As a result, believers have built walls around their lives, keeping culture at a distance. As Christians have tried to keep culture out of the church, unfortunately, the church has kept itself out of the culture.
Six revolutionary voices in the modern church deliver Invading Babylon. This essential guide will equip you to: Understand your vital role in shaping society. For here comes essayist Helen Andrews. But is the hatred justified? Is the destruction left in their wake their fault or simply the luck of the generational draw? In Boomers, essayist Helen Andrews addresses the Boomer legacy with scrupulous fairness and biting wit.
Following the model of Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians, she profiles six of the Boomers' brightest and best. She shows how Steve Jobs tried to liberate everyone's inner rebel but unleashed our stultifying digital world of social media and the gig economy. How Aaron Sorkin played pied piper to a generation of idealistic wonks. How Camille Paglia corrupted academia while trying to save it. How Jeffrey Sachs, Al Sharpton, and Sonya Sotomayor wanted to empower the oppressed but ended up empowering new oppressors.
She reveals the essence of Boomerness: they tried to liberate us, and instead of freedom they left behind chaos. A profound exploration of the Bible's most controversial book—from the author of Beyond Belief and The Gnostic Gospels The strangest book of the New Testament, filled with visions of the Rapture, the whore of Babylon, and apocalyptic writing of the end of times, the Book of Revelation has fascinated readers for more than two thousand years, but where did it come from?
And what are the meanings of its surreal images of dragons, monsters, angels, and cosmic war? Elaine Pagels, New York Times bestselling author and "the preeminent voice of biblical scholarship to the American public" The Philadelphia Inquirer , elucidates the true history of this controversial book, uncovering its origins and the roots of dissent, violence, and division in the world's religions. Brilliantly weaving scholarship with a deep understanding of the human needs to which religion speaks, Pagels has written what may be the masterwork of her unique career.
For five days in December the body of Cyrus Teed lay in a bathtub at a beach house just south of Fort Myers, Florida. His followers, the Koreshans, waited for signs that he was coming back to life. They watched hieroglyphics emerge on his skin and observed what looked like the formation of a third arm. They saw his belly fall and rise with breath, even though his swollen tongue sealed his mouth.
As his corpse turned black, they declared that their leader was transforming into the Egyptian god Horus. Teed was a charismatic and controversial guru who at the age of 30 had been "illuminated" by an angel in his electro-alchemical laboratory. At the turn of the twentieth century, surrounded by the marvels of the Second Industrial Revolution, he proclaimed himself a prophet and led people out of Chicago and into a new age. Or so he promised. The Koreshans settled in a mosquito-infested scrubland and set to building a communal utopia inside what they believed was a hollow earth--with humans living on the inside crust and the entire universe contained within.
According to Teed's socialist and millennialist teachings, if his people practiced celibacy and focused their love on him, he would return after death and they would all become immortal. Was Teed a visionary or villain, savior or two-bit charlatan? Why did his promises and his theory of "cellular cosmogony" persuade so many?
In The Allure of Immortality, Lyn Millner weaves the many bizarre strands of Teed's life and those of his followers into a riveting story of angels, conmen, angry husbands, yellow journalism, and ultimately, hope. The New York Times called it the "no. The years since have confirmed Lindsey's insights into what biblical prophecy says about the times we live in.
Whether you're a church-going believer or someone who wouldn't darken the door of a Christian institution, the Bible has much to tell you about the imminent future of this planet. In the midst of an out-of-control generation, it reveals a grand design that's unfolding exactly according to plan. The rebirth of Israel. The threat of war in the Middle East. An increase in natural catastrophes. The revival of Satanism and witchcraft. These and other signs, foreseen by prophets from Moses to Jesus, portend the coming of an antichrist.
In a highly readable companion to books on faith and history, the scholar and author Johnson has illuminated the Christian world and its fascinating history in a way that no other has.
Johnson takes off in the year AD 49 with his namesake the apostle Paul. With an unbiased and overall optimistic tone, Johnson traces the fantastic scope of the consequent sects of Christianity and the people who followed them. Information drawn from extensive and varied sources from around the world makes this history as credible as it is reliable. Invaluable understanding of the framework of modern Christianity—and its trials and tribulations throughout history—has never before been contained in such a captivating work.
In May , four days after Kent State, construction workers chased students through downtown Manhattan, beating scores of protestors bloody. As hardhats clashed with hippies, it soon became clear that something larger was happening; Democrats were at war with themselves.
In The Hardhat Riot, David Paul Kuhn tells the fateful story-how chaotic it was, when it began, when the white working class first turned against liberalism, when Richard Nixon seized the breach, and America was forever changed.
It was unthinkable one generation before: FDR's "forgotten man" siding with the party of Big Business and, ultimately, paving the way for presidencies from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump. In the shadow of the half-built Twin Towers, on the same day the Knicks rallied against the odds and won their first championship, we relive the schism that tore liberalism apart.
Nixon's advisors realize that this tragic turn is their chance, that the Democratic coalition has collapsed and that "these, quite candidly, are our people now. We go back to a harrowing day that explains the politics of today. We experience the battle between two tribes fighting different wars, soon to become different Americas, ultimately reliving a liberal war that maimed both sides.
We come to see how it all was laid bare one brutal day, when the Democratic Party's future was bludgeoned by its past, as if it was a last gasp to say that we once mattered too. Author : David Grambs Publisher : W. A dictionary of the observable world features definition-first organization; passages from the writings of James, Updike, and others; and words concerning shapes, textures, colors, terrain, and more.
A revealing look at the history and production of spices, with modern, no-nonsense advice on using them at home. Every home cook has thoughts on the right and wrong ways to use spices. These beliefs are passed down in family recipes and pronounced by television chefs, but where do such ideas come from?
These notes On Spice come from three generations of a family in the spice trade, and dozens upon dozens of their collected spice guides and stories. American Messiahs Adam Morris. I Didn't Talk Beatriz Bracher. Dark Constellations Pola Oloixarac. Jenkins distinguishes three kinds of "cults. In light of this distinction, one gains a better understanding of the elusive "New Age" movement. An early s survey reports fewer than 50, self-described "New Age" fol- lowers in the United States, and this makes sense if one thinks of the movement primarily as an "audience cult" among those who identify themselves as Protes- tants, Catholics, or Jews Jenkins discerns a cycle of cult development and anti-cult reaction, in four distinct stages, during at least two periods of American history.
In "emergence" the populace shows a "surging interest infringereligions," and this correlates with periods in which there was a high proportion of young people in the population and During "speculation" the "criticisms of marginal religions escalate into wild fan- tasies" and In the "second peak," there is a "new wave of cult related scandals" early s, mids.
The period from to , so farfrombeing the "religious depression" described by Martin Marty and other historians, was a booming era for marginal religions in America. It was only a "depression" from the mainline perspective , Jenkins accomplishes at least five things in this remarkable book. First, he demonstrates that the term cult carries a "prefabricated script" 10 that assimi- lates diverse groups to a common stereotype.
Second, he shows that "anti- Catholicism can be seen as the largest and most potent anti-cult movement in American history" Opposition to Mormonism and to Christian Science run a close second and third to anti-Catholicism. Third, he identifies distinct stages in the emergence of new religions and establishes a correlation between new re- ligions and a youthful populace. Jenkins intimates that past history would lead one to expect a resurgence of new religions beginning around , when the pro- portion of adolescents in the population will be the highest since the s Fourth, he shows that allegations of "Satanic ritual abuse" during the s are unsubstantiated and may represent "fantasyfiction"rather than accounts of actual events Fifth, he persuasively argues that marginal religions have had a pervasive influence on the American religious mainstream.
The "cults" have also pioneered in the development of new therapies Mystics and Messiahs may be criticized for its religious taxonomy and its sym- pathetic tone. The very strength of the book, namely, its quest for a unified ap- proach to marginal religions in North America, is also to some extent a liability.
Jenkins is at his best when treating groups that are small, self-segregated, and authoritarian, such as the House of David or the People's Temple. One is sur- prised to read here of Aimee Remple McPherson, who was one of the nation's leading religious personalities in the s and collaborated with major Prot- estant denominations. Her following was hardly "small or unpopular. In terms of tone, Jenkins sometimes veers toward becoming a new religions' apologist, as, for instance, when he writes that "the same factors that make some cults prone to violence" also make them "exciting and spiritually vigorous" It is not that Jenkins defends specific groups but, rather, that the new movements generally represent for him "the labo- ratories or proving grounds for religious innovation" His sympathies are with the outsiders—misunderstood, misrepresented, and maligned.
If Jenkins occasionally leans out a bit too far, then at least he provides a counterpoise to mainstream scholarship, which has hardly been fair to the new religious move- ments described as "cults.
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