Peaceful Neighbor
Title | Peaceful Neighbor PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Long |
Publisher | Westminster John Knox Press |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2015-03-13 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1611645697 |
Fred Rogers was one of the most radical pacifists of contemporary history. We do not usually think of him as radical, partly because he wore colorful, soft sweaters made by his mother. Nor do we usually imagine him as a pacifist; that adjective seems way too political to describe the host of a children's program known for its focus on feelings. We have restricted Fred Rogers to the realm of entertainment, children, and feelings, and we've ripped him out of his political and religious context. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister, and although he rarely shared his religious convictions on his program, he fervently believed in a God who accepts us as we are and who desires a world marked by peace and wholeness. With this progressive spirituality as his inspiration, Rogers used his children's program as a platform for sharing countercultural beliefs about caring nonviolently for one another, animals, and the earth. To critics who dared call him “namby-pamby,†Rogers said, “Only people who take the time to see our work can begin to understand the depth of it.†This is the invitation of Peaceful Neighbor, to see and understand Rogers's convictions and their expression through his program. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, it turns out, is far from sappy, sentimental, and shallow; it's a sharp political response to a civil and political society poised to kill.
Exactly as You Are
Title | Exactly as You Are PDF eBook |
Author | Shea Tuttle |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Pages | 197 |
Release | 2019-10-22 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1467457272 |
Welcome to the spiritual neighborhood of Fred Rogers “I like you as you are Exactly and precisely I think you turned out nicely And I like you as you are.” Fred Rogers fiercely believed that all people deserve love. This conviction wasn’t simply sentimental: it came directly from his Christian faith. God, he insisted, loves us just the way we are. In Exactly as You Are, Shea Tuttle looks at Fred Rogers’s life, the people and places that made him who he was, and his work through Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. She pays particular attention to his faith—because Fred Rogers was a deeply spiritual person, ordained by his church with a one-of-a-kind charge: to minister to children and families through television. Tuttle explores this kind, influential, sometimes surprising man: the neighborhood he came from, the neighborhood he built, and the kind of neighbor he, by his example, calls all of us to be. Throughout, Tuttle shows how he was guided by his core belief: that God loves children, and everyone else, exactly as they are.
Advocate of Peace Through Justice
Title | Advocate of Peace Through Justice PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 746 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Arbitration (International law) |
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The Advocate of Peace
Title | The Advocate of Peace PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 528 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Arbitration (International law) |
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Advocate of Peace and Universal Brotherhood
Title | Advocate of Peace and Universal Brotherhood PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 538 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | Arbitration (International law) |
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Includes the Annual report of the American Peace Society.
The Independent
Title | The Independent PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 502 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |
Fighting for Peace
Title | Fighting for Peace PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Van Dyke |
Publisher | |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | World War, 1914-1918 |
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