Christian-Alternative/Quaker Quicks Britain, 2023, 78pp
Author reflects on her experience in British Quakers, and calls for a more radical form of welcome. Discussion questions included
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On this page you will find books on Quaker basics, exciting new books and the full Quaker Books Catalogue.
Quakers 101
| Quakers Do What! Why? | |
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| Rhiannon Grant | $30.00 |
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Quaker Quicks, Britain, 2020, 73pp Covers all the bases, wriiting in a friendly and accessible style. Great for enquirers or new-comers. |
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OUR NEW AND EXTENDED VERSION OF READINGS!!
ON THESE ISLANDS I runga i nga motu nei
QUAKER FAITH & PRACTICE IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
The newly updated and extended QUAKER FAITH AND PRACTICE from Quakers
in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2024, 256pp Illustrated $25
New Books
| BEING A QUAKER - A Guide FOR NEWCOMERS | |||||||
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Discovering Quakers, Britain, 2024, 174pp Third Edition, Revised and Updated- New online references & new resources Everything you ever wanted to know about Quakers and afraid to ask! An ideal gift to a new comer
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| THE WORLD IN A SENTENCE | |
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| Sue Williams | $25.00 |
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Pendle Hill Pampphlet 486, US, 2024, 29 pp " Every once in a while someone says something that stops me in my tracks" Author gives examples of this in her thirty years peace making around the world
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FORGING BELOVED COMMUNITY WITH FRIENDS |
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| Bridget Moix | $26.00 |
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Pendle Hill Pamphlet 488, US, 2024, 24pp In a world wrought by lies, injustice and violence how do we seek "That of God in Everyone" when we are so deeply divided from one another by fear and pain? |
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A QUEER GIFT StePPING BEYOND THE MINDSET |
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| Rainbow Quakers | $15.00 |
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Rainbow Quakers Group, The Regious Society of Friends in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2024 71pp The authors of this, the Quaker Lecture 2024, are all part of the Rainbow Group, a network of LGBTQIA+Quakers in Aotearoa New Zealand. These writings represent the lived experience and individual understandings of the authors |
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WAIT AND WATCH SPIRITUAL PRACTICE, REHEARSAL, AND PERFORMANCE
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| John Andrew Gallery | $25.00 |
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Pendle Hill Pamphlet 485, US, 2024, 30pp Using the analogy found in theatre, music concerts and sports, describes how Meeting for Worship or Worship for Business can develop seven skills to transform |
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A TENDER TIME Quaker VOICES ON THE END OF LIFE
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| Patricia M Nesbitt & Kristin Camitta Zimet | $64.00 |
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Baltimore Yearly Meeting, US, 2024, 212pp
Collection of Quaker voices, historical and contemporary, that explores practical, emotional and spiritual aspects of aging and dying well. End of life decisions are discussed.
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| George AND THE FLYING FOXES | |
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| Christine Hayes | $30.00 |
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Compositions by Carn, Britain, 2024, 105 pp, Illustrated
For young people. Inspired by a true story, Story of George Fox and the Quakers. It begins with the hasty arrival of some lads involved in a fight into the Meeting House and how it was resolved ......
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WHY SILENCE?
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| Brian Holley | $17.00 |
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The Kindlers, Britain, 2016, 64pp Offers a collection of spiritual practices to help overcome what is blocking us to a deepening "soul silence" From the popular Kindler series
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| DO QUAKERS PRAY? | |
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| Jennifer Kavanagh | $29.00 |
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Christian Alternative Quaker Quicks, Britain, 2023, 64 pp From the very popular Quaker Quick Series. What is prayer and when and how Quakers might pray
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| James McCarthy | $17.00 |
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The experience of silent worship, waiting, listening, described by fifty Quakers
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| Quaker Meeting and Me / Taku Noho Ki Te Hui Tūhauwiri |
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| InNER HEALING, INNER PEACE a QUAKER PERSPECTIVE |
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| John and Diana Lampen | $30.00 |
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From the popular Quaker Quicks Series. What do Quakers have to offer when there is pain and distress, in body, mind and Spirit? Includes practice exercises readers can do for themselves
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Quaker Quest, Britain, 2022, 38pp From the popular Twelve Quakers series. Twelve Quakers tell how they relate to their communities, what being Friends together means to them, in all their diversity and warmth
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ThE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF QUAKER SPIRITUALITY: LIGHT IN THE CONSCIENCE |
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| David Johnson | $25.00 |
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Pendle Hill Pamphlet 483. US, 2023, 27pp
First Quakers rediscovered the early Christian experience that we can access divine guidance through our conscience |
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Hypocrisy, RACISM, AND SELF INTEREST On the path to reparations |
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| Mary Watkins | $25.00 |
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Pendle Hill Pamphlet 489, US, 2024, 38pp Quaker complicity with slavery (1657-1776) and White Supremacy
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| Joanna Godrey Wood | $26.00 |
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Christian Alternative/Quaker Quicks, London, 2024, 84 pp From the very popular Quaker Quicks series. A vibrant practical book which draws on the roots of Quaker tradition to provide immediate and useful spiritual help in these challenging times |
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God's ways, not our ways: A dissident Quaker response to disability |
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| Jackie Leach Scully | $27.00 |
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2024 Backhouse Lecture from Australia Friends, 63pp Looks at Quaker Testimony. From person and family experience, challenging Quakerrs to help build a world more incusive of difference and diversity
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| THE PROMISE OF RIGHT RELATIONSHIP |
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| Pamela Haines | $30.00 |
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Christian Alernative/Quaker Quicks, Britain, 2024, 79pp Challenges us to reach for right relationships, in all aspects of our lives. Do we nourish ourselves and others, strive for equality, simplicity, peaceful? as our pathway forward
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The Quaker Books Catalogue
DO QUAKERS PRAY?
Christian Alternative/Quaker Quicks, UK, 2023, 64pp
From very popular Quaker Quicks series. What is prayer and when and how Quakers might pray
$29.00
ENCOUNTER BETWEEN QUAKER MYSTICISM AND TAOISM IN EVERYDAY LIFE, AN
Australia Yearly Meeting, 2018, 30pp
2018 Backhouse Lecture. Bringing different aspects together. Influenced by Ham Sok Hon, Korean Quaker activist
$17.50
ENOUGH! The Challenge of a post growth economy
Aotearoa New Zealand Yearly Meeting, 2013, 27pp
2013 Quaker Lecture. "A willingness to say I have enough now, the rest is for others, or Nature?"
$10.00
EVERYDAY GOD
Canterbury Press, Britain, 2012, 139pp
The spirit of the ordinary, the riches and power of such time
$19.00
EVERYDAY PROPHETS
Australia Yearly Meeting, 2016, 43pp
2016 Backhouse Lecture. Interplay of faith and action, from a scholar, activist, sailor and Quaker
$15.00
EXPERIMENT IN FAITH, AN
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 323, US, 1995, 31pp
Evangelical and liberal women transcending difference
$18.00
EXPLORING ISAAC PENINGTON
Christian Alternative Quaker Quicks, Britain, 2023, 69pp
Seventeenth century mystic, teacher & activist Builds a bridge between his time & now with examples to explore the beliefs and habits that shape our lives
$28.00
FACING DEATH
Friends Book Centre, London, 1979, 77pp
Meet and listen to people face their own and others' deaths.
$5.00
FAITH IN THE FAITH OF EMPIRE- Sale price to clear
Orbis Books, US, 2014, 166pp Fourth printing
The Bible through Palestinian eyes. Gives us a different challenging perspective on the issues and Jesus
$5.00
FAITHFUL VOICES
Friends General Conference, US, 2006, 98pp Illus
Oral Readings. Exploring beliefs in action. A biography, some quotes and queries on a range of wellknowns
$5.00
FEARLESS BENJAMIN LAY, THE
Beacon Press, US, 2017,212pp Illus Hardcover 2017 edition
From distinquished historian who brings to life wide ranging activism of this extraordinary Quaker vegatarian dwarf and his fight against slavery
$29.00
FIRE KEEPER'S GIRLS, THE
Onepoto Press, New Zealand, 2018, 317pp
A novel of the coming of age characters gain courage, hope and insight from real life influential women from history
$26.00
FORGING BELOVED COMMUNITY WITH FRIENDS: A Journey throught the Refiner's Fire
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 488, US, 2024, 24pp
In a world wrought by lies, injustice and violence how do we seek "that of God in everyone" when we are so deeply divided from one another by fear and pain?
$26.00
Forgiveness: Freed to Love
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 480, US, 2023, 30pp
Offers paradigm to set people free of hurt & bitterness Experence forgiveness as release into the Spirit liberates and prepares us to heal & transform
$25.00
FORGIVING JUSTICE (Revised Edition)
Quaker Home Service, London, 2000, 160pp (Revised 2007)
Swarthmore Lecture. Quaker vision for criminal justice
$10.00
GATHERED MEETING, THE
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 444, US, 2017, 34pp
The essence of the Quaker way. Historical and current state of this and how to foster it today
$18.00
GEORGE AND THE FLYING FOXES
Composition by Carn, Britain, 2024, 116pp
For young people. Story of George Fox and the Quakers. It begins with the hasty arrival of some lads involvred in a fight into the meeting house & how resolved
$30.00
GETTING ROOTED
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 391, US, 2007, 35pp
Living in the Cross, looking at our Quaker roots, a path to joy and liberation
$11.00
GOD'S INVITATION TO CREATIVE PLAY
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 468. US, 2021, 34pp
By reconnecting with the ease of creativity we know as children we connect with the ease of knowing God
$20.00
GOD'S WAYS, NOT OUR WAYS: A dissident Quaker response to disability
Australia Yearly Meeting, 2024, 63pp
2024 Backhouse Lecture. Looks at Quaker testimony. From person & family experience, challenging Quakers to help build a world more inclusive of difference & diversity
$27.00
GOD, WORDS AND US
Quaker Books, London, 2017, 98pp
Britain Yearly Meeting publication. Quakers in conversations about religious differences
$22.00
GRIEF, FORGIVENESS, & REEMPTION AS A WAY OF TRANSFORMATION
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 416, US, 2012, 35pp
Traumatic loss of a loved one, spiritual aspects of grief and blessings of acceptance
$14.00
GROUP SPIRITUAL NURTURE: The Wisdom of Spiritual Listening
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 373, US, 2004, 32pp
Intimacy develops over time in Spiritual Nurture Group members connect to the Spirit
$18.00
GUIDED LIFE, THE
Quaker Quicks, Christian Alternative, UK, 2019, 69pp
Quaker wisdom for finding an inward source of purpose in everyday life in a time of complex challenges
$26.00
HEARING THE LIGHT- the Core Of Quaker Theology
Christian-Alternative/Quaker Quicks, Britain, 2021, 80pp
Gathering to wait & listen is at the heart of Quakerism & essential to understanding Quaker theology & a distinctive practice
$23.00
HEART OF ONENESS
Christian Alternative, Britain, 2017, 71pp
We find it hard to live together in the world. Oneness the heart of existence and how we can act in the world
$21.00
HILLBILLY QUAKER
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 475, US, 2022, 34pp
Jennifer a rural Appalachian who discovered she was a hillbilly when she left. Calls on Friends to better live testimony of equality
$22.00
HONOURING THE OTHER
New Zealand Yearly Meeting, 2010, 32pp Illus
2010 Quaker Lecture: Quest for respect, equality and small goodness's in Aotearoa New Zealand
$8.00
HOPE AND WITNESS IN DANGEROUS TIMES
Christian-Alternative/Quaker Quicks, Britain, 2021, 72pp
Invites us to consider how personal & communal faith practices should bring us to a fresh engagement with today's world
$20.00
HOW GOD CHANGES YOUR BRAIN
Ballintine Books, US, 2010, 348pp
A magnificent comprehensive scientific explanation of how spiritual beliefs & experiences enhance changes in our brains & yield better health & well being
$40.00
Hypocrisy, Racism, and Self-Interest on the Path to Reparations
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 489, US, 2024, 38pp
Quaker complicity with Slavery (1657-1776) and White Supremacy
$25.00