Country Church Research Articles

God's bullies: attacks on abortion.

National politics in the US, Poland, and Ireland have in recent years been afire with debate over abortion. Conflicting abortion laws almost scuttled the reunification of Germany. This paper describes how the abortion debate took hold in post-Communist Poland and how the issue came to be so entrenched in US politics in the wake of the US Supreme Court's 1973 decision on abortion in the case of Roe vs. Wade. It focuses upon abortion mainly as a method of birth control which women have always sought when needed regardless of the procedure's legal status. The controversies and campaigns recorded and the ideas offered focus upon women's access to affordable, safe, and legal abortion. The author argues that Poland is no place to be a woman and presents sections on the country's church, government, and medical profession; Roe vs. Wade; who opposes abortion rights and their broad success; the 1992 US presidential election; Bill Clinton's presidency; why the abortion debate has been different in Britain; and new issues on abortion.

Religious Geography of Union County, Georgia

The country church is an important feature in the landscape in Southern Appalachia, and churches play a major role in the social life of the region. Union County, Georgia, is a small rural county that appears to be almost “over-churched.” Baptist churches are most numerous, almost equally divided between Southern Baptist and independent. Methodist churches rank second and Churches of God third. Interdenominational churches are strong. The recent in-migration of new people, chiefly retirees, has brought in new denominations. Social, historical, and geographical factors help to explain and maintain the large number of churches.

Papists and Patriotism in Elizabethan England

WHEN Philip II of Spain sent his Armada to invade England in an attempt to cut off support for the Dutch rebels, he did so in the name of God and the Catholic faith. Elizabeth, in turn recognised the propaganda value of an identification of monarch, country and Protestant church at times of national crisis. It was widely believed that, as the Spaniards wanted to overthrow the Protestant church, the English Catholics must have been pro-Spain. Elizabeth had always regarded the Catholics as a danger to her government; it was now easy for her to portray them as traitors to their country. The attempts by Catholics to claim to be patriotic were, understandably, treated with scepticism. But this had not always been the case. The purpose of this article is to outline the struggle to monopolise patriotic propaganda which took place between the government and the English Catholics throughout Elizabeth’s reign.

Late Medieval Paintings in Ashton Church, Devon

On the inner face of the rood-screen and on the parclose-screen in the north-aisle chapel of the church dedicated to St John the Baptist at Ashton in Devon there are ten high-quality late medieval paintings: eight of male figures gesturing towards scrolls bearing texts and two depicting scriptural iconography, the Annunciation and the Visitation. In both of these the figures also point to scrolls. The inscriptions which are based on the liturgy of the Sarum rite together form a coherent and sophisticated theological scheme which is peculiarly appropriate to a church dedicated to John the Baptist and to their particular location in a chapel which used to house the family vault of the lords of the manor. The scheme also provides evidence for familiarity in a remote rural area with the liturgy for two feasts not officially instituted until the fifteenth century: the feasts of the Visitation and the Transfiguration. The paintings bear witness to artistic skills and theological understanding of a calibre remarkable in a Devon country church.

Genny and Jane, and: Pawpaw

m- TWO Poems byJane BrockWoodall f GENNYANDJANE Giggly little cousins, The same age to the very day— The old ones marvelled: "Like twins, you reckon? Or sisters?" They watched. In stiff-starched organdy pinafores And homely white stockings, We stared knock-kneed At Mom's fierce camera. "They say that least one's as smart as Roscoe, And that other one favors George." We'd slipped beyond our mothers' skirts To a spot the grownups don't suspect, Where we could steal some secret time And hug and laugh And be the better for it. "Set straight and smile, you hear?" We froze there with the cedar trees. PAWPAW He would tap carefully up our front walk. "Just one more step, Granddad," Mama led him slowly. Then he would doff his hat, Almost ninety-eight years of gentleman. Mama would wrap his thin legs In his mother's afghan. "I'm too much trouble," Protests begging rebuttal, But lost fondly in his gaze at flames Licking the glowing fireplace logs. "Mammy cooked our suppers over the fire. . ." He drifted back to times we never knew. 79 He won't poke at our fires anymore, Though happiest when the flames danced for him. "Let's build a fire, Pawpaw!" My youngest brother would demandGarner , Pawpaw's namesakeHe always did love being the baby. Brock and I, the oldest ones, Carried in the wood to keep it strong. Only the third of us, Claiborne, Stole his heart. "Finest little feller I ever saw. . ." Then, realizing his excess, "Oh, the others are smart, too, but Claiborne..." Claiborne took his death hardest of us all. He was only seven, Not ready. We four and the others left behind Gathered hushed at the country church, White weatherboarded, Kentucky hill plain. His Funeral. Gospel hymns mourned him From an upright, out of tune, The words we brothers didn't know, Though Mama mouthed every one. It won't be the same: No Pawpaw this year Or ever Unwrapping Christmas horehound, Weaving the old stories, Tapping his "horse" into supper, Giving us his blind praise. Yet his life is here In our blood To come to what it will. ^^.^^ 80 ...

Notre Dame du Nord to Sherbrooke (1972)

Was Notre Dame du Nord different because we thought it was? Or really different? From Field, through Martens River, and on up the highway north from North Bay, Ontario kept its promise of dullness: feldspar, excellent roads, eternal road signs, fallen tales of the English migration. Then we crossed, in the late afternoon, into fields which were lapping the sun into green, which were dotted with farmhouses?not just with villages?and which brought the simple country church into simple unity with the land. The new world was shabby and almost beautiful. The way people had stacked up wood in this land, Qu?bec, said a lot. Around Notre Dame du Nord the woodpiles were neat and tight. (There were no such things in Ontario; almost enough rationale for a border.) In the afternoon sun the piles glowed, tawny and potent, stacked up like wise provision. The long green fields reflected the same charm of wholeness. In this world the churchspires should and could climb.

Stillness and the Argument of Gray's "Elegy"

Previous articleNext article No AccessStillness and the Argument of Gray's "Elegy"George T. WrightGeorge T. Wright Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Modern Philology Volume 74, Number 4May, 1977 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/390737 Views: 5Total views on this site Citations: 1Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1977 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Peter Hühn 7. Thomas Gray: "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard", ().https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110897623.79

How to Win Friends and Influence People: Dale Carnegie and the Problem of Sincerity

As a child, I grew up on a Missouri farm; and one day, while helping my mother pit cherries, I began to cry. My mother said, Dale, what in the world are you crying about? I blubbered, I'm afraid I am going to be buried alive! I was full of worries in those days. When thunderstorms came, I worried for fear I would be killed by lightning. When hard times came, I worried for fear we wouldn't have enough to eat. I worried for fear I would go to hell when I died. I was terrified for fear an older boy, Sam White, would cut off my big ears-as he threatened to do.... I worried for fear no girl would ever be willing to marry me. I worried what I would say to my wife immediately after we were married. I imagined that we would be married in some country church, and then get in a surrey with a fringe on the top and ride back to the farm . . . but how would I be able to keep the conversation going on that ride back to the farm?1

A Matter of Faith: North America's Religion and South America's Independence

For the last several decades, scholars concerned with America's foreign relations have paid increasing attention to public opinion, to national images, to the ties between domestic politics and international events. And because contemporary American diplomacy seems entangled in webs of mass behavior, the same wisdom has been applied to earlier times to investigate the way foreign policy has sometimes been an extension of passions and forces from the country's street corners, kitchen tables, and church pews. In this regard, great attention has lately been paid to American stereotypes of the Orient, as sages attempt to find in age-old popular attitudes the reasons for enduring problems of statecraft. Inasmuch as public interest shifts from one area of crisis to the next with each morning's headlines, it should be useful to examine, for areas other than the Far East, how the methods and goals of American diplomacy have been influenced or shaped, sometimes thwarted or transformed, by a kind of people's diplomacy growing out of the limited knowledge and unrestrained emotions of the man in the street.

POPE ALEXANDER III AND KING WILLIAM I

The curious letter delivered to Pope Alexander III, probably early in 1176, in which King William I of Scotland appears to acknowledge the subjection of his country's Church to the metropolitan authority of York, has been judged spurious, most recently by the editors of the Regesta regum Scotorum (RRS).1 The text of this document survives in a dual transmission. It is in the Red Book of the Exchequer (London, Public Record Office, E 164/2, fo 176; not seen);2 and it also exists in a letter from Pope Alexander III addressed to Archbishop Roger, and the dean and chapter at York, dated May 13 1176 (JL 12704).3 The authenticity of the latter document has been questioned, given the inclusion there of the pseudo-royal composition.4 That issue cannot be settled decisively; but a close examination of the Alexandrine text, and its transmission in Britain, yields a perspective tending to confirm the genuine character of this papal letter.

Whither the Country Store?

Although in many parts of the nation there has been a strong trend toward centralization of institutional services in single centers away from rural areas, churches and country stores have managed to survive in the countryside. The history of country stores in a single Kentucky county is examined in an attempt to explain their survival. It is suggested that the country store is an adaptive economic institution, one which continues to exist because of credit. convenience, sociability and economic viability. Fescue County, Kentucky is a classic example of institutional centralization processes. In the nineteenth and early part of the twentieth centuries county, state, and national governments attempted to improve rural country life by making county seat institutions available to small town and farm dwellers. This was a period of institutional expansion when the schools, banks, churches, and various small industries were constructed in small towns around the county. This process, however, was not to continue, and around the 1930's these various institutions contracted with increasing rapidity back into the county seat. Accompanying this centralization were improvements in roads, diffusion of cars and trucks, and development of highly competitive incorporated businesses. Today Fescue County is almost completely centralized not only in terms of its major institutions but also with respect to rural country reference groups. The county seat is where the action is. There are, however, two traditional institutions which have partially resisted this centralization process. These are the country general store and the country church. Through in-depth interviews of country store owners, historical literature, governmental statistics, and actual field surveys. this paper documents the changes in form and function which have facilitated the continuation of the country general store.

THE TOWN AND COUNTRY CHURCH: VALID, VITAL, VICTORIOUS

International Review of MissionVolume 58, Issue 230 p. 165-171 THE TOWN AND COUNTRY CHURCH: VALID, VITAL, VICTORIOUS Paul O. Madsen, Dr Madsen is Associate Executive Secretary, American Baptist Home Mission Societies. This article has been adapted from his address delivered at the Town and Country Breakfast, The American Baptist Convention, at Boston, Mass., on June 1, 1968.Search for more papers by this author Paul O. Madsen, Dr Madsen is Associate Executive Secretary, American Baptist Home Mission Societies. This article has been adapted from his address delivered at the Town and Country Breakfast, The American Baptist Convention, at Boston, Mass., on June 1, 1968.Search for more papers by this author First published: April 1969 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-6631.1969.tb03464.x AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume58, Issue230April 1969Pages 165-171 RelatedInformation

A plea for help in the town and country church

A plea for help in the town and country church

Book Review: Biography of a Country Church

Book Review: Biography of a Country Church

Book Review: The Small Town and Country Church

Book Review: The Small Town and Country Church

The teacher who went back to the country

I can still see the little schoolhouse standing in the corner of the field with a high rail fence around it. No, it wasn't red! The tin roof had been painted red, but time, the sun, and the rain had mellowed the schoolhouse to a drab looking gray. It had never been painted at all. The windows had been painted over once upon a time to keep the children from looking out, but most of the paint had either worn off, or had been scratched off leaving them in a rather mottled condition. Large oak trees grew around the school under which the children played games, and sat down at recess time to eat their box lunches. But all this was a long time ago. When I was twelve years of age my father was given the pastorate of a country church which necessitated our moving several miles into the country. This move made it necessary for me to attend a country school. After I had become acquainted with some of the children in the neighborhood, I was told of the one-room school building which housed all grades from the first through the eighth. I also received ample information about the mean old who had charge of this school. She had taught some of the grownups in the community when she first started teaching, but since that time she had gone off somewhere and gotten an M.A. degree, and had taught in some of those highfalutin city schools for more than twenty years. She was much worse now, for she was getting kind of old, and she had that degree, whatever that was. I had no idea what a degree was, but I felt that it must be something dreadful if it did to people what those children said it had done to this teacher. Nobody knew just how you got a degree, but I was sure one had to go through all kind of torture. (I'm learning after all these years, and my respect for the school teacher mounts with every quarter's work). I shall never forget this first day of school six weeks after our arrival in our new home. I started out with my younger sister, and my two little brothers, and since I had heard so much about both the school and the teacher, I was filled with resentment against them. We had to walk about three quarters of a mile to school, and for almost half the distance we could see all the children crowded together in

Glasmålningar i Ulriksdals kapell

Summary Glass‐paintings in the Chapel of Ulriksdal, Royal country seat outside Stockholm by Aron Andersson. In the chapel of Ulriksdal, erected in 1865 by C. F. Scholander, several glass‐paintings from the collection of Charles XV were put in the windows. Generally speaking, their antecedents are unknown, and the author discusses some of the more valuable pieces of the very heterogeneous collection, and attemps to ascribe them to their different masters. A. "The Baptism of Christ” (fig. 1). A rare specimen of the early Gothic glasspainter‐school of Gotland from the end of the 13th century. A comparison with the design and colours of the glass in Etelhem Church, Gotland (fig. 2) makes it clear that Etelhemmaren ("the Etelhem man") must be the creator of this window also. A note that glass‐paintings were sold from Bunge Church, Gotland, to Ulriksdal in 1858 may refer to the window in question, but it cannot be proved, and in Bunge itself there are no relics of glass‐paintings by this master. Etelhemmaren is...

Vårdnäsaltarets flyglar och Cornells Engel‐brechtsz stil i Antwerpen

Summary Six panes of oak in our Historical Museum, painted on both sides originaly served as the wings of a retable of the country church of Vardnas in the province Ostergotland. We study fig. 4, 6 the faces of the Last Supper, marked by the expression of resigned sadness and poverty, which often charachterize the dutch representations of the holy personalities at the end of the gothic sera. They may be compared to faces by the master Cornells Engelbrechtsz of Leyden (fig. 7). But the quality of the faces is somewhat inferior to Engelbrechtsz, and the way the other parts of the paintings are done is poor and rough in such a degree that there may be no question of the hand or even the leadership of Engelbrechtsz. In spite hereof they wings surely made a good decoratice effect in their cooperation with the gilt and sculptured groups and architectural framings in the central part of the retabel, now lost. They constituted a sort of iconic curtain opening itself upon the glittering drama of the sculptured par...

The Country Church and Our Generation.Edwin E. SundtReligious Education in the Rural Church.Henry W. McLaughlinThe Country Church in North Carolina.Jesse Marvin Ormond

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook Reviews Edwin E. Sundt Henry W. McLaughlin The Country Church and Our Generation. Edwin E. Sundt Religious Education in the Rural Church. Henry W. McLaughlin The Country Church in North Carolina. Jesse Marvin Ormond C. R. HutchinsonC. R. Hutchinson Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 38, Number 5Mar., 1933 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/216258 PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

The Country Church and Public Affairs: A Collection of Addresses Given at the University of Virginia in August, 1929, To Consider the Plight of the Rural (Protestant) Churches.

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