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Black religion was no longer regarded as exemplary or special. During a time of growing segregation and violence, some black leaders attempted to counter this perspective seen by whites by embracing the romantic racialist notions that “blacks possessed peculiar gifts.” These gifts being directly connected to the importance of black churches in a time of direct exclusion of blacks from other pieces of society.

In “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King, Jr. refutes the condemnatory claims made by eight white Alabama clergymen. By appealing to ethos, logos, and pathos King argues that he is not an outsider and that the experience of African Americans in segregated Birmingham warrants well-intentioned demonstration and civil disobedience. In doing so, he calls attention to the clergymen’s hypocrisy and firmly garners their respect and understanding.

America’s economic success brought about a series of societal and cultural changes which impacted many aspects of citizens lives, ranging from family life, gender roles, social class, and religion. At the time of the Second Great Awakening, Americans turned to religious revivalists to provide them with resolutions to these fundamental problems facing the United States. While most of these revivalists preached of constructive changes, Johnson and Wilentz highlight the dangers behind our nation’s tolerance of fundamentalists, enthusiasts and visionaries of all sorts. They display our nation's susceptibility to volatile cults and revivals. Motivated by his desire to protect the “ancient truth” and "Despite all of his protestations of faith, [Matthews] was violating the most basic precepts of evangelical manhood, with his unsteady work habits, his self-glorification, and his domestic tyranny" (Johnson and Wilentz

8 & 9. The Methodists, the Baptists, and the Presbyterians were so successful on the frontier because Methodists which was founded by John Wesley, spread to America in the 1770’s and became a formal denomination in 1784 under the leadership of Francis Asbury. Authoritarian and hierarchical in structure, the Methodists Church sent itinerant preachers throughout the nation to win recruits; it soon became the fastest growing denomination in America. Almost as successful were the Baptists, who were relatively new to America; they found a fervent following in the South. The Presbyterians, Methodists and Baptists were mushrooming. * The “message” and the impact of the Second Great Awakening was that

Shortly after being freed, Richard Allen joined the Old St. Georges Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, where blacks and whites worshiped together. As a free black man, he became an associate minister at the church, leading prayer meetings for the African American Congregants. Allen developed an idea to start a separate black church, an idea that was rejected by the St. George’s officials; so, he continued to hold special services for the African Americans starting as early as five in the morning. Allen’s charismatic sermons were delivered so powerfully that they drew many blacks to the Methodist Church. Allen saw that since the people of color began to fill up the church, preventing the white congregants from finding seats; but standing

Existing in this book are fifteen essays, all written by Flynt, and all are relative to the South, religion, and diversity. His essays review southern history, politics, southern regionalism, evangelicalism, traditionalism, fundamentalism, social history, labor history, two case studies; one on the Southern Baptists in Appalachia and of modernization and community; the second one of twentieth-century politics and religion in Florida. Asserts the complexity of social issues and the reforms Baptists felt were necessary to change. He expounds a minister’s battle within a church to not display the American flag because of the death involved behind it and to not be willing for his church life to be separated from his personal convictions. Flynt

The African Methodist Episcopal Church also known as the AME Church, represents a long history of people going from struggles to success, from embarrassment to pride, from slaves to free. It is my intention to prove that the name African Methodist Episcopal represents equality and freedom to worship God, no matter what color skin a person was blessed to be born with. The thesis is this: While both Whites and Africans believed in the worship of God, whites believed in the oppression of the Africans’ freedom to serve God in their own way, blacks defended their own right to worship by the development of their own church. According to Andrew White, a well- known author for the AME denomination, “The word African means that our church was

I can’t recall not being a part of New Hope Baptist Church because when I was growing up my parents attended everything and they “had us in tow”. I remember being brought to church in the winter and my parents lining us up on the seats next to the potbellied stove. We were required to take care of our “personal business” before entering because we were not allowed to walk while the services were in progress. I really have a hard time understanding why some young people today cannot sit through an entire service right now today. As children the church conferences often baffled us. While watching and listening, sometimes things got into a disagreeable mode. As children, we thought those deacons were at odds with each other, but when they

May 1, 2016, the Mt. Olive Baptist Church, located in Greenwood (S.C.) County will celebrate its 142nd church anniversary. Many years Mt. Olive have been a church that loved people, gave without limits and took great care of its members. The last five of those one hundred and forty-two years, I have been honored to serve as pastor of this great church. Although this is a great church, Mt. Olive and many churches like it are plagued with a disease that has slowly, but surely, causing the church to drift further away from God and fall deeper into the ways of the world. This epidemic is known as “tradition”. Churches that are bound by tradition and not led by the Holy Spirit will find themselves missing the mark of what God has called us to do. The bible is filled with instructions for the church, but as Christians and Disciples of Christ, Matthew 28 is the foundation upon which we should be operating on in the church as well as in our lives. The Great Commission challenges us to “go, teach and preach to all nations.” Traditional churches will allow church tradition to dictate biblical doctrine. It will allow the church to argue about who’s right instead of what’s right. Sadly, church success has been based on structure and finances rather than saving lost souls.

One of the things that sets Grace apart from other Methodist churches in the area is that they tend to have more of a liberal view of thinking. This helps them to relate to a different group of people than other Methodist churches. With the basic understandings of Grace United Methodist Church, it is time to begin comparing their children’s education to Westerhoff’s view.

In fact, many leaders of the Southern church prayed for secession and that their state would abandon the Union (The Civil War, p. 53). Another way that religion influenced the war was the perception that slave owners were doing Christian work by owning slaves. Stephen Hale, a lawyer and state legislator from Alabama, wrote to Kentucky’s governor stating that the institution of slavery civilized and Christianized the “heathen” better than any other agency. In his letter, he also claimed that slavery improved the “moral, physical, and intellectual condition” of those in slavery (The Civil War, p.

One of his most successful campaigns was the Sugar Boycott where 300,000 people boycotted sugar from companies employing slaves, badly affecting profits for those companies. Tellingly, Wilberforce held strong influence through the use of mass media and gatherings at Clapham. Figure 2: Anti-slavery leaflet encouraging women to boycott sugar from plantations employing slaves. Figure 3: Banner encouraging the public to sign an anti-slavery petition Organizational Objectives / Specific and Difficult Goal-Setting Effective Leadership (2014) states that effective leaders influence followers to think not only of their own interests, but also of the interest of the organization, through a shared vision. The organization must hence have a clear

After checking the location of the concert, Arlington Street Church Chapel, I expected the concert might have the organ music with a lot of nature reverb of the church room since they have a history introduction based on their beautiful organ, however, the sign of the concert post in a side room broke the unreal fantasy. A piercing violin sound runs through the hall way and merge with the freezing air. Feeling like walking inside some strangers family reunion, I sat beside the person with the instrument case, which appeared to be a friend of the performer. Bring the beautiful violin with her, Leventhal approach her friend and said " Cold!".

In the Great Fire of London in 1666, nearly 13,000 houses, over 90 churches and historical building burned down, leaving hundreds and thousands of people of London homeless. One famous historical building that burned down in the Fire was the old St. Paul’s Cathedral. Within days of the Fire, King Charles II started the plans to rebuild the city and gave the task of rebuilding the Cathedral to architect Christopher Wren. Wren had already started working on plans to renovate and repair the Cathedral in 1661, five years before the Great Fire in 1666, so subsequently he continued to lead and design the construction of the new and present St. Paul’s Cathedral. Like many of the buildings and homes that were rebuilt in London after the Great Fire,

In 1713, Vienna was struck by a plague that had forced the city into deprivation. As result, Charles VI went Saint Stephen’s Cathedral and took a vow to build a church in honor of Saint Charles Borromeo if the plague ended. Soon after, a competition was created for the development of the church. While many entries were submitted, Fischer von Erlach won and he was authorized to build it. Many have argued that the St. Charles’ Church marked the end of the Baroque era. In order to fully understand St. Charles’ Church, one has to look at the iconography of the Church.