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Paperback. Condition: Good. Black Church Beginnings provides an intimate look at the struggles of African Americans to establish spiritual communities in the harsh world of slavery in the American colonies. Written by one of today's foremost experts on African American religion, this book traces the growth of the black church from its start in the mid-1700s to the end of the nineteenth century. As Henry Mitchell shows, the first African American churches didn't just organize; they labored hard, long, and sacrificially to form a meaningful, independent faith. Mitchell insightfully takes readers inside this process of development. He candidly examines the challenge of finding adequately trained pastors for new local congregations, confrontations resulting from internal class structure in big city churches, and obstacles posed by emerging denominationalism. Original in its subject matter and singular in its analysis, Mitchell's Black Church Beginnings makes a major contribution to the study of American church history.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. What's goin' down? I know you don't expect a seventy-five year old man to talk all that talk. . . A strong and much needed book addressing black youth today, Preaching for Black Self-Esteem is geared to a generation of black men and women who can--suggests the authors--proudly face issues such as caste systems, one's own physical characteristics, feelings of ambivalence and inferiority, and even 'buppies'--economically upwardly mobile Blacks. A very powerful collection of sermons for a generation of Blacks coming of age after the Civil Rights era.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. A wry, month-by-month chronicle of triumphs, mishaps, and magnificent obsessions across a year in a Washington city garden. In the sequel to The Essential Earthman, the Washington Post columnist offers a harvest of sharp observations and humorous adventures gathered during a year in his garden, along with much down-to-earth advice on horticulture. Mitchell balances the comedy of basement seed-starting and unruly houseplants with practical counsel on cultivating tea roses, building lily pools, and outlasting garden weeds. The essays follow each season across his city plot, detailing the stubborn architecture of woody hedges alongside the brief perfection of spring daffodils and summer water lilies. Water Garden: Practical guidance on converting galvanized stock tanks into thriving pools, selecting hardy goldfish, and positioning bamboo stakes as perches for visiting dragonflies. Garden Design: Architectural principles for small city plots, prioritizing durable enclosures of yew and box over restless clutter, with wide brick walkways built for wheelbarrows. Natural World: Unsentimental encounters with urban wildlife, from outwitting garden squirrels and stubborn raccoons to sheltering Carolina wrens and planting trumpet vines for hummingbirds. Gardening Essays: A delightfully irreverent critique of horticultural orthodoxy, dismissing rigid planting charts and chemical sprays in favor of deep spade work and well-rotted manure. Also by This Author: Henry Mitchell on Gardening.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. A wry, month-by-month chronicle of triumphs, mishaps, and magnificent obsessions across a year in a Washington city garden. In the sequel to The Essential Earthman, the Washington Post columnist offers a harvest of sharp observations and humorous adventures gathered during a year in his garden, along with much down-to-earth advice on horticulture. Mitchell balances the comedy of basement seed-starting and unruly houseplants with practical counsel on cultivating tea roses, building lily pools, and outlasting garden weeds. The essays follow each season across his city plot, detailing the stubborn architecture of woody hedges alongside the brief perfection of spring daffodils and summer water lilies. Water Garden: Practical guidance on converting galvanized stock tanks into thriving pools, selecting hardy goldfish, and positioning bamboo stakes as perches for visiting dragonflies. Garden Design: Architectural principles for small city plots, prioritizing durable enclosures of yew and box over restless clutter, with wide brick walkways built for wheelbarrows. Natural World: Unsentimental encounters with urban wildlife, from outwitting garden squirrels and stubborn raccoons to sheltering Carolina wrens and planting trumpet vines for hummingbirds. Gardening Essays: A delightfully irreverent critique of horticultural orthodoxy, dismissing rigid planting charts and chemical sprays in favor of deep spade work and well-rotted manure. Also by This Author: Henry Mitchell on Gardening.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Henry H. Mitchell has completely revised and integrated his popular books The Recovery of Preaching and Black Preaching for seminarians and pastors--both Black and White--who are seeking to add power and vision to their sermons. Mitchell persuasively demonstrates that Black culture and preaching style are vital for the empowerment of Black congregations and have much to offer the preaching method of all preachers. By focusing on the use of storytelling, imagination, and style of preaching rooted in African-American culture, Mitchell spotlights effective techniques for lively preaching.…

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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The best oAny DayO columns and feature stories by Henry Mitchell, the beloved Washington Post writer and author of The Essential Earthman and One ManOs Garden.

Hardback. Condition: Good. The best oAny DayO columns and feature stories by Henry Mitchell, the beloved Washington Post writer and author of The Essential Earthman and One ManOs Garden.

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hardcover. Condition: Fair. Gentile, John; Gentile, Anthony; Mitchell, Louis Henry; Schettino, Joe (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Gentile, John; Gentile, Anthony; Mitchell, Louis Henry; Schettino, Joe (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Gentile, John; Gentile, Anthony; Mitchell, Louis Henry; Schettino, Joe (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Gardeners disagree about many things--cannas, double petunias, the color magenta--but on one subject they are unanimous. Henry Mitchell was simply the best garden writer this country has ever produced. As Allen Lacy writes in his introduction to this, the final collection of Mitchell's gardening essays, "In a time when most garden writing was lethally dull and as impersonal as a committee report, Henry Mitchell was the great exception. He was often funny. He was always passionate, for his loves were many, although by the evidence he was especially enamored of bearded irises, roses, and dragonflies. He was endlessly quotable, whether he was telling his faithful readers that 'marigolds should be used as sparingly as ultimatums' or reminding them that 'to go from winter to summer you have to pass March.'" But Mitchell was more than a master essayist whose newspaper columns were read and treasured even by those who had no interest in gardens or in his other passion, dogs. He was a great teacher. As one reviewer said of his book One Man's Garden, it "reflects a zest for gardening and provides more useful advice than one could find in a dozen how-to books." For twenty years Mitchell's column "The Essential Earthman" was a weekly feature in the Washington Post. And whether he was extolling the perfection of the capital's summer weather (best enjoyed at six A.M. while viewing his water lilies and eating an ice-cold Vidalia onion sandwich) or deriding the idea that England was a decent place to garden or extolling the virtue of leaving plants alone if they are doing well, his reputation spread through friends who clipped his columns and sent them to those unlucky enough not to have access to the Post. When his first collection, The Essential Earthman, was published, Mitchell became the national treasure he deserved to be. As Lacy writes, "These books will continue to find and delight new readers long into the coming century, for they are classics.".…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. A classic, full of wit and wisdom for gardeners. Memorable essays about gardening from noted Washington Post columnist.

Hardback. Condition: Good. A collection of Mitchell's columns from the Washington Post. Davis, Susan (illustrator).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. A collection of Mitchell's columns from the Washington Post. Davis, Susan (illustrator).

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