Author: Library News

Happy March! Here are some books regarding Christian missionaries. Enjoy!

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1. Protestants abroad: how missionaries tried to change the world but changed America by David A Hollinger (Author.). Amazon page
2. Women and Christian Mission: Ways of Knowing and Doing Theology by Frances S Adeney. Amazon page
3. American missionaries, Korean Protestants, and the changing shape of world Christianity, 1884-1965 by William Yoo (Author.). Amazon page
4. Missionaries of republicanism: a religious history of the Mexican-American War by John C Pinheiro (Author.). Amazon page
5. The spirit moves west: Korean missionaries in America by Rebecca Y Kim. Amazon page
6. The orphan scandal: Christian missionaries and the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood by Beth Baron (Author.) Amazon page
7. The making of manhood among Swedish missionaries in China and Mongolia, c. 1890-c. 1914 by Erik Sidenvall (Author.) Amazon page
8. Redemption and revolution: American and Chinese new women in the early twentieth century by Motoe Sasaki (Author.) Amazon page
9. Robert Morrison and the Protestant plan for China by Christopher A Daily. Amazon Page
10. The contest for Aboriginal souls: European missionary agendas in Australia by Regina Ganter (Author.), Australian National University Press., Aboriginal History Inc. Amazon page
11. Building God’s kingdom: Norwegian missionaries in highland Madagascar, 1866-1903 by Karina Hestad Skeie. Amazon page
12. Methodists and their missionary societies 1760-1900 by John Pritchard. Amazon page
13. Methodists and their missionary societies 1900-1996 by John Pritchard. Amazon page
14. Western Daughters in Eastern Lands by Rosemary Seton. Amazon page

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OCLC is planning maintenance on our EZ Proxy server on 03/16-03/17  between 10pm – 2:30am. During this time, remote access to our eResources may be unavailable intermittently. Thank you for understanding!

In addition to offering Extended Hours for weeks 10 and 11, be sure to stop by the Library for our DeStress for Success event, starting Monday!

Extended Hours – Winter 2019

Week 10:
Monday – Friday: 7:30am – 11pm
Saturday: 9am – 11pm

Week 11:
Monday – Friday: 7:30am – 11pm
Saturday: 9am – 5pm

This year’s Miracle Madness pits brave Christian Missionaries against each other!

Four rounds will have selections of famous Christian Missionaries. The one with the most votes at the end of the voting period will move on to the next bracket!

Voting times:

March 4-5: Round One
March 6-7: Round Two
March 8-9: Round Three
March 10-12: Championships

Check back during those dates and vote. Links for each specific round will be active.

You can also join in on the action by using this Miracle Madness Bracket!

Who will reign supreme? Vote for your favorite today!

(Note: We believe all of these people are important . This is something only for fun.)

OCLC is planning maintenance on our EZ Proxy server on 02/21 between Noon and 2pm. During this time, remote access to our eResources may be unavailable intermittently. Thank you for understanding!

The Hubbard Library will offer Extended Hours for week 10 and 11 for finals. The hours will be as follows:

Week 10:
Monday – Friday: 7:30am – 11pm
Saturday: 9am – 11pm

Week 11:
Monday – Friday: 7:30am – 11pm
Saturday: 9am – 5pm

Additionally, for Spring Recess 2019, which occurs March 25 – 30th, the Hubbard Library will switch to Inter-Term Hours as follows:

Monday – Friday: 9am – 6pm
Saturday: Noon – 4pm

We will resume normal hours on Monday, April 1st for the Spring Quarter.

If you have any questions, please email [email protected]. Thank you!

Celebrate Black History Month by checking out some of our new titles!

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1. Operation Breadbasket : an untold story of civil rights in Chicago, 1966-1971 by Martin L. Deppe (Author), James Ralph Jr. (Foreword). Amazon page
2. A pursued justice: Black preaching from the great migration to Civil Rights by Kenyatta R. Gilbert (Author.) Amazon page
3. Pillars of cloud and fire: the politics of Exodus in African American biblical interpretation by Herbert Robinson Marbury (Author.) Amazon page
4. Black prophetic fire by Christa Buschendorf by Cornel. West, Christa. Buschendorf. Amazon page
5. A history of African-American leadership by Bruce J. Dierenfield, John White. Amazon page
6. The political economy of liberation: Thomas Sowell and James Cone on the black experience by Anthony B. Bradley (Author.) Amazon page
7. Journey & Promise of African American Preach by Kenyatta R. Gilbert. Amazon page
8. Beholding Christ and Christianity in African American art by James Romaine (Editor.), Phoebe Wolfskill (Editor.) Amazon page
9. Along the Bethel Trail: the Journey of an African American faith community: Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church of Harrisburg, 1835-2015 by Lenwood O. Sloan (Editor.), Nancy. Mendes (Editor.), Michael Barton (Author of foreword.), Sunbury Press. Amazon page
10. I’m still here: black dignity in a world made for whiteness by Austin Channing Brown. Amazon page
11. Black Power: Our God-given Call To Make America Great by Fr. Jabriel S. Ballentine (Author) Amazon page
12. Voices of civil rights lawyers: reflections from the deep South, 1964-1980 by Kent Spriggs (Editor.), Marian Wright Edelman (Author of foreword.) Amazon page
13. Said I wasn’t gonna tell nobody: the making of a Black theologian by James H. Cone (Author.) Amazon page
14. Eloquent rage: a black feminist discovers her superpower by Brittney C. Cooper (Author.) Amazon page
15. Religion of the field Negro: on Black secularism and Black theology by Vincent W. Lloyd (Author.) Amazon page
16. Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church by Barbara A. Holmes. Amazon page
17. Brand New Theology: The Wal-Martization of T.D. Jakes and the New Black Church by Paula L McGee. Amazon page
18. The color of compromise : the truth about the American church’s complicity in racism by Jemar Tisby (Author.) Amazon page

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Express your love to your family and friends at the library! For Valentine’s Day, we have cards and postcards that you can send out to your Valentine, as well as smaller cards you can hand to someone face-to-face! We even have a dry-erase markers for you to write what you love about the Hubbard library on the windows! Share the love! <3

In partnership with ATLA – American Theological Library Association – the Hubbard Library has created our very own escape room!

A group of people are asked to retrieve an important item for the grand opening of the new Fuller Theological Seminary campus. 

Current times the escape room is open is: Tuesday – Thursday: 11am & 3pm; Friday: 11am, 3pm & 4pm. Contact [email protected] if these times do not work for you and we can figure something out.

Max number of people for the team is 6-7.

To fill out a participation form, click here!

Email [email protected] for more information and/or questions.

Does your team have what it takes to solve the mystery in time?

Happy Martin Luther King Day!

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1. To shape a new world: essays on the political philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Tommie Shelby (Editor.), Brandon M. Terry (Editor.) Amazon page
2. Breaking white supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the black social gospel by Gary J. Dorrien (Author.) Amazon page
3. We Will Get to the Promised Land Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Communal-political Spirituality by Hak Joon Lee, Peter J. Paris. Amazon page
4. Behind the public veil: the humanness of Martin Luther King Jr. by Lewis V. Baldwin. Amazon page
5. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the theology of resistance by Rufus Burrow. Amazon page
6. Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature by Trudier. Harris. Amazon page
7. A time to break silence: the essential works of Martin Luther King, Jr. for students by Martin Luther King (Author.) Jr., Walter Dean Myers (Writer of introduction.). Amazon page
8. The liberatory thought of Martin Luther King Jr. : critical essays on the philosopher King by Robert E. Birt. Amazon page
9. The great world house: Martin Luther King, Jr., and global ethics by Hak Joon Lee. Amazon page
10. A child shall lead them: Martin Luther King Jr., young people, and the movement by Rufus Burrow (Author.) Amazon page
11. Martin Luther King Jr., man of ideas and nonviolent social action by Rufus Burrow. Amazon page
12. Martin Luther King Jr by John A. Kirk. Amazon page

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