MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01708cam a22002294a 4500
001 2004011569
003 DLC
005 20060804112307.0
008 040517s2004 mou b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2004011569
020 $a0827230028 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aBV4235.B56$bK35 2004
082 00 $a251$222
100 1 $aKalas, J. Ellsworth,$d1923-
245 10 $aPreaching about people :$bthe power of biography /$cJ. Ellsworth Kalas.
260 $aSt. Louis, Mo. :$bChalice Press,$cc2004.
300 $a184 p. ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 173-177) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: stories that should be told -- Teresa of Avila : a very irregular saint -- John Robinson : the preacher who missed the boat -- The King James Bible : a committee that succeeded -- Anne Bradstreet : a forgotten ancestor -- Blaise Pascal : a night of transforming passion -- Johann Sebastian Bach : happy birthday, brother Bach! -- Ancestors we'd rather forget : the Salem witch trial -- Samuel Johnson : a man of his word -- John Newton : amazing! -- A novel, a novelist, and a prophet : Jonah, meet Moby Dick! -- Frederick Douglass : living up to our name -- Susan B. Anthony : the woman who made reform an active verb -- Fanny J. Crosby : she set the world to singing -- Emily Dickinson : cautious seeker -- Frances Willard : the "do everything" woman -- Charles M. Sheldon : the preacher as novelist -- George Washington Carver : he saw God's wonder in a peanut -- It was a very good year : Frank Laubach and E. Stanley Jones -- Dorothy Day : an impatient saint -- Mother Teresa : God's little pencil.
650 0 $aBiographical preaching.