Anglicans Vs Evangelicals

What interested me in the first module was the difference in the Anglicans and the Evangelicals and how they differed in their emphasis. Anglicans believed being religious was more as a matter of doing rather than feeling. They also pursued to follow many of the Catholic Church traditions but adapted or forbid teachings that were deemed unscriptural. Evangelicals were the opposite of Anglicans, they emphasizing preaching and individual conversion to Christ. In what they told the laity was most essential in seeking God and attaining assurance of salvation. Anglicans mistrusted sudden, strong, public expressions of religious emotion, such as the weeping, shrieking, and trembling that overcame some participants in Evangelical revivals. I also

learned about many Native American tribes. One tribe I learned about was the Apache Indians who originated from the Alaskan region but had went on to migrate into the Southwest of America and later on into New Mexico and Arizona. The Apache Indians were nomadic which meant that they traveled from place to place, they were also one of the first to ride and use horses in their daily operation. The Apache's believed in supernatural beings and that they were found everywhere including oneself.

In module two I learned a lot about the Abolitionists and how they wanted to make a better union.

They did this by tearing the nation apart. It was a furious struggle that changed the nation, all types of people who were antislavery activist fought for one of the most important civil rights crusades in American history. Antislavery voices had grown louder in 1831 and the new England anti-slavery society was formed the following year. In 1835 William Ellery Channing composed a treatise against slavery, showing arguments from moral, religious and philosophical perspectives. Also, during the revivalism period there were many accounts of members of many denominations meeting for numerous days to hear powerful sermons, sing hymns, to pray and to enjoy the fellowship offered with other Christians. People would travel from every direction, utilizing different modes of transportation such as coaches, chaises, wagons, carts, people on horseback, and multitudes traveling from a distance on foot. Prayer and devotion lasted through out the day and was known to last as long as a week. The revival was seen as a time of joy, hope and

regeneration.

In module three I found it interesting that one of the first labor unions was organized in 1869 and called the Knights of Labor.

At the time, men, women and even kids were working crucial work hours with no days off to make enough money to make ends meet. They all worked under dangerous conditions and even had a terrible wage. Gibbons believed to earn an appropriate living, a labor union was necessary. Another person that was in favor of labor unions was Walter Rauschenbusch who stated that it was necessary to teach society to value human life more than property. The Industrial Revolution from 1850 to 1900 also created a drastic change in the north, it shifted the north from an agricultural and rural economy to a factory-based and urban economy. Industrialization had marked a shift to factories and mass production threw power and special machinery. The development of the steam engine, improvement of transportation and the textile and iron industries played a role in the Industrial

Revolution.

Lastly, in module four I learned a lot about Jim Creech, Bill Clinton and Pacifism. Jim Creech was a local leader in the late 1980s of the Raleigh Religious Network for Gay and Lesbian Equality. He not only supported an type of discrimination but strongly urged legal recognition for gay relationships along with the right of adoption by a gay family. Creech made national interest in 1997 when he conducted a holy union ceremony for a lesbian couple were he was then brought to church trial, but found guilty Creech still continues to campaign civil disobedience and social action to stop spiritual violence committed by churches against gays and lesbians. Bill Clinton religious views effected is political career. As he was suppose ably a good president, he let his temptations come over him. When he cheated on his wife many religious individuals lost respect for him. Clinton may have been religious but he didn't express it in the right way and shouldn't have slipped up causing others to lose the faith in him as a president. I also learned in this module that pacifism is the belief that any disturbance or commotion should be handled peacefully rather than with violence. Many Jehovah's Witnesses declined to participate in the war lead many to end up in prisons rather than civilian camps like others. Civilian Public Service camps were areas where a conscientious objector could provide a different service. These services included agriculture, forestry and environmental protection. Only those who by religious training and belief objected to all warfare could claim conscientious objector status.