Howard Snyder

St. Francis of Assisi and the Franciscan Movement breathed new life into the church in his day and in the centuries since. Yet his movement soon split into clashing branches. What went wrong? Looking at Francis differently--as organizer, not just saint--opens new windows of understanding. This book examines the way Francis put together his movement. The ways he did and did not lead. It shows why the Lesser Brothers multiplied so quickly, crossing multiple cultural barriers, on into Asia, Africa, and the Americas. It also highlights their conflicts and why they fragmented. It is impossible to understand the Franciscan movement however without understanding Francis himself. So the book begins with Francis's life, conversion, mission, and also his health issues, highlighting aspects of the story not typically found in most Francis's biographies. It identifies aspects of the story that illuminate movement dynamics. This atypical approach offers insights for today's church, its role in culture, and the stewardship and healing of the earth.

Howard Snyder founded the Northwest Side Community Development Corporation in 1983 with a $20,000 loan to purchase an abandoned fire station. From that rough start, the CDC grew into a powerful force for community engagement, economic reinvestment, and job creation." Rarely has one individual played such a prominent role in one community for such a long time as Howard Snyder on Milwaukee's Northwest Side. The Northwest Side Community Development Corporation: A Story of Persistence, Adaptation, and Luck is not only the chronicle of a singular career but a guided tour of our nation's urban policy as it evolved over a period of forty years." -John Gurda, author of The Making of Milwaukee

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"If the hallmark of a great book is its ability to raise as many questions as it answers, you have before you a great book " - Leonard Sweet"Dr. E. Stanley Jones gratefully recognizes what science has done, is doing, and will do for the relief of organic disease. For his part, by spoken and written word, he is pointing the way out for countless sad, discouraged, hopeless souls, and in this book points to Him who, above all others, is able to drive from the soul of man all these unlovely harmful things 'through the expulsive power of a new affection.'" - Adrian S. Taylor"This book offers a fresh and powerful message to today's world, a world bristling with its many challenges. Each of these challenges has different causes but, as Jones well knew and spent his life explaining, all challenges-whatever their cause-find their solution in the soul of a person who knows their place in the Kingdom of God." - Anne Mathews-Younes