Michael Long

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  3 Lines In A Circle

  $18.00

  One line straight down. One line to the right. One line to the left, then a circle. That was all–just three lines in a circle.

  This bold picture book tells the story of the peace symbol–designed in 1958 by a London activist protesting nuclear weapons–and how it inspired people all over the world. Depicting the symbol’s travels from peace marches and liberation movements to the end of apartheid and the fall of the Berlin Wall, Three Lines in a Circle offers a message of inspiration to today’s children and adults who are working to create social change. An author’s note provides historical background and a time line of late twentieth-century peace movements

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  Jackie Robinson A Spiritual Biography

  $22.00

  Jackie Robinson believed in a God who sides with the oppressed and who calls us to see one another as sisters and brothers. This faith was a powerful but quiet engine that drove and sustained him as he shattered racial barriers on and beyond the baseball diamond. Jackie Robinson: A Spiritual Biography explores the faith that, Robinson said, carried him through the torment and abuse he suffered for integrating the major leagues and drove him to get involved in the civil rights movement. Marked by sacrifice and service, inclusiveness and hope, Robinsons faith shaped not only his character but also baseball and America itself.

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  Peaceful Neighbor : Discovering The Countercultural Mister Rogers

  $20.00

  Fred Rogers was one of the most radical pacifists of contemporary history. We do not usually think of him as radical, partly because he wore colorful, soft sweaters made by his mother. Nor do we usually imagine him as a pacifist; that adjective seems way too political to describe the host of a children’s program known for its focus on feelings. We have restricted Fred Rogers to the realm of entertainment, children, and feelings, and we’ve ripped him out of his political and religious context. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister, and although he rarely shared his religious convictions on his program, he fervently believed in a God who accepts us as we are and who desires a world marked by peace and wholeness. With this progressive spirituality as his inspiration, Rogers used his children’s program as a platform for sharing countercultural beliefs about caring nonviolently for one another, animals, and the earth.

  To critics who dared call him “namby-pamby,” Rogers said, “Only people who take the time to see our work can begin to understand the depth of it.” This is the invitation of Peaceful Neighbor, to see and understand Rogers’s convictions and their expression through his program. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, it turns out, is far from sappy, sentimental, and shallow; it’s a sharp political response to a civil and political society poised to kill.

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  Legacy Of Billy Graham

  $35.00

  Perhaps no individual person had more of an effect on twentieth-century American Christianity than the renowned evangelist Billy Graham, whose work has been widely influential in arenas from the rising evangelical movement to the White House. Although Graham s influence on evangelicalism has long been recognized, Michael G. Long s The Legacy of Billy Graham is the first book to examine his impact on mainline Christianity and on American civil religion. With noted contributors including John Cobb, Harvey Cox, Gary Dorrien, Karen Lebacqz, Thomas Long, Mark Lewis Taylor, and Philip Wogaman, this critical but generally appreciative volume assesses Graham s career from the perspectives of preaching and theology, social issues, and his engagement with his contemporaries and then concludes with two retrospectives on his legacy.

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  Billy Graham And The Beloved Community

  $70.00

  Using unpublished documents, this book explores Billy Graham’s beliefs about racial reconciliation, economic justice, and peace. Michael Long provides readers with the first detailed analysis of Billy Graham’s social thought during one of the most volatile periods of U.S. history–the Martin Luther King, Jr. years (1955-1968), and explores the links between Graham and King.

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