Being A Quaker

A Guide For Newcomers

BY GEOFFREY DURHAM
British friend Geoffrey Durham looks at modern Quakerism and explains what can be said (for instance how a Quaker meeting for Business operates), and looks at what cannot be said (what Quakers think happens after death) and why. He talks of the testimonies, being led by the spirit, the gathered meeting, and what being an experiential religion means. A full and inspiring, but distinctively different introduction to the Society of Friends.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2011 134 PP. Paper

$16.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Costing Not Less Than Everything

Sustainability And Spirituality In Challenging Times

BY PAM LUNN
The Swarthmore Lecture for 2011. With quiet urgency and deep honesty Pam Lunn addresses the unsustainability of the way we all live in the industrialized West, but this is not a counsel of despair or guilt. Realistic and well informed about the evolutionary basis of cooperation as well as the spiritual dimension, she puts forward and unsentimental argument for the possibility as well as the necessity of community.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2011 147 PP. Paper

$18.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

God Is Silence

BY PIRRE LACOUT
Translated from the French by John Kay. The author, a French priest, with a deep sympathy for Quakerism speaks about preparing for silence, obstacles to silence, the psychology of silence, stages of silence, silence and Jesus, and silence and pacifism. In print in many different editions since 1969.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2008 27 PP. Paper

$6.00 (in stock)

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)

An Introduction To Quakerism

BY BEN PINK-DANDELION
This is the first comprehensive introduction to Quakerism which balances a history of the theology of the Quakers or Friends with an overview of present day practice. It charts the growth of the Quaker movement through the 1650s and 1660s, its different theological emphasis in the eighteenth century, and the schisms of the nineteenth century which resulted in the range of Quaker traditions found around the world today. The book focuses in particular on notions of 'endtime,' 'spiritual intimacy', and what counts as 'the world' as key areas of theological change. The second half of the book uses extracts from Quaker texts to highlight differences in belief among the branches of Friends.

Cambridge 2007 296 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

A Modest Proposal

For The Revitalization Of The Quaker Message In The United States

BY BRENT BILL
"I was not so much interested in the institutional survival of the Religious Society of Friends (and it's various structures) as I was a recapturing of the vitality of the Quaker understanding of the Gospel,-- a Good News that combines the story and work of Christ Jesus with the amazing power of the testimonies as an understanding of how the Gospel is to be lived..." aThis is a compilation of blog posts from Brent Bill. A .pdf file - Brent gave this file to us to sell at a minimal cost to assist in raising money for the booktore. We will send it to you the day after you order.

Proposition Bill 2010 PDF Blank

$1.00 (in stock)

Quaker Strongholds

BY CAROLINE STEPHEN
Though 100 years old, this book is an exquisitely clear vision of Quaker faith. "I wish to trace, as far as my experience as a `convinced Friend' enables me to do so, what is the true life and strength of our Society; and the manner in which its principles, as actually embodied in its practice, its organization, and, above all, its manner of worship, are fitted to meet the social needs of an important class in our own day." -from the Introduction

Wind & Rock Press 1995 180 PP. Cloth

$14.95 (in stock)

Quaking Meeting

Transforming Our Selves, Our Meetings And The More Than Human World

BY HELEN GOULD
The James Backhouse lecture from 2009. In early Quaker Meetings the expectation was you would really have to literally quake under the "Power of the Lord" to know there was a message that you HAD to deliver from the silence. Helen Gould believes modern friends can still open themselves to this immensely powerful and loving divine energy, and that from it transformation can flow through us to others, in an ever widening spiral.

Australia Yearly Meeting 2009 69 PP. Paper

$13.95 (in stock)

Without Apology

A Manifesto Of Liberal Quaker Theology

BY CHUCK FAGER
Chuck Fager brings his wit to the serious task of laying out a distinctive, optimistic examination of the essence and prospects of today's liberal Quakerism.

Kimo Press 1996 125 PP. Paper

$11.95 (in stock)