Congressional Record

Congressional Record PDF Author: United States. Congress
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1158

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Congressional Record

Congressional Record PDF Author: United States. Congress
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1158

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Catalog

Catalog PDF Author: Goshen College
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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War, Peace, and Social Conscience

War, Peace, and Social Conscience PDF Author: Theron F. Schlabach
Publisher: MennoMedia, Inc.
ISBN: 0836198085
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 625

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John Howard Yoder is one of the best-known Mennonite thinkers on peace. But before Yoder there was Guy F. Hershberger, whose reflections on war, violence and peace helped Mennonites navigate perilous times in early to mid-20th century, and who also laid the foundation for what became the Alternative Service Program in the U.S. during World War II. In the 1960s, he played an important role in guiding the Mennonite church’s response to the civil rights movement—nudging them toward greater openness to Martin Luther King’s call for justice for African-Americans. In this definitive biography, Theron F. Schlabach shows how Hershberger helped Christians live their faith in a world beset by war and injustice, at the same time pioneering creative ways to engage pressing concerns such as civil rights, economic justice and capital punishment. Says Stanley Hauerwas, Professor of Theological Ethics, Duke Divinity School: “What Schlabach has given us is an invaluable, honest account of a life lived in the tensions of the Mennonite church as that church explored the implications of being a people committed to nonviolence. The resulting account is a crucial account not only of Hershberger’s life, but of Mennonite life—an accounting I hope non-Mennonites will find instructive because it may help them understand Mennonites, but more importantly how Mennonites help us better understand what being Christian entails.” War, Peace, and Social Conscience: Guy F. Hershberger and Mennonite Ethics was made possible through the generous support of Mennonite Mutual Aid and the Mennonite Historical Society.

Music at Michigan

Music at Michigan PDF Author:
Publisher: UM Libraries
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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Chinese Mexicans

Chinese Mexicans PDF Author: Julia María Schiavone Camacho
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807835404
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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"Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."

MennoFolk

MennoFolk PDF Author: Ervin Beck
Publisher: Masthof Press & Bookstore
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Offered here are abundant examples of Mennonite jokes, origin stories, and trickster tales, along with analysis of them in the context of Mennonite and Amish history, culture, and beliefs. It also studies Mennonite and Amish paintings on glass, family records, and considers the Mennonite relief sales as folk festivals. This is the first book to analyze such a wide range of expressive forms in Mennonite and Amish folk culture that have been learned by word of mouth. (200pp. color illus. Herald Press, 2004.) Also read MennoFolk2: A Sampler of Mennonite & Amish Folklore (item #3016).

Lake Wobegon Summer 1956

Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 PDF Author: Garrison Keillor
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101495693
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221

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Meet fourteen-year-old Gary. A self-described "tree-toad,"a sly and endearing geek, Gary has many unwieldy passions, chief among them his cousin Kate, his Underwood typewriter and the soft-porn masterpiece, High School Orgies. The folks of Lake Wobegon don't have much patience for a kid's ungodly obsessions, and so Gary manages to filter the hormonal earthquake that is puberty and his hopeless devotion to glamorous, rebellious Kate through his fantastic yarns. With every marvellous story he moves a few steps closer to becoming a writer. And when Kate gets herself into trouble with the local baseball star, Gary also experiences the first pangs of a broken heart. With his trademark gift for treading "a line delicate as a cobweb between satire and sentiment"(Cleveland Plain Dealer), Garrison Keillor brilliantly captures a newly minted post-war America and delivers an unforgettable comedy about a writer coming of age in the rural Midwest.

That Time of Year

That Time of Year PDF Author: Garrison Keillor
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1951627709
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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With the warmth and humor we've come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story. In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and, seeing three good friends die young, turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks, he founded A Prairie Home Companion and put himself in line for a good life, including mistakes, regrets, and a few medical adventures. PHC lasted forty-two years, 1,557 shows, and enjoyed the freedom to do as it pleased for three or four million listeners every Saturday at 5 p.m. Central. He got to sing with Emmylou Harris and Renée Fleming and once sang two songs to the U.S. Supreme Court. He played a private eye and a cowboy, gave the news from his hometown, Lake Wobegon, and met Somali cabdrivers who’d learned English from listening to the show. He wrote bestselling novels, won a Grammy and a National Humanities Medal, and made a movie with Robert Altman with an alarming amount of improvisation. He says, “I was unemployable and managed to invent work for myself that I loved all my life, and on top of that I married well. That’s the secret, work and love. And I chose the right ancestors, impoverished Scots and Yorkshire farmers, good workers. I’m heading for eighty, and I still get up to write before dawn every day.”

International Who's who in Music and Musicians' Directory

International Who's who in Music and Musicians' Directory PDF Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1120

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A Christmas Blizzard

A Christmas Blizzard PDF Author: Garrison Keillor
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 0143119885
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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The inimitable Garrison Keillor spins "a Christmas tale that makes Dickens seem unimaginative by comparison" (Charlotte Creative Loafing) Snow is falling all across the Midwest as James Sparrow, a country- bumpkin-turned-energy-drink-tycoon, and his wife awaken in their sky- rise apartment overlooking Chicago. Even down with the stomach bug, Mrs. Sparrow yearns to see The Nutcracker while James yearns only to escape-the faux-cheer, the bitter cold, the whole Christmas season. An urgent phone call from his hometown of Looseleaf, North Dakota, sends James into the midst of his lunatic relatives and a historic blizzard. As he hunkers weather the storm, the electricity goes out and James is visited by a parade of figures who deliver him an epiphany worthy of the season, just in time to receive Mrs. Sparrow's wonderful Christmas gift. Garrison Keillor's holiday farce is the perfect gift for the millions of fans who tune into A Prairie Home Companion every week.