The Evolutionary Potential Of Quakerism Revisited

Kenneth Boulding & John Bellers

BY KEITH HELMUTH
"I suggest the Society of Friends has a great intellectual task ahead of it, the task in question is spiritual as well as intellectual, in the sense that it involves not merely abstract knowledge, but love and community... The search today is for a human identity which will permit us to live in peace" -Kenneth Boulding 1964. "He that doth not write whilst he is alive, can't Speak when he is dead. And if a Man shall not be heard in the age, and the Country he lives in, if what he writes is for the general good of Mankind, he may be more minded in other Countries, or in succeeding Generations." - John Bellers 1699

Chapel Hill Editions 2011 55 PP. Paper

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Before John Was A Jazz Giant

A Song Of John Coltrane

BY CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERHEAD
Young John Coltrane was all ears. And there was a lot to hear growing up in the South in the 1930s: preachers praying, music on the radio, the bustling of the household. These vivid noises shaped John's own sound as a musician. Carole Boston Weatherford and Sean Qualls have composed an amazingly rich hymn to the childhood of jazz legend John Coltrane. Ages 4-8.

Henry Holt 2008 32 PP. Cloth

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The Cosmopolitan Canopy

Race And Civility In Everyday Life

BY ELIJAH ANDERSON
Cosmopolitan canopies are urban spaces that offer a break from the tensions of chafing racial and economic differences, a place for diverse peoples to assemble and rub elbows. Elijah Anderson looks at such spaces in Philadelphia, including Reading Terminal Market and Rittenhouse Square detailing the give-and-take of public interaction. He observes how close and far away people sit, whether they greet each other, how deep or long their interactions are, and whether they break or reinforce barriers. He also chronicles the daily shifting of space used by the homeless, workers, residents, and commuters as they encounter, interact, and evade.

Norton 2011 317 PP. Cloth

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Ninth Ward

BY JEWELL PARKER RHODES
Twelve-year-old Lanesha lives in a tight-knit community in New Orleans' Ninth Ward. She doesn't have a fancy house like her uptown family or lots of friends like the other kids on her street. But what she does have is Mama Ya-Ya, her fiercely loving 82 year old caretaker, wise in the ways of the world and able to predict the future. With Katrina fast approaching, it's up to Lanesha to use her considerable hope and strengthto try and bring them and others through the storm.

LB 2010 217 PP. Cloth

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Thunder Rose

BY JERDINE NOLAN, KADIR NELSON
Born in the Wild West during a thunderstorm, Thunderstorm Rose is an unusually strong and resourceful child, can she stop a tornado though.

Harcourt 2007 32 PP. Paper

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Zora And Me

BY VICTORIA BOOND, T R SIMON
A fictionalization of the early years of a literary giant. As a child and storyteller a young Zora tells tales of a shape-shifting gator man who lurks in the marshes, waiting to steal human souls when a real death intrudes and narrated by Zoras friend Carrie the whole edenlike community where she must come to terms with what has happened.

Candlewick 2010 170 PP. Cloth

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Leading From Within

Poetry That Sustains The Courage To Lead

EDITED BY SAM INTRATOR, INTRODUCTION BY PARKER PALMER
A wonderful collection of poems from well-loved poets, with a brief personal commentary from a "leader" explaining its significance to them. The contributors include Vanguard Group founder John Bogle, MoveOn.org cofounder Joan Blades, Brian McLaren, and many other leaders. In their reflections, they explore how they have been inspired by poets such as T.S. Eliot, Mary Oliver, William Stafford, Langston Hughes, Pablo Neruda, Robert Frost, Rumi, May Sarton, Wallace Stevens, Wendell Berry, and Rainer Maria Rilke. Introduction by Parker Palmer. THE 2011 ONE BOOK ONE YEARLY MEETING CHOICE. 10% of regular price of $19.95

Jossey Bass 2007 288 PP. Paper

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Falling Upward

A Spirituality For The Two Halves Of Life

BY RICHARD ROHR
Most of us tend to think of the second half of life as largely about getting old, dealing with health issues, and letting go of life, but the whole thesis of this book is exactly the opposite. What looks like falling down can largely be experienced as "falling upward." With rare insight, Rohr takes us on a journey to give us an understanding of how the heartbreaks, disappointments, and first loves of life are actually stepping stones to the spiritual joys that the second half of life has in store for us.

Jossey Bass 2011 198 PP. Cloth

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Cosmopolitanism

Ethics In A World Of Strangers

BY KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH
Ben Pink Dandelion recommends this book strongly in his 2010 Weed lecture, "We are loved let us love". See his comments below. Reviving the ancient philosophy of "Cosmopolitanism," a school of thought that dates to the Cynics of the fourth century BCE, Appiah traces its influence through history to show how Western intellectuals and leaders have wildly exaggerated the power of difference, and neglected the power of one.

Norton 2007 196 PP. Paper

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Eaarth

Making A Life On A Tough New Planet

BY BILL MCKIBBEN
Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he insists, we need to acknowledge that we've waited too long, and that massive change is not only unavoidable but already under way. Our old familiar globe is suddenly melting, drying, acidifying, flooding, and burning in ways that no human has ever seen. We've created, in very short order, a new planet, still recognizable but fundamentally different. We may as well call it Eaarth.

St Martins 2011 272 PP. Paper

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John Woolman And The Affairs Of Truth

BY JOHN WOOLMAN EDITED BY JANES PROUD
Woolman is so well known for his journal that his other writings are often overlooked. This edition gathers into one convenient volume and in chronological order all of the known essays, epistles, and other works which Woolman intended for general readers. The editor's introduction to each of the texts is intended to explain the context for each work in its historical moment.

Inner Light 2010 310 PP. Paper

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Adam Of The Road

A Puffin Modern Classic

BY ELIZABETH JANET GRAY (ELIZABETH GRAY VINING)
The Newbery Medal-winning story of Adam, a medieval English son of a wandering minstrel, who finds himself alone and searching for his father and his dog.

Puffin Books-Penguin Group 2006 317 PP. Paper

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We Are Loved Let Us Love

Quakers And The Covenant Of Cosmopolitanism

BY BEN PINK DANDELION
Ben Pink Dandelion starts out with "our covenantal call to realizing community and how our understanding of that demands of us a particular way of viewing the world. It is a challenge to us in our personal and Meeting lives and it is challenge to a world which tends to view people in terms of hierarchical varieties of 'them' and 'us.'" The response he offers, using the concept of cosmopolitanism, outlines a clear, and clearly Quaker, way we should live.

Beacon Hill 2010 32 PP. Paper

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Sexual Violence And Armed Conflict

BY JANE L. LEATHERMAN
An in-depth but broadly-focused book exploring the tightly intertwined atrocities of conflict and sexual violence.

Polity Press 2011 244 PP. Paper

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Black Fire

African American Quakers On Spirituality And Human Rights

EDITED BY: HAROLD D. WEAVER, JR., PAUL KRIESE, STEPHEN W. ANGELL
Black Fire gathers together the voices of 18 remarkable individuals who spoke and wrote as African Americans from within the Quaker community. They testify about their viewpoints on racial justice - both within the Religious Society of Friends and society at large - and they speak of their life in the Spirit. As a collection, these selections exhibit the vitality and wisdom that three centuries of African American Quakers have contributed to and on behalf of Friends. See below for more detail.(Also available as an ebook. Enter "Black Fire" in the search field at left to find electronic editions.)

Quaker Press of FGC 2011 300 PP. Paper

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If The Church Were Christian

Rediscovering The Values Of Jesus

BY PHILIP GULLEY
In If the Church Were Christian Philip Gulley provides a profound picture of what the church could look like if it refocused on the priorities of Jesus. A noted and eloquent Quaker, his latest theological volume in his "If" series, in which puts the Christ, back in Christian. "What IF Christians actually began to take their Christ seriously?" The answer to that question could change the world. - Shane Claiborne. "Filled with memorable, insightful and revealing stories. I recommend it." - Marcus Borg.

HarperOne 2011 197 PP. Paper

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Death Of The Liberal Class

BY CHRIS HEDGES
The Death of the Liberal Class examines the failure of the liberal class to confront the rise of the corporate state and the consequences of a liberalism that has become profoundly bankrupted. Hedges argues there are five pillars of the liberal establishment - the press, liberal religious institutions, labor unions, universities and the Democratic Party-- and that each of these institutions, more concerned with status and privilege than justice and progress, sold out the constituents they represented. In doing so, the liberal class has become irrelevant to society at large and ultimately the corporate power elite they once served.

Nation Books 2011 248 PP. Cloth

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Food And Faith

Justice, Joy, And Daily Bread

EDITED AND COMPILED BY MICHAEL SCHUT
An exploration of the spiritual and sacramental nature of food from many perspectives (including those of famous food writers like M.F.K Fisher and Wendell Berry) and with many foci, from hunger to worker rights to creation care.

Morehouse Publishing 2009 296 PP. Paper

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And Furthermore

BY JUDI DENCH
And Furthermore is the story of a great actress's career. Of all the plays and films and actors/actresses that she has been in and known, but It is also the story of Judi Dench's life, filled with her impish sense of humor, diamond-sharp intelligence and photos from her personal archives. Follows on from her earlier but sadly now unavailable "with a crack in her voice" Judi Dench is a private person in many ways, a Quaker, but not one to make much of her faith.

St Martins Press 2011 265 PP. Cloth

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Children Of God Storybook Bible

BY ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU
Desmond Tutu retells more than fifty of his most beloved stories, artfully highlighting God's desire for all people to love one another and to find peace and forgiveness in their hearts. Many of the finest artists from around the world have been selected to illustrate the stories. In an attempt to create the first truly global Bible for children, the artists have been invited to portray the stories with the style and richness of their own culture. Their stunning color illustrations allow readers to experience the Bible stories as if they were there---with Adam and Eve in the garden, with Noah on the ark, with Abraham in the desert, and with Jesus on the mountaintop.

Zonderkids 2010 126 PP. Cloth

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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)

Evalyn Parry Live At Lula

BY EVALYN PARRY
Quaker and 2011 gathering plenary Singer presents an inspired evening of song, spoken word and theatre on her first live DVD, recorded in Toronto in 2006. Includes bonus rehearsal footage, interview plus videos of Weed Free and Once in a Blue Moon. Songs include 'The gay rover' and 'requiem for acivic.

Borealis Recordings 2006 70 MINS Disk

$15.00 (in stock)

Small Theatres Double Cd

BY EVALYN PARRY
Double CD: one full of music, one full of spoken word. Produced by John Switzer and Evalyn Parry. Featuring a veritable host of the finest of players: Suzie Vinnick, Brad Hart, Anne Lindsay, Richard Reed Parry, Joe Phillips, Treasa Lavesseur, Ken Whiteley, Sarah Neufeld, Pietro Amato, Jenny Whiteley, Burke Carroll, Jennifer Gillmor, Beth Washburn and more. Nine songs and six spoken word recordings.

Borealis Recordings 2007 2 CD'S Disk

$15.00 (in stock)

Unreasonable

BY EVALYN PARRY
Includes the Colleen Peterson Award-winning song "The Stone and The Bumblebee". Produced by Ken Whiteley, this album features the playing of George Koller, Brad Hart, Suzie Vinnick, Trevor Mills, Marilyn Lerner, Oliver Schroer, Collen Allen, Davide Direnzo, Roman Borys and Ken Whiteley. "Parry is at her best with her tongue firmly in cheek... Unreasonable is fully of cheeky little gems" Herizons magazine

Borealis Recordings. 2004 11 TRACKS Disk

$15.00 (in stock)

Claudette Colvin (paperback)

Twice Toward Justice

BY PHILLIP HOOSE
In 1955 a teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of segregation, refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of being celebrated as Rosa Parks would be 9 months later, Claudette found herself shunned by classmates and dismissed by community leaders. Undaunted, a year later she dared to challenge segregation again as a key plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle, the case that struck down the segregation laws of Montgomery and swept away the legal underpinnings of the Jim Crow South. Based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others. the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure.

Square Fish 2011 160 PP. Paper

$9.99 (in stock)

Plow Up The Fallow Ground

A Meditation In The Company Of Early Friends

BY LU HARPER
Following on examples from the writings of early Friends, Lu Harper explores the depth and variety of insights that can be found in biblical images of field and vineyard. What wisdom did early Friends find in these passages, and what do they say to us today? Through this extended exploration, and by offering rich queries for personal meditation, the author invites readers to rediscover a Quaker way of deriving powerful, personal meaning from the Bible.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2011 35 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

The Present Of Quakerism

Young Adults. The Michener Lecture 2010

BY STOPH & MAIA HALLWARD
IN THIS LECTURE, Stoph and Maia Carter Hallward draw on their individual and shared experiences with Quakerism as Adult Young Friends. They reflect on why they have remained connected to Friends at various forks in the road (i.e. graduating, starting their first jobs, having a child) when their friends and peers have often parted company. Maia and Stoph explore ways that Friends can build new and strengthen existing relationships across life stages and ages. They challenge assumptions regarding Ministry and remind us of the reasons why an intergenerationally vibrant Religious Society of Friends is in our collective best interest.

SEYM 2011 32 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)