Author: Chicago First Baptist ChurchPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337647742
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
History of the First Baptist Church, Chicago
Author: First Baptist Church (Chicago, Ill.).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
History of the First Baptist Church
Author: Chicago First Baptist ChurchPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337647742
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
A History of Chicago, Volume I
Author: Bessie Louise PiercePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226668398
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 523
Book Description
The first major history of Chicago ever written, A History of Chicago covers the city’s great history over two centuries, from 1673 to 1893. Originally conceived as a centennial history of Chicago, the project became, under the guidance of renowned historian Bessie Louise Pierce, a definitive, three-volume set describing the city’s growth—from its humble frontier beginnings to the horrors of the Great Fire, the construction of some of the world’s first skyscrapers, and the opulence of the 1893 World’s Fair. Pierce and her assistants spent over forty years transforming historical records into an inspiring human story of growth and survival. Rich with anecdotal evidence and interviews with the men and women who made Chicago great, all three volumes will now be available for the first time in years. A History of Chicago will be essential reading for anyone who wants to know this great city and its place in America. “With this rescue of its history from the bright, impressionable newspapermen and from the subscription-volumes, Chicago builds another impressive memorial to its coming of age, the closing of its first ‘century of progress.’”—E. D. Branch, New York Times (1937)
Chicago Churches and Synagogues
Author: George LanePublisher: Wild Onion Books
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Chicago Churches
Author: Elizabeth JohnsonPublisher: Uppercase Books Incorporated
ISBN: 9780967067001
Category : Architectural photography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The first book from twenty-four-year-old photographer and designer Elizabeth Johnson, Chicago Churches: A Photographic Essay, is an insightful look at the church, not just as architecture but as a reflection of the cultural individuality within a city and, more importantly, the universality of faith. Captured through the city's change of seasons, these photographs of 100 Chicago-area houses of worship display an intriguing cross section of religious and cultural groups and the communities they represent. Through the sometimes poignantly editorial and often classically simple photographs, Elizabeth portrays Chicago's diversity with eloquence and heart. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to Chicago charitable and community organizations.
Fundamental Seduction
Author: Voyle A. GloverPublisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781481208680
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
This book came out in 1990 and was instantly denounced and banned. Hundreds of Independent Fundamental Baptists stood in their pulpits and denounced the author from the pulpit as being a "tool of Satan." The author received death threats and was denounced from the pulpit of First Baptist Church in Hammond, Indiana and other pulpits in the land of Independent Fundamental Baptists. The author, an attorney and former member of the First Baptist Church, details fact after fact, including: The possible homicide of a 17 month old baby. The chief suspect? The son of a famous Baptist Preacher. This child was found to have multiple broken bones in various stages of healing prior to his death while in the home of this man, David Hyles (who would take the Fifth in the Coroner's Inquest). Multiple adulterous affairs by this son (who wrote a book entitled "Purity" while he was having some of the affairs). Pornographic pictures discovered in a briefcase tossed into a dumpster behind the church by David Hyles. The subjects? The wives of men in the church and other women in the church. The facts showing how a famous Independent Fundamental Baptist preacher sent his son to an unsuspecting church, when that preacher knew his son had serious moral failures. A pastor who brags that he has men on his staff that would commit suicide if he asked them. A church membership that displays a loyalty eerily reminiscent of the Jim Jones cult mindset. Staff members who boast that their pastor is so god-like that he does not have a dishonest drop of blood in his body. A daughter who reveals conversations she overhead between her mother, a secretary to this Baptist pastor, and the pastor, which always ended with a soft, whispered "I love you," all the while her father, a deacon of the church and close friend to the pastor, was banished to the basement by her mother. The daughter of this famous Baptist pastor who says her father's church was a cult. These are just a few of the facts in this book. The author, Voyle Glover, a lawyer and a former church member for nearly 20 years, brings all the passion of a lawyer doing closing argument to the case as he relentlessly brings out fact after fact and question after question, each of which begs to be answered. At one point, Glover examines sworn testimony given by Hyles and his alleged paramour during a deposition taken during her divorce. Testimony there revealed that the Reverend Jack Hyles had given or loaned more than $100,000 to this woman, and bought her a new car every two years. Interest in this case has attracted attention from various media sources, including the Chicago Tribune, The Times, the television show Current Affair, the Southern Baptist Conference, newspapers across the nation, radio, magazines and a host of religious publications. The book has been out of print for over 2 decades. Now, there is a demand for the book by a new generation, the children of the parents who refused to read this "trash" (as Hyles called it). This generation wants to know what their parents refused to see. They want truth. There is an even greater interest now, in light of the recent scandal brought on by the headline news that the successor pastor to the Hyles pulpit, the son-in-law, Jack Schaap, was recently (2012) arrested for transporting a minor across state lines to have sex. He pled guilty and faces a minimum of 10 years prison.
Steal Away Home
Author: Matt CarterPublisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 1433690632
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Thomas Johnson and Charles Spurgeon lived worlds apart. Johnson, an American slave, born into captivity and longing for freedom--- Spurgeon, an Englishman born into relative ease and comfort, but, longing too for a freedom of his own. Their respective journeys led to an unlikely meeting and an even more unlikely friendship, forged by fate and mutual love for the mission of Christ. Steal Away Home is a new kind of book based on historical research, which tells a previously untold story set in the 1800s of the relationship between an African-American missionary and one of the greatest preachers to ever live.
Official History of the First African Baptist Church
Author: Charles H. BrooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
History of Chicago
Author: Alfred Theodore AndreasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
An Outline for the Study of Illinois State History
Author: Jessie Palmer WeberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description