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God in the Ghetto

Author : William Augustus Jones Jr
Publisher : Judson Press
ISBN 13 : 9780817018221
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book God in the Ghetto written by William Augustus Jones Jr and published by Judson Press. This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At long last, the reissue of the classic book by the late, great William ¿Bill¿ Augustus Jones. The original volume featured essays on urban ministry and sermons on social justice, and this new edition has been updated by the late author¿s younger daughter and expanded to add several never-before-published sermons from the preaching giant. The book also features new essays reflecting on the legacy and influence of Dr. Jones and his work, from notable leaders including James Forbes, Frederick Haynes, Otis Moss III, J. Alfred Smith Sr., Al Sharpton, Jacqueline Thompson, and more!

From Ghetto to God

Author : Reggie Rucker
Publisher : Creative Works Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781930693258
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book From Ghetto to God written by Reggie Rucker and published by Creative Works Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Reggie Rucker takes the reader on a journey through the Washington D.C. that most tourists didn?t see in the late 1950?s. Within the shadow of the White House, monuments and the seat of legislative power, Reggie and his mother, Nance, walked down C Street, looking for food and a place to sleep at night. From these humble beginnings, Rucker was inspired to move beyond life as a homeless child in the ghettos of our nation?s capitol to become an NFL star wide receiver. #33, Reggie Rucker, was an acclaimed member of one of the most exciting professional football teams of the 1980?s, the Cleveland Brown?s Kardiac Kids. He was known for his good hands and sure catching abilities. From Ghetto To God, is sure to be an inspiration to all who read it. It offers fun and informative information about life as a professional football player, from training camp as a rookie, to becoming a star receiver and the perks that came with that stardom. In addition, From Ghetto To God explains how a professional athlete, especially a star player, can be put into many situations that others don?t face, and how, without the guidance of his faith, Reggie was not able to overcome many of the temptations which came his way. The book describes his meager upbringing, marital problems, the wonderful relationship Reggie has with his sons, his special relationship with actress Halle Berry, and, most importantly, his new relationship with God.

God and Government in the Ghetto

Author : Michael Leo Owens
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226642089
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book God and Government in the Ghetto written by Michael Leo Owens and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, as government agencies have encouraged faith-based organizations to help ensure social welfare, many black churches have received grants to provide services to their neighborhoods’ poorest residents. This collaboration, activist churches explain, is a way of enacting their faith and helping their neighborhoods. But as Michael Leo Owens demonstrates in God and Government in the Ghetto, this alliance also serves as a means for black clergy to reaffirm their political leadership and reposition moral authority in black civil society. Drawing on both survey data and fieldwork in New York City, Owens reveals that African American churches can use these newly forged connections with public agencies to influence policy and government responsiveness in a way that reaches beyond traditional electoral or protest politics. The churches and neighborhoods, Owens argues, can see a real benefit from that influence—but it may come at the expense of less involvement at the grassroots. Anyone with a stake in the changing strategies employed by churches as they fight for social justice will find God and Government in the Ghetto compelling reading.

God in the Ghetto

Author : William A. Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book God in the Ghetto written by William A. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Balancing Dark with Light

Author : Anthony Vaughn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781687184818
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Balancing Dark with Light written by Anthony Vaughn and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-18 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spiritual/self help book that takes you on the journey of a lifetime for Anthony, a shy, but brilliant young man. He has his light darkened by the karma he had accumulated and seems to be lost, unfocused, with no direction in life. The burning desire to find out the meaning of his life sends him zigging and zagging on quests that ends in love that he never could have imagined. Come on this magnificent ride from state to state where he encounters success and defeat along with all the vices he could manage. Also take a trip with him to Korea on a spiritual pilgrimage where he learns in depth, the meaning of accepting and letting go. For the reader, there's never a dull moment, even during the meditation practices. After seeing the good, the bad, the weird, and the ugly you'll finish the book feeling like this rollercoaster ride was one that you'd want to take again because the twists and turns had a weird healing effect. Enjoy it and leave a comment. Thank you!😊

Ghetto Bible

Author : Jovan Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Ghetto Bible written by Jovan Smith and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only the strong survive, in the land where greed is king. From the highest office in the land, to the bottom of the food chain: The Ghetto. Who will survive the Black Housing Projects, and make it out alive, all in the name of The All Mighty Dollar? In God We Trust.

No Neutral Ground

Author : Pete Portal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781473697386
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book No Neutral Ground written by Pete Portal and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cape Town is one of the most beautiful cities in the world - often described as a kind of heaven on earth. Yet for the majority of its inhabitants it is hell. Apartheid-spawned ghettoes are everywhere, and for those living in Manenberg - a coloured township on the Cape Flats, purpose-built by the apartheid government as part of its forced removal plan - life is just as marginal today as it was during apartheid. The main differences now are the rampant drug use and widespread gang presence. No Neutral Ground is a gripping account of Pete Portal's move from London to Manenberg, of addicts and gangsters meeting Jesus and being transformed, and how he went from living with a heroin addict to establishing a church community - and all the heartbreak and failure along the way. This is a story of mighty works of God, as well as relapse, hopelessness and despair; the miraculous and the mundane, heaven and hell, all balanced on a knife edge. Offering searing insight and an inspiring vision of faith, Pete asks why anyone would choose this way of life, if giving up our lives for others is worth it - and what the church could become if we were willing to risk it all to reach the forgotten and the lost.

Yosl Rakover Talks to God

Author : Zvi Kolitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780099284239
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Yosl Rakover Talks to God written by Zvi Kolitz and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dying Jew's last words to God in the collapse of the Warsaw Ghetto: a text which is regarded as the single greatest piece of writing to have emerged from the Holocaust, the story of how it came to be written, the man who wrote it and the after life of both the author and his creation.

May God Avenge Their Blood

Author : Rachmil Bryks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793621039
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book May God Avenge Their Blood written by Rachmil Bryks and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: May God Avenge Their Blood: a Holocaust Memoir Triptych presents three memoirs by the Yiddish writer Rachmil Bryks (1912–1974). In "Those Who Didn't Survive," Bryks portrays inter-war life in his shtetl Skarżysko-Kamienna, Poland with great flair and rich anthropological detail, rendering a haunting collective portrait of an annihilated community. "The Fugitives" vividly charts the confusion and terror of the early days of World War II in the industrial city of Łódź and elsewhere. In the final memoir, "From Agony to Life," Bryks tells of his imprisonment in Auschwitz and other camps. Taken together, the triptych takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey from Hasidic life before the Holocaust to the chaos of the early days of war and then to the horrors of Nazi captivity. This translation by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub brings the extraordinary memoirs of an important Yiddish writer to English-language readers for the first time.

FROM GHETTO TO GLORY

Author : Bishop J. Delano Ellis II
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1490724206
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book FROM GHETTO TO GLORY written by Bishop J. Delano Ellis II and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Ghetto to Glory is a biographical story of a boy raised in dysfunction, prophesied to be a failure before he could finish school. It's about a boy who suffered beatings for his faith and dismissed from his family because he chose Christ over the religion of his father. The story is somewhat graphic, but the pain in each page culminates in a glory unexpected by the reader. Read the book and walk with Bishop Ellis from "water" to solid ground, and you will appreciate his need to praise God at every circumstance. You may just find yourself praising God along with him.

Alive in God

Author : Timothy Radcliffe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472970225
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Alive in God written by Timothy Radcliffe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can Christianity touch the imagination of our contemporaries when ever fewer people in the West identify as religious? Timothy Radcliffe argues we must show how everything we believe is an invitation to live fully. God says: 'I put before you life and death: choose life'. Anyone who understands the beauty and messiness of human life – novelists, poets, filmmakers and so on – can be our allies, whether they believe or not. The challenge is not today's secularism but its banality. We accompany the disciples as they struggle to understand this strange man who heals, casts out demons and offers endless forgiveness. In the face of death, he teaches them what it means to be alive in God. Then he embraces all that afflicts and crushes humanity. Finally, Radcliffe explores what it means for us to be alive spiritually, physically, sacramentally, justly and prayerfully. The result is a compelling new understanding of the words of Jesus: 'I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.'

The Gold Coast Church and the Ghetto

Author : James K. Wellman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252068041
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The Gold Coast Church and the Ghetto written by James K. Wellman and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the nation's best known churches, Fourth Presbyterian is a thriving mainline church housed in an elegant Gothic building in Chicago's wealthy Gold Coast neighborhood. Less than a mile to the west is another world: the Cabrini-Green low- income housing projects. In this evenhanded account, James Wellman surveys the church's history of balancing its theological aims and its social boundaries and sheds light on the strengths and weaknesses of liberal Protestantism as a modern religious institution. Wellman shows how Fourth Presbyterian has moved from an establishment congregation to what he calls a lay liberal church working to overcome class and race inequality in its urban context while carving out its institutional identity in an increasingly pluralistic environment. By examining the church's four main leaders over the course of the century, Wellman tracks Fourth Presbyterian's gradual shift away from an evangelical role and toward the current focus on service, epitomized in the church's main outreach program, an extensive volunteer tutoring program that serves hundreds of Cabrini-Green residents each week. In documenting Fourth Presbyterian's struggle to meet the needs of its privileged congregants while challenging them to move beyond exclusive boundaries of race and class, The Gold Coast Church and the Ghetto opens a window into the past, present, and future of the Protestant mainline."

City of God

Author : E.L. Doctorow
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 158836190X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book City of God written by E.L. Doctorow and published by Random House. This book was released on 2001-11-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With brilliant and audacious strokes, E. L. Doctorow creates a breathtaking collage of memories, events, visions, and provocative thought, all centered on an idea of the modern reality of God. At the heart of this stylistically daring tour de force is a detective story about a cross that vanishes from a rundown Episcopal church in lower Manhattan only to reappear on the roof of an Upper West Side synagogue. Intrigued by the mystery—and by the maverick rector and the young rabbi investigating the strange act of desecration—is a well-known novelist, whose capacious brain is a virtual repository for the ideas and disasters of the age. Daringly poised at the junction of the sacred and the profane, filled with the sights and sounds of New York, and encompassing a large cast of vividly drawn characters including theologians, scientists, Holocaust survivors, and war veterans, City of God is a monumental work of spiritual reflection, philosophy, and history by America’s preeminent novelist and chronicler of our time. Praise for City of God “A grander perspective on the universe . . . a novel that sets its sights on God.”—The Wall Street Journal “Dazzling . . . The true miracle of City of God is the way its disparate parts fuse into a consistently enthralling and suspenseful whole.”—Time “Blooms with humor, and a humanity that carries triumphant as intelligent a novel as one might hope to find these days.”—Los Angeles Times “Radiates [with] panoramic ambition and spiritual incandescence.”—Chicago Tribune “One of the greatest American novels of the past fifty years . . . Reading City of God restores one’s faith in literature.”—The Houston Chronicle

The Book of Job

Author : Harold S. Kushner
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0805243070
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Job written by Harold S. Kushner and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the Jewish Encounter series From one of our most trusted spiritual advisers, a thoughtful, illuminating guide to that most fascinating of biblical texts, the book of Job, and what it can teach us about living in a troubled world. The story of Job is one of unjust things happening to a good man. Yet after losing everything, Job—though confused, angry, and questioning God—refuses to reject his faith, although he challenges some central aspects of it. Rabbi Harold S. Kushner examines the questions raised by Job’s experience, questions that have challenged wisdom seekers and worshippers for centuries. What kind of God permits such bad things to happen to good people? Why does God test loyal followers? Can a truly good God be all-powerful? Rooted in the text, the critical tradition that surrounds it, and the author’s own profoundly moral thinking, Kushner’s study gives us the book of Job as a touchstone for our time. Taking lessons from historical and personal tragedy, Kushner teaches us about what can and cannot be controlled, about the power of faith when all seems dark, and about our ability to find God. Rigorous and insightful yet deeply affecting, The Book of Job is balm for a distressed age—and Rabbi Kushner’s most important book since When Bad Things Happen to Good People.

From the Hood to the Church

Author : Demarcus Brewster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781694342614
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book From the Hood to the Church written by Demarcus Brewster and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book inspired by true events I experienced in my life. It entails how God delivered me from situations I faced and how I became the person I am today.

Let the Legends Preach

Author : Jared E. Alcantara
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 172526689X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Let the Legends Preach written by Jared E. Alcantara and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let the Legends Preach celebrates the past and current legends of black preaching through preserving the sermons that they preached at the Annual E. K. Bailey Expository Preaching Conference. The twenty-four preachers honored in this book received the Living Legend Award for Excellence in Preaching on account of ministries that impacted hundreds of thousands of people across the nation and around the world. Not only does this book lift up preachers that are familiar to so many, names belonging to the great cloud of witnesses in black preaching over the last fifty years, but it also introduces a new generation of preachers to their powerful stories and homiletical wisdom. Each chapter offers readers short biographical sketches on the life and ministry of the preachers that were honored followed by the sermon that they preached or the lecture that they delivered at the annual conference.

The Awful Grace of God

Author : Stuart Wexler
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619020750
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Awful Grace of God written by Stuart Wexler and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Awful Grace of God chronicles a multi–year effort to kill Martin Luther King Jr. by a group of the nation's most violent right–wing extremists. Impeccably researched and thoroughly documented, this examines figures like Sam Bowers, head of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi, responsible for more than three hundred separate acts of violence in Mississippi alone; J.B. Stoner, who ran an organization that the California attorney general said was "more active and dangerous than any other ultra–right organization;" and Reverend Wesley Swift, a religious demagogue who inspired two generations of violent extremists. United in a holy cause to kill King, this network of racist militants were the likely culprits behind James Earl Ray and King's assassination in Memphis on April 4th, 1968. King would be their ultimate prize—a symbolic figure whose assassination could foment an apocalypse that would usher in their Kingdom of God, a racially "pure" white world. Hancock and Wexler have sifted through thousands of pages of declassified and never–before–released law enforcement files on the King murder, conducted dozens of interviews with figures of the period, and re–examined information from several recent cold case investigations. Their study reveals a terrorist network never before described in contemporary history. They have unearthed data that was unavailable to congressional investigators and used new data–mining techniques to extend the investigation begun by the House Select Committee on Assassinations. The Awful Grace of God offers the most comprehensive and up–to–date study of the King assassination and presents a roadmap for future investigation.