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Author: Carman
Publisher:
Published: 1996-06
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9781880089347
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This masterfully illustrated children's book highlights Carman's bestselling song, Satan, Bite The Dust! Join Carman on this ride in the wild west that shows kids how to use their authority in Jesus to defeat Satan. Ages 4-8.
Author: Gregory Thornbury
Publisher: Convergent Books
Published: 2018-03-20
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 110190707X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The riveting, untold story of the “Father of Christian Rock” and the conflicts that launched a billion-dollar industry at the dawn of America’s culture wars. In 1969, in Capitol Records' Hollywood studio, a blonde-haired troubadour named Larry Norman laid track for an album that would launch a new genre of music and one of the strangest, most interesting careers in modern rock. Having spent the bulk of the 1960s playing on bills with acts like the Who, Janis Joplin, and the Doors, Norman decided that he wanted to sing about the most countercultural subject of all: Jesus. Billboard called Norman “the most important songwriter since Paul Simon,” and his music would go on to inspire members of bands as diverse as U2, The Pixies, Guns ‘N Roses, and more. To a young generation of Christians who wanted a way to be different in the American cultural scene, Larry was a godsend—spinning songs about one’s eternal soul as deftly as he did ones critiquing consumerism, middle-class values, and the Vietnam War. To the religious establishment, however, he was a thorn in the side; and to secular music fans, he was an enigma, constantly offering up Jesus to problems they didn’t think were problems. Paul McCartney himself once told Larry, “You could be famous if you’d just drop the God stuff,” a statement that would foreshadow Norman’s ultimate demise. In Why Should the Devil Have all the Good Music?, Gregory Alan Thornbury draws on unparalleled access to Norman’s personal papers and archives to narrate the conflicts that defined the singer’s life, as he crisscrossed the developing fault lines between Evangelicals and mainstream American culture—friction that continues to this day. What emerges is a twisting, engrossing story about ambition, art, friendship, betrayal, and the turns one’s life can take when you believe God is on your side.
Author: Joy Callaway Godbold
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2022-02-03
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1666736058
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A myriad Muslims and Hindus mortally yearn to know a God of love. Will circumstances, complacency, or comfort cushion the Callaways at home? Or will Christ’s love propel Beth, Merrel, and Arlene to reach these Uttermost with the good news before it’s too late?
Author: Leah Payne
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0197555241
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →By combining musical styles young people loved with the wholesomeness their parents wanted, Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) became a multimillion-dollar industry. In this book, author Leah Payne traces the history of contemporary Christian music in America and, in the process, demonstrates how the industry, its artists, and its fans shaped--and continue to shape--conservative, (mostly) white, Protestant evangelicalism.
Author: Alisa Harris
Publisher: Waterbrook Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0307729656
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Alisa Harris grew up in a family that actively fought injustice and moral decay in America. She spent much of her childhood picketing abortion clinics and being homeschooled in the ways of conservative-Republican Christianity. As a teen she firmly believed that putting the right people in power would save the nation.
Author: Heather Hendershot
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-03-15
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 0226326802
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1999, the Reverend Jerry Falwell outed Tinky-Winky, the purple character from TV's Teletubbies. Events such as this reinforced in many quarters the common idea that evangelicals are reactionary, out of touch, and just plain paranoid. But reducing evangelicals to such caricatures does not help us understand their true spiritual and political agendas and the means they use to advance them. Shaking the World for Jesus moves beyond sensationalism to consider how the evangelical movement has effectively targeted Americans—as both converts and consumers—since the 1970s. Thousands of products promoting the Christian faith are sold to millions of consumers each year through the Web, mail order catalogs, and even national chains such as Kmart and Wal-Mart. Heather Hendershot explores in this book the vast industry of film, video, magazines, and kitsch that evangelicals use to spread their message. Focusing on the center of conservative evangelical culture—the white, middle-class Americans who can afford to buy "Christian lifestyle" products—she examines the industrial history of evangelist media, the curious subtleties of the products themselves, and their success in the religious and secular marketplace. To garner a wider audience, Hendershot argues, evangelicals have had to carefully temper their message. But in so doing, they have painted themselves into a corner. In the postwar years, evangelical media wore the message of salvation on its sleeve, but as the evangelical media industry has grown, many of its most popular products have been those with heavily diluted Christian messages. In the eyes of many followers, the evangelicals who purvey such products are sellouts—hucksters more interested in making money than spreading the word of God. Working to understand evangelicalism rather than pass judgment on it, Shaking the World for Jesus offers a penetrating glimpse into a thriving religious phenomenon.
Author: Harrison Mooney
Publisher: Steerforth Press / Truth to Power
Published: 2022-09-20
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1586423460
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →FINALIST - Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction WINNER - 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writers Prizes for Nonfiction FINALIST - Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction An unforgettable coming-of-age memoir about a Black boy adopted into a white, Christian fundamentalist family Perfect for fans of Educated, Punch Me Up to the Gods, and Surviving the White Gaze “An affecting portrait of life inside the twin prisons of racism and unbending orthodoxy.” --Kirkus Reviews A powerful, experiential journey from white cult to Black consciousness: Harrison Mooney’s riveting story of self-discovery lifts the curtain on the trauma of transracial adoption and the internalized antiblackness at the heart of the white evangelical Christian movement. Inspired by Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man the same way Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me was inspired by James Baldwin, Harrison Mooney’s debut memoir will captivate readers with his powerful gift for storytelling, his keen eye for insight and observation, and his wry sense of humor. As an adopted and homeschooled Black boy with ADHD at white fundamentalist Christian churches and tent revivals, Mooney was raised amid a swirl of conflicting and confusing messages and beliefs. Within that radical and racist right-wing bubble along the U.S. border in Canada's Bible Belt, Harrison was desperate to belong and to be "visible" to those around him. But before ultimately finding his own path, Harrison must first come to understand that the forces at work in his life were not supernatural, but the same trauma and systemic violence that has terrorized Black families for generations. Reconnecting with his birth mother--and understanding her journey--leads Harrison to a new connection with himself: the eyes looking down were my true mother’s eyes, and the face was my true mother’s face, and for the first time in my life, I saw that I was beautiful.
Author: Jeff York
Publisher: Xulon Press
Published: 2011-07
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 161379696X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a true life autobiography and teaching manual of a ministry so powerfull it's fulfilled at least one prophecy in the book of Revelation. Warning: this is a very intense book. It contains actual life and death stories with spiritual battles so big that all three arc angels were involved at various times. Sometimes massive physical manifestations occured. History was made and will continue to be made by this ministry. Answeres to prayer small or on a biblical scale was and is commonplace. This book shows how it's done. All glory and honor be to God. Amen
Author: Jeff Hood
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2016-12-09
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 1532612516
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Rearing of an American Evangelical is a wild story. Based in truth, there are a wide assortment of tales packed into this volume. In order to come out as queer, I first had to come out of my childhood.
Author: Will Stockton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2018-11-01
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 150133168X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Late in the Reagan years, three young men at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University formed the Christian rap group dc Talk. The trio put out a series of records that quickly secured their place at the forefront of contemporary Christian music. But, with their fourth studio album Jesus Freak (1995), dc Talk staked a powerful claim on the worldly market of alternative music, becoming an evangelical group with secular selling power. This book sets out to study this mid-90s crossover phenomenon-a moment of cultural convergence between Christian and secular music and an era of particular political importance for American evangelicalism. Written by two queer scholars with evangelical pasts, Jesus Freak explores the importance of a multifarious album with complex ideas about race, sexuality, gender, and politics-an album where dc Talk wonders, “What will people do when they hear that I'm a Jesus freak?” and evangelical fans stake a claim for Christ-like coolness in a secular musical world.
