Joining Children On The Spiritual Journey

Nurturing A Life Of Faith

BY CATHERINE STONEHOUSE
Understanding how a child's faith forms is crucial to knowing how adults can most significantly enhance the child's spiritual development. Joining Children on the Spiritual Journey provides parents, teachers, and Christian education leaders with valuable insights into spiritual formation during childhood. With a biblical perspective as a starting point and a recognition of the crucial role of both the family and the faith community, Stonehouse reviews important contributions from noted child development experts. By carefully "setting the stage" through liturgy, sacred stories, parables and quiet times of "godly play" religious educators can help children meet with God.

Baker Book House 1998 237 PP. Paper

$24.00 (in stock)

Joining Hands

Politics And Religion To

GOTTLIEB, ROGER S.
Did Martin Luther King's spiritual understanding of political struggle truly help the Civil Rights movement? Can breast cancer victims incorporate both spiritual wisdom "and" political action in their fight for life? Tackling such questions that shake the core of our political and spiritual foundations, Roger S. Gottlieb presents a brave new account of how religious ethics and progressive movements share a common vision of a transformed world.

Westview 202 272 PP Cloth

$5.00 (in stock)

Jonathan Wright Plummer

Quaker Philanthropy

BY ELIZABETH WARREN
Considered the "father" of Friends General conference (FGC). In 1878 he conceived the idea of a conference that would consider all the social testimonies of Friends. A minute of Illinois Yearly Meeting allowed him to invite representatives of several Yearly Meetings to hold such a general conference every few years. It was this that eventually became FGC in 1900. A biography of this very active Quaker philanthropist.

Authorhouse 2006 106 PP. Paper

$13.99 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Jottings In The Woods

Walt Whitman's Nature Prose And A Study Of Old Pine Farm

BY LYNNE SHIVERS, JOAN TRACY, AND DEBRA WHITE
Combining Whitman's later, and little known, nature poems with a profile of a current program to protect land in South Jersey. Whitman stayed with the Stafford family in Laurel Springs when ill, and he walked along the Big Timber Creek and wrote about the nature he saw. The Old Pine Farm Natural Lands Trust in Deptford was founded to protect what is now nearly 40 acres of woodlands, meadow and wetlands along the same Big Timber Creek. It is as though Whitman wrote his essays just yesterday, and the land trust is a current, living reflection of what Whitman experienced so long ago. Photographs, maps, drawings.

Dog Ear Press 2007 98 PP. Paper

$10.95 (in stock)

The Journal And Major Essays Of John Woolman

EDITED BY PHILLIPS MOULTON
John Woolman was a Quaker minister and prophet who deeply understood the relationship of Divine connection with human action. Woolman's analyses of the roots of social evil carefully trace individual responsibility from motive to action, and follow the ever-widening consequences of that action. The `how' of social change is one of Woolman's greatest concerns; and the methods he suggests, springing from a right relationship to God, emphasize nonviolence and express love that encompasses both the wrongdoer and the wronged. This edition of Woolman's Journal is the first to reflect Woolman's final intentions with fidelity and scholarly accuracy.

Friends United Press 1989 336 PP. Paper

$25.00 (in stock)

The Journal Of Elias Hicks

EDITED BY PAUL BUCKLEY
In this new edition, The Journal of Elias Hicks is published as it was written, telling the story of the faith and practice of this historic Quaker minister whose long life and faithful service in the traditional beliefs of the Religious Society of Friends shaped the Society's history in ways he never suspected would happen. For 175 years, the prevailing image of Elias Hicks has been a false one. His opponents in the Religious Society of Friends have successfully misrepresented him as denying Christ and the scriptures. Paul Buckley has meticulously compiled a new edition of The Journal of Elias Hicks from the original manuscripts that restores more than 100 pages of missing material.

Inner Light 2009 509 PP. Paper

$30.00 (in stock)

The Journal Of George Fox - Nickalls Edition

EDITED BY JOHN NICKALLS
NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE IN THIS EDITION Apologies. George Fox's Journal was written later in his life with the benefit of hindsight, at a time when the Religious Society of Friends was struggling for acceptance. It was later edited after his death by Thomas Ellwood, under the direction of the Second-day Morning Meeting, and published in 1694. The Nickalls edition includes passages that were edited out when it was first published. Includes an introduction by Geoffrey Nuttall and an epilogue by Henry J. Cadbury.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1997 789 PP. Paper

$25.00 (in stock)

The Journal Of William Penn

While Visiting Holland And Germany, In 1677

BY WILLIAM PENN
William Penn's firsthand account of his 1677 travels in Holland and Germany visiting Quaker congregations and preaching his message of religious toleration. This document is historically significant for understanding Penn's early years, before he obtained the charter for Pennsylvania in 1681. This is a reprint of the 1879 edition.

Penn State University Press 2006 189 PP. Paper

$21.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Journey Of The Wild Geese

A Quaker Romance In War-torn Europe

BY EDWIN & MADELEINE STEPHENSON
"Journey of the Wild Geese is the love story of two Quaker young people at work in post-World War II Europe, trying to come to grips with the destruction, despair, suffering and bitterness left over from that conflict and their own uncertainty that they can do much to bring help and healing to the situation, while at the same time they are groping their way to a sense of commitment and trust in one another. This story . . . is both touching and challenging." - Margaret Hope Bacon

Intentional Productions 1998 316 PP. Paper

$17.95 (in stock)

Journey Toward Freedom

The Story Of Sojourner Truth

BY JACQUELINE BERNARD
First published in 1967 and based on extensive primary research, this is an important book, as compassionately told as it is engrossing to read. Sojourner Truth was born a slave in 1797, gained her freedom some 30 years later, and at the age of 46 began a new life, traveling the country to preach about God and crusade against slavery. Known for her wit, her songs, and her great common sense, she electrified audiences as she championed women's rights, prison reform, and better working conditions.

Feminist Press 1990 267 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Journeying The Heartlands

Exploring Spiritual Practices Of Quaker Worship

BY THE KINDLERS, EDITED BY ALEC DAVISON, ELIZABETH BROWN
Elizabeth Brown is clerk and an elder of Golders Green Local Meeting, a tutor of Quaker Spiritual Healers and a member of the Quaker Retreat Group. Alec Davison is an elder of Muswell Hill Local Meeting, and a founding member of The Leaveners (Quaker performing arts), Leap- Confronting Conflict and Quaker Quest. In this pamphlet they edit short ideas from many Friends on all aspects of Quaker Worship from Centering to knowing promptings to Building community.

Kindlers 2010 40 PP. Paper

$7.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Journeys In The Light

Quaker Stories

BY JAN ARRIENS
At Firbank Fell in the North of England, beneath the great rock on which George Fox preached, a plaque quotes his words: "Let your lives speak". Jan Arriens has written a book of stories that speak of Quakers living faithfully - some historical figures, some fictional, from the 17th century to the present day. This book is a kaleidoscope showing many facets of how Quakers experience the Light: finding practical ways to defeat slavery, protesting against nuclear weapons, discovering individual journeys to peace, simplicity, truth and equality.

Pronoun Press 2007 179 PP. Paper

$20.00 (in stock)

The Joy Of Conflict Resolution

Transforming Victims, Villains And Heroes In The Workplace And At Home

BY GARY HARPER
The rapid rate of change in the workplace and among families often leads to conflict and confrontation which can undermine productivity and poison relationships. The Joy of Conflict Resolution helps readers understand conflict and why it arises through the lens of the "drama triangle" of victims, villains and heroes. In an accessible, engaging and light-hearted style that uses stories and humor to explore potentially emotionally charged situations, it provides proven and practical skills to move beyond confrontation to resolve conflicts collaboratively.

New Society Publishers 2004 208 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

Judge Jackson And The Colored Sacred Harp

BY JOE-DAN BOYD
A biography, a personal memoir of the folk revival, a survey of writing about African American Sacred Harp singing, a selection of evocative photographs, and a CD that ranks among the most valuable and carefully compiled collections of historical Sacred Harp recordings ever assembled. John Bealle's introduction plays the role of the traditional "rudiments of music" section of a shape note hymnal, providing a concise and sensitive history of Sacred Harp singing, its diverse adherents, and its intersections with the folk revival. Book and CD (69 minutes).

Alabama Folklife Association 2002 160 PP. Cloth

$30.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Jump At The Sun

BY KIM MCLARIN
Grace an educated and accomplished modern woman, a child of the Civil Rights dream finds herself in a new house in a new city and in a new career for which she feels dangerously unsuited: a stay-at-home mom. Exploring both the highs and the lows of being a mother and how breaking the cycle of suffocation and regret is infuriatingly difficult, and absolutely necessary.

Morrow 2006 306 PP. Cloth

$3.00 (in stock)

Jung And The Quaker Way

BY JACK H. WALLIS
Wallis opens the book by discussing Jung's focus on individual and spiritual "wholeness." Wallis uses this discussion to segue into an examination of how Jung's ideas and Quakerism might be read together to enrich each other. In several chapter discussing varied aspects of spirituality, from belief to vocation to conception of gender, Wallis guides the reader toward a Quakerism preoccupied, like Jung was, with the search for meaning.

Quaker Books 1988 216 PP. Paper

$19.50 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Just Like Us

The True Story Of Four Mexican Girls Coming Of Age In America

BY HELEN THORPE
Quaker author. A powerful and moving account of four young women from Mexico who have lived most of their lives in the United States and attend the same high school. Two of them have legal documentation and two do not. Helen Thorpe takes us deep into the American subculture of Mexican immigrants. We meet four girls on the eve of their senior prom, in Denver, Colorado. This brilliant narrative journalism is a vivid coming-of-age story about girlhood, friendship, and, most of all, identity, what it means to fake an identity, steal an identity, or inherit an identity from one's parents and country.

Scribner 2011 394 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

Just Moms

Conveying Justice In An Unjust World

COMPILED BY MELANIE SPRINGER MOCK, REBEKAH SCHNEITER
Conveying the principles and the practice of justice to young children is no small task.In this poignant, honest, and sometimes witty collection of stories, 27 mostly Quaker women share their adventures and misadventures modeling social-justice principles for their children and communities. Just Moms is about moms bending their own rules and redefining success as they work to raise kids who value peace, equality, truth, simplicity, and love. Just Moms is about finding hope in what looks like a perfect mess.

Barclay Press 2011 204 PP. Paper

$20.00 (in stock)

Just Peacemaking

Ten Practices For Abolishing War

EDITED BY GLEN STASSEN
Enter a new perspective--this profound resource maps a course for individuals, grassroots groups, voluntary associations, and religious organizations to show people how to fan the flames of peace. It challenges pacifists to be peacemakers and war theorists to spell out the resorts that should be tried before the last.

Pilgrim Press 1998 198 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)

Just Policing, Not War

An Alternative Response To World Violence

BY GERALD SCHLABACH
Recommended for Gathering Workshop #22. If War Is Not the Answer, Then What Is? (Stephen McNeil.) Gerald Schlabach has proposed just policing theory as a way to narrow the gap between just war and pacifist traditions. If the world can address problems of violence through a police model instead of a conventional military model, there may be a role for Christians from all traditions. He invited scholars representing Catholic, Mennonite, and other traditions to respond to this new idea and address a number of key questions on implementation and responses to threats like terrorism and genocide.

Liturgical Press 2007 255 PP. Paper

$27.95 (in stock)

Just Shy Of Harmony

BY PHILIP GULLEY
"Gulley, easily evangelical fiction's funniest man, turns in something just shy of a real novel in Just Shy of Harmony--as opposed to the loose collections of sermons and stories he's published in the past. This time out, Gulley's alter ego, Quaker minister Sam Gardner, decides that he no longer believes in God. His reason? A pretty good one: nothing ever gets done, and he fritters away his 60-hour weeks on discussions about church gymnasiums [etc.].... Then a woman in the congregation is stricken with leukemia, and all the backbiters and gossipers rally to her cause. Sam's gloom lifts with his renewed faith in humankind." -Publisher's Weekly, starred review

HarperSanFrancisco 2004 256 PP Paper

$12.95 (in stock)

Just Shy Of Harmony

BY PHILIP GULLEY
Sam Gardner's second year as minister in quaint and charming Harmony, Indiana, is fraught with trials and incidents, a crisis of faith, a marital catastrophe, and a church elder's ill-hatched scheme to scramble scripture with eggs. But a loving heart and a strong sense of humor is almost certain to see Sam through . . . even if all of Harmony is expecting a miracle on easter morning.

HarperSanFrancisco 2006 255 PP. Paper

$6.99 (in stock)

Kaline Klattermaster's Tree House

BY HAVEN KIMMEL
Third grader Kaline Klattermaster's Dad has 'gones omewhere...his mum is findings things difficult and he needs the support of 2 brothers, 100 dogs in a tree house - but it is all imaginary. He does have a real, but eccentric neighbor Oscar Putnaminski to help with his fathers absence, his mothers problems and some bullies. Quaker author of a Girl named Zippy.

Atheneum 2009 152 PP. Cloth

$5.50 (in stock)

Keepers Of The Animals

Native American

CADUTO, MICHAEL J./
Here 24 lovingly told and beautifully illustrated stories about animals demonstrate their power and importance in Native American traditions. Keepers of the Animals is a complete program of study in the important concepts of wildlife ecology and environmental issues. The activities are in theater, reading, writing, science, social studies, mathematics and awareness. A great synthesis of native American lore and creative curricula.

Fulcrum 1997 265 PP. Paper

$19.95 (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

$25.00 USED - availability checked Feb 8th 1:48pm EST

Kenya Abcs

A Book About The People And Places Of Kenya

BY SARAH HEIMAN, ILLUSTRATED BY ARTURO AVILA
Find out about ostriches, lions, and zebras. Explore the bustling city of Nairobi and tour the vast Kenyan grassland. Full-color illustrations and fact-filled text show the wonders and contrasts of this beautiful African country. Each books in the Country ABCs series features maps, a traceable flag, a topic-related activity, fast facts and fun facts, a glossary, a reading list, and an index.

Picture Window Books 2006 31 PP. Paper

$8.00 (in stock)

A Kids Guide To Giving

BY FREDDI ZEILER AND WARD SCHUMAKER
Written by a kid for kids, this book offers a comprehensible guide to giving money, volunteering, donating goods, and organizing charity events. Spiral bound in a magnetic folding box.

Inovative Kids 2006 200 PP. Spiral Bound

$9.99 (in stock)

A Kid's Guide To Hunger And Homelessness

BY KATHRYN BERGER KAYE
Kids explore what others in the world (including young people) have done and are doing to address the issues, find out what their community needs, and develop a service project. The workbook includes facts, quotations, real-life examples, write-on pages, resources, a note to adults-and a lot of inspiration to get out there and make a difference in the world. Includes exclusive interviews with author and activist Francis Moore Lappé, and Lindsey Lee Johnson, author of Soul Moon Soup, the story of a girl living on the streets with her mother.

Free Spirit 2007 48 PP. Paper

$6.95 (in stock)

The Kid's Guide To Social Action

BY BARBARA A. LEWIS
Childrens' resource guide for learning political action skills. Helps them make a difference in solving social problems on community, state and national levels.

Free Spirit 1991 185 PP. Paper

$18.95 (in stock)

The Kid's Guide To Service Projects

Over 500 Service Ideas For Young People Who Want To Make A Difference

BY BARBARA LEWIS
A comprehensive guide for individuals, schools, meetings and groups with all kinds of projects - short and long term. This updated second edition is even more of a valuable resource.

Free Spirit 2009 152 PP. Paper

$14.99 (in stock)