Beyond Uneasy Tolerance

The Saga Of Quakers And The Arts In 100 Quotations

EDITED BY ESTHER GREENLEAF-MURER
"This pamphlet tells the dramatic and little-known story of the evolution of Quaker attitudes toward the arts from antipathy to acceptance. The story is presented in the form of brief quotations from Quaker writings on the arts, arranged chronologically from the 1650s to 1995." - Esther Murer, from the introduction

Fellowship of Quakers in the Arts 2000 63 PP. Paper

$8.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Beyond War (part 1)

What War Really Means - Audio Cd

BY DAVID FREUDBERG
Is warfare a necessary evil -- or is it total madness? The true human costs of war are described by patients in a veterans hospital, the author of a history of bombing, a NY Times war correspondent and others Also The Quaker conscience: the social and political witness offered by members of the Society of Friends. Here Friends discuss pacifism and social equality and lastly Viktor Frankl, the late author of "Man's Search for Meaning" who recognized that only by clinging to a higher life purpose could he survive such an atrocity.

Human Media 2003 1 HOUR Audio

$6.50 (in stock)

Bible, The Church And The Future Of Friends

Papers From The Quaker Issues Roundtable

EDITED BY CHUCK FAGER
The struggle over the legitimacy of same-sex relationships is used as a lens through which to view differing understandings of the Bible and faith communities.

Pendle Hill 1996 240 PP. Paper

$9.95 (in stock)

Biblical Pacifism (2nd Ed)

BY DALE BROWN
"The only people on Earth who do not see Christ and his teaching as non violent are Christians." - Gandhi. Dale Brown looks at the old and new testament exploring key passages and then looks at the history of Christian thought to see where Christs words "Love they enemies" changed their meaning and emphasis.

Evangel Press 2003 182 PP. Paper

$16.95 (in stock)

The Biblical Vision Of Sabbath Economics

BY CHED MYERS
A short, key, text that gives voice to Myers challenging ideas of non violence and liberation theology lived prophetically in the modern world. Culled from articles in Other side and other journals.

Potters House 2001 72 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

Bicycles

Love Poems

BY NIKKI GIOVANNI
This is a companion volume to Giovanni's love poems of 1997. Since then Giovanni has experienced losses both public and private. The death of her mother and sister, the massacre at Virginia Tech where she teaches. And just when it seemed life was spinning out of control, Giovanni rediscovered love-what she calls the antidote. Here romantic love-and all its manifestations, the physical touch, the emotional pull, the hungry heart-is distilled as never before by one of our most talented poets.

Morrow 2009 109 PP. Cloth

$16.99 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Big Big World

Audio Cd

BY BILL HARLEY
Quaker Bill Harleys' songs with humorous and beautifully observed lyrics, themed on family life and backed by reggae, hand-clapping Cajun and honky tonk music with a decidedly world beat! Includes 'Walk a Mile,' 'Turn the World Around,' and 'Sittin' Down to Eat.'

Round River Records 1996 50 MINUTES Audio

$15.00 (in stock)

The Big Book For Peace And The Big Book For Our Planet

Audio Cassettes

BY VARIOUS ARTISTS
The Big Book for Peace edited by Ann Durrell is sadly out of print, but here on audio are recorded most of its poems and stories about many kinds of peace, peace among people living in different lands, among next-door neighbors, among people of different races, and among sisters and brothers. Understanding among those separated by their beliefs, and those separated by generations. Combined with the ecological stories and poems in Big Book for the Planet. Graet value for 3 hours of listening.

Media Books 1999 2 TAPES Audio

$3.50 (in stock)

Big Day For Jack

SCHULER, MARILYN

Cloth

$8.99 (in stock)

Big Momma Makes The World - Paperback

BY PHYLLIS ROOT, ILLUSTRATED BY HELEN OXENBURY
When Big Momma makes the world, she doesn't mess around. With a baby on her hip and laundry piling up, she demands light and dark, earth and sky, creepers and crawlers, and lots of folks to trade stories with on the front porch. And when the work is done, Big Momma, she is pleased all right. "That's good," she says. "That's real good." With down-home language and infectious rhythms, Phyllis Root spins a creation myth like no other.

Candlewick 2007 40 PP. Paper

$6.99 (in stock)

The Big Orange Splot

BY DANIEL MANUS PINKWATER
When Mr. Plumbeans' house is splashed with bright orange paint, he decides a multicolored house would be a nice change and one by one he convinces the nieghbors to follow their hearts and make their homes reflections of their true selves. A very fine book about integrity and the power of dreams.

Scholastic 1993 32 PP. Paper

$4.99 (in stock)

Big Thoughts For Little People

TAYLOR, KENNETH
Big Thoughts for Little People is an updated version of the best-selling picture book by renowned children's author Kenneth N. Taylor. Using the alphabet as a learning tool, this beloved picture book connects Bible themes and verses with engaging art. Children and adults will enjoy learning biblical concepts and verses while searching for lessons (and hidden lady-bugs) in the art. Learning has never been so much fun!

Tyndale House Publishers Blank

$14.99 (in stock)

Binding The Wounds Of War

Ayoung Relief Worker's Letters Home 1943-47

BY CLIFFORD BARNARD
Clifford Barnard was a CO in WW2 and joined the Friends Ambulance Unit, the book is a collection of his letters home to his parents and tells of his experiences in training and then in the newly liberated Europe, including the Sandbostel camp for political prisoners that is more fully described in his previous book "Two weeks in May". The letters are delightful, even if the subject matter is often sad, there are elements of biography and the touching romance with his future wife is cataloged

Pronoun Press 2010 198 PP. Paper

$17.00 (in stock)

Biographical Dictionary Of British Quakers

In Commerce & Industry 1775 -1920

COMPILED BY EDWARD MILLIGAN
Many years in the making, the former librarian and archivist at Friends House in London has garnered and written 2,800 biographies of Friends active in industry or commerce. The large double columned pages mean this really is a treasure house of information for historians and genealogists. Indexed by occupation, place, apprentice master, and school attended. 8 appendices and 50 pages of illustrations.

Sessions 2007 605 PP. Paper

$60.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Birchbark House

ERDRICH, LOUISE
"[In this] story of a young Ojibwa girl, Omakayas, living on an island in Lake Superior around 1847, Louise Erdrich is reversing the narrative perspective used in most children's stories about nineteenth-century Native Americans. Instead of looking out at 'them' as dangers or curiosities, Erdrich, drawing on her family's history, wants to tell about 'us', from the inside. The Birchbark House establishes its own ground, in the vicinity of Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' books."

Hyperion Books Cloth

$6.99 (in stock)

Bird

BY ZETTA ELLIOTT, SHADRA STRICKLAND
Young Mekhai, better known as Bird, loves to draw. With drawings, he can erase the things that don't turn out right. In real life, problems aren't so easily fixed. As Bird struggles to understand the death of his beloved grandfather and his older brother's drug addiction, he escapes into his art. In time, with the help of his grandfather's friend, Bird finds his own special somethin' and wings to fly. Told with spare grace, Bird is a touching look at a young boy coping with real-life troubles. Readers will be heartened by Bird s quiet resilience, and moved by the healing power of putting pencil to paper.

Lee and Low 2008 48 PP. Cloth

$19.95 (in stock)

Bird On A Rocking Chair (77)

Occasional Essays From Family And Personal Life

BY J R ELKINTON
A miscellany of occasional essays from family and professional life 1957-1987. Good condition paperback. Notable Medical doctor and editor for many years of Annals of Internal Medicine, author of "Bodily fluids". Many Quakerly reminisces on family life, science medicine and hiking. Good Reading copy- in quite good condition.

Cottage Press 1988 257 PP. Paper

$12.00 USED - availability checked Jun 20th 3:40am EDT

The Birth Of Christianity

Discovering What Happened In The Years Immediately After The Execution Of Jesus

BY JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN
John Dominic Crossan, expert on the historical Jesus, explores the lost years of earliest Christianity, those immediately following the execution of Jesus. He establishes the contextual setting by an interdisciplinary combination of anthropological, historical, and archaeological approaches. He identifies the textual sources by a literary analysis of the earliest discernible layers within our present gospels, both inside and outside the New Testament. Context and text come together to challenge long-standing assumptions about the role of Paul and the meaning of resurrection, and to forge new understanding of the birth of the Christian church.

HarperOne 1999 653 PP. Paper

$21.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Black Abolitionists

BY BENJAMIN QUARLES
Black abolitionists introduces us to the many overlooked African Americans who were active in the movement, preaching, writing, guiding and travelling the world to bring an end to the despicable practice of slavery. A reprint of the then groundbreaking 1969 book but still as relevant as ever today.

Da Capo 1990 320 PP. Paper

$16.95 (in stock)

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

$23.95 (in stock)

Black Fire, Epub Ebook

African American Quakers On Spirituality And Human Rights

EDITED BY: HAROLD D. WEAVER, JR., PAUL KRIESE, STEPHEN W. ANGELL
This is an ePub formatted version of the book. Download to your computer and then upload from there to any E reader device except a Kindle. WE WILL EMAIL YOU A LINK TO DOWNLOADTHE BOOK ON THE NEXT WORKING DAY AFTER RECEIVING YOUR ORDER. Black Fire gathers the voices of 18 individuals who spoke and wrote as African Americans from within the Quaker community. Testifying about their viewpoints on racial justice- both within the Society of Friends & society at large - and they speak of their life in the Spirit. Enter "Black Fire" in the search field at left to find print and mobi editions.

Quaker Press of FGC 2011 300 PP. E Book

$11.95 (in stock)

Black Fire, Mobi Ebook

African American Quakers On Spirituality And Human Rights

EDITED BY: HAROLD D. WEAVER, JR., PAUL KRIESE, STEPHEN W. ANGELL
This is a mobi formatted version of the book. Download to your computer and then upload from there to a Kindle. WE WILL EMAIL YOU A LINK TO DOWNLOAD THE BOOK ON THE NEXT WORKING DAY AFTER RECEIVING YOUR ORDER. Black Fire gathers the voices of 18 individuals who spoke and wrote as African Americans from within the Quaker community. Testifying about their viewpoints on racial justice - both within the Society of Friends & society at large - and they speak of their life in the Spirit. Enter "Black Fire" in the search field at left to find print and ePub editions.

Quaker Press of FGC 2011 300 PP. E Book

$11.95 (in stock)

Black Presence In Pennsylvania

Making It Home

BY EMMA LAPSANSKY
Starting with the details of some of William Penn's slaves this little pamphlet makes an excellent introduction to the troubled history of African Americans in Pennsylvania. Quakers are often mentioned in the progress towards equal rights.

Pennsylvania Historical Association 2001 46 PP Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Blessed Are The Pacifists

The Beatitudes And Just War Theory

BY THOMAS TRZYNA
Thomas Trzyna takes a fresh look at pacifism as a way of life and a practical method of conflict resolution that is grounded in the Scripture, particularly the Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew's gospel. Based on a study of just war theory and contemporary world events, this book does not rehearse familiar debates about how to justify war. Rather, it approaches the topic from the provocative angle that the work of peacemakers requires setting goals to be measured in generations, not years.

Herald Press 2006 138 PP. Paper

$11.99 (in stock)

Blessed Community

BY MARTY WALTON
Marty Walton expounds upon the many meanings of "blessed community" in Quakerism.

Southeastern Yearly Meeting 1994 21 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Blessed Unrest

How The Largest Social Movement In History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, And Beauty To The World

BY PAUL HAWKEN
Hawken has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. "This is first full account of the real news of our time, and it's exactly the opposite of the official account. The movers and shakers on our planet aren't the billionaires and the generals - they are the incredible numbers of people around the world filled with love for neighbor and for the earth who are resisting, remaking, restoring, renewing, revitalizing. This powerful and lovely book is their story - our story - and it's high time someone's told it. Nothing you read for years to come will fill you with more hope and more determination." - Bill McKibben

Penguin 2008 352 PP. Paper

$16.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

A Blessing In Disguise

39 Life Lessons From Today's Greatest Teachers

EDITED BY ANDREA JOY COHEN
Many well known spiritual writers and speakers share personal stories about their most challenging experience - and provide the healing wisdom that helped them emerge from them with a strengthened faith, and a deeper understanding of life, and with inner peace. The cahallenges include death, dying, suffering, Creative expression, Family dynamics, faith and the loss of it. Contributors include Anne Wilson Schaef, Bernie Siegel, Joan Borysenko, Stephen Levine and Thich Nhat Hahn.

Berkeley 2008 302 PP. Paper

$14.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Blessing Of The Lord

Stories From The Old And New Testaments

BY GARY SCHMIDT, ILLUSTRATED BY DENNIS NOLAN
"In a smooth, poetic style, Schmidt retells twenty-five Bible stories, emphasizing the humanity of the characters. For example, he fills out Noah's story with a description of the despair Noah and his family feel, trapped on the Ark not knowing if they will ever see land again. The elaborations retain the tone of the original stories but extend them to explore motivations and emotions. Nolan's handsome paintings are suitably majestic or gentle." - Horn Book

Eerdmans 1997 160 PP. Cloth

$20.00 (in stock)

The Blogging Church

Sharing The Story Of Your Church Through Blogs

BY BRIAN BAILEY
The author is "web director" at Fellowship Church. His book is aimed at pastors, but Friends will also find it useful. It explains blogging and the associated technologies in simple terms and talks about its advantages and pitfalls for outreach and ministry. Bailey gives tips and examples of good blogging practice.

Jossey Bass 2006 199 PP. Paper

$12.00 (in stock)

Blood Knot (809)

ATHOL FUGARD
A very good copy in the original orange pictorial boards, light wear to extremities, slight scuffing on rear, a clean tight example of Athol Fugard's first book.; First Edition

Simondiam Pubs 1963 130 PP. Cloth

$40.00 USED - availability checked Jun 20th 3:40am EDT