Ancient Ways

Indigenous Healing Innovations For The 21st Century

BY GERAL BLANCHARD
Drawing from sacred shamanic traditions and contemporary North American medicine, Blanchard explains how old and new healing strategies are surprisingly compatible and combine for a more powerful potentiating effect. For the therapist who desires a more reverent and meaningful counseling practice, this book offers a solid theoretical foundation for this important work. See http://afsc.org/audio/geral-blanchard-ancient-ways-indigenous-wisdom

Neari Press 2010 Paper

$24.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Beatitudes

From Slavery To Civil Rights

BY CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD
This poem draws on the spirit of the beatitudes to tell the story of African Americans who struggled for their rights, from the time of slavery to the election of President Barack Obama. Full-page illustrations.

Eerdmans Books for Young Readers-Eerdmans Publishi 2009 36 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (in stock)

The Dance Between Hope And Fear

BY JOHN CALVI
Questions and answers, poetry and prayers about healing and being a healer.

Southeastern Yearly Meeting 1992 23 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

The Excellent Mrs Fry

Unlikely Heroine

BY ANNE ISBA
Quaker Elizabeth Fry's name is inextricably linked with prison reform, but there was more to her career than that. Elizabeth Fry supported the anti-slavery movement, and campaigned tirelessly across Europe for poor relief and prison reform. She also found time to have 11 children! She was driven by religious conviction and found in her work a satisfaction that sadly eluded her in her private life. Prison reform is still as controversial as it was 200 years ago. This moving and important book casts light on a woman whose brave fight continues to this day.

Continuum 2010 369 PP. Cloth

$44.95 (in stock)

Fire In The Heart

How White Activists Embrace Racial Justice

BY MARK R WARREN
Drawing extensively on rich interview material, Mark Warren shows how white Americans can develop a commitment to racial justice, not just because it is the right thing to do, but because they embrace the cause as their own. Contrary to much contemporary thinking on racial issues focused on altruism or interest, Warren finds that cognitive and rational processes alone do little to move white people to action. Rather, the motivation to take and sustain racial justice is profoundly moral and relational. Warren shows how white activists come to find common cause with people of color when their core values are engaged.

Oxford University Press 2010 320 PP. Paper

$24.95 (in stock)

Friendly Touch

Therapeutic Touch Among Friends

BY KATE KERMAN
Available Again! A how to book derived from FGC Gathering workshops on healing, illustrated with Celtic knots.

Kerman Enterprises 1994 33PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

God's Healing Grace

Reflections On A Journey With Mental And Spiritual Illness - Php 394

BY MARIELLEN GILPIN
Most of us go about our daily lives assuming that we all participate in one shared reality....'Reality' is not as shared as we may think. Research indicates that 40-80% of people have out-of-the-ordinary experiences at some times in their lives, although talking about it is rare. I commend Mariellen Gilpin for her courage to describe her own unique experiences. We may not all need to name our intense feelings as demons or deal with our demons as the author does, but she does deal with them. The voices of persons labeled with mental illnesses are voices in our communities that need to be heard.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2008 35 PP. Paper

$6.50 (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)

Healing Heart - Families

Storytelling To Encourage Caring And Healthy Families

EDITED BY ALISON COX AND DAVID ALBERT
The Healing Heart provides powerful examples of the use of stories and storytelling in encouraging resiliency, empathy, respect, and healing. These engaging books contain stories, and narratives about the use of the stories in activities with different populations or which address specific social or community problems. This volume focuses on families, dealing specifically with healing through story, health promotion, disease prevention, early childhood intervention, children with medical problems, adopting families, schools, sexual identities, grief, and spiritual healing.

New Society 2003 256 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

Healing Heart - Communities

Storytelling For Strong And Healthy Communities

EDITED BY ALISON COX AND DAVID ALBERT
The Healing Heart provides powerful examples of the use of stories and storytelling in encouraging resiliency, empathy, respect, and healing. These engaging books contain stories, and narratives about the use of the stories in activities with different populations or which address specific social or community problems. This volume focuses on community-building, with sections on youth, violence prevention, poverty, domestic violence, substance abuse and addiction, racism, elders, culture, environmental protection, homelessness, and community development.

New Society 2003 256 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

A Little Book Of Forgiveness

Challenges And Meditations For Anyone With Something To Forgive

BY PATRICK MILLER
"When first published in 1994, this was a book whose ideas and message were ahead of its time. . . Since 1996 I have directed the Stanford Forgiveness Projects, a series of research endeavors that helped substantiate the power of forgiveness to reduce hurt, depression, anger and stress in people who hold grudges. . . In addition to this research I also have taught forgiveness to thousands of hurt and angry people. What I find fascinating is that the things I taught, researched and proved to be true, D. Patrick Miller already knew. . ." Frederic Luskin, Director of Stanford Forgiveness Projects. This is the 10th anniversary edition.

Fearless Books 2004 91 PP. Cloth

$15.00 (in stock)

A Persistent Peace

One Man's Struggle For A Nonviolent World

BY JOHN DEAR
A Persistent Peace, John Dear's autobiography, invites readers to follow the decades-long journey and spiritual growth of this nationally known peace activist, and to witness his bold, decisive, often unpopular actions before government officials, military higher-ups, and even hostile representatives of the Church. With heroes such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela, it should come as no surprise that John's activism has taken him to many places including war zones all over the world.

Loyola Press 2008 440 PP. Cloth

$22.95 (in stock)

The Practice Of The Love Of God

Php 374

BY KENNETH BOULDING
Dare to love God! Dare to practice that love everywhere in God's family, seeing the divine likeness in everyone, mixture of earth and heaven though we be! This challenge was raised by Kenneth Boulding some 50 years ago and is no less relevant and provocative today. He tells us that we are born to love, that we are living parts of a living whole, and that there are no boundaries in God's whole kingdom, & concludes with his vision for the world and his assurance that there is no room for despair, that God is always redeeming the world, that from the depths of misery there will be "a reawakening of divine love, a new springtime to the weary earth."

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2004 31 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Profession And Practice

Quaker Perspectives On Healing As Ministry - Php 363

BY MAUREEN FLANNERY
At times of passage we realize that God does not leave us alone, but sends caregivers to accompany us and assist us on our journey. This pamphlet invites Quaker professionals, healers and nurturers to a way of practicing professionalism that both reclaims the wisdom in our Quaker tradition and affirms what is of value in alternative secular models.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2002 36 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Sickness, Suffering And Healing

More Stories From Another Place - Php 341

BY TOM GATES
This pamphlet contains the stories of an American Quaker doctor's compassionate encounter with Kenyans when he worked at the Friends Lungulu Hospital. The stories describe the challenge to alleviate suffering and the deep effect the community in which he worked had on the author.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1998 36 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

To Go Where There Is No Light

John Calvi's 2011 Gathering Plenary

BY JOHN CALVI
This is an mp3 audio file of John Calvi's stirring plenary talk "To Go Where There is No Light", delivered at the 2011 FGC Gathering. John sees ending American torture as the next great spiritual work of Friends: to carry the Light where there is no Light is our greatest Quaker heritage. John is a massage therapist and Quaker healer with a gift for releasing pain. He began healing work with torture survivors in 1982. Later, the Abu Ghraib photos spoke to his heart and he founded the Quaker Initiative to End Torture. To hear an extended sample of his talk, go to www.soundcloud.com/fgcquaker.

Quaker Press of FGC 2011 108 MIN. Audio

$5.00 (in stock)

Unattended Sorrow

Recovering From Loss And Reviving The Heart

BY STEPHEN LEVINE
Levine suggests a process to help heal emotional wounds that linger and prevent us from leading full and happy lives. Unattended sorrow is unresolved grief that has never been given a chance to heal. This lovely, spiritual book from one of the nation's most trusted grief counselors offers a series of techniques to help heal this pain so readers can lead full and joyful lives. The book not only guides those who have experienced a fresh loss to face the hurt before it settles in, but it also addresses the devastating impact of tragedies past.

Rodale Books 2006 240 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

Walk In Peace

BY INGRID HESS
This charming book-length poem written and illustrated by Ingrid Hess is the perfect day or bedtime story of looking to the possibilities for the child. Children learn that, just like them, kids around the world are getting up each day with things to do and explore. For preschoolers.

Hearlad Press 2009 40 PP. Paper

$13.99 (in stock)

Zero

BY KATHRYN OTOSHI
Zero feels empty inside. She watches One having fun with the other numbers. One has bold strokes and squared corners. Zero is big and round with no corners at all. "If I were like One, then I can count too," she thinks. So she pushes and pulls, stretches and straightens, forces and flattens herself, but in the end she realizes that she can only be Zero. As budding young readers learn about numbers and counting, they are also introduced to accepting different body types, developing social skills and character, and learning what it means to find value in yourself and in others.

KO Kids Books 2010 32 PP. Cloth

$17.95 (in stock)