Reasons For Hope

The Faith And Future Of The Friends Church

BY JOHN PUNSHON
Punshon writes of the evangelical Friends Church and its problems and in so doing addresses topics of interest and concern to all Friends. He cites the "distinctives" that make us Quakers and their biblical basis and, as he always does, he writes clearly on complicated matters of faith, making transparent what was confused or unstated and hoping to promote an informed discussion. An important book.

Friends United Press 2001 375 PP. Paper

$24.00 (in stock)

Reasons For Hope - Secondhand (10097)

BY JOHN PUNSHON
SECONDHAND. Fair copy, curling abit, cheaper way to get the book more fully described full price.

FUP 2001 395 PP. Paper

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Rebecca Janney Timbres Clark

Turned In The Hand Of God - Php 393

BY LYNDON BACK
Rebecca Clark led a remarkable life that spanned the 20th century. This pamphlet explores one year in that life, when she took the first steps toward a career of service around the world. "The forging of a person's character takes a lifetime," writes Back. "Yet there are periods along the way when outer circumstance and inner forces combine to form a crucible, a time of transformation. Rebecca's year as a volunteer for the AFSC in Poland at the end of the WW1 was one of those times. She was 24 years old, unmarried, and just out of nurses training. . . ." Based on diaries, letters, and other archival resources, a young woman's quest for faithfulness and meaning comes to life.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2007 36 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Red Bird

BY MARY OLIVER
A collection of 61 new poems, including a cycle of eleven linked love poems. The pages overflow with her keen observation of the natural world and her gratitude for its gifts, but the poet's attention turns with ferocity to the degradation of the Earth and the denigration of the peoples of theworld by those who love power. Red Bird is unquestionably Mary Oliver's most wideranging volume.

Beacon Press 2009 96 PP. Paper

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Red Scarf Girl

A Memoir Of The Cultural Revolution

BY JI-LI JIANG
This is the true story of one family's courage and determination. Ji-li Jiang was twelve years old in 1966, when Mao launched the Cultural Revolution in China. An outstanding student she seemed poised for a shining future. Now intelligence became a crime and her family background invited persecution. For the next 3 years Ji-li and her family were humiliated and reviled by their former friends, neighbors, and colleagues and lived in constant terror of attack. Then with the detention of her father, Ji-li was faced with the most dreadful decision of her life: denounce him and break with her family, or refuse to testify against him and sacrifice her future in her beloved Communist Party.

Harper 1997 284 PP. Paper

$6.99 (low stock)

Rediscovering Prayer

BY JOHN YUNGBLUT
Writing for all persons of all religious backgrounds, the Quaker author offers the means of assimilating modern perspectives of evolution and depth psychology into a world view that includes prayer. Yungblut draws upon the insights of 20th-century thinkers to point out new dimensions of prayer.

Element Books 1991 180 PP. Paper

$13.95 (low stock)

Rediscovering Values

On Wall Street, Main Street, And Your Street

BY JIM WALLIS
In his new book Jim Wallis provides us with a moral compass for the new economy. WHEN WE START with the wrong question, no matter how good an answer we get, it won't give us the results we want. Rather than joining the throngs who are asking, When will this economic crisis be over? Jim Wallis says the right question to ask is How will this crisis change us? The worst thing we can do now is to go back to normal - that's what got us into this situation. We need a new normal. He starts with ideas like: Spending money we don't have for things we don't need is a bad foundation for an economy or a family, and other common sense but radical ideas.

Howard Books 2010 272 PP. Cloth

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Reflections From A Prayer Vigil For Peace

Php 358

BY JOHN GALLERY
The author shares reflections born of his participation in an extended prayer vigil for peace. It includes thoughts on sowing peace, faithfulness, prayer and a section on Timothy McVeigh (a United States citizen executed for bombing an Oklahoma City federal building in 1995 as an act of terrorism).

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2001 40 PP. Paper

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Reflections On Quaker Worship

BY ESTHER GREENLEAF-MURER
An expanded collection of short essays intended to guide members and attenders in entering into corporate worship. Includes thoughts on tardiness, space between messages and vocal ministry for children. Formerly titled "From Worship & Minstry."

Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting 2003 30 PP. Paper

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Reflections On Simplicity

Php 244

BY ELAINE PREVALLET
This is the author's description of her lifelong concern with the process of simplicity, a gift which often eludes one's grasp. She discusses the inner dynamic of simplicity and its relation to other values.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1982 32 PP. Paper

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Reflections On The Theme "...but Who Is My Neighbor?"

2007 Fgc Gathering Plenary Address

BY KODY HERSH AND JOANNA HOYT
In this plenary talk from the 2007 Gathering, young adult Friends Kody Hersh and Joanna Hoyt speak to the Gathering theme from their personal experiences. Kody Hersh considers how needs, love, and constant service play out when we live in community - and urges us to answer Jesus's call to lay aside our social status in order to realize spiritual gifts and radical compassion. Joanna Hoyt speaks from her experiences working and living at a Catholic Worker farm in New York, and explores the vital relationship between love of God and love of neighbor, calling us to radical simplicity, fellowship and inclusion. Both speakers offer challenging, inspiring and nourishing visions of community.

Quaker Press 2007 AUDIO Audio

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The Reformation Of American Quakerism, 1748-1783

BY JACK MARIETTA
Offers a detailed history of the withdrawal of the Society of Friends from mainstream America in the years between 1748 and the end of the American Revolution. Examines the causes, course, and consequences, both social and political, of the Quakers' retreat from prominent positions in civil government while at the same time developing a more distinctive and "purified" religious community. These changes amounted to a watershed in the greater history of the Society of Friends, a turning away from its engagement with the world toward a role as critic and gadfly on the periphery of political society.

University of Pennsylvania Press 2007 376 PP. Paper

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Regulars And Refugees

Audio Cd

BY CARRIE NEWCOMER
A fascinating conceptual work, 'Regulars and Refugees.' Carrie delves into the stories of the patrons at Betty's Diner, a fictitious restaurant where souls both tragic and triumphant dine side-by-side. The result is a touching, bittersweet glimpse at life, love, and humanity itself delivered with an unerring melodic sense and rich, expressive alto voice.

Philo 2005 55 MINUTES Audio

$16.99 (in stock)

Reinhold Niebuhr

BY ROBIN LOVIN
A concise and accessible guide to the life and theology of Reinhold Niebuhr. Barrack Obama has stated that Niebuhrs' Christian theology was very influential in his spiritual development.

Abingdon Press 2007 85 PP. Paper

$12.00 (low stock)

Relation Of The Quakers To The American Revolution (32001)

BY ARTHUR MEKEEL
Reasonable condition but cheaply produced paperback - suffers from gruesome choice of typeface that looks like a typewriter. Republished with revisions as "The Quakers and the American Revolution" currently $37.50. University Press of America

1979 368 PP. Paper

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Released - Print

RELEASED. In an Edition of 14. "In 2008 I made a suite of prints based on Friends testimonies, each with an extract of text from PYM's Faith and Practice. My hope was to convey visually some qualities commonly found in Friends' writings and practices. There are five prints in limited editions. They are 15 x 22 inches on sturdy archival paper, signed and dated on the reverse side. Each print has both an original line etching on gampi paper and a digital print on which it is set. They are for sale unframed. Very suitable for offices, hospitals, retirement communities, colleges, schools, social service agencies, and homes." - - Emily Brown's web site: www.emilybrown.net

Emily Brown 2008 PRINT Blank

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Religion And Peacebuilding

EDITED BY HAROLD COWARD AND GORDON SMITH
Acknowledging that religion can motivate either violence or compassion, this book looks at how a variety of world religions - Aboriginal, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Confucian, and Christian - can and do work for peace. Examples given are from Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Cambodia, and South Africa. A book of great scope and significance.

SUNY Press 2003 352 PP. Paper

$20.00 (in stock)

The Religious Society Of Friends In North America Chart

1661-1997

BY GEOFFREY KAISER AND BRUCE GRIMES
AKA - The Schism Chart! AKA - The Quaker Family Tree! This chart (a small portion is shown here) traces all yearly meetings established since 1661. Includes commentary on the development of the various branches, comparative numerical statistics, and some provocative questions about the future, 30 by 40 inches.

Quaker Press of FGC 2005 POSTER Blank

$10.00 (backorder)

The Religious World Of Antislavery Women

Spirituality In The Lives Of Five Abolitionist Lecturers

BY ANNA SPEICHER
Did radical abolitionist women abandon the constraints of religion in order to pursue their personal and political goals? The 19C reformers who are the subjects of this book Angelina and Sarah Grimke, Sallie Holley, Abby Kelley, and Lucretia Mott-did, indeed, reject what they found to be the repressive features of the Christianity of their day. Their religiosity, however, remained fundamental to their world view. This book explores the dimensions of this evolving faith, which was critical in shaping their decisions and actions throughout their lives and highlights the leadership that these women exercised within the antislavery community.

Syracuse University Press 1999 242 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

Remembering Agnes (10072)

BY MARGARET HOPE BACON
SECONDHAND. Fair condition. A short reflection on the powerful lesson about the indestructible power of love, learned from Agnes Holler, a patient in the hospital she worked at as a CO's wife during the war.

WQF 2006 10 PP. Paper

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The Reminiscences Of Levi Coffin

EDITED BY BEN RICHMOND
Levi Coffin was first called "president of the Underground Railroad" by frustrated slave hunters in the years leading up to the Civil War. Coffin's autobiographical window on the times includes hundreds of dramatic stories of the risks that attended slaves and those who helped them in their escape to freedom.

Friends United Press 2001 430 PP. Paper

$25.00 (in stock)

Rendezvous With Rama (104)

BY ARTHUR C CLARKE
Some nice Science Fiction hardbacks - not that quakerly - but these and murder mysteries do seem to be popular among Friends!. These books are all in pretty good condition hardback with tidy dustjackets. Science Fiction Book Club Editions.

Various Publishers 1973 214 PP. Cloth

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Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible

Nrsv Edition

EDITED BY RICHARD FOSTER, WALTER BRUEGGEMAN, EUGENE PETERSON, DALLAS WILLARD
In this major new Bible, the foremost names in Christian spirituality and biblical scholarship, including Richard Foster, Dallas Willard, Eugene Peterson and Walter Brueggemann, come together to provide a unique study Bible that rediscovers Scripture as living and active text of spiritual formation. NRSV translation.

HarperSanFrancisco 2005 2416 PP. Cloth

$39.95 (in stock)

Report From The Middle

Reflections On Divisions Among Friends Today - Two Essays

BY DOUGLAS GWYN, FOREWORD BY ELIZABETH CAZDEN
The two essays published here are "Sense and Sensibilities: Quaker Bispirituality Today" and "Standing with the Lamb," the talk that Doug Gwyn presented at the FUM triennial in 2005. He says, "Because the light of Christ is in all people, spiritual freedom is followed immediately by a humanistic, civil implication. If Christ is to have freedom to work with whomever he chooses, then human society must be a level playing field. Society must be free, open, inclusive, egalitarian, just. Excluding people is excluding potential channels for Christ's work."

Beacon Hill Friends House 2005 36 PP Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Rescuing The Bible From Fundamentalism

A Bishop Rethinks The Meaning Of Scripture

BY JOHN SHELBY SPONG
Spong lifts the Bible out of the prejudices and cultural biases that have justified wars and slavery in its name, and opens up the Bible's message of hope for all.

HarperSF 1992 267 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

Rescuing The Bible From Fundamentalism - Secondhand (10014)

A Bishop Rethinks The Meaning Of Scripture

BY JOHN SHELBY SPONG
SECONDHAND. Fair condition paperback. Reading copy.

HarperSanFrancisco 1992 267 PP. Paper

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Resident Aliens

Life In The Christian Colony

BY STANLEY HAUERWAS AND WILLIAM WILLIMON
"This book is a good introduction to the philosophy of Hauerwas, the most garrulously outspoken post-Liberal Christian in America. He bucks conventional wisdom to welcome the decline of religiousity in America, celebrating it as a time when Christians can stop being blind patriots and return to our historic counter-cultural faith witness. An outspoken pacifist, I often forget that Hauerwas isn't a Friend!"-from Martin Kelley's FGC "Staff Picks."

Abingdon 1989 175 PP Paper

$17.00 (low stock)

Resistance And Obedience To God

Memoirs Of David Ferris 1707-1779

EDITED BY MARTHA PAXSON-GRUNDY
Resistance and Obedience to God is a rich example of a life lived in the struggle to find and live God's will. Anyone interested in American religious history, Quaker history, spiritual development, religious education and ministry will find this chronicle of Ferris's life a fascinating documentation of life in the 18th century and the moral and ethical development of a Quaker minister. A contemporary of JohnWoolman, Ferris was a member of Wilmington Monthly Meeting who traveled extensively in the ministry. The introductory essay grounds the reader in religious and social developments leading up to the Great Awakening and what followed.

Quaker Press of FGC 2001 176 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Resource Guide To Be Used By A Same Sex Couple

BY THE FAMILY RELATIONS COMMITTEE OF PHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING
Acknowledges divided judgments of Friends while honoring all couples. Includes advices, queries, and bibliography. Use with Marriage in the Light.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1988 14 PP. Paper

$3.00 (in stock)

Respectful Parents, Respectful Kids

7 Keys To Turn Family Conflict Into Co-operation

BY SURA HART AND VICTORIA KINDLE HODSON
This handbook urges parents to move beyond typical discipline techniques by creating an environment based on mutual respect, emotional safety, and positive, open communication. The seven outlined principles redefine the parent-dominated family by teaching parents how to achieve mutual parent/child respect without being submissive, set firm limits without using demands or coercion, and empower children to open up, cooperate, and realize their own innate potential. Based on Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication process, the framework helps parents break down the barriers to outstanding relationships with their kids by avoiding destructive language and habits.

Puddledancer Press 2006 208 PP. Paper

$15.95 (low stock)