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Russian Baptists and Orthodoxy, 1960-1990

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A Comparative Study of Theology, Liturgy, and Traditions

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Russian Baptists and the Orthodox Church have had a difficult and  at times  dramatic relationship over the past century and a half. However, the purpose of this thesis is to examine certain internal connections between these two Christian bodies. Despite the evident dissimilarity  in theology, church practice and traditions  there is common ground which has been largely unexplored. A number of features inevitably brought them together, such as living in the same country over a long period of time, sharing a history and national roots, responding to the same civic concerns, and finally  until recently  using the same Russian (Synodal) translation of the Bible. 
This thesis explores, first of all, the roots of the issue of Orthodox-Baptist similarities and dissimilarities in the nineteenth century. The remainder of the thesis focuses on 1960 to 1990. There is a chapter analyzing the way in which, in significant areas, Russian Baptist theology resembled Orthodox thinking. This is followed by a study of church and sacraments, which again shows that Russian Baptist approaches had echoes of Orthodoxy. The thesis then explores Baptist liturgy, showing the Orthodox elements that were present. The same connections are then explored in the area of Russian Baptist communal spiritual traditions. The examination of the Bible, beliefs and behaviour also indicates the extent to which Russian Baptists mirrored Orthodoxy. Finally there is an analysis of the popular piety of the Russian Baptists and the way in which they constructed an alternative culture. 
The basic views of Russian Baptists between the 1960s and 1990 have been drawn from periodicals of the Russian Baptist communities and from interviews with pastors (presbyters) and church members who were part of these communities. This often yields insights into primary theology, which in relation to many issues differs from official Baptist declarations that tend to stress the more Protestant aspects of Russian Baptist life. 
  The aim of the thesis is to show that in a period in the history of the USSR when the division between the Western world and the Soviet bloc was marked, there was a strong Eastern orientation among Russian Baptists. This changed when the USSR came to an end. Over a number of years there was mass emigration of Russian Baptists and, in addition, pro-Western thinking gained considerable ground within the Russian Baptist community. During the period examined here, however, it is possible to uncover a great deal of evidence of Russian Baptists participating in Orthodox theology, spiritual mentality and culture.

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Commended by judges of the prestigious Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, The Current is the story of a man's obsession with overcoming the forces of nature. At all costs. 

When the president of a sinking tropical island calls on the world's most ingenious entrepreneurs to help save his people, Peter Van Dooren answers the call.

Van Dooren's wealth and prestige mean that his family wants for nothing - except a husband and a father.

As an engineer, he believes his idea can not only save the island and its people's way of life. It could also change the idea of nations and borders. After all, changing the world is what Van Dooren really wants. But playing God may cost him his fortune and his own family.

While Van Dooren plots a world away, his wife, son and daughter sink deeper into their own personal abyss of retail therapy, amateur pornography and religious extremism.

Everyone is adrift on the same tide of greed, lust and fear. This is the current that shapes the world. It always has; it always will. Is anyone strong enough to resist it?

Ironic and slyly, bleakly humorous, The Current shows us how our modern affluence buys us material comfort at the expense of a sense of purpose in our lives. It is a hopeful story about finding meaning in our relationships and strength through our community. It asks us to rekindle our relationship with nature.  

The style of writing is literary (thoughtful but humorous), and will appeal to readers of Jonathan Franzen (particularly Freedom) and Michel Houellebecq (particularly Platform). Stylistically, The Current offers readers a back and forth split storyline and portent of danger comparable to Paul Thomas Anderson's film, Magnolia (1999).

The Current is international in scope, the subject and themes are globally topical, encompassing climate change, family drama and refugees, so the book has strong international market potential.

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Flying Duchesses: A Pilot's Adventures with His Historic Plane

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"Your Grace, will you please lift up the left wing," Capt. Ken McCuaig said to the Duchess of Westminster who was at the controls of her family's plane, a Grumman Goose. Ken was a Canadian who, during the winter of 1964-65 was the first personal pilot for England's 4th Duke of Westminster. Using her father's log books, letters and diaries, Patricia McCuaig has woven an intriguing story that brings to life the historic Goose and one reclusive branch of the British Aristocracy.

The book describes Ken's professional aviation career starting with the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II when he was posted in Loch Erne, Northern Ireland and continues with his career and personal life in Vancouver, BC, Canada

The Grumman Goose aircraft plays a central role in this story because of its flexible amphibious characteristics. The perilous flight of this tiny Goose, with Ken as pilot, across Canada and over the North Atlantic included a lengthy leg of the trip in poor weather, which had never been done before. The Duke chose the Goose as his first aircraft because of its suitability in the UK to allow his extended Grosvenor family to commute easily between their homes on Loch Erne, Dublin, Chester and Northern Scotland; business interests in London; and social engagements in other parts of the UK. 

The wealthy Grosvenor family and their connection to the UK's Royal Family is explained in as much detail as Patricia could find. Ken's adventures with the various people, places, palaces, cars, and the like include depictions of the Grosvenors' family homes and Christmas dinner with a Princess Diana. As a pilot's wife, Jean, had her own aristocratic adventures. Excerpts from her diary and letters portray the hospitality of the Duchesses and Ladies of the Grosvenor family. 

The rest of Ken's career, the Grumman Goose and the Duke and Duchess after 1965 conclude the book. 
Patricia researched her father's aviation career, the Duke and Duchess and the Grosvenor family, and the Grumman Goose and then wrote these three elements into a story.  Illustrations include photographs, maps, sources, a newspaper article, and the Grosvenor Family Tree. 
Historical aviation enthusiasts, ladies related to or friends of pilots, and people interested in British aristocrats would enjoy reading this book.

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Paul Morphy: The Pride and Sorrow of Chess

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Paul Morphy: The Pride and Sorrow of Chess is the only full-length biography of Paul Morphy, the antebellum chess prodigy who launched United States participation in international chess and is still generally acknowledged as the greatest American chess player of all time. But Morphy was more than a player. He was a shy, retiring lawyer who had been taught that such games were no way to make a living. The strain of his fame and the pull of his domineering family led Morphy to set another precedent: chess madness. Morphy's mental descent after retiring from chess became a part of his lore, made all the more magnanimous by a spate of twentieth-century examples. The Pride and Sorrow of Chess tells the full known story of the life of Paul Morphy, from his privileged upbringing in New Orleans to his dominance of the chess world, to the later tragedy of his demise. This new edition of David Lawson's seminal work, still the principal source for all Morphy biographical presentations, also includes new biographical material about the biographer himself, telling the story of the author, his opus, and the previously unknown life that brought him to the research.

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Marie Laveau, the Mysterious Voudou Queen: A Study of Powerful Female Leadership in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans

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This study investigates the emergence of powerful female leadership in New Orleans' Voodoo tradition. It provides a careful examination of the cultural, historical, economic, demographic and socio-political factors that contributed both to the feminization of this religious culture and its strong female leaders.

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Lincoln in New Orleans: The 1828-1831 Flatboat Voyages and Their Place in History

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In 1828, a teenaged Abraham Lincoln guided a flatboat down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. The adventure marked his first visit to a major city and exposed him to the nation's largest slave marketplace. It also nearly cost him his life, in a nighttime attack in the Louisiana plantation country. That trip, and a second one in 1831, would form the two longest journeys of Lincoln's life, his only visits to the Deep South, and his foremost experience in a racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse urban environment. 

Lincoln in New Orleans: The 1828-1831 Flatboat Voyages and Their Place in History reconstructs, to levels of detail and analyses never before attempted, the nature of those two journeys and examines their influence on Lincoln's life, presidency, and subsequent historiography. It also sheds light on river commerce and New Orleans in the antebellum era, because, as exceptional as Lincoln later came to be, he was entirely archetypal of the Western rivermen of his youth who traveled regularly between the "upcountry" and the Queen City of the South. 

Featuring new data sources, historical photos, and custom-made analytical maps and graphs, Lincoln in New Orleans brings new knowledge to one of the least-known but most influential episodes in Lincoln's life.

This is a Lincoln story, a Mississippi River story, a New Orleans story, and an American story.

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Jim Garrison's Bourbon Street Brawl: The Making of a First Amendment Milestone

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Years before his inquiry into the Kennedy assassination, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison first captured the national spotlight in late 1962, when he launched a series of raids on French Quarter strip clubs and bars. Even more extraordinary than the vice raids themselves was Garrison's verbal feud with Orleans Parish's criminal court judges, whom he accused of restricting funds for his raids due to their ties to organized crime. Convicted of defaming the jurists, Garrison took his crusade from the back booths of Bourbon Street bars to the marbled confines of the United States Supreme Court. In 1964 a unanimous court ruled that an individual's freedom to criticize elected judges and other public officials was not only protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution, but that it was "the essence of self-government." Jim Garrison's Bourbon Street Brawl is the first full-length examination of this fundamental legal precedent.

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Five months after a hurricane has devastated New Orleans, native Nicole Naquin is home for the first time in decades. She's living next door to her mother Miss Gertie, an elderly evacuee from Lakeview reduced to pushing pills in a French Quarter gay bar. On the day Nicole's brother is killed in a drive-by shooting, she crashes the car into her high-school sweetheart's FEMA trailer, igniting a sexy romance among the ruins. Homicide detective Vinnie Panarello, himself charged with murder for a shooting after the storm, is assigned to the drive-by case, and works at furious cross-purposes with hippie sleuth Gary Cherry to find the brother's killer. In the process, they uncover much more than either expected.    

This award-winning comic noir novel is a romp though a gritty city fighting for its life, from the mayoral election to Mardi Gras, Lakeview to the French Quarter, the Garden District to Parish Prison. It's a classic story of individual redemption amid collective destruction, one in which crooked politicians rule the day, leaving displaced home owners, bereaved mothers, drag queens, and illegal immigrants to band together for survival and justice. The real protagonist-the people of New Orleans-won't be fooled any longer. As Miss Gertie says, "I'm moving to higher ground."

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Dirty Rice: A Season in the Evangeline League

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In the midst of the Great Depression, minor league baseball thrives in small-town South Louisiana, where the Evangeline League, named in honor of Longfellow's heroine, draws hundreds to dirt fields and grandstands in places like Jeanerette, Abbeville, and Opelousas. In 1935 Gemar Batiste, a talented young pitcher from Texas, is recruited to try out for the Rayne Rice Birds, makes the roster, and immediately begins garnering fame for himself, his team, and the league.

But Gemar is not the same as his teammates and opponents, and his skills on the diamond cannot erase those differences. He grew up on a reservation in Texas, an Alabama-Coushatta Indian dreaming of hurling strikes in the big leagues. During his season with the Rice Birds, Gemar is asked to play the stereotypical Indian and enticed to cheat, which goes against his view of the diamond as a sacred place of honor. Constantly challenged as he tries to protect his identity as an Alabama-Coushatta and uphold the integrity of the game, Gemar-like the Evangeline League's namesake-comes to embody loss, perseverance, and commitment.

Much like minor league baseball itself, the story of Gemar Batiste's season in the Evangeline League is a work of satire, humor, tragedy, and triumph.

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Wendy Rodrigue's book, "The Other Side of the Painting," derives from her popular blog, Musings of an Artist's Wife. "She's the other side of my hit record," joked Wendy's husband, artist George Rodrigue, the impetus for the original online project, as it began in 2009. In the book, Wendy reveals for the first time in print the personal history behind Rodrigue's art.

Although based on her blog, Wendy approaches many of her early subjects in a new way, while reorganizing her favorite posts into chapters such as, "It's like I'm gonna get a stick stuck in my eye, and I can't wait to get it 'cause it's good for me," illuminating lively debates on the arts between husband and wife, and "Treat your painting like a jewel," which shares the methods and lessons that helped shape Rodrigue's art.

She also addresses in detail the early history of Rodrigue's Blue Dog, along with analyses and quotes from the artist describing some of his most famous Cajun and Blue Dog works.  The book weaves Rodrigue's New Iberia, Louisiana, childhood with Wendy's in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, revealing both as rooted in the arts, yet products of 1950s and 1970s parents and society.  

The chapters "Born on the Beach" and "A Woolf inspires a Wolfe" are Wendy at her most vulnerable. It was these posts, to her surprise, that resonated most with her blog readers.  In "The Other Side of the Painting," she restructures and approaches these essays anew, exposing the personal history and inspirations that brought her not only to a life devoted to art history, but also to a life as muse and archivist to one artist.

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Engaging Compassion Through Intent And Action

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"In Engaging Compassion Through Intent and Action, Vanessa Hurst creates a visible and clear bridge to the compassionate life and foundational compassionate practices.  This book is a must-read for anyone committed to deepening their commitment to a compassionate life." Tom Williams, Co-Host, Compassionate Louisville and Member, Global Compassion Council

Compassion is a hot commodity.  We don't want to keep it.  We want to give it away.  But, we get busy.  We miss opportunities to share compassion.  The connection between our compassionate intent and action is lost.  How do we reconnect our intent to our action?  By building, sustaining, and walking across our bridge of intent and action. 

Engaging Compassion Through Intent and Action shares resources and reveals clues to building and sustaining a personal, compassion-centric bridge.  We begin by laying a strong foundation of awareness and sinking life pillars of being present, understanding our self, living with curious daring, and taking a long look at our life into that foundation.  Our bridge's cables are mindfulness practices that anchor us in the moment and help us to release life stressors.  We lay our bridge's deck through our intent and action.

Ready to engage compassion?  Use the ideas and tools presented to gain an expanded awareness of your self.  Develop a greater understanding of the underlying reasons why you react and respond to the world.  Using the process of RI2 (reflection, introspection, and integration) shift from a place of fear-filled reaction to a place of compassionate response.  The result? A compassion-centric life bridged through the alignment of your intent with your actions.

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Mommy! There's a Monster in our Computer: The book every parent should read to their child before they go on the Internet

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The book that every parent should read to their child before they go on the Internet. 
The odds are very good that your child will not be negatively impacted by the Internet. But if they are, it can be devastating.  Cyber Bullying KILLS kids. (This is book is dedicated to them and you can read some of their names inside.)  Predators scour the Internet looking for victims. Identity Theft affects MILLIONS of people in the US and young adults are being targeted too. Phishing is a very common attack methodology and can literally take money out of your bank account. As a Computer Security professional, we call this a low probability, but high impact risk to your child. It is a risk you should take seriously.
I'm tired of reading about kids killing/hurting themselves because of cyber bullying and cyber stalking - that's why I wrote this book. Please do not buy this book and just GIVE it to a child you care about.  It is meant to be read together with an adult and a child.  It is not "scary" or "alarming", it's a calm discussion (with some great illustrations) about some of the risks that are out there and reinforces the premise that if your child sees something that isn't right, they should reach out to an adult.

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N K McCarthy, Arthur King, Dr. Abby Anderson

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Fusion or Fizzle: How Leaders Leverage Training to Ignite Results

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Achieve fusion between training outcomes and business strategies. Maximize return on investment by linking training to increased profitability, revenue growth, customer satisfaction, improved safety and cost reduction. Apply the seven best practices in Fusion or Fizzle to maximize executive commitment, participation and buy-in to create sustainable change. Learn as the authors share successes and failures from more than 25 years of corporate training experience.

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When she laid eyes upon Kraler, Angel had no idea that her life was going to change completely. Imposing, strong, muscular, and incredibly sexy despite his intimidating demeanor, he took possession of her heart without warning. This ethereal, beautiful girl with a spicy, floral perfume managed to break his shell and eventually, get him addicted. But how could their relationship have any chance of working? Fragile at first, it becomes impossible when the vampire loses control for one simple reason: he wants to have her... the way his people have humans.

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New Age fantasy with a limited government theme, Steps To Salvation takes readers on spiritual journey through history, culminating in the implementation of Salvation Time on earth immediately following the Armageddon War of 2012.

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Revolving Doors: The True Account of the Full Spectrum of Fostering Abuses of a Boy Before Age Five

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"Revolving Doors" is an adult, autobiographical novel in which 'Richard', now in his sixties, recalls incidents of his nightmarish first five years of childhood, while fostered through seventeen residences as a ward of Toronto's "S.W.York Co. Children's Aid Society". From his perspective and understanding as a small child, he shares graphic details of memories of unspeakably perverse mistreatment, including perpetual neglect, abuse, molestation and rape. 

After years of counselling and treatment for ensuing, debilitating mental illnesses, 'Richard' experienced a "black-out", resulting in the sudden awareness of long-buried, traumatic memories. The author furnishes vivid details of her brother's incredible story by interweaving his recollections, and relentless nightmares, with documentation from the organizations involved. It is "Richard's" most sincere desire that his story of ultimate survival might encourage similar abuse victims who may be searching for hope in facing and fighting their own "demons".

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Richard Ketteringham, Dawn Maree Ketteringham

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Jan Brody and her husband Toms semi-retirement becomes anything but relaxing, when one daily chat with the telepathic Shalaian youth Ablakan is pierced by a psychic scream. Distant astronaut Moohri is now stranded on a desolate planetoid. With all three planets lacking the technology to rescue him, it becomes a race against time to save Moohri from starvation and eventually find a way to return him home. Their own lives are soon at risk, as they inform powerful people on their respective planets of the offworld communication which has been going on under the noses of officialdom. The space race has a grave new meaning when the need is great.

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Children's fantasy adventure for boys and girls aged 9+

UMA & IMP is the story of Uma's search for information about her parents' mysterious death in Peru. She is sometimes helped, sometimes by her invisible friend, an imp with attitude. 

BACK COVER BLURB:
7 years after her parents' mysterious death, Uma is no closer to the truth. Why did Mum and Dad go to Peru? And what were they looking for?
When a stranger called El Jefe starts asking questions, Uma sees her chance to find out more. But El Jefe is dangerous - and Uma is in over her head.
So can Uma find out what happened to Mum and Dad? And will her friend, an invisible imp with attitude, be anything more than a handful of trouble?
Desperate for answers, Uma risks everything ... and uncovers a special secret of her own.

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Game Plan: The 25 Secret Strategies of the Martial Arts and How to Use Them to Build a Great Life

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Whatever the question, Game Plan has the answer. Have you ever been stuck in a situation and not been able to think of a way out? Or wanted something really badly but didn't know how to get it? Or kept trying to achieve something but never managed to get it, no matter how hard you tried? Perhaps you are being bullied and want to know how to fight back, or to achieve fame through sport, competition or career? 
Game Plan is the answer to your prayers. Now you have 25 different ways to get anything and everything that you want; friends, relationships, good health, great wealth or personal growth and knowledge. 
Tony Higo 8th degree Black Belt in the martial arts and chief instructor of the AEGIS martial arts system has studied for over 45 years; trained 100's of competitors including British, European and World champions. Tony Higo was also the Guinness Book of Records World's fastest high kicker in 1990 with 94 kicks in 10 seconds. A life-long student of the martial arts Tony Higo has studied the strategies of combat and life achievement and in this unique work has identified the 25 strategies individual strategies upon which all achievement is based.
In Game Plan you will learn how to apply these same strategies to improve your life; to win in sport, in your career, to have better relationships, build effective teams, to leverage the skills and energy of others and build the life of your dreams. Game Plan reveals how to understand your life, your actions and the actions of others so that you can get the best out of every day with less stress, less effort and bigger results. 
Packed with easy to understand explanations, including historical examples, folk traditions, photos, definitions and quotes by the famous, giving many perspectives of each strategy so that with the reader will be able to understand and use them so that every problem or challenge can be turned into a great opportunity. Game Plan is a game changer!

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Bag Ladies: Unpacked: Real Women who have Journeyed Beyond the Baggage of their Past

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Bag Ladies: Unpacked, a stage play by Kimberly A. Cullen, is an exhibit of women's life stories and the baggage we may carry spiritually and emotionally, from past and present crises to generational curses. It depicts how the baggage we carry can be the weight that prevents us from moving forward in life and growing in love. Eventually we start to unpack those emotions and insecurities on the ones closest to us, which inevitably becomes a burden that not only we carry, but that our loved ones are compelled to carry as well.

Our frustration and inability to change our past and present circumstances causes us to react emotionally irrational, settling for less than God's best. Being driven by loneliness and desire can lead to temporary fixes that leave us "addicted" and cause us to chase a high that can only be fulfilled by God's Love. Pain becomes the comfort. The silent whispers of God's divine intervention become faint and we miss the moment to move towards healing.  Sometimes our misguided desires will cause us to take our attention off what's most important, causing the assassination of our plans, dreams, goals, even life itself.

In this book, we take a closer look at the main characters of Bag Ladies: Unpacked and witness various ways to overcome the issues that they represent by celebrating the stories of real women who have triumphed over loneliness, addiction, promiscuity, molestation, abuse, neglect, guilt, and depression.

Kier Ayers, Tina Bailey, Ebony Bell, Doretha Crews, Nicole Griggs, Ronda Henry, Kim Lewis, Desiree Monique, Rachel Renee Smith, Caela Strong, and Tamela Farrar have all shared their personal stories within these pages. It is interesting how many similar threads run through each of these unique accounts. It is amazing how you can perhaps see a little of yourself in each story. Most notably, you will see   your own strength and realize that you don't have to prove it to anyone by carrying around all that extra weight. Unpack your bags and move forward in freedom with us!