Download or read book The Story of a Country Church written by Charles W. Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Little History Of The English Country Church written by Roy Strong and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully illustrated narrative history of the English country church In his engaging account, Sir Roy Strong celebrates the life of the English parish church From the arrival of the missionaries from Ireland and Rome, to the beautiful architecture and rich spirituality of medieval Catholicism; from the cataclysm of the Reformation, to the gentrified cleric we meet in Jane Austen novels, Roy Strong takes us on a journey - historical, social and spiritual - to explore what men and women experienced through the age when they went to church on Sunday. ‘Anyone with the slightest interest in the English parish church, of its life today, or its history will be intrigued, informed and enchanted by this lucid, and occasionally provocative, account’ Country Life
Download or read book The Day of the Country Church written by James Oliver Ashenhurst and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Country Churches written by William Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The country church tells us who we are. In doing so, it provides a sense of security, especially in times of crisis," says Pulitzer-Prize nominee Morgan in his Introduction to this sweeping, gorgeously photographed look at rural America's most enchanting houses of worship.
Download or read book The Day of the Country Church written by James Oliver Ashenhurst and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an exploration of the role of the country church in rural life. It examines the history and function of the church in the community, including its role in education, social activities, and religious worship. The author provides insight into the cultural and social significance of the country church and its impact on the lives of those who attend it. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Story of a New England Country Church written by Alice Morehouse Walker and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Country Church written by Charles Otis Gill and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Country Churchyards written by Eudora Welty and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2000 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her 91st year, this book includes 90 of Welty's photos along with a conversation in which she shares her impressions and memories of the 1930s and 1940s when she rambled through Mississippi cemeteries taking pictures.
Download or read book The Black Church written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. “Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again “Engaging. . . . In Gates’s telling, the Black church shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth—as it is in heaven.” —Jon Meacham, New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of Stony the Road and The Black Box, and one of our most important voices on the African American experience, comes a powerful new history of the Black church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in the larger freedom struggle in America. For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity—an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today’s political landscape. At road’s end, and after Gates’s distinctive meditation on the churches of his childhood, we emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative—as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as a magnet for political mobilization, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture, and as a crucible for working through the Black community’s most critical personal and social issues. In a country that has historically afforded its citizens from the African diaspora tragically few safe spaces, the Black Church has always been more than a sanctuary. This fact was never lost on white supremacists: from the earliest days of slavery, when enslaved people were allowed to worship at all, their meetinghouses were subject to surveillance and destruction. Long after slavery’s formal eradication, church burnings and bombings by anti-Black racists continued, a hallmark of the violent effort to suppress the African American struggle for equality. The past often isn’t even past—Dylann Roof committed his slaughter in the Mother Emanuel AME Church 193 years after it was first burned down by white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, following a thwarted slave rebellion. But as Gates brilliantly shows, the Black church has never been only one thing. Its story lies at the heart of the Black political struggle, and it has produced many of the Black community’s most notable leaders. At the same time, some churches and denominations have eschewed political engagement and exemplified practices of exclusion and intolerance that have caused polarization and pain. Those tensions remain today, as a rising generation demands freedom and dignity for all within and beyond their communities, regardless of race, sex, or gender. Still, as a source of faith and refuge, spiritual sustenance and struggle against society’s darkest forces, the Black Church has been central, as this enthralling history makes vividly clear.
Download or read book In the Beginning God Created the Country Church written by Butch Ikels and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-02-11 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In the beginning God created The Country Church' has been written during the busy days of active growth of The Country Church in Marion, Texas. Several well known leaders in church growth requested that the history and events of The Country Church be recorded. Pastor Butch Ikels has attempted to carry this out with a three fold purpose. First and foremost, to exalt The Lovely Lord Jesus who made it all possible. Second, to inspire church planters in rural areas to trust the Lord and dare to minister outside the box. Thirdly, to encourage and edify those who serve in remote or ill-defined areas. Prayerfully, that through the pages of this book, they might see the miracle of I Corinthians 1:18-31 lived out in a congregation.
Download or read book American Country Churches written by Jill Caravan and published by Running Press Book Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history reflects the structures, people, and movements of religious America with a region-by-region tour of notable country churches that examines basic architecture and the beliefs of the people who attended them.
Download or read book The Old Peabody Pew written by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Country Church in Colonial Counties as Illustrated by Addison County Vt Tompkins County N Y and Warren County N Y written by Marjorie Patten and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Old Peabody Pew A Christmas Romance of a Country Church written by Kate Douglas Wiggin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Old Peabody Pew: A Christmas Romance of a Country Church by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Download or read book The Country Church written by Charles Otis Gill and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Open Secrets written by Richard Lischer and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2002-07-16 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open Secrets is Richard Lischer's story of his early career as a Lutheran minister. Fresh out of divinity school and full of enthusiasm, Lischer found himself assigned to a small conservative church in an economically depressed town in southern Illinois. This was far from what this overly enthusiastic and optimistic young man expected. The town was bleak, poor, and clearly not a step on his path to a brilliant career. It's an awkward marriage at best, a young man with a Ph.D. in theology, full of ideas and ambitions, determined to improve his parish and bring them into the twenty-first century, and a community that is "as tightly sealed as a jar of home-canned pickles." In their own way, they welcome him and his family, even though they think he's "got bigger fish to fry." Thus begins Richard Lischer's first year as a pastor: bringing communion to the sick (but forgetting to bring the wafers); marrying two unlikely couples--a pregnant teenager and her boyfriend, and two people who can't stop fighting. Often he doesn't understand his congregation, and sometimes they don't understand him; for instance, why does his wife hire a baby-sitter and instead of leaving, put on her bathing suit, grab a stack of novels, and hide from the kids? Or why can't Pastor Lischer see how important it is for a woman with little money to buy an elaborate coffin to bury her husband in? There are also the moments of grace, when pastor and parishioner unite for a common goal: when he asks for prayers for his infant son, and can feel everyone in the congregation ministering to him; when old hurts are put aside to help a desperate young woman finish college and raise her baby; or when he helps save a woman from dying of a drug overdose. In Open Secrets Lischer tells not only his own story but also the story of New Cana and all of its inhabitants--lovable, deeply flawed, imperfect people that stick together. With his sharp eye and keen wit, Lischer perfectly captures the comedy of small town life with all of its feuds, rumors, scandals, and friendships. In the end he learns to appreciate not only the life New Cana has to offer, but also the people who have accepted him, at last, as part of themselves.
Download or read book Church Behind the Wire written by Barnabas Mam and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the oppression and terror of the killing fields in Cambodia, this is the story of how one man's conversion led to a rebirth of faith that brought hope to a nation. Commissioned by Communists to spy on a Christian evangelistic crusade, Barnabas Mam instead discovered Jesus and came to faith in Him. After spending four years in prison camps at the hands of the Khmer Rouge Barnabas emerged as one of only 200 surviving Christians in all of Cambodia. God raised him up to became the foremost evangelist and church planter in a land broken by genocide. An inspiring story on a personal, church, and national level, this is more than a narrative--it's a blueprint for success for church growth of the most powerful kind.
