Science And The Unseen World

BY ARTHUR STANLEY EDDINGTON
George Ellis has written a new introduction to the Swarthmore lecture from 1929. Quaker astronomer Eddington contends that when we ask the question "What are we to think of it all? What is it all about?" that the answer must embrace, but not be limited to, the scientific answer. His lecture explores this in a delightful way, that remains fully relevant today.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2007 48 PP. Paper

$12.50 (in stock)

Science In Faith And Hope

An Interaction

BY GEORGE ELLIS
In May 2004, the South African cosmologist George was awarded the Templeton Prize for progress toward research or discoveries about spiritual realities. On his visit to London to receive the prize, he gave a talk about the interaction of science and religion, at an event organised by Quaker Quest at Friends House. This pamphlet is an edited version of the talk. Physics alone cannot account for intentional factors in everyday life. So how do theories of the universe relate to human ethics and values, to faith and hope? "His is an open and expanding vision rather than a closed and final one" -John Cornwell, The Tablet

Britain YM 2004 44 PP. Paper

$2.50 (in stock)

Scottish Quakers And Aearly America (224)

BY DAVID DOBSON
SECONDHAND COPY, slim pamphlet that looks older than it is.Basicly just alist in alphabetical order with as many details as he could find of any Scotts Quakers who emigrated in that 50 year time period.

David Dobson 1998 52 PP. Paper

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The Search For A Nonviolent Future

A Promise Of Peace For Ourselves, Our Families And Our World

BY MICHAEL NAGLER
Beginning with the achievements of Mahatma Gandhi, and following the legacy of nonviolence through the struggles against Nazism in Europe, racism in America, oppression in China and Latin America, and ethnic conflicts in Africa and Bosnia, Michael Nagler unveils a hidden history. Nonviolence, he proposes, has proven its power against arms and social injustice wherever it has been correctly understood and applied. Nagler's approach is not only historical but also spiritual, drawing on the experience of Gandhi and other activists and teachers. Individual chapters include `A Way Out of Hell,' `The Sweet Sound of Order,'' and `A Clear Picture of Peace.' New edition of his earlier book.

Inner Ocean 2004 336 PP. Paper

$18.95 (in stock)

Searching For The Real Jesus

Php 330

BY ROLAND WARREN
For early Friends truth meant that Jesus had come to put humans in contact with God. Roland Warren, with reverence for scripture, explores the thinking of contemporary scholars who debate the historical veracity of Jesus.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1997 36 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

The Seashell On The Mountaintop

A Story Of Science, Sainthood, And The Humble Genius Who Discovered A New History Of The Earth

BY ALAN CUTLER
Seventeenth-century scientists were baffled: How did the fossils of seashells find their way to the tops of mountains? Nicolaus Steno, hailed as "the founder of Geology," solved the puzzle by exploring beyond the pages of the Bible and looking directly at the clues left in the layers of the Earth. With his groundbreaking answer to the fossil question, Steno confounded religious and scientific thinking, setting the stage for the modern science. At the same time his ideas were undermining the Bible's authoritative claim as to the age of the planet, Steno was entering the priesthood and rising to bishop. He would ultimately become venerated as a saint, beatified in 1988.

HighBridge 2003 5 3/4 HR. Disk

$7.00 (in stock)

The Second Period Of Quakerism

BY WILLIAM BRAITHWAITE
Sequel to The Beginnings of Quakerism , this volume covers the years 1660 to 1725. Second edition revised by Henry J. Cadbury.

Sessions of York 1979 607 PP. Paper

$28.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Secret Gospel Of Thomas

New Perspectives On His Message

BY ELAINE PAGELS
This is the audio record of Pagels' lecture to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Friends at Arch Street Meetinghouse in May of 2005. Disc 1 features the entirety of the prepared talk in which Pagels shared her `scholar's journey,' various stages of her research into the Gnostic writings found at Nag Hammadi, and a detailed look at John and its approach to the apostle Thomas. Included are ten minutes of her replies to questions from the floor. In disc 2 Pagels responds to written questions from the audience. Also included is a downloadable .pdf file containing translations of the Gospels of Thomas and Mary.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 2005 2 AUDIO CDS Audio

$20.00 (in stock)

Secret Of Saying Thanks

BY DOUGLAS WOOD, ILLUSTRATED BY GREG SHED
In the inspirational text that made him a bestselling, internationally acclaimed author, Douglas Wood offers a spiritual homage to nature and the world. Greg Shed's stunning portraits of the natural world tenderly portray all of the many ways in which we can say thanks for the wonders we sometimes take for granted in life.

Simon & Schuster 2005 32 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (in stock)

Secret Of The Golden Flower (4456)

RICHARD WILHELM
Modern day SECONDHAND paperback in good condition. The classic book that so impressed Jung he wrote acommenntary for it. The ancient Taoist text that forms the central part of this book was discovered by Wilhelm, who recognized it as essentially a practical guide to the integration of personality. Foreword and Appendix by Carl Jung; illustrations. Translated by Cary F. Baynes.A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

HBJ 1931 149 PP. Paper

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The Secret Spiritual World Of Children

BY TOBIN HART, FOREWORD BY JOSEPH CHILTON-PEARCE
"Adults too often mistakenly believe that to be considered spiritual a child must understand the tenets of a particular religion. In fact, says Hart, children are far more likely to experience [a] `personal religion' (an intimate knowledge of God)... After learning that his six-year-old daughter often saw angels, psychologist Hart embarked upon a five-year study of children's spirituality. Defining spirituality as an intimate and direct influence of the divine in our lives, Hart interviewed more than 100 children and adults about their experiences. The inspiring accounts he reports reveal that children enjoy rich and rewarding relations with the spiritual side of life."-Booklist

Inner Ocean 2003 256 PP. Paper

$16.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Secrets In The Dark

A Life In Sermons

BY FREDERICK BUECHNER; FOREWORD BY BRIAN MCLAREN
Buechner's words, both written and spoken, have the power to revolutionize and revitalize belief and faith. He reveals the presence of God in the midst of daily life. He faces and embraces difficult questions and doubt as essential components of our lives, rather than as enemies that destroy us. "Listen to you life!" is his clarion call. Reflecting Buechner's exquisite gift for storytelling, Secrets in the Dark may inspire laughter, hope, and bring great solace. "An elegant and life-giving memoir." - Publishers Weekly

HarperSanFrancisco 2007 320 PP. Paper

$13.95 (in stock)

The Seed Cracked Open

Growing Beyond Racism

BY VANESSA JULYE
In this keynote address for the July 2005 New York Yearly Meeting annual sessions, Vanessa Julye addresses the reality of racism within the Religious Society of Friends. Stories from generations of her family, and the experiences of other Black Friends across time, make vivid the sense of isolation and barriers people of color face in the white, middle-class Friends culture. Vanessa Julye goes beyond critique, however, to present significant questions and additional resources as a ministry to heal and to empower Friends to "move further along the spectrum of racism."

Quaker Press of FGC 2006 32 PP. Paper

$8.00 (in stock)

A Seed Is Sleepy

BY DIANNA HUTTS ASTON, ILLUSTRATED BY SYLVIA LONG
Award-winning artist Sylvia Long and author Dianna Hutts Aston have teamed up to create this gorgeous and informative introduction to seeds. Poetic in voice and elegant in design, the book introduces children to a fascinating array of seed and plant facts. "Each spread is devoted to the seed's many attributes, including adventurous, inventive, generous, ancient, and clever. The text then builds on these descriptors with interesting facts: It knows to seek the sunlight." - School Library Journal, starred review.

Chronicle Books 2007 40 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (in stock)

Seeds Into Flowers A Handbook (233)

S BACH, E ELLIS
SECONDHAND pamhlet, subtitled "a handbook for nurturing religious education".Asks and trys to answer lots of questions about First day schools and how to make them work in meetings large and small.

FGC 1980 76 PP. Paper

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Seeds Of Awareness

A Journey Towards Self Realiization

BY BOB PEDERSEN
"The most important journey embarked on is navigating a course leading inward. All other voyages depart laden with cargo from this port." -Bob Pedersen A beautifully illustrated journal of reflection and self relisation.

Awareness Publications 2003 90 PP. Cloth

$24.99 (in stock)

Seeds Of Violence, Seeds Of Hope Vol 1

Exploring Economics In An Ecological Context

FRIENDS TESTIMONIES AND ECONOMICS PROJECT
The first volume of the resource produced by the Friends Testimonies and Economics Project (a project of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's Earthcare Working Group and Quaker Earthcare Witness). This comprehensive document, punched for insertion in a binder, includes a glossary to help read the essays and analyses of economic markets and ecology.

FTE Project 104 PP. Paper

$15.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Seeds Of Violence, Seeds Of Hope Vol 2

Exploring Economicsin An Ecological Context

FRIENDS TESTIMONIES AND ECONOMICS PROJECT
The second volume of the resource produced by the Friends Testimonies and Economics Project (a project of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's Earthcare Working Group and Quaker Earthcare Witness). This comprehensive document, punched for insertion in a binder, includes two types of exercises - "experiential" and "conceptually-oriented" and a review of key points.

FTE Project 66 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Seeds Of Violence, Seeds Of Hope Vol 3

Exploring Economics In And Ecological Context

FRIENDS TESTIMONIES AND ECONOMICS PROJECT
The third volume of the resource produced by the Friends Testimonies and Economics Project (a project of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's Earthcare Working Group and Quaker Earthcare Witness). This comprehensive document, punched for insertion in a binder, concludes the conversation with a series of essays by different authors offering "in-depth perspectives."

FTAE 92 PPL Paper

$15.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Seeing A Color-blind Future

The Paradox Of Race

BY PATRICIA J. WILLIAMS
In these five eloquent and passionate pieces Patricia J. Williams asks how we might achieve a world where "color doesn't matter"--where whiteness is not equated with normalcy and blackness with exoticism and danger. Drawing on her own experience, Williams delineates the great divide between "the poles of other people's imagination and the nice calm center of oneself where dignity resides," and discusses how it might be bridged as a first step toward resolving racism. Williams offers us a new starting point--"a sensible and sustained consideration"--from which we might begin to deal honestly with the legacy and current realities of our prejudices.

Noonday Press 1998 80 PP. Paper

$11.00 (in stock)

Seeing, Hearing, Knowing

Reflections On The Experiment With Light

EDITED BY JOHN LAMPEN
Written for those studying, or contemplating studying, the "Experiment with Light". It has chapters on the message of George Fox, the origins of the Quaker movement, the experiences of some Light Groups, answers to questions and difficulties that these groups have found. There are also chapters linking the practice to worship, prayer, discernment, and political action. The psychology of "Focusing", also possible future developments of the practice are discussed. It details several different versions of the practice that have been developed. Contributors come from Britain, New Zealand, Sweden and different Quaker traditions within the USA.

Sessions of York 2008 105 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)

Seekers Found

Atonement In Early Quaker Experience

BY DOUGLAS GWYN
"The main subjects are the Seekers of the 1640s and their forebears, and the Friends who catalyzed many Seeker themes into a dynamic, transformative movement. Gwyn's excellent study demonstrates the unique charisma of early Friends, their ability to hold opposing forces and ideas in creative tension, thus unleashing great spiritual energy. By comparison modern seekers, including many of today's Friends, are experiencing some of the same stages Gwyn identifies in those three centuries years earlier, but without embodying the tension." - Martha Paxson Grundy

Pendle Hill 2000 410 PP. Paper

$20.00 (in stock)

Seeking After Christ

2006 Walton Lecture

BY FRANK MASSEY
This essay challenges us to re-examine preconceived notions of what it means to be Quaker and Christian and the role that language plays in understanding. There, BY the grace of God, go I. for we are truly one. There is a sense of waking up and recognizing that we're on a path. We don't have to find the right path. Our path is right for us where we are at this particular time. But we have to be willing to change.

Southeastern Yearly Meeting 2006 28 PP. Paper

$5.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Seeking Cultures Of Peace

A Peace Church Conversation

EDITED BY FERNANDO ENNS, SCOTT HOLLAND, ANN RIGGS
This book shares some of the new conversation between members of the Historic Peace Churches (Mennonites, Quakers, and Brethren) as they reflect on their theology in light of the World Council of Churches' current Decade to Overcome Violence. It includes updated presentations rooted in a historic gathering of theologians of these three traditions, in Switzerland in 2001, at the beginning of the Decade. Offered are fresh readings of biblical and theological concepts as well as reflection on contemporary challenges and opportunities.

Herald Press 2004 260 PP. Paper

$22.95 (in stock)

Seeking God's Will On Same-sex Relationships

The Experience Of Cleveland Friends Meeting

EDITED BY MARTY GRUNDY
Many Friends Meetings have struggled with the issue of same-sex relationships. Cleveland Meeting tried to discern what God wanted our meeting to do on this issue twenty years ago. We struggled for some eight years before experiencing the miracle of coming into unity in 1994 with what felt to us to be a "third way". Not everyone agreed, and Cleveland Meeting was disowned by Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative). Rather than providing a narrative this book presents the multiplicity of documents-minutes from monthly, quarterly, and yearly meetings, reports of committees, and some letters-that record the struggle, in the hopes that readers may draw their own conclusions.

Create Space 2010 93 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Seeking Inner Peace

Presence, Pain, Wholeness Php 414

BY ELIZABETH DE SA
"Our souls strive toward union with the Divine. In our lives, we gravitate toward the inner peace that is the fruit of such union, and the power and prayer of living authentically." Elizabeth De Sa describes her own quest for a life of spiritual authenticity and inner peace in an essay that probes deeply into the lessons learned and the rewards reaped in such a search.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2011 32 PP Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Seeking Peace (783)

True Stories About Mennonites Struggling To Live In Peace

BY TITUS & LINDA PEACHEY
A collection of about 70 stories, mostly contemporary, though some reach back to the civil war, concerning Mennonites around the world living out their convictions for peace and the avoidance of war. Unusual but useful index, by era, place, and reason for objection to military service. SECONDHAND COPY in good condition- no markings.

Good Books 1991 238 PP. Paper

$7.50 USED - availability checked Feb 8th 1:48pm EST

Seeking Peace In Africa

Stories From African Peacemakers

EDITED BY LON FENDALL, DON MILLER, SCOTT HOLLAND, AND DEAN JOHNSON
The WCC appealed to the Historic Peace Churches to share their responses to the enormous reach of terror and violation of human life in this generation. The stories in this volume are the hopeful responses of Africans who have lived through horrific violence. Some are unbearable tales of despair at the loss of millions of lives due to warfare, riots, terror, starvation, AIDS and disease. Others are remarkable descriptions of courageous peacemaking in the midst of nearly impossible circumstances. Includes contributions by Friends Malesi Elizabeth Kinaro, David Niyonzima, and Cecile Nyiramana who spoke at the 2007 FGC gathering.

Cascadia Publishing Publishing 2007 248 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

Seeking The Blessed Community

A History Of Canadian Young Friends 1875-1996

BY KYLE JOLIFFE
The strange thing about young friends is that there are always young friends growing up and becoming "old friends". Their ideas connections and practice are oftentimes more vibrant than the existing tradition, and contribute greatly to the spiritual life of the society. Here is a good long look at the history of young friends from 1875 in Canada.

Kyle Jolliffe 1997 89 PP. Paper

$12.95 (in stock)

Selavi, That Is Life

A Haitian Story Of Hope

BY YOUME LANDOWNE
The true story of Selavi ("that is life"), a small boy who finds himself homeless on the streets of Haiti. He finds other street children who share their food and a place to sleep. Together they proclaim a message of hope through murals and radio programs. Now in paper, this beautifully illustrated story is supplemented with photographs of Haitian children working and playing together, plus an essay by Edwidge Danticat.

Cinco Puntos Press 2005 40 PP. Paper

$8.95 (in stock)