Practicing The Art Of Compassionate Listening

BY ANDREA COHEN WITH LEAH GREEN, SUASN PAERTNOW
This practical "how to" book provides a step-by-step approach to helping you implement the practices of Compassionate Listening into your daily life. Whether you're challenged by self-judgments - or by conflicts in your family, workplace or community, the practices of Compassionate Listening can provide a solid foundation upon which to bring greater peace, understanding and healing into your world. The exercises in this book are based on the core practices of Compassionate Listening as taught in our Basic Intensive training.

Compassionate Listening 2011 84 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Pray And Pay Attention

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)

Prayer - Beginning Again

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

$6.50 (in stock)

Prayer - Finding The Heart's True Home

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)

Prayer - Tract

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)

Prayer And Friends Meeting For Worship Story Materials

For Faith & Play

BY FAITH & PLAY CREATIONS
Everything you need to tell the Prayer and Friends Meeting for Worship story from Faith & Play. Includes archway, wooden meeting attenders, felt circle and play board. Elegantly produced by hand by Faith & Play Creations.

Faith & Play Creations 2009 ZIPLOC BAG Blank

$45.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Prayer And Worship

BY DOUGLAS STEERE
In Prayer and Worship Douglas Steere encourages a deeper spiritual life through the disciplines of prayer, corporate worship, and devotional reading. He calls us beyond the "incurable mediocrity of soul that fills the Christian ranks." Douglas Steere's wisdom is sprinkled with quotes from the saints and renews our hunger for an encounter with the Divine.

Friends United Press 1988 77 PP. Paper

$6.00 (in stock)

Prayers For Children

COMPILED BY REBECCA WINTER, ILLUSTRATED BY HELEN CANN
Prayers for Children includes more than 200 prayers arranged into five main sections. Author Rebecca Winter and illustrator Helen Cann pair traditional and newly written reflections with tender, detailed illustrations that invite a moment's worship through all of life. Altogether, the volume is designed to encourage older children to explore their own ways of praying. The prayers are fully indexed by subject and first line, making the book a useful resource for home, meeting, and First Day school use.

Good Books 2005 160 PP. Cloth

$14.99 (in stock)

Prayers Of The Cosmos

Meditations On The Aramaic Words Of Jesus

BY NEIL DOUGLAS-KLOTZ
Friends who had never imaged experiencing prayer marvel at how this book has opened up a whole new world for them. "For the many of us who want to peel away centuries of dualistic, patriarchal forms and recover the life-affirming beauty of our Christian roots, . . . this [is an] exquisite little volume." - J. Macy

HarperSF 1990 90 PP. Paper

$13.00 (in stock)

Prayers To Protest (10103)

Poems That Center & Bless Us

EDITED BY JENNIFER BOSVELD
SECONDHAND. Good condition. Edited by Jennifer Bosveld. Anthology of liberal religious, earth-centered, eastern, and a variety of points of view. Poems on political, spiritual, relationships, life-journey, and other subjects. Includes Antler, Jeanne Lohmann, Daniel Mills, Rebecca Baggett, Annie Finch, over 100 others.

Pudding Hill Press 1998 229 PP. Paper

$12.00 USED - availability checked Feb 8th 1:48pm EST

Praying With Our Feet

BY BY LISA WEAVER, ILLUSTRATED BY INGRID HESS
A group of friends get together to go on a special walk. They want to remind their neighbors that war doesn't bring peace in our world. They know that Jesus wants us to love everyone. Jesus even wants us to love our enemies, who are just like us in many ways! The walkers wear shoes of all sizes, colors, and shapes. They're praying with their feet, walking with the God of Peace. Praying with Our Feet is a story told from the point of view of a young girl who takes part in a walk for peace, along with her parents and members of her church. Includes a score of song "Praying with Our Feet" by the author and an afterword for adults by Tonya Ramer Wenger.

Herald Press 2005 40 PP. Paper

$13.00 (in stock)

Preaching The Inward Light

Early Quaker Rhetoric

BY MICHAEL GRAVES
Studying the history of early Quaker preaching, Michael Graves uses careful rhetorical analysis to provide insights into Quaker theology and practice. Situating the movement within the intellectual context of early seventeenth century Europe, he explores both seminal preachers and lesser known figures who were nonetheless important rhetoricians. Through extant sermons he demonstrates that the early Quakers could be a vocal, even revivalistic, sect that sought to put into effect world-wide the moral, spiritual, and practical virtues of what they called primitive Christianity.

Baylor University Press 2009 450 PP. Cloth

$49.95 (in stock)

The Presence In The Midst

Swarthmore Lecture 2009

BY PETER ECCLES
How do we make sense of and respond to our experience of the world around us? How do we discern well together? By considering profound questions such as free will and the place of life in the universe, Peter J. Eccles casts an illuminating and engaging light on a key element of Quaker practice. He emphasizes the profound importance of discernment to Quaker experience. "The quality of the experience when we come together in meeting for worship depends on each one of us. The Presence in the Midst is always with us, ready to sustain and support us. It calls on each of us to rise above our weakness and live out our true self."

Britain Yearly Meeting 2009 156 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

The Present Of Quakerism

Young Adults. The Michener Lecture 2010

BY STOPH & MAIA HALLWARD
IN THIS LECTURE, Stoph and Maia Carter Hallward draw on their individual and shared experiences with Quakerism as Adult Young Friends. They reflect on why they have remained connected to Friends at various forks in the road (i.e. graduating, starting their first jobs, having a child) when their friends and peers have often parted company. Maia and Stoph explore ways that Friends can build new and strengthen existing relationships across life stages and ages. They challenge assumptions regarding Ministry and remind us of the reasons why an intergenerationally vibrant Religious Society of Friends is in our collective best interest.

SEYM 2011 32 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

The Presumption Of Guilt

The Arrest Of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. And Race, Class And Crime In America

BY CHARLES OGLETREE
Shortly after noon on Tuesday, July 16, 2009, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., MacArthur Fellow and Harvard professor, was mistakenly arrested by Cambridge police sergeant James Crowley for attempting to break into his own home. The ensuing media firestorm ignited debate across the country. The Crowley-Gates incident was a clash of absolutes, underscoring the tension between black and white, police and civilians, and the privileged and less privileged in modern America. Charles Ogletree, one of the country's foremost experts on civil rights, uses this incident as a lens through which to explore issues of race, class, and crime, with the goal of creating a more just legal system for all.

Palgrave 2010 255 PP. Cloth

$22.50 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Price Of A Dream

The Story Of The Grameen Bank

BY DAVID BORNSTIEN
Drawing upon interviews with villagers, development workers, economists, and the Bank's founder Muhammad Yunus--a recipient of numerous humanitarian awards, including this years Nobel prize--the book shows how the Grameen Bank grew from an experiment in one village to an organization that lends billions of dollars in small individual loans.

Oxford University Press 1997 370 PP. Paper

$8.00 (in stock)

The Price Of Altruism

George Price And The Search For The Origins Of Kindness

BY OREN HARMAN
A pioneer of mathmatical biology, and the discoverer of an equation that could help account for altruism in evolutionary terms. An American, he travelled to London and convinced Quaker mathmatician Cedric Smith of his genius and started his brilliant but troubbled career.

Norton 2011 451 PP. Paper

$18.95 (in stock)

Priceless (755)

Welcome Home Banners For Us Troops Returning From Iraq

BY CHUCK FAGER AND ANON
SECONDHAND, but as good condition as new which was not perfect, but less expensive. During the years 2004-2009, my work often took me to Camp Lejeune. During these visits I noticed many homemade banners hanging on a fence along the public highway passing the main gate. Many of these banners, made to welcome returning Marines back from combat duty, were so striking and touching that I began taking pictures of some of them. The banners were also very ephemeral: most hung there till wind and weather brought them down. These photographs are likely their only record.

Kimo 2009 NO PAGE #S Paper

$15.00 USED - availability checked Feb 8th 1:48pm EST

Print Culture And The Early Quakers

BY KATE PETERS
From its outset in the 1650s, the Quaker movement made extensive use of the printing press in spreading its message. This book explores how and why early Quaker leaders used printed tracts in their campaign. It reveals how the tracts were produced, distributed and read, as well as their role in the Quakers' dynamic campaign for religious and political liberty under the republican rule of Oliver Cromwell.

Cambridge University Press 2005 296 PP. Cloth

$85.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Prison Pioneer

The Story Of Elizabeth Fry

BY JUNE ROSE
This is a small illustrated book, abridged from the author's longer biography of Fry. An excellent introduction to Fry's life.

Quaker Tapestry at Kendal 1994 32 PP. Paper

$7.00 (in stock)

A Private History Of Awe

BY SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS
When Quaker Scott Russell Sanders was four, his father held him in his arms during a thunderstorm, and he felt awe-"the tingle of a power that surges through bone and rain and everything." He writes, "The search for communion with this power has run like a bright thread through all my days." A Private History of Awe is an account of his search, told as a series of dramatic, spiritually charged episodes: his early memory of watching a fire with his father; his attraction to the solemn cadences of the Bible despite his frustration with Sunday-school religion; his discovery of books and the body; his mounting opposition to the Vietnam War and all forms of violence.

North Point Press 2006 322 PP. Cloth

$7.50 (in stock)

A Private History Of Awe

BY SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS
When Quaker Scott Russell Sanders was four, his father held him in his arms during a thunderstorm, and he felt awe-"the tingle of a power that surges through bone and rain and everything." He writes, "The search for communion with this power has run like a bright thread through all my days." A Private History of Awe is an account of his search, told as a series of dramatic, spiritually charged episodes: his early memory of watching a fire with his father; his attraction to the solemn cadences of the Bible despite his frustration with Sunday-school religion; his discovery of books and the body; his mounting opposition to the Vietnam War and all forms of violence.

North Point Press 2007 322 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Private Peaceful

BY MICHAEL MORPURGO
Thomas struggles to stay awake through the night as the Germans lurks in the darkness, He has lived through the terror of gas attacks and watched friends die by his side. But in the morning, Thomas, who enlisted at 15, will be forced to confront an even greater horror. As the minutes tick by, He remembers his childhood spent deep in the countryside with his mother, his brother Charlie, and Molly, the love of his short life. But each minute that passes brings Thomas closer to something even worse something he can't bear to think about...Grade 7 up.

Scholastic 2006 200 PP. Paper

$6.00 (in stock)

Privilege, Power, And Difference

BY ALLAN G. JOHNSON
Privilege, Power and Difference is a groundbreaking tool for people to examine systems of privilege and difference in our society. Written in an accessible, conversational style, Johnson links theory with engaging examples in ways that enable readers to see the underlying nature and consequences of privilege and their connection to it. "Allan Johnson teaches us how to think critically about inequality and oppression without getting mired in guilt and despair. He gently but firmly removes the blinders that keep us from seeing our own privileges and how those privileges harm others. Then he shows us how to walk the talk and turn our beliefs in justice and equality into practice."-Schwalbe

McGrawHill 2006 184 PP. Paper

$45.00 (in stock)

A Problem From Hell

America And The Age Of Genocide

BY SAMANTHA POWER
The author, a Balkan War correspondent, looks clearly at the problems of American intervention in a world where genocide is still occurring. What are the reasons no one intervened in Rwanda, what could be done in a similar situation in the future, does America only act in its own best interest? This book illuminates many of the intractable problems and conundrums of a post 9/11 world.

HarperCollins 2003 620 PP. Paper

$17.95 (in stock)

A Procession Of Friends

Quakers In America

BY DAISY NEWMAN
A very readable compendium of well written stories of prominent Friends. Newman tells the history of Friends in America through vivid stories and portraits of individual Friends.

Friends United Press 1972 460 PP. Paper

$30.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Profession And Practice

Quaker Perspectives On Healing As Ministry - Php 363

BY MAUREEN FLANNERY
At times of passage we realize that God does not leave us alone, but sends caregivers to accompany us and assist us on our journey. This pamphlet invites Quaker professionals, healers and nurturers to a way of practicing professionalism that both reclaims the wisdom in our Quaker tradition and affirms what is of value in alternative secular models.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2002 36 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Profiles Of Jesus

HOOVER, ROY W. (EDT)

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$13.00 (in stock)

Promise Ahead

A Vision Of Hope And Action For Humanity's Future

BY DUANE ELGIN
Back in 2000 Duane Elgin (author of Voluntary simplicity) prophetically outlined 4 emerging "opportunity trends," that could help overcome the growing social, economic, and environmental challenges we faced. They were Voluntary simplicity, using the Internet to for swift grass-roots change, heeding scientific evidence of nature's delicate balance, and utilizing the power of compassionate love to heal humanity's wounds. Succinct and hopeful, and now with both a huge crisis and opportunity in front of us Promise Ahead shows how we are uniquely posed to use our ingenuity to leap into a promising future.

Quill 2001 224 PP. Paper

$3.50 (in stock)

The Promise Of Paradox

A Celebration Of Contradictions In The Christian Life

BY PARKER PALMER
First published in 1980-and reissued here with a feisty new introductory essay-The Promise of Paradox launched Parker J. Palmer's career as an author and his ongoing exploration of the contradictions that vex and enrich our lives. In this probing and heartfelt book, the distinguished writer, teacher, and activist examines some of the challenging questions at the core of Christian spirituality. How do we live with the apparent opposition between good and evil, scarcity and abundance, individuality and community, death and new life? We can hold them as paradoxes, not "either/ors," allowing them to open our minds and hearts to new ways of seeing and being.

Jossey-Bass 2008 192 PP. Cloth

$18.95 (in stock)