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Not only do new church starts in significant numbers bring systemic
change and renewal to mainline denominations, but new church
development brings similar change to individual aging congregations
in their vicinity. Author Stephen Compton argues that a decline in
new church starts in the last half of the 20th century was the
major contributor to the decline of mainline church groups not
liberalism or lack of faith, as is often cited. He shows in this
book how introducing considerable numbers of new congregations into
these old denominations can cause these venerable institutions to
revisit the meaning of "church" and "congregation," develop a
clearer vision of their collective mission, and grow in their
ability to bring about positive change in the world. In effect, he
contends, new churches in an aging organization do not merely make
it grow. They make it change in ways that make it more effective in
its mission and ministries. This book will appeal to leaders across
denominational lines, including those not ordinarily called
"mainline," and especially to pastors and leaders of older
congregations."
North Carolina's eighteenth and nineteenth-century Moravian potters
were remarkable artisans whose products included coarse
earthenware, slip-trailed decorated ware, Leeds-type fine pottery,
press-molded stove tiles, figural bottles, toys, and salt-glazed
stoneware. Silesian-born and German-trained potter Gottfried Aust
was the first to arrive in Bethabara in 1755. After that, numerous
apprentices of his carried on the trade in the state and beyond.
Some apprentices rose to the rank of master potter. Aust's most
successful protege, Rudolph Christ, excelled in the creation of
Queensware, faience, and tortoiseshell-glazed pottery. Swiss-born
Heinrich Schaffner, one of several more Moravian master potters, is
famously known for his "Salem smoking pipes." Today, museums and
private collectors vigorously compete for scarce examples of North
Carolina-made Moravian pottery. Every piece found and preserved is
like a new paragraph added to the story of the art and mystery of
pottery-making in one of the South's earliest settlements.
This richly illustrated book tells the story of the successful
collaboration of Jacques and Juliana Royster Busbee in the creation
of a remarkable folkcraft enterprise called Jugtown. This
improbable venture, founded in a most unlikely setting, has left
its indelible mark on a remote Southern community. Fully
illustrated with numerous black-and-white and color photographs of
the place, the people who made pottery there, and the pottery
produced by them, the book tells how the Busbees convinced a few of
rural Moore County’s old-time utilitarian potters to make
new-fangled wares for them to sell in Juliana’s Greenwich Village
tea room and shop. Following New Yorkers’ wild acceptance of
their primitive-looking and alluring pottery offerings, the Busbees
built their own workshop in rural Moore County and called it
Jugtown. Today, nearly one hundred potters make and sell their
wares within a few miles of Jugtown—all because a hundred years
ago, the Busbees and their Jugtown potters found a new way to make
old jugs. Stephen C. Compton is an independent scholar and an avid
collector of historic, traditional North Carolina pottery. Steve
has written numerous articles and books about the state’s
pottery. Widely recognized for his North Carolina pottery
expertise, the author is frequently called upon as a lecturer and
exhibit consultant and curator. He has served as president of the
North Carolina Pottery Center, a museum and educational center
located in Seagrove, North Carolina, and is a founding organizer,
and former president, of the North Carolina Pottery Collectors’
Guild.
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