Body Piercing Saved My Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Body Piercing Saved My Life write by Andrew Beaujon. This book was released on 2007-04-02. Body Piercing Saved My Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Body Piercing Saved My Life is the first in-depth journalistic investigation into a subculture so large that it's erroneous to even call it a subculture: Christian rock. Christian rock culture is booming, not only with bands but with extreme teen Bibles, skateboarding ministries, Christian tattoo parlors, paintball parks, coffeehouses, and nightclubs,encouraging kids to form their own communities apart from the mainstream. Profiling such successful Christian rock bands as P.O.D., Switchfoot, Creed, Evanescence, and Sixpence None the Richer, as well as the phenomenally successful Seattle Christian record label Tooth & Nail, enormous Christian rock festivals, and more, Spin journalist Andrew Beaujon lifts the veil on a thriving scene that operates beneath the secular world's radar. Revealing, sympathetic, and groundbreaking, Body Piercing Saved My Life (named for a popular Christian rock T-shirt depicting Christ's wounds) is a fascinating look into the hearts and minds of an enormous, and growing, youth culture.
The Blessings of Business
The Blessings of Business - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Blessings of Business write by Darren E. Grem. This book was released on 2016-05-02. The Blessings of Business available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Book of Matthew cautions readers that "Ye cannot serve God and mammon." But for at least a century conservative American Protestants have been trying to prove that adage wrong. In The Blessings of Business, Darren E. Grem argues that while preachers, activists, and politicians have all helped spread the gospel, American evangelicalism owes its enduring strength in a large part to private enterprise. Grem argues for a new history of American evangelicalism, demonstrating how its adherents strategically used corporate America--its leaders, businesses, money, ideas, and values--to advance their religious, cultural, and political movement. Beginning before the First World War, conservative evangelicals were able to use businessmen and business methods to retain and expand their public influence in a secularizing, diversifying, and liberalizing age. In the process they became beholden to pro-business stances on matters of theology, race, gender, taxation, trade, and the state, transforming evangelicalism itself into as much of an economic movement as a religious one. The Blessings of Business tells the story of unlikely partnerships between well-known champions of the evangelical movement such as Billy Graham and largely forgotten businessmen like Herbert Taylor, J. Howard Pew, and R.G. LeTourneau. Grem also shows how evangelicals set up their own pro-business organizations and linked the quarterly and yearly growth of "Christian" businesses to their social, religious, and political aspirations. Fascinating and provocative, The Blessings of Business uncovers the strong ties that conservative Christians have forged between the Almighty and the almighty dollar.
God, Country, True Stories...and a Bunch of Nonsense in Rhyme
God, Country, True Stories...and a Bunch of Nonsense in Rhyme - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook God, Country, True Stories...and a Bunch of Nonsense in Rhyme write by Karen Swanson. This book was released on 2003. God, Country, True Stories...and a Bunch of Nonsense in Rhyme available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Prizing His Passion
Prizing His Passion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prizing His Passion write by John S. Oldfield. This book was released on 2019-04-30. Prizing His Passion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ideal for Lent, but useful at any season and on any reading schedule, Prizing His Passion will help both the curious and the committed to grasp the immense significance of the sufferings of Jesus of Nazareth on behalf of sin-plagued humans. Approaching the relevant biblical truths from multiple angles, it will provide you with a deeper understanding of what He experienced and said during the hours that culminated in His death on a first-century Roman cross. It will reveal the reality and relevance of it all for you as you struggle to find your spiritual footing here in the twenty-first century. Godspeed as you travel the road to Golgotha, to Calvary!
Middle of Nowhere
Middle of Nowhere - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Middle of Nowhere write by Sara M. Patterson. This book was released on 2016-02-15. Middle of Nowhere available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pilgrims travel thousands of miles to visit Salvation Mountain, a unique religious structure in the Southern California desert. Built by Leonard Knight (1931–2014), variously described as a modern-day prophet and an outsider artist, Salvation Mountain offers a message of divine love for humanity. In Middle of Nowhere Sara M. Patterson argues that Knight was a spiritual descendant of the early Christian desert ascetics who escaped to the desert in order to experience God more fully. Like his early Christian predecessors, Knight received visitors from all over the world who were seeking his wisdom. In Knight’s wisdom they found a critique of capitalism, a challenge to religious divisions, and a celebration of the common person. Recounting the pilgrims’ stories, Middle of Nowhere examines how Knight and the pilgrims constructed a sacred space, one that is now crumbling since the death of its creator.
