Author: Evelon Joy NiederfrankPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rural churches
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Challenges of the Changing Community--and Town-country Churches
Author: Evelon Joy NiederfrankPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rural churches
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
The Challenge of Change for the Church in Town and Country
Author: National Convocation on the Church in Town and CountryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rural churches
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
The Church on the Changing Frontier: A Study of the Homesteader and His Church
Author: Helen Olive BelknapPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
'The Church on the Changing Frontier' is a published study on the work of Protestant city, town and country churches in four counties on the Range. It discusses the effect on the Church of the changing conditions in the Rocky Mountain States, and the task of the Church in ministering to the situation which existed in its day. The four counties studied in the book are Beaverhead in Montana, Sheridan in Wyoming, Union in New Mexico and Hughes in South Dakota. In the spring of 1921 the field worker, Miss Helen Belknap, of the Committee on Social and Religious Surveys, visited these counties, verified the results of the survey work previously done, and secured additional information not included in the original study. This book is the result of that work.
Rural Ministry and the Changing Community
Author: Rockwell Carter SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Ten concepts were selected by rural sociologists as central to the task of the pastor in his community as he faces the future.
The Church in the Changing Community
Author: Mary B. WhitmarshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rural churches
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
The Town and Country Church in the United States as Illustrated by Data from One Hundred Seventy-nine Counties and by Intensive Studies of Twenty-five
Author: Hermann Nelson MorsePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian sects
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Community as Church, Church as Community
Author: Michael PlekonPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725287536
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Parishes of all denominations are in decline, shrinking, closing, dying. We know that there are increasing numbers, young and older, who are religious “nones” and “dones.” This book explores why the decline is taking place, why the distancing is going on. But it goes on to examine parishes from all over the country and from various church bodies that are resurrecting. The central theme of death and resurrection shapes the analysis of parishes covered. Parishes are resurrecting by reinventing their ministries, by repurposing their building to better serve their neighborhoods, thus replanting and reconnecting with them. All of this is the Spirit’s doing but through the community of sisters and brothers who make up each congregation of faith. Community as the core of church is the other reality shaping the book’s reflection. And community, a parish being with those around, living for more than its own survival are visions for going forward. Other aspects of congregational life are also examined, most importantly the pastors—how they serve when budgets shrink, how they are trained, how pastors act with the community not above it. No recipes are suggested for parish resurrection, but the stories of the parishes that have revived bear within numerous lessons for us in the future.
Miscellaneous Publication
Author: The Country Church and the Rural Problem
Author: Kenyon L ButterfiledPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781022003699
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A classic study of the challenges facing rural communities in America and the vital role that local churches can play in addressing them. Drawing on his own experiences as a rural minister, Butterfield offers practical advice and inspiring examples of how churches can become centers of community life, educational innovation, and social reform. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
Author: Mark A. NollPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 1467464627
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Winner of the Christianity Today Book of the Year Award (1995) “The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.” So begins this award-winning intellectual history and critique of the evangelical movement by one of evangelicalism’s most respected historians. Unsparing in his indictment, Mark Noll asks why the largest single group of religious Americans—who enjoy increasing wealth, status, and political influence—have contributed so little to rigorous intellectual scholarship. While nourishing believers in the simple truths of the gospel, why have so many evangelicals failed to sustain a serious intellectual life and abandoned the universities, the arts, and other realms of “high” culture? Over twenty-five years since its original publication, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind has turned out to be prescient and perennially relevant. In a new preface, Noll lays out his ongoing personal frustrations with this situation, and in a new afterword he assesses the state of the scandal—showing how white evangelicals’ embrace of Trumpism, their deepening distrust of science, and their frequent forays into conspiratorial thinking have coexisted with surprisingly robust scholarship from many with strong evangelical connections.