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Ruhi, Education & Teaching
Renewing the Sacred: A New Vision of Education (Volume 1)
#BBK-ED1000
$12.95
Our societies are in deep trouble. Many say education can help the situation. Such a view unconsciously assumes that current education is basically alright, though it may need some changes. It is not aright. It is failing our children. Others know that education is not working and put their hopes and dollars in some kind of educational reform. But proposals to reform education come and go, replaced by others; nothing seems to work for long. Why? For the author of Renewing the Sacred, William Barnes, reforms don’t work because they do not go deep enough.
Education must be transformed not reformed. That means something he calls spiritual education. Laying out the model of spiritual education is what the book is mainly about, but it’s about more than just what can be done in schools.
About the Author
William Barnes is an author and educator. For nearly forty years he has been a teacher, having taught students ranging from kindergarten through the university level. He was principal of Daystar International School, a private school located in Kumamoto, Japan, where he lived with his family for eighteen years, and was executive director of Desert Rose Bahá’í Institute, an education and conference center in Arizona. He currently serves on the board of directors of International Educational Initiatives, and is on the advisory board of another non-profit organization, Center for Global Integrated Education. He has contributed articles on education to magazines and journals in Australia, Japan, and the United States, and in 2009 published the booklet, Joyful Education. He writes a blog on education: http://www.joyfuled.blogspot.com/. Renewing the Sacred is his first book-length study.
Education must be transformed not reformed. That means something he calls spiritual education. Laying out the model of spiritual education is what the book is mainly about, but it’s about more than just what can be done in schools.
About the Author
William Barnes is an author and educator. For nearly forty years he has been a teacher, having taught students ranging from kindergarten through the university level. He was principal of Daystar International School, a private school located in Kumamoto, Japan, where he lived with his family for eighteen years, and was executive director of Desert Rose Bahá’í Institute, an education and conference center in Arizona. He currently serves on the board of directors of International Educational Initiatives, and is on the advisory board of another non-profit organization, Center for Global Integrated Education. He has contributed articles on education to magazines and journals in Australia, Japan, and the United States, and in 2009 published the booklet, Joyful Education. He writes a blog on education: http://www.joyfuled.blogspot.com/. Renewing the Sacred is his first book-length study.
TOKOLOSHE!
#BBK-9200
$12.00
by Mr. William Sears
Publisher: National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the Hawaiian Islands
First published in 1990, TOKOLOSHE is a charming story filled with gentle laughter-a story for all ages and all those who've ever had a pet. You'll fall in love with TOKOLOSHE and all his four-footed, two-footed, and no-footed friends! Another of Mr. Sears' heartwarming introductory books on the Baha'i Faith. Now offered at reduced price.
Soft cover, 279 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches / 14 cm x 21.6 cm
Publisher: National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the Hawaiian Islands
First published in 1990, TOKOLOSHE is a charming story filled with gentle laughter-a story for all ages and all those who've ever had a pet. You'll fall in love with TOKOLOSHE and all his four-footed, two-footed, and no-footed friends! Another of Mr. Sears' heartwarming introductory books on the Baha'i Faith. Now offered at reduced price.
Soft cover, 279 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches / 14 cm x 21.6 cm
Marguerite . . . and more about Bill
#BBK-1035
$20.00
by Marguerite Sears
Publisher: Desert Rose Publishing
NEW! Here is a story for the ages. A beautiful and adventuresome young woman, born into a family of wealth and privilege, attends the finest schools, marries her prince and for nearly seventy years serves her King. And what services: mother, pioneer, traveling teacher, National Assembly member, writer, world traveler, founder of schools and institutes, and for more than fifty years the woman of Bill Sears’ dreams. They can’t really be separated. We always think of them together: Bill and Marguerite; Marguerite and Bill. It is one breath, one phrase. Thus the book is Marguerite . . . and more about Bill.
The material wealth and privilege faded quickly. It usually does. But the spiritual arc of her life’s trajectory keeps rising, even after the passing of her beloved Bill. We are privileged to help her share with you her own story, told in her own words. It is part of our services to the Faith to enable others to feel the inspiration we get to feel nearly every day.
Soft cover, 160 pages, 6 x 9 inches / 15.24 x 22.86 cm
Publisher: Desert Rose Publishing
NEW! Here is a story for the ages. A beautiful and adventuresome young woman, born into a family of wealth and privilege, attends the finest schools, marries her prince and for nearly seventy years serves her King. And what services: mother, pioneer, traveling teacher, National Assembly member, writer, world traveler, founder of schools and institutes, and for more than fifty years the woman of Bill Sears’ dreams. They can’t really be separated. We always think of them together: Bill and Marguerite; Marguerite and Bill. It is one breath, one phrase. Thus the book is Marguerite . . . and more about Bill.
The material wealth and privilege faded quickly. It usually does. But the spiritual arc of her life’s trajectory keeps rising, even after the passing of her beloved Bill. We are privileged to help her share with you her own story, told in her own words. It is part of our services to the Faith to enable others to feel the inspiration we get to feel nearly every day.
Soft cover, 160 pages, 6 x 9 inches / 15.24 x 22.86 cm
A Woman's Moods (are never done)
#BBK-1030
$15.95
by Simona Ruiz
Publisher: Pensativo Press
A Woman's Moods (are never done) is a poetry book written and designed by Simona Ruiz. Its richly imagistic poems range from those on Imaginary Lives (Kenzou Mai in the Millbook Diner, Ophelia, Cat Totem, and others) through My Fantasy Latin America -- poems that grew out of the writer's life in the magical realist realities of Peru and Chile -- into Insights and Appreciations (Greta Garbo, Aunt Eleanor, and more) and then Meditations about such things as When Will a Woman Symbolize the Sun? and Mother of Mayhem.
Simona Ruiz is the pen-name used for fiction and poetry by Janet Ruhe-Schoen, who, as biographer/hagiographer wrote "A Love Which Does Not Wait", "The Nightingale, Bahá'u'lláh" (El Ruiseñor, Bahá'u'lláh), and most recently, "Rejoice in My Gladness: The Life of Tahirih".
Soft cover, 68 pages, 7 x 8.5 inches / 17.8 x 21.6 cm
Publisher: Pensativo Press
A Woman's Moods (are never done) is a poetry book written and designed by Simona Ruiz. Its richly imagistic poems range from those on Imaginary Lives (Kenzou Mai in the Millbook Diner, Ophelia, Cat Totem, and others) through My Fantasy Latin America -- poems that grew out of the writer's life in the magical realist realities of Peru and Chile -- into Insights and Appreciations (Greta Garbo, Aunt Eleanor, and more) and then Meditations about such things as When Will a Woman Symbolize the Sun? and Mother of Mayhem.
Simona Ruiz is the pen-name used for fiction and poetry by Janet Ruhe-Schoen, who, as biographer/hagiographer wrote "A Love Which Does Not Wait", "The Nightingale, Bahá'u'lláh" (El Ruiseñor, Bahá'u'lláh), and most recently, "Rejoice in My Gladness: The Life of Tahirih".
Soft cover, 68 pages, 7 x 8.5 inches / 17.8 x 21.6 cm
