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How The Most Controversial Book In The Bible Changed The Course Of Western Civilization
BY JONATHAN KIRSCH Ever since Revelation was first preached as the revealed word of Jesus Christ, it has haunted and inspired hearers and readers alike. Its mysterious author never considered that his sermon on the impending end times would last beyond his own life but his demonization of his enemies, his sanctification of revenge taking, and the notion that history must end in catastrophe, subsumed into the New Testament, can be detected in some of the worst atrocities and excesses of every age, including our own. For all of these reasons we ignore the book of Revelation, at our own peril.
HarperOne 2006 328 PP. Cloth
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Php 382
BY MARCELLE MARTIN Praying for each other - intercessory prayer - can deepen our connection to the Divine Presence and help bring healing to individuals and our communities. Marcelle Martin offers a personal account of her discovery of and experiences with intercessory prayer and describes the many forms it takes among Friends today, from interpersonal prayer support to meetings for healing to a prayerful witness for peace on earth. Calling readers to "hold one another in the Light," she declares: "Intercessory prayer in all its variations supports those we love, helps our meetings to be spiritually vital, and contributes to making manifest God's healing and transforming presence on earth."
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2006 32 PP Paper
$6.50 (in stock)
The Soul Of Quakerism
BY CAROLE DALE SPENCER Subtitled "An Historical analysis of the theology of holiness in the Quaker tradition." This original and stimulating work takes the "Holiness" movement and its ideas as a key to reinterpreting Quakerism, rooting it in the Christian mystical tradition. The author challenges many popular assumptions about Quaker history and theology. "This is one of the most powerful and interesting studies I have read for a very long time." - John Punshon. Carole Spencer teaches at George Fox Seminary in Oregon and is a Quaker pastor and convinced Friend.
Paternoster Press 2007 319 PP. Paper
$36.99 (in stock)
BY DAVIS CADMAN In this collection of essays on Holiness, Love, Simplicity, Peace, Prayer and our relationships with the earth and each other, David Cadman witnesses to the intimate relationship between practical action and turning towards God. He examines the 'place of love' from which Quaker testimonies spring, and reminds us of the importance of living those testimonies throughout our daily lives. This is not a plea for withdrawal from life, but a plea for a vital connection between worship, prayer and action.
Britain YM 2009 88 PP. Paper
$14.00 (in stock)
BY HOLLISTER KNOWLTON This is a downloadable mp3 version of Hollister Knowlton's 2009 Gathering plenary address. When you purchase it, after we confirm your credit card details, we will send you a limited time link through which you can download the audio file. Hollister spoke from her perspective as one whose ministry is seeking right relationship of humans with other humans, with all species and with Earth. Her deep love for our precious, sacred planet has brought her to a life surrendered to Spirit, lived simply and filled with joy.
Quaker Press of FGC 2009 AUDIO MP3 Audio
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BY HOLLISTER KNOWLTON This is an audio CD version of Hollister Knowlton's 2009 FGC Gathering plenary address. Hollister spoke from her perspective as one whose ministry is seeking right relationship of humans with other humans, with all species and with Earth. Her deep love for our precious, sacred planet has brought her to a life surrendered to Spirit, lived simply and filled with joy.
Quaker Press of FGC 2009 AUDIO CD Audio
$12.00 (in stock)
Building Graceful Economies
BY ANDREW MCLEOD Holy Cooperation is an examination of what the Bible says about social organizing, and an exploration of some of the many cooperative ways that Christians have worked together in the last two thousand or so years. This same style of organizing can also be found in the modern cooperative movement, which is made up of thousands of democratically controlled businesses serving millions of members worldwide. Nearly half of all Americans at some point in their day to day lives shop or receive services from a coop, and in the current financial state of the world it is an obvious alternative model to the current destructive system.
Wipf and Stock 2009 140 PP. Paper
$17.00 (in stock)
The Art Of Spiritual Direction
BY MARGARET GUENTHER "Guenther has produced a primer for people who are attracted to the ministry of spiritual direction either as directors or as directees. Drawing on her own experience through anecdotal narratives and generalized reflections, she elucidates common problems and suggests a variety of specific responses." - Sewanee Theological Review
Cowley 1992 146 PP. Paper
$14.95 (in stock)
The Gift Of Quaker Spirituality
BY BRENT BILL "There is the silence of monastic discipline, of contemplative prayer, of Zen meditation - but the particular ways of Quaker silence are distinctive. And that distinctiveness has contributions to offer across spiritual traditions. J. Brent Bill, in this beautiful reflection on the Quaker practice of silence, makes these gifts available to a wide range of contemporary readers. . My counsel to you regarding the book is this: find a quiet place, settle down with the book, and listen for holy silence." - Stephanie Ford for Friends Journal
Paraclete Press 2005 165 PP. Paper
$15.95 (in stock)
BY BRENT BILL An explanation of silent worship excerpted from Brent Bill's book of the same name.
Western Quarterly Meeting 2006 LEAFLET Tract
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The Keynote Address To New England Yearly Meeting 2006
BY LLOYD LEE WILSON, INTRODUCTION BY BRIAN DRAYTON "What does bring me peace is surrender: a relationship rather than a set of behaviors. One can be obedient at arm's length, as it were - but surrender places us in an intimate relationship with our Creator. When I give up to God, when that relationship in all its grace and mercy shapes my life, there is a peace that passes beyond all understanding or describing. One way to think about surrender is as the desire to enter fully into the Body of Christ - to take my proper place in the Body, responding as fully and as quickly to the Divine thought as my own hand or tongue responds to my intention." - the author
New England Yearly Meeting 2006 27 PP. Paper
Practices For A Simple Life
BY PAULA HUSTON Drawing on the powerful histories of the saints and personal experience, author Paula Huston offers practical guidance to pursuing and achieving spiritual simplicity in a chaotic world. In this book, Huston examines a variety of spiritual practices in the Christian tradition that lead to a simpler life. Each chapter introduces a different spiritual practice, including solitude, purity, and generosity, and explores it through historical perspectives and Huston's compelling personal reflections. "Using the Christian tradition of solitude, silence and contemplation as her foundation, Huston offers one of the best books available on living the simple life."-Publishers Weekly, starred review
Loyola 2002 358 PP. Paper
$15.95 (backorder)
BY JEANNIE BAKER A family.A house.A neighborhood.A place to play.A place to feel safe. Little by little, baby Tracy grows. She and her neighbors begin to rescue their street. Together, children and adults plant grass and trees and bushes in the empty spaces. They paint murals over old graffiti. They stop the cars. Everything begins to blossom. In Jeannie Baker's striking, natural collages, an urban community reclaims its land. A drab city street becomes a living, thriving neighborhood - a place to call home.
Greenwillow 2004 32 PP. Cloth
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BY MARILYNNE ROBINSON Companion to Robinson's "Gilead", "Home" takes place concurrently in the same town, this time in the household of Rev. Robert Boughton. Glory Boughton has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Her brother, Jack - the family's prodigal son, gone for 20 years - comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with trouble. A ne'er do-well, Jack still remains Boughton's most beloved child. Brilliant, lovable, & wayward, Jack forges an intense bond with Glory and engages painfully with his godfather & namesake. "Home" is a moving & healing book about families, family secrets, and passing generations, about love & death & faith.
Picador 2009 325 PP. Paper
Coming In December!
BY KATHERINE APPLEGATE In Africa, Kek lived with his mother, father, and brother. But only he and his mother have survived, and now she's missing. Kek is on his own. Slowly, he makes friends: a girl who is in foster care; an old woman who owns a rundown farm, and a cow whose name means "family" in Kek's native language. As Kek awaits word of his mother's fate, he weathers the tough Minnesota winter by finding warmth in his new friendships, strength in his memories, and belief in his new country.
Square Fish 2008 256 PP. Paper
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BY PHILIP GULLEY Welcome to Harmony ... In this acclaimed inaugural volume in the Harmony series, master storyteller and Friend Philip Gulley draws us into the charming world of Quaker pastor Sam Gardner in his first year back in his hometown ministering to his flock of outrageous eccentrics. Quakers and family members portrayed in this book convey the essence of small town life with humor and wisdom.
Avon 2006 237 PP. Paper
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BY DAVID ALBERT "David Albert reaches out to every reader as if he is there with you enjoying a cup of tea. Not a methodology, not a structure to incorporate, but a refreshing way of conceiving of things that liberates you to think freely about how to learn with your children." - Sherry Stacy.
Common Courage 2003 224 PP. Blank
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BY PHILIP GULLEY In this sequel to his immensely popular bestseller "Front Porch Tales," Gulley envelops readers once again in a rare world of plainspoken and honest values, gathered around the enduring themes of the great spiritual virtues.
HarperOne 2007 224 PP. Paper
$11.95 (low stock)
Questions Of Conscience For The Churches
EDITED BY WALTER WINK Ideal for individual or group use, this is a unique resource which presents short pieces from Christian leaders. Through personal testimony, factual clarification, and moral suasion, they invite the reader to open his or her heart to the Spirit, to Gospel values, and to full acceptance of gays and lesbians into the "family of God." Contributors include Elise Boulding, Richard Rohr, and James A. Forbes.
Augsburg Fortress 1999 133 PP. Paper
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An Interpretation - Php 226
BY WALTER BARNETT This pamphlet examines the evidence that casts doubt on the traditionally negative interpretations of biblical passages concerning homosexuality.
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1979 32 PP. Paper
Keeping The Faith In Difficult Times
COMPILED BY STUDS TERKEL An alternative, more personal history of the `American century.' For Terkel, these interviews represent a change that has taken place in the last few years of uncertainty in America. From a doctor who teaches his young students compassion, to the now-retired brigadier general who flew the Enola Gay over Hiroshima, these interviews tell us much about the power of the American dream and the force of individuals who hope for a better world. Terkel's subjects express with grace and warmth their secret hopes and dreams, combining to tell an inspiring story of optimism and persistence that resonates with the eloquence of conviction.
New Press 2005 360 PP. Paper
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BY RON SUSKIND As an honor student walking the gauntlet of sneers and threats at his crime-infested high school in Washington, D.C., Cedric Jennings achieved the impossible: a 4.02 grade-point average and acceptance into Brown University. Suskind won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for his stories about Jennings and now expands them into this full-length, nonfiction narrative.
Broadway Books 1999 390 PP. Paper
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Remarkable Stories Of Peacemakers
BY N. GERALD SHENK Shenk tells the stories of "ordinary people" in bad situations, who used courage, inspiration and love to attempt a transformation to a positive outcome. Some examples are the farmer/pastor Ned Wyse beaten nearly to death in a random attack by neighbors, Palestinian parents who gave their young, murdered son's organs to Jewish children, Brother Ivo who kept bringing former Catholic and Muslim neighbors together as war escalated in Bosnia, and the Amish, who subverted the violation of their children in Nickel Mines by refusing to multiply the horror, and instead offered forgiveness and generosity.
Good Books 2008 106 PP. Paper
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The Mystic Poets Series
BY GERALD MANLEY HOPKINS Not published until after his death, the poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins were written purely as a spiritual exercise. He used a language that is still fresh today and startling metaphors, his underlying subject was a soul wrestling with ideas and searching for God. This book has an introduction about Hopkins life and view of mysticism, and excerpts of his writing about poetry and two sermons on Jesus. Twenty of his best known and most profound poems are included.
Skylight Paths 2004 128 PP. Cloth
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And An Afternoon Of Pocket Billiards - Poems
BY HENRY TAYLOR The poet is clerk of Goose Creek Meeting in Virginia, and, indeed the fifth in a direct line of descendants to hold that same post. This collection of 24 poems reveals the range and power of a young Southern poet whose work is characterized by a tensile strength and a coldly factual style which beneath the surface carries great passion. Some of the poems masterfully employ twists of irony; others utilize grotesque, yet real, characters and situations; others are nimble parodies. All of the poems, however, proclaim Taylor's sensitivity to the rhythms and idioms of everyday speech. All touch the unusual, the comic, the despairing, the hopeful.
Louisiana State University Press 2006 128 PP. Paper
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William Penn - Trailblazer Books #32
BY DAVE & NETA JACKSON Faith and history come to life for young readers when viewed through the eyes of fictional teens interacting with historical Christian heroes. After crew members come down with yellow fever, Theodoric Wakefield and his family unknowingly board a pirate ship while trying to escape illness. The only chance for Theodoric and his family to escape with their lives is for him to slip away and enlist the help of his uncle William Penn.
Bethany press 2000 184 PP. Paper
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Congregations Building Multiracial Community
BY SHERYL KUJAWA-HOLBROOK Contrary to the oft-repeated truism, there are churches in America where Sunday is not the "most segregated day of the week," as Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook convincingly demonstrates in her compelling exploration of congregations tackling racial justice issues. Yet the truism continues to haunt many congregations, and Kujawa-Holbrook reveals, through story and thoughtful analysis, what it means to create and live out multiracial community. Focusing on six congregations from different denominations, geographical regions, and settings, the author shows us the joys and struggles in their intentional pursuits of a more diverse and just community.
Alban Institute 2003 248 PP. Paper
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BY NANCY SOHN-SCHWARTZ, ILLUSTRATED BY MELANIE HALL In this playful twist to the Genesis story, God asks all of nature to offer gifts to humankind-with a promise that the humans would care for creation in return. Your child will delight in turning the sturdy pages to see and hear what the many animals wish for us.
Skylight Paths 2004 24 PP, BOARD Cloth
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BY RUTH HYDE-PAINE This pamphlet gets us to think about how to discern whether we are "on the right track" in our efforts to seek and act on advice and counsel. Includes discussion and reflection on what "waiting on the Lord" has meant to each of us.
SEYM 1992 19 PP. Paper
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BY KAY LINDAHL, ILLUSTRATED BY CYNTHIA MALONEY How Does God Listen? encourages children to use all five of their senses to explore and develop a personal relationship with God. How does God listen? How do we know God is listening to us? Children will find the answers to these questions as they engage their senses while the story unfolds, learning how God listens in the wind, waves, clouds, hot chocolate, perfume, our tears, and our laughter. The simple yet profound text, accompanied by vibrant, colorful photographs, captures the experiences common to children of all faiths and backgrounds as they begin to understand the many ways God listens to us.
SkylightPaths 2005 32 PP Paper
$8.99 (in stock)
