This Is My Story, This Is My Song: Book One: The First Forty-Four Years 9781525552533

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Автор: Buxton Leonard S.
Название: This Is My Story, This Is My Song: Book One: The First Forty-Four Years
ISBN: 9781525552533
Издательство: FriesenPress
Классификация:

Биографии: общее жизнеописание

Биографии религиозных и духовных деятелей

Автобиографии религиозных и духовных деятелей

Мемуары

Всеобщая и мировая история

История Америк

История 20 века: с 1900 по 2000

ISBN-10: 1525552538
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 450
Вес: 0.65 кг.
Дата издания: 13.08.2019
Язык: English
Размер: 229 x 152 x 25
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Book one: the first forty-four years
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: The first of two volumes to be published, in This is my Story, This is my Song, Leonard S. Buxton recounts the first half of his engaging life and his long career in ministry. He has written a very entertaining personal account of his upbringing as the son of a fire-and-brimstone Evangelical preacher during the Depression, the beginnings of his political consciousness through WWll, his college life and the strict mores of the 1950s, and moving from parish to parish with his young family during the turbulent social change of the 1960s and early 1970s. As a professor of psychology at Claflin, a black university in South Carolina, Leonard recalls his activism within the church-and literally in his own backyard-to break down the resistance to desegregation and to support the civil rights movement.

This book is filled with evocative photographs and colorful firsthand history, its joys and heartbreaks: Studebakers and VWs, the Red Sox and Yankees, teen hang-outs in drugstores, music, dramatic productions, and church camping, the serious social stigma of divorce, the illegality of adultery, the scourge of polio, the loss of a child, group encounter sessions, George McGovern, Benjamin Spock, Kent State, burning crosses . . .

A man devoted to building congregations as a pastor, psychologist, parish counselor, teacher and activist, Leonard depicts characters and narrates events with remarkable acuity. This book is a rich reflection on his experiences, written with candor and humility, and observing people and events through the kind lens of his dedication to serving others and his evolving faith as a Methodist minister. To quote one of Leonards aspirations for this memoir, For those still casting around an unclear future, this may say Take heart; life will be full of surprises....

This Is My Story, This Is My Song: Book One: The First Forty-Four Years, Buxton Leonard S.