Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Pinterest

Broken For Life

There's broken-for-the-rest-of- life and there's broken-in-order-to-give-life.

£8.00

Publisher: Quaker Books

ISBN: 9780901689788

Author	Jocelyn Burnell
Pub Date	01/10/2010

Availability:

In stock

Qty:

+ -

How do you live with wounds that won't mend quickly, or at all? Some situations have no happy ending. The wounded may also bring healing, and brikenness has its own part in the wholeness of life.

Related Books

A faith to call our own

Alex Wildwood's 1999 Swarthmore lecture enquires into the experience at the heart of Quaker faith.

£8.00

Being Together: Our corporate life in the Religious Society of Friends

Margaret Heathfield's 1994 Swarthmore lecture looks at guidance in our personal and spiritual lives.

£8.00

Changing Ourselves, changing the world.

Presenting the Swarthmore Lecture 2018 by Chris Alton

£12.00

Costing Not Less Than Everything: Sustainability and spirituality in challenging times

Pam Lunn's 2011 Swarthmore lecture explores how our spiritual and social community can help us meet the challenge of climate change.

£8.00

Swarthmore Lecture 2015. To say 'yes' to peace we must say a final 'no' to war and join together, heart and soul, in the task of creating peace by peaceful means, speaking with one authentic and passionate voice.

£6.00

Forgiving Justice: a Quaker vision for criminal justice

Tim Newell's 2000 Swarthmore lecture, revised for this 2007 edition, looks at possible Quaker approaches to criminal justice. The book includes insights from Circles of Support and Accountability as well as ideas for study and action.

£12.00

Ground and Spring

Beth Allen offers her understanding of faithful discipleship, starting with how we experience and think about God.

£9.00

Images and Silence: The Future of Quaker Ministry

Brenda Clifft Heales' and Chris Cook's 1992 Swarthmore lecture explores the Quaker understanding of 'ministry'.

£8.00

Interfaith Pilgrims

In this book Eleanor Nesbitt, Professor in Religions and Education at the University of Warwick, takes the reader on an interfaith pilgrimage.

£8.00

Journey into Life

Gerald Hewitson's 2013 Swarthmore Lecture weaves the author's own story of becoming and being a Quaker into the context of the Quaker tradition.

£6.00

Kinder Ground: 2021 Swarthmoor Lecture

Kinder ground: Creating space for truth It’s important to create space to listen and understand – a cool sanctuary away from the easy answers of propaganda and the heat and hostility of so much political discussion.

£10.00

Mending broken hearts; rebuilding shattered lives

Mending broken hearts; rebuilding shattered livesQuaker peacebuilding in Eastern Africa. The 2016 Swarthmore Lecture

£6.00

On earth as it is in heaven: 2019 SL

As we face the terrifying challenges of climate change today, the spiritual power we require will only come when we surrender every particle of our will and life into the hands of the living God...

£10.00

Openings to the infinite ocean 2020 SL

A friendly offering of Hope Copies will be shipped at the end of August

£10.00

Openings to the infinite ocean epub

The 2020 Swarthmoor lecure ebook on epub format

£3.50

Perceiving the temperature of the water

SWARTHMORE LECTURE 2022 How can we sense the temperature of the water when the temperature has been set perfectly for us?

£10.00

Playing in the Presence: Genetics, Ethics and Spirituality

In the 2002 Swarthmore Lecture, Jackie Leach Scully introduces us to the field of genetic research and application, and encourages us to face up to some of the decisions which have to be made.

£8.00

Presence in the Midst

How do we make sense of and respond to our experience of the world around us? How do we discern well together?

£8.00

Reasonable Uncertainty

Gerald Priestland's 1982 Swarthmore lecture draws on his experience in exploring the doctrines of the churches for insight into what doctrine can mean for Quakers.

£8.00

Science and the Unseen World

Arthur Eddington's 1929 Swarthmore lecture explores how science and religion define and look at reality. 'You will understand the true spirit neither of science nor of religion unless seeking is placed at the forefront.'

£5.00

Snakes and Ladders: A personal exploration of Quaker work on human rights at the United Nations

Rachel Brett's 2012 Swarthmore Lecture details the work of the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) in Geneva.

£8.00

Steps in a Large Room: A Quaker explores the monastic tradition

Christopher Holdsworth's 1985 Swarthmore lecture draws on his own experience to present aspects of the monastic tradition which mjay be useful for Quakers.

£8.00

The Unequal World We Inhabit

Are all terroristsreligious fundamantalists? How can pacifists respond to devastating voilence? Those and others challenging questions are at the heart of Paul Lacey's text as he explores Quaker responses to both terror and fundamentalism.

£8.00

True Justice (1981 Swarthmore Lecture)

Quaker peace makers and peace making

£8.00

What Canst Thou Say?

Swarthmore Lecture 1980. Towards a Quaker Theology. Are Quakers Christian? Is it possible to be both Christian and Universalist? These are just two of the questions which form the starting point for this book.

£8.00

Wrestling with the Angel

This, the 2001 Swarthmore lecture, is the author's wake-up call to alert us to a falling-away from our previous tradition of concern in and support for those engaged in, commerce and public affairs.

£8.00

Category

Educational resources (34)
Outreach materials (0)
Quakerism (161)
Arts (33)
Books of the Month (0)
Children and young people (4)
eBooks (32)
Climate change and sustainability (45)
Fiction (16)
Merchandise (20)
Nature (8)
Peace, justice and activism (39)
Philosophy and smart thinking (5)
History and Biography General (77)
Politics and economics (1)
Society and culture (17)
Spirituality and religion (44)