The sole purpose of this book is to correct the shambles left behind by those who hid in the shadows and controlled the many stifled voices with the power of money and greed.
A new treatment of time clarifies remarkable Second Reformation revelations regarding the meaning of time in relation to the one biblical story. Surprising interpretations emerge when this story is viewed from perspectives of God's 'Eternal Nowness' and creation's unchanging principles. Here are some questions that emerge: ETERNAL LIFE: ANNIHILATION OR ETERNAL HELL? ARE NDEs REALLY PROOF OF LIFE AFTER DEATH? CAN GOD COME LONGSIDE SEVEN BILLION PEOPLE ALL AT ONCE? WHY WERE ADAM AND EVE SO EXTREMELY BRIGHT? WHY DOES A MODERN VIEW OF TIME DENY THE EXISTENCE OF PURGATORY AND UNIVERSALISM? WHAT WAS GOD DOING ON EASTER SATURDAY? SHOULD WE THINK OF THE BIBLE STORY UNDER A NEW PARADIGM? PREDESTINATION: HOW WERE ALL THE REFORMERS WRONG? WOMEN IN MINISTRY TODAY? DOES JESUS REALLY HAVE AUTHENTIC COMPETITORS? WHY ARE THERE MORE MIRACLES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT? WHAT DO SIGNS AND WONDERS MEAN FOR TODAY? WHY ARE A VERY LARGE PERCENTAGE OF SCIENTISTS TURNING TOWARDS THE CREDIBILITY OF A HIGHLY INTELLIGENT CREATOR? WHAT WAS JESUS' ATTITUDE TOWARDS CURRENT SOCIAL ISSUES? ACCORDING TO JESUS, WHY ARE THE PAROUSIA AND LATTER DAYS VERY, VERY CLOSE RIGHT NOW? WHY DO HISTORIC CHURCHES INSIST ON A WRONG VIEW OF ORDERS? WAS THE FIRST AND SECOND CENTURY CHURCH HIERARCHICAL? HOW DOES THE ENTIRE BIBLICAL STORY POINT TO JESUS?
A study of the career of the KKK and its appeal in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas in the early twentieth century. This is a study of a disturbing phenomenon in American society—the Ku Klux Klan—and that eruption of nativism, racism, and moral authoritarianism during the 1920s in the four states of the Southwest—Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas—in which the Klan became especially powerful. The hooded order is viewed here as a move by frustrated Americans, through anonymous acts of terror and violence, and later through politics), to halt a changing social order and restore familiar orthodox traditions of morality. Entering the Southwest during the post-World War I period of discontent and disillusion, the Klan spread rapidly over the region and by 1922 its tens of thousands of members had made it a potent force in politics. Charles C. Alexander finds that the Klan in the Southwest, however, functioned more as vigilantes in meting extra-legal punishment to those it deemed moral offenders than as advocates of race and religious prejudice. But the vigilante hysteria vanished almost as suddenly as it had appeared; opposition to its terrorist excesses and its secret politics led to its decline after 1924, when the Klan failed abysmally in most of its political efforts. Especially significant here are the analysis of attitudes which led to this revival of the Klan and the close examination of its internal machinations. “The Ku Klux Klan is not a single phenomenon. It is three different organizations, which sprang up three different times, for three different reasons. Charles Alexander focuses this study—and it’s a good one—on the middle Klan, the so-called Invisible Empire extending from 1915 to 1944, flourishing in the mid-twenties with a membership estimated at 5 million, at one time or another dominating to some degree politically every city in the Southwest. . . . A forthright and definitive account, to be read along with David Chalmers’s recent Hooded Americanism . . . for the complete national picture.” —Kirkus Reviews
A relentless competitor, Rogers Hornsby--arguably the finest right-handed hitter in baseball's history--was supremely successful on the baseball field but, in many ways, a failure off it. In this biography, Charles Alexander turns his skilled eye to this complex individual, weaving the stories of his personal and professional life with a lively history of the sport.
Thank you for visiting our website. Would you like to provide feedback on how we could improve your experience?
This site does not use any third party cookies with one exception — it uses cookies from Google to deliver its services and to analyze traffic.Learn More.