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Stained Glass by Michael Bedard,

Stained Glass by Michael Bedard,
2 The clock mounted on the face of the organ loft made a muted click as it measured off another minute. Charles glanced up at it - 4:30. It would soon be safe to leave for home. The inside of the old church was dim. The only light came through the stained glass windows that ran along both sides of the nave. For the first few minutes after you walked in, it felt as if you'd come into a cave walled in colored glass. But as your eyes adjusted to the lower light, the space took shape around you. The ribbed vaulting of the ceiling stole from the shadows. Creatures carved in stone peered down from the pillar tops. Patches of flaking paint appeared on the walls. St. Bartholomew's was an old church that had definitely seen better days. It sat in the midst of what had once been a wealthy neighborhood of tree-lined streets and sedate old houses. Most of the trees had now succumbed to age or disease. The lawns had been bricked over, the houses broken into rooming houses. The old Caledon Psychiatric Hospital stood nearby, and outpatients tended to gravitate to the neighborhood. A lot of lost-looking souls walked the streets: people in their private worlds, broken worlds. Many of the stores along the main street where the church stood had died, or were looking poorly. Some had been boarded up, others turned into makeshift residences with sheets draped over the inside of the plate glass and withered plants languishing on the windowsills. He had discovered the church one Friday a couple of months back, shortly after he'd started skipping his piano lesson. It had been a March day, and bitterly cold. After wandering the streets aimlessly, he'd stumbled on the place quite by chance.The door was open, and he'd slipped in and spent half an hour sharing the empty church with a handful of homeless people, also escaping the cold. The silence of the place had shocked him. It was as if he'd breached some boundary between worlds.



The Gold Coast Church and the Ghetto: Christ and Culture in Mainline Protestantism by James K. Wellman,
The Gold Coast Church and the Ghetto: Christ and Culture in Mainline Protestantism by James K. Wellman,
ONE OF THE NATION'S best-known churches, Fourth Presbyterian is a thriving mainline church housed in an elegant Gothic building in Chicago's wealthy Gold Coast neighborhood. Less than a mile to the west is another world: the Cabrini-Green low-income housing project. In this evenhanded account, James Wellman surveys the church's history of balancing its theological aims and its social boundaries and sheds light on the strengths and weaknesses of liberal Protestantism as a modern religious institution. Wellman tracks Fourth Presbyterian's gradual shift away from an evangelical role toward its current focus on service, epitomized in an extensive volunteer tutoring program that serves hundreds of Cabrini-Green residents each week. By documenting the church's struggle to meet the needs of its privileged congregants while challenging them to move beyond exclusive boundaries of race and class, The Gold Coast Church and the Ghetto opens a window into the past, present, and future of the Protestant mainline.



Tong-Kwang Light House Presbyterian Church - Tong-Kwang Light House Presbyterian Church (同光同志長老教會) is the first Christian Church for Homosexuals in Chinese society. It is located in Taipei, and does not believe homosexuality to be a sin (see Homosexuality and Christianity).

Benson Baptist Church of Omaha Nebraska - Benson Baptist Church of Omaha at 6319 Maple Street in Omaha, Nebraska is a Baptist Church associated with the American Baptist Church. Rev.

Fairview Baptist Church Marching Band - The Fairview Baptist Church Marching Band, also known as the Fairview Baptist Church Brass Band, was a group of young musicians organized in 1970 by banjo- and guitar-player Danny Barker. Based out of the Fairview Baptist Church in New Orleans, Louisiana and led in performance by trumpeter Leroy Jones (who was thirteen when Barker recruited him), the band gained considerable popularity in New Orleans and became a regular feature on the city's music scene.

Toronto Chinese Baptist Church - The Toronto Chinese Baptist Church is a Baptist church serving the Chinese-Canadian community of Toronto, Canada. It was originally built as Beverley Street Baptist Church in 1886 by William McMaster and is a designated historic buildingIt overlooks The Grange that is today attached to the Art Gallery of Ontario].



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