Street Saints (HB): Renewing America's Cities [Hardcover]

Barbara J. Elliott (Author), Ambassador Daniel R. Coats (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2004 | ISBN-10: 1932031766 | ISBN-13: 978-1932031768 | Edition: 1

Based on eight years of hands-on experience and more than 300 interviews, Street Saints is both a book of motivational stories about unsung heroes and a sociological study of the faith factor, documenting faith-based programs that are treating social maladies in America. This book takes readers on a tour of communities and institutions in America where faith-based initiatives are making a difference. It offers inspiration, role models and guidelines for people who would like to give back to their own communities.

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"Barbara Elliott has a genius for identifying America’s most effective faith-based healers of troubled souls and troubled neighborhoods." -- Adam Meyerson, President, The Philanthropy Roundtable

"Barbara Elliott is a hands-on hero." -- Bob Buford, author of Halftime and Finishing Well and founder of Leadership Network

"Barbara Elliott unites knowledge and eloquence, an all-too-rare combination." -- Marvin Olasky, University of Texas, Austin

"Street Saints powerfully portrays the difference that faith-based groups are making in the lives of those in need in America." -- Jim Towey, former legal counsel to Mother Teresa of Calcutta

About the Author

Barbara J. Elliott is a philanthropic advisor with the Legacy Group. She is the founder of the Center for Renewal, which serves the leaders of faithbased groups. President George W. Bush gave her an award for Human Rights in 2001, honoring her work with refugees and the poor. She is the author of Candles Behind the Wall Heroes of the Peaceful Revolution that Shattered Communism, and scores of articles on civic renewal. Barbara Elliott lives in Houston, Texas.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Templeton Foundation Press; 1 edition (September 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932031766
• ISBN-13: 978-1932031768
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,497,497 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If there is one book I could recommend..., November 5, 2004

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This review is from: Street Saints (HB): Renewing America's Cities (Hardcover)

In an extra-biblical epistle written in the middle of the second century the author, Mathetes, writing to his friend Diognetus penned these words: "In a word, what the soul is in a body, the Christians are in the world." In Street Saints Barbara Elliott has captured the soul of America's cities by shining the light on scores of people, programs and strategies that God is using to change lives and transform communities. If there was one book to recommend to those who wanted an overview of what God is doing in cities and were looking for inspiration, models and effective practitioners my recommendation would be this wonderful book.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good works in America's cities, October 28, 2004

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Founder of the Center for Renewal in Houston, Elliott was able to do over 300 interviews with persons who are leaders in successful civic organizations. Although their ethnic, social, and religious backgrounds vary widely, there is a common thread running though all the diverse activities--namely, improvement of urban life in general or some specific group in particular. And the many individuals Elliott portrays on the basis of her interviews do this with singular and exemplary imagination, commitment, and effectiveness. Elliott goes beyond only praising the individuals by uncovering their motivations and describing their work to also go into the founding of their programs, how the programs are run, their interactions with communities and government at different levels, and the keys to their survival and success. Thus, readers are given not only engaging portrayals of exemplary social activists, but also outlines of their innovative, relevant programs which can serve as models for ones in other urban centers.

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed!, January 30, 2012

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