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  • Redeeming Capitalism

    by Kenneth J. Barnes ...
    On reclaiming the moral roots of capitalism for a virtuous futureFor good or ill, the capitalism we have is the capitalism we have chosen, says Kenneth Barnes. Capitalism works, and the challenge before us is not to change its structure but to address the moral vacuum at the core of its current practice.In Redeeming Capitalism Barnes explores the history and workings of this sometimes-brutal ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Light from the Dreaming Spires

    Reflections on Ministry to Generation Y

    by Kenneth J. Barnes ...
    Just as "generals are always fighting the last war" my experience as a chaplain at Oxford University has taught me that the church often "speaks to the last generation." The statistics provided by the Pew Research Center say it all. The people of Generation Y are less likely to go to church, believe in God, or identify themselves as "religious" than any previous generation, yet they still have a ... Read more

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  • Whatever Became of Love?

    An Invitation to Rethink Everything

    by Thomas C. Pfizenmaier ...
    This book is written for those who want grow in love. This book is written for those who long for a place to stand with confidence in a trembling world. This book is written for those who suspect our civilization is running on fumes and want to help. If you are one of these people, then this book is written for you. In discovering Jesus as he encounters us in the Scriptures, you will discover that ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sabbath as Resilience

    Spiritual Refreshment for a Stressed-Out World

    Edited by Kenneth J. Barnes, C. Sara Lawrence Minard ...
    People everywhere are feeling the stress of modern life in ways not seen for generations. Emerging from the fog of the first pandemic in one hundred years, they face economic uncertainty, political acrimony, war and the threat of war, environmental degradation, and technological advances that amaze and frighten in equal measure. Time and space condense as unrelenting "connectedness" blurs the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anti-Catholicism in Arkansas

    How Politicians, the Press, the Klan, and Religious Leaders Imagined an Enemy, 1910–1960

    by Kenneth C. Barnes ...
    Winner, 2017 Ragsdale AwardA timely study that puts current issues—religious intolerance, immigration, the separation of church and state, race relations, and politics—in historical context.The masthead of the Liberator, an anti-Catholic newspaper published in Magnolia, Arkansas, displayed from 1912 to 1915 an image of the Whore of Babylon. She was an immoral woman sitting on a seven-headed beast, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Land of Tranquility

    by Kenneth E Barnes ...
    Barefoot, shoes in hand my legs carried me across the sand. The only two possessions made of our mother earth were the cloths on my body and a bible in my pocket. Beneath the sand lay the crust of our earth. Hundreds of miles thick withstanding the tales of time and industrial rape. Coastal images of the forgotten land hung on the walls of a cafe. Ansel Adams no more. Photos of fiction by todays ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Who Killed John Clayton?

    Political Violence and the Emergence of the New South, 1861-1893

    by Kenneth C. Barnes ...
    In 1888 a group of armed and masked Democrats stole a ballot box from a small town in Conway County, Arkansas. The box contained most of the county’s black Republican votes, thereby assuring defeat for candidate John Clayton in a close race for the U.S. Congress. Days after he announced he would contest the election, a volley of buckshot ripped through Clayton’s hotel window, killing him instantly ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas

    How Protestant White Nationalism Came to Rule a State

    by Kenneth C. Barnes ...
    Winner, 2022 J.G. Ragsdale Book Award, Arkansas Historical AssociationThe Ku Klux Klan established a significant foothold in Arkansas in the 1920s, boasting more than 150 state chapters and tens of thousands of members at its zenith. Propelled by the prominence of state leaders such as Grand Dragon James Comer and head of Women of the KKK Robbie Gill Comer, the Klan established Little Rock as a ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Journey of Hope

    The Back-to-Africa Movement in Arkansas in the Late 1800s

    by Kenneth C. Barnes ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    Liberia was founded by the American Colonization Society (ACS) in the 1820s as an African refuge for free blacks and liberated American slaves. While interest in African migration waned after the Civil War, it roared back in the late nineteenth century with the rise of Jim Crow segregation and disfranchisement throughout the South. The back-to-Africa movement held great new appeal to the South’s ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Mob Rule in the Ozarks

    The Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Strike, 1921-1923

    by Kenneth C. Barnes ...
    Winner, 2025 J.G. Ragsdale Award (Arkansas Historical Association)On January 15, 1923, a crowd of more than a thousand angry men assembled in Harrison, Arkansas, near the headquarters of the M&NA Railroad, which ran through the heart of the Ozark Mountains. The mob was prepared to use any measure necessary to end the strike of railroad employees that had dragged on for nearly two years, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Vast Bundle of Opportunities

    An Exploration of Creativity in Personal Life and Community

    by Kenneth C. Barnes ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    The conventional view of religion is that the basic truths were settled long ago, that all we have to do is to accept them and behave accordingly. Essentially then, there is no room for originality. To be religious we have to be followers, adherents, to be convinced, addicted, to be in a position to say: we are right, you are wrong.In A Vast Bundle of Opportunities, originally published in 1975, ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Nazism, Liberalism, and Christianity

    Protestant Social Thought in Germany and Great Britain, 1925-1937

    by Kenneth C. Barnes ...
    The Great Depression devastated the economies of both Germany and Great Britain. Yet the middle classes in the two countries responded in vastly different ways. German Protestants, perceiving a choice among a Bolshevik-style revolution, the chaos and decadence of Weimar liberalism, and Nazi authoritarianism, voted Hitler into power and then acquiesced in the resulting dictatorship. In Britain, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD