Here I Am, Lord

BY ERNIE BUSCEMI AND VINCE BUSCEMI
A cutting edge booklet on discerning callings. `We are creatures of habit and we do what is comfortable. Faith however inspires action; it produces doers. And those faithful to the obedience, to the urging of the spirit are moved into service.' The authors challenge us to explore the impact of racism on the choices we make.

Southeastern Yearly Meeting 2006 28 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Here I Stand

My Struggle For A Christi

SPONG, JOHN SHELBY

Paper

$15.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Heretics

The Creation Of Christianity From The Gnostics To The Modern Church

JONATHAN WRIGHT
Jonathan Wright traces the evolution of Christianity through focusing on religious dissidents - the "heretics" who changed the shape of religion. Along the way Wright discusses Quaker troublemakers including Mary Dyer and William Penn. Wright also presents a brief but pointed critique of modern ideas of Quakers as dull or conventional, comparing this shift in perception to the treatment of the Amish: "Yesterday's heresy ... today's tourist attraction." What develops throughout the book is a vivid and complete view of Christianity across the centuries - a struggle between the orthodox and the outsider.

HMH 2011 338 PP. Cloth

$28.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

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 Separation (31072)

A Sociological Analysis Of Religious Schism In Early Nineteenth Century America

BY ROBERT W DOHERTY
Rather grubby, copy of this book on the Quaker schism of 1827. Important not just as a historical look at that split and the reasons for it, but because he develops special sociological tools to collect and analyze data, culled for example from wills, tax returns, city directories and mortgage records. SECONDHAND BOOK.

Rutgers University Press 1967 157 PP. Cloth

$22.50 USED - availability checked May 23rd 8:44am EDT

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 (out of stock but can be backordered)

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

$16.00 (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)

High Dive

HARLEY
NEYM member Bill Harley takes us back to his boyhood with stories about summer at the community pool, field trips to the state house and a Valentine's Day disaster. Heartfelt and witty, Harley's tales engage kids like no other and send adults on a trip to their own past. Are these stories true? Bill says, "The more I tell them, the truer they get..."

Round River Disk

$15.00 (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)

Hinduism

Find out all about the faith of Hinduism through the eyes of Babu, a young Hindu from Nepal. In her own words, Babu talks about her beliefs, her family, her everyday life, the rituals and traditions that are important to her, and about the festivals and special days that are celebrated by Hindus around the world.

ticktock Entertainment Ltd. 2006 34 PP. Cloth

$12.99 (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)

History Of Quakerism (556)

ELBERT RUSSELL
SECONDHAND fair condition, about half the dust jacket remains. This was the standard history of Quakerism in the 40's. Written (or intended to be) in a fairly lively style with footnotes. Interesting read.

Macmillan 1943 585 PP. Cloth

$15.00 USED - availability checked May 23rd 8:44am EDT

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)

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 Friends In America (889)

BY ALLEN CLAPP THOMAS, RICHARD HENRY THOMAS
Secondhand, but very nice condition. Small book, but a useful summary. At some point in its life it lived in the Pendle Hill Library.

John A Winston 1905 245 PP. Cloth

$17.00 USED - availability checked May 23rd 8:44am EDT

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)

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

$6.00 (in stock)