Product Code: P761
ISBN: 9798897360550
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This biography traces Rev. Julius Caesar Herrin's life from a mill town in North Carolina to the national scene. His life is a microcosm of struggles within the American church to create the Beloved Community. Herrin's work was possible because his liberal theology and support for interracial meetings resulted in his firing in 1954 by North Carolina Baptists, for whom he worked with the Baptist Student Union at UNC Chapel Hill. That firing forced him to move north, where he ministered in an American Baptist church. The Field Foundation, the American Baptist Home Mission Societies, and other American Baptist organizations in 1958 provided funds for Herrin's return south and his entry into the Civil Rights Movement.
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Product Code: P763
ISBN: 9798897360574
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Nearly two hours past midnight on the moonless night of December 14, 1990, a single-engine Cessna airplane landed at the rural Ware County airport near Waycross, Georgia, then proceeded to taxi and park at an isolated and remote end of one runway. A guard at a nearby prison who had observed the landing alerted local sheriff's deputies, who arrived just in time to block the plane from taking off. The officers observed a large box inside the plane's cabin and, suspecting illegal drugs, obtained a search warrant. To the shock of the deputies, the box contained the body of a young white female.
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Product Code: HH1068
ISBN: 9798897360536
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In the correspondence of Leo Strauss and Seth Benardete, we witness two extraordinary thinkers in action. Political philosopher and philosophic classicist share ideas with an immediacy that complements their carefully crafted published works. The exchange, which continues until close to Strauss's death, begins with Benardete writing his dissertation in Athens and Rome, while Strauss is established as a professor in Chicago, publishing some of his most influential books.
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Product Code: P757
ISBN: 9798897360505
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Thirteen owners rotate through a beach house on Edisto Island, South Carolina, four weeks a year, one week each season. They share a kitchen, a pool, a view of the ocean, and a set of storage lockers that nobody can agree on. John Lane's INTERVAL OWNERSHIP gives each owner a story. The owners come and go, and somebody always leaves the Old Bay seasoning open.
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Product Code: P751
ISBN: 9798897360390
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Construction of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is well underway in 1937 when the National Park Service recruits a young, freshly trained linguist, Thomas Haller, to investigate what life was like for residents before the park's creation. Also required to do a speech study of the stigmatized regional dialect, Haller conducts in-depth interviews with older residents, many of whom were born before the Civil War. John Stoll, an old man known in the mountains as a true believer in witchcraft, a witchdoctor, and "a good talker," regales Haller for hours with stories about an infamous witch, Mary Hess, who tormented her neighbors.
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Product Code: P756
ISBN: 9798897360611
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Through the open-door hospitality of Maranatha Baptist Church, the Plains congregation where Jimmy Carter maintained a membership for his entire post-presidential life, "Jimmy Carter's Sunday School Class" welcomed crowds of curious folks from a vast variety of faiths, lifestyles, and cultural backgrounds on the search for a once-in-a-lifetime experience to witness a national treasure share his relevant insights from time-tested Scriptures. Always thoughtful, never pretentious, fifteen of Carter's lessons illustrate how Scripture-inspired love can reach the world beginning right at home. Four of the selected lessons were taught at The First Baptist Church of the City of Washington, D.C., during President Carter's four years in the Oval Office.
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Product Code: P762
ISBN: 9798897360567
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For much of the twentieth century, the relationship between science and Christian faith was framed as an either/or choice. In this compelling intellectual biography, readers are invited to reconsider that assumption through the life and thought of neo-evangelical American Baptist theologian Bernard Ramm (1916-1992), one of the most significant yet underappreciated figures in modern evangelical history.
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Product Code: HH1065
ISBN: 9798897360499
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The Great War of 1914-1918 did not have to last four years. By early 1916, after eighteen months of unprecedented slaughter, the belligerent nations of Europe stood at a crossroads. Their armies were bleeding, their economies collapsing, their populations exhausted. A negotiated peace remained possible, indeed, necessary for their very survival. Yet the men who held Europe's fate in their hands chose to keep digging the grave.
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Product Code: P755
ISBN: 9798897360468
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ORPHEUS REMAINS: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS is a means of time travel for Clifford Brooks. Here, he offers selected poems from his previous collections THE DRAW OF BROKEN EYES & WHIRLING METAPHYSICS, ATHENA DEPARTS, and OLD GODS in pursuit of confessing his full truth. Written in accessible, melodic form, every aspect of the poet's life is exposed. New poems find Brooks standing firmly in the present with hopeful anticipation for the future.
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Product Code: P750
ISBN: 9798897360383
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It did not take long to see that Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" would have an enduring impact on American culture. Instantly ubiquitous, it was widely reprinted, celebrated, criticized, and mocked during the years between its January 29, 1845, publication in New York and Poe's death in Baltimore on October 7, 1849. In QUOTHING "THE RAVEN," Paul Lewis follows America's most famous poem during these years from the literary salons where it was discussed, to the newspapers where it was reviewed, to the twenty-nine parodies that made fun of both the poem and its controversial author.
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Product Code: HH1066
ISBN: 9798897360598
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ROMANCING THE MYSTERY weaves together personal narrative, philosophical inquiry, and theological reflection to explore life's most profound questions: What is the nature of reality? What can we know of God? How should we live? R. Kirby Godsey invites readers into a lifelong journey of thought and belief shaped by family, mentors, and five decades of leadership in higher education. From his grandmother Janie's embodiment of grace on an Alabama farm to his transformative presidency at Mercer University, Godsey traces how lived experience and rigorous thinking have shaped his understanding of our interconnected existence.
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Product Code: HH1067
ISBN: 9798897360475
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STORIES CARRY is a personal memoir about faith, belonging, and the inherited stories that shape us. As the daughter of Chabad emissaries in 1970s Berkeley, California, and now a shlucha (emissary) herself in Atlanta, Georgia, Schusterman, a mother of eight, has spent her life straddling two worlds--deeply rooted in Hasidic tradition while fully engaged in modern society. Through warmth, honesty, and humor, this book extends a hand across perceived divides, welcoming readers into a world that is both deeply personal and universally resonant.
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