Dirt Road Revival

Dirt Road Revival
Author: Chloe Maxmin
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2022-05-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 080700751X

The Democratic Party left rural America behind. This urgent rallying cry shows how Democrats can win back and empower overlooked communities that have been pushing politics to the right—and why long-term progressive political power depends on it. Through 2 successful elections in rural red districts that few thought could be won by a Democrat, twentysomethings Maine state senator Chloe Maxmin (D-District 13) and campaign manager Canyon Woodward saw how the Democratic Party has focused for too long on the interests of elite leaders and big donors, forcing the party to abandon the concerns of rural America—jeopardizing climate justice, racial equity, economic justice, and more. Dirt Road Revival looks at how we got here and lays out a road map for progressive campaigns in rural America to build an inclusive, robust, grassroots politics that fights for equity and justice across our country. First, Maxmin and Woodward detail how rural America has been left behind. They explore rural healthcare, economic struggle, brain drain, aging communities, whiteness and racism, education access, broadband, Big Agriculture, and more. Drawing on their own experiences, they paint a picture of rural America today and pinpoint the strategic failures of Democrats that have caused the party to lose its rural foothold. Next, they tell the story of their successful campaigns in the most rural county in the most rural state in the nation. In 2018, Maxmin became the only Democrat to ever win Maine House District 88 and then unseated the highest-ranking Republican in Maine —the Senate Minority Leader—in 2020, making her the youngest woman senator in Maine’s history. Finally, Maxmin and Woodward distill their experiences into concrete lessons that can be applied to rural districts across the country to build power from the state and local levels on up. They lay out a new long-term vision for Democrats to rebuild trust and win campaigns in rural America by translating progressive values to a rural context, moving beyond the failed strategies of establishment consultants and utilizing grassroots-movement organizing strategies to effectively engage moderate rural voters.

Whisper Revival

Whisper Revival
Author: Timothy Williams
Publisher: Whitelily Press
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2021-10-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578942971

One cannot deny that the Church is in dire need of revival. But the emotionally driven invitation that most Churches advertise does not take hold in the heart of each Christian. What does true, Biblical revival look like? Like Elijah, many people in the church today look for God in earthquakes, fire, wind, and the shattering of rocks. They believe themselves to be the only ones not defiled. They are too busy looking at the loud and flashy things in the church to notice they have not given up themselves to God. Whisper Revival evaluates the state of our times and the attitude necessary for a Church community to truly experience the moving power of God's mercy. It is only in the quiet of each person's heart that the transformation so desperately needed in the Church can take place.

Revival Season

Revival Season
Author: Monica West
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2022-05-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1982133317

The daughter of one of the South’s most famous Baptist preachers discovers a shocking secret about her father that puts her at odds with both her faith and her family in this debut novel. “Spellbinding…Revival Season should be read alongside Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus.” —The Washington Post A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Every summer, fifteen-year-old Miriam Horton and her family pack themselves tight in their old minivan and travel through small southern towns for revival season: the time when Miriam’s father—one of the South’s most famous preachers—holds massive healing services for people desperate to be cured of ailments and disease. But, this summer, the revival season doesn’t go as planned, and after one service in which Reverend Horton’s healing powers are tested like never before, Miriam witnesses a shocking act of violence that shakes her belief in her father—and her faith. When the Hortons return home, Miriam’s confusion only grows as she discovers she might have the power to heal—even though her father and the church have always made it clear that such power is denied to women. Over the course of the following year, Miriam must decide between her faith, her family, and her newfound power that might be able to save others, but if discovered by her father, could destroy Miriam. Celebrating both feminism and faith, Revival Season is a “tender and wise” (Ann Patchett) story of spiritual awakening and disillusionment in a Southern, Black, Evangelical community.

Novel Palestine

Novel Palestine
Author: Nora E.H. Parr
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2023-10-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520394658

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Palestinian writing imagines the nation, not as a nation-in-waiting but as a living, changing structure that joins people, place, and time into a distinct set of formations. Novel Palestine examines these imaginative structures so that we might move beyond the idea of an incomplete or fragmented reality and speak frankly about the nation that exists and the freedom it seeks. Engaging the writings of Ibrahim Nasrallah, Nora E. H. Parr traces a vocabulary through which Palestine can be discussed as a changing and flexible national network linking people across and within space, time, and community. Through an exploration of the Palestinian literary scene subsequent to its canonical writers, Parr makes the life and work of Nasrallah available to an English-language audience for the first time, offering an intervention in geography while bringing literary theory into conversation with politics and history.

Revival

Revival
Author: Adam Hamilton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2014
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781426778841

Experience a Modern-Day Revival.

Road to Revival

Road to Revival
Author: Vance Havner
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-07-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781937428631

According to well-known pastor and writer Michael Catt, this book is "Vance Havner at his best." The messages contained here were preached in special meetings and Bible conferences across the country. Wherever he went, Havner focused on stirring revival fires in the hearts of God's people; and through the pages of his many books, his revivalist message and influence are still felt. "We are living in a land which has been graciously blessed of God," he writes, "but it is now sinking into paganism. The last days and the perilous times have come. Any man who can hold an open Bible in one hand and a newspaper in the other and yet cannot tell what time it is needs to hear our Lord's sharp word, 'O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?' (Matt. 16:3). On the other hand, Christians all over the world are praying for revival.... Yet there is no revival. There are localized, sporadic stirrings in the body of Christ, as there have always been. But although God's alarm clock is going off every hour in earthquakes, floods, famines, droughts, pestilences, wars and rumors of wars, there is no sign of repentance. Our nation is not at the family altar and the prayer meeting. Revelry, not repentance, is the order of the day. ... But God is ever ready to bless his people when they repair the broken altars and pray for the old-time fire."

Revival and Awakenings Volume One

Revival and Awakenings Volume One
Author: Riaan Engelbrecht
Publisher: Riaan Engelbrecht
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2024-07-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Volumes one and two of Revival and Awakenings (part of the End-Time Series) explore what is a real revival and a spiritual awakening. Prophetically, it delves into what God has been saying for a long time, which is that the Lord will sweep the earth with revival in the end times which will ignite many followers with His holy fire. What will this revival look like? This is the big question, and one would rather say it will not be a singular event, but a sequence of Godly movements across the globe that will be infectious, contagious and real. In an awakening, the Holy Spirit gives unbelieving people - who are dead in their trespasses and sins -a new awareness of their needs. A revival is connected to the people of God and it is when those who are in churches - those who are professing believers - are ministered to by the Holy Spirit in such a way that they are renewed in their devotion to the Lord. The time is ripe for the one final great harvest, yet this calls for the revived church, full of the fire of the Holy Spirit, to go into the fields, to awaken the lost and the forgotten and broken, and to bring them into the loving embrace of a God who is full of compassion, grace and mercy. This is the time of spiritual latter rains, and now is the time to welcome the embrace of a God who is real, alive, and who calls us all into His arms to reflect His beauty and greatness. It is not God’s Will that any soul should perish, but that all men should come to the knowledge of God and be saved. God is calling on all believers to cast their net in the deep for the harvest of souls.

Longing for Revival

Longing for Revival
Author: James Choung
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2020-01-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830836462

Revival begins with God, but it's lived out through us. James Choung and Ryan Pfeiffer have seen revival in their own ministries, with remarkable transformation in both individuals and communities. They unpack what revival looks like, how Christians can anticipate it, and how they can experience it, providing a model of revival leadership for Christians who want to facilitate and spread revival in their contexts.

Azusa Street

Azusa Street
Author: Frank Bartleman
Publisher: Bridge Logos Foundation
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1980
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780882704395

From the pen of John Bartleman, an early leader of the Pentecostal movement, we have an eyewitness account of the "latter rain" when Pentecost moved from California to Maine and back.