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Camp Meetings and Circuit Riders: Did You Know?
Little Known Facts about Camp Meetings and Circuit Riders
Timothy K. Beougher is assistnat professor of evangelism at the Wheaton Graduate School and associate director for education programs at the Institute of Evangelism at the Billy Graham Center in Wheaton, Illinois.
Christianity on the Early American Frontier: From the Editor - Religion Untamed
by MARK GALLI
Revival at Cane Ridge
What exactly happened at the most important camp meeting in American history?
Mark Galli is managing editor of Christian History.
Piercing Screams and Heavenly Smiles
An eyewitness account of signs and wonders at early camp meetings.
Barton W. Stone
A Bird's-Eye View of a Camp Meeting
the Editors
Wrestling with God and Man
Dramatic accounts from the frontier's most popular autobiography.
Peter Cartwright
Holy, 'Knock-'Em-Down' Preachers
by JOHN H. WIGGER John H. Wigger is assistant professor of history at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.
Christianity on the Early American Frontier: A Gallery of Trendsetters in the Religious Wilderness
by DAVID L. GOETZ David Goetz is associate editor of Leadership, a journal for church leaders.
Christianity on the Early American Frontier: Christian History Timeline
Keith J. Hardman is professor of philosophy and religion at Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania. He is author of Charles Grandison Finney: 1792–1875 (Syracuse, 1987) and a member of the Christian History advisory board.
Counter-Culture Christianity
A look at the radical utopian communities that sprang up across the early frontier.
Bruce L. Shelley is senior professor of church history at Denver Seminary. He is author of many books, including All the Saints Adore Thee: Insight from Christian Classics (Baker, 1994). He is an editorial advisor to Christian History.
Rejecting the Negro Pew
As revival religion blossomed, so did the independent black church.
Wesley Roberts
All Sins Swept Away
A slave describes her delayed but dramatic conversion.
Focus on the Frontier Family
How Methodists strengthened the Christian home—and changed it.
Gregory Schneider is a professor in the department of behavioral science at Pacific Union College in Angwin, California. He is author of The Way of the Cross Leads Home: The Domestication of American Methodism (Indiana, 1993).
The Great Spirit Descends
A stirring camp meeting among Native Americans.
James B. Finley
Christianity on the Early American Frontier: Christian History Interview - Revivals That Changed a Nation
Frontier faith captured the heart of the common person—and molded America's character.
a conversation with Nathan O. Hatch
Christianity on the Early American Frontier: Recommended Resources
Dickson D. Bruce, Jr., is professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. His most recent book is Archibald Grimke: Portrait of a Black Independent (LSU, 1993).
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