Stories
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Social isolation and the search for sanctuary
Threatened with deportation, Furaha Asani turned to her church for support. Met with silence and disinterest, she walked away, but argues that churches should do much more for migrants.
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Wonder years
The confusion and secrecy surrounding his condition seriously affected Chris’s mental health, blighting his teenage years. But somehow he began to hope and plan for the future.
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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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Close encounters of the spiritualist kind
When it comes to practical and emotional advice, Daphne heeds the words of her lost loved ones. Find out how a spiritualist medium helps her stay in touch.
Catalogue
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John Cotton on the churches of New England / edited by Larzer Ziff.
Cotton, John, 1584-1652Date: [1968], ©1968- Books
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Two discourses shewing, I. That the Lords ears are open to the prayers of the righteous. II. The dignity & duty of aged servants of the Lord. Also, a preface in which the Congregational discipline of the churches in New-England is vindicated, with the authors dying testimony there-unto. By I. Mather, D.D. [Four lines of quotations]
Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.Date: 1716- Books
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Ministers of the Gospel, gifts of the Lord to his churches; and to be obtained by prayer. A sermon preached at Newbury-Port, June 25, 1767. A fast, sanctified by the Congregational church and society there, under bereavement of their pastor. (Published at the desire of man of said society.) By James Chandler, A.M. Pastor of the West Church in Rowley. [Four lines of quotations]
Chandler, James, 1706-1789.Date: 1767- Books
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A disquisition concerning ecclesiastical councils. Proving, that not only pastors, but brethren delegated by the curches [sic], have equally a right to a decisive vote in such assemblies. To which is added, proposals concerning consociation of churches, agreed upon by a synod, which convened at Boston, in New-England. With a preface, containining [sic] a further vindication of the Congregational discipline. By Increase Mather. D.D. [Ten lines of quotations]
Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.Date: 1716- Books
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An apology for the liberties of the churches in New England: to which is prefix'd, a discourse concerning congregational churches. By Samuel Mather, M.A. Pastor of a church in Boston, New England. [Nineteen lines of quotations]
Mather, Samuel, 1706-1785.Date: 1738