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  • Compelling Lives

    Five Methodist Abolitionists and the Ideas That Inspired Them

    Series series Wesleyan and Methodist Explorations
    What motivates people to work for justice? Recent studies have moved away from an emphasis on specific principles and toward an understanding of social and cultural forces. But what about times in history when distinct ideas were critical for positive change? The pre-Civil War abolitionist movement represents one such time. During an era when race-based slavery was buttressed by the machinery of ... Read more

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  • Doing Good

    A Grace-Filled Approach to Holiness

    Christianity in its purest form involves putting God’s love into action. Wesleyans have traditionally understood this embodiment and expression of God’s love as holiness.• Four-session guide helps individuals and small groups understand and embrace the Wesleyan understanding of holiness• Explores the Wesleyan approach to both law and grace• Guides individuals to match faith with action• Provides ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Awakening to Justice

    Faithful Voices from the Abolitionist Past

    "O where are the sympathies of Christians for the slave and where are their exertions for their liberation? . . . It seems as if the church were asleep."David Ingraham, 1839In 2015, the historian Chris Momany helped discover a manuscript that had been forgotten in a storage closet at Adrian College in Michigan. He identified it as the journal of a nineteenth-century Christian abolitionist and ... Read more

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    Awakening to Justice

    Faithful Voices from the Abolitionist Past

    Unabridged

    7 hours 14 min

    In 2015, the historian Chris Momany helped discover a manuscript that had been forgotten in a storage closet at Adrian College in Michigan. He identified it as the journal of a nineteenth-century Christian abolitionist and missionary, David Ingraham. As Momany and a fellow historian Doug Strong pored over the diary, they realized that studying this document could open new conversations for twenty ... Read more

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  • Forged in Faith

    How Faith Shaped the Birth of the Nation 1607-1776

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    The true drama of how faith motivated America’s Founding Fathers, influenced the Declaration of Independence and inspired the birth of the nation.This fascinating history, based on meticulous research into the correspondence and documentation of the founding fathers leading up to and encompassing the crafting of the Declaration of Independence, sheds light on how the Judeo-Christian worldview ... Read more

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  • Lucretia Mott's Heresy

    Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America

    Lucretia Coffin Mott was one of the most famous and controversial women in nineteenth-century America. Now overshadowed by abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison and feminists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mott was viewed in her time as a dominant figure in the dual struggles for racial and sexual equality. History has often depicted her as a gentle Quaker lady and a mother figure, but her ... Read more

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    The Religious Life and Legacy of Thomas Jefferson

    A religious historian argues that historical revisionism has distorted the religious views of Thomas Jefferson, making him appear far more skeptical than he was.Thomas Jefferson and the founding fathers intended a strict separation of church and state, right? He would have been very upset to find out about a child praying in a public school or a government building used for religious purposes, ... Read more

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  • Our Country

    Northern Evangelicals and the Union during the Civil War Era

    "A welcome contribution to the growing literature on religion during the Civil War era." — Civil War NewsNorthern evangelicals' love of the Union arguably contributed to its preservation and the slaves' emancipation—but in subsuming the ex-slaves to their vision for a Christian America, northern evangelicals contributed to a Reconstruction that failed to ensure the ex-slaves' full freedom and ... Read more

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    Northern New England's Religious Geography

    "An important new interpretation of how religious change shaped American cultural identity in the early republic." — Journal of American HistoryNorthern New England, a rugged landscape dotted with transient settlements, posed challenges to the traditional town church in the wake of the American Revolution. Using the methods of spatial geography, Shelby M. Balik examines how migrants adapted their ... Read more

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    Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation

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  • The Indian Great Awakening

    Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America

    The First Great Awakening was a time of heightened religious activity in the colonial New England. Among those whom the English settlers tried to convert to Christianity were the region's native peoples. In this book, Linford Fisher tells the gripping story of American Indians' attempts to wrestle with the ongoing realities of colonialism between the 1670s and 1820. In particular, he looks at how ... Read more

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