Both of these styles were becoming fairly popular in the 1960s and 70s. While musical change was everywhere in evangelical churches in the late 1960s, some key developments centered on one of the movements earliest and most influential centers were in Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, California. “Under the leadership of its pastor Chuck Smith, the modest Pentecostal church took on a young hippie named Lonnie Frisbee as a missionary to the youth of Orange County.” By 1968, evangelical churches were having more carefree “hippies” start to attend church services, and many would say that it was because of the preaching styles of
The Fight for Equality William Apess served in the War of 1812 after escaping from being an indentured servant. After the war, he resided in Canada but returned to Connecticut in 1818. In 1821, William Apess married his wife, Mary Wood, who had also been an indentured servant, and together they had three children. Apess was appointed by the Protestant Methodist Church as minister in 1829, where he served until 1830. Apess was then sent to preach to the Pequots, an American Indian tribe who originated from southern New England, in 1831 by the New York Annual Conference of Protestant Methodists.
The original Ku Klux Klan was formed, in April 1866, as a social organization for ex-confederates in Pulaski, Tennessee. This was during the time after the civil war, known as the Reconstruction period (Benet's). The name Ku Klux Klan came from the Greek word kuklos, meaning band or circle (Benet's). The Ku Klux Klan spread very rapidly through the south and soon got the nickname of the "Invisible Empire" (Ingalls). In 1867, Nathaniel Bedford Forrest, an ex-confederate cavalry leader, and many other ex-confederates held a meeting and converted the social group to a group that opposed the Republican State government (Trelease).
* Richard McNemar, The Kentucky Revival * * Charles Finney’s Lecture to Converts * * Charles Finney, "What a Revival of Religion Is" * * Lyman Beecher, “Six Sermons on Intemperance” * William Lloyd Garrison, First issue of the Liberator DB Topic 300 words on the following Topic: As the nineteenth century dawned, the United States underwent a second great wave of revival and awakening of religious sentiment. From Cane Ridge, Kentucky to Yale University, revival swept up Americans. Church attendance rose and religious fervor swept into every region of the country. Richard McNemar describes the initial stages of the Awakening in Kentucky while the subsequent writers examine particular facets and outcomes of the reforming impulse. Question: As you read the documents provided in the Reading & Study folder of Module/Week 6, notice how the
At the approximate age of thirty, Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist. This was the beginning of His public ministry which was spent mainly in Galilee. During this period of Jesus’ ministry, He performed many miracles which he used to show the Jews some key attributes of the Kingdom of God. This paper will tell about three accounts from Jesus’ Galilean ministry that points the Jews in the direction of the Kingdom of God.
A Shopkeepers Millennium- Response Paper The second great awakening was a big religious movement that took place throughout the United States from the Early 1800's till around 1870. This movement was of the Christian church and brought in thousands of new members to many different sects. The idea behind the movement was that one could achieve eternal salvation by revivals. One such place these revivals took place in was Rochester, New York. Its here that Paul Johnson focuses in his book A Shopkeepers Millennium.
Martin Luther exposed the corruption of the Catholic Church. Also, early Abolitionist works, such as Harriet Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Hinton Helper's The Impending Crisis used muckraking to get a point across. Although, events during the 1890s most directly paved the way for the critiques and exposures of existing conditions. This period was able to reach a limited upper class and the muckrakers were able to expand appeal to the average middle class citizen (Reiger 49-50). One reason for the outspread of muckraking was the explosion of journalism.
Passive resistance has made a major change in the history of the United States and there are many great names that supported these ideas. Martin King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia and was a religious man just as his father was before him. On February 25, 1948, he was ordained and became associate pastor at Ebenezer. (http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/king_m.htm) Later in his career, he became a part of the civil rights movement in the United States through the bus boycotts in Montgomery. He was also a part of the beginning of a group called Montgomery Improvement Association or (MIA), this group would lead him into some of his biggest influences based on passive resistance.
The antebellum period was marked by an outbreak of religious revivalism that spread throughout the United States. The Second Great Awakening gave a renewal of interest towards religion. One of the most popular revivalists was Charles G. Finney, he was one of the many reverends who would preach about gospels on circuit routes and set up revivalist camps in rural areas that attracted new converts. Finney spread his “Good Word” for about fifty years to a plethora of people. The people who he converted were often so over come with religion that they would often shake, roll, and yell, these people later were known as the shakers (Hankins.
In the fall of 1830 some missionaries went out and preached to people New York, Delaware, Ohio and Missouri. They converted hundreds of people to the Church of Christ. The Church was set up in Kirtland, Ohio. Many of the original followers from New York moved to Ohio where they built the first temple. God told Joseph that they would “receive their inheritance and establish Zion” in Missouri (The Church of Latter-day Saints).