First Presbyterian Church, Edmonton

First Presbyterian Church, Edmonton
Author: Kenneth Munro
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 626
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 1412023378

This book is the story of the congregation of the First Presbyterian Church, Edmonton and the people who made it such a fascinating religious community. The colourful characters, the saints and sinners, the good and the worthy, the weak and the domineering, and portrayed in a very caring fashion. The dignity and worth of the human spirit along with the foibles of human nature are laid bare in this portrayal of a congregation's struggle to assert a dominant role within the Presbyterian, and Edmonton, communities. With the arrival of the Presbyterian Church in Canada in what latter became the province of Alberta and the formation of the congregation in 1881, the influence and prestige of members of the congregation ensured Presbyterians played a vibrant role over the religious and public affairs of the national Church and throughout northern Alberta until the disruption of 1925. The haemorrhage of members of First Presbyterian Church, Edmonton, to the new United Church of Canada left a weakened congregation with a diminished presence in the Presbyterian Church and provincial society. This book examines how this struggling congregation has attempted to rise to prominence again and move out of the shadow of humanism and play a credible Christian role within our twenty-first century secular environment.

Tempered Resilience

Tempered Resilience
Author: Tod Bolsinger
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2020-11-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830841652

What type of leadership is needed in a moment that demands adaptive change? Exploring the qualities of adaptive leadership within churches and nonprofit organizations, Tod Bolsinger deftly examines both the external challenges we face and the internal resistance that holds us back, showing how leaders can become both stronger and more flexible.

Historic Presbyterian Churches of Tennessee

Historic Presbyterian Churches of Tennessee
Author: Jovanna Emerson
Publisher: Winepress Publishing
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2006
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Historic Presbyterian Churches of Tennessee is a richly-illustrated catalog of some of Tennessee's most beautiful and important churches. Its text is richer still, with a highly readable narrative of each church, some with congregations dating to the time of the Revolution and the state's earliest history and none more recent than the decade preceding the Civil War. This is a beautiful and significant book that will be of interest not only to the members of the featured churches but to anyone interested in Southern ecclesiastical architecture and history and any and all who are interested in the cultural heritage of Tennessee and the Mid-South.

Our Trust is in the God of Battles

Our Trust is in the God of Battles
Author: Robert Franklin Bunting
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781572334588

"Unlike most Civil War soldiers, Bunting wrote with the explicit purpose of publishing his correspondence, seeking to influence congregations of civilians on the home front just as he had done when he lectured them from the pulpit before the Civil War. Bunting's letters cover military actions in great detail, yet they were also like sermons, filled with inspiring rhetoric that turned fallen soldiers into Christian martyrs, Yankees into godless abolitionist hordes, and Southern women into innocent defenders of home and hearth. As such, the public nature of Bunting's writings gives the reader an exceptional opportunity to see how Confederates constructed the ideal of a Southern soldier.".

Architecture of Middle Tennessee

Architecture of Middle Tennessee
Author: Thomas B. Brumbaugh
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Total Pages: 531
Release: 2020-08-15
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0826500218

First published in 1974, Architecture of Middle Tennessee quickly became a record of some of the region's most important and most endangered buildings. Based primarily upon photographs, measured drawings, and historical and architectural information assembled by the Historic American Buildings Survey of the National Park Service in 1970 and 1971, the book was conceived of as a record of buildings preservationists assumed would soon be lost. Remarkably, though, nearly half a century later, most of the buildings featured in the book are still standing. Vanderbilt staffers discovered a treasure trove of photos and diagrams from the HABS survey that did not make the original edition in the Press archives. This new, expanded edition contains all of the original text and images from the first volume, plus many of the forgotten archived materials collected by HABS in the 1970s. In her new introduction to this reissue, Aja Bain discusses why these buildings were saved and wonders about what lessons preservationists can learn now about how to preserve a wider swath of our shared history.