Stearns County, Minnesota, contains a generous sprinkling of small communities with handsome Catholic churces. Most of these towns were formed as, and still are, predominately Catholic settlements. No county in Minnesota, or even in the United States, compares in density of Catholic hamlets to Stearns County. With a population approximately two-thirds Catholic, this county contains fifty Catholic churches, the majority of which were built between 1871 and 1930. This is the story of those churches and the people and times that built them.
Because spiritual life and religious participation are widespread human and cultural phenomena, these experiences unsurprisingly find their way into English language arts curriculum, learning, teaching, and teacher education work. Yet many public school literacy teachers and secondary teacher educators feel unsure how to engage religious and spiritual topics and responses in their classrooms. This volume responds to this challenge with an in-depth exploration of diverse experiences and perspectives on Christianity within American education. Authors not only examine how Christianity – the historically dominant religion in American society – shapes languaging and literacies in schooling and other educational spaces, but they also imagine how these relations might be reconfigured. From curricula to classroom practice, from narratives of teacher education to youth coming-to-faith, chapters vivify how spiritual lives, beliefs, practices, communities, and religious traditions interact with linguistic and literate practices and pedagogies. In relating legacies of Christian languaging and literacies to urgent issues including White supremacy, sexism and homophobia, and the politics of exclusion, the volume enacts and invites inclusive relational configurations within and across the myriad American Christian sub-cultures coming to bear on English language arts curriculum, teaching, and learning. This courageous collection contributes to an emerging scholarly literature at the intersection of language and literacy teaching and learning, religious literacy, curriculum studies, teacher education, and youth studies. It will speak to teacher educators, scholars, secondary school teachers, and graduate and postgraduate students, among others.
How to break free from the personal money story developed early in life that can shape your financial future. Family experiences can define our attitudes about money even as we mature, including how we spend it, save it, and give it away. Consequently, our childhood often determines our approach to money during our entire lives. Donald Romanik, President of the Episcopal Church Foundation, helps readers discover the consequences of that money legacy, for individuals and for the churches and other organizations to which they belong.
The word of God is filled with biography--one character after another, parading across the stage of redemptive history. It's quite obvious that God loves to teach lasting lessons through the lives of individuals. With that in mind, Stephen has undertaken a special biographical series, illustrating biblical truths through the lives of contemporary believers; men and women who provide for us a wonderful legacy of light.
Award-winning author Maria Ruiz Scaperlanda profiles the lives of three young Catholics whose lives were destroyed in the Oklahoma City bomb attack in April, 1995, celebrating their lives and their deep Christian faith.
This book introduces twelve key Christians from the second and third centuries, a formative period for the Church. These figures are: Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tatian, Theophilus of Antioch, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Perpetua, Origen, Hippolytus, Cyprian, Gregory Thaumaturgos and Eusebius. Each chapter is self-contained and requires no preliminary knowledge of the figure under discussion, making this an ideal book for laity and for undergraduates studying Christian origins or Patristics.
Have you ever considered what your legacy will be? While I certainly hope that my children know they are loved, leaving a legacy is more than an assurance of affection, genetics and common traits. If you are a Christian, your legacy includes passing on a knowledge of the true God, planting the seed of faith in the hearts of future generations, showing the way to eternal life and teaching our children how to live holy righteous lives. It is a legacy of faith and an inheritance of the promises of God, extending beyond the limitations of our mortality and enduring forever. An Enduring Legacy of Faith looks at practical ways to teach what it means to have faith and to live in a way that honors God. Passing on our faith can be daunting when we consider our own shortfalls, but using examples throughout scripture, we see how God works through imperfect people and circumstances if we believe and trust God. What an awesome inheritance we will leave our children and future generations when we plant a seed of faith in our home, family, and community.
Table of ContentsGreat Legacies Bequeathed to SaintsIntroduction1 The Power of the Blood of Jesus2 The Authority of His Name3 The Grace of God4 The Holy Spirit and His Church5 The Word of God6 The Gift of Righteousness and Justification7 The Gift of the Kingdom of God8 Christ our Jubilee9 Christ is our Wisdom10 Only Jesus is Qualified to Open the Scroll of Your Destiny11 The Great Door and Many AdversariesOur Responses12 Genuine Repentance and Conversion13 Consecration14 Single Minded Commitment to the Kingdom15 Live the Love life16 Receive the Fullness of the Holy Spirit17 Make the Great Commission the Centrepiece of your life!18 Grow in Grace and Mature to Sonship!19 Build According to Plan20 Live the Simple life in Humility21 Jubilee Declarations
