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Faith Stories Of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, And Transgender Couples
COMPILED AND EDITED BY ROBERTA SHOWALTER KREIDER Twentysix couples share their personal stories of faithfulness to God and each other. Also included are stories and poems by parents, spouses, and friends of LGBT persons. The authors come from a wide variety of religious denominations and from locations in the U.S. and Canada. The book is an invitation to take a serious look at what it is like to grow up gay or transgender in a society that scorns and rejects people of diverse sexual orientation. This new collection is compiled by the editor of From Wounded Hearts. "These stories reflect love, compassion, tenderness, spiritual strength of those who have struggled through, pain, rejection, and suffering to wholeness."-Rev. Pomeroy
Strategic Press 2002 360 PP. Paper
$24.00 (in stock)
Yours, Too
EDITED BY CHUCK FAGER Tom Fox was a Quaker peace worker from Virginia, who was taken captive in Baghdad in November 2005, and killed in early March 2006. Three other peaceworkers taken captive with him were freed safely by soldiers later that month. What meaning can be found in the life and death of Tom Fox? This is an ongoing question for many of us. In this small book, more than two dozen authors grapple with this challenging question. Meant for reflection and group study, their reflections are paired with passages from Tom's own writings, his blog entries and emails.
Kimo Press 2006 102 PP. Paper
$9.95 (in stock)
BY RAUL COLON, PAT MORA While helping his family in their work as migrant laborers far from their home, Tomas finds an entire world to explore in the books at the local public library, whilehe teaches the librarian Spanish. The story is based on an actual migrant worker [Tomás Rivera] who became chancellor of a university and where the library now bears his name.
Dragonfly Books 1997 40 PP. Paper
$6.99 (in stock)
Christians, Jews, Muslims, And People Of Conscience Speak Out
EDITED BY GEORGE HUNSINGER In this hard-hitting volume two dozen scholars, activists, military officers and religious leaders call for an immediate end to the practice of torture, paying particular attention to its use in the American war on terror. The heart of the book contains respectively Christian, Jewish, and Muslim arguments against torture, and the final part charts a way forward toward a solution, offering much principled yet practical advice.
Eerdmans 2008 272 PP. Paper
$26.00 (low stock)
Php 338
BY KENNETH CARROLL A seasoned Friend shares moving and well-written accounts of meaningful experiences in meeting for worship. The essay will help Friends to appreciate and express what they, too, have experienced maybe only occasionally in worship.
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1998 31 PP. Paper
$6.50 (in stock)
Guided Meditations For Mindfulness Practice
BY THICH NHAT HAHN Written as a poetic conversation with the Buddha, this step-by-step guide to the transformative practice of "beginning anew" helps readers renew faith, rediscover joy, and remove obstacles caused by past wrongdoings. Based on the loving kindness and compassion meditation of the Lotus Sutra, it contains over 40 guided meditations that can be practiced alone or with others. In its original edition, Touching the Earth has been one of the author's most popular titles. This new edition makes the exercises more accessible to those new to mindfulness practice.
Parallax Press 2008 168 PP. Paper
$12.95 (low stock)
ED MALCOLM MACOURT Good condition paperback, but with brittle spine. Was Elizabeth Watsons copy. Some underlining and notes in her hand. British book, incudes contribution from British Friend David Blamires who was a contributor to "Towards a Quaker view of sex" SECONDHAND BOOK
SCM 1977 113 PP. Paper
$6.00 USED - availability checked Mar 16th 10:24am CDT
Literature, Theology And Sociology In Conversation
BY BEN PINK-DANDELION, DOUGLAS GWYN, RACHEL MUERS, BRIAN PHILLIPS, AND RICHARD STRUM The 'death of tragedy' in the modern era has been debated in recent years, largely in terms of literature and western culture in general. Today, any catastrophe is likely to be labeled a 'tragedy', without any inference of a larger, transcendent horizon or providential design. This book offers new perspectives on the idea of the 'death of tragedy', taking England and the Religious Society of Friends in particular as a case study. The different disciplinary perspectives of the contributing authors bring literature, history, theology and sociology into a creative and revealing conversation.
Ashgate 2003 157 PP. Cloth
$35.00 (in stock)
COMPILED BY QUAKERBOOKS OF FRIENDS GENERAL CONFERENCE Sampler set of 25 tracts.
many publishers 25 TRACTS Tract
$18.00 (backorder)
WITTGENSTIEN, LUDWIG Quaker philosopher Newton Garver has run many workshops that imagine bringing Wittgenstein into conversation with George Fox and Martin Luther King. This is the definitive version of Wittgenstein's key work The Tractatus: Starting with "The world is everything that is the case" Definitive translation by C K Ogden supervised by W . Introduction by Bertrand Russell.
Dover Paperback 1955 125 PP. Paper
$7.95 (in stock)
BY THOMAS HAMM In 1800 American Quakers lived in a unique religious environment, characterized by quietism and "the plain life." By 1900 the religious sect had become virtually indistinguishable from the Protestant mainstream, absorbed by the same questions of modernism that troubled other denominations. Thomas Hamm's detailed historical study sheds new light on this transformation, filling a major gap in the literature of American Quakerism and American religion as a whole.
Indiana University Press 1988 286 PP. Paper
$29.95 (backorder)
Blank
$12.00 (in stock)
BY LAWRENCE APSEY, JAMES BRISTOL, KAREN EPPLER This book of short essays on nonviolent philosophy and history provides a deep understanding of how the Quaker testimonies lead to powerful action for justice and peace. The work of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and others illuminate what can be accomplished by following the light within-see king and speaking the truth. Anyone interested in spiritually grounded social action will find useful information and inspiration in this easy-to-read volume.
Quaker Press of FGC 2001 96 PP. Paper
$8.95 (in stock)
Identity, Sexuality And Spirituality
EDITED BY LEANNE MCCALL-TIGERT AND MAREN TIRABASSI Transgendering Faith is a resource to help churches respond with love and care to transgender people in our society, both those within the Christian community and those who find themselves--unhappily--outside its doors. It is also a book for transgender Christians, their families, and pastoral counselors. The first section, "The Basics for Everyone," includes essays written by professionals and therapists who give readers a basic understanding of the transgender issue. Part Two--"In Our Own Words"--features stories of transgender persons from diverse denominational, age, ethnic, and racial backgrounds.
Pilgrim Press 2004 162 PP. Paper
$22.00 (low stock)
From Oil Dependency To Local Resilience
BY ROB HOPKINS The Transition Handbook shows how the changes ahead can lead to the rebirth of local communities that will grow more of their own food, generate their own power, and build their own houses using local materials. There are now over 30 "transition towns" in the UK,& Australasia. They provide valuable experience and lessons-learned for those of us on this side of the Atlantic. With little proactive thinking at the governmental level, communities are taking matters into their own hands and acting locally. If your town is not a transition town, this upbeat guide offers you the tools for starting the process.
Chelsea Green 2008 240 PP. Paper
$24.95 (low stock)
Let Us See What Love Can Do
EXCLUSIVE TO FGC Includes the quote, "Let us then try what Love can do" and the FGC religious education tree. This mug is 18/8 stainless steel inside with a 19 ounce capacity. The color on the outside is a sapphire blue. Makes an excellent gift. Screen printed at a non-profit shop that provides employment to people who are very low-income, formerly homeless, or have recently completed a substance abuse recovery program.
QuakerBooks of FGC 2008 19 OZ Blank
$22.00 (in stock)
BY ANNE DEGRACE The voices of the residents of Bear Creek surface in Treading Water, a wonderful new novel: Gus Sanders, a young trapper, arrives to seek his fortune in 1904, but loses his heart and then his life; in 1911, Jake Shroeder must choose between his desire to join up and his Mennonite roots; and pregnant Dutch war bride Aliesje Milner waits at the train station for a husband whose face she can no longer remember. The personalities of the residents thread throughout the novel from its beginnings until the day the waters rise.
McArthur & Company 2005 302 PP. Paper
$5.00 (in stock)
Php 346
BY ELIZABETH OSTRANDER-SUTTON A meditation on centering prayer and working with clay.
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1999 37 PP. Paper
$6.50 (low stock)
Gods Love Overflows In Peace And War
BY HERBERT NICHOLSON SECONDHAND COPY. Minimal tears on jacket. Very good condition. Signed by author. Photographs.: The life of a Westtown and Haverford educated Evangelical pastor who did important work for the Friends Mission Board in Japan and among the Japanese in America during WWII.
Penn Lithographics. Whittier, California 1974 154 PP. Cloth
$10.00 USED - availability checked Mar 16th 10:24am CDT
BY ROSALIE BOND, ELIZABETH MUENCH, KATRINA SMATHERS A sensible and readable guide that is designed to help Quaker meetings, (and other groups) with bookkeeping and accounting. Provides an introduction to the world of bookkeeping for the novice, but also dealing with more complex topics such as "unrelated business activity" and the definition of an employee. Includes a discussion of war tax resisters as employees, Contains sample forms & reports, as well as a guide for record retention. New edition emphasizes tracking information, reporting it to Meeting members , and relating to the outside world.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 2008 52 PP. Spiral Bound
$15.00 (in stock)
Letters On Christian Unity
BY BRIAN DRAYTON A biblical and contemporary consideration of unity and dissension in the Christian communities at every stage.
NEYM 1995 67 PP. Paper
$3.75 (in stock)
The Incredible Biodiversity Of Life On Earth
BY ROCHELLE STRAUSS AND MARGOT THOMPSON If every known species on Earth were a leaf on a tree, that tree would have at least 1,750,000 leaves. Since humans count for just one leaf on the tree, we have a lot to learn about the millions of other forms of life with which we share the world. A dazzlingly illustrated and child-friendly introduction to biodiversity, Tree of Life shows how living things are classified into five kingdoms. Grade 5-7 ish.
Kids Can Press 2004 40 PP. Cloth
$18.95 (in stock)
Quaker Meeting & Sex Offenders
BY DAPHNE GLAZER Daphne Glazer takes a close look at issues around sexual abuse and the lives involved. How do we maintain trust and safety? What is forgiveness? What can we do to help an abuser change, and to support a Quaker meeting that faces these dilemmas? This book raises issues to consider before you are faced by a specific problem, and offers reflection on what it means for Quakers to love in the Light, without denial of the darkness.
Britain Yearly Meeting 2004 96 PP. Paper
$14.00 (low stock)
The Day The Soldiers Stopped Fighting
BY JIM MURPHY Ages 10 up. A book about the "Christmas Truce" in WW1 when German and English soldiers came out of their trenches talked, sang and celebrated together. Conveys the absolute horror and pointlessness of the war without being too gruesome. He tells of the war, its course till then, the commanders reactions, and of the effect the truce had on the opposing soldiers. Definitely a thoughtful anti war book and he draws lessons that he applies to the Iraq invasion.
Scholastic 2009 116 PP. Cloth
$19.99 (low stock)
Poems And Essays
BY MARY OLIVER "The Truro Bear and Other Adventures" brings together ten new poems, thirty-five of Oliver's classic poems, and two essays, all about mammals, insects, and reptiles. The award-winning poet considers beasts of all kinds: bears, snakes, spiders, porcupines, humpback whales, hermit crabs, and, of course, her little dog, Percy.
Beacon Press 2008 80 PP. Paper
$23.00 (in stock)
My Experience Of Quakerism's Greatest Gift
BY SALLY RICKERMAN "Like many other members of the QUF [Quaker Universalist Fellowship], Sally believes that the very essence of Quakerism rests in accepting the possibility that every human being may have a direct and personal relationship to God, the Tao, or the spiritual universe-whatever name one chooses-independent of belief, creed, clergy, or organization. Paradoxically, this extreme of individual seeking finds expression in a community of support, love, and mutual Discernment. The resulting tensions between individualism and universalism, freedom and community, are mediated, Sally finds, by trust. ..." - Rhoda R. Gilman, editor's introduction.
Troll Press 2008 23 PP. Paper
BY ELTON TRUEBLOOD "For early Christians . . . faith in God was a matter of acquaintance rather than speculation," writes D. Elton Trueblood. With logical argument, the author defends the experience of God as reported through the ages and invites us to know God ourselves.
Friends United Press 1993 93 PP. Paper
$6.00 (low stock)
A Curriculum On The Testimony Of Integrity
BY THE CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE AT YEARLY MEETING GROUP, EDITED BY MARTY SMITH_ Four lessons about the Friends testimony of integrity, designed for kindergarten through high school. Each lesson contains background information on one aspect of integrity (truth-telling, authenticity, faithfulness to the Truth or unity in community). To reinforce or enrich each chapter theme, teachers can choose among several age-graded suggestions for discussion questions stories, games, crafts or queries.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 2001 45 PP. Looseleaf
$13.00 (low stock)
An Anthology Of George Fox
EDITED BY REX AMBLER Rex Ambler's collection of passages from the writings of George Fox is intended to make available his clearest and most profound writings fromt eh whole range of his works, and to display them in such a way as to show the connections between them. It should therefore be possible, reading the text through, to gain a picture of Fox's whole vision. The anthology is presented in parallel with a translation into modern English, a glossary and a concluding essay entitled `Making Sense of Fox.' This edition has some minor revisions. This book is the companion volume to Light to Live By.
Britain Yearly Meeting 2001 202 PP. Paper
$25.00 (backorder)
From The World's Great Spiritual Traditions
BY SALLY RICKERMAN A topical compendium of sayings from the world religions including Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Jainism, Judaism, Shintoism, Sikhism, Taoism, and Zoraoasterianism. Topics with associated quotations include anger, friends, contemplation, peace, faith and justice. Each topic is on a separate loose-leaf notebook page so that each can be easily photocopied for individuals' class use and/or curriculum building.
Troll Press 2006 67 PP. Paper
$6.95 (in stock)
