I'm Still Loving You

Audio Cd

BY LARRY THOMASSON
Blues, country blues, and folk--with influences from bluesman Jimmy Reed to Little Feat--can be found in Larry Thomasson's music. This singer-songwriter's husky voice and acoustic guitar take you into that timeless time of the moment. Larry is a greatly missed member of Central Philadelphia Meeting.

Gunther 2005 AUDIO CD Audio

$20.00 (in stock)

I'm Your Child, God

Prayers For Our Children

BY MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN, ILLUSTRATED BY BRIAN COLLIER
"A wide-ranging collection of prayers. Divided into five sections, including 'Prayers for Special Occasions' and 'Prayers for Struggle and Strength,' these meditations display a deep sense of spirituality as well as a challenge to empowerment for children through prayer. While many collections celebrate God and the wonders of life and creation, Edelman extends her devotions specifically to address the needs of youth at risk, unsure and in fear, and to provide hope for them." - School Library Journal.

Hyperion 2002 90 PP. Cloth

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Images And Silence

The Future Of Quaker Ministry, Swarthmore Lecture 1992

BY BRENDA CLIFFT HEALES AND CHRIS COOK
What is the Quaker understanding of "ministry"? The 1992 Swarthmore Lecturers believe that Meeting for Worship is the soul of Quakerism, that the soul's health determines quality of life, and that from the life flows ministry. Images and Silence reflects the two main approaches to God which appear in traditional theology. Brenda has written about the relationship between images, religious experience and worship, and Chris about the imageless aspect of God described by mystics. These are two sides of the same coin, or two views of the same mountain. A choice between them is impossible, as both operate in different ways at different times in our lives.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2008 130 PP. Paper

$9.00 (in stock)

Imaginary Friends

Representing Quakers In American Culture, 1650-1950

BY JAMES EMMETT RYAN
Since their arrival in the American colonies in the 1650s, Quakers' spiritual values, social habits and their example - whether real or imagined-has served as a religious conscience for an expanding nation. Spanning four centuries, Imaginary Friends takes readers through these representations of Quaker life in a range of literary and visual genres, from theological debates, missionary work records, political theory, and biography to fiction, poetry, theater, and film. It illustrates ways that these "imaginary" Friends have offered a radical model of morality, piety, and anti-modernity against which the evolving culture has measured itself.

University of Wisconsin 2009 285 PP. Paper

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Imagination And Spirit

A Contemporary Quaker Reader

EDITED BY BRENT BILL
From essays about the "mystery at the core of all being" to a murder mystery by Irene Allen, Imagination and Spirit offers some of the "best of the best" of contemporary Quaker nonfiction and fiction, with a brief biography of each author. Includes selections from writings of popular twentieth and twenty-first century Quaker writers: Thomas Kelly, Douglas Steere, D. Elton Trueblood, James Michener, Jessamyn West, Jan de Hartog, Daisy Newman, Tom Mullen, Richard Foster, Phil Gulley, Scott Russell Sanders, Elizabeth Gray Vining, Elfrida Vipont Foulds, and David Yount.

Friends United Press 2002 240 PP. Paper

$19.00 (in stock)

Immigration Action Pack

With Taking Root And Rights On The Line Dvd's

AFSC
A useful resource for campaigns and meetings interested in working on Immigration. Pack contains. Two "No human being is illegal" car stickers and badge, Rights on the line / Derechos Sobre la Linea DVD, Taking root / Echando RaicesDVD, Honoring our human dignity pamphlet, "New Path toward a humane immigration Policy" booklet, Seeing that of God in our neighbors pamphlet. Compiled by AFSC

AFSC 2011 MANY ITEMS Boxed

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Immoral Wars And Illegal Laws

History, Religion, Militarism And Peacemaking In The Human Rights Struggle For Palestinian Independence.

BY WILLIAM DURLAND
This is an account of personal experiences and observations on the ground in Israel and Palestine, and an analysis of the stubborn positions contributing to this seemingly insoluble conflict. Readers will find complete lists of all relevant international laws and violations of those laws, a review of all partition and resolution plans and proposals, and up-to-date, heart-rending descriptions of grass-roots, peacemaking efforts.Tie-ins to post 9-11 erosions in U.S. human rights ideals provide chilling and strongly relevant food for thought. Unabashedly controversial, this book is a passionate advocacy for peace with justice in the Middle East backed up by solid scholarship.

CreateSpace 2011 360 PP. Paper

$18.95 (in stock)

Immortal Diamond

ROHR, RICHARD
Richard Rohr likens True Self to a diamond, buried deep within us, formed under the intense pressure of our lives, that must be searched for, uncovered, and separated from all the debris of ego that surrounds us. In a sense, True self must, like Jesus, be resurrected, and that process is not resuscitation but transformation. Rohr, a Roman Catholic priest and founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation is author of "Falling Upward."

Jossey-Bass 2013 255 PP. Paper

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An Imperfect Offering

Humanitarian Action For The Twenty First Century

BY JAMES ORBINSKI, M.D.
An Imperfect Offering is a deeply personal, deeply political book. With unstinting candor, Orbinski explores the nature of humanitarian action in the twenty-first century, and asserts the fundamental imperative of seeing as human those whose political systems have most brutally failed. He insists that in responding to the suffering of others, we must never lose sight of the dignity of those being helped or deny them the right to act as agents in their own lives. He takes readers on a journey to some of the darkest places of our history but finds there unimaginable acts of courage and empathy. Here he is doctor as witness; calling on others to meet their responsibility.

Walker Publishing 2009 448 PP. Paper

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Imperial Life In The Emerald City

Inside Iraq's Green Zone

BY RAJIV CHANDRASEKARAN
The Green Zone, Baghdad, 2003: in this walled-off compound of swimming pools and luxurious amenities, Paul Bremer and his Coalition Provisional Authority set out to fashion a new, democratic Iraq. Staffed by idealistic aides chosen primarily for their views on issues such as abortion and capital punishment, the CPA spent the crucial first year of occupation pursuing goals that had little to do with the immediate needs of a postwar nation: flat taxes instead of electricity and deregulated health care instead of emergency medical supplies.

Vintage 2007 295 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

The Impossible Will Take A Little While

A Citizen's Guide To Hope In A Time Of Fear

BY PAUL ROGAT-LOEB
What keeps us going when times get tough? How do we act to create a more humane world, no matter how hard it seems? How do we offer models of involvement for our students when many feel their actions cannot matter? The Impossible Will Take a Little While gathers stories and essays of engagement that range across nations, eras, and political movements. These visionary and eloquent voices include Maya Angelou, Marian Wright Edelman, Jim Hightower, Jonathan Kozol, Tony Kushne r, Nelson Mandela, Alice Walker, Cornel West, Parker Palmer , Howard Zinn, Wendell Berry, Scott Russell Sanders, Walter Wink, Jim Wallis, Joanna Macy, Amos Oz, and Desmond Tutu.

Basic Books 2004 422 PP. Paper

$16.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Improvisations And Spiritual Disciplines

Php 288

BY CAROL CONTI-ENTIN
The author uses musical improvisation to understand Sabbath observance, Bible reading, journal keeping, tithing, and praying.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1989 30 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

In Beauty

A Quaker Approach To End-of-life Care - Php 355

BY KIRSTEN BACKSTROM
The author, a Friend and hospice worker, considers Quaker forms of faithfulness which are important to the process of caring for others at the end of life. She finds these forms to be important, too, in exploring and learning from death and facing one's own mortality. This is a moving essay written lovingly through stories.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2001 32 PP. Paper

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In Defense Of Food

An Eater's Manifesto

BY MICHAEL POLLAN
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Are the seven simple but liberating words that Michael Pollan uses to answer the question "What should I eat?" - With all the problems of ecology, climate change, profiteering, international food injustice and pollution preying on our minds. He shows how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating.

Penguin 2009 256 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

In Fox's Footsteps

A Journey Through Three Centuries

BY DAVID AND ANTHEA BOULTON
Three adventurous journeys through Quakerism; first, a fresh retelling, with much new material, of George Fox's pivotal 1652 walk from Pendle Hill to Swarthmoor Hall; secondly, the Boultons tell how they followed Fox's route 350 years later; and thirdly, the long journey from the intellectual world of the 1650s to that of the 21st century . After 350 years of scientific, political, religious, philosophical and psychological revolutions, how relevant are the insights of Fox and his revolutionary followers today?

Dales Historical Monographs 1998 234 PP. Paper

$25.00 (in stock)

In God We Die

Php 385

BY WARREN OSTROM
The author looks at the prospect of our own death and dying, reminding us that we can trust the Spirit with our lives and deaths. Advances in technologies seem to take our lives out of God's hands. Opportunities or pressures to prolong our own survival and that of the people we care for sometimes lead us down paths contrary to our values and may deprive us of peaceful closure. Warren Ostrum has worked closely with the aging and dying for over two decades. He offers his deeply-considered insights on the end of life, as well as his reflections on the role of spirituality in how we face death, and guidance for finding clarity in our choices about our own final path.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2006 36 PP. Paper

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In God's Hands

BY LAWRENCE KUSHNER AND GARY SCHMIDT, ILLUSTRATED BY MATTHEW BAEK
David and Jacob live in the same little, ordinary town, but it's almost as if they're from different worlds. David is so poor he can barely feed his family. Jacob is so consumed with staying rich he thinks about nothing but money. But the two men have one thing in common: they both believe that miracles are big, magical things that can only happen somewhere else, to someone else. But when Jacob wakes up from a nap in synagogue one day, sure that God has demanded twelve loaves of bread from him, all this changes in amazing ways you'd never expect. A delightful, timeless legend based on Jewish tradition, In God's Hands tells of the ordinary miracles that occur when we are faithful.

Jewish Lights 2005 32 PP. Cloth

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In God's Name

BY SANDY SASSO, ILLUSTRATED BY PHOEBE STONE
LESSON IN A BOOK AVAILABLE! Modern brightly illustrated fable about the search for God's name. Celebrates the diversity and unity of all the people of the world. For children of all ages.

Jewish Lights 1994 32 PP. Cloth

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In Hovering Flight

A Novel

BY JOYCE HINNEFELD
This novel by a longtime attender (at LeHigh Valley MM) and Pendle Hill sojourner is about Scarlet (34) who has come home for the passing of her famous mother, the bird artist Addie Kavanaugh. Addie has in fact chosen to die at the home of her dearest friend, Cora. Many great reviews in the national press, a wonderful lyrical first novel.

Unbridled Books 2009 263 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

In Our Mothers House

BY PATRICIA POLACCO
Marmee, Meema, and the kids are just like any other family on the block. In their beautiful house, they cook dinner together, they laugh together, and they dance together. But some of the other families don't accept them. They say they are different. How can a family have two moms and no dad? But Marmee and Meema's house is full of love. And they teach their children that different doesn't mean wrong. And no matter how many moms or dads they have, they are everything a family is meant to be. Here is a true Polacco story of a family, living by their own rules, and the strength they gain by the love they feel.Ages 4 - 8 ish.

Philomel 2009 48 PP. Cloth

$17.99 (out of stock but can be backordered)

In Praise Of Doubt

How To Have Convictions Without Becoming A Fanatic

BY PETER BERGER, ANTON ZIJDERVELD
As a culture and as individuals, we find it much easier to articulate what we are against than what we are for. In this book the authors show how we can have confidence in our convictions - in such ideals as democracy, human rights, equality under the law etc - without succumbing to the radical doubts of relativism and the certainties of fundamentalism. With new lenses for seeing the influence of modernism, relativism and fundamentalism they explore the roles of humor, doubt and social norms that let us have convictions without grasping them so tightly that we become fanatics.

HarperOne 2009 178 PP. Cloth

$7.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

In Quaker Friendship

Letters From Marjo

SYKES, MARJORIE
MARJORIE SYKES (1905-1995) came to Madras as a young woman of 23 in 1928 to take up a teacher's job in a local school. She stayed on for nearly 70 years, dedicating her services to the cause of new education envisaged by Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore. These are her letters to her good American friend Martha Dart from 1967 to 1994. A fascinating glimpse into Ghandian ideas and Quakerism and Marjorie herself.

Sessions 1999 133 PP. Paper

$12.50 (in stock)

In The Beginning

A New Interpretation Of Genesis

BY KAREN ARMSTRONG
As the foundation stone of the Jewish and Christian scriptures, The Book of Genesis unfolds some of the most arresting stories of world literature--the Creation; Adam and Eve; Cain and Abel; the sacrifice of Isaac. Yet the meaning of Genesis remains enigmatic. In this fascinating volume, Karen Armstrong, author of the highly acclaimed bestseller A History of God, brilliantly illuminates the mysteries and profundities of this mystifying work.

Ballantine 1996 195 PP. Paper

$14.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

In The Electric Eden (7223)

Stories

BY NICK ARVIN
SECOND HAND BOOK. reasonably good condition. Writer and former engineer Nick Arvin layers his knowledge of technology, mechanical design, and human character into a collection of emotionally riveting stories. With a subtle hand he transports readers through history and across America to ten poignant and utterly unforgettable places: a traffic accident in the middle of the heartland; the electrocution of Topsy the elephant at Coney Island at the turn of the century; the backyard of an old recluse; a Marine Corps practice invasion of the Florida beaches...

Penguin 2003 207 PP. Paper

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In The Footsteps Of Gandhi

Conversations With Spiritual Social Activists, Revised Edition

EDITED BY CATHERINE INGRAM, FOREWORD BY ARUN GANDHI, AFTERWORD BY MICHAEL NAGLER
In the spring of 2003 there was a worldwide demonstration for nonviolence that was the largest in history. At a time when eloquent and inspiring voices for peace are relevant more than ever, In the Footsteps of Gandhi, profiles contemporary leaders in this struggle. Here are people whose positive work has been part of international news for decades-in topics ranging from AIDS, to apartheid, to the Israeli-Palestine conflict-all of whom embody the understanding that violence is not stopped by violence. The book contends that violence is only ended by love. This revised edition of Catherine Ingram's book features interviews with Mubarak Awad, Joanna Macy, Thich Nhat Hahn and others.

Parallax Press 2005 272 PP. Paper

$16.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

In The Love Of Nature

BY STEVE SMITH
In this pamphlet of Southeastern Yearly Meeting's 2008 Michener Lecture, Steve Smith explore environmentalism, a suffering earth, and the need for Quakers who think of themselves as activists to avoid insularity and reach out to the wider community. In poignant passages which read almost like poetry, Smith describes his own childhood memories of living with and in nature to remind readers of the compelling spiritual aspect of the natural world.

SEYM Publications 2008 31 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

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

$16.95 (in stock)

In The Shadow Of The Civil War

Passmore Williamson And The Rescue Of Jane Johnson

BY NAT BRANDT WITH YANNA KROYT BRANDT
Six years before the onset of the Civil War, two courageous figures - one a free white man and one an enslaved black woman--risked personal liberty to ensure each other's freedom in an explosive episode that captured the attention of a nation on the brink of cataclysmic change. In this deeply researched account of the rescue of the slave Jane Johnson by the former Philadelphia Quaker and fervent abolitionist Passmore Williamson, of the federal court case that followed, and of Johnson's selfless efforts to free the jailed Williamson, journalist Nat Brandt and filmmaker Yanna Kroyt Brandt capture the heroism and humanity at the heart of this important moment in American history.

Univ. of S. Carolina 2007 216 PP. Cloth

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In The Shadow Of William Penn

Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting Of Friends

BY MARGARET HOPE BACON
Much of the story of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting is also the story of Philadelphia Quakers for the last two centuries. The meeting came into existence with the merger of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting (Race Street) and Twelfth Street Meeting at the time of the reconciliation of the Hicksite and Orthodox branches of Quakerism in 1956. Margaret Bacon, writing about her own meeting, tells us about these two meetings, their schools and meetinghouses, the development of Friends organizations, and their social action that responded to the events around them, that bring us up to the present time.

CPMM 2001 84 PP. Paper

$12.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

In The Wild Places

BY SARAH KATREEN HOGGATT ILLUSTRATED BY ERIN KAYS
"Sarah Katreen Hoggatt's poems articulate her relationship with God, others, and nature in authentic language and images readers will find engaging and easy to identify with. Her conversational style invites us to explore our own inner terrain imaginatively and honestly" Beck Thomas Ankenny superintendent Northwest Yearly Meeting

SpiritWater Publications 2013 128 PP. Paper

$12.95 (in stock)