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You're History!" integrates book and whiteboard materials on a fascinating range of topics that will show students how the world they live in, and the traditions they encounter, owe so much to the past. This textbook contains topics and themes which allow opportunities to develop core history skills, with plenty of flexibility for teachers.

This new book leads priests through twenty-six rites of initiation, including all of the various rites of the RCIA, adaptations for already baptized candidates, the various infant baptismal rites, confirmation of a person in danger of death, and parish celebrations of First Communion. The book is sprinkled with helpful information culled from Father Turner's pastoral experience and seemingly limitless knowledge of the development of the initia...

He spent his childhood trapped within the confines of countless bizarre, strict rules. And lived to tell about it.In this first-hand account, author Matthew Paul Turner shares amusing-sometimes cringe-worthy-and poignant stories about growing up in a fundamentalist household, where even well-intentioned contemporary Christian music was proclaimed to be "of the devil.” churched is a collection of stories that detail an American boy's experience...

Sweet-hearted, funny, and honest, Churched had me reminiscing about the little boy searching for God that I once was…" -Dan Merchant, writer/director of Lord, Save Us From Your Followers Churched details an American boy's experiences growing up in a culture where men weren't allowed to let their hair grow to touch their ears ("an abomination!"), women wouldn't have been caught dead in a pair of pants (unless swimming), and the pastor couldn't ...

Every Life Has a Soundtrack. If you've ever had the opening bars of a song transport you back in time or remind you of a pivotal spiritual moment, Matthew Paul Turner's honest-and frequently hilarious-musings will strike a chord. Straightforward and amusing, Hear No Evil is Turner's "life soundtrack, " a compilation of engaging personal stories about how music-and music's ability to transform-has played a key role in his spiritual life. Groove...

Glenwood Cemetery has long offered a serene and pastoral final resting place for many of Houston's civic leaders and historic figures. This title reveals the story of this beautifully wooded and landscaped preserve's development. It is suitable for those interested in Houston civic and regional history, architecture, and urban planning.

Two questions have intrigued observers of the Lou Henry Hoover House, built at Stanford University in 1919 by Lou Henry and Herbert Hoover and now the official residence of the university's president. Who was the building's architect? And what was the motive for its unusual, cubic, flat-roofed, undecorated form? This book answers these questions and demonstrates why the Hoover House is a remarkable example of the contribution of non-Western or...