Resources

Every month I add a new quote to my Quote of the Month page. Be sure to check it out!

Quote of the Month

“Then peeled the bells more loud and deep:/ ‘God is not dead: nor doth He sleep;/ The wrong shall fail, the right prevail,/ With peace on earth, good-will to men.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “I heard the bells on Christmas Day”

Early American History

See the following posts:

Robert Carter lived out what he believed: a prophet in deed – On a journey in the borderlands
Upcoming post on 2024.12.21: “Happy 250th, Greenwich Tea Party!:

For books referred to in these posts:

David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 (Oxford University Press, 1999)
John Fea, The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008)
Andrew Levy, The First Emancipator: The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father who Freed His Slaves (Random House, 2007)

See related resources under “Politics & Faith” below.

Ethics

For posts I have written on ethics, see Ethics.

The life of Faith

For posts I have written on the life of faith, see The Life of Faith.

In a post on Politics vs Faith, I reference the Bebbington Quadrilateral as a definition of evangelicalism. For more information, see David Bebbington, Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A history from the 1730s to the 1980s (Routledge, 1988).

For references for the post on The Secret of the Nones:

I have referenced the Olympic runner, Eric Liddell, in more than one post – Where Does the Power Come From and Liddell’s 100-year-old Paris Gold legacy: the rest of the story. To get a more thorough grasp on Liddell’s life, I’ve read (or reread) 4 books. Each of them sheds unique light on Liddell and his story. If you want to read just one, I highly recommend McCasland’s Pure Gold, but it is out of print. Second best is Duncan Hamilton’s For the Glory.

Eric T. Eichinger, The Final Race: The Incredible World War II Story of the Olympian Who Inspired Chariots of Fire (Tyndale, 2018). Tends to editorialize on points I don’t find necessarily supported by other biographers.
Langdon Gilkey, Shandong Compound: The Story of Men and Women Under Pressure (HarperSan Francisco, 1966). This book a memoir of Gilkey’s experience in a Japanese internment camp in China. Among his fellow prisoners, Olympic runner Eric Liddell is perhaps the most famous.
Duncan Hamilton, For the Glory: Eric Liddell’s Journey from Olympic Champion to Modern Martyr (Penguin Press, 2016). A great and well-referenced resource on Liddell’s life, especially on his years in China and in the internment camp.
David McCasland, Pure Gold: A New Biography of the Olympic Champion Who Inspired Chariots of Fire (Discovery House Publishers, 2001). As I said, if you have time to read just one book on Liddell, this is the one to read.

By all means, be sure to watch Chariots of Fire, my all-time favorite movie. To watch just the “Power from within” scene in the movie: Chariots of Fire Where does the power come from flv (youtube.com)

Immigration

For resources related to my post on When our nation shut its doors:

Carl J. Bon Tempo and Hasia R. Diner, Immigration: An American History (Yale University Press, 2022). In-depth study on immigration in the U.S.
Joseph H. Carens, The Ethics of Immigration (Oxford University Press, 2013). An ethical analysis on immigration and human migration.
George W. Bush, Out of Many, One: Portraits of America’s Immigrants (Crown Publishers, 2021). A beautiful collection of oil paintings and stories portraying our diverse nation.

Intercultural

For my book on intercultural work, see Friends, I Rot!

For posts I have written on intercultural work, see Intercultural.

The series, Border Agents I have known, can be found in Story. These posts tell the stories of people who have crossed cultural and other borders:

David Irwin – additional references include David K. Irwin, “Intercessory Prayer,” Advance, June 1985, pp. 4-5; “David Kent Irwin,” The Pentecostal Evangel, August 26, 1984, p. 5.
David Wilkerson
Helen Gilkerson – additional references include Lois J. Stucky, “Called, Chosen, and Faithful,” Herald of His Coming, April 2004; and Paul Buttrey, Taiwan Missionary Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 1, Summer 2001.
Pastor X

On Indigenous Americans, see my post, When Native Americans were finally welcomed: 100 years ago today – On a journey in the borderlands (howardkenyon.com)

For resources on Native Americans who lived in Oregon:

Stephen Dow Deckham, editor. Oregon Indians: Voices from Two Centuries (Oregon State University, 2006).

For resources on Native Americans who lived in the New Jersey and the Delaware Valley:

Amy C. Schutt, Peoples of the River Valleys: The Odessey of the Delaware Indians (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007).
Jean R. Soderlund. Lenape Country: Delaware Valley Society Before William Penn (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015).

Justice & Compassion

For posts I have written on issues related to justice and compassion, see Justice/Compassion.

Specific resources on immigration; poverty, hunger and houselessness; abuse & trauma (including genocide); racism; and women in ministry may be found under these subheadings on this page.

Leadership

For information on my coaching services, see:

For posts I have written on leadership, see Leadership.

For resources related to my post on The Peter Principle, Jesus, and you:

Politics & Faith

For posts I have written on faith & politics, see Faith & Politics.

Poverty, Hunger & Houselessness

In When Candidates Make Bad Calls, I referred to the housing crisis and specifically youth homelessness. For additional resources on these subjects:

For an organization which has pioneered the host family model of meeting houselessness among high school students, see Second Home – Second Home (emo-secondhome.org).

Racism

For my book on racism in the church, see the post, Friends, I Rot! The book, Ethics in the Age of the Spirit: Race, Women, War, and the Assemblies of God (Pickwick Publications, 2019) is available on Amazon.com at https://a.co/d/7mNtQmf.

For posts related to my American Civil Rights Project:

On my bucket list for a year from now

For materials exclusively for subscribers related to this American Civil Rights Project and to track my progress, be sure to subscribe.

For references related to my post on Brown v Board is 70 years old:

For a fuller look at Brown v. Board: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka :: 347 U.S. 483 (1954) :: Justia US Supreme Court Center
To read the Declaration of Independence: Declaration of Independence: A Transcription | National Archives

For my post on racism and Indigenous Americans, see When Native Americans were finally welcomed: 100 years ago today – On a journey in the borderlands (howardkenyon.com)

For resources on Native Americans who lived in Oregon:

Stephen Dow Deckham, editor. Oregon Indians: Voices from Two Centuries (Oregon State University, 2006).

For resources on Native Americans who lived in the New Jersey and the Delaware Valley:

Jean R. Soderlund. Lenape Country: Delaware Valley Society Before William Penn (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015).Stories

Amy C. Schutt, Peoples of the River Valleys: The Odessey of the Delaware Indians (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007).

For other posts related to racism:

Stories

For posts I have written in my story series, see Story.

Trauma & Healing

For posts I have written on faith & politics, see Trauma & Healing.

For my series on the Rwandan Genocide:

For further reading on the Rwandan Genocide, see:

Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998). Gourevitch describes his travels in Rwanda after Rwandan genocide, his interviews with survivors, and his thoughts on the meaning of the genocide.
Gerard Prunier, The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide (Columbia University Press: 1995); _____. Africa’s World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe (Oxford University Press, Reprint edition: 2011). In The Rwanda Crisis, Prunier provides a detailed historic perspective on the long history that led up to the genocide in Rwanda and includes the actual events of those most tragic of months. Written immediately after the atrocities, it begs for a sequel, which Prunier provides with the added perspective of distance and scope in his more recent book, Africa’s World War.

For further reading on survivors of internment, genocide and war, see:

Langdon Gilkey, Shandong Compound: The Story of Men and Women Under Pressure (HarperSan Francisco, 1966). This book a memoir of Gilkey’s experience in a Japanese internment camp in China. Gilkey examines the moral challenges encountered in conditions of confinement and deprivation. Among his fellow prisoners, Olympic runner Eric Liddell is perhaps the most famous.
Catherine Claire Larson, As We Forgive: Stories of Reconciliation from Rwanda (Zondervan, 2009). Larson walks us through the interplay between survivors, abusers, enablers, rescuers, and offspring of the Rwandan Genocide. Instead of stopping at the moment of horror, we are forced to journey with them to the other side of tragedy, wherever that may lead them – and us.
Elizabeth Mehren, I Lived to Tell the World: Stories from Survivors of Holocaust, Genocide, and the Atrocities of War (Oregon State University Press, 2024). Published in cooperation with The Immigrant Story, Mehren tells the stories of people who have lived through terrible atrocities in various parts of the world, only to find themselves in Oregon.

For further reading on genocide, see:

The Early Warning Project is a joint initiative of the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College.

Ben Kiernan, Blood and Soil: a World History of Genocide from Sparta to Darfur (Yale University Press, 2007). Kiernan, Director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University, has written extensively on the subject, starting his research and writing with the atrocities in Cambodia. In Blood and Soil, Kiernan takes a broad look at genocide both globally and historically.

Women in Ministry

For my book on women in ministry, see Friends, I Rot! The book, Ethics in the Age of the Spirit: Race, Women, War, and the Assemblies of God (Pickwick Publications, 2019) is available on Amazon.com at https://a.co/d/7mNtQmf.

In Mother’s Day Taught Me that Women Belong in the Pulpit, I highlight three women, including my mother. For additional information on the other two women:

Dr. Edith Blumhofer: https://www.wheaton.edu/news/recent-news/2020/march/remembering-dr-edith-blumhofer; https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2020/march-web-only/edith-blumhofer-obit-pentecostal-historian-wheaton.html
Reverend Wanda Carter: https://news.ag.org/en/articlerepository/news/2020/06/interview-with-wanda-carter

For other posts on Women in Ministry, see:

Border Agents I have known: Helen Gilkerson
The woman evangelist ahead of her time – Maria B. Woodworth-Etter

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