Home About Us
Search by author, title or key word
Get email updates! Sign-up for the QuakerBooks eNewsletter, Book Musings. List Management by VerticalResponse
Get the catalog
Book List:Basic QuakerismCorporate Discernment
Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79
43 Stories Of Peacemakers
BY REBECCA SEILING Forty-three delightfully illustrated stories of peacemakers from today and the past will capture the imagination of children of all ages. They tell of people whose lives and achievements point to something beyond themselves. Readers learn how to put their faith into action so they too can grow a better world.
Herald Press 2007 114PP. Paper
$15.99 (in stock)
Letters From A Quaker Relief Workerr
BY ROBERT MCCOY A young Quaker farmer spends three years in many parts of Europe doing relief work after WWII with the AFSC. Told in very detailed and fascinating letters home about life in an extraordinary period of world history, McCoy documents this time. He met his future wife in Germany and her short poem, "What is Love," appropriately ends the book. Many illustrations.
Wilmington College Peace Research Center 2007 330 PP. Paper
$19.95 (in stock)
The Story Of Wangari Maathai
BY CLAIRE NIVOLA Wangari Maathai, won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize as founder of the Green Belt Movement. She grew up in the highlands of Kenya, where fig trees cloaked the hills, fish filled the streams, and the people tended their bountiful gardens. But over many years, as more and more land was cleared, Kenya was transformed. When she returned home from college in America, she found the village gardens dry, the people malnourished, and the trees gone. She decided to inspire and enable the women of Kenya to replant the trees and restore the gardens and land - The Green Belt Movement, a movement that has now spread across the world.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008 32 PP. Cloth
$16.95 (in stock)
Favorite Songs (& One New Story) - Audio Cd
BY BILL HARLEY One of Bill's most popular albums, a 'best of' with favorite songs from his earliest recordings and the new classic story about Charlene - the Skunk in the middle! Winner of a Parents' Choice Gold Award.
1999 53 MINUTES Audio
$15.00 (in stock)
BY KATHY BECKWITH, ILLUSTRATED BY LEA LYON One hot summer day Luke and his friends decide to play their favorite game of war, using sticks for guns and pine cones for bombs and grenades. Sameer, who hasn't lived in their neighborhood for very long, hesitates to join in. When he tells Luke and Jen and Jeff and Danny that he has been in a real war, they don't believe him. "No way! You haven't told us anything about that! A real war? Did they let kids be soldiers? Did you have an M-16?" Then, as Sameer explains what happened to his family, the other children start to see their game in a new light. Ages 4-8.
Tilbury House Publishers 2005 43 PP. Cloth
$16.95 (low stock)
BY JOHN WOOLMAN A reprint of Woolman's 1793 essay on poverty. Woolman relates poverty to wasteful consumption, brings the rich and powerful to account, and calls for simplicity as a style of life.
Pendle Hill 2001 56 PP. Paper
$6.50 (low stock)
BY JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, SELECTED AND TRANSLATED BY SUSAN FURRY AND BENIGNO SANCHEZ-EPPLER Whittier used his poetic gift to express his understanding of worship and Friends understanding of the Divine .This dual language edition, richly annotated with explanatory notes and Bible references, opens these nine selections from his poetry to Friends throughout the Americas. Includes "El Culto" (The Meeting), "del primer dia" (first day thoughts). Has English text and translation on facing pages.
New England Yearly Meeting & Mosher Book and Tract 2009 41 PP. Paper
$5.00 (in stock)
A Reader's Edition
EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY WILLIAM JOLIFF Joliff, Professor of English at George Fox University, has selected 55 of Whittier's poems with the intention of turning Quaker readers into fans of the poet. A biographical and critical introduction and the identification of themes in introductions to each section are important guides.
Friends United Press 2000 275 PP. Paper
$18.00 (in stock)
Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe
BY HEIDI HART Nineteen songs by Robert Schumann sung in the original German by Quaker Heidi Hart.
Mountain Creek Productions 2000 19 SONGS Audio
$14.95 (in stock)
INTRODUCTION, ANNOTATIONS BY ANDREW MURPHY A large selection of Penn's writings. Part 1 focuses on liberty and religious toleration; Part 2 addresses general arguments to specific events in British politics; and Part 3 presents the essay "Toward the present and future peace of Europe."
Liberty Fund 2002 439 PP. Paper
$12.00 (in stock)
BY JOHN HOWARD YODER Tradition has painted a portrait of a Savior who stands aloof from governmental concerns and who calls his disciples to an apolitical life. But such a picture of Jesus is far from accurate, according to Mennonite theologian John Yoder. This watershed work in New Testament ethics leads us to a Savior who was deeply concerned with the agenda of politics and the related issues of power, status, and right relations. By canvassing Luke's gospel, Yoder argues convincingly that the true impace of Jesus' life and ministry on his disciples' social behavior points to a specific kind of Christian pacifism in which the "cross of Christ is the model of Christian social efficacy."
Eerdmans 1994 280 PP. Paper
$21.00 (low stock)
A Friends Perspective
EDITED BY STAN BECKER, LOUIS COX, LISA GOULD Between 1950 and 2000, the human population more than doubled from 2.5 billion to 6 billion. In this book, members and attenders of the Religious Society of Friends speak from professional, academic, or life experiences as they reflect on a wide range of social and ecological problems that are affected by rapid population growth. This book shows the human side of population growth and the serious social-ecological consequences of current trends.
Friends Committee on Unity with Nature 2001 192 PP. Paper
$10.50 (in stock)
Instructions For Facilitators
BY STAN BECKER From FCUN, this book provides instructions to facilitate a Friendly version of a dinner exercise, using simple materials, and leading into worship sharing.
FCUN 1998 13 PP. Paper
$1.50 (in stock)
Stories Of Decency, Common Sense, And Other Endangered Species
BY PHILIP GULLEY In this collection of stories told from his own life experiences, Gulley's musings on such topics as leisure, marriage, faith, enjoyment, and more hold an earthy wisdom that reminds us of what we hold dear, and what's truly important in life. These stories reflect the kind of conversations Gulley overheard in his youth, in a time when neighbors gathered on front porches across America, a glass of lemonade in hand, the sounds of crickets buzzing in the air, and lazy stories spilled from lips from generation to generation.
HarperOne 2009 170 PP. Paper
$13.99 (low stock)
A Short History Of The Quakers
BY JOHN PUNSHON Revised edition of this comprehensive and thoroughly readable introduction to the history of Quakerism, from its origins in 17th century England to the development of the differing varieties found around the world today. A standard work.
Britain Yearly Meeting 2006 300 PP. Paper
$25.00 (in stock)
And Still Get To Yes - Paperback Version
BY WILLIAM URY "No" is perhaps the most important and certainly the most powerful word in the language. Every day we find ourselves in situations where we need to say No - to people at work, at home, and in our communities-because No is the word we must use to protect ourselves and to stand up for everything and everyone that matters to us. But as we all know, the wrong No can also destroy what we most value by alienating and angering people. That's why saying No the right way is crucial. The secret to saying No without destroying relationships lies in the art of the Positive No, a proven technique that anyone can learn.
Bantam 2007 272 PP. Paper
$16.00 (low stock)
The Pastoral Letters Of George Fox
EDITED BY CANBY JONES Fox maintained a prodigious correspondence with groups of Friends-perhaps as many as 3,000 epistles. This collection draws us into the power of the Lord experienced by early Friends immersing us in striking imagery and inspired praise, admonishment, and exhortation.
Friends United Press 1989 515 PP. Cloth
$29.00 (in stock)
Theology For A New Millenium
BY WALTER WINK In The Powers That Be renowned theologian and biblical scholar Walter Wink helps us reformulate our ancient religious concepts - such as God and Satan, angels and demons, principalities and powers - light of what we now know. Wink's theology is shaped as much by his experience in the civil rights movement and the fight against apartheid in South Africa, as by his study of the Bible. This is in large part a digest of his Powers trilogy, particularly the third volume-Engaging the Powers.
Galilee 1999 224 PP. Paper
Science, Religion And A. S. Eddington
BY MATTHEW STANLEY A. S. Eddington (1882-1944) was a scientific pioneer and a devout Quaker. As a leading astrophysicist he still maintained his religious belief throughout his scientific career and also defended the interrelation of science and religion while drawing inspiration from both. For instance, at a time when a strict adherence to deductive principles of physics had proved fruitless for understanding the nature of stars, insights from Quaker mysticism led Eddington to argue that an outlook less concerned with certainty and more concerned with further exploration was necessary to overcome the obstacles of incomplete and uncertain knowledge.
University of Chicago 2007 320 PP. Cloth
$37.50 (in stock)
BY LARRY MILLER Sections on gathered meeting, settling in, and vocal ministry. Useful tract for new attenders or discussion groups. $1.50 each (fewer than 10). $1.25 each (10-49). $.85 each (50 or more).
Quaker Press of FGC 1992 12 PP. Tract
0-10 $1.50, 10-50 $1.25, 50 or more $0.85 (in stock)
Php 374
BY KENNETH BOULDING Dare to love God! Dare to practice that love everywhere in God's family, seeing the divine likeness in everyone, mixture of earth and heaven though we be! This challenge was raised by Kenneth Boulding some 50 years ago and is no less relevant and provocative today. He tells us that we are born to love, that we are living parts of a living whole, and that there are no boundaries in God's whole kingdom, & concludes with his vision for the world and his assurance that there is no room for despair, that God is always redeeming the world, that from the depths of misery there will be "a reawakening of divine love, a new springtime to the weary earth."
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2004 31 PP. Paper
$6.50 (in stock)
Finding God's Way Forward In Decision Making
BY LON FENDALL, JAN WOOD, AND BRUCE BISHOP Group discernment is an essential ingredient of anything that Quakers seek to do together, and a central part of Quaker process. Even the smallest Bible study group or informal gathering makes decisions. That decision making carries with it the potential of strengthening the spiritual depth of each member of the group, and of discovering God's will - but only if the participants understand and abide by the process. "In concise, lucid prose, illustrated with modern day case studies and stories from the bible, they discuss the attitudes, skills, and steps that help us to find God's leadings for us as meeting communities." - Chel Avery
Barclay Press 2006 145 PP. Paper
$16.00 (in stock)
A Buddhist Perspective
BY PEMA CHODRON Chodron draws on Buddhist teachings to explore the origins of aggression and war, explaining that they lie nowhere but within our own hearts and minds. She goes on to explain that, remarkably, the way in which we as individuals respond to challenges in our everyday lives can mean the difference between perpetuating a culture of violence or creating a new culture of compassion. With war and violence flaring all over the world, from Iraq to Darfur to London, most of us are left feeling utterly helpless. In this book Pema Chodron insists that our world will begin to change when each of us, one by one, begins to work for peace at the level of our own behavior, our own habits of action.
Shambala 2007 112 PP. Paper
$7.95 (in stock)
A Devotional Walk Through The Quaker Tradition
BY CATHERINE WHITMIRE This is an accessible, well presented, comprehensive and fascinating book on the Quaker peace testimony written by the author of Plain Living: A Quaker Path to Simplicity. Stories of successful nonviolent movements throughout history are partnered with quotes from over 350 years of Quaker teachings on peace. Queries lead readers on a journey to self-discovery, through the stages of practicing peace: first by focusing within themselves, then looking outward to practice peace in the world around. Includes a brief biography of each Quaker quoted in the book, a glossary of common Quaker terms as well as a guide to further online resources.
Sorin Books 2007 272 PP. Paper
Teaching Young Children The Quaker Peace Testimony
BY JEAN MCCANDLESS Teachers, children, and parents will enjoy this new resource for teaching about the Quaker peace testimony and peacemaking skills. Written in three levels (including older preschoolers through fourth grade), Practicing Peace is an active curriculum that integrates art, music, and drama to engage children in fuller learning; includes detailed instructions for teachers and "home pages" for parents.
Quaker Press of FGC 2006 144 PP. Spiral Bound
$25.00 (low stock)
BY JEAN MCCANDLESS Teachers, children, and parents will enjoy this new resource for teaching about the Quaker peace testimony and peacemaking skills. Written in three levels (including older preschoolers through fourth grade), Practicing Peace is an active curriculum that integrates art, music, and drama to engage children in fuller learning; includes detailed instructions for teachers and "home pages" for parents. This is a downloadable .pdf version of this publication. When you purchase this title, after confirming your order, we will send you a limited time web link to download the file.
Quaker Press of FGC 2006 144 PP. Blank
$10.00 (in stock)
Or How To Enjoy Meeting For Business
BY CHARLES BROWN An essay which traces the movement of the Spirit as Philadelphia Yearly Meeting grappled with the question of reparations and issues of racism in its annaul sessions in the early 70s.
Southeastern Yearly Meeting 1991 24 PP. Paper
$4.00 (in stock)
Php 339
BY SHEILA KEANE "I was motivated to write this pamphlet about prayer because I felt I didn't know nearly enough about it, and I wanted to learn what others had to say about praying. Of course, in the past I have read plenty of books and pamphlets, attended workshops and I had many conversations to learn about prayer, but always I felt something was missing. With this paper I tried something new; I prayed the learning, and that has made all the difference. Prayer is a mystery of the spiritual life which is learned by doing as much as anything else. I learned most by actually trying the techniques of prayer taught to me by others, experimenting with my own personal styles." - the author
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1999 40 PP. Paper
$7.00 (in stock)
BY RICHARD FOSTER A sensitive primer, helping us to understand, experience, and practice how prayer can move us inward into personal transformation, upward toward intimacy with God, and outward to ministry to others.
HarperSF 1992 276 PP. Cloth
$23.95 (in stock)
BY VIRGINIA SCHURMAN This little pamphlet is a useful tool in explaining prayer in terms of the Religious Society of Friends. Sections on "Praying", "Prayer as Relationship with God", "Prayer in the Meeting Community", and "Prayer and the World".
Tract Association of Friends 1998 Tract
$0.30 (in stock)
