Arizona Pastor

Poetic Confessions of a Winner!: Becoming a Winner before Winning

Being a winner has nothing to do with personal achievements, accomplishments, titles, or some superior status of living. You can have all these things and still be a failure at life-unhappy and unfulfilled. This book inspires the discovery of the created winners we already are. The revelation of biblical scriptures, the enlightening thoughts, and inspiring poetry all promote volumes of encouragement to uplift your thinking. We must realize and awaken ourselves to the truth that true happiness

Emerging Evangelicals

The Emerging Church movement developed in the mid-1990s among primarily white, urban, middle-class pastors and laity who were disenchanted with America’s conservative Evangelical sub-culture. It is a response to the increasing divide between conservative Evangelicals and concerned critics who strongly oppose what they consider overly slick, corporate, and consumerist versions of faith. A core feature of their response is a challenge to traditional congregational models, often focusing on new church plants and creating networks of related house churches. Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork, James S. Bielo explores the impact of the Emerging Church movement on American Evangelicals. He combines ethnographic analysis with discussions of the movement’s history, discursive contours, defining practices, cultural logics, and contentious interactions with conservative Evangelical critics to rethink the boundaries of “Evangelical” as a category. Ultimately, Bielo makes a novel contribution to our understanding of the important changes at work among American Protestants, and illuminates how Emerging Evangelicals interact with the cultural conditions of modernity, late modernity, and visions of “postmodern” Christianity.

Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1993: Testimony of members of Congress