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Faith-Based Adoptive/Foster Services: Faith Communities’ Roles in Child Welfare
Written by John Orr and Grace Roberts Dyrness, this publication offers a global scan of the historical involvement of faith communities in child welfare services. It describes recent trends and leadership programs, …
Crisis in the Streets: Homeless Women and Children in Los Angeles
Written by Grace Roberts Dyrness, Mia Thompson, and Peter Spoto, this publication contains data related to homeless families in Los Angeles. It details services that are being offered to this population, then …
Armenia: Portraits of Survival and Hope
Armenia: Portraits of Survival and Hope Donald E. Miller & Lorna Touryan Miller, Authors (University of California Press: 2003) A remarkable view of how geopolitics affects ordinary people, …
Missionary Zeal and Institutional Control Organizational Contradictions in the Basel Mission on the Gold Coast, 1828-1917
Missionary Zeal and Institutional Control Organizational Contradictions in the Basel Mission on the Gold Coast, 1828-1917 Jon Miller, Author (Eerdmans: 2003) In the historical literature on mission, …
Engaged Spirituality 2002: Spirituality and Social Transformation in Mainstream American Religious Traditions
This report by Gregory C. Stanczak and Donald E. Miller is the result of a one-year study on the ways in which individual spirituality may be understood in relation to social transformation. …
Faith Works: Religious Communities Building Neighborhoods
Written by Grace Roberts Dyrness and Andrea Dyrness. This publication profiles the capacity-building activities of San Francisco’s FAITHS Initiative and the Faith Initiative of South Santa Barbara County. Download a PDF …
Practicing the Faith: A Conversation with Rev. Eugene Williams
The Rev. Eugene Williams was executive director of Los Angeles Metropolitan Churches (LAM), a coalition of forty small and midsize congregations that worked in South Central Los Angeles. In 1997, LAM advocated …
GenX Religion
GenX Religion Richard Flory & Donald E. Miller, editors (Routledge: 2000) GenX Religion is the first in-depth collection on this generation’s religious experience. The contributors, mostly …
Los Angeles Metropolitan Churches: Organizing Congregations to Create Change
Introduction Even though I was an outside observer, I felt some anxiety as I turned east off of the Harbor Freeway and headed to Mount Olive Second Baptist Church in the heart …
Reinventing American Protestantism: Christianity in the New Millennium
Reinventing American Protestantism Christianity in the New Millennium Donald E. Miller, Author (University of California Press: 1999) During the past thirty years the American religious landscape has undergone …
Politics of the Spirit: Religion and Multiethnicity in Los Angeles
“Politics of the Spirit” and the Religion and Civic Order Project helped launch the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture. USC professors John Orr and Donald Miller authored the report with …
Homeless Families: The Struggle for Dignity
Homeless Families The Struggle for Dignity Donald E. Miller & Barry Jay Seltser (University of Illinois Press: 1993) How do homeless people perceive their plight? Specifically, …
Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide
Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide Donald E. Miller, Author (University of California Press: 1993) Between 1915 and 1923, over one million Armenians died, …