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Making Friends with Money
By Sanni Kruger
Making Friends with Money is the definitive guide to confident and skilled money management. Readers learn how to determine spending priorities and categorise these in a cashflow plan. They receive detailed guidance how to manage inflows and outflows, how to compare this with planned expenditure and how to identify areas where spending may need to be adjusted.
Enlivened by the Mystery: Quakers and God
edited by Kathy Hyzy
“How have you experienced God or the Divine?” With this query, Western Friend invited Quakers across the West to share their stories through art, poetry, fiction and essays. The contributions of over fifty Friends are gathered in this testament to the breadth of spiritual experience in the Religious Society of Friends. Sections begin with queries useful for study groups.
The Weavers' Legacy: Lighting the Path of Pioneers
by Stewart Baily
Follows the decendants of a family that emigrated from England in the 17th Century on a long odyssey across oceans, rivers, mountains, prairies and generations.
Timeless Quaker Wisdom In Plain Song: CD
by Pauletter Meier
A remarkable collection of 21 Gregorian chant-like songs of early Quaker texts. The words of George Fox, Margaret Fell, John Woolman, and others who may be new to you are sung in piercingly clear plainsong. You will receive the words in new ways.
To Be Broken and Tender
by Marge Abbott
In To Be Broken and Tender, Margery Abbott weaves together a brave and beautiful personal narrative with Quaker history and theological reflection in response to questions and struggles about belief, language, social issues and other deeply-felt concerns that unsettle and divide our meetings and the wider Religious Society of Friends. Includes a study guide.
Genetically Modified Crops
Promises, Perils, And The Need For Public Policy
By Anne Mitchell, Pinayur Rajagopal, Susan Holtz
This Quaker Institute for the Future booklet assesses the record of GM crops and the role of public policy in their regulation. It places biotechnology within an ethical context of concern for equity, the environment, and the common good and presents a framework for understanding the varieties of biotechnologies and for gauging strategic action on public policy.
How On Earth Do We Live Now?
Natural Capital, Deep Ecology, And The Commons
by David Cisel, Barbara Day, Keith Helmuth, Sandra Lewis, AND JudyLumb
This is both a cry of alarm and a call to action. It views our dilemma through the lenses of “natural capital” and “deep ecology,” arriving at "'the commons" and considering human character and evolution.
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Build It! A Toolkit for Nurturing Intergenerational Spiritual Community
Created by the Youth Ministries Program of Friends General Conference
Provides ideas and a wealth of practical tools for building connectedness and a sense of community across age groups within a meeting or other assembly of multiple generations.
A Lively Faith: Reflections on Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative)
by Calli Marsh
In this loving portrait of a faith community, Callie Marsh explores the story of Conservative Friends in Iowa. Her account chronicles how one group of Quakers has maintained deep roots in the integrity of its traditions, while simultaneously grappling with and responding to the modern world.
Conversation with Christ: Quaker Meditations on the Gospel of John
by Douglas Gwyn
The gospel of John is sometimes known among Friends as “the Quaker Gospel” because it speaks to the Quaker concern for a here-and-now experience of eternal reality in Christ. Conversation with Christ explores this theme through thirteen conversations from the Fourth Gospel in which the history and mystery of Jesus are revealed.
Binding The Wounds Of War
A young 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.
Just Moms
Conveying Justice in an Unjust World
edited by Melanie Springer Mock & Rebekah D. Schneiter
Conveying the principles and the practice of justice to young children is no small task.
In this poignant, honest, and sometimes witty collection of stories, 27 women share their adventures and misadventures modeling social-justice principles for their children and communities. Just Moms is about moms bending their own rules and redefining success as they work to raise kids who value peace, equality, truth, simplicity, and love.
Missions by the Spirit
Learning From Quaker Examples
by Ron Stansell
Consciously and unconsciously, twentieth-century Evangelical Friends were influenced by traditions and beliefs about the Holy Spirit, interpersonal relationships of peace and harmony, convictions that the human condition involves both physical and spiritual needs, and the belief that a passionately holy life full of integrity was required of them as missionaries.
A Demanding and Uncertain Adventure; Exploration of a concern for Earth restoration and how we must live to pass on to our children, and their children, and all living things, an Earth restored.
by Rowe Morrow
In the JAMES BACKHOUSE LECTURE* , 2011 (69p. ppbk) international permaculture expert, Rowe Morrow (pictured) writes about using permaculture in postwar reconstruction in South-east Asia, Europe, and Africa.
She recently featured in an award-winning Australian documentary, The Garden at the End of the World, which follows her from her home in Australia’s Blue Mountains to Afghanistan, where she had been invited to examine the potential for permaculture to restore communities and land.
Black Fire
Edited by: Harold D. Weaver, JR., Paul Kreise, 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.
Simplicity Made Easy
by Jennifer Kavanagh
In folk history and religion, from the Shakers to Zen, simplicity has generally been considered a good thing. Our own motivation may be to leave a smaller carbon footprint, to express a compassionate solidarity with those who have least; or simply to downsize. Whatever our concern, it is likely that the motivation to live a simpler life will spring from within.
Cousin Ann’s Stories for Children
By Ann Preston, Edited by Richard Beards, Illustrated by Stevie French
Ann Preston (1813-1872) is best known as a medical pioneer and nineteenth century Quaker activist. Though Cousin Ann’s Stories for Children is one hundred and sixty-two years old, it still speaks to contemporary concerns and moral perspectives.
An Art of Small Resurrections
by Walter Long
Jesus taught his followers to love their enemies and to forgive. How can these messages of compassion be reconciled with a policy of putting to death those whom we have judged to be wrongdoers against society? Walter Long, a defence attorney for Texas death row inmates, says that they cannot. He wrestles with the apparent contradiction between the teachings of Jesus and widespread tolerance for government violence in a state where most citizens identify themselves as Christian.
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