During a camp-out promoting the opening of a donut shop in a small Minnesota town, sixteen-year-old Emma, an aspiring journalist, begins to connect an ongoing pollution investigation with the turmoil in the evangelical Christian church where her parents are pastors.
evangelicalism, proslavery, and the causes of the Civil War
Daly, John Patrick
2002
Examines the evangelical defense used to justify slavery in the nineteenth century and explains how it influenced the South's moral, intellectual, and socio-economic development and its conflict with the North.
A collection of essays which define "the religious right", discussing their attitudes regarding foreign policy, economic and social justice, homosexuality, and AIDS, from differing viewpoints. Includes a section on televangelists.
After fifteen-year-old Phillip Flowers meets Rebekah, he struggles with faith, family, friendship, and first love as he tries to become the kind of person he thinks she wants him to be and discovers that life goes on even after dealing with the complex questions about life.
An examination of the religious right and its role in American life, looking at the influence of religion on legislation and society, and exploring the alignment of the religious right and the political right.
The evangelical minister and former ghostwriter for prominent leaders of the religious right describes his half-century-long struggle to accept himself as a gay Christian.
Jeanette, a rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household, has trouble coming to terms with her unorthodox sexuality and non-traditional religious beliefs.
