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  • Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition

    Finding the Heart's True Home

    Best-selling author Richard J. Foster offers a warm, compelling, and sensitive primer on prayer, helping us to understand, experience, and practice it in its many forms-from the simple prayer of beginning again to unceasing prayer. He clarifies the prayer process, answers common misconceptions, and shows the way into prayers of contemplation, healing, blessing, forgiveness, and rest.Coming to ... Read more

    $16.49 USD

  • If the Church Were Christian

    Rediscovering the Values of Jesus

    by Philip Gulley ...
    “[Philip Gulley’s] vision of Christianity is grounded, gripping, and filled with uncommon sense. He is building bridges instead of boundaries, and such wisdom is surely needed now.” —Richard Rohr, O.F.M, author of Everything BelongsQuaker minister Philip Gulley, author of If Grace Is True and If God Is Love, returns with If the Church Were Christian: a challenging and thought-provoking examination ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Fearless Benjamin Lay

    The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist With a New Pref ace

    The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of lifeIn The Fearless Benjamin Lay, renowned historian Marcus Rediker chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular man—a Quaker dwarf who demanded the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. Mocked and scorned by his ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Living the Quaker Way

    Discover the Hidden Happiness in the Simple Life

    by Philip Gulley ...
    A Publishers Weekly “Top 10 in Religion” selection.“This is nothing less than the gospel itself…a much-needed book.”—FR. RICHARD ROHR, OFM,Center for Action and Contemplation, Albuquerque, New Mexico“Living the Quaker Way is a treasure trove of practical wisdom about what it means to bear witness to our hope for a better world.”—Parker J. Palmer, author of Let Your Life SpeakPhilip Gulley invites ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Barn at the End of the World

    The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd

    “About the subtlest, most sane-making book on contemporary spirituality that I’ve read in years. It’s also the funniest.”—Joanna Macy, author of Active HopeDeciding 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 decidedly down-to-earth, often-hilarious book, O’Reilley describes her ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Love You, Miss Huddleston

    And Other Inappropriate Longings of My Indiana Childhood

    by Philip Gulley ...
    In the vein of Bill Bryson’s The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, with a dash of some of the homegrown nostalgia of The Dangerous Book for Boys and A Prairie Home Companion, humorist Philip Gulley (Front Porch Tales, Home to Harmony) tells of his coming of age in small-town Indiana. ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • The Evolution of Faith

    How God Is Creating a Better Christianity

    by Philip Gulley ...
    "Noone raises provocative questions about Christianity more kindly than PhilipGulley. " —Diana Butler Bass,author of Christianity for the Rest of Us“Everyserious Christian ought to read this book, ponder it,wrestlewith it, but above all, be grateful for its presence in today's urgentconversation about what we are and are becoming as a people of God.” —Phyllis Tickle, author of The ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

  • Quaker Writings

    An Anthology, 1650-1920

    Edited by Thomas D. Hamm ...
    An illuminating collection of work by members of the Religious Society of Friends.Covering nearly three centuries of religious development, this comprehensive anthology brings together writings from prominent Friends that illustrate the development of Quakerism, show the nature of Quaker spiritual life, discuss Quaker contributions to European and American civilization, and introduce the diverse ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $11.99 USD

  • If Grace Is True

    Why God Will Save Every Person

    Why Everyone Will Be in HeavenTwo pastors present their controversial belief in eternal salvation for all through God's perfect grace. Long disturbed by the church's struggle between offering both love and rejection, they discover what God wants from us and for us: grace for everyone. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Hometown Tales

    Recollections of Kindness, Peace, and Joy

    by Philip Gulley ...
    Stories from a Place That Feels Like HomeMaster storyteller Philip Gulley envelops readers in an almost forgotten world of plainspoken and honest small-town values, evoking a simpler time when people knew each other by name, folks looked out for their neighbors, and people were willing to do what was right—no matter the cost.When Philip Gulley began writing newsletter essays for the twelve members ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • The Quaker Way

    A Rediscovery

    by Rex Ambler ...
    This book is an attempt 'to explain the Quaker way, as far as that is possible'. It is a distinctive way and, though perhaps no better than others, it has its own integrity and effectiveness. Although it is fairly well known, Quakerism is not well understood, so the purpose o... ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A Quaker Officer in the Civil War

    Henry Gawthrop of the 4th Delaware

    His opposition to slavery outweighed his religion’s views of war: “One of the most unique and extensive views of a Delaware war veteran’s experience” (Main Line Times).When the call went out in 1862 for volunteers for Delaware’s 4th Infantry Regiment, a number of men from prominent Quaker families came forward to fight for the Union. Deeply patriotic and strongly opposed to slavery, they served ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Quakers are a fascinating religious group both in their origins and in the variety of reinterpretations of the faith since. Emerging from the social unrest of the English civil war, the Quakers have gone on to have an influence way beyond their numbers: be it their continued stance against war or their pioneering work against slavery. At the same time, Quakers maintain a distinctive worship ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Porch Talk

    Stories of Decency, Common Sense, and Other Endangered Species

    by Philip Gulley ...
    Evoking a time when life revolved around the front porch, where friends gathered, stories were told, and small moments took on larger meaning, in today’s hurry-up world, Philip Gulley’s essays remind us of the world we once shared—and can share again.When Philip Gulley began writing newsletter essays for the members of his Quaker meeting in Indiana, he had no idea one of the essays would find its ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Why Peace, Quaker?

    by Colm McKeogh ...
    Quakerism is not the peace testimony and the peace testimony is not pacifism but peace has a special place in Quakerism and here a Quaker gives four reasons why. The reasons are not uniquely Quaker and they can motivate the search for peace and also inform the use of force. In answering the question that is the title of this book, Colm McKeogh uses the four gospels to give expression to ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • If God Is Love

    Rediscovering Grace in an Ungracious World

    If God is love, why are so many Christians fearful, and why do so many church leaders sound hateful? Two controversial pastors address issues the church won't face, calling us to restore grace as the center of the Christian life.o In If Grace Is True, Pastors Philip Gulley and James Mulholland revealed their belief that God will save every person. They now explore the implications of this belief, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 7 Steps to Service

    An Encounter with Quaker Spirituality

    The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) are relatively few in number but have had a much greater impact in the world than those numbers might suggest thanks to their witness to peace and social reform. This very short volume describes a personal view of Quakerism in seven simple steps, with some of the essentials of this radical and contemporary approach to spiritual practice and how it ... Read more

    $2.22 USD

  • The Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman

    Edited by Phillips Moulton ...
    The secret of Woolman's purity of style is that his eye is single, and that conscience dictated his words. This Quaker preacher and tailor was a man of wisdom and true philosophy. These pages are filled with insight and messages for our time. A major classic of American spirituality. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quaker Quicks - Why I am a Pacifist

    A Call For A More Nonviolent World

    by Tim Gee ...
    Tim Gee tells the story of why he became a pacifist and what it means to him. Gee reflects on the lives of peacemakers past and present to provide responses to questions like “Don’t we have to hit back if we're hurt?”, “Don’t we need war to respond to evil?” and “Doesn’t religion justify wars?”. This is a critique of war, but more than that, it stakes a claim for pacifism's feminist and anti ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Jesus Today

    Jesus is a name we all recognise, but few people these days really know much about him, his personality or his teaching. For many he is as he appears in stained glass windows, or in hymns with words like “now above the sky he’s king, where the angels ever sing”, or nailed to a cross – dead. None of these present the lively radical teacher, poet, and healer that he was in his prime.A great deal of ... Read more

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  • The Christian Soldier, or Heaven Taken by Storm

    by Thomas Watson ...
    Thomas Watson (circa 16201686) was an English Puritan who became a well renowned preacher and author during his time, and his writings are still widely read today. As vicar of St. Stephen's Walbrook, Watson became famous and popular as a preacher until the Restoration, which found him removed from his position. Among his writings are All Things for Good (originally published as A Divine Cordial), ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Tailor-King

    The Rise and Fall of the Anabaptist Kingdom of Muenster

    He was only a Dutch tailor's apprentice, but from 1534 to 1535, Jan van Leyden led a radical sect of persecuted Anabaptists to repeated triumphs over the combined powers of church and state. Revered by his followers as the new David, the charismatic young leader pronounced the northern German city of Muenster a new Zion and crowned himself king. He expropriated all private property, took sixteen ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, A Quaker Kidnapped by Native Americans in 1725

    'On the 27th of the sixth month, called August, 1725, my husband and all our men-servants being abroad, eleven Indians, armed with tomahawks and guns, who had some time before been skulking about the fields, and watching an opportunity of our men’s absence, came furiously into the house...'  Thus begins the story of the captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, 'taken in substance from her own mouth' by the ... Read more

    $3.21 USD

  • Quaker Quicks - The Guided Life

    Finding Purpose in Troubled Times

    by Craig Barnett ...
    Quakers have made the cultivation of the guided life the focus of their spirituality for over three centuries. Generations of Quakers have developed practices for nurturing their connection to an inward source of guidance, meaning and purpose. This Inward Guide is present in all people, cultures and traditions. It goes by many names and is understood in many ways, but it is equally available to ... Read more

    $5.99 USD