A Sincere And Constant Love

An Introduction To The Writings Of Margaret Fell

EDITED BY T H S WALLACE
This is the only collection of writings featuring epistles and doctrinal writings of the woman many have called `the mother of Quakerism. Selections include `Women's Speaking Justified,' `Some Ranters Principles Answered,' `The Mystery Letter,' `A Testimony of Margaret Fell Concerning Her Late Husband George Fox.,' and `Some of the Sayings of Margaret Fox a Little before her Departure out of this World.' An important book for any meeting library or any Friend interested in early Quakerism. See also 'Undaunted Zeal' for her letters.The new second edition is a handsome and much more clearly typeset book.

Friends United Press 2009 235 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Sing In The Spirit

A Book Of Quaker Songs

BY THE LEAVENERS
The Quaker Songbook 'Sing in the Spirit' is a collection of songs and music, composed by Friends or with Quaker themes. "We have aimed to express Quaker values and tell our story through music, both for ourselves and for people beyond the Religious Society of Friends. We have included a variety of songs - simple and challenging, new and familiar, songs by, for and about Quakers - and a variety of musical arrangements. There are songs for choirs, unaccompanied songs, songs with guitar chords, piano chords, rounds and chants. " - The Editorial team. 191 songs are included in this collection including 'How can I keep from Singing?' 'The ballad of James Nayler,' and 'Light of the World.'

Leaveners 2005 196 PP Spiral Bound

$25.95 (in stock)

Sins Of Scripture

Exposing The Bibles Texts Of Hate To Reveal The God Of Love

BY JOHN SHELBY SPONG
Bishop John Shelby Spong boldly approaches those texts that have been used through history to justify the denigration or persecution of others while carrying with them the implied and imposed authority of the claim that they were the "Word of God." As he exposes and challenges what he calls the "terrible texts of the Bible," laying bare the evil done by these texts in the name of God, he also seeks to redeem these texts, hoping to recover their ultimate depth and purpose. Spong looks specifically at texts used to justify homophobia, anti-Semitism, treating women as second-class humans, corporal punishment, and environmental degradation.

HarperSanFrancisco 2006 336 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

Sisterhood Is Global (10007)

EDITED BY ROBIN MORGAN
SECONDHAND. Writings from almost every Country in the world in 1984 on the then raging topic of Feminist thought. Elizabeth Watsons copy.

Anchor 1984 814 PP. Paper

$7.00 USED - availability checked Mar 14th 3:40am CDT

Sisters

The Lives Of America's Suffragists

BY JEAN BAKER
They forever changed America: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, Alice Paul. At their revolution's start in the 1840s, a woman's right to speak in public was questioned. By its conclusion in 1920, the victory in woman's suffrage had also encompassed the most fundamental rights of citizenship: the right to control wages, hold property, to contract, to sue, to testify in court.

Hill & Wang 2006 288 PP. Paper

$16.00 (low stock)

Sisters In Spirit

Haudenosaunee (iroquois) Influence On Early American Feminists

BY SALLY ROESCH-WAGNER
Distinguished historian and contemporary feminist scholar Sally Roesch Wagner has compiled extensive research to analyze the source of the revolutionary vision of the early feminists. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Lucretia Mott had formed friendships with their Native neighbors that enabled them to understand a world view far different, and in many ways superior, to the patriarchal one that existed at that time. This is the provocative and compelling history of their struggle to bring equality and dignity to all women, and the role played by the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) women who modeled the position women could occupy in society.

Native Voices 2001 127 PP. Paper

$11.95 (in stock)

The Skin You Live In

BY MICHAEL TYLER, ILLUSTRATED BY DAVID CSICSKO
With the ease and simplicity of a nursery rhyme, this lively story delivers an important message of social acceptance to young readers. Themes associated with child development and social harmony, such as friendship, acceptance, self-esteem, and diversity are promoted in simple and straightforward prose. Vivid illustrations of children's activities for all cultures, such as swimming in the ocean, hugging, catching butterflies, and eating birthday cake are also provided. This delightful picture book offers a wonderful venue through which parents and teachers can discuss important social concepts with their children. Ages 4-8.

Chicago Children's Museum 2005 32 PP. Cloth

$14.95 (low stock)

Sky Sweeper

BY PHILLIS GERSHATOR, ILLUSTRATED BY HOLLY MEADE
Young Takeboki needs a job and the monks in the temple need a flower keeper - so Takeboki sets to work, sweeping up flowers and leaves and creating swirling miniature worlds of his own in the temple garden. As the years go by, others ask him: Don't you want a better job? But as the seasons shift, each as beautiful as the last, Takeboki knows the pleasures of nature and of humbly doing a job well. He is happy. Luminous collage illustrations created from delicate Japanese papers by a Caldecott Honor artist bring to life this thought-provoking tale that, with its Zen Buddhist sensibility, has much to say about work, wisdom, and the joy of being true to oneself.

Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2007 40 PP. Cloth

$16.00 (in stock)

Slavery And The Meetinghouse

The Quakers And The Abolitionist Dilemma, 1820-1865

BY RYAN P. JORDAN
This study explores the limits of religious dissent in antebellum America, and reminds us of the difficulties facing reformers who tried peacefully to end slavery. In the years before the Civil War, the Society of Friends opposed the abolitionist campaign for an immediate end to slavery and considered abolitionists within the church as heterodox radicals seeking to destroy civil and religious liberty. In response, many Quaker abolitionists began to build "comeouter" institutions where social and legal inequalities could be freely discussed, and where church members could fuse religious worship with social activism.

Indiana University Press 2007 175 PP. Cloth

$29.95 (in stock)

Slavery By Another Name

The Re-enslavement Of Black Americans From The Civil War To World War 2

BY DOUGLAS A. BLACKMON
Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude shortly thereafter. By turns moving, sobering, and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals the stories of those caught up in the re-emergence of human labor trafficking, the companies that profited most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today in the justice system and elsewhere.

Anchor 2008 468 PP. Paper

$16.95 (in stock)

Slavery Today

A Groundwork Guide

BY KEVIN BALES AND REBECCA CORNELL
Globalization, governmental corruption, and the population explosion have thrust billions of people into the pool of potential slaves. This huge surplus of impoverished people has pushed the human price tag to only $100, the cost of a pair of "designer" jeans. This means that it's worse to be a slave today than ever before. "Slavery Today" traces the "products" created by this inhuman system from the jungle and farm through the global markets and into our lives and homes. It addresses the controversies over prostitution and the buying back of slaves while presenting solutions and ways readers can get involved in the growing global anti-slavery movement. Kevin Bales is a Quaker.

Groundwood Books 2008 144 PP. Paper

$10.00 (low stock)

Sleepy Boy

BY POLLY KANEVSKY, ILLUSTRATED BY STEPHANIE ANDERSON
During the day, the boy has been to the zoo where he has seen a lion and her cub. As nighttime falls, the boy and his father share a book. It's the boy's bedtime, but the boy is not sleepy. He is still with the lions. "Sleepy Boy" is a lovely hymn from a new author - a hymn to day and to night, to awake and to asleep, to mother and child, to father and son. "There is art and craft, both verbal and visual, in this very quiet bedtime story. Unusual and captivating." - Kirkus Review, starred review

Atheneum 2006 32 PP. Cloth

$15.95 (in stock)

Small Is Possible

Life In A Local Economy

BY LYLE ESTILL
In an era when incomprehensibly complex issues like Peak Oil and Climate Change dominate headlines, practical solutions at a local level can seem inadequate. In response, Lyle Estill's book introduces us to "hometown security," with this chronicle of a community's response to resource depletion in a fickle global economy. True stories, springing from Chatham County, NC, offer a positive counter balance to the bleakness of our age. This is the story of how one small town found actual solutions to actual problems. Unwilling to rely on government and wary of large corporations, residents discovered it's possible for a community to feed itself, fuel itself, heal itself & govern itself.

New Society 2008 240 PP. Paper

$17.95 (in stock)

Smoky Night

BY EVE BUNTING, ILLUSTRATED BY DAVID DIAZ
During a night of rioting in Los Angeles, fires and looting force neighbors--who have always avoided one another--to come together. David Diaz was awarded the Caldecott Medal for his bold acrylic paint and photo-collage illustrations.

Voyager Books 1997 36 PP. Paper

$7.00 (in stock)

The Sneetches And 3 Other Stories

BY DOCTOR SEUSS
Four tales by the good doctor, including the "Sneetches" which is a tale about the pointlessness of prejudice. Another tale offers sage advice on not naming all 23 of your children Alan.

Random House 1961 32 PP. Cloth

$14.95 (low stock)

The Snow Leopard

BY JACKIE MORRIS
From the beginning of time, high above the hidden valley, Snow Leopard has sung the stars to life, the sun to rise, and the moon to wax and wane. He has woven words of protection to keep the enshrouded valley safe from the world. But time is passing, and Snow Leopard must find a singer who will follow him. Moreover, the arrival of soldiers looking for gold and slaves poses a new and dire threat. As he sings, a child lies dreaming the song down in the valley beneath . . . "With its focus on a severely endangered animal at a time of global warming and species eradication, 'The Snow Leopard' sends a valuable message about the beauty and power of the natural world." - The New York Times

2008 32 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (in stock)

So There I Was ...

BY PEGGY SENGER PARSONS
Sixty columns in five sections on God, freedom., motorcycles, invincibility, love, lies, Quakers and a female preacher. Spiritual disciplines for the 21st century; Christ and the lure of the open road; Quakers - not just for breakfast; Where I came from, POMO theology. "The kick in the teeth that Quaker spirituality is asking for" Mike Espana-McGeehon; "Peggy makes radically thought provoking points with personal stories that sing" Nate Swift.

Peggy Senger Parsons 2009 267 PP. Paper

$20.00 (in stock)

So There I Was...in Africa

BY PEGGY SENGER PARSONS
This book chronicles Freedom Friends Church's pastor Peggy Senger Parson's first two trips to Burundi, Rwanda and the Congo in twenty eight stories. This volume is the second in her "So there I was" seriess. There is comedy, tragedy and adventure related here, many from blog posts from the field, some written as UPI columns and some have been written up just for this book. Peggy was working with THARS (Trauma Healing and Reconciliation Services).

Peggy Senger Parsons 2009 134 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

The Solace Of Leaving Early

BY HAVEN KIMMEL
Langston Braverman returns to Haddington, Indiana after walking out on an academic career that has equipped her for little but lording it over other people. Amos Townsend is trying to minister to a congregation that would prefer simple affirmations to his esoteric brand of theology. What draws these difficult-if not impossible-people together are two wounded little girls who call themselves Immaculata and Epiphany. They are the daughters of Langston's childhood friend and the witnesses to her murder. And their need for love is so urgent that neither Langston nor Amos can resist it, though they do their best to resist each other.

Anchor 2003 288 PP. Paper

$13.95 (low stock)

Some Form Of Peace (10092)

True Stories Of The A.f.s.c At Home And Abroad

BY MARVIN WEISBORD
SECONDHAND. A fairish copy with torn dust jacket. First edition Tells of seven AFSC projects, from Mental hospitals in Pennsylvania to France in 1917.

Viking Press 1968 168 PP. Cloth

$8.00 USED - availability checked Mar 14th 3:40am CDT

Some Fruits Of Solitude

Wise Sayings On The Conduct Of Human Life, In Today's English

BY WILLIAM PENN, EDITED BY ERIC TAYLOR
Written whilst Penn was in hiding, falsely accused of treason, these aphorisms have been well loved for 300 years. Eric Taylor provides a 30 page historical introduction to them and has put them into an easy and accessible modern English.

Herald Press 2002 167 PP. Paper

$8.99 (low stock)

Something Beautiful

BY SHARON DENNIS WYETH
A little girl longs to see beyond the scary sights on the sidewalk and the angry scribbling in the halls of her building. When her teacher writes the word beautiful on the blackboard, the girl decides to look for something beautiful in her neighborhood. Her neighbors tell her about their own beautiful things. Miss Delphine serves her a "beautiful" fried fish sandwich at her diner. At Mr. Lee's "beautiful" fruit store, he offers her an apple. Old Mr. Sims invites her to touch a smooth stone he always carries. Beautiful means "something that when you have it, your heart is happy," the girl thinks.

Dragonfly 2002 32 PP. Paper

$6.99 (in stock)

Something Rising

KIMMELL. HAVEN
Cassie Claiborne contends with a distant mother, a fragile sister and a gambling, alcoholic father is this wry coming of age story set in rural Indiana and penned by Earlham School of Religion grad Haven Kimmel, author of The Used World and A Girl Named Zippy.Forms a loose trilogy with Kimmel's two previous novels, The Solace of Leaving Early and The Used World.

Harper Perennial 2005 270 PP. Paper

$6.00 (in stock)

Somewhere Today

A Book Of Peace

BY SHELLY MOORE-THOMAS AND ERIC FUTRAN
This very simple, affirming prose poem asserts that peace begins with simple gestures - acts in which any child might take part. Thomas quietly makes readers aware of the kindness and pleasures around us that help promote peace. For ages 3-7.See comment section for a suggested lesson plan for this book from PYM Re Committee.

Albert Whitman 2002 32 PP. Blank

$6.95 (in stock)

Song Of Creation

BY PAUL GOBLE
"Birds pray, trees pray, flowers pray, mountains pray, the winds and rain pray, rivers and the little insects pray as well. The whole earth is in constant prayer, and we can join with its great prayer," says award-winning author and illustrator Paul Goble. Every element of creation - from the magpie to the minnow - glorifies God in its own way in this bold and brightly illustrated work, adapted from The Book of Common Prayer. Goble invites readers to join with the land and the animals in singing praise to God.

Eerdmans 2004 32 PP. Cloth

$16.00 (low stock)

A Song Of Death, Our Spiritual Birth

A Quaker Way Of Dying - Php 342

BY LUCY SCREECHFIELD-MCIVER
The author traces her understanding of death as a "spiritual birth, the completion of God's work upon us."

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1998 38 PP. Paper

$7.00 (in stock)

Sons Of Providence

The Brown Brothers, The Slave Trade, And The American Revolution

BY CHARLES RAPPLEYE
A biography of two of the four Brown brothers - and their legacy from the years 1736 to 1836. They came from a wealthy Rhode Island family and found themselves on opposite sides on the issue of slavery, after they themselves had actually engaged in the trade. Moses became a Quaker of high ideals and was strongly opposed to slavery, while John with his anti colonial and anti taxation views helped spur the movement for independence. They still worked together in the family business, and in opening what became Brown University.

Simon and Schuster 2006 416 PP. Cloth

$10.00 (in stock)

Soul At Work

Spiritual Leadership In Organizations

BY MARGARET BENEFIEL
Soul at Work describes the way organizations do business. Soul in the workplace is not a theological abstraction, but a way of being and doing. Each of the organizations that Benefiel profiles in this lively and informative book--from Southwest Airlines to the band U2--describes the profound role that awareness of soul, or spirituality, can play in leadership and organizational life. "This book is a must-read for anyone who wants the workplace to become more life-giving for all concerned." --Parker J. Palmer, author of Let Your Life Speak

Seabury Books 2005 160 PP. Paper

$21.00 (in stock)

Soul Graffiti

Making A Life In The Way Of Jesus

BY MARK SCANDRETTE, FOREWORD BY SHANE CLAIBORNE
Mark, a writer and leader in the Emergent church movement, uses stories from his life and the lives of the people he has encountered in his home in San Francisco's Mission District to explore what "good news of God" might mean for our particular time and place. He seeks to answer the question: "How can we be about making a life in the way of Jesus?" He integrates theological insight with awareness of human psychology, culture, and daily life. Written to appeal to the sensibilities of those who inhabit a post-Christendom milieu, Mark Scandrette's deepest hope is to give readers greater motivation for, and a fuller sense of what it means to make a life in, the way of Jesus.

Josey-Bass 2008 272 PP. Paper

$14.95 (low stock)

The Soul Of Christianity - Paperback

: Restoring The Great Tradition

BY HUSTON SMITH
In his most personal and passionate book on the spiritual life, scholar and teacher of world religions Huston Smith turns to his own life-long religion, Christianity. With stories and personal anecdotes, Smith not only presents the basic beliefs and essential teachings of Christianity, but argues why religious belief matters in today's secular world. Though there is a wide variety of contemporary interpretations of Christianity- some of them conflicting- Smith cuts through these to describe Christianity's "Great Tradition," the common faith of the first millennium of believers, which is the trunk of the tree from which Christianity's many branches, twigs, and leaves have grown.

Harper SanFrancisco Paper

$14.95 (in stock)