Shadow Work

BY IVAN ILLICH
A leading, but complex thinker who looks "out of the box" as they say at modern life. Here he examines work that is done but not paid for in society, from the obvious housework and caring for family to certain sorts of education and even commuting. Areas that are often unexamined causes of discrimination and disadvantage. Not an easy read, but in the dark, the sparks coming out of your ears will help.

Marion Boyers 1981 152 PP. Cloth

$5.00 (in stock)

Shakeress

BY KIMBERLEY HEUSTON
Introduces readers to some of the various religious communities that existed in the late 1800s. Orphaned Naomi seeks refuge in a Shaker village. The Shakers take her in and begin to teach her their way of life. Naomi is upset by some of the Shaker traditions but is grateful for their help and training as an herbalist. She travels to another village and builds a successful medical practice. She then comes to Mormonism and travels west with them.

Hand Print 2005 208 PP. Cloth

$9.00 (in stock)

A Shaker's Dozen

BY KATHLEEN THORNE-THOMSEN
Everything the Shakers made was simple in design, pure in form, and perfect in construction, reflecting their beliefs about life. A Shaker's Dozen celebrates the functional beauty of Shaker crafts as it leads young readers on an engaging journey through the numbers one to twelve. From Shaker brooms to homemade fruit pies and sturdy wooden tools, A Shaker's Dozen combines color photographs and a simple text to illuminate Shaker life, while captions offer more detailed information on the various objects. Has an enlightening afterword on Shaker history. Ages 4-8.

Chronicle Books 1999 32 PP. Cloth

$5.00 (in stock)

Shaking Out The Truth

BY PHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING
Three lessons highlight how Quakers make decisions.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1998 14 PP. Paper

$3.00 (in stock)

Shalom Lifestyles

Whole People Whole Earth

BY JERRY HOLSOPPLE
Video curriculum for young people by producer, writer, and theologian Jerry Holsopple focuses on peace, justice, service, and the environment. Fifteen sessions on topics such as: The Hunt for Happiness; Images in a Box; TV Violence; Can the Earth be Healed; and more. Two videos, two leader's books, reproducible student sheets, in a large plastic case. Item is new BUT case is damaged. Was $45.00

Mennonite Media Productions 1991 2 VHS, BOOK Boxed

$20.00 (low stock)

Shane Claiborne's Plenary Address 2009 - Mp3

BY SHANE CLAIBORNE
This is a downloadable mp3 version of Shane's 2009 Gathering plenary address. When you purchase it, after we confirm your credit card details, we will send you a limited time link through which you can download the audio file. Shane Claiborne, a self-described "hellfire and damnation preacher, writer, and circus performer," is a founding partner of The Simple Way, a faith community in inner city Philadelphia that has been a model for radical faith communities around the world. Using experiences in Iraq, experiences in the streets of Philadelphia, ancient stories of the early Christians and contemporary stories of ordinary radicals, he challenges us to deeper faithfulness.

Quaker Press of FGC 2009 AUDIO MP3 Audio

$5.00 (in stock)

Shane Claiborne's Plenary Address 2009 -cd

BY SHANE CLAIBORNE
This is an audio CD version of Shane's 2009 FGC Gathering plenary address. Shane Claiborne, a self-described "hellfire and damnation preacher, writer, and circus performer," is a founding partner of The Simple Way, a faith community in inner city Philadelphia that has been a model for radical faith communities around the world. Using experiences in Iraq, experiences in the streets of Philadelphia, ancient stories of the early Christians and contemporary stories of ordinary radicals, he challenges us to look at people we don't even like and see the One we Love.

Quaker Press of FGC 2009 AUDIO CD Audio

$12.00 (in stock)

Shaped By The Light

The Quaker Experience Of Worship, Community And Transformation

BY MICHAEL WAJDA AND ALISON LEVIE
The 2001 Walton Lecture. An exploration of being altered and grounded by worship and the Quaker faith community.

SEYM 2001 23 PP. Blank

$4.00 (in stock)

She Got Up Off The Couch

And Other Heroic Acts From Mooreland, Indiana

BY HAVEN KIMMEL
Sequel to the best-seller "A Girl Named Zippy". Zippy heads towards being 13, and many things happen, described in her usual accurate amusing yet penetrating style. Her mother goes to college, she becomes a devoted aunt twice. She survives (just) a fractured arm, a very cross cow, Quaker Haven Camp and the worst blizzard in living memory. Sustained by her friends and her lack of faith as her father moves towards a silent epiphany that has hung over her childhood and signals its end.

Free Press 2007 336 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)

Shepherd And Sheep Play Figures

BY MARY SNYDER
Starting point for using play figures in a prepared environment type of class space. Set contents include one shepherd, one thief, who may double as a shepherd for the Christmas story, three sheep (one of which fits on the shoulders of the shepherd as the lost sheep), a simple cord sheepfold, blue felt "still waters," dark felt "deepest darkness," and green felt "pasture." These play figures have become classic for Jerome Berryman's 'Godly Play' approach to religious eduction. Finished with a canvas storage bag.

Quaker Cottage Industries 2001 IN CNVS BAG Boxed

$32.00 (in stock)

Sheppard Lee

Written By Himself

BY ROBERT MONTGOMERY BIRD, INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER LOOBY
A quite amazing novel of 1836 recently rediscovered. An idle man in Pennsylvania discovers how to take over the bodies of those just dead and live their lives. He moves around searching for happiness and wealth as brewer, slave, moneylender, madman, and many more, including pious Quaker philanthropist! The book gives a vivid portrait of early American life in Philadelphia and the social conditions and attitudes.

New York Review of Books 1842 425 PP. Paper

$16.95 (low stock)

Shimmery Gold Dichroic Sand Dollar On 25" Kumihimo

CRAFTED BY LIZ PERCH
Shimmery gold dichroic sand dollar on 25 kumihimo (Japanese braid.) Not in stock in Philadelphia, ships from Savannah Georgia. Postage included in price.

Savannah Sparkle 2010 Boxed

$30.00 Availability checked Mar 19th 3:39am CDT

Shining

BY JULIUS LESTER, ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN CLAPP
In a small mountain village, a young girl named Shining is born. As she grows, Shining runs, plays, and smiles like other children, but she does so silently. The villagers fear and shun her, but Shining remains silent and waits for the right moment, and for the right sound, to come--a sound so true, it will win the hearts of her people . . . and win Shining her rightful place as their leader. Julius Lester has created a powerful tale about the importance of remaining true to one's self and finding one's voice. John Clapp's luminous paintings add a breathtaking dimension to Shining, a character as distinct and enchanting as the world she inhabits.

Harcourt 2003 32 PP. Cloth

$17.00 (low stock)

Shock Doctrine

The Rise Of Disaster Capitalism

BY NAOMI KLEIN
Naomi Klein exposed how the trauma of the Iraqi invasion was being exploited to remake the country in the interest of foreign corporations, calling it "disaster capitalism." She saw something remarkably similar in post- tsunami Sri Lanka & post-Katrina New Orleans. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit with economic "shock treatment", losing land & homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. This book reframes the story of a dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. Klein shows how it's become a booming new economy, exploiting moments of extreme shock & violence in order to globally implement its economic policies.

Picador 2008 720 PP. Paper

$16.00 (low stock)

Shoemaker Martin

Adapted From A Story By Leo Tolstoy

BY BRIGITTE HANHART, ILLUSTRATED BY BERNADETTE WATTS
"Based on Tolstoy's haunting yet heartwarming tale, `Where Love Is, There God Is Also,' this adaptation is true to the original story in both content and tone. Martin, a poor Russian shoemaker, thinks Jesus might visit him. While watching and waiting to greet the special visitor, Martin sees the street sweeper, who needs warmth and a cup of hot tea, and invites him in...At the end of the day, Martin, disappointed but not discouraged, sits down to read his Bible and is overcome with joy to read, `Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me...." - School Library Journal

North-South Books 1997 32 PP Paper

$6.95 (in stock)

A Short History Of A Long Travel From Babylon To Bethel

BY STEPHEN CRISP
17th century Quaker tract. A fairly popular allegorical piece, one of the many of such from the pen of Crisp (1628-1692), who had been a traveling minister and responsible for the spread of the Society of Friends into the Netherlands.

Tract Association of Friends 2008 20 PP. Paper

$1.50 (in stock)

A Short History Of Christianity (10006)

EDITED BY ARCHIBALD BAKER
SECONDHAND. Topical theology of the 40's, from Massey Shepherd, John McNiel, Matthew Spinks, Winfred Garrison, William Sweet and the editor. Fair reading copy. Was Elizabeth Watsons

IUniversity of Chicago Press 1940 278 PP. Cloth

$4.00 USED - availability checked Mar 19th 3:39am CDT

A Short History Of Myth

BY KAREN ARMSTRONG
Polyglot book machine and frequent NPR contributor Karen Armstrong, turns her attention to myths and stories from Paleolithic times up to the present day. From creation myths to Science debunking their "actual" truth she categorizes them and looks at the human need for myth and story.

Canongate 2005 159 PP. Cloth

$6.50 (in stock)

Shouts And Whispers

Twenty-one Writers Speak About Their Writing And Their Faith

EDITED BY JENNIFER HOLBERG
Shouts and Whispers contains a fascinating array of reflections on topics surrounding the often-perilous intersection of writing and faith. The authors all agree that literature can help us to be more faithful, yet they approach the subject in ways as diverse as their biographies. Contributors include Madeleine L'Engle, Katherine Patterson, Frederick Buechner, Annne Lamott, Jan Karon, and Kathleen Norris. "What does it mean to be a writer working in a context of faith? Answers to this question and others are the crux of this meaty, thoughtful volume of essays edited from speeches and interviews at the biennial Calvin Festival of Faith and Writing." - Publishers Weekly

Eerdmans 2006 257 PP. Paper

$16.00 (low stock)

Show Way

BY JACUELINE WOODSON, HUDSON TALBOT
Soonie's great-grandma was just 7 when she was sold to a big plantation without her ma and pa, and with only some fabric and needles to call her own. She pieced together bright patches with names like North Star and Crossroads, patches with secret meanings made into quilts called Show Ways-maps to follow to freedom. When she grew up, she passed on this knowledge and Show Way has been passed down by all the women in Jacqueline Woodson's family Beautifully rendered in Hudson Talbott's luminous art, this moving, lyrical account pays tribute to women whose strength and knowledge illuminate their daughters' lives. Ages 4-8 ish.

Putnam 2005 48 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (low stock)

Sickness, Suffering And Healing

More Stories From Another Place - Php 341

BY TOM GATES
This pamphlet contains the stories of an American Quaker doctor's compassionate encounter with Kenyans when he worked at the Friends Lungulu Hospital. The stories describe the challenge to alleviate suffering and the deep effect the community in which he worked had on the author.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1998 36 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Sidney & Norman

BY PHIL VISCHER
Sidney & Norman uses the simple context of two pigs living next door to each other to communicate a profound truth about how we judge each other and often judge ourselves. On the surface, Sidney & Norman appears to be a picture book that will entertain children. But this story has deeply moved adult audiences in informal readings, leading to deep-thinking discussions. By the creator of the Christian TV cartoon Veggietales.

Thomas Nelson 2006 48 PP. Cloth

$16.00 (in stock)

Signposts To The Future?

Creation Centered Spirituality And The Sea Of Faith

BY JOSEPHINE TEAGLE
Discusses two ideas current in modern Christianity, the "Sea of Faith Ideas" inspired by Don Cuppitt and "Creation Spirituality" developed by Matthew Fox. By trying to make sense of her own spiritual journey using these ideas she explores their implications for Quakerism and asks four questions of each; what is their worldview, the relationship of individual to community, ethics promoted, and the future they point to.

Quaker Universalist group (UK) 1997 26 PP. Paper

$6.50 (low stock)

Signs And Wonders

BY PHILIP GULLEY
Home to Quaker Pastor Sam Gardner and all manner of other quirky characters and the occasional everyday miracle, to know tiny Harmony, Indiana, is to love it. Even crackpot, high-flying salvation schemes cannot lessen Harmony's appeal - a place as near to heaven as seekers of the simple life are likely to find.

HarperSanFrancisco 2006 226 PP Paper

$6.99 (in stock)

Signs Of Salvation

New Life Where Grace And Truth Meet - A Biblical Meditation

BY BEN RICHMOND
In the Bible, God acts to save people - in this world - from all sorts of dangers and evil. God saves us from enemies, so that we can live free from fear and at peace. God saves us from economic oppression, so that we can afford to be generous. God forgives our sins, heals our wounds, and speaks intimately in our hearts. There is no salvation, the author contends, without "signs of salvation" because salvation is for this world and the next. Richmond presents a joyful invitation to a new relationship with God, who has chosen to come in love.

Friends United Press 2005 253 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

Silence

The Mystery Of Wholeness

BY ROBERT SARDELLO
A useful and well written meditation on silence and the depths which you can reach by attending to the silence. The authors come at it from a rather "new age" direction and examples are mostly taken from anthroposophy, depth psychology, and phenomenology. An abridged more popular version of his earlier book "Silence".

North Atlantic Books 2008 123 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

Silence

How To Find Inner Peace In A Busy World

BY CRISTINA FELDMAN
Silence is golden, quotes Christina Feldman in Silence: How to Find Inner Peace in a Busy World; it is also elusive. In this attractive coffee table book, Feldman offers a history of silence; teaches readers how and why to cultivate it in their lives; and explores its spiritual 'fruits,' such as self-knowledge, inner peace and strength, serenity and fresh perspectives. The book is wonderfully designed, with more than 230 color photographs and some unusual design elements. The text, which draws heavily on Buddhism and meditation techniques, is also surprisingly substantive and reflective for a book of this format. - Publishers Weekly

Rodmell 2003 256 PP Paper

$19.95 (low stock)

Silence - Poster

DESIGNED BY FRIENDS GENERAL CONFERENCE
Text: "Silence / is a natural demand / born of a need for God, felt by young and old, / in all the world's religions. / In silence we may worship together, / sharing our search for life, / sharing our quest for peace, / sharing God's gift of love."

Quaker Press of FGC 23" BY 35" Blank

$10.00 (in stock)

Silence And Speech

For Anyone New To Quaker Worship

BY RICHARD ALLEN, EDITED BY CHEL AVERY
New meeting resource for newcomers! Keep a stack of this inviting pamphlet near the meetinghouse door. Written as a letter, Silence and Speech is both practical and deep-from "hints" on the conventions related to unprogrammed worship to the gift of arriving at the "still center." It is as if Richard Allen accompanies readers into the meeting room and leads them toward "a quiet, unseen process, which is seldom exciting or dramatic, but can in the long run have deep and far-reaching effects."$.75 each (1-9), $.60 each (10-49), $40 each (for 50 or more).

Quaker Press of FGC 2009 15 PP. Tract

$0.60 (in stock)

Silence And Witness

The Quaker Tradition

BY MICHAEL BIRKEL
This is a meaty and inviting introduction to Quaker thought and spiritual life. The detailed examination of discernment about when to speak in meeting and other leadings is worth the cover price. His chapter entitled 'The Facing Bench' lifts up well selected quotations of prominent Friends on topics such as 'The Immediate Presence of God,' 'The Universal Light of Christ,' and 'The Spiritual Basis of Peace.' His chapter on the inward experience of worship is both an excellent introduction and a seasoned examination of centering techniques. This is a book that belongs in every meeting house and in every new attenders' home.

Orbis 2004 144 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)