The First Paul

Reclaiming The Radical Visionary Behind The Church's Conservative Icon

BY MARCUS J. BORG AND JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN
Borg and Crossan contend that there are "Three Pauls" in the New Testament: "The Radical Paul" (of the seven genuine letters), "The Conservative Paul" (of the three disputed epistles), and "The Reactionary Paul" (of the three inauthentic letters). By closely examining this progression of Paul's letters - from the authentic to the inauthentic - the authors show how the apostle was slowly but steadily "deradicalized" to fit Roman social norms in regards to slavery , patriarchy, and patronage. In truth, Paul was an appealing apostle of Jesus whose vision of life "In Christ" is remarkably faithful to the message of Jesus Himself.

HarperOne 2009 224 PP. Paper

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First They Killed My Father

A Daughter Of Cambodia Remembers

BY LOUNG UNG
One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, her siblings were sent to labor camps, and those who survived the horrors would not be reunited until the Khmer Rouge was destroyed.

Harper 2006 238 PP. Paper

$13.99 (in stock)

Firstlight - Paperback

BY SUE MONK KIDD
In Firstlight, author Sue Monk Kidd offers readers an intimate glimpse into the early years of her journey as both writer and spiritual seeker. Drawn from her early writings for Guideposts and other publications, these personal reflections and essays are organized around thirteen spiritual motifs and interwoven to create a compelling narrative about the author's spiritual awakening. Included are writings about the author's multiple roles as mother, daughter, wife, nurse, and writer; recollections about her extensive travels; reflections on her childhood and marriage; and musings on a stream of ordinary moments -- all of which added richness and meaning to the author's journey.

Penguin 2007 227 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)

Fisher King & The Handless Maiden (988)

ROBERT JOHNSON
SECONDHAND COPY, paper with afew pencil no notations. subtitle is " Understanding the Wounded Feeling Function in Masculine and Feminine Psychology" . t is very dangerous when a wound is so common in a culture that hardly anyone knows there is a problem. Such is the case right now with our wounded feeling function- our inability to find joy, worth, and meaning in life.

Harper 1993 103 PP. Paper

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Fit For Freedom, Not For Friendship - Hardcover

Quakers, African Americans And The Myth Of Racial Justice

BY DONNA MCDANIEL AND VANESSA JULYE
There is a common misconception that most Quakers assisted fugitive slaves and involved themselves in civil rights activism because of their belief in equality. While there were Friends committed to ending enslavement and post-enslavement injustices, Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship reveals that racism has been as insidious, complex, and pervasive among Friends as it has been generally among people of European descent. The book documents the spiritual and practical impacts of discrimination in the Religious Society of Friends in the belief that understanding the truth of our past is vital to achieving a diverse, inclusive community in the future.

Quaker Press of FGC 2009 548 PP. Cloth

$28.00 (in stock)

Fit For Freedom, Not For Friendship - Paperback

Quakers, African Americans And The Myth Of Racial Justice

BY DONNA MCDANIEL AND VANESSA JULYE
There is a common misconception that most Quakers assisted fugitive slaves and involved themselves in civil rights activism because of their belief in equality. While there were Friends committed to ending enslavement and post-enslavement injustices, Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship reveals that racism has been as insidious, complex, and pervasive among Friends as it has been generally among people of European descent. The book documents the spiritual and practical impacts of discrimination in the Religious Society of Friends in the belief that understanding the truth of our past is vital to achieving a diverse, inclusive community in the future.

Quaker Press of FGC 2009 576 PP. Paper

$28.00 (in stock)

Fit For Freedom Study Guide

BY THE FGC COMMITTEE FOR MINISTRY ON RACISM AND WREN ALMITRA
This guide is designed to help readers explore more deeply the issues discussed in the book Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship: Quakers, African Americans and the Myth of Racial Justice by Donna McDaniel and Vanessa Julye. Filled with quotes, queries, and suggested activities, the guide can be used in meetings, reading groups, or individually.

Quaker Press of FGC 2009 Looseleaf

$18.00 (in stock)

Fit For Freedom Study Guide Pdf Download

BY FGC'S COMMITTEE FOR MINISTRY ON RACISM AND WREN ALMITRA
This is a downloadable .pdf version of the study guide. When you order, after we confirm your purchase, we will send you a link to download the publication. This guide is designed to help readers explore more deeply the issues discussed in the book Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship: Quakers, African Americans and the Myth of Racial Justice by Donna McDaniel and Vanessa Julye. Filled with quotes, queries, and suggested activities, the guide can be used in meetings, reading groups, or individually.

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The Five Gospels

What Did Jesus Really Say? The Search For The Authentic Words Of Jesus

BY ROBERT FUNK, ROY HOOVER, THE JESUS SEMINAR
An extremely useful Bible study resource for the individual or meeting. Using the texts of the four gospels plus the Gospel of Thomas, the Jesus Seminar "color code" the words of Jesus. Those in red they attribute to be most reliably spoken by Him. They grade the words in five shades from red to black. Black represents those words that they think others ascribe to Jesus. Very full commentaries on each quotation give context, comparisons with the other Gospels and scholarship on issues raised.

HarperSF 1997 554 PP. Paper

$28.00 (in stock)

Five Tests For Discerning A True Leading

BARBOUR, HUGH
Begins: Early Friends faced the daily job of recognizing the true from the subjective when they were led to speech and action. From Jeremiah's time to the present, men have known no absolute or easy way to tell a genuinely divine message from wishful impulses and false prophecy......

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Fixing Climate

What Past Climate Changes Reveal About The Current Threat - And How To Counter It

BY WALLACE S. BROECKER
A collaboration between an earth scientist and a science writer. Fixing Climate takes an unconventional approach to the vitally important issue of global warming. Wallace Broecker warned about the possible consequences of global warming decades before the concept entered popular consciousness. The time to reduce carbon emissions has already passed in his opinion, and large and small scale projects to reduce carbon dioxide directly are needed. Told by skilled science journalist Robert Kunzig, Fixing Climate is a timely and informative story that makes for riveting reading.

Hill and Wang 2008 272 PP. Cloth

$25.00 (in stock)

Flavor Of Man

William Penn Lecture

TOOMER, JEAN

1979 Paper

$2.00 (in stock)

Flavor Of The Month (551)

BY JOEL BEST
SECONDHAND, as new in dustjacket. While fads such as hula hoops or streaking are usually dismissed as silly enthusiasms, trends in institutions such as education, business, medicine, science, and criminal justice are often taken seriously, even though their popularity and usefulness is sometimes short-lived. Institutional fads such as open classrooms, quality circles, and multiple personality disorder are constantly making the rounds, promising astonishing new developments--novel ways of teaching reading or arithmetic, better methods of managing businesses, or improved treatments for disease.

Univ California 2006 201 PP. Paper

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The Florist's Daughter

BY PATRICIA HAMPL
Her writing is well known to friends from gathering workshops on spiritual storytelling that have used "I Could tell you stories" and made that book a best seller for us. This book tells the story of her parents a debonair Czech father, whose floral work gave him entrée to St. Paul society, and her mother a distrustful Irishwoman with an uncanny ability to tell a tale. Written while her mother was dying, it is a telling of life's lived with passion and spirit that created and enriched her own.

Harcourt 2007 227 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Flowers From The Storm

BY LAURA KINSALE
Something different! Voted by some as one of the top 10 romance novels of all time. The "rakehell" the Duke of Jervault comes upon hard times and a mental breakdown and is befriended by a plain Quaker girl, Maddy Timms...Could it be his redemption and her big romance...

Avon 1992 553 PP. Paper

$7.99 (in stock)

Fly Free!

BY ROSEANNE THONG,ENJIN KIM NEILAN
When you do a good deed, it will come back to you. Mai loves feeding the caged birds near the temple but dreams that one day she'll see them fly free. Then she meets Thu and shares the joy of feeding the birds with her. This sets a chain of good deeds in motion that radiates throughout her village and beyond. Set in Vietnam, Roseanne Thong's inspiring story is elegantly illustrated with watercolor on wood by Eujin Kim Neilan. Ages 4-8. Boyds Mill

2010 32 PP. Cloth

$17.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Flying Change

Poems

BY HENRY TAYLOR
Quaker poet Henry Taylor's 1986 Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poetry. Here he is immersing himself in the beauty of the Blue Ridge mountains, pleasures for which a real farmer has neither the time or inclination. An anti-modernist in pursuit of states of grace, Taylor revels in such things as a "frisbee floating like milkweed," women's hands and "the charming old songs in their illegible syllables." His affection for his region is faithful and unmixed, and produces sweet variety in his moderate pastoral.

Louisiana State University Press 1986 55 PP. Paper

$16.95 (in stock)

Focusing

BY EUGENE GENDLIN
Rex Ambler in the Experiment with Light strongly recommends this technique as a tool for increasing one's intuitive awareness. Based on research at the University of Chicago, Focusing is a technique of self therapy that teaches one to identify personal problems and a series of steps that can be taken to address them.

Bantam Books 1982 188 PP. Paper

$7.99 (in stock)

Fold Formed Bracelet With Fire Agate

CRAFTED BY SETH BARCH
This fire agate is a rich translucent brown stone with subtle fiery greens, reds yellows and blues flashing in its depths; this photo fails to do it justice. Sterling silver, fire agate. Price includes shipping to US destinations.

Seth Barch BRACELET Boxed

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Folks, This Ain't Normal

A Farmer's Advice For Happier Hens, Healthier People, And A Better World

BY JOEL SALATIN
Salatin, hailed by the "New York Times" as "Virginia's most multifaceted agrarian since Thomas Jefferson [and] the high priest of the pasture" and profiled in the Academy Award nominated documentary "Food, Inc." and the bestselling book "The Omnivore's Dilemma," understands what food should be: Wholesome, seasonal, raised naturally, procured locally, prepared lovingly, and eaten with a profound reverence for the circle of life. And his message doesn't stop there. From child-rearing, to creating quality family time, to respecting the environment, Salatin writes with a wicked sense of humor and true storyteller's knack for the revealing anecdote.10% off RSP.

Center Street 2011 384 PP. Cloth

$23.69 (in stock)

Follow Me To Freedom

Leading As An Ordinary Radical

BY SHANE CLAIBORNE AND JOHN PERKINS
Shane Claiborne and John Perkins know the hopes and longings of this age. One is young; the other is decades older. One is a self-proclaimed reformed redneck who now lives in the inner city and has become a voice for compassionate change; the other is an evangelical African-American voice for civil rights who once was almost beaten to death by police in Mississippi, and went on to counsel three presidents and launch a reconciliation movement. You would be hard pressed to find a more unlikely duo, yet Claiborne and Perkins now lead the way toward freedom for all. In a world hungry for radical hope, their stories will guide as we walk down the rugged road to another world.

Regal 2009 224 PP. Paper

$14.99 (in stock)

Following Jesus

More About Young Children And Worship

BY SONJA STEWART
A follow up to Young Children and Worship. The author builds on that book and the Godly Play ideas of Jerome Berryman. Contains 34 stories from the New Testament about Jesus' life, with suggested words and instructions on presentation and the materials you can prepare for them so that the children (aged 3-7 approximately) can best hear and respond to them.

Geneva Westminster 2000 272 PP. Paper

$35.00 (in stock)

Food And Faith

Justice, Joy, And Daily Bread

EDITED AND COMPILED BY MICHAEL SCHUT
An exploration of the spiritual and sacramental nature of food from many perspectives (including those of famous food writers like M.F.K Fisher and Wendell Berry) and with many foci, from hunger to worker rights to creation care.

Morehouse Publishing 2009 296 PP. Paper

$20.00 (in stock)

Food For Body And Spirit

BY THE CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE AT YEARLY MEETING GROUP
This packet emphasizes food, spirit, friends, and justice. It contains a good appendix with lists of songs, graces, musical blessings, and recipes.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1992 41 PP. Looseleaf

$6.00 (in stock)

For Emancipation And Education

Some Black And Quaker Efforts 1680-1900

EDITED BY ELIZA COPE-HARRISON
Essays by Margaret Hope Bacon, Charles L. Blockson, Roger Lane, Emma Jones Lapsansky, and Jean R. Soderlund discuss the Quaker role in the emancipation and education of African Americans.

Awbury Arboretum 1997 60 PP. Paper

$11.50 (out of stock but can be backordered)

For Everything A Season

Simple Musings On Living Well

BY PHILIP GULLEY
The third volume in Friends minister/storyteller Gulley's series of story collections. In this book he uses Ecclesiastes as the guide to tell stories of birth/death, planting/harvesting, healing/hurting, etc. He refers to his Quakerism quite regularly in these stories.

HarperSF 2001 220 PP. Paper

$16.95 (in stock)

For Heaven's Sake

BY SANDY EISENBERG SASSO, ILLUSTRATED BY KATHRYN KUNZ FINNEY
People said "for heaven's sake" to Isaiah a lot. Everyone talked about heaven. "Thank heavens." "Heaven forbid." But no one would say what heaven was or where to find it. After his grandfather died Isaiah was told that Grandpa had gone to heaven. Isaiah wondered exactly where and what heaven was. He became determined to find out, and sought answers from many different people. This charming story teaches that heaven is often found in the places where you least expect it. Ages 4-8.

Jewish Lights 1999 32 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (in stock)

For More Than Bread (323)

An Autobiographical Account Of 22 Years At Afsc

BY CLARENCE PICKETT
SECONDHAND, fair condition hardback with no dust jacket. First edition, A great history of the work of AFSC into the 1950's by its former General Secretary. From America to Europe and Russia and to Palestine. With many personal anecdotes. )

Little Brown 1953 433 PP. Cloth

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The Forbidden Schoolhouse

The True And Dramatic Story Of Prudence Crandall And Her Students

BY SUZANNE JURMAIN
They threw rocks and rotten eggs at the school windows. Villagers refused to sell Miss Crandall groceries or let her students attend the town church. Mysteriously, her schoolhouse was set on fire-by whom and how remains a mystery. The town authorities dragged her to jail and put her on trial for breaking the law. Her crime? Trying to teach African American girls geography, history, reading, philosophy, and chemistry; trying to open and maintain one of the first African American schools in America. This account of the Crandall and her elegant white schoolhouse will give readers a glimpse of what it is like to try to change the world when few agree with you.

Houghton Mifflin 2005 160 PP. Cloth

$19.00 (in stock)

A Force More Powerful

A Century Of Nonviolent Conflict

BY PETER ACKERMAN AND JACK DUVALL
"These are powerful stories about truth overcoming lies, love dissolving evil and life eclipsing death. Nonviolent valor can end oppression, and the world of the 21st century will be safer, freer, and more humane if it heeds the lessons of this book." - Jimmy Carter

St Martins Press 2001 588 PP Paper

$21.95 (in stock)