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Dark Night Journey Inward Re-patterning Toward a Life Centered in God
Sandra Cronk
The "dark night" aptly describes the situation of those who have a growing sense of God's presence, direction and consolation, and then lose that experience. Sandra Cronk brings a unique Quaker perspective to her interpretation of this pathway, and offers sensitive guidance to dark night travelers and those who seek to understand and nurture them.
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Approaching the Gospels Together
A Leaders’ Guide for Group Gospels Study
Mary C. Morrison
Searching questions for Bible Study leaders, as well as complete instructions for facilitating a study group of the Gospels.
Pendle Hill Publications, $10.95 hardcover
Order this book please The Barn at the End of the World The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd Mary Rose O’Reilley Deciding that her life was insufficiently grounded in real-world experience, Mary Rose O’Reilley, a Quaker reared as a Catholic, embarked on a year of tending sheep. In this often hilarious book, O’Reilley describes her work in an agricultural barn and her extended visit to a Buddhist monastery in France. She seeks both in barn and monastery, a spirituality based not in “climbing out of the body” but rather in exiting fully in the world….”At the beginning of this year,” she writes, “I had no idea why I felt led to light out into the unfamiliar territory of sheep farming and Buddhist practice.” By the end she has found the “deep peace of animal creation” and a way to live consciously in the world. Milkweed Editions, $15.95, in paperback Order this book please Beyond Majority Rule Voteless Decision Making in the Society of Friends Michael Sheeran Well-written study of the way Quakers listen to God’s will and try to put it into action. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, $ 15.00 Order this book please Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person M.C. Richards How dangerous can art be! Here the via creativa –our works of imagination- and the via transformativa –our struggle for social justice, healing, transformation, and compassion- come together. All four paths of the mystical/prophetic journey are named by M. C. Richards, and named in practice as well as theory. The practice is centering. Wesleyan Press, 159 pgs., $18.95, paper bound Order this book please Early Quaker Writings 1650-1700 Edited by Hugh Barbour and Arthur O. Roberts Combined with Hidden in Plain Sight, this updated reprint gives readers a wonderful glimpse into early Quaker Spiritual Experience. Pendle Hill Publications, $27.00 Order this book please Essays on the Quaker Vision of Gospel Order
Mary Rose O’Reilley
Deciding that her life was insufficiently grounded in real-world experience, Mary Rose O’Reilley, a Quaker reared as a Catholic, embarked on a year of tending sheep. In this often hilarious book, O’Reilley describes her work in an agricultural barn and her extended visit to a Buddhist monastery in France. She seeks both in barn and monastery, a spirituality based not in “climbing out of the body” but rather in exiting fully in the world….”At the beginning of this year,” she writes, “I had no idea why I felt led to light out into the unfamiliar territory of sheep farming and Buddhist practice.” By the end she has found the “deep peace of animal creation” and a way to live consciously in the world.
Milkweed Editions, $15.95, in paperback
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Voteless Decision Making in the Society of Friends
Michael Sheeran
Well-written study of the way Quakers listen to God’s will and try to put it into action.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, $ 15.00
How dangerous can art be! Here the via creativa –our works of imagination- and the via transformativa –our struggle for social justice, healing, transformation, and compassion- come together. All four paths of the mystical/prophetic journey are named by M. C. Richards, and named in practice as well as theory. The practice is centering.
Wesleyan Press, 159 pgs., $18.95, paper bound
Early Quaker Writings 1650-1700
Edited by Hugh Barbour and Arthur O. Roberts
Combined with Hidden in Plain Sight, this updated reprint gives readers a wonderful glimpse into early Quaker Spiritual Experience.
Pendle Hill Publications, $27.00
Lloyd Lee Wilson
Gospel Order, and the search for it, has shaped the Quaker experience since George Fox. In this very helpful series of essays, Lloyd Lee Wilson explores the concept of Gospel Order, as it was understood by early Quakers and by contemporary Conservative Friends.
Quaker Press of FGC, $17.00
Essential Writings of Thich Nhat Hanh
Robert Ellsberg, ed.
Drawn from more than twenty of his books, these are the essential writings of one of the most beloved and influential figures of our day.
Orbis Books, $15.00
Experiment with Light
Rex Ambler
Explore George Fox’s meditation practice with Rex Ambler as your guide. This set of six CD’s was recorded during a weekend conference led by Rex Ambler at Pendle Hill in the spring of 2003.
$32.00 for the set of six CD’s
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting,
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Jonathan Dale et al.
Friends give examples of their lived witness: drawing on examples from recent times, this book can be used for study, meditation, or discussion by individuals and by groups.
Quaker Home Service, $20.00. paperbound
This book speaks to all of us, in whatever parts of ourselves we are “beginning,” either for the first time or in the curve of the unfolding spiral. And it urges a continuing practice, which will deepen our work. There is no repetition, for each time we come to view life from another perspective.
Biscuit Books, 163 pgs., $26.50, paper bound
Peter Ackerman and Jack Duvall
Ackerman, an authority on nonviolent strategy, and DuVall, a veteran writer, tell how popular movements have used nonviolent weapons to overthrow dictators, obstruct military invaders, and secure human rights in country after country in the past century. The book is a companion to a documentary television series of the same name.
Palgrave, $19.95
Friends for 350 Years
Howard H. Brinton, 1952, revised by Margaret Hope Bacon, 2002
Brinton’s classic, Friends for 300 Years, is now updated by Quaker historian Margaret Hope Bacon who offers areas of sensibility for modern Friends to consider as we create and record our present and future history.
Pendle Hill Publications, $16.00
The Gift Poems by Hafiz, the Great Sufi Master
Daniel Ladinsky, translator
More than any other Persian poet, it is Hafiz who accesses the mystical, healing dimensions of poetry. Sylvia Boorstein writes, “These remarkable short poems are magic tricksverbal sleights of hand-that cause the mind to blink and that replace the imagined perception of grief and woe with the reality of joy.”
Penguin Books, $15.00
Patricia McBee, ed.
In these articles, the timeless and repeating cycles within the life of a meeting and the particular problems of our times are well addressed in this collection of articles from Pastoral Care Newsletter. It includes questions for reflection, bibliography and an index.
Quaker Press of FGC, $19.95
Joan Chittister
From abandonment to zeal, this alphabet of monastic values will help you to experience peace and love in the midst of life’s pressures and problems.
Foreword by C. Michael Curtis
Brent Bill has selected writings from late 20th and 21st century Quaker authors whose writings have inspired him and who have published in the popular market. Imagination and Spirit offers some of the "best of the best" of contemporary Quaker writings, with a brief biography of each author. Includes works by Daisy Newman, Jessamyn West, Richard J. Foster, Douglas V. Steere, Thomas J. Mullen, D. Elton Trueblood, Elizabeth Gray Vining, Scott Russell Sanders, Irene Allen, Phil Gulley, James A. Michener, Thomas Kelly, Jan De Hartog, David Yount and Irene Allen.
Friends United Press, $19.00
“If the devil makes work for idle hands, then could constantly busy hands entice angels to whisper in the knitter’s ear?” So asks longtime knitting enthusiast and lifelong spiritual seeker Susan Gordon Lydon in this wise, literary reflection on finding one’s own spiritual path by pursuing one’s personal passion.
Harper Collins, 161 pgs., $19.95, hard bound
Thandeka
No other book so fully demonstrates the origins of white identity in misery and defeat, as well as in power and privilege. Thandeka offers it as a prayer for us all, "Let us walk together children."
Continuum, $19.95
Let Your Life Speak Listening for the Voice of Vocation
Parker Palmer
With wisdom, compassion, and humor, Parker Palmer invites us to listen to the inner teacher and follow its leadings toward a sense of meaning and purpose.
Jossey-Bass Publishers, $18.95. Hardbound
The Light in Their Consciences The Early Quakers in Britain 1646-1666
by Rosemary Moore
Rooted firmly and deeply in the pamphlet and manuscript sources of the period, this study embodies a masterful exploration of early Quaker life and thought. In its lucidity and depth, Rosemary Moore's book clearly deserves an honored place among the first ranks of studies of Quaker origins. No one interested in the topic can afford to pass this fine book by. Let's call it what it is: history at its finest." -H. Larry Ingle, author of First Among Friends: George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism
"The Light in Their Consciences breaks new ground in documenting when and why Quakers realized they were first a movement and then a sect and that other dissenters deserved toleration. This is the best account of the formative period of Quakerism since Hugh Barbour's The Quakers in Puritan England and the best intellectual history yet written of the evaluation of Friends' religious ideas. I have revised much of my teaching about the earliest period of Quakerism based on Moore's findings" -J. William Frost, Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College
The Pennsylvania State University Press, Hardbound, $39.00
Light to Live By An exploration in Quaker spirituality
This book describes “a personal practice of meditation which I discovered in early Friends” and tells” the story of that discovery and of my attempts to use the practice and develop it in my own personal life”. Light to Live By is a companion volume to Truth of the Heart: an anthology of George Fox.
Quaker Books, $12.00
Listening Spirituality
Patricia Loring
Vol. 1 Personal Spiritual practices among Friends
For those contemplating prayer, devotion meditation and listening to God, Volume I has a focus on personal spiritual practices among Friends.
QuakerBooks of FGC, Vol. I $18.00
Vol. 2 speaks of the corporate Spiritual Practices Among Friends
QuakerBooks of FGC, Vol. 2 $16.00
The Little Book of Restorative Justice NEW
Howard Zehr
Howard Zehr, known worldwide for his pioneering work in transforming our understandings of justice, proposes workable Principles and Practices for making restorative justice both possible and useful.
Good Books, $4.95
Little Journal of Devotions Out of Quaker Worship An Experiment with 104 Entries across 2000 miles
Francis Hole and Ellie Shacter
Two Friends write devotions in an informal and prayerful manner. Nicely illustrated, this book shows the important matters of life in day to day occurrences.
FGC Publications, $10.95
A Living Faith An Historical and Comparative Study of Quaker Beliefs Second Edition
Wilmer A. Cooper
Written by the founding dean of the Earlham School of Religion, this is the capstone text for Guilford College’s Quaker Leadership Scholars Program and makes accessible the full spectrum of contemporary Friends.
Friends United Press, $24.00
The Living Labyrinth
Jeremy Taylor
An exploration of universal themes in myths, dreams and the symbolism of waking life.
Paulist Press $22.95
Moving to a Small Town
Wanda Urbanska and Frank Levering
An inspirational guidebook dedicated to helping you pinpoint your ideal small town and make your life there work
Simon & Schuster $20.00
The Mystic Heart Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World’s Religions
Wayne Teasdale
This eloquent book illustrates how previously divided and distinguished spiritual traditions are converging into a new river of holiness, an interspirituality.
New World Library, $14.
A Near Sympathy
The Timeless Quaker Wisdom of John Woolman
Michael L. Birkel
An invitation to a friendship with John Woolman, as well as an invitation to consider what John Woolman has to say to us today. Birkle guides readers through Woolman's experience and witness to integrity and love, worship, scripture, suffering and redemption, nurturing empathy, and engaging the world.
Friends United Press, $15.00
Nothing's Too Small to Make a Difference
Nothing's Too Small to Make a Difference is the companion volume to the PBS series, Simple Living with Wanda Urbanska. In chapters covering time, money, work, the environment, child rearing, community life, health and food, and spiritual growth, the authors offer proven, practical advice on how to simplify and improve life. Not idle dreamers but the owners of a small business themselves, not iconoclasts but proud Americans who believe it's possible to work within the system, Urbanska and Levering point the way toward a future in which community, family, and health can reclaim their rightful positions alongside money as the pillars of life.
Nudged by the Spirit Stories of People Responding to the Still, Small Voice of God
Charlotte Lyman Fardelmann
Discernment is the spiritual practice among friends that empowers their service in the world. This anthology shares the stories of people who have experienced a sense of call to ministry and how they moved forward into that work with support from their monthly meetings.
288 pages, 6x9, paper, $17.00
Peace is the Way
Writings on Nonviolence from the Fellowship of Reconciliation
Walter Wink, ed.
This collection of 60 original and classic essays is an indispensable collection of writings from some of the greatest peacemakers of our time.
Orbis Books, $20.00
Plain Living A Quaker Path to Simplicity
Catherine Whitmire
Must reading for anyone feeling too busy or too stressed and seeking to simplify their life—to listen to the longings of their heart. Forward by Parker Palmer.
Sorin Books, $14.95
A Quaker Declaration of War
Chuck Fager
A compilation of six timely articles for Friends grappling with the issues of war and peace in our troubled times.
Kimo Press, $7.95
Selected and introduced by Jessamyn West
This classic reprint includes extracts from the writings of Margaret Fell, George Fox, William Penn, Elizabeth Fry, Hannah Whitall Smith, Rufus M. Jones, Elizabeth Gray Vining, and Douglas Steere-all faithful members of the Religious Society of Friends from 1650 to 1962.
Pendle Hill Publications, $21.00
