEY GILLMAN
How can we stand next to another human being and talk to them truthfully about God, religion and the truths that matter to us? Harvey has spent five years reflecting on this topic and is a gifted and inspirational speaker himself. The author contends that the way we speak, the way we search for meaning, the way we declare our truths - these are often at the root of such political and spiritual `dis-ease.' The driving force behind this book is how we can use difference compassionately and with integrity. This is a journey through language, using poetry, philosophy, and insights from different religions.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2007 131 PP. Paper

$25.00 (in stock)

Creeds And Quakers

What's Belief Got To Do With It? - Php 377

BY ROBERT GRISWOLD
Quaker spiritual authority lies not in creeds - but in the direct communion between individual Friends and the Divine Spirit. The pamphlet asserts that Friends too often hold Quaker testimonies as ideals, as ends in themselves, rather than as fruits of the Spirit. Without spiritual grounding, testimonies become creeds. In the absence of the profound authority of a faith that defies verbal comprehension and words, the historic Quaker witness to the world is in danger.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2005 35 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

The End Of Words

Issues In Contemporary Quaker Theology Republished Together With Creeds And The Search For Unity

BY REX AMBLER
A re-issue of two important essays grappling with what Quakers believe. In The End of Words the author explores the meaning of Quaker faith and practice. He takes up these issues with admirable clarity, setting them in their wider context, and looking for ways to resolve them. Creeds and the Search for Unity is intended mainly as a guide for Quakers wrestling with questions about membership of inter-church bodies.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2004 79 PP Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

Eternal Life -hardback

A New Vision: Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven And Hell

BY JOHN SHELBY SPONG
Bishop John Shelby Spong is known for his controversial ideas and fighting for minority rights. In Eternal Life: A New Vision, a remarkable spiritual journey about his lifelong struggle with the questions of God and death, he reveals how he came to a new conviction about eternal life. God, says Spong, is ultimately one, and each of us is part of that oneness. We do not live on after death as children who have been rewarded with heaven or punished with hell but as part of the life and being of God, sharing in God's eternity, which is beyond the barriers of time and space. Spong argues that the discovery of the eternal can be found within each of us if we go deeply into ourselves.

HarperOne 2009 288 PP. Cloth

$24.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Exploring Faith Questions

Journeys Of Spirituality And Discovery

BY ANNE MARTIN
Recommended by the FGC Religious education committee, this resource invites new Christians or indeed anyone who wants to deepen their faith to join in a reflection process of 13 central questions of Christianity and faith. It is designed to be used in a small group setting, and includes useful information on forming covenant groups, meeting outlines, and developing spiritual practices. Questions are presented in ways that encourage prayer, reflection, and discussion.

United Church Publishing House (Canada) 2004 168 PP. Spiral Bound

$16.95 (in stock)

A Faith To Call Our Own

BY ALEX WILDWOOD
What is the experience at the heart of Quaker faith and how can we speak of it in this "post Christian" age? Can we be faithful to our personal experience of the numinous and bring this into Meeting for worship and our living tradition? Are we open to old light as well as new?

Britain Yearly Meeting 1999 106 PP. Paper

$12.75 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Foundations Of Liberal Quakerism

BY STEPHEN ANGELL
Liberal Quakerism is an authentic and often growing strand of the Religious Society of Friends, and it is rooted in developments on both sides of the great split which took place between "Hicksites" and "Orthodox" in 1827. Its historical and theological foundations have not been well understood. Going back over 200 years, he describes the witness of Friends... and the varieties of spirituality that have often underlain the liberal Quaker impulse, including rationalism, mysticism, universalism, and the Social Gospel. Finally, the author discusses possible future directions: Where might the liberal Quaker movement be heading in the twenty-first century?

Southeastern Yearly Meeting 2008 40 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Getting Rooted

Living In The Cross, A Path To Joy And Liberation - Php 391

BY BRIAN DRAYTON
What does it really mean to absorb the learning that comes from our "roots" in Quakerism? Are there ways of approaching our roots that have a greater likelihood of bearing spiritual fruits? Brian Drayton explores the idea of "rootedness" at multiple levels - as metaphor, discipline and goal in order to reveal the ways in which we may derive the most nourishment from the roots that we seek to rediscover, and more importantly, so that God's spirit may flourish within and through us. Discussion questions included.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2007 35 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

A Hidden Wholeness

The Journey Toward An Undivided Life + Circles Of Trust Dvd

BY PARKER PALMER
Friend Parker Palmer seeks to help us "rejoin soul and role," so that individuals and communities can be healed from the ravages of consumerism, injustice and violence. In his classic style, the task is fleshed out with stories, poems, personal confessions and a plan - concrete steps for creating "circles of trust" where honest, open sharing allows each person's "inner teacher" to show up - places where we can sit and wait for our souls to tell the truth. For the paperback edition a DVD about these circles has been added.

Jossey Bass 2009 260 PP & DVD Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

Holiness

The Soul Of Quakerism

BY CAROLE DALE SPENCER
Subtitled "An Historical analysis of the theology of holiness in the Quaker tradition." This original and stimulating work takes the "Holiness" movement and its ideas as a key to reinterpreting Quakerism, rooting it in the Christian mystical tradition. The author challenges many popular assumptions about Quaker history and theology. "This is one of the most powerful and interesting studies I have read for a very long time." - John Punshon. Carole Spencer teaches at George Fox Seminary in Oregon and is a Quaker pastor and convinced Friend.

Paternoster Press 2007 319 PP. Paper

$36.99 (in stock)

Holy Surrender

The Keynote Address To New England Yearly Meeting 2006

BY LLOYD LEE WILSON, INTRODUCTION BY BRIAN DRAYTON
"What does bring me peace is surrender: a relationship rather than a set of behaviors. One can be obedient at arm's length, as it were - but surrender places us in an intimate relationship with our Creator. When I give up to God, when that relationship in all its grace and mercy shapes my life, there is a peace that passes beyond all understanding or describing. One way to think about surrender is as the desire to enter fully into the Body of Christ - to take my proper place in the Body, responding as fully and as quickly to the Divine thought as my own hand or tongue responds to my intention." - the author

New England Yearly Meeting 2006 27 PP. Paper

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In The Name Of God

The Evolutionary Origins Of Religious Ethics And Violence

BY JOHN TEEHAN
Looks in a new and accessible way at religion and its approach to violence and warfare,. He uses insights from evolutionary and cognitive psychology to help understand the origins of religious violence and suggests strategies for beginning to counter the divisive aspects of religion.

Wiley 2010 272 PP. Paper

$24.95 (in stock)

The Intimate Relation Between God And Man

La Relacion Intima Entre Dios Y El Hombre

BY RAUL PEREZ CHACON, TRANSLATED BY MARY HOPKINS & BENIGNO SANCHEZ-EPPLER
The text of an inspirational address given at Beacon Hill Meeting in 2007. Raul is treasurer of El Salvador Yearly Meeting and has travelled and talked of his spiritual journey to Friends of many cultures across the world. The pamphlet is in Spanish and English and also has questions and responses after the talk. Also an introduction from Ben Guaraldi.

P<Beacon Hill Friends House 2009 29 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Listening Spirituality, Volume 1

Personal Spiritual Practices Among Friends

BY PATRICIA LORING
This is an essential Quaker spiritual formation text, which grew out of workshops that Pat Loring led for Friends for years. In this volume, Loring explores many personal practices which can help to sharpen one's perception of God. She suggests setting aside time each day for spiritual refreshment, "'a time of retirement' from outward concerns and activities, to attend exclusively to the movement of the Spirit." She explores many possible practices and offers ingredients for Friends to make time for the holy in one's daily life. She offers a feast from which we can discover a rich daily meal.

Openings 1997 208 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)

The Messenger That Goes Before

Reading Margaret Fell For Spiritual Nurture - Php 398

BY MICHAEL BIRKEL
Michael Birkel has discovered in the letters of Margaret Fell a "treasure trove" of wise and loving counsel for those on the spiritual journey. In a careful exploration of passages from some of these letters, he shows modern readers how to find the gems of wisdom embedded in the rich language of early Friends, the unique use of Biblical imagery, and the meditative practice of "reading within." Margaret Fell's guidance is rich in good advice for the spiritual seeker and for those called to nurture others in their spiritual lives. Discussion questions included.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2008 36 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Minding The Future

Swarthmore Lecture 2008

BY CHRISTINE A M DAVIS
What am I, and what are you, handing on to the future? How have our lives reshaped the insights and experience which we have inherited from the past, and what of this are we passing on to the future? Stewardship is about the way we treat our past and learn from it, the way we use these lessons in our own generation and the legacy we pass on to those who come after us. It is not just about material things, like our money and property; it is also about insights and understandings. Christine Davis inspiration and insights about stewardship from all parts of life, and challenges us to mind the future adventurously.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2008 98 PP. Paper

$9.00 (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)

The Reason For God

BY TIMOTHY HELLER
Timothy Keller, the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, addresses the frequent doubts that skeptics and non-believers bring to religion. Using literature, philosophy, anthropology, pop culture, and intellectual reasoning, Keller explains how the belief in a Christian God is, in fact, a sound and rational one. "In a flood of bestsellers by skeptics and atheists...Keller stands out as an effective counterpoint and defender of the faith. The Reason for God makes a tight, accessible case for reasoned religious belief." - The Washington Post

Riverhead 2009 336 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

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)

Speaking Of Faith - Paperback

Why Religion Matters - And How To Talk About It

BY KRISTA TIPPETT
The host of public radio's Speaking of Faith explores the role of faith in the world and in human life today. Tippett draws on her life experiences and studies, as well as on conversations with Quaker Parker Palmer, Elie Wiesel, Karen Armstrong, Thich Nhat Hanh, and other renowned figures, to explore such complex subjects as belief, justice, science, evil, and love. Her way of speaking and listening about these complex subjects both illuminates them and defuses the many conflicts that surround them.

Penguin 2008 240 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)