Spirit Rising: Young Quaker Voices [QuakerPress of FGC 2010 356p.]
celebrates, critiques, questions, and reflects on the Quaker faith experience. Writing and visual art by teenage and young adult Quakers from around the world and across the theological and cultural spectrum of the Religious Society of Friends give readers a window on the spiritual riches and witness these Friends offer. The contributors in this volume challenge and inspire, as they witness to and celebrate Quakerism as it has been, as it is, and as it could yet be. The voices here come together in a symphony, cacophonous but also deeply resonant. Listen and you will hear that their Spirit – here called by many names – is undeniably rising.
[https://www.quakerbooks.org/book/spirit-rising]
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd [Viking Press 2014 369p]
It is a story about two women in Charleston, South Carolina in the first half of the 19th century. One of the women is a slave girl named Handful who has been raised by her mother to be strong and proud despite being treated like chattel. The other is Sarah Grimké, the daughter of wealthy landowners. Sarah is the black sheep of the family in that she sees slavery as inhumane, and also desires a profession of her own, although she is only a woman. Inspired by actual historical figures like Sarah and Angelina Grimké and Denmark Vesey, and enlivened by original creations like Charlotte and Handful, The Invention of Wings is the extraordinary story of two struggles for freedom. Much to the chagrin of her family, Sarah converted to Quakerism and moved to Philadelphia in 1821; by 1829 Angelina had also become a Quaker and decided to move north to be with her sister.
[http://www.npr.org/2014/01/11/260192246/finding-flight-in-the-invention-of-wings]
Aging in Community by Janice Blanchard [2nd Journey Publication 2013 250 p.]
As 78 million boomers turn 66 years old at a clip of 10,000 a day, aging is about to get better! The generation that fought for Civil Rights, rallied for women’s equality, and protested the Vietnam War has a track record of creating positive social change. Now boomers are confronting a social injustice that impacts us all, independent of gender, class, or color — ageism. One facet of this emerging Age Revolution is how and where we grow old. Because many have watched their parents struggle to stay in their family homes or saw them wither away in nursing homes — lonely, bored, and often helpless — they are determined to find a better way. In this anthology, editor Janice Blanchard brings together the perspectives of visionaries, practitioners, and pioneering elders who together are forging an exciting new paradigm of aging— aging in community.
[http://www.amazon.com/dp/1482302659/ref=rdr_ext_tmb]
The Girl From the Tar Paper School by Teri Channeled {Abrams Bks. for Young Readers 2014 55p.]
Lessons on Brown v. Board of Education on this 60th anniversary should not begin with the 1954 Supreme Court decision but, instead, with the decades of activism that led to the historic ruling. And there is no better way to hook young people than with the school walkout led by 15-year-old Barbara Rose Johns in Prince Edward County[Farmville], Virginia, in 1951. Carefully planned with a sworn-to-secrecy group of fellow high school students, Johns arranged to have the principal called out of the building and then held a high school assembly to announce the walkout to demand a new school building.
[https://zinnedproject.org/materials/the-girl-from-the-tar-paper-school/]
Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow, an Organizing Guide by Daniel Hunter
The Study Guide and Call to Action spans the entirety of The New Jim Crow, engaging the critical questions of how we managed to create, nearly overnight, a penal system unprecedented in world history, and how that system actually functions — as opposed to the way it is advertised.
This important resource also challenges us to search for and admit the truth about ourselves, our own biases, stereotypes, and misconceptions, and the many ways in which we might actually be part of the problem.
[http://www.newjimcroworganizing.org]
Race to Incarceration, A Graphic Retelling by Sabrina Jones and Marc Mauer Sabrina Jones, a member of the World War 3 Illustrated collective and an acclaimed author of politically engaged comics, has collaborated with Mauer to adapt and update the original book into a vivid and compelling comics narrative. Jones’s dramatic artwork adds passion and compassion to the complex story of the penal system’s shift from rehabilitation to punishment and the ensuing four decades of prison expansion, its interplay with the devastating “War on Drugs,” and its corrosive effect on generations of Americans.
http://thenewpress.com/books/race-incarcerate
Here are the new Pendle Hill pamphlets that have arrived.
- A Quietness Within: The Quiet Was as Faith and Spirituality
- Recovering Sacred Presence in a Disenchanted World
- The Door In