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Mike Frisch's book,
Quality of Life Therapy,
is drawing great reviews! It comes with
a CD of 212 happiness exercises
and prescriptions
for lay people.
Our good friend, Robert
Owusu, has published
Kwame Nkrumah's Liberation
Thought: A Paradigm for
Religious Advocacy in
Contemporary Ghana
through the Africa World
Press. Drawing on a
combination of secular and
religious sources, Robert
surveys the liberation
philosophy of Ghana's first
prime minister, and
appraises its value as a
theoretical basis for
continuing social,
political, and economic
development in Ghana.
Our former pastor, Brett
Younger, has published a
book aimed at restoring joy
to ministry. In
Who Moved My Pulpit?,
published by Smyth & Helwys,
Brett draws heavily on his
experiences at Lake Shore,
and on that vast reservoir
of bazaar and humorous
material throughout the
Christian church.
June
Osborne published I'd
Rather Be Birding
through the Texas A&M
University Press. This is a
collection of June's columns
for the Waco Tribune
Herald and articles for WildBird
magazine written over the
past 23 years. Like June's
other books, this one
provides a wealth of
information about birds and
their habitats, but also
explores the spiritual growth
June has found in her experiences with birds and nature.
June was a
featured author in the 8th
annual Texas
Book Festival held on
the Capitol grounds in Austin. This
was the first
time the festival selected
a nature book of any kind.
Rufus Spain's book, At Ease in Zion:
A Social History of Southern Baptists, 1865-1900, examines attitudes of Southern Baptists toward the profound social, moral, economic, and political changes the South faced
during the post–Civil War era.
He finds that Baptists
frequently conformed to southern social
norms instead of challenging them on religious grounds.
The
book was was first published
in 1967 by Vanderbilt
University Press, laying a foundation for subsequent studies of religion in the American South.
Now, the University of
Alabama Press has re-issued
the book in its new series
on Religion and American
Culture.
Working with coauthor Lois
Myers and photographer Clark
Baker, Becca Sharpless
has published Rock
Beneath the Sand, an
oral history of country
churches in Texas, also
published by the Texas
A&M University Press. Drawing
on memories of longtime members, church
records, and family histories,
the book chronicles the
importance of these churches
in the lives of rural
Americans. Churches included
in the study include the
oldest Norwegian Lutheran
church in Texas, four African American
Baptist churches organized
soon after emancipation,
white Southern Baptist
churches, and Protestant and
Catholic churches founded by
European and Mexican
immigrants.
Congratulations
to all of our Lake Shore
authors!
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