He's Got The Whole World In His Hands

ILLUSTRATED BY KADIR NELSON
What began as a spiritual has developed into one of America's best-known songs, and now for the first time it appears as a picture book, masterfully created by award-winning artist Kadir Nelson.Through sublime landscapes and warm images of a boy and his family, Kadir has created a dazzling, intimate interpretation, one that rejoices in the connectedness of people and nature. Inspired by the song's simple message, Kadir sought to capture the joy of living in and engaging with the world. Most importantly, he wished to portray the world as a child might see it-vast and beautiful.

Dial 2005 32 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (in stock)

The Hicksite-orthodox Reunification

50th Anniversary Perspectives - Dvd

BY JARED TABER AND LAURA SMOOT
In 2005, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting celebrated the 50th anniversary of its reunification following 128 years of disunity during the Hicksite/Orthodox split. This documentary offers some perspectives on the occasion of that anniversary, through five Friends who share their memories of the reunification in 1955 and the times leading up to it. Its purpose is not to provide a comprehensive historical view, but rather to capture some personal viewpoints on the events leading to reunification. The history is relevant today, as Friends continue to address challenges to our unity, even as we strive to worship, work for a more peaceful world, and engage with ever-increasing diversity in our lives.

PhYM 2005 30 MIN. Dvd

$15.00 (in stock)

The Hidden Heart Of The Cosmos

Humanity And The New Story

BY BRIAN SWIMME
The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos opens up not only the exhilarating truths that science reveals of the birth of the universe, but how these truths can transform our lives. In such a view the cosmos appears as awesome and meaningful, its dynamics revelatory, and in this revelation can be found the wisdom humanity needs to face and overcome its present crises, particularly the soul-numbing consumerism that threatens to overwhelm not only individuals, families or societies, but the Earth itself.

Orbis 1999 115 PP. Paper

$12.00 (in stock)

Hidden In Plain Sight

Quaker Women's Writings 1650 - 1700

EDITED BY MARY GARMAN, MARGARET BENEFIEL, JUDITH APPLEGATE, DORTHA MEREDITH
This book is a marvelous collection of early Quaker women's writings and a work of great scholarship. The included tracts, letters epistles and excerpts from journals are reprinted with only minor revisions of the arcane spelling. Features writing from well-known Friends like Margaret Fell, but also from many who are now little remembered.

Pendle Hill 1995 512 PP. Paper

$22.00 (in stock)

Hidden On The Mountain

Stories Of Children Sheltered From The Nazis In Le Chambon

BY DEBORAH DURLAND DESAIX, KAREN GRAY RUELLE
Amazing book for 9 year olds and up. Looks at the famous French Village, Le Chambon, that sheltered and helped so many Jewish refugees in WW2. Told with diary extracts and black and white photos, maps and interviews of those helped and helping - almost all children- makes for a very moving and inspiring book that brings home the horrors of war and the holocaust in a way that shows a few brave ordinary people standing up for their what was right could make a difference. A large hardback tome, and cover seems prone to curl but a great book for school, Meeting Library or home.

Holiday House 2012 275 PP. Cloth

$24.95 (in stock)

A Hidden Wholeness

The Journey Toward An Undivided Life + Circles Of Trust Dvd

BY PARKER PALMER
Friend Parker Palmer seeks to help us "rejoin soul and role," so that individuals and communities can be healed from the ravages of consumerism, injustice and violence. In his classic style, the task is fleshed out with stories, poems, personal confessions and a plan - concrete steps for creating "circles of trust" where honest, open sharing allows each person's "inner teacher" to show up - places where we can sit and wait for our souls to tell the truth. For the paperback edition a DVD about these circles has been added.

Jossey Bass 2009 260 PP & DVD Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

The Highest Frontier

BY JOAN SLONCZEWSKI
One of the most respected writers of hard SF, it has been more than ten years since Quaker Joan Slonczewski's last novel. Now she returns with a spectacular tour de force of the college of the future, in orbit. Jennifer Ramos Kennedy, a girl from a rich and politically influential family (a distant relation descended from the famous Kennedy clan), whose twin brother has died in an accident and left her bereft, is about to enter her freshman year at Frontera College. The world that Jenny is living in is one of the most fascinating and creative in contemporary SF, and the problems Jenny faces will involve every reader, young and old.

Tor 2011 443 PP. Cloth

$26.99 (in stock)

Hindu Scriptures

TRANSLATED BY DOMINIC GOODALL
Bargain priced, but a good selection. The Vedas (most of them) The Bhagavad gita, an almost complete version of the Brhadaranyaka and Chandogya Upanisads , Yajnavalkya smriti a sampling of late medieval tantra and bhakti literature.

Phoenix (UK) 2005 410 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

The Hired Hand

BY ROBERT SAN SOUCI
As water pours over the wheel of a busy sawmill in Virginia, a stranger tells Old Sam, the owner, that he wants to learn the trade. Old Sam is happy to take on a hired hand, and Young Sam, his son, is glad to have someone to boss around. One day, an old farmer complains about a misery in his back. The New Hand offers to fix him up, and when he does, the farmer is not only cured, he's young again! But when conniving Young Sam tries to do the same, he finds himself in big trouble. Can the New Hand set things right?

Puffin 2004 40 PP. Paper

$6.99 (in stock)

Hiroshima No Pika & Hellfire A Journey From Hiroshima

The Art Of Toshi And Iri Maruki

BY JOHN JUNKERMAN & NORIAKI TSUCHIMOTO
Hirohima no Pika is an animated film based on the famous book about a young girl and her family who live through the bombing. It is narrated by Susan Sarandon. Hellfire: a journey from Hiroshima is about the making of the Hiroshima murals, Virtually unknown in the west, they are as profound an antiwar work as Pablo Picasso's famous mural, Guernica. The monumental panels, which are actually painted upon traditional-style folding screens, took 30 years to complete, and provide a chilling look at the terror of nuclear war. With interviews and film of the artists at work. a message of hope from an unimaginable horror.

FRF 2005 83 MINS Dvd

$12.50 (in stock)

Historical Writings Of Quakers Against War

EDITED BY LICIA KUENNING
Includes Lurting's The Fighting Sailor Turned Peaceable Christian, Jonathan Dymond's An Inquiry into The Accordancy of War with the Principles of Christianity, Passages on "War" from London Yearly Meeting (1802), Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's Letter to the United States Congress (1847) and George Fox's and others' Declaration to King Charles II (1660).

Quaker Heritage Press 2002 188 PP Cloth

$10.00 (in stock)

A History Of God

The 4,000-year Quest Of Judaism, Christianity And Islam

BY KAREN ARMSTRONG
Karen Armstrong considers herself an "historian of ideas" and here she looks at how the concept of God has changed over time in the major world religions. She looks at the historical, intellectual, philosophical, and social developments that both shaped and were shaped by them.

Ballantine 1994 496 PP Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

A History Of Southland College

The Society Of Friends And Black Education In Arkansas

BY THOMAS KENNEDY
This work focuses on dedicated Quaker missionaries in post-Civil War Arkansas. In 1864 Alida and Calvin Clark, two abolitionist members of the Religious Society of Friends from Indiana, went on a mission trip to Helena, Arkansas. The Clarks had come to render temporary relief to displaced war orphans but instead found a lifelong calling. During their time in Arkansas, they started the school that became Southland College, which was the first institution of higher education for blacks west of the Mississippi, and they set up the first predominately black monthly meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in North America.

University of Arkansas Press 2009 424 PP. Cloth

$40.00 (in stock)

History Of The Life Of Thomas Ellwood

Written By Himself

EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY ROSEMARY MOORE
"There are many greater Quakers than Ellwood, but few more likeable" quips editor Rosemary Moore in her epilogue. Ellwood's story vividly recounts the early days of the Friends movement in 17th century England and the persecution they underwent. A student of Isaac Penington, an assistant to John Milton, and the editor of the journals of George Fox, Thomas Ellwood gives a moving account of his tumultuous life and times.

AltaMira Press 2004 240 PP. Paper

$24.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The History Of The Penn Treaty Park

BY KENNETH MILANO
The treatment of the area around the spot that William Penn met and made agreement with the local Indian chiefs (and the Elm tree under which they sat) has much to say about the relation of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania to William Penn's Quaker ideals. This nicely illustrated history of that locale and the events around it is full of interesting and telling details.

The History Press 2009 158 PP. Paper

$19.99 (in stock)

A History Of The End Of The World

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

$6.50 (in stock)

The History Of White People

BY NELL IRVIN PAINTER
Filling a huge gap in historical literature that long focused on the non-white, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, tracing not only the invention of the idea of "race" but also the worship of "whiteness" for economic, social, scientific, and political ends. A story filled with towering historical figures, The History of White People forcefully reminds us that the concept of one white race is a recent invention. The meaning, importance, and realty of this all-too-human thesis of race have buckled under the weight of a long and rich unfolding of events.

W. W. Norton & Company 2011 496 PP. Paper

$17.95 (in stock)

Holding Faith

Creating Peace In A Violent World

BY DAVID GEE
By refusing to allow past violations to determine our present and future choices, cycles of violence can be broken. Each choice aimed at stepping out of the cycle, whether successfully or not, is a peace act. What does committing to preach mean in a violent world? How might this commitment shape our relationships with one another, ourselves and the Earth? David Gee argues for a contemporary, practical faith that enlivens our humanity. A powerful and sometimes challenging exploration, Holding faith shows how this "humane passion played out in the world" can enrich the way we live and begin to turn our societies around.

Britain Yearly meeting 2011 143 PP. Paper

$17.00 (in stock)

Holding One Another In The Light

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)

Holiness

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)

Holiness In The Everyday

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)

Hollister Knowlton's 2009 Address - Mp3 Version

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

$5.00 (in stock)

Hollister Knowlton's Address - Audio Cd Version

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 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Holy Cooperation

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)

Holy Listening

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)

Holy Mole

BY CAROLINE MCALISTER ILLUSTRATED BY STEFAN
Quaker author Caroline Mcalister writes about When the Spanish viceroy comes for an unscheduled visit to the monastery, driving the cook into a frenzy. What will they feed this important ambassador to the king? Carlos, the orphan boy who works in the kitchen, tries to stay out of the way as lunch is hastily prepared, but his curiosity gets the best of him. His eagerness results in a moment of crisis, followed by what Brother Roberto can only assume is a miracle. This story, inspired by the Mexican folk tradition, explains the origins of mole, the popular national dish that combines chocolate with turkey, spices, and nuts.

August House 2008 32 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Holy Silence

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 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Holy Silence - Tract

BY BRENT BILL
An explanation of silent worship excerpted from Brent Bill's book of the same name.

Western Quarterly Meeting 2006 LEAFLET Tract

$0.15 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Holy Spirit In Puritan Faith And Experience

BY GEOFFREY NUTTALL
Nuttall establishes the primacy of the doctrines of the Holy Spirit in 17C English Puritanism and demonstrates the continuity of the Reformation tradition from the more conservative views of Luther to the more radical interpretations of the Quakers. He illuminates prominent spokesmen, including Richard Baxter, John Owen, and George Fox. In a new Introduction, Peter Lake discusses the relevance of Nuttall's book to, and its influence on, major works in seventeenth-century English history written since 1946.

University of california Press 1992 192 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Holy Surrender

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

$5.00 (in stock)