One of the most persistent, if vexing, issues facing not just theology but also political theory, sociology, and other disciplines, is the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict. For theology, the problem is especially nettlesome on account of the church's shared history and tradition with the Jewish people. Palestinians, including Palestinian Christians, bear the brunt of suffering and dispossession in the current situation, yet are burdened even more by Christian political appropriation of Zioni...
Six months after the Selma to Montgomery marches and just weeks after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a group from Martin Luther King Jr.'s staff arrived in Chicago, eager to apply his nonviolent approach to social change in a northern city. Once there, King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) joined the locally based Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (CCCO) to form the Chicago Freedom Movement. The open housing demonstrations they organized eventually r...
211 Powerful Night Prayers that Will Take Your Life to the Next Level
by Moses Omojola
"Never make more free with your inferiors than you are willing they should make with you; it learns them to be saucy." Such sage words of advice come from Mother Ann Lee's Society of the Shakers, who in 1844 published A Juvenile Guide, or Manual of Good Manners, Consisting of Counsels, Instructions, & Rules of Deportment for the Young. Known for their piety, their economy, and (perhaps most famously) their celibacy, the Shakers knew a thing or two about etiquette and proper decorum. With this in...
Gleanings from Old Shaker Journals (Holt's Friends)
by Clara Endicott Sears
"The description is outstanding. Nowhere else can one find such a succinct and eminently readable account that places Shakerism in its broadest context. Garrett makes character and personality come alive throughout the book, from the Prophets' strange gyrations to Mother Ann Lee's drinking problem."--Journal of American History"The most successful study yet written of transatlantic spiritual enthusiasm in the century of the Enlightenment."--Jon Butler, Yale UniversityPietists, Methodists, and se...
Client Tracking Book (Client Log Book for Salons, Nail, Hair Stylists, Barbers & M, #5)
by John Book Publishing
Yearning for the New Age Yearning for the New Age (Religion in North America)
by Diane Sasson and Sarah Diane Diane Sasson
This biography of an unconventional woman in late 19th-century America is a study of a search for individual autonomy and spiritual growth. Laura Holloway-Langford, a "rebel girl" from Tennessee, moved to New York City, where she supported her family as a journalist. She soon became famous as the author of Ladies of the White House, which secured her financial independence. Promoted to associate editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, she gave readings and lectures and became involved in progressive...
Richard McNemar, Music, and the Western Shaker Communities
by Christian Goodwillie and Carol Medlicott
A pioneering study of the Shaker west's opening generation and an analytical reconstruction of the first Ohio Shaker hymnal The arrival of the Shakers in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana in the decades after 1805 saw a substantial escalation in the movement. In Richard McNemar, Music, and the Western Shaker Communities, Carol Medlicott and Christian Goodwillie reconstruct a vast repository of early Shaker hymns, using them to uncover the dramatic history of Shakerism's bold expansion to the frontie...
The American Shakers, 1774-2018, Verging on Extinction
by H G Hastings-Duffield
Mother?s First-Born Daughters: Early Shaker Writings on Women and Religion
by Maria Herrera-Sobek
Restoring Shakertown: The Struggle to Save the Historic Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill
by Thomas Parrish
An important book, superbly produced. - THEOLOGICAL BOOK REVIEW