Green Christianity

Five Ways To A Sustainable Future

BY MARK WALLACE
Religion has a special role to play in saving the planet, it has the unique power to fire the imagination and empower the will to break the cycle of addiction to nonrenewable energy. The environmental crisis is a crisis not of the head but of the heart. The problem is not that we do not know how to stop climate change but rather that we lack the inner strength to redirect our culture and economy toward a sustainable future. This book is a call to hope, not despair - a survey of promising directions and a call for readers to discover meaning and purpose in their lives through a spiritually charged commitment to saving the Earth.

Fortress 2010 256 PP. Paper

$25.00 (in stock)

Green Collar Economy 2nd Edition

How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

BY VAN JONES
Now revised and updated, Van Jones's provocative and cutting edge New York Times bestseller The Green Collar Economy delivers a viable plan for solving the two biggest issues facing the country today-the economy and the environment. "Brother Van Jones is a visionary who spells out real solutions in black and white-and, of course, green. Van's vision of a thriving, green economy doesn't have throw-away things or throw-away people. It's the kind of environmentalism everyone can get behind." - Mario Van Peebles

HarperOne 2009 270 PP. Paper

$14.99 (in stock)

Gregor And The Curse Of The Warmbloods (underland Chronicles

BY SUZANNE COLLINS
As the plague in The Underland spreads, Gregor begins to understand his role in the Prophecy of Blood, and must summon all of his power to stop the biological warfare that is spreading a plague through the Underland. "Non-sexist, non-racist, Collins provides mayhem and violence, but the abhorrence of the outcome promotes the wisdom of non-violence enough to satisfy thrill seeking children as well as their pacifist parents." -Lynn Cope.

Scholastic 2006 358 PP. Paper

$6.99 (in stock)

Ground And Spring

Foundations Of Quaker Discipleship - 2007 Swarthmore Lecture

BY BETH ALLEN
Beth Allen offers her understanding of faithful discipleship, starting with how we experience and think about God. She explores how we can think and worship today in integrity to our inner selves and to our knowledge of the world, and takes a practical approach to theological and philosophical concepts, from her Quaker and Anglican experience. The author contends that we need a solid foundation to ground us as we reach for the ideals, the actions which will make peace and justice real today. The cool stillness of the Spirit is the source of enormous, exuberant life.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2007 128 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Grounded In God - Listening Hearts

Discernment For Group Deliberations

BY SUZANNE FARNHAM, ET AL
Powerful, prayerful and practical guide from the authors of Listening Hearts. Teaches groups to incorporate silence, imagination, intuition, attentive listening, scripture and prayer into meetings, working retreats, and decision making.

Morehouse 1996 94 PP. Paper

$14.00 (in stock)

Grounded In God

Care And Nurture In Friends Meetings

EDITED BY PAT MCBEE
A fundamental element of the life of a Friends meeting is a longing to care for one another in ways that are deeply grounded in love and in the presence of the Spirit. This collection of essays is a thematic arrangement of the Pastoral Care Newsletter with each article addressing a challenge or question that pastoral caregivers will face in their work. Caregivers and the people who are members of ministry and care, ministry and nurture or worship and care committees can use this book to enhance their skills. Includes questions for discussion, bibliography, index.Was $19.95 now $15.95.

Quaker Press of FGC 2002 288 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

Group Spiritual Nurture

The Wisdom Of Spiritual Listening - Php 373

BY DAPHNE CLEMENT
Coming together to share and listen within a Spiritual Nurture Group, members connect on a deep level of the Spirit. The silence of Quaker worship is at the heart of the process. This essay by Daphne Clement, an experienced facilitator of such groups, is both an introduction to this kind of spiritual nurture and a guide for those interested in creating a group.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2004 32 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Growing Fruitful Friendship

A Garden Walk, The Backhouse Lecture 2004

BY UTE CASPERS
German Friend Ute Caspers says that friendship has special importance for her because she never experienced the normal development of family relations due to World War Two and its aftermath. She writes: "Let us start by looking at the notion of friendship in general. If I were to weave a definition...then friendship could be a place of acceptance, where you don't have to pretend. It would be an empowering experience, with a good balance of giving and taking, and a place where you are supported and held with your spiritual or emotional doubts and findings."

Australia Yearly Meeting 2004 62 PP. Paper

$12.50 (in stock)

Growing In The Light - High School And Adult

BY BARBARA CALDWELL AND DOROTHY REICHARDT
Nine lessons on meeting for worship, meeting for business, membership, community, equality, harmony and simplicity. Intergenerational opening exercises.

Philadelphia YM 1998 Looseleaf

$9.00 (in stock)

Growing In The Light - Grades 6-8

BY BARBARA CALDWELL AND DOROTHY REICHARDT
Nine lessons on meeting for worship, meeting for business, membership, community, equality, harmony and simplicity. Intergenerational opening exercises.

Phialdelphia YM 1994 Looseleaf

$7.00 (in stock)

Growing In The Light - Grades 2-5

BY BARBARA CALDWELL AND DOROTHY REICHARDT
Nine lessons on meeting for worship, meeting for business, membership, community, equality, harmony and simplicity. Intergenerational opening exercises.

Philadelphia YM 1984 Looseleaf

$7.00 (in stock)

Growing Into Goodness

Essays On Quaker Education

BY PAUL LACEY
This book includes ten essays on the unique aspects of Quaker approaches to education, both its philosophy and practice.

Pendle Hill 1998 292 PP. Paper

$20.00 (in stock)

Growing Pains

Poems

BY ALAN BRICK
Alan Brick has led many popular workshops on writing for friends at the FGC gathering and at Pendle Hill. He has worked for AFSC and the FOR. This book is divided into seven sections of poems; about being young to growing old, reflecting on how life "is" as one grows, on people, on religion, on war, and on politics.

Xlibris 2007 146 PP. Paper

$12.00 (in stock)

Growing Points

BY THOMAS TAYLOR
32nd annual Walton lecture, 1995. Drawing on the experiences of Quakers following a wide variety of leadings, this book is a testament to a deepening faith.

SEYM 1995 18 PP. Paper

$3.00 (in stock)

Growing Up Plain

The Journey Of A Public Friend

BY WILMER COOPER
In Growing Up Plain, Quaker theologian, teacher and author Cooper sets forth the theology and practice of faith among the "plain people" of Quakerdom. His personal story brings that theology to life in an intimate, accessible way.

Friends United Press 1999 200 PP. Paper

$16.50 (in stock)

Growing Up Quaker And Universalist Too

BY SALLY RICKERMAN
In this essay the author looks back on her journey as a Quaker universalist from her ancestral roots in 17th-century Quakerism, to her family's experiences on the American frontier, to her own upbringing as a 20th-century Friend by "both nature and nurture."

Quaker Universalist Fellowship 1999 18 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Guests Of My Life

BY ELIZABETH WATSON
An excellent resource for those dealing with death, this book traces the authors journey through grief at the time of the accidental death of a daughter. She shares the solace she received from five authors including Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson.

Quaker Press of FGC 1996 176 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

Guide For Friends On Conscientious Objection To War

BY BEN RICHMOND
Is it ever right to go to war? What does the Bible say? What if there is a draft? Covers practical questions about pacifism and registering as a conscientious objector.

FUP 1991 16 PP. Paper

$1.00 (in stock)

Guide To Britain's Working Past

BY ANTHONY BURTON
This is a thorough guide to historical sites of industry in Britain, arranged by region. It features ample photographs and maps, information on access to sites, and historical background. Of interest are the many Quaker industrial entrepreneurs mentioned, including the Darby's of the industrial revolution and many Quakers who worked on the railroads.

W.W. Norton and Company 2003 190 PP. Paper

$3.50 (in stock)

Guide To Quaker Practice

Php 20

BY HOWARD BRINTON
This is an accessible, clear and concise description of Quaker distinctives, beliefs and practices. "For more than sixty years, Friends have used the Guide to Quaker Practice to demystify Friends' customary procedures. Howard Brinton wrote the Guide assuming that somebody would improve on his work as the Religious Society of Friends grew and changed in the second half of the twentieth century. His Guide proved more durable than he anticipated. He described Quaker pra ctice by reference to theology, applying historical precedent insofar as it did not interfere with the clear description of contemporary practice." - Jared Taber, from the new foreword

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1993 92 PP. Paper

$8.00 (in stock)

A Guide To True Peace

Or A Method Of Attaining To Inward And Spiritual Prayer

BY FRANCOIS FENELON, MADAME JEANNE GUYON, MIGUEL DE MOLINOS
This devotional classic was originally produced with the intention of nourishing the spiritual life of believers at the dawn of the Industrial Age. There was a need for a practical guide on what it means to abide in Christ, to live with an active knowledge of the presence of God. Over 180 years later, this book is still entirely relevant. "A Guide to True Peace" is based largely upon the works of Miguel de Molinos, Madame Guyon, and Francois Fenelon, three leading figures in the 17th century European spiritual movement known as "Quietism." They acquired this label through the teaching that God is known through the prayer of inward silence. Pocket sized 4" X 6".

Searchlight Ministries 84 PP. Paper

$3.00 (in stock)

Half Wild

Poems

BY MARY ROSE O'REILLEY
This winner of the 2005 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets is a spiritual biography wound backwards, spiraling into the world rather than out of it. Here sacred inquiry is grounded in a passion for the natural world, resolving questions through lyric, erotic, and sensual responses from the Quaker author of Barn at the End of the World.

Louisiana State University Press 2006 62 PP. Paper

$16.95 (in stock)

Handbook For Mortals

Guidance For People Facing Serious Illness

BY JOANNE LYNN AND JOAN HARROLD
Handbook for Mortals is warmly addressed to all those who wish to approach the final years of life with greater awareness of what to expect and greater confidence about how to make the end of our lives a time of growth, comfort, and meaningful reflection. Written by Dr. Joanne Lynn and a team of expert physicians, this book provides equal measures of practical information and wise counsel. All practical aspects are explored, and included are moving firsthand insights into a profoundly important process, one that is increasingly kept hidden in our culture. Includes inspiring quotations from Emily Dickinson, W. H. Auden, Jane Kenyon, and others.

Oxford University Press 2001 256 PP. Paper

$21.95 (in stock)

Handbook For Overseers

BY PHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING
Describes care of members, functions shared with other committees, record keeping, etc.

Philadelphia YM 1994 15 PP. Paper

$2.25 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Handbook For The Presiding Clerk

BY DAVID STANFIELD
Useful how to manual written by an experienced clerk.

North Carolina Yearly Meeting (F) 1989 20 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Handbook On Miliatary Taxes And Conscience

EDITED BY LINDA COFFIN
Nine chapters on issues such as "What does the Bible Say?," "A Quaker History," "Spiritual Leadings and Rational Decisions," "Honoring God or Paying Caesar." Includes questions fro study and the text of the Peace Tax Bill in plain English.

Friends Committee on War Tax Concerns 1988 222 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Handbook On Records

Their Creation, Maintenance, And Preservation In Meeting

BY BALTIMORE YEARLY MEETING COMMITTEE ON RECORDS
If you find yourself frustrated by the overwhelming task of maintaining and preserving your meeting's records, this little handbook has been developed just for you and your meeting.

Balt. YM 1996 61 PP. Spiral Bound

$10.00 (in stock)

Hands

BY PAT HUMPHRIES
Pat Humphries and Sandy Opatow performed at the 2003 Gathering and were well loved. This CD contains Humphries' famous peace anthem `Swimming to the Other Side,' as well as `Bread and Roses,' `In this Life' and `We Were There.'

Appleseed 2001 45 MINUTES Audio

$15.00 (in stock)

Handy Farm Devices And How To Make Them

BY ROLFE COBLEIGH
This book, originally published in 1909, is a tribute to American ingenuity and innovation and a resource for today's homeowners working to become more self-sufficient. Illustrated with black and white drawings, here are 100's of clever ways to transform your home or farm, using scrap material and items readily available from the hardware store or lumberyard. Build a homemade water cooler, a folding chicken roost, a garden stool, a fruit picker, or a small bridge for crossing streams. Here too are a treadmill that can power a dairy separator and churn, a drinking fountain for chickens, a rig for moving large trees, a self-feeder for bees, and gates that lift over snowdrifts.

Skyhorse 1910 288 PP. Paper

$6.00 (in stock)

Hannah Coulter

A Novel

BY WENDELL BERRY
"Ignorant boys, killing each other," is just about all Nathan Coulter would tell his wife, friends, and family about the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of 1945. Life carried on for the community of Port William, Kentucky, as some boys returned from the war and the lives of others were mourned. In her seventies, Nathan's wife, Hannah, has time now to tell of the years since the war. In Wendell Berry's unforgettable prose, we learn of the Coulter's children, of the Feltners and Branches, and how survivors "live right on." "Atmospheric and quietly moving." - Kirkus Reviews

Counterpoint 2005 208 PP. Paper

$14.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)