The Barefoot Book Of Earth Tales

BY DAWN CASEY, ILLUSTRATED BY ANNE WILSON
In this beautiful anthology of folktales, young readers will learn about the way different cultures around the world live in harmony with the rhythms and patterns of nature. They will discover how to tread lightly on our precious Earth by following the easy eco-tips and by trying out some of the fun and creative activities that accompany each story. Children will discover how the residents of the Kingdom of Benin deep within the Nigerian rainforest consume less and conserve more; how the Comanche Indians respect Mother Earth by giving more than they receive; among Bali's coral reefs and volcanic mountain peaks is the lesson that everything in nature is connected.

Barefoot Books 2009 96 PP. Cloth

$19.99 (in stock)

The Barn At The End Of The World

The Apprenticeship Of A Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd

BY MARY ROSE O'REILLEY
"Deciding that her spirituality needed to be grounded in the real world, Mary Rose O'Reilley, a Quaker with a Catholic past and a Buddhist future, embarked on a year of tending sheep, whom she called her 'two hundred spiritual teachers.' In this poetic, irreverent spiritual autobiography, O'Reilly takes the reader into a working barn, where she learns to 'flip' sheep, inoculate them, and help them lamb (among other, earthier things)." -Paul Lacey

Milkweed Editions 2001 344 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

The Battle For God

BY KAREN ARMSTRONG
Now in Paperback! "Karen Armstrong has given us a wide-ranging review of the wrenching 'Battle for God' between the forces of modernism and fundamentalism. Too many prefer to curse and denigrate the rise of fundamentalism. Karen Armstrong chooses to light a candle of understanding and comparative analysis."-Rabbi Irving Greenberg

Ballantine 2001 464 PP. Paper

$15.95 (low stock)

Battlefield Without Borders

Iraq Poems

BY DAVID SMITH-FERRI
In July, 1999, David visited Iraq for the first time, as part of an eight-member fact-finding delegation organized by the Chicago-based group, Voices in the Wilderness. David wrote two thirds of these poems while in Iraq after encounters with Iraqi people, in a wide range of settings - from hospitals to homes to bomb sites. The book sold out in four months, and in November, 2007, Haley's published a second edition of the book, with twelve new poems and a new foreword by Kathy Kelly.

Haleys 2007 122 PP. Paper

$13.95 (low stock)

Bayard Rustin

The Singer - Audio Cd

BY BAYARD RUSTIN
"[Quaker] Bayard Rustin became famous for working behind the scenes. The tactics of public protest that became familiar in the 1960s - marches on Washington, Freedom Rides, sit-ins, passive resistance, civil disobedience - were pioneered and refined by Rustin two decades earlier. Indeed, through his decisive influence on Martin Luther King Jr., Rustin created the model for the social movements of post-World War II America - civil rights, antiwar, gay liberation, feminist." - Michael Anderson, New York Times

Bayard Rustin Fund 2008 25 SONGS Audio

$16.95 (low stock)

Bayard Rustin And The Civil Rights Movement

BY DANIEL LEVINE
Rustin's long activist career began with his association with A. Philip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Then, as a member of A.J. Muste's Fellowship of Reconciliation, he participated in the "Journey of Reconciliation" (an early version of the "Freedom Rides" of 1961). He was a close associate of Martin Luther King in Montgomery and Atlanta and rose to prominence as organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. Rustin played a key role in applying nonviolent direct action to American race relations while rejecting the separatism of movements like Black Power in the 1960s, even at the risk of his being marginalized by the younger generation of civil rights activists.

Rutgers 2000 307 PP. Cloth

$40.00 (backorder)

Be The Change - Poster

BY MITCHELL GOULD
Illustrator Mitchell Santine Gould has returned to the source of inspiration for many Friends with four posters that reflect our common values. Georgia O'Keefe inspired the lavish colors and the marching slogans are a tribute to Edward Hicks's Peaceable Kingdom paintings. Posters measure approximately 17x26 inches, printed with pigmented UltraChromer ink (archival rated at 100 years) on heavy matte paper. Magnets are 3.5 square. Be the Change - A walnut graphic inspired by Gandhi's famous mandate. This will ship from QuakerBooks. Price includes postage.

Mitchell Gould 2006 POSTER Blank

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Be The Change - Magnet

BY MITCHELL GOULD
Illustrator Mitchell Santine Gould has returned to the source of inspiration for many Friends with four posters that reflect our common values. Georgia O'Keefe inspired the lavish colors and the marching slogans are a tribute to Edward Hicks's Peaceable Kingdom paintings. Fridge Magnets are 3.5 square. Be the Change - A walnut graphic inspired by Gandhi's famous mandate.

Mitchell Gould 2006 MAGNET Blank

$5.00 (in stock)

Be The Change - Your Guide To Freeing Slaves

And Changing The World

BY ZACH HUNTER
Zach Hunter may only be fifteen, but he's taking on issues that affect the world-and he's making a change. Find out how Zach is working to end slavery, and how you can make a change in the things you see wrong with our world. Zach Hunter is a teenage abolitionist and activist, spending much of his time working to end modern-day slavery around the world and fighting other problems in the world today. When he was twelve, he started a campaign called Loose Change to Loosen Chains, helping to raise awareness and money to free people from slavery.

Zondervan 2007 160 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

Be Ye Perfect

The Quaker Call To Wholeness Together With Returning To Right Relationship: Where On Earth Are We?

BY LISA LOFLAND-GOULD
The Walton lecture of 2002 given to Southeastern Yearly Meeting. Lisa Lofland Gould looks at our relationship with the earth and our Quaker faith. Also includes her second lecture to the yearly meeting: "Returning to right relationship: Where on earth are we?"

Southeastern Yearly Meeting 2002 37 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Bearing Witness

Quaker Process And A Culture Of Peace - Php 262

BY GRAY COX
Peace is portrayed as something we do, an activity of resolving differences based on a five-stage Quaker ethic.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 36 PP. Paper

$7.00 (backorder)

The Beast In The Mirror

The Life Of Outsider Artist Antonio Ligabue

BY KARIN KAVELIN JONES
Antonio Ligabue is well known in Europe, considered almost the Italian Van Gogh, but this small tome is the first book in English. With both physical and mental problems he was torn from his mother in Switzerland at the age of 20 and expelled to Italy where he knew no one and did not even speak the language. In a hut by the banks of the Po River he painted and sculpted, enduring deprivation and cruelty - as well as kindness till eventually with a Dr Valenti he was understood and came to understand himself.

Capra Press 1997 136 PP. Cloth

$4.50 (in stock)

The Beatitudes

Pathways Of Living In True Joy And Peace Reflections And Queries For Sharing

BY VIRGINIA SCHURMAN
The Sermon on the Mount is many peoples favorite part of the New Testament. Here Virginia Schurman reflects on those multifarious folk -The persecuted, the merciful, the peacemakers etc. who are "blessed" and looks at why that might be.

Tract Association 2000 12 PP. Paper

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Beatrice's Goat

BY PAGE MCBRIER, ILLUSTRATED BY LORI LOHSTOETER
"An impoverished family begins to flourish after receiving a special gift - of the four-legged variety - in this uplifting picture book set in western Uganda. Beatrice longs to attend school with other village children, but instead she must tend her five younger siblings and help her mother in the fields. Everything starts to change, however, when Beatrice and her family receive a goat... With the goat's bounty, the family soon has enough money to send Beatrice to school. McBrier's tale, inspired by actual events, succeeds in demonstrating the positive ripple effect of the efforts of [the Heifer Project]." - Publishers Weekly

Simon & Schuster 2004 32 PP. Paper

$7.99 (in stock)

The Beautiful Soul Of John Woolman, Apostle Of Abolition

BY THOMAS SLAUGHTER
Slaughter's penetrating work shows how Woolman, the plainspoken Quaker mystic, transformed himself into a prophetic, unforgettable figure. Placing Woolman in the full context of his times, Slaughter paints the portrait of a hero - and not just for the Quakers, social reformers, labor organizers, socialists, and peace advocates who have long admired him. He was an extraordinary original, an American for the ages. "This discerning, poetic biography discloses a Woolman far more powerful, both personally and morally, than even his famous Journal reveals. Few histories are more quietly riveting, more piercingly compelling." - John Butler, Yale University

Hill and Wang 2009 449 PP. Paper

$22.00 (in stock)

Beauty So Close

BY BETH KLASSEN - LANDIS
Bess Klassen-Landis is a member of Hanover Friends Meeting in Hanover, NH. In 2008 as a released friend, she made a CD of original music and also toured the country speaking about forgiveness and abolition of the death penalty with me a travel minute endorsed by my meeting, as well as Northwest Quarterly Meeting, and New England Yearly Meeting. Songs include the eponymous title, Travelling on, I believe, Daffodils, Come back to music.

BKL 2008 14 TRACKS Disk

$16.99 (low stock)

Because Nothing Looks Like God

BY LAWRENCE KUSHNER AND KAREN KUSHNER, ILLUSTRATED BY DAWN MAJEWSKI
Mixing sparks of curiosity and spiritual imagination, the authors address the questions "Where is God?" "What does God look Like?" and "How does God make things happen?" and show how God is with us everday, in every way.

Jewish Lights 2000 32 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (in stock)

Because Of You

A Book Of Kindness

BY B G HENNESSY, ILLUSTRATED BY HIROE NAKATA
Each child brings to the world one more person to love and care for -- and one more person who can love and care for others. As children grow and learn, they can teach others and share feelings, ideas, and things. Just as each of us sometimes needs help, we can also find ways to help others. The author and illustrator of My Book of Thanks reunite to show, through everyday examples, how acts of kindness, understanding, and generosity -- no matter how small -- can make all the difference in the world.

Candlewick 2005 24 PP Cloth

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Becoming Fire

Spiritual Writing From Rising Generations

EDITED BY ALEXANDER KERN
Through story and metaphor, the 48 authors gathered here address great themes in the spiritual life: prayer and desire, covenant and grace, creativity and calling, identity and freedom. Becoming Fire maps the landscape of postmodern spirituality and charts exciting directions for emergent faith and prophetic witness. In an age when language and religion have become weapons, this volume speaks a subversive and healing word. Contributors include Friends Alexander Kern, J. Tien-Hwei Law, Julian O'Reilley, Alicia Parks, Priscilla Rodd, and Deane Lindsey Kern.

Andover Newton Theological School 2006 224 PP. Paper

$12.95 (in stock)

Becoming The Answer To Our Prayers

Prayer For Ordinary Radicals

BY SHANE CLAIBORNE AND JONATHAN WILSON-HARTGROVE
"Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do." Shane and Jonathan show how prayer and action must go together. Key Bible passages provides concrete examples of how a life of prayer fuels social engagement and the work of justice. Phrases like "give us this day our daily bread" and "forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors" take on new meaning when applied to feeding the hungry or advocating for international debt relief. If you hope to see God change society, you must be an ordinary radical who prays - and then is ready to become the answer to your own prayers.

Inter-Varsity Press 2008 124 PP. Paper

$13.00 (in stock)

Before Business Begins

Notes For Recording Clerks

BY WILL WATSON
A small book, bound to lay flat for handy reference during meetings, which is full of tips and sample minutes on topics faced repeatedly by Friends in meeting for worship with attention to business.

New England Yearly Meeting 1996 64 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Beginners Bible

Timeless Children's Stories (2005 Edition)

ILLUSTRATED BY KELLY PULLEY
A favorite story Bible in many Quaker homes and meetings. The 2005 edition has a new illustrator, Kelly Pulley, who favors wider eyes than previously appeared and brighter colors, but otherwise it looks much the same. Ages 4-8.

Zondervan 2005 512 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (in stock)

The Beginnings Of Quakerism To 1660

BY WILLIAM BRAITHWAITE
Standard history of the early days of the Quaker movement, based largely on the writings of the first Friends. Second edition revised by Henry J. Cadbury.

Sessions 1981 607 PP. Cloth

$30.00 (low 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)

Being Fully Present To God

2005 Michener Lecture

BY DEBORAH SHAW
In this open, circuitous and joyful essay, Deborah Shaw tells stories of seeking and finding God in her life and of the many forms those encounters take. She also tells of the ways that she cultivates this openness and offers them as gifts to her readers. The pamphlet ends with queries, prayers and blessing exercises that can be used to enhance one's connection with God.

Southeastern Yearly Meeting 2005 45 PP Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Being In The Middle By Being At The Edge. Quaker Experience

BY SUE & STEVE WILLIAMS
During 1991-2 Sue and Steve Williams, experienced Quaker mediators themselves, traveled round the world to consult with other Quakers involved in non-official political mediation. Using their words and examples this book is a distillation and reflection on the mediation process. High profile negotiations and cease fires are dramatic, but often behind them are years of work by groups and individuals toiling away in obscurity. Quaker mediation is one strand in this strategy.

Sessions of York 1994 133 PP. Paper

$21.00 (low stock)

Being Peace

Classic Dharma Talks

BY THICH NHAT HANH
Thich Nhat Hanh delivered the words on this compact disk to an assembly of 700 gathered at Green Gulch Zen Center in Muir Beach, California, on November 3, 1985, and inspired the creation of the best selling book, "Being Peace." The teachings contained here provide a crucial antidote to our busy lives, and because of Hanh's experience with the war and his willingness to face the realities of our time, these teachings are also about suffering, reconciliation, and peace.

Parallex Press 2003 120 MINS Audio

$15.00 (in stock)

Being Together

Our Corporate Life In The Religious Society Of Friends, Swarthmore Lecture 1994

BY MARGARET HEATHFIELD
Considering what type of organization provides the fewest obstacles to the free flowing of the Spirit, Margaret Heathfield addresses the problem of guidance within our individual and corporate lives. In the introduction she writes '... I could see why we were each led in different directions by the Spirit in our personal but why did this also happen when we were considering corporate matters?' In seeking an answer, Margaret draws on the findings of history and theology, as well as contemporary theories of management and the nature of organizations.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2008 124 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

Being Truthful

2003 Michener Lecture

BY HEATHER MOIR
"I chose [the] title Being Truthful because I am convinced that it is not just a matter of what we say but of how we live. Our lives must speak of what we are. Our religion must not be only what we say we believe, but how it directs and grounds our actions. To be believable, we must both believe and be committed to our beliefs, and they need to be grounded in truth. (Do you remember the old saw about "how can I hear what you say when what you are is thundering in my ears?")." - The author. Moir explores how to live truthfully day to day.

Southeastern Yearly Meeting 2003 19 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Ben Pink Dandelion's 2009 Gathering Plenary Address - Audio

BY BEN PINK DANDELION
This is an audio CD version of Ben Pink Dandelion's 2009 plenary address at the FGC Gathering of Friends. Ben, a Quaker historianThis is an audio CD version of Ben Pink Dandelion's 2009 plenary address at the FGC Gathering of Friends. Ben, a Quaker historian, takes us to where the joy and love, and fire come from: our roots in spirit. He brings years of experience at weaving academic insights with th edesire to lead a faithful life.

Quaker Press of FGC 2009 AUDIO CD Audio

$12.00 (in stock)