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Montgomery in the Good War
Portrait of a Southern City, 1939-1946
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2000
Montgomery in the Good War is a richly textured account of a southern city and its people during World War II.
Using newspaper accounts, interviews, letters, journals, and his own memory of the time, Wesley Newton reconstructs wartime-era Montgomery, Alabama--a sleepy southern capital...
The Political Samaritan
How power hijacked a parable
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Nick Spencer sets out to rescue an innocent parable, mugged for political ends, ignored by passers-by, and then left for half-dead at the edge of the English language.
The parable of the Good Samaritan has been used by almost every major British politician over recent years – from Theresa...
by Patricia Bridewell
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Avon Park Church of the Nazarene in Avon Park, Florida, celebrates its 90th Anniversary in October 2015. This book is a brief historical and overview of the past ninety years. This is the text from the print book for easier reading. Pictures are not included.This compilation is from official church...
Shalom Y'All
Images of Jewish Life in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2002
The kitchen of Henrietta Levine in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where chopped liver is sautTing. Ben and Betty Lee Lamensdorf's farmland in Cary, Mississippi, where cotton, wheat, and pecans are harvested. The New Americans Social Club, a group of Holocaust survivors that meet regularly in New Orleans. The...
Impossible People
Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2016
ECPA 2017 Christian Book Award Finalist The church in the West is at a critical moment. While the gospel is exploding throughout the global south, Western civilization faces militant assaults from aggressive secularism and radical Islam. Will the church resist the seductive shaping power of advanced...
by Muriel Seltman
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
The Changing Faces of Antisemitism is Muriel Seltman’s examination into the roots and causes of antisemitism. Starting with the Gospels and moving forward across time, she identifies the causes of modern, globalised antisemitism. It was Muriel Seltman’s own experience of unwitting antisemitism...
An English Spring
Memoirs
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
When John Henry Newman spoke of his hopes for the renewal of the Church, he imagined not only sunshine and the blossoming of new life, but icy winds and torrential rain. His forecast of 'an English Spring' was to prove remarkably far-sighted.
With affection and wry humour, another English cardinal,...
Gandhi in a Canadian Context
Relationships between Mahatma Gandhi and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Gandhi in a Canadian Context examines a range of intriguing and under-studied connections between India’s greatest nationalist leader, Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948), and facets of life in Canada, including Gandhi’s interest in and contact with Canada and Canadians early in the twentieth century,...
Doing Time for Peace
Resistance, Family, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
In this compelling collection of oral histories, more than seventy-five peacemakers describe how they say no to war-making in the strongest way possible--by engaging in civil disobedience and paying the consequences in jail or prison. These courageous resisters leave family and community and life...
Liberation Theology
The Essential Facts About the Revolutionary Movement in Latin America and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Liberation theology has become an essential component of almost every major debate over Latin America today. It has changed the face of political life in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Haiti; contributed to the rise of “people power” in the Philippines; even played a role in the growing discontent...
Immigration and the Next America
Renewing the Soul of Our Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Archbishop José Gomez has written a personal, passionate and practical contribution to the national debate about immigration - pointing the way toward a recovery of America's highest ideals."Immigration is a human rights test of our generation. It's also a defining historical moment for America....
Showdown in the Sonoran Desert
Religion, Law, and the Immigration Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This book offers reflections on a daunting and controversial ethical question: How should we treat the strangers who enter this country illegally? To understand the experience of those directly confronted by this problem, Ananda Rose traveled to the Sonoran desert at the border between the U.S. and...
Avenues of Faith
Shaping the Urban Religious Culture of Richmond, Virginia, 1900–1929
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Avenues of Faith documents how religion flourished in southern cities after the turn of the century and how a cadre of clergy and laity created a notably progressive religious culture in Richmond, the bastion of the Old South. Famous as the former capital of the Confederacy, Richmond emerges as a...
by Barry A. Crouch
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Drawing on a wealth of previously unused documentation in the National Archives, this book offers new insights into the workings of the Freedmen's Bureau and the difficulties faced by Texas Bureau officials, who served in a remote and somewhat isolated area with little support from headquarters.