JULIA DUIN, author of Days of Fire and Glory, The Rise and Fall of a Charismatic Community.

For two years - 1979-1981 - Julia was part of the community affiliated with the Lake Oswego-based Bethlehem Church. She lived in two households: House of Jubilee and Shekinah House, which were part of a multi-household community of 80 people. Her book is mainly on the community at Houston’s Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, which she became part of when she moved to Houston in 1986 to take a job with the Houston Chronicle. Her time at Bethlehem provided an invaluable base for understanding what happened at Redeemer and helped immeasurably when she began writing a book on Redeemer and similar community experiments in the 1960s and 1970s. The book contains several anecdotes of her life with the Bethlehem community.

 

She will have copies of her book available at her talk. If you can’t make it, feel free to order it here: http://www.crosslandfoundation.org/days-of-fire-and-glory.htm . Julia can be contacted at jcduin@aol.com.

 

Wednesday, July 13 at 7 PM

FaithWorks Community Centre

1288 Loyalist Rd

Miltonvale Park
Prince Edward Island, Canada

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Days of Fire and Glory, by award-winning journalist Julia Duin, is an insider’s account of Houston’s Episcopal Church of the Redeemer and the scandal that rocked the charismatic movement. It is the story of Graham Pulkingham, the spellbinding priest who had led Redeemer into a powerful renewal starting in 1964, but whose inner torments ultimately led to the destruction of himself and the community he established. Through deft storytelling and meticulous research (including 182 interviews), she provides a fascinating portrait of the glorious days of the renewal and its sister movements within Catholic and pentecostal churches; days when the Spirit’s fire did fall and many within the baby boomer generation were drawn to God.

JULIA DUIN was religion editor for The Washington Times for 14 years, and now freelances for the Economist, Washington Post and other publications. She has won numerous awards for her reporting and worked for newspapers in Oregon, Florida, New Mexico and was the religion writer for the Houston Chronicle in Texas when the events in this book occurred. This is her fifth book. She and her daughter live in Maryland.