The first history of the deaconess movement in the United States In the late nineteenth century, a new movement arose within American Protestant Christianity. Unsalaried groups of women began living together, wearing plain dress, and performing nursing, teaching, and other works of welfare. Modeled after the lifestyles of Catholic nuns, these women became America’s first deaconesses. Sanctified Sisters,the first history of the deaconess movement in the United States, traces its origins in the late nineteenth century through to its present manifestations. Drawing on archival research, demographic surveys, and material culture evidence, Jenny Wiley Legath offers new insights into who the deaconesses were, how they lived, and what their legacy has been for women in Protestant Christianity. The book argues that the deaconess movement enabled Protestant women—particularly single women—to gain power in a male-dominated Protestant world. They created hundreds of new institutions within Protestantism and created new roles for women within the church. While some who study women’s ordination draw a line from the deaconesses’ work to the struggle for women’s ordination in various branches of Protestant Christianity, Legath argues that most deaconesses were not interested in ordination. Yet, while they didn’t mean to, they did end up providing a foundation for today’s ordination debates. Their very existence worked to open the possibility of ecclesiastically authorized women’s agency.

Every sanctified sister needs to be reminded that there are still issues we may have and things we encounter that will make us feel unworthy of the promises of God. One thing is, some of us are tricked by a feeling of thinking we need a man to feel we can make it. Most importantly we must realize that all we need is Jesus. We need to stay focus on the things of God and stop trying to out do each other. God can use us when we truly seek him, trust and love him. Sanctifi ed Women need to come together and stop being jealous and hating on each other. We need to be pure on the inside. We are powerful when we come together. When we seek God first He will give us our heart’s desire.

This is a spiritual book for both single women and men who are struggling as they travel life without a mate. It is hoped that after reading this book, you will be able to navigate and begin seeing yourself in a better light. Readers will come to the realization of Gods' great blessings available to them. Additionally, I pray that you will reach a level of self-assurance and total trust and dependency in God. Come and journey with me as I share a few of my challenging moments of life to a point of reconciliation and true awakening that I am not missing out on anything but rather highly blessed.

A comprehensive study of 125 communities and their leaders, countering the view that communes and the utopian movement declined after the 1840s.

The year is 2120. Love is a normal happy Young Sister enjoying life in the Utopian state of Empathalia. The Male virus has been all but Eradicated, or has It? In this humorous but revealing novel, Love and her band of fellow Sisters will learn about the realities of Empathalia, and life itself, as they join the Sanctified Forces of Empathalia in the Great Mammary Mountains of Central Asia, to finally rid the world of the final vestiges of the despised Male virus.

This book is the long-anticipated first volume of a two-volume work that will chronicle intentional communities in the twentieth century. Timothy Miller's chronological account is likely to be the standard work on the subject. Communities of the early twentieth century were often obscure and short-lived enterprises that left little trace of themselves. Historical accounts of them are few, and the ephemera such ventures produced have rarely been collected. Miller first looks at the older groups that were operating until I 900. He explores their impact of the early twentieth-century art colonies, and then turns to a decade-by-decade discussion of many dozens of new groups formed up to 1960. His comprehensive perspective—a synopsis of the first sixty years of this century—has never before been undertaken in the study of communal groups.

There is a myriad of little known, often forgotten, and sometimes unbelievable events, places and people that make up the warp and woof of the Texas mystique. This book consists of intriguing facts taken from age-old legends about the people who developed and settled the state. A section called Truth is Stranger than Fiction will defy imagination. The Texas history buff is sure to enjoy Forgotten Footnotes to Texas History. Have You Ever Wondered? will supply answers to questions about certain Texas legends and folklore. Texas: Land of Legend and Lore presents the Texas of fact and fantasy that so captivates the imaginations of Texans and non-Texans alike.