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Enter the river: healing steps from white privilege toward ...

Enter the river: healing steps from white privilege toward ...

Tobin Miller Shearer

The Bible tells of Naaman the Syrian, who entered the Jordan River to be cleansed. Comparing the affliction of racism to Naaman's illness, Enter the River by Jody Miller Shearer invites readers into their own healing.
Racism

Racism

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About the author: Tobin Miller Shearer is coauthor of Set Free: A Journey Toward Solidarity Against Racism, from which this viewpoint is adapted. For most of my adult life, I have been involved in work to overcome racism. For me as a white ...
Daily Demonstrators: The Civil Rights Movement in Mennonite ...

Daily Demonstrators: The Civil Rights Movement in Mennonite ...

Tobin Miller Shearer

Based on oral history interviews, photographs, letters, minutes, diaries, and journals of white and African-American Mennonites, this fascinating book further illuminates the role of race in modern American religion.
'A Pure Fellowship': The Danger and Necessity of Purity in ...

'A Pure Fellowship': The Danger and Necessity of Purity in ...

Tobin Miller Shearer

Thanks in particular to my American history cohort members: Charlotte Cahill, David Davidson, Michael Green, Marygrace Tyrrell, and David Sellers Smith. Several Mennonite scholars offered perspicacious commentary including Jeffery  ...
Christians and the Color Line: Race and Religion After ...

Christians and the Color Line: Race and Religion After ...

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4 “Buttcheek to Buttcheek in the Pew”: Interracial Relationalism in a Mennonite Congregation, 1957–2010 Tobin Miller Shearer on the south side of Chicago in the late 1950s, a congregation erupted. Ron Krehbiel, the first pastor of Community ...
The Mennonite Quarterly Review

The Mennonite Quarterly Review

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Moving Beyond Charisma in Civil Rights Scholarship: Vincent Harding's Sojourn with the Mennonites, 1958-1966 Tobin Miller Shearer* Abstract: This essay traces the Mennonite sojourn of African-American pastor, scholar and activist Vincent ...
Faith and Race in American Political Life

Faith and Race in American Political Life

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The Black Manifesto in the Mennonite Church, 1969–1974 TOBIN MILLER SHEARER In early 1969, Black Power activist James Forman presented the “ Black Manifesto To the White Christian Church and the Jewish Synagogues in the United ...
Two Weeks Every Summer: Fresh Air Children and the Problem ...

Two Weeks Every Summer: Fresh Air Children and the Problem ...

Tobin Miller Shearer

Two Weeks Every Summer, which is based on extensive oral history interviews with former guests, hosts, and administrators in Fresh Air programs, opens a new chapter in the history of race in the United States by showing how the actions of ...
Tobin: Portraits of a Family

Tobin: Portraits of a Family

John A. Tobin

Portraits of a Family John A. Tobin, Graeme F. Somerville. Chapter 1 5 James Arnaud Tobin James Arnaud Tobin was born on the 31 st March, 1 876 at 44, Percy Street, Liverpool, England1 the only child of Thomas James Tobin and his  ...
The Presbyterian Witness and Evangelical Advocate: Vital ...

The Presbyterian Witness and Evangelical Advocate: Vital ...

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304 TOBIN B. Seymour D. 29th ult at Ottawa, youngest s/o Hon. Michael Tobin, in 38th yr. P.W. Sat 1 Sep 1883, Vol. XXXVI No.35, p. 280 -TOBIN Catherine D. 27 Jun at Baltimore, w/o John Tobin. P.W. Sat 8 Jul 1865, Vol. XVIII No. 27, p.
The Furniture of John Shearer, 1790-1820: 'A True North ...

The Furniture of John Shearer, 1790-1820: 'A True North ...

Elizabeth A. Davison

One pos— sible explanation is that Shearer pre—signed this board “joiner and cabinetmaker” to annoy his fellow ... 13) to determine what tools Shearer would have used to make it. ... See also Thomas R. J. Newbern and James R. Melchor.
The Gentleman's Magazine

The Gentleman's Magazine

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Sir John Tobin. Feb. 27. At his residence, Liscard Hall, Cheshire, in his 89th year. Sir John Tobin, Knt. Sir John Tobin was the son of Patrick Tobin, esq. merchant, of the Isle of Man. At an early age he went to sea, in the merchant service, ...
The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review

The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review

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SIR JOHN TOBIN. Feb. 27. At his residence, Liscard Hall, Cheshire, in his 89th year. Sir John Tobin, Knt. Sir John Tobin was the son of Patrick Tobin, esq. merchant, of the Isle of Man. At an early age he went to sea, in the merchant service, ...
Chosen Nation: Mennonites and Germany in a Global Era

Chosen Nation: Mennonites and Germany in a Global Era

Benjamin W. Goossen

On difference and exclusion, Tobin Shearer, Daily Demonstrators: The Civil Rights Movement in Mennonite Homes and Sanctuaries (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010); Felipe Hinojosa, Latino Mennonites (Baltimore: Johns ...
Military Order of World Wars

Military Order of World Wars

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MILLER DAVID 1 COL MILLER QUENTIN H COL MILLER ROBERT W CAPT MILLER KEITH H LTC MILLER ... J CDR MILLER DONALD L COL MILLER JOHN E LTG MILLER LARRY L COL MILLER JAMES C CAPT MILLER VERNON L MAJ  ...
The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the ...

The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the ...

Edward Cave

Edward Cave, John Nichols. Lord Brougham offered him an office in his newly ... Sir John Tobin, Knt. Sir John Tobin was the son of Patrick Tobin, esq. merchant, of the Isle of Man. At an early age he went to sea, in the merchant service, ...
Rule Britannia?: Britain and Britishness 1707-1901

Rule Britannia?: Britain and Britishness 1707-1901

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Adam Erby, email with the author, 1 April 2012. 16No evidence has surfaced as to when Shearer was born. Shearer wrote on the interiors of some of his furniture that he was 'from Edinburgh 1775' and so it is probable that his birth occurs in ...
Poisoning the Pecks of Grand Rapids: The Scandalous 1916 ...

Poisoning the Pecks of Grand Rapids: The Scandalous 1916 ...

Tobin T. Buhk

... ISBN 978.1.62585.225.0 Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Buhk, Tobin T. Poisoning the Pecks of Grand Rapids: the scandalous 1916 murder plot / Tobin T. Buhk. pages cm. (True crime) Summary: “Discover the sensational ...
The Memoirs of Captain Phares Waldo Shearer

The Memoirs of Captain Phares Waldo Shearer

Phares Waldo Shearer

Phares Waldo Shearer Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch. The Memoirs of Captain Phares Waldo ... No part of this book may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch. Published by: Salmon Creek  ...
Preservation of the Self in the Oldest Years: With ...

Preservation of the Self in the Oldest Years: With ...

Sheldon S. Tobin

Tobin (social welfare, State U. of New York-Albany) builds on the thesis of his 1991 Personhood in Advanced Old Age that a continuous sense of identity is strategic to mental health and adaptation in aging, even through the latest years.
Juvenile Delinquency: Theory, Practice, and Law

Juvenile Delinquency: Theory, Practice, and Law

Larry J. Siegel

... Miller, Brenda, 169m34, 314n 117, n.135 Miller, Darcy, 272nd Miller, Donna J., 543 Miller, J. Mitchell, 588 Miller, Jerome, 604n8 Miller, Jody, 236m46, 258,265,273n52, 274m.126, 275m153, 330, 359n'78, 361n 163,381, 396n83 Miller, ...
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania: Genealogy--family ...

Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania: Genealogy--family ...

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Mr. Shearer is a “native son” of Pottsville, born March I8, I874, and his parents, James R. and Rachel (Dcwald) Shearer, were also Pennsylvanians, the father born at Milton, Northumberland county, the mother at Reading, Berks county. James ...
Frank Harris: a Study in Black and White

Frank Harris: a Study in Black and White

A. I. Tobin

To throw light on the motives & movements of a conspicuous literary figure of the last generation, two friends of Harris's from Chicago, Dr. Tobin, his 'authorized' biographer, & Mr. Gertz, an attorney who was Harris's agent in the latter ...
The Honey Moon. London 1808

The Honey Moon. London 1808

John Tobin

John Tobin. You are my wife, by every tie that's sacred; The partner of my fortune and my bedJul. Your fortune! Duke. Peace !—no fooling, idle woman! Beneath th' attesting eye of Heaven I've sworn To love, to honour, cherish, and rotect you.
The curfew: a play, in five acts. As performed at the ...

The curfew: a play, in five acts. As performed at the ...

John Tobin

As performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane John Tobin. EPILOGUE. BY MRS . OPIE. {Spoken by Miss Duncan.) M ay I come forward, ? Do I friends behold ? Has not our Curfew then its own knell toll'd ? I fear'd our drama's name alone ...
Readers' Advisory Service in the Public Library

Readers' Advisory Service in the Public Library

Joyce G. Saricks

"Public Unaware of Librarians' Education," American Libraries 32 (May 2001): 10. 7. Ken Shearer, The Readers' Advisor's Companion, ed. Kenneth D. Shearer and Robert Burgin (Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2001), xv. 8. For a more ...
Hitters, Dancers and Ring Magicians: Seven Boxers of the ...

Hitters, Dancers and Ring Magicians: Seven Boxers of the ...

Kelly Richard Nicholson

Quoted in Christopher Tobin, Fitzsimmons: Boxing's First Triple World Champion (Timaru, New Zealand: David A. Jack and C.P. Tobin, 2000), page 10. 4. Physical Culture and Self-Defense, page 104. 5. Quoted by Gilbert Odd in The Fighting ...
An Introduction to the Work of a Medical Examiner: From ...

An Introduction to the Work of a Medical Examiner: From ...

John J. Miletich

Los Angeles: General Publishing Group, 1998. Buhk, Tobin T., and Stephen D. Cohle. Skeletons in the Closet: Stories from the County Morgue. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2008. Cohle, Stephen D., and Tobin T. Buhk. Cause of Death : ...
The Right to Health in International Law

The Right to Health in International Law

John Tobin

John Tobin. 2 The Right to Health—Its Conceptual Foundations I Introduction Historians may have shown little interest in the historical origins of the right to health, but its conceptual foundations have been the subject of attention amongst  ...

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