The Seashell On The Mountaintop

A Story Of Science, Sainthood, And The Humble Genius Who Discovered A New History Of The Earth

BY ALAN CUTLER
Seventeenth-century scientists were baffled: How did the fossils of seashells find their way to the tops of mountains? Nicolaus Steno, hailed as "the founder of Geology," solved the puzzle by exploring beyond the pages of the Bible and looking directly at the clues left in the layers of the Earth. With his groundbreaking answer to the fossil question, Steno confounded religious and scientific thinking, setting the stage for the modern science. At the same time his ideas were undermining the Bible's authoritative claim as to the age of the planet, Steno was entering the priesthood and rising to bishop. He would ultimately become venerated as a saint, beatified in 1988.

HighBridge 2003 5 3/4 HR. Disk

$7.00 (in stock)

The Second Book Of The Tao Audiobook

READ AND TRANSLATED BY STEPHEN MITCHELL ON 3 CD'S
Readings from Chuang-tzu, Lao-Tzu's disciple and from Tzu-ssu, the grandson of Confucius, with commentary on each reading. Each of the 64 chapters is short and can be listened to independent of the others but they are all connected.

Penguin 2009 3 HOURS Disk

$6.50 (in stock)

Seeking Peace (783)

True Stories About Mennonites Struggling To Live In Peace

BY TITUS & LINDA PEACHEY
A collection of about 70 stories, mostly contemporary, though some reach back to the civil war, concerning Mennonites around the world living out their convictions for peace and the avoidance of war. Unusual but useful index, by era, place, and reason for objection to military service. SECONDHAND COPY in good condition- no markings.

Good Books 1991 238 PP. Paper

$7.50 USED - availability checked May 22nd 9:03am EDT

Seeking Truth Together

Enabling The Poor And Saving The Planet In The Manner Of Friends

BY JACK POWELSON
Written to help Quakers deal with issues of real concern to compassionate people, such as affirmative action, the environment, affordable housing, debt forgiveness, foreign sweatshops, inner-city schools, globalization, greedy capitalists, CEO salaries and the growing gap between rich and poor. John Powelson is a sometimes controversial Quaker economist with experience in nineteen Latin American countries, sixteen African countries, China and the Philippines.

Horizon 2000 122 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Self-sufficiency

A Complete Guide To Baking, Carpentry, Crafts, Organic Gardening, Preserving Your Harvest, Raising Animals, And More

BY ABIGAIL GEHRING
Self-Sufficiency provides tips, advice, and detailed instructions on how to improve everyday life from an environmentally and organic perspective while keeping the focus on the family. Readers will learn how to plant a family garden and harvest the produce; can fruits and vegetables; bake bread and cookies; design interactive and engaging "green" projects; harness natural wind and solar energy to cook food and warm their homes; boil sap to make maple syrup; and build treehouses, furniture, and more.

Skyhorse 2010 458 PP. Cloth

$12.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Send My Roots Rain

A Spirituality Of Justice And Mercy

BY MEGAN MCKENNA
Justice and mercy are so easily misunderstood. "We tend to think of them as opposing forces and actions," she writes. "But the tradition of the Judeo-Christian world is that somehow mysteriously the Holy One holds them bound together, like intertwined roots of a great tree." Drawing upon scripture, Christian poetry and parables from Hindu, Zen, Native American, Jewish and other traditions, McKenna shows how justice and mercy need to be understood in spiritual terms before they can be effectively delivered. This makes for a contemplative, wandering book that's perfect for individual reflection or study groups.

Doubleday 2003 336 PP. Cloth

$6.50 (in stock)

Separate From The World

Ohio Amish Mystery Series - #6

BY P. L. GAUS
"Separate from the World" is a story of a rift between two Amish factions, one favors the use of medicine and participates in a college study of genetic traits particular to the Amish community, and the other rejects any outside influence. Once more, Gaus takes us inside a separate culture and, in a manner both gentle & grim, highlights the complex relationship of the Amish and the "English" as they live inside or outside each other's orbits. "Gaus is a sensitive storyteller who matches his cadences to the measured pace of Amish life, catching the tensions among the village's religious factions." The New York Times

Ohio University Press 2008 210 PP. Paper

$4.75 (in stock)

The Sex Side Of Life

Mary Ware Dennett's Pioneering Battle For Birth Control And Sex Education

BY CONSTANCE CHEN
A relative of Lucretia Mott, Mary Ware Dennett was one of the pioneering radical women involved in suffrage in the 19th Century. She wrote a short and plain sex education manual for her sons that went on to be widely distributed and led to her conviction on obscenity charges. A fascinating look at life in those turbulent times.

New Press 1996 374 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Shaker Hearts

BY ANN TURNER, ILLUSTRATED BY WENDELL MINOR
A children's book with the simplicity and spirituality of the words in verse and the accompanying pictures focused on the theme of the Shaker idea of "Hands to work, heart to God." This book would be an excellent gift for a Friend of any age.

Godine 2002 39 PP. Paper

$4.50 (in stock)

A Shaker's Dozen

BY KATHLEEN THORNE-THOMSEN
Everything the Shakers made was simple in design, pure in form, and perfect in construction, reflecting their beliefs about life. A Shaker's Dozen celebrates the functional beauty of Shaker crafts as it leads young readers on an engaging journey through the numbers one to twelve. From Shaker brooms to homemade fruit pies and sturdy wooden tools, A Shaker's Dozen combines color photographs and a simple text to illuminate Shaker life, while captions offer more detailed information on the various objects. Has an enlightening afterword on Shaker history. Ages 4-8.

Chronicle Books 1999 32 PP. Cloth

$2.50 (in stock)

Shout Sister Shout

WALD
Shout, Sister, Shout! is the first biography of this trailblazing performer who influenced scores of popular musicians, from Elvis Presley and Little Richard to Eric Clapton and Etta James. Rosetta Tharpe produced music that crossed boundaries, defied classification, and disregarded the social and cultural norms of the age, incorporating elements of gospel, blues, jazz, popular ballads, folk, country, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll. Tharpe went electric early on, captivating both white and black audiences in the North and South, in the U.S. and internationally, with her charisma and skill.

Beacon Press Books 2007 248 PP. Cloth

$7.50 (in stock)

Simply In Season Children's Cookbook

Fun With Food From Garden To Table

BY MARK BEACH AND JULIE KAUFFMAN
Help children make the connection between what they eat, where it comes from, and when it is in season. This colorful profusely illustrated cookbook makes it easy and fun for children to think and cook in season "An imaginative, active way to invite kids of all ages, but especially 6-to-12-year-olds, to get in touch with real food, to see where it comes from, to take responsibility for preparing it, and to have fun in the process"- Mary Beth Lind.

Herald Press 2006 80 PP. Spiral Bound

$10.00 (in stock)

Something Rising

KIMMELL. HAVEN
Cassie Claiborne contends with a distant mother, a fragile sister and a gambling, alcoholic father is this wry coming of age story set in rural Indiana and penned by Earlham School of Religion grad Haven Kimmel, author of The Used World and A Girl Named Zippy.Forms a loose trilogy with Kimmel's two previous novels, The Solace of Leaving Early and The Used World.

Harper Perennial 2005 270 PP. Paper

$2.50 (in stock)

Something Within

CLDWELL, GILBERT
Rev Caldwell is a founding member of United Methodists of Color for a fully inclusive Church. He was an early and active campaigner on issues of racial equality, and when he saw the inequality around issues of sexuality he also started working and writing on that as well. This is a collection of sermons and articles he has written in the 38 years to 2007.

Church within a Church movement. 2007 82 PP. Paper

$6.00 (in stock)

The Soul Of Politics

Beyond 'religious Right' And 'secular Left'

BY JIM WALLIS, DIANE STERLING, EDITED BY GARY WILLS
Wallis' work in Washington's poorer areas combining faith and politics is the basis for his contribution to this book, which seeks to unite left and right in a genuine attempt to help correct social wrongs.

Harcourt 1995 327 PP. Paper

$1.50 (in stock)

Space Race

The Epic Battle Between America And Russia For The Domminion Of Space.

BY DEBORAH CADBURY
From the author of Chocolate Wars. A look at how the race into space was marked by courage, duplicity, political paranoia, astonishing technological feats, and unbelievable triumphs in the face of overwhelming adversity. It is the story of an unparalleled rivalry between superpowers and of the two remarkable men at the center of the conflict. Deborah Cadbury's extraordinary history combines action and suspense with a moving portrayal of the space race's human dimension. Using source materials never before available, she tells a riveting story of the espionage, ambition, ingenuity, and passion behind humankind's mind-bending voyage beyond the bounds of Earth.

HarperCollins 2006 366 PP. Cloth

$8.00 (in stock)

The Squirrel Wife

BY PHILLIPA PEARCE
The green people in the woods are feared by all -- all except swineherd Jack, who dares to venture into the forest to answer a cry for help. Jack's heroism unveils the true nature of the green people and earns him an idyllic life with a woman he loves. But can they survive the ignorance around them? Magical storytelling and luminous woodland scenes easily transport readers to another time and place.

Candlewick 2007 32 PP. Cloth

$5.00 (in stock)

Stepping In The Light

Life In Joy And Power

BY HOWARD MACY
"The world is literally dying for lack of the Quaker way in action. If you want to get serious about practicing the Quaker way with joy and gusto in the current hour, read the life-giving words Howard sets before us in these pages." (from the foreword by Jack Kirk). Stepping in the Light gathers together Howard Macy's articles written for Quaker Life magazine from 1979-2006. His gift of prophetic insights touched with authentic humor makes for a wonderful read. Perfect for individual enjoyment and reflection, as well as group contemplation and study.Was $20.00

Friends United Press 2007 153 PP. Paper

$2.50 (in stock)

Stokes Bird Feeder Book

BY DONALD AND LILLIAN STOKES
Become an expert at attracting and identifying the birds at your Feeder with this book. There is a beautiful color photograph of both male and female for each bird, accompanied by identification clues, with details of their likely behavior. Includes advice on choosing a feeder and what to stock it with.

Little Brown 1987 86 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

A Story Of Suffering And Hope

Lessons From Latino Youth

BY EILEEN MCNERNEY
In 1993, a 16 year-old was shot and killed behind Sister Eileen McNerney's residence. Sr. McNerney gathered support and began St. Joseph's Workshop in 1995, a successful, non-profit continuing education project for mostly Latino young men and women in crisis. The stakes were high and the future often seemed grim as she let them teach her about life, theirs and hers. Who ministered to whom? Was it the youth, surrounded by love, who were transformed or their love that transformed her?

Paulist Press 2005 176 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Strong Is Your Hold

With Cd Of Poems

BY GALWAY KINNELL
Here is the eleventh book of poems by Galway Kinnell, whom the New York Times has called "one of the true master poets of his generation." In this striking and various collection, he gives us poems of intermingling with the natural world, love poems and evocations of sexuality, poems about his father, his children, poet friends, poet heroes, and mythic figures. Included also is "When the Towers Fell," his stunning requiem for those who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11.The book's title derives from Walt Whitman's "Last Invocation": "Strong is your hold O mortal flesh, / Strong is your hold O love."

Houghton Mifflin 2006 66 PP.+ CD Cloth

$4.50 (in stock)

Teaching Nonviolence

Audio Cd

BY DAVID FREUDBERG
Swimming in a sea of violent imagery from popular culture, where do today's children receive reinforcement for the skills of peacefully resolving conflict? This popular NPR documentary takes listeners to a toy store where Nancy Carlson-Paige, peace education professor at Leslie University, analyzes war toys. Then we attend an inner city Boston elementary school which has adopted Peacegames, a curriculum based on non-competitive play and community service. Also, we visit a public high school outside Washington where author Colman McCarthy teaches a daily Peace Studies class.

HumanMedia 2005 1 HOUR Audio

$15.00 (in stock)

To Live A Truer Life

A Story Of The Hopedale Community

BY LYNN GORDON-HUGHES, ILLUSTRATED BY LINDRO
The Hopedale Community was founded in 1841 by Adin and Lucy Ballou and others who wanted to try a new way of living, based on their understanding of the teachings of Jesus and the will of God. They called themselves Practical Christians' because they intended to put their religion into practice in their daily lives. The Practical Christians believed in a radical form of non-violence called Christian non-resistance, which rejected not only war and capital punishment, but all authority based on force. This book accompanies a young member of the community as she delivers mail to the diverse inhabitants and witnesses the way that they live their beliefs.

Blackstone Editions 2003 32 PP. Cloth

$10.00 (in stock)

To The Mountaintop

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Mission To Save America: 1955-1968

BY STEWART BURNS
In a striking departure from earlier books, Burns focuses on King's biblical faith and spiritual vision as fundamental to his political leadership. King is not portrayed as a lone exalted hero, but as the heart of a fabric of principled leadership that stretched from his closest colleagues to the movement's foot soldiers on the streets. This book stresses his shaping by other leaders - heroic figures such as Bayard Rustin, Ella Baker, James Bevel, Bob Moses, and Marian Wright Edelman - and his conflicted relationships with John and Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.

HarperSanFrancisco 2005 502 PP Paper

$5.50 (in stock)

Together In Love

Faith Stories Of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, And Transgender Couples

COMPILED AND EDITED BY ROBERTA SHOWALTER KREIDER
Twentysix couples share their personal stories of faithfulness to God and each other. Also included are stories and poems by parents, spouses, and friends of LGBT persons. The authors come from a wide variety of religious denominations and from locations in the U.S. and Canada. The book is an invitation to take a serious look at what it is like to grow up gay or transgender in a society that scorns and rejects people of diverse sexual orientation. This new collection is compiled by the editor of From Wounded Hearts. "These stories reflect love, compassion, tenderness, spiritual strength of those who have struggled through, pain, rejection, and suffering to wholeness."-Rev. Pomeroy

Strategic Press 2002 360 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

Toward A Tenderer Humanity And A Nobler Womanhood

African American Women's Clubs In Turn-of-the-century Chicago

BY ANNE KNUPFER
During the Progressive Era, over 150 African American women's clubs flourished in Chicago. Through these clubs, women created a vibrant social world of their own, seeking to achieve social and political uplift by educating themselves and the members of their communities. In politics, they battled legal discrimination, advocated anti-lynching laws, and fought for suffrage. In the tradition of other mothering, in which the the community shares in the care and raising of all its children, the club women established kindergartens, youth clubs, and homes for the elderly.

NYU 1997 209 PP. Paper

$6.00 (in stock)

The Trinity Guide To Eschatology

BY WILLIAM J. LA DUE
An evenhanded and accessible survey of the history of theological thought related to eschatology, or the end times. This book traces early development of Christian thought on the matter and surveys the perspectives of modern theologians.

Continuum 2004 166 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Turning To Earth

Stories Of Ecological Conversion

BY F. MARINA SCHAUFFLER
Turning to Earth charts the course of "ecological conversion". It looks at the conversion Stories of environmental activists and writers about how they came to hold those beliefs. Those featured include Quaker Scott Russell Sanders and also Edward Abbey and Alice Walker. This is a book that integrates spirituality, environmentalism and literary criticism and sheds a fascinating new light on all of them.

University of Virginia Press 2003 161 PP. Paper

$12.50 (in stock)

Twentieth-century Global Christianity

A People's History Of Christianity, Volume 7

EDITED BY MARY FARRELL BEDNAROWSKI
A specific focus and intent of this final volume of A People's History of Christianity is to delve behind the global phenomenon of Christianity to glimpse some of the very rich and dynamic lifeways within it. Ranging over the whole century and across several continents, the scholars in this volume probe Christians' creative encounters with popular culture, liturgy and spirituality, social change and Marxism, intrareligious and interreligious dialogue, and changes in gender expectations and roles. Includes 50 illustrations, maps, bibliographies, and an 8-page color gallery.

Fortress Press 2008 350 PP. Cloth

$12.00 (in stock)

Under The Same Sky

BY CYNTHIA DEFELICE
Joe Pedersen wants a motorbike that costs nearly $1,000, and his dad wants Joe to earn the money himself and "find out what a real day's work feels like." Angry that his father doesn't think he's up to the job, Joe joins the Mexican laborers who come to his father's farm each summer. Manuel, the crew boss, is only sixteen, yet highly regarded by the other workers and the Pedersen family. Joe's resentment grows when his father treats Manuel as an equal. In her sensitive new novel, Cynthia DeFelice explores our dependency on migrant workers and simultaneous reluctance to let these people into our country and into our lives. 10 +

FSG 2003 215 PP. Paper

$3.00 (in stock)