Tuning In Mindfulness in Teaching and Learning edited by Irene McHenry and Richard Brady
This compilation of essays explores how contemplative methods can be used in the classroom (or First Day school) for all ages. By using items such as pebbles, mandalas, books, journals, and artwork in a meditative setting, the core skills underlying all learning: concentration, observation, and relaxation can be developed. Also described are Quaker meetings for worship, clearness committees, yoga, and other mindfulness practices. Contributors include Christie Duncan-Tessmer, Chip Poston, Kimberly Post Rowe, and the co-editors.
Friends Council on Education, 2009, 144 pp., paperback $16.00
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Putting Away Childish Things A Tale of Modern Faith by Marcus Borg
Kate is a popular professor in a small midwestern town. She loves her job, is happy with her personal and spiritual life, then things start to go wrong. A job offer—but at the same college as an old flame. In the classroom, students ask for her views on the Bible and homosexuality—answering honestly she finds herself a target of outraged parents. This novel is an engaging way for readers to examine important issues dividing Christians today, such as what does the Bible really teach? Who is Jesus? What is the nature of faith today?
HarperOne, 2011, 386 pp., paperback $14.99
Rebekah’s Journey An Historical Novel by Ann Bell
Traumatic family circumstances require Rebekah Bradford to sign an indentured servant contract, leaving her home in London to work for a Pennsylvania Quaker family. Rebekah’s journey through life takes her from servanthood to wife and mother and businesswoman during a period when Quakers were struggling to maintain their identity as the colony attempted to find its place in historical circumstances that were often starkly different than William Penn’s vision.
Kays Crossing, 2010, 409 pp., paperback $18.00
The Back Bench A Novel by Margaret Hope Bacon
It’s 1837, and fourteen-year-old Myra Harlan’s mother has died, forcing her to leave her rural Quaker home and family to live in Philadelphia. Shocked by the racism she sees all around her and caught in the aftermath of the Hicksite-Orthodox split in the Religious Society of Friends, Myra longs for her mother and struggles to make friends, until she finds the Female Anti-Slavery Society, Lucretia Mott, Sarah Douglass, and—ultimately—herself.
Quaker Press of FGC, 2007, 127 pp., paperback $13.00 57 QUAKERBOOKS AUTUMN 2011
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