Traditional histories of the American transcendentalist movement begin in Ralph Waldo Emerson's terms: describing a rejection of college books and church pulpits in favor of the individual power of "Man Thinking." This essay collection asks how women who lacked the privileges of both college and clergy rose to thought. For them, reading alone and conversing together were the primary means of growth, necessarily in private and informal spaces both overlapping with those of the men and apart from them. But these were means to achieving literary, aesthetic, and political authority-- indeed, to claiming utopian possibility for women as a whole.

"Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism" is a project of both archaeology and reinterpretation. Many of its seventeen distinguished and rising scholars work from newly recovered archives, and all offer fresh readings of understudied topics and texts. First quickened by the 2010 bicentennial of Margaret Fuller's birth, the project reaches beyond Fuller to her female predecessors, contemporaries, and successors throughout the nineteenth century who contributed to or grew from the transcendentalist movement.

Geographic scope also widens--from the New England base to national and transatlantic spheres. A shared goal is to understand this "genealogy" within a larger history of American women writers; no absolute boundaries divide idealism from sentiment, romantics from realists, or white discourse from black. Primary-text interludes invite readers into the ongoing task of discovering and interpreting transcendentally affiliated women. This collection recognizes the vibrant contributions women made to a major literary movement and will appeal to both scholars and general readers.

Mary Moody Emerson has long been a New England legend, the "eccentric" aunt of Ralph Waldo Emerson. This major new study, based on the first reading of all her known letters and diaries, reveals a complex human voice and powerful forerunner of Transcendentalism. Diverting her ancestors' fervent religion into the celebration of solitude, nature, and imagination, she explored new ground as a woman writer and crucially set the terms for her nephew's thought.

Mary Moody Emerson has long been a New England legend, the "eccentric" aunt of Ralph Waldo Emerson. This major study, based on the first reading of all her known letters and diaries, reveals a complex human voice and powerful forerunner of Transcendentalism. Diverting her ancestors' fervent religion into the celebration of solitude, nature and imagination, she explored a new ground as a female writer and crucially set the terms for her nephew's thought.

During Lent and Holy Week, 1999, Phyllis Cole-Dai and James Murray lived voluntarily on the streets of Columbus, Ohio, the nation's fifteenth largest city. They didn't go out on the streets to satisfy idle curiosity, or to experience a strange new world. They didn't go out to find answers to questions, solutions to problems. They didn't go out to save anyone, or to hand out donations of food and blankets. They went out with one primary aim: to be as present as possible to everyone they met-to love their neighbor as themselves. Doing so, they were reminded just how difficult the practice of compassion can be, especially because of personal judgments, assumptions, fears and desires, all habits of mind that harden one's regard for and behavior toward other people. narrative accompanied by nearly thirty black and white photographs, most of them shot by James using crude pinhole cameras that he constructed from trash. This book will thrust you out the door of your comfortable life, straight into the unknown. What can happen to a person without a home? Indeed, what might happen to you?

STONE PILLOWS: An American's Ground-Breaking Mission to King Zog's Albania, is the biography of C. Telford Erickson, Missionary and Diplomat, 1908-1939. "Erickson is a heralded name in the history of the Albanian national reawakening of the early 20th Century. His life's work was first rooted in Christian missionary activity, but soon prompted him to engage in educational and cultural interventions which brought to light the needs of an oppressed people relatively unknown to European and U.S. diplomacy. He earned the confidence of presidents and bishops, kings and imams, who secured his counsel and relied on his judgment. Braunlich brings to the fore the fascinating life story of an erudite American who cared and made a difference. It is an invaluable resource for those who wish to understand the Balkans at a formative period of transition and its connection to the rise of Western interest in the region." (Rev. Arthur E. Liolin, Chancellor, Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese in America)

Faith Challenge Bible Activity Book Love is the most fulfilling of all of God's law. Faith Challenge Bible Activity Book was created with the intention of restoring the breach in family relationships, helping readers young and old view themselves through a wealth of knowledge and accept and fulfill the greatest commandments of them all: Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, thy mind, thy soul, thy strength, and Love thy neighbor as thyself. Faith Challenge Bible Activity Book is not solely for the young. Professors, bible scholars, lawyers, doctors, pastors, Sunday school teachers, rabbis and people of all ages and economic backgrounds will feel challenged and engaged by this masterpiece of family activities. Faith Challenge Bible Activity Book is a learning tool for young and old that delves into the Bible and its spiritual concepts. Author Phyllis Cole poured many hours into research in order to compile stimulating material that provokes and arouses readers to enjoy the bible and take the challenge.

Biblical and contemporary images and ideas come together in a powerful expression of faith. Updated to follow the newly revised Common Lectionary, this resource includes Invocation, Call to Worship, Litany Prayer for One Voice, and Benediction for each Sunday in the Christian year. The authors have created a "dialogue with Scripture" in which Biblical and contemporary images and ideas come together in a powerful expression of faith.

Phyllis Cole Braunlich sketches the life story of Lynn Riggs (18991954), the playwright best known as the author of Green Grow the Lilacs, the play that formed the basis for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! Today Riggs is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most innovative playwrights.

Santa Fe, Hollywood, New York, and Chapel Hill: these were the cities that Lynn Riggs, "father of the folk play," called home, along with eastern Oklahoma, the scene of his memorable re-creations of Oklahoma Territory before statehood. Riggs traveled widely to make his living and his fame, and along the way he earned the friendship of many avant-garde writers and successful theatre people of his time. This biography is also a chronicle of literary and cafe society on both coasts and in New Mexico during the 1920s, '30s, and '40s.

Updated to follow the new Revised Common Lectionary, this resource includes a Call to Worship, a Litany, a Prayer for One Voice, and a Benediction for each Sunday in the Christian year. Among the special occasion services included are Human Relations Day/Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Intergenerational Celebration, Student Day, and prayers for Rural & Urban Life.

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