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Summary: Describes the unlikely friendship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Pauli Murray, a granddaughter of a mixed race slave and a lesbian, who became a lawyer and civil rights pioneer, and the important work they each did for justice and freedom.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.917 BELJordan-Lake, Joy
Summary: "Told in alternating tales at once haunting and redemptive, A Tangled Mercy is a quintessentially American epic rooted in heartbreaking true events examining the harrowing depths of human brutality and betrayal, and our enduring hope for freedom and forgiveness." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION JORMetsch, Christian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: East Liverpool Morning Tribune Print 1906
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.377163 MetschTaylor, Barbara Brown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2006
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Summary: The author tells what happened when she decided to follow the flesh-and-blood Jesus by doing something real.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MILES, SARA MILSummary: Based on the inspiring true story of salesman turned pastor Michael Spurlock, the tiny church he was ordered to shut down, and a group of refugees from Southeast Asia. Together, they risked everything to plant seeds for a future that might just save them all.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALL RATED PGCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ALLCron, Ian Morgan
Summary: An autobiography of Ian Morgan Cron, a clergyman in the Episcopal Church.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CRON, IAN MORGAN CROChurch of the Good Shepherd (Allegan, Mich.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Church of the Good Shepherd 1958
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.377414 AlleganGodwin, Gail.
Summary: An Anglican priestess in North Carolina finds her role threatened by a fiery evangelist, also a woman. It happens in a town in the Smoky Mountains where Margaret Bonner runs an Episcopal ministry. The area is plagued by social unrest and fundamentalist preacher Grace Munger is muscling in, claiming her brand of religion will bring hope. By the author of Father Melancholy's Daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GODRosenberg, Rosalind
Summary: "Throughout her prodigious life, activist and lawyer Pauli Murray systematically fought against all arbitrary distinctions in society, channeling her outrage at the discrimination she faced to make America a more democratic country. In this definitive biography, Rosalind Rosenberg offers a poignant portrait of a figure who played pivotal roles in both the modern civil rights and women's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MURRAY, PAULI ROSCutié, Albert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 282.092 CUTHawes, Jennifer (Jennifer Berry)
Summary: "A deeply moving work of narrative nonfiction on the tragic shootings at the Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina. On June 17, 2015, twelve members of the historically black Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina welcomed a young white man to their evening Bible study. He arrived with a pistol, 88 bullets, and hopes of starting a race war. Dylann Roof's massacre of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 HAWTaylor, Barbara Brown.
Contents: Practice of waking up to God -- Vision -- The practice of paying attention -- Reverence -- The practice of wearing skin -- Incarnation -- The practice of walking on the earth -- Groundedness -- The practice of getting lost -- Wilderness -- The practice of encountering others -- Community -- The practice of living with purpose -- Vocation -- The practice of saying no -- Sabbath -- The practice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 283.092 TAYSmith, Franklin Campbell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Diocese Historical Commission 1948
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 283 SMIBell-Scott, Patricia.
Summary: "Describes the unlikely friendship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Pauli Murray, a granddaughter of a mixed race slave and a lesbian, who became a lawyer and civil rights pioneer, and the important work they each did, taking stands for justice and freedom,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 BELTichenor, Liz
Summary: "In less than a year and a half, Liz's mother killed herself and her infant son died unexpectedly. In between these two deaths, Liz was ordained as an Episcopal priest. The Night Lake is the story of finding a way forward through the kind of tragedy that seems like it might be beyond surviving, and trying to do so while holding down a job that's all about leading a community in hope. It's the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TICHENOR, LIZ TICSummary: In this program, Dennis Wholey has a conversation about the Episcopal Church with the Right Reverend Chester L. Talton, Bishop Suffragan of Los Angeles. Topics of discussion include the birth of the Episcopal Church in America, the theological focal point of the religion, the roles of the Presiding Bishop and Bishop Suffragans, the relationship between the Episcopal and Anglican Churches, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: National headlines blazed the story: Churchgoers Gunned Down During Prayer Service in Charleston. South Carolina. After a 21-year-old white supremacist opened fire in Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, nine African Americans lay dead, leaving their families and the nation to grapple with this senseless act of terror. Featuring intimate interviews with survivors and family members. From...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EMAWalker, Laura Jensen
Summary: Hope Taylor, the newly-arrived pastor of Faith Chapel Episcopal Church in a small northern California town, becomes the prime suspect in the suspicious death of a church elder who was bitterly opposed to having a female pastor at the church.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALTaylor, Peter
Summary: This second volume presents thirty stories including many of his most ambitious works, among them “Dean of Men,” a monologue delivered by a middle-aged father to his long-haired son about the limits of idealism; “In the Miro District,” a parable of the Old South’s enduring persistence in the New; and “The Old Forest,” one of Taylor’s most celebrated works, the story of a young man who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYSummary: In this program, Dennis Wholey has a conversation about the African Methodist Episcopal Church with the Reverend Daryl B. Ingram of the Greater Bethel A.M.E. Church in Nashville, Tennessee. Topics of discussion include the birth and growth of the A.M.E. denomination, the meaning of "African Methodist Episcopal" in the context of the Church's name, and the Church's core beliefs as articulated in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008