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Russell Jeung's spiritual memoir shares the difficult, often
joyful, and sometimes harrowing account of his life in East
Oakland's Murder Dubs neighborhood and of his Chinese-Hakka
history. On a journey to discover how the poor and exiled are
blessed, At Home in Exile is the story of his integration of social
activism and a stubborn evangelical faith. Holding English classes
in his apartment (which doubled as a food pantry for a local
church) for undocumented Latino neighbors and Cambodian refugees,
battling drug dealers who threatened him, exorcising a spirit
possessing a teen, and winning a landmark housing settlement
against slumlords with a gathering of his neighbors-Jeung's story
is, by turns, moving and inspiring, traumatic and exuberant. As
Jeung retraces the steps of his Chinese-Hakka family and his
refugee neighbors, weaving the two narratives together, he asks
difficult questions about longing and belonging, wealth and
poverty, and how living in exile can transform your faith: "Not
only did relocation into the inner city press me toward God, but it
made God's words more distinct and clear to me...As I read
Scriptures through the eyes of those around me-refugees and
aliens-God spoke loudly to me his words of hope and truth." With
humor, humility, and keen insight, he describes the suffering and
the sturdiness of those around him and of his family. He relates
the stories of forced relocation and institutional discrimination,
of violence and resistance, and of the persistence of Christ's love
for the poor.
Practical Keys to Transforming the World around You In a world
where evil dominates the headlines, we are often left wondering,
Will good really triumph over evil? Or are we hurtling toward
oblivion? It's here, during this very hour--when political chaos
seems to reign and the media persecutes anyone who disagrees with
them--that God is searching for men and women who long for an
infusion of boldness that possesses their souls, who will take a
stand and be a voice for the Kingdom. His vision for the future is
not bleak, and he is readying a heavy rain of transformation and
revival. Here is the guidance and inspiration you need to become a
vessel that catches the downpour of the Spirit's rain--and helps
release God's Kingdom like a flood.
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This collection of essays by a team of evangelical scholars
explores the legacy of Carl F. H. Henry, a neglected giant of
twentieth-century evangelicalism-contending masterfully for Henry's
continued relevance in a changing world.
On September 25, 1890, the fourth Mormon prophet, Wilford Woodruff,
publicly instructed his followers to abandon polygamy. In doing so,
he initiated a process that would fundamentally alter the
Latter-day Saints and their faith. Trading the most integral
elements of their belief system for national acceptance, the
Mormons recreated themselves as model Americans. Mary Campbell
tells the story of this remarkable religious transformation in
Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic Mormon Image. One of the
church's favorite photographers, Johnson (1857 1926) spent the
1890s and early 1900s taking pictures of Mormonism's most revered
figures and sacred sites. At the same time, he did a brisk business
in mail-order erotica, shooting and selling stereoviews that he
referred to as his "spicy pictures of girls." Situating these
images and more within the religious, artistic, and legal culture
of turn-of-the-century America, Campbell reveals the unexpected
ways in which they worked in concert to bring the Saints back into
the nation's mainstream after the scandal of polygamy. ?Engaging,
interdisciplinary, and deeply researched, Charles Ellis Johnson and
the Erotic Mormon Image demonstrates the profound role that
pictures played in the creation of both the modern Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints and the modern American nation.
Raised in a broken family and emotionally overlooked, Sherry Gore
grew up without a solid foundation, a prisoner of her own poor
choices, and at times without hope. A series of terrible mistakes
left her feeling wrecked and alone and a sudden tragedy threw
Sherry into an emotional tailspin too powerful to escape. Sherry
hangs by a thread, unable to see how she can go on living, until it
happens: on a morning of no particular significance, she walks into
a church and BAM the truth of Jesus' forgiving love shatters her
world and cleaves her life in two: She goes to bed stunned; she
wakes up a Christian. Unwilling to return to the darkness of her
former life, Sherry attacks her faith head on. Soon the life Sherry
Gore remakes for herself and her children as she seeks to follow
the teachings of the Bible features head coverings, simple dress,
and a focus on Jesus Christ. Only then does she realize, in a fit
of excitement, that there are others like her. They are called
Amish and Mennonite, and she realizes she has found her people. The
plain choice that Sherry makes is not easy - and life still brings
unexpected pain and heartache - but it changes everything for her,
as she becomes one of the few people on earth to have successfully
joined the Amish from the outside. She has found her place. And her
story proves that one can return from the darkest depths to the
purest light with the power of God.
Premier Renewal Leaders Present Complete, Accessible Guide to
Healing Ministry
The Bible is full of accounts of miraculous healing. And God is
moving as amazingly today as he was back then. Thousands are being
healed all over the world--and his children are part of it.
For the first time, premier renewal leaders Bill Johnson and Randy
Clark team up to equip Christians to minister healing. Grounded
from start to finish in Scripture, Johnson and Clark lay out the
rich theological and historical foundation for healing in the
church today. Full of inspiring stories, this book offers
practical, proven, step-by-step guidance to ministering healing,
including how to
- understand the authority of the believer in healing
- create an atmosphere of faith
- receive words of knowledge
- implement the five-step model of healing prayer
The ministry of healing is not reserved for a select few. God's
miraculous healing is part of the Good News--and every believer can
become a conduit for his healing power.
This book explores the interconnections between Christianity,
sexuality and citizenship in sub-Saharan Africa, chronicling the
ways in which citizenship in the region has undergone profound
changes in recent decades as a result of growing interaction
between Christianity and politics, the impact of the HIV epidemic,
debates about women's reproductive rights, and the growing
visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)
communities. Case studies examine the emergence of Christianity,
especially in its Pentecostal-Charismatic forms, as a public
religion, and how this emergence has meant that Christian actors,
beliefs and practices have increasingly come to manifest themselves
in the public sphere. The contributors assess how many political
and religious leaders are invested in a popular ideology of the
heterosexual family as the basis of nation-building, and how this
defines narratives of nationhood and shapes notions of citizenship.
Additional case studies focus on the emergence of sexuality as a
critical site of citizenship and nationhood in postcolonial Africa,
and address the difficulties that LGBT communities face in claiming
recognition from the state. Offering case studies from across
sub-Saharan Africa and spanning several academic disciplines and
critical perspectives, this book will be of interest to researchers
seeking to understand the complex intersections of religion,
sexuality, politics and citizenship across the region. This book
was originally published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies.
Peter McAuslan heeded Mormon missionaries spreading the faith in
his native Scotland in the mid-1840s. The uncertainty his family
faced in a rapidly industrializing economy, the political turmoil
erupting across Europe, the welter of competing religions-all were
signs of the imminent end of time, the missionaries warned. For
those who would journey to a new Zion in the American West,
opportunity and spiritual redemption awaited. When McAuslan
converted in 1848, he believed he had a found a faith that would
give his life meaning. A few years later, McAuslan and his family
left Scotland for Utah, but soon after he arrived, his doubts grew
about the religious community he had joined so wholeheartedly.
Historian Polly Aird tells the story of how McAuslan first
embraced, then came to question, and ultimately renounced the
Mormon faith and left Utah. It would be the most courageous act of
his life. In Mormon Convert, Mormon Defector, Aird tells of
Scottish emigrants who endured a harrowing transatlantic and
transcontinental journey to join their brethren in the valley of
the Great Salt Lake. But to McAuslan and others like him, the
Promised Land of Salt Lake City turned out to be quite different
from what was promised: droughts and plagues of locusts destroyed
crops and brought on famine, and U.S. Army troops threatened on the
borders. Mormon leaders responded with fiery sermons attributing
their trials to divine retribution for backsliding and sin. When
the leaders countenanced violence and demanded absolute obedience,
Peter McAuslan decided to abandon his adopted faith. With his
family, and escorted by a U.S. Army detachment for protection, he
fled to California. Mormon Convert, Mormon Defector reveals the
tumultuous 1850s in Utah and the West in vivid detail. Drawing on
McAuslan's writings and other archival sources, Aird offers a rare
interior portrait of a man in whom religious fervor warred with
indignation at absolutist religious authorities and fear for the
consequences of dissension. In so doing, she brings to life a
dramatic but little-known period of American history.
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