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Antioch Conway Charge Conference Minutes 2020-24, Antioch United Methodist Church, Conway

Methodist Local Church Records

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Antioch Conway Property Records, Antioch United Methodist Church, Conway

Methodist Local Church Records

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Antioch Rock Hill Administrative Council Minutes 2012-23, Antioch United Methodist Church, Rock Hill

Methodist Local Church Records

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Antioch Rock Hill Property Records, Antioch United Methodist Church, Rock Hill

Methodist Local Church Records

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Antioch Rock Hill Membership Membership Records, Antioch United Methodist Church, Rock Hill

Methodist Local Church Records

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Antioch Conway Membership Records, Antioch United Methodist Church, Conway

Methodist Local Church Records

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Andrew Chapel Membership Record Book, Andrew Chapel United Methodist Church, Orangeburg

Methodist Local Church Records

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Concordia Seminary Magazine Summer 2024, Vicki Biggs

Concordia Seminary Magazine

Joy Beyond Measure

Organizing And The Revitalization Of American Catholicism, Richard L. Wood

Sociology Faculty and Staff Publications

American Catholicism today struggles to sustain its longtime character as a truly “public religion”—that is, a religious tradition with a vital presence within the public sphere in the US. Reinvigorating Catholicism in the US will require both internal renewal and new approaches to public life, both of which will require continuity with the deep tradition and significant reorientation of ecclesial dynamics. This paper argues that specific, faith-based community-organizing practices can help renew the public voice of Catholicism. In adopting such practices and inflecting them through Catholic commitment to theologically coherent processes of leadership formation, American Catholicism can reinvigorate parish life …

Interfaith Teaching And Preaching In West Virginia, Robert Ellison

English Faculty Research

I propose to discuss two assignments I used in “Religion and the Sermon in Appalachia,” an Honors seminar I taught in Fall 2023. The first belongs to the “teaching” aspect of my title. In the summer of 2020, the Charleston-based Islamic Association of West Virginia published a four-part video series entitled “Understanding Christianity” on its YouTube channel. In a total running time of approximately three hours, Imam Nasir Abdussalam gives an Islamic perspective (not necessarily the Islamic perspective) on “Christian History,” “Paul & the Original Christians,” “The Early Church & Sectarianism,” and “American Culture.”

On the “preaching” side, we discussed …

Walnut Grove Charge Conference 2017-22, Walnut Grove United Methodist Church, Roebuck

Methodist Local Church Records

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Walnut Grove Membership Records, Walnut Grove United Methodist Church, Roebuck

Methodist Local Church Records

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A History Of Walnut Grove United Methodist Church, Second Volume, With Genealogies Of Local Families, Walnut Grove United Methodist Church, Roebuck

Methodist Local Church Records

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Wayne Georgetown Membership Records, Wayne United Methodist Church, Georgetown

Methodist Local Church Records

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Wayne Georgetown History, Wayne United Methodist Church, Georgetown

Methodist Local Church Records

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Wesley Chapel Union Church Council Minutes 2012-13, Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church, Union

Methodist Local Church Records

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Wayne Georgetown Property Records, Wayne United Methodist Church, Georgetown

Methodist Local Church Records

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Wayne Georgetown Church Council Minutes 2003-05, Wayne United Methodist Church, Georgetown

Methodist Local Church Records

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Wesley Chapel Union Property Records, Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church, Union

Methodist Local Church Records

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Walnut Grove Property Records, Walnut Grove United Methodist Church, Roebuck

Methodist Local Church Records

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Zoan Property Records, Zoan United Methodist Church, Galivants Ferry

Methodist Local Church Records

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Wayne Georgetown Church Council Minutes 2017-2023, Wayne United Methodist Church, Georgetown

Methodist Local Church Records

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Zoar Greer Cemetery Records, Zoar United Methodist Church, Greer

Methodist Local Church Records

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Zoar Greer Church History, Zoar United Methodist Church, Greer

Methodist Local Church Records

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Wesley Chapel Union History, Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church, Union

Methodist Local Church Records

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Zoar Greer Property Records, Zoar United Methodist Church, Greer

Methodist Local Church Records

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Zoar Greer Membership Records, Zoar United Methodist Church, Greer

Methodist Local Church Records

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Zoan Membership Records, Zoan United Methodist Church, Galivants Ferry

Methodist Local Church Records

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Contributors, Jewish Folkore & Ethnology Editors

Jewish Folklore and Ethnology

Contributors to Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Volume 2

(Candle)Sticks On Stone: The Representation Of Women In Jewish Tombstone Art, Ruth Ellen Gruber

Jewish Folklore and Ethnology

Candles and candlesticks are a common and potent symbol on the gravestones of Jewish women because lighting the Sabbath candles is one of the three so-called “women’s commandments” carried out by female Jews; it is the only one easily represented in visual terms. This essay describes the author’s field research, photographic, and writing project, “(Candlesticks) on Stone,” carried out mainly in 2009–2011, to explore the variety of ways candles and candlesticks are depicted on women’s gravestones in Eastern Europe. It also questions the transmission of the candle-lighting tradition from her East European ancestors to later generations.