Addressing Sexual Abuse In Friends Meetings

BY NEW ENGLAND YEARLY MEETING
What is sexual abuse? How can Friends be aware of violence in our homes and meetings? This important resource is the work of many Friends in New England.

New England Yearly Meeting 1994 55 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Conflict In Meetings

2nd, Revised Edition

BY THE COMMITTEE ON ELDERSHIP AND OVERSIGHT OF BRITAIN YEARLY MEETING
Conflict is inseparable from adventurous living. Whether it constrains or liberates depends to a large extent on how we respond to it. This book encourages Friends to seek help where needed: there are lists of resources and useful organizations. The book can be read for interest, for general information or in study groups: discussion questions and practical exercises help us grasp the thorniest issues. This book is for clerks, those responsible for eldership or oversight, and anyone called to deal with potential or actual conflict. It will enable Friends to identify the resources in their own meetings and use them to forge a living peace testimony which is not just about opposition.

Britain YM 2000 72 PP. Paper

$11.00 (in stock)

The "go Ask Alice" Book Of Answers (0778)

A Guide To Good Physical, Sexual, And Emotional Health

BY COLUMBIA UNIV HEALTH ED PROGRAM
SECONDHAND BOOK- some water daamge to last few pages. But readable and looks ok spine on. A gathering workshop recomendation as aresorce on sexuality for young people.In a unique, straightforward style "Go Ask Alice!" delivers hard-to-find answers to your sometimes hard-to-ask questions about sex, STDs, relationships, nutrition, fitness, depression, drugs, eating disorders, and many other personal health concerns.

Owl Books 1998 345 PP. Paper

$12.50 USED - availability checked Feb 9th 3:40am EST

Grounded In God

Care And Nurture In Friends Meetings

EDITED BY PAT MCBEE
A fundamental element of the life of a Friends meeting is a longing to care for one another in ways that are deeply grounded in love and in the presence of the Spirit. This collection of essays is a thematic arrangement of the Pastoral Care Newsletter with each article addressing a challenge or question that pastoral caregivers will face in their work. Caregivers and the people who are members of ministry and care, ministry and nurture or worship and care committees can use this book to enhance their skills. Includes questions for discussion, bibliography, index.Was $19.95 now $15.95.

Quaker Press of FGC 2002 288 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

Handbook For Overseers

BY PHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING
Describes care of members, functions shared with other committees, record keeping, etc.

Philadelphia YM 1994 15 PP. Paper

$2.25 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Out Of The Silence

Quaker Perspectives On Pastoral Care And Counseling

BY BILL RATLIFF
This anthology of Quaker perspectives on caregiving will aid pastors, chaplains, seminary teachers and students as well as health counselors, psychologists, social workers and psychiatrists. The theory of Quaker practice is wedded to the experience of the professional caregiver to present a relationship-centered model for caregiving.

Pendle Hill 2001 320 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)

Pastoral Care Of Children And Young People

BY THE COMMITTEE ON ELDERSHIP AND OVERSIGHT OF BRITAIN YEARLY MEETING
Pastoral care of children and young people has its own particular difficulties and rewards. This booklet offers advice for the spiritual care and guidance of the young.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2001 46 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Patterns Of Eldership And Oversight

BRITAIN YEARLY MEETING COMMITTEE ON ELDERSHIP AND OVERSIGHT
British guide to eldership in monthly meetings, offering case studies and suggesting exercises and additional resources to study these practices.

Britain Yearly Meeting 1997 30 PP. Paper

$10.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Seeking God's Will On Same-sex Relationships

The Experience Of Cleveland Friends Meeting

EDITED BY MARTY GRUNDY
Many Friends Meetings have struggled with the issue of same-sex relationships. Cleveland Meeting tried to discern what God wanted our meeting to do on this issue twenty years ago. We struggled for some eight years before experiencing the miracle of coming into unity in 1994 with what felt to us to be a "third way". Not everyone agreed, and Cleveland Meeting was disowned by Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative). Rather than providing a narrative this book presents the multiplicity of documents-minutes from monthly, quarterly, and yearly meetings, reports of committees, and some letters-that record the struggle, in the hopes that readers may draw their own conclusions.

Create Space 2010 93 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Seeking Inner Peace

Presence, Pain, Wholeness Php 414

BY ELIZABETH DE SA
"Our souls strive toward union with the Divine. In our lives, we gravitate toward the inner peace that is the fruit of such union, and the power and prayer of living authentically." Elizabeth De Sa describes her own quest for a life of spiritual authenticity and inner peace in an essay that probes deeply into the lessons learned and the rewards reaped in such a search.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2011 32 PP Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Walk Worthy Of Your Calling

Quakers And The Traveling Ministry

EDITED BY MARGERY POST-ABBOTT AND PEGGY SENGER-PARSONS
This book is a collection of essays and stories by many Friends across the spectrum of Quakerism who have been called to travel in the ministry. Included are reflections on struggling with the call itself and the transformation that comes from listening carefully to God's direction. Many experiences of Friends called to traditional ministry among Friends are described, as are explorations of new forms of ministry. There is a chapter on support structures for the minister as s/he undertakes his or her journey. The editors offer up this book for all those considering ministry; as a guide to moving forward and as a sourcebook of encouragement and inspiration.

Friends United Press 2004 302 PP Paper

$19.00 (in stock)

Wobbling Home

A Spiritual Walk With Parkinsons

BY JIM ATWELL
This second collection of columns, "Wobbling Home," is a deeply insightful meditation on his illness, his Christian faith, and his journey's end. Raised a Roman Catholic, Jim has been a Quaker for forty years. Viewing his life as a "Parkie" through the lens of Quakerism, he sees the disease as emanating from the same loving Source that gives him life -- a Source which also manipulates his body and brain at random times and in mysterious ways. He shares not only his own thoughts and reactions, but also those of his loving wife Anne and other Parkies and their spouses as well.

Square Circle 2010 190 PP. Paper

$17.95 (in stock)