A Faith To Call Our Own

BY ALEX WILDWOOD
What is the experience at the heart of Quaker faith and how can we speak of it in this "post Christian" age? Can we be faithful to our personal experience of the numinous and bring this into Meeting for worship and our living tradition? Are we open to old light as well as new?

Britain Yearly Meeting 1999 106 PP. Paper

$12.75 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Faith To Live By (91)

BY ELFRIDA VIPONT
SECONDHAND. good condition small hardback. The lives of 15 well known early Friends. Written for older teens I think, but useful to anyone wanting more info on early and more modern friends.

FGC RE Committee 1962 199 PP. Cloth

$5.50 USED - availability checked May 23rd 8:44am EDT

Faith To Live By

ELFRIDA VIPONT

1962 198 PP. Cloth

$8.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Faith Without Certainty

Liberal Theology In The 21st Century

BY PAUL RASOR
The former Dean of Pendle Hill here explores liberal theology, a religious tradition that is rooted not in authority but in one's own experience and conscience. Much more than a primer, Paul Rasor writes for Protestant Christians, modernist Roman Catholics, post-Christians and humanists and liberal Quakers, on issues that they are all debating in one way or another.

Skinner House 2005 256 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)

Faithful Deeds

A Rough Guide To The Quaker Peace Testimony

BY DAVID GEE
A clear overview of the origins of Quaker peace witness, contemporary efforts at peace-making, and the spiritual basis for the peace testimony. Includes a First Day School curriculum in the appendix.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2002 57 PP Paper

$9.00 (in stock)

Faithful Voices

Oral Readings Exploring Beliefs In Action

BY ED SCHWARTZ
Need a workshop idea, a way of building community, material for religious education? Faithful Voices can be the answer. Each person featured lived his or her deeply held beliefs, leaving a legacy in writing and deeds. Each script includes a brief biography and is followed by queries. About half the subjects are well known Quakers including Margaret Fell, Rufus Jones, and John Woolman. Also featured are people as diverse as Dorothy Day and Martin Luther King, Jr. Suitable for groups of any size and age from 12 on up or mixed ages, the material is read aloud twice so that everyone both speaks and listens. No preparation is required. Queries are provided for discussion.

Quaker Press of FGC 2005 104 PP Paper

$7.00 (in stock)

Falling To Heaven

A Novel

BY JEANNE PETERSON
In 1954 Emma and Gerald Kittredge leave their secure Quaker community for a Tibetan town. Their neighbors are Dorje and Rinchen, and their sons. The arrival of Maoist soldiers shatters everything. Gerald is captured by the soldiers, leaving a pregnant Emma to rely on her Tibetan neighbors. Told in three distinct voices rich in their respective spiritual traditions, Falling to Heaven is ultimately a novel about faith: losing it and rediscovering it in places you'd never expect.

Thomas Dunne 2010 326 PP. Cloth

$9.00 (in stock)

Falling Upward

A Spirituality For The Two Halves Of Life

BY RICHARD ROHR
Most of us tend to think of the second half of life as largely about getting old, dealing with health issues, and letting go of life, but the whole thesis of this book is exactly the opposite. What looks like falling down can largely be experienced as "falling upward." With rare insight, Rohr takes us on a journey to give us an understanding of how the heartbreaks, disappointments, and first loves of life are actually stepping stones to the spiritual joys that the second half of life has in store for us.

Jossey Bass 2011 198 PP. Cloth

$19.95 (in stock)

Families Valued

Parenting And Politics For The Good Of All Children

BY JACK NELSON-PALLMEYER
A father explores how the needs of children can change personal and social priorities.

Friendship Press 1996 276 PP Paper

$9.95 (in stock)

Families Valued

Study Guide

NELSON-PALLMEYER, JA

1997 Paper

$2.00 (in stock)

The Family Story Bible

A Delight To Read And To Hear Read

BY RALPH MILTON, ILLUSTRATED BY MARGARET KYLE
A fresh contemporary perspective on the bible, stories of both men and women, told in inclusive language. A comprehensive selection from both Old and New testaments, including areas often neglected in children's bibles such as the Prophets, Wisdom literature and Letters of the early Church.

Westminster John Knox Press 1996 288 PP. Cloth

$24.95 (in stock)

Family Values

BY ERIC NEWCASTLE
Family Values by Quaker author Eric Newcastle is a compelling tale about a gay teenager who is found brutally assaulted and left for dead. What led to this event and how his family comes to terms with an act of violence is a story told over generations. In tone this novel is much like Jessamyn West's The Friendly Persuasion, set in the 21st century. Family Values demonstrates how the power of love and acceptance found in family can be transformative. It is about a family's struggle to find grace in the face of adversity.

Create Space 2012 335 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

Fat Boy Chronicles

BY DIANE LANG AND MICHAEL BUCHANAN
At age fourteen, Jimmy Winterpock weighs 187 pounds. School life for Jimmy is a barrage of cruel taunts with the further humiliation of sports. Written as a first person journal addressed to one of his teachers, and inspired by a real story, this book addresses childhood obesity, bullying, and other social problems in a story that is both moving and hopeful. Ages 12 and up.

sleeping bear press 2009 216 PP. Paper

$9.95 (in stock)

Fear And Yoga In New Jersey

BY DEBRA GALLANT
Nina a New Jersey yoga teacher, should be calmly guiding her high powered students through their savasanas and their chakras. Instead she is worried about...everything: the leaking fountain that caused a litigious students to slip and fall; her husband's job was outsourced to the Phillipines; and a hurricane is bearing down on her parents home in Florida. To complicate matters, her teenage son Adam is showing an interest in having a Bar Mitzvah-even though Nina, never a fan of her Jewish heritage, signed the family up at the local Unitarian Church.

St Martins 2008 256 PP. Cloth

$3.50 (in stock)

Feeling Good (944)

SECONDHAND mass market paperback in good condition. subtitled the new mood therapy, a clinically proven drug free treatment for depression. A local to us at Penn and a good guy all round.

Avon 1980 466 PP. Paper

$3.50 USED - availability checked May 23rd 8:44am EDT

Feeling Light Within, I Walk

Tales, Adventures, And Reflections Of A Quaker Activist

BY PEG MORTON
"Peg Morton is an amazing woman, a deeply thoughtful example of someone who acts upon her beliefs. Quaker, social activist, mother, late-in-life lesbian, and fearless protestor against wrong, she is an example for those who want to match our actions to our consciousness, but don't always succeed." This memoir covers one woman's witnesses for peace and social justice around the world, much of it in Latin America.

Cedar Row Press 2013 350 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Fellowships, Conferences And Associations

The Limits Of The Liberal Quaker Reinvention Of Meeting Polity

BY ELIZABETH CAZDEN
A look at the "confusion and disagreement" about how meetings govern themselves. Cazden reviews classical Quaker models and then looks at the "alternate model that has come to characterize liberal unprogrammed ('Friends General Conference-type') meetings in North America." An important read for anyone trying to understand contemporary Quaker debates over same-sex marriage, the meaning of membership, the role of committees and issues of leadership in the Religious Society of Friends.

Beacon Hill Friends House 2004 36 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Feminist Family Values Forum

BY GLORIA STEINUM, ANGELA DAVIS, MARIA JIMENEZ, MILIANI TRASK
A forum given on Mothers day 1996, many contributions from Feminists well known and little known on family values from a feminist perspective.

Plain View Press 1996 130 PP. Paper

$6.00 (in stock)

Field Notes From A Catastrophe

Man, Nature, And Climate Change

BY ELIZABETH KOLBERT
Long known for her insightful and thought-provoking political journalism, author Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial and increasingly urgent subject of global warming. In what began as groundbreaking three-part series in the New Yorker, for which she won a National Magazine Award in 2006, Kolbert cuts through the competing rhetoric and political agendas to elucidate for Americans what is really going on with the global environment and asks what, if anything, can be done to save our planet. Now updated and with a new afterword, Field Notes from a Catastrophe is the book to read on the defining issue and greatest challenge of our times.

Bloomsbury 2006 240 PP. Paper

$13.95 (in stock)

Fierce Legion Of Friends

A History Of Human Rights Campaigns And Campaigners

BY LINDA RABBEN
"As a longtime fighter for human rights, I was moved and inspired by Fierce Legion of Friends. It's encouraging to know whose shoulders we stand on: the millions of people who have worked for human rights for more than 200 years. I recommend this book to anybody who wants incentive to keep working for social justice."-Nancy Pelosi. "A stirring history of human rights campaigns over the centuries--vividly described, intelligently assessed." -- Howard Zinn

University of Wisconsin Press 2001 271 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Fighter For Peace, Philip Noel-baker (77)

BY DAVID WHITTAKER
SECONDHAND, neato condition. Quaker born British politician who had an amazing 80 year career in politics. Active in the league of nations and disarmament, winning the Nobel peace prize in 1959. Outstanding Olympic athlete. Educated in Britain then at Haverford. Helped start and run the Friends ambulance service in WW1 ....you get the idea - pretty amazing sort of chap.

Sessions of York 1989 387 PP. Paper

$8.50 USED - availability checked May 23rd 8:44am EDT

Final Gifts

Understanding The Special Awareness, Needs And Communications Of The Dying

BY MAGGIE CALLANAN AND PATRICIA KELLEY
"Impressive insights into the experience of dying, offered by two hospice nurses with a gift for listening. The `final gifts' of the title are the comfort and enlightenment offered by the dying to those attending them, and in return, the peace and reassurance offered to the dying by those who hear their needs. .[The authors] offer practical advice not only to involved family members but also to professional caregivers on how to recognize, understand, and respond to a dying person's messages. No lugubriousness or false cheerfulness here, but acute observations and astute advice on a difficult topic." - Kirkus Reviews

Bantam Books 1997 256 PP. Paper

$17.00 (in stock)

Final Rights

Reclaiming The American Way Of Death

BY JOSHUA SLOCUM, LISA CARLSON
"The book the funeral industry doesn't want you to read"- it says on the front. The first 150 pages educate you on the current state of the funeral industry and the alternatives likely to appeal to Quakers- Green or Simple burial prominent among them. The final 350 pages are a state by state guide to all the different and arcane laws, which would allow you to take charge of end of life practices and arrange simple, meaningful, family or meeting based "disposition of bodies".

Upper Access 2011 511 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

Finding Community

How To Join An Ecovillage Or Intentional Community

BY DIANA LEAFE CHRISTIAN
Intentional communities or ecovillages are an appealing choice for like-minded people who seek to create a family-oriented and ecologically sustainable lifestyle. However, the notion of an intentional community can still be a tremendous leap for some-deterred perhaps by a misguided vision of eking out a hardscrabble existence with little reward. In fact, successful ecovillages thrive because of the combined skills and resources of their members. Finding Community presents a thorough overview of ecovillages and intentional communities and offers solid advice on how to research thoroughly, visit thoughtfully, evaluate intelligently, and join gracefully.

New Society Publishers 2007 234 PP. Paper

$24.95 (in stock)

Finding Freedom

Writings From Death Row

BY JARVIS JAY MASTERS
Incarcerated in San Quentin at the age of 19 for armed robbery, Jarvis Masters was accused four years later of participating in a conspiracy that resulted in the death of a prison guard. Finding Freedom is a collection of prison stories - sometimes shocking, sometimes sad, often funny, always immediate - told against a background of extreme violence and aggression. Masters' commitment to nonviolence leads him more and more into the role of peacemaker as he tries to put compassion into action. We see Masters meditating amid chaos and squalor, touching the hearts and minds of those around him.

Padma Publishing 1997 179 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)

Finding Joy

BY MARION COSTE, YONG CHEN
A mother makes the long journey to China to see her new baby for the first time. When Shu-li is born, her parents wrap her in a blanket and take her to town. The government says that a family is allowed to have only one child. So they lay Shu-li on the ground beneath a bridge. On her blanket they pin a note that reads THIS IS OUR SHU-LI. PLEASE TAKE CARE OF HER. NO ROOM FOR GIRLS. Fortunately, Shu-li is found and taken to an orphanage. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, a husband and wife in North America hope to adopt a baby from China.

Boyds Mill Press 2006 32 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (in stock)

Finding Our Sacred Ground

Quakerism's Place In A Globalized Future

BY DANIEL SEEGER
The 2001 SEYM Michener Lecture.

SEYM 2001 22 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Finding Our Voice

Our Truth, Community, And Journey As Australian Young Friends

BY AUSTRALIAN YOUNG FRIENDS
The 2010 James Backhouse Lecture is a collective presentation by a group of Australian Young Friends. They say in their introduction, "One theme that has emerged strongly is: 'Whose Friends are we?' What role does the Religious Society of Friends play in our lives? Do we feel we are friends with older Quakers? Or are we, like the early Quakers, simply young 'Friends of the Truth,' striving to live our lives with integrity? We invite you to share with us an attempt to answer some of these questions through an exploration of what it means to call oneself a Young Friend. Within this framework we explore the expectations placed on us as young people within a spiritual community."

Australia YM 2010 62 PP. Paper

$9.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Finding Our Way In The Bible

BY DOROTHY REICHARDT
Eight 2-hour units cover the sweep of history and variety of literature in the Bible. Includes a section on sharing feelings about the Bible, historical charts, references to George Fox's Journal, meditations on listening to God, and discussion questions. Used in QSP (Quaker Studies Program).

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1991 Looseleaf

$12.00 (in stock)

Finding The Friendship Dolls

A True Story How Children Can Help Create World Peace Through Toys

BY CHARLOTTE PACK
In 1926 with tensions rising between the two countries, the United States sent 12,739 Friendship Dolls to Japan. Ellen C. was one of those dolls, the book follows her from Wilmington, Ohio to Nagasaki, Japan and learns how friendship can overcome even war. Finding the Friendship Dolls shows how children can appreciate the people and culture of another country even in troubled times. Although this story happened many years ago, children today still have the same power to make a difference through children's diplomacy - the act of children simply sharing their friendship. It is time for a children's peace movement, and this book leads the way.

Peace Resource Centre, Wilmington College 2009 47 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)