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Women of Privilege traces the decline of a once-privileged Hudson River Valley family whose neighbors were Vanderbilts, Delanos, and Roosevelts. Based on diaries and journals, and written by a family descendant, it combines biography and memoir with social history.
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In A Healing Homiletic: Preaching and Disability, Kathy Black offers a unique and effective approach for preaching about disabilities. By going to the heart of the gospel and drawing on the healing narratives or miracle stories, Black shows how preaching affects the inclusion or exclusion of forty-three million persons with disabilities from our faith communities. A Healing Homiletic provides a new method of preaching about healing, based on Scripture, for understanding the needs of the disability community.
This collection includes communion and postcommunion prayers for every Sunday and selected special days. Can be used in congregations that offer single or separate prayers for bread and cup and by congregations that do not use the lectionary.
Kenneth Burcham... gives abundant information about the background of worship forms. He helps readers approach the parts of a worship service with a good sense of interpretation and meaning. I recommend its use with classes of lay people who are interested in growth in their spirit. Harriet Miller, Administrator First United Methodist Church Dayton, Ohio The Wings of Worship is an excellent introductory study course for congregations to gain a greater understanding of the people's role in public worship. Ten sessions are offered in the course with each focusing on a different element of worship. Discussion questions conclude each session. Topics include: - Traditional worship - Liturgical year - Tools of worship - Sacraments - Rituals and celebrations - Creeds and prayers The book includes evaluation forms, a questionnaire on worship, and a bibliography section. Kenneth R. Burcham is pastor of the United Methodist Church, West College Corner, Indiana. He is a graduate of Ball State University. Asbury Theological Seminary and United Theological Seminary. This is his first book published by CSS.
"The book is a follow-up to Eslinger's earlier A New Hearing, the standard text on the varieties of homiletical method since its publication in 1987."--BOOK JACKET.
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Making Your Way to the Pulpit is a book for beginning preachers, for preachers who will never have a seminary course called "homiletics" (the art of preaching), for preachers who studied homiletics with William Hethcock and want a review, and for all preachers who are looking for a tested, reliable approach to sermon preparation. In short, this is a book for those who preach regularly or occasionally and would like a clear guide for making their way to the pulpit. At the School of Theology (SofT), University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, the Rev. Dr. William H. Hethcock directed field education from 1979 to 1985 and taught homiletics from 1985 until his retirement in 1997. After retiring...