TY  - BOOK
AU  - Janzen,David
AU  - Smith,C.Christopher
TI  - Seven Radical Elders: How Refugees from a Civil-Rights-Era Storefront Church Energized the Christian Community Movement, An Oral History
T2  - New Monastic Library: Resources for Radical Discipleship
SN  - 9781725256859
AV  - BV4406.U6 
U1  - 262.09773/11 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Eugene
PB  - Cascade Books, Wipf and Stock Publishers
KW  - Christian communities
KW  - Illinois
KW  - Chicago
KW  - Communautés chrétiennes
KW  - Discipleship
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Christian Ministry
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Church
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record
N2  - Many young idealists, after a few failures, burn out and return to status quo lives. Not so with the seven radicals in this book, who met in an interracial house church and intentional community on Chicago's West Side during the civil rights era. Here you will make the acquaintance of a Church of the Brethren pastoral couple who tried to bring communal life to the black ghetto; a fashionable socialite who trashed her curlers and joined the simple life; an elite Stanford graduate who cast his lot with a bus full of black teens on an epic ride to Washington, DC, to hear MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech; two ethnic-Mennonite women who became community leaders and elders during a male-dominated era; and a painfully shy "geek" awakened to the traumas of racism by five days in the Albany, Georgia, jail. Now, in their seventies, eighties, and nineties, these veterans of community witness to the possibility of radical life conversions, engagement with the hard, slow work of racial reconciliation that learns from mistakes and does not quit. This book concludes with the invitation to the joyful path of becoming who God made us to be--saints
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