Spiritual Heritage
Following a Reclaiming Our Spiritual Heritage Tour, in October of 2007, one of the participants, Wesley Rowe, publisher of the Torrington (Connecticut) Register Citizen, requested this writer to submit a series of spiritual heritage articles for his newspaper. The articles would run for seven consecutive Sundays, beginning November 5, 2006. Each article would be featured prominently on the first page of the Sunday newspaper. The articles are presented as submitted, however, the titles or headlines were composed by the newspaper staff.
Discovering an Evangelical Heritage
Author: Donald Dayton Review Summary: Kerry L. Skinner Prologue: *This book is a product of the author’s struggle to reconcile the seemingly irreconcilable heritage in his own experience: the Evangelical heritage in which he was reared and values bequeathed him by the student movements of the 1960’s. Though the author writes through his own struggles, Read More...
Reclaiming the Spiritual Heritage of Connecticut
Dr. Ed Eastman Spiritual Heritage Series: Part One of Seven, November 5, 2006 Northwestern Connecticut is rich in history and culture. The region’s religious or spiritual heritage, though seldom popularly studied, is a significant part of that history. The abolitionist movement, the temperance movement, and the foreign mission movement in America cannot be explained without Read More...
The Pine Grove Camp Meetings
Dr. Ed Eastman Spiritual Heritage Series: Part Seven of Seven, December 17, 2006 The towns and villages sharing the name “Canaan” include East Canaan, North Canaan (unofficially “Canaan”), and South Canaan (officially “Canaan” and otherwise known as “Falls Village”). However confusing their designations may be, these hamlets, like their biblical namesake, have historically been associated Read More...
Nettleton Saves Salisbury Church
Dr. Ed Eastman Spiritual Heritage Series: Part Six of Seven, December 10, 2006 As one drives through the town of Salisbury, located in the extreme northwest corner of Connecticut, it is impossible to miss the classic New England white frame church on Main Street, with the whale weathervane on the steeple – a seafaring symbol Read More...
Inspiring Believers in New Hartford
Dr. Ed Eastman Spiritual Heritage Series: Part Two of Seven, November 12, 2006 In a letter dated January 20, 1832, Edward Dorr Griffin, then President of Williams College, reflected back on his first pastorate in New Hartford, Connecticut. It had been a pastorate of only six years, but he remembered the tidal wave of spiritual Read More...
In the Ice Box of Connecticut
Dr. Ed Eastman Spiritual Heritage Series: Part Four of Seven, November 26, 2006 While climatologists are sounding increasingly urgent warnings about global warming, recent religious demographic studies suggest that the spiritual climate, at least in our part of the country, is becoming distinctly cooler. With some exceptions, membership in main line and evangelical denominations is Read More...
God’s Spark for the Haystack Prayer Meeting
Dr. Ed Eastman Spiritual Heritage Series: Part Three of Seven, November 19, 2006 In a few weeks, more than 20,000 college students from all across America will converge on St. Louis, Missouri to attend Urbana ’06, a triennial missionary convention sponsored by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. Many of them will go on to devote their entire Read More...
Cornwall School Trained Men for Outreach Service
Dr. Ed Eastman Spiritual Heritage Series: Part Five of Seven, December 3, 2006 One of the oldest unspoiled towns in New England is located just 25 minutes west of Torrington. Visitors to Cornwall Village find it takes just a few moments and a little imagination to travel back two hundred years in time. The village Read More...
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