Laity Lifelines offers four complete, easy-to-produce services that are just what's needed when worshipers find themselves in charge on Sunday morning. Each imaginative service includes prayers, responses, a children's sermon, suggested music, and a script for the service with prop lists and staging instructions. There's even a form for your bulletin
When Katherine Bailey Babb discovered that her high school age Sunday School class wanted to study anything but the Bible, she realized just how ignorant they were of some of the basic background of the faith they professed. So Babb decided to create a curriculum for studying the Old Testament that would fill in the gaps in their knowledge while being fun and enjoyable. And it worked Her field-tested approach will make the Hebrew Bible an exciting field of study for your youth.
Gathering At Golgotha provides a simple yet dramatic way for a group of readers to present the human drama at the heart of Jesus' arrest, trial, and crucifixion by focusing on the emotions of those with whom Jesus was most intimate. Including an original song, the script gives fresh voice to the feelings of Jesus' close companions on that black night. This easy-to-produce piece uses very few props and needs minimal rehearsal time to create a lasting effect. Katherine Bailey Babb, the wife of a United Methodist minister, has been involved with church work for most of her life. She has directed choirs, played piano and organ, taught many levels of Sunday school and Bible study, and written numerous plays, skits, services, and songs for the schools and congregations she has served. A graduate of the University of Northern Colorado, Kathy currently teaches third grade in Idalia, Colorado, and lives in Burlington, Colorado, where her husband pastors the UMC there. In addition to teaching, Babb is a professional storyteller who has previously published a book on readers' theater and two plays.
In 2001 Argentina experienced a massive economic crisis: businesses went bankrupt, unemployment spiked, and nearly half the population fell below the poverty line. In the midst of the crisis, Buenos Aires’s iconic twenty-story Hotel Bauen quietly closed its doors, forcing longtime hospitality workers out of their jobs. Rather than leaving the luxury hotel vacant, a group of former employees occupied the property and kept it open. In The People’s Hotel, Katherine Sobering recounts the history of the Hotel Bauen, detailing its transformation from a privately owned business into a worker cooperative—one where decisions were made democratically, jobs were rotated, and all members were paid equally. Combining ethnographic and archival research with her own experiences as a volunteer worker at the hotel, Sobering examines how the Bauen Cooperative grew and, against all odds, successfully kept the hotel open for nearly two decades. Highlighting successes and innovations alongside the many challenges that these workers faced, Sobering presents a vivid portrait of efforts to address inequality and reorganize work in a capitalist economy.
Proposing a new way to map intersections of photography and American literature, Katherine Henninger demonstrates the importance of pinpointing specific cultural and subcultural history. "Ordering the Facade" traces the visual and literary cultures of sou
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