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

$15.95 (in stock)

Living The Peace Testimony

The Legacy Of Howard And Anna Brinton - Php 372

BY ANTHONY MANOUSOS
Born of Quaker families, Howard Brinton and Anna Cox Brinton were to meet doing Friends relief work in Germany after World War I in Europe and devote their lives together to nurturing Quakerism, social activism, peacemaking, and peacemakers from coast to coast in the United States and, in their last years, in Asia. Described by one Friend as "translucent teachers and ministers of life," the Brintons lived the Quaker Peace Testimony as educators, as writers, as activists (particularly with the American Friends Service Committee), and as directors of Pendle Hill during its earliest years. This pamphlet is an exploration of the way the Brintons witnessed to the peace testimony.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2004 48 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Living The Questions

Essays Inspired By The Work And Life Of Parker Palmer

BY SAM INTRATOR
A celebration of Palmer's long career, explores the dynamic interplay between the inner life of Spirit and the outer life of work. The distinguished contributors bear witness to the depth, breadth, and reach of Palmer's work. All of them have been personally touched by his courage and determination to live a life congruent with the ideas and principles he writes about and by his candor in acknowledging his own flaws. "A remarkable collection of essays that beautifully captures the profound influence that Parker J. Palmer has had. Reading Living the Questions is encouraging, a great reminder of one of Parker's favorite exhortations: `Be not afraid!'" - Larry C. Spears

Jossey-Bass 2005 416 PP. Cloth

$24.95 (low stock)

Living The Way

Quaker Spirituality And Community

BY URSULA-JANE O'SHEA
The 28th James Backhouse lecture, originally published in 1993. The author asks the questions "What is it about Quakers that has sustain this small religious group for 350 years?" She traces the life-cycle of the Religious Society of Friends and examines its current state of transition. She points to the singular aspects of Quaker spirituality and community life that have the power to revitalize modern Quakerism.

Quaker Home Service 2003 62 PP. Paper

$12.00 (in stock)

Living Threads

Making The Quaker Tapestry

BY JENNIE LEVIN
A description of the process of creating the Quaker tapestry from early vision to connecting the world Quaker community with historical embroidery. Illustrated in full color.

Quaker Tapestry at Kendal 1999 64 PP Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

Living Truth

A Spiritual Portrait Of Pierre Ceresole - Php 379

BY KEITH MADDOCK
Pierre Ceresole (1879-1945) was the founder of the international work camp movement and a Friend imprisoned for defying his own government to bring a message of truth and peace to Germans and Italians in the world wars. Ceresole protested the churches' silence during wartime, met with Mussolini to discuss peaceful collaboration and conceived of the healing and practical work of Service Civil International as a moral alternative to war. His actions show his spiritual growth as a passionate, poetic, solitary seeker of Truth who urges us "to set aside our theories and our fears, to take up the tools that are needed to create a more humane, just and peaceful world."

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2005 35 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Living With Contradictions (10044)

A Married Feminist

BY ANGELA BARRON MCBRIDE
SECONDHAND. Paperback, OK condition with sun faded spine. Elizabeth Watsons copy. "straight from the shoulder talk about the very real dilemmas of women who want a fair share…" says the blurb writer, who probably doesn't really understand it.

HarperColophon 1977 244 PP. Paper

$4.00 USED - availability checked Mar 19th 2:55pm CDT

Living With Nature's Extremes

The Life Of Gilbert Fowler White.

BY ROBERT HINSHAW
Quaker Gilbert White has been called the most internallionally renown geographer of the twentieth century, and one who personified the ideal of a natural resources scientist committed to stewardship of our planet. He has educated the nation and the world on how to change the ways we manage water resources, mitigate natural hazards, and assess the environment. What was less obvioius was Gilbert's very human approach to life. He worked best at resolving differences behing the scenes, holding a deep belief in the dignity and worth of each individual. This book is both biography and memoir - it s a tribute to a scientist who changed the scientific community and the world.

Johnson Books 2006 338 PP. Paper

$16.50 (in stock)

Living With Oneself And Others

Working Papers On Aspects Of Family Life

BY NEW ENGLAND YEARLY MEETING MINISTRY & COUNSEL
Discussion, queries, and advices on marriage, family life, separation, divorce, remarriage, and living without a partner. Awaiting a reprint as of December 2007.

New England Yearly Meeting 2001 76 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

Living Witnesses

The Care Of Quaker Meetinghouses - Repairing, Maintaining, And Adapting While Respecting Historic Value

BY THE HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY WORKING GROUP OF PHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING
With an acknowledged focus on the meetinghouses of the Delaware valley, this workbook offers practical information about meetinghouse and property care, maintenance and adaptation. An overview of historic preservation is presented, as well as guidelines of procedures and responsibilities of a meeting's property committee. Included are detailed recommendations for maintenance and repair of structures particular to Quaker meetinghouses, in addition to those not so particular like the roof and electrical systems. One section discusses additions and building adaptations. Much information appears in the appendices, which include information on funding repairs and changes and many other tips.

PYM 2005 118 PP. Spiral Bound

$20.00 (in stock)

Lockdown America

Police And Prisons In The Age Of Crisis

BY CHRISTIAN PARENTI
Lockdown America not only documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing, prisons, a fortified border, and the federalization of the war on crime, it also explains the political and economic history behind the massive crackdown. Written in accessible and vivid prose, Lockdown America will propel readers toward a deeper understanding of the links between crime and politics in a period of gathering economic crisis.

Verso Press 2000 320 PP. Paper

$17.00 (low stock)

The London Friends' Meetings

Showing The Rise Of The Society Of Friends In London

BY WILLIAM BECK , THOMAS BALL, SIMON DIXON, PETER DANIELS
Reprint of the 1869 classic history of Quakers in London, with a new introduction by Simon Dixon and Peter Daniels and new illustrations and index. The book affectionately known as "Beck and Ball" is a comprehensive survey which describes not only the buildings where the meetings took place, but also how they were organized and the personalities involved, with telling details of their lives as Londoners. To do this the authors made a systematic reading of all the minute books of the London meetings, combined with the writings of George Fox and others, plus their own extensive knowledge gathered from experience in various capacities.

Pronoun Press 2009 520 PP. Paper

$39.00 (in stock)

The Long Descent

A User's Guide To The End Of The Industrial Age

BY JOHN GREER
Greer believes that Industrial society is following a path into gradual decline, a much slower and more complex transformation than the sudden catastrophes imagined by so many social critics today. The roots of the crisis lie in the cultural stories that shape the way we understand the world. Since problems cannot be solved with the same thinking that created them, these ways of thinking need to be replaced with others better suited to the needs of our time. It is too late for massive programs for top-down change; the change must come from individuals.

New Society Press 2008 223 PP. Paper

$18.95 (low stock)

The Long Legged House

BY WENDELL BERRY
First published in 1969 and out of print for more than twenty-five years, The Long-Legged House was Wendell Berry's first collection of essays, introducing many of the central issues that have occupied him over the course of his career, home, homecoming and truly inhabiting the place you live in. Also has his Statement against the War in Vietnam and Strip-Mine Morality in East Kentucky

Shoemaker & Hoard 2003 224 PP. Paper

$5.00 (backorder)

Longing For God

Seven Paths Of Christian Devotion

BY RICHARD FOSTER, GAYLE BEEBE
Here (Quaker Pastor) Richard Foster and Gayle Beebe, both experienced leaders in spiritual formation; introduce you to many Christian thinkers and activists from the past who have known God deeply. Each person helps you to grasp one of the seven primary paths to intimacy with God that have been developed throughout Christian history. Chapters are divided into sections, each segment surrounding a key figure and concluding with a reflection and prayer. George Fox is path five - Right ordering.

IVP 2009 364 PP. Cloth

$25.00 (low stock)

The Lord Is My Shepherd

The Twenty-third Psalm

BY GENNADY SPIRIN
The Twenty-third Psalm, one of the world's most cherished prayers, is paired with some amazing illustrations in this inspirational picture book by "New York Times" Best Illustrator Gennady Spirin. For this new book format, illustrations on individual pages are taken from one large, magnificent painting. Examining this gives parents and children an opportunity to share the experience, making prayer time even more profound. A fold out insert in the back has the whole painting.

Philomel 2008 32 PP. Cloth

$17.99 (in stock)

Losses And Healing

BY THE CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE AT YEARLY MEETING GROUP
Developed in response to the September 11, 2001 tragedy. Losses and Healings contains four chapters with religious resources and projects to help preschoolers, through middle schoolers heal from small losses, such as a move, or losing a friend, to large more devastating losses such as death and illness.

Philadelphia YM Religious Education 2002 21 PP. Looseleaf

$11.00 (in stock)

Lost In Wonder

Rediscovering The Spiritual Art Of Attentiveness

BY ESTHER DEWAAL
In Lost in Wonder, Esther de Waal uses the everyday circumstances of our lives - the restrictions and frustrations as well as the gifts and opportunities - as our own way to God. By teaching us how to be attentive to all the seemingly small and insignificant things, she shows how they become windows through which the light of God can shine to dispel darkness, illuminate our understanding, and speak to our deepest needs. As we recover the gift of childlike wonder we begin to see that spiritual fruitfulness does not depend on our anxious performance, but is a gift we may receive freely.

Liturgical Press 2003 160 PP. Paper

$14.95 (low stock)

Lost Prophet

The Life And Times Of Bayard Rustin

BY JOHN D'EMILIO
"[Quaker] Bayard Rustin became famous for working behind the scenes. The tactics of public protest that became 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

University of Chicago Press 2004 564 PP. Paper

$22.00 (in stock)

The Lost Religion Of Jesus

Simple Living And Nonviolence In Early Christianity

BY KEITH AKERS WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WALTER WINK
The author contends that there were many factions within early Christianity and that heresies were the norm in the first three centuries before Constantine. One of these factions was Jewish Christians, those that subscribed both to the teachings of Moses and Jesus. They believed that Jesus came to remind them of the fundamentals of Moses' law. Akers contends that it is in the writings of these Jewish Christians that the purist reflection of Jesus' teaching is witnessed and that his teaching was rooted in simple living and nonviolence. A thoughtful and provocative book.

Lantern Press 2000 256 PP. Paper

$20.00 (in stock)

Lost Scriptures

Books That Did Not Make It Into The New Testament

BY BART EHRMAN
While most people think that the twenty-seven books of the New Testament are the only sacred writings of the early Christians, this is not at all the case. A companion volume to Bart Ehrman's Lost Christianities, this book offers an anthology of up-to-date and readable translations of many non-canonical writings from the first centuries after Christ--texts that have been for the most part lost or neglected for almost two millennia. Here is an array of remarkably varied writings from early Christian groups whose visions of Jesus differ dramatically from our contemporary understanding. Includes excerpts from many of the Nag Hammadi texts.

Oxford University Press 2005 342 PP. Paper

$16.95 (low stock)

The Lost Secret Of The Liberty Bell

BY SALLY RICKERMAN
Sally Rickerman looks at the evidence that the Liberty Bell, with its famous quotation was ordered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Penn's "Charter of liberties" (more correctly the Charter of privileges). Penn's ideas, his charter and the early history of the commonwealth are explored as they relate to the ordering and casting of the bell.

Troll Press 2009 24 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

The Lost Swords (102)

Endgame

BY FRED SABERHAGEN
Some nice Science Fiction hardbacks - not that quakerly - but these and murder mysteries are pretty popular among Friends!. These books are all in pretty good condition hardback with tidy dustjackets.

Various Publishers 1992 378 PP. Cloth

$7.50 USED - availability checked Mar 19th 2:55pm CDT

Love Across Color Lines

Ottilie Assing And Frederick Douglass

BY MARIA DIEDRICH
In this nuanced, sympathetic interpretation of two extraordinary lives, Maria Diedrich acquaints us with an important and little-known relationship. Ottilie Assing, an intrepid German journalist, met and interviewed Frederick Douglass in 1856, and it was an encounter that transformed the lives of both. Diedrich reveals in fascinating detail their intimate twenty-eight-year relationship, their shared intellectual and cultural interests, and their work together on Douglass's abolitionist writings. Love across Color Lines is a profound meditation on nineteenth-century racial, class, and national boundaries, and offers new insights into the career of a preeminent American leader.

Hill and Wang 2000 512 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Love At The Heart Of Things

A Biography Of Douglas Steere

BY E.GLENN HINSON
A moving biography of Douglas Steere 1901-1995. It depicts his many-sided calling - as Quaker global minister, organizer of relief for war-torn Finland, ecumenical pioneer, peacemaker, Quaker visionary and guide, teacher of prayer, and existential realist philosopher.

Pendle Hill 1998 391 PP. Paper

$16.50 (in stock)

Love In Action

Writings On Nonviolent Social Change

BY THICH NHAT HAHN
Love in Action is a collection of more than two decades of Thich Nhat Hanh's seminal writings on nonviolence, peace, and reconciliation. Reflecting on the devastation of war--from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf--Nhat Hanh speaks in the tradition of Gandhi and King of the need for mindfulness, and altruistic love as the basis for political action.

Parallax Press 1993 154 PP. Paper

$13.95 (low stock)

Love Is...

Adapted From The Bible

BY WENDY ANDERSON HALPERIN
Celebrated illustrator Wendy Halperin lends her own artistic vision to I Corinthians I 3 and reasserts Paul's message - that the love we express can best be seen in our attitudes and actions - for generations to come.

Simon & Schuster 2003 28 PP. Paper

$6.99 (in stock)

Love Is The Hardest Lesson

A Memoir By Margaret Hope Bacon

BY MARGARET HOPE BACON
"[The author] gives us a vivid account of her experience working in a state psychiatric institution as the young wife of a conscientious objector during World War II. She portrays the insulated and dehumanizing world of Sykesville where patients lost their individuality and caregivers behaved abusively from their own fear. Margaret's personal story movingly illustrates the transformative power of love which casts out fear and restores to others their sense of humanity." - Lee Junker

Pendle Hill 1999 143 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

The Love Of Impermanent Things - Paperback

BY MARY ROSE O'REILLY
At midlife, Mary Rose O'Reilley reflects on her past and her hard-won sense of self. She tries to see the world through the eyes of the deer that stop outside her window and look in at her. As a wildlife rehabilitator, she feels a closer connection to this natural world as experienced by animals. As an apprentice potter, she sees in a Japanese tea bowl the ultimate balance of action and contemplation. As a Quaker, she can both sit still and sing. And as a writer, O'Reilley can speak clearly to readers at midlife who are expected to know it all, but don't.

Milkweed Editions 2008 320 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

Love One Another

The Last Days Of Jesus

BY LAUREN THOMPSON
With simple, evocative language and boldly envisioned illustrations, the authors tell how Jesus taught people to love, how he was crucified, and that his resurrection brought hope to the world.

Scholastic Press 2000 32 PP. Cloth

$8.50 (low stock)