- The Family Songbook is the perfect choice for a sing-along. The songs are well-known, the arrangements are easily playable and the keys are singable. The list of composers.
- The Family Bookby Todd ParrCopyright © 2003 http://www.toddparr.com/books/.
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| Author | Jeff Sharlet |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Political power of the Christian Right |
| Publisher | HarperCollins |
| May 20, 2008 | |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 464 |
| ISBN | 978-0-06-055979-3 |
| OCLC | 148887452 |
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power is a 2008 book by American journalist Jeff Sharlet. The book investigates the political power of The Family or The Fellowship, a secretive fundamentalist Christian association led by Douglas Coe. Sharlet has stated that the organization fetishizes power by comparing Jesus to 'Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, Bin Laden' as examples of leaders who change the world through the strength of the covenants they had forged with their 'brothers'.[1][2][3][4] It was published by HarperCollins.
One year after the book's initial publication, the sex scandals of prominent members of the Family, Nevada Sen. John Ensign and South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, as well as accusations that the Family was illegally subsidizing the rent of members of Congress and involved in the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which would have imposed the death penalty for homosexuality in Uganda, thrust the notoriously secretive organisation into the national spotlight.
Beliefs and theology[edit]
Journalist Jeff Sharlet did intensive research in the Fellowship's archives, before they were closed to the public. He also spent a month in 2002 living in a Fellowship house near Washington, DC, and wrote a magazine article describing his experiences.[5] In his 2008 book about the Family,[6] he criticized their theology as an 'elite fundamentalism' that fetishizes political power and wealth, consistently opposes labor movements in the U.S. and abroad, and teaches that laissez-faire economic policy is 'God's will.' He criticized their theology of instant forgiveness for powerful men as providing a convenient excuse for elites who commit misdeeds or crimes, allowing them to avoid accepting responsibility or accountability for their actions.[7]
Controversial leadership model[edit]
Jeff Sharlet and Andrea Mitchell have described Fellowship leader Doug Coe as preaching a leadership model and a personal commitment to Jesus Christ comparable to the blind devotion that Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Pol Pot demanded from their followers.[8] In one videotaped lecture series in 1989, Coe said:
Hitler, Goebbels and Himmler were three men. Think of the immense power these three men had... But they bound themselves together in an agreement... Two years before they moved into Poland, these three men had... systematically a plan drawn out... to annihilate the entire Polish population and destroy by numbers every single house... every single building in Warsaw and then to start on the rest of Poland.' [9]
Coe adds that it worked; they killed six and a half million 'Polish people.' Though he calls Nazis 'these enemies of ours,' he compares their commitment to Jesus' demands: 'Jesus said, ‘You have to put me before other people. And you have to put me before yourself.' Hitler, that was the demand to be in the Nazi party. You have to put the Nazi party and its objectives ahead of your own life and ahead of other people. [8]
Coe also compared Jesus's teachings to the Red Guard during the Chinese Cultural Revolution:
I've seen pictures of young men in the Red Guard of China... they would bring in this young man's mother and father, lay her on the table with a basket on the end, he would take an axe and cut her head off... They have to put the purposes of the Red Guard ahead of the mother-father-brother-sister – their own life! That was a covenant. A pledge. That was what Jesus said.[9][10]
Jeff Sharlet told NBC News that when he was an intern with the Fellowship 'we were being taught the leadership lessons of Hitler, Lenin and Mao' and that Hitler's genocide 'wasn't an issue for them, it was the strength that he emulated.'[9]
Reception[edit]
Sharlet's book was endorsed by several commentators, including Frank Schaeffer, once a leading figure of the Christian right, who called Sharlet's book a 'must read ... disturbing tour de force,' and Brian McLaren, one of Time's '25 most influential evangelicals' in the U.S., who said: 'Jeff Sharlet [is] a confessed non-evangelical whom top evangelical organizations might be wise to hire—and quick—as a consultant.'[11][12]
Lisa Miller, who writes a column on religion at Newsweek, called his book 'alarmist' and says it paints a 'creepy, even cultish picture' of the young, lower-ranking members of the Fellowship.[1][13]
On August 9, 2019, an original documentary series was released on Netflix based on the book, titled The Family.[14][15]
References[edit]
- ^ abMiller, Lisa (September 8, 2009). 'House of Worship'. Newsweek. Retrieved August 14, 2009.
- ^Jeff Sharlet, The Family (Harper, 2008), p. 259.
- ^Sharlet, Jeff (July 21, 2009). 'Sex and power inside 'the C Street House''. Salon.com. Retrieved November 28, 2009.
- ^'Jeff Sharlet on 'The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power''. Democracy Now!. August 12, 2009. Retrieved November 28, 2009.
- ^Sharlet, Jeff (March 2003). 'Jesus plus nothing: Undercover among America's secret theocrats'. Harper's Magazine. Archived from the original on July 1, 2009. Retrieved July 20, 2009.
- ^Sharlet, Jeff (2008). The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. HarperCollins. ISBN978-0-06-055979-3.
- ^Sharlet, Jeff (2008). The Family: Power, Politics and Fundamentalism's Shadow Elite. University of Queensland Press. ISBN978-0-7022-3694-5.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^ abJeff Sharlet, The Family (Harper, 2008), pp. 254–5.
- ^ abcMitchell, Andrea; Popkin, James 'Jim' (April 3, 2008). 'Political ties to a secretive religious group'. NBC News. Retrieved January 28, 2010.
- ^Jeff Sharlet, The Family (Harper, 2008), p. 255.
- ^Book review quotes, Amazon, October 13, 2009, ISBN978-0060560058.
- ^'Quoting book reviews for The Family', The Revealer.
- ^'Lisa Miller', Newsweek (biography).
- ^'The Family'.
- ^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7knN2TXQPzw
External links[edit]
The Haden Triplets are back after a nearly six year long hiatus from recorded music under this name, and have announced their latest studio album entitled The Family Songbook which is set to be released on Trrimeter on January 24 2020. This new album will feature their first recordings since the debut of 'Slowly,' and 'Single Girl Married Girl,' back in 2014.
The band have also confirmed a short list of four tour dates which are set to begin next year. A statement regarding the band's tour dates indicates that the band will be expanding their tour, which currently hosts three stops in Southern California, and one stop in Knoxville, Tennessee.
The Haden Triplets consists of Petra, Rachel and Tanya Haden, who are all the daughters of legendary jazz bassist Charlie Haden. This latest album will feature recordings from recently unearthed songs by their grandfather, Carl E. Haden, who was the patriarch of the singing Haden Family. The sisters uncovered these songs via their uncle, who had Carl Haden's original sheet music along with the songbook Favorites of the Haden Family.
One of these tracks, entitled 'Wayfaring Stranger,' has also been released alongside a lyric video which shows various pictures of the Haden family, and their songbook. This stripped back and emotional track was originally a song sung by the triplet's grandmother to their father, and is a somber track filled with a powerful vocal performance.
- The Family Songbook is the perfect choice for a sing-along. The songs are well-known, the arrangements are easily playable and the keys are singable. The list of composers.
- The Family Bookby Todd ParrCopyright © 2003 http://www.toddparr.com/books/.
Discover your family history. Explore the world's largest collection of free family trees, genealogy records and resources.
| Author | Jeff Sharlet |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Political power of the Christian Right |
| Publisher | HarperCollins |
| May 20, 2008 | |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 464 |
| ISBN | 978-0-06-055979-3 |
| OCLC | 148887452 |
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power is a 2008 book by American journalist Jeff Sharlet. The book investigates the political power of The Family or The Fellowship, a secretive fundamentalist Christian association led by Douglas Coe. Sharlet has stated that the organization fetishizes power by comparing Jesus to 'Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, Bin Laden' as examples of leaders who change the world through the strength of the covenants they had forged with their 'brothers'.[1][2][3][4] It was published by HarperCollins.
One year after the book's initial publication, the sex scandals of prominent members of the Family, Nevada Sen. John Ensign and South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, as well as accusations that the Family was illegally subsidizing the rent of members of Congress and involved in the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which would have imposed the death penalty for homosexuality in Uganda, thrust the notoriously secretive organisation into the national spotlight.
Beliefs and theology[edit]
Journalist Jeff Sharlet did intensive research in the Fellowship's archives, before they were closed to the public. He also spent a month in 2002 living in a Fellowship house near Washington, DC, and wrote a magazine article describing his experiences.[5] In his 2008 book about the Family,[6] he criticized their theology as an 'elite fundamentalism' that fetishizes political power and wealth, consistently opposes labor movements in the U.S. and abroad, and teaches that laissez-faire economic policy is 'God's will.' He criticized their theology of instant forgiveness for powerful men as providing a convenient excuse for elites who commit misdeeds or crimes, allowing them to avoid accepting responsibility or accountability for their actions.[7]
Controversial leadership model[edit]
Jeff Sharlet and Andrea Mitchell have described Fellowship leader Doug Coe as preaching a leadership model and a personal commitment to Jesus Christ comparable to the blind devotion that Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Pol Pot demanded from their followers.[8] In one videotaped lecture series in 1989, Coe said:
Hitler, Goebbels and Himmler were three men. Think of the immense power these three men had... But they bound themselves together in an agreement... Two years before they moved into Poland, these three men had... systematically a plan drawn out... to annihilate the entire Polish population and destroy by numbers every single house... every single building in Warsaw and then to start on the rest of Poland.' [9]
Coe adds that it worked; they killed six and a half million 'Polish people.' Though he calls Nazis 'these enemies of ours,' he compares their commitment to Jesus' demands: 'Jesus said, ‘You have to put me before other people. And you have to put me before yourself.' Hitler, that was the demand to be in the Nazi party. You have to put the Nazi party and its objectives ahead of your own life and ahead of other people. [8]
Coe also compared Jesus's teachings to the Red Guard during the Chinese Cultural Revolution:
I've seen pictures of young men in the Red Guard of China... they would bring in this young man's mother and father, lay her on the table with a basket on the end, he would take an axe and cut her head off... They have to put the purposes of the Red Guard ahead of the mother-father-brother-sister – their own life! That was a covenant. A pledge. That was what Jesus said.[9][10]
Jeff Sharlet told NBC News that when he was an intern with the Fellowship 'we were being taught the leadership lessons of Hitler, Lenin and Mao' and that Hitler's genocide 'wasn't an issue for them, it was the strength that he emulated.'[9]
Reception[edit]
Sharlet's book was endorsed by several commentators, including Frank Schaeffer, once a leading figure of the Christian right, who called Sharlet's book a 'must read ... disturbing tour de force,' and Brian McLaren, one of Time's '25 most influential evangelicals' in the U.S., who said: 'Jeff Sharlet [is] a confessed non-evangelical whom top evangelical organizations might be wise to hire—and quick—as a consultant.'[11][12]
Lisa Miller, who writes a column on religion at Newsweek, called his book 'alarmist' and says it paints a 'creepy, even cultish picture' of the young, lower-ranking members of the Fellowship.[1][13]
On August 9, 2019, an original documentary series was released on Netflix based on the book, titled The Family.[14][15]
References[edit]
- ^ abMiller, Lisa (September 8, 2009). 'House of Worship'. Newsweek. Retrieved August 14, 2009.
- ^Jeff Sharlet, The Family (Harper, 2008), p. 259.
- ^Sharlet, Jeff (July 21, 2009). 'Sex and power inside 'the C Street House''. Salon.com. Retrieved November 28, 2009.
- ^'Jeff Sharlet on 'The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power''. Democracy Now!. August 12, 2009. Retrieved November 28, 2009.
- ^Sharlet, Jeff (March 2003). 'Jesus plus nothing: Undercover among America's secret theocrats'. Harper's Magazine. Archived from the original on July 1, 2009. Retrieved July 20, 2009.
- ^Sharlet, Jeff (2008). The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. HarperCollins. ISBN978-0-06-055979-3.
- ^Sharlet, Jeff (2008). The Family: Power, Politics and Fundamentalism's Shadow Elite. University of Queensland Press. ISBN978-0-7022-3694-5.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^ abJeff Sharlet, The Family (Harper, 2008), pp. 254–5.
- ^ abcMitchell, Andrea; Popkin, James 'Jim' (April 3, 2008). 'Political ties to a secretive religious group'. NBC News. Retrieved January 28, 2010.
- ^Jeff Sharlet, The Family (Harper, 2008), p. 255.
- ^Book review quotes, Amazon, October 13, 2009, ISBN978-0060560058.
- ^'Quoting book reviews for The Family', The Revealer.
- ^'Lisa Miller', Newsweek (biography).
- ^'The Family'.
- ^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7knN2TXQPzw
External links[edit]
The Haden Triplets are back after a nearly six year long hiatus from recorded music under this name, and have announced their latest studio album entitled The Family Songbook which is set to be released on Trrimeter on January 24 2020. This new album will feature their first recordings since the debut of 'Slowly,' and 'Single Girl Married Girl,' back in 2014.
The band have also confirmed a short list of four tour dates which are set to begin next year. A statement regarding the band's tour dates indicates that the band will be expanding their tour, which currently hosts three stops in Southern California, and one stop in Knoxville, Tennessee.
The Haden Triplets consists of Petra, Rachel and Tanya Haden, who are all the daughters of legendary jazz bassist Charlie Haden. This latest album will feature recordings from recently unearthed songs by their grandfather, Carl E. Haden, who was the patriarch of the singing Haden Family. The sisters uncovered these songs via their uncle, who had Carl Haden's original sheet music along with the songbook Favorites of the Haden Family.
One of these tracks, entitled 'Wayfaring Stranger,' has also been released alongside a lyric video which shows various pictures of the Haden family, and their songbook. This stripped back and emotional track was originally a song sung by the triplet's grandmother to their father, and is a somber track filled with a powerful vocal performance.
The Family Songbook
Rachel and Petra Haden are also involved with the Los Angeles based indie band that dog. which recently dropped their album Old earlier this year. That project recently ended a 22 year long hiatus between their album releases.
Petra Haden joined Woody Jackson during Red Bull Music Presents: The Music Of Red Dead Redemption 2. She has also worked in the past with experimental metal band Sunn O))) and The Decemberists.
The Family Songbook
What Would You Give
Ozark Moon
Grey Mother Dreaming
I'll Fly Away
Memories of Will Rogers
Wildwood Flowers
Free As a Bird
Every Time I Try
Who Will You Love
Wayfaring Stranger
Say You Will
Pretty Baby
The Haden Triplets Tour Dates
The Christmas Family Songbook
1/23 San Diego, CA UC San Diego Price Center
1/24 Los Angeles, CA Zebulon
1/27 Knoxville, TN Big Ears Festival
1/26 Indio, CA Stagecoach
