Sources and references

The master list of references, sources, and other things I read or found on line which influenced these writings

All caricature art appears courtesy of Philip Hatter at Thistledown Puppets: www.thistledownpuppets.com

Please note: All citations given here are accurate to the best information available to me at the time of the writing of the article they are identified with. For books which I actually own or found in the local library, I use the information there; for others I use information found on-line from book sellers' sites, publishers' sites or any source I feel confident with citing.

On-line source for quotes in When the Dow Gets to Zero: marksquotes.com/Founding-Fathers/

Sources mentioned in Blankets on the Baby:

Howard Snyder, The Problem of Wineskins (Downer's Grove: InterVarsity, 1975)
Charles G. Finney, Systematic Theology (Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1976)
The proverb may be found at: answers.yahoo.com as a discussion thread, while another version can be found at religioustolerance.org/christ and was attributed to Sam Pascoe. In both of these it was stated that it was Italy instead of Rome where it became an institution. The first place I saw it on-line was www.auburn.edu/~allenkc/openhse/humor.html at the second jump down.

Church history sources were mainly (but certainly not limited to):

Earle E. Cairns, Christianity Through the Centuries (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1954, 1981)
Jeremy C. Jackson, No Other Foundation: The Church Through Twenty Centuries (Westchester, Ill.: Crossway, 1980)
Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Reformation (London: Penguin, 2003)

Sources used for The Profits Have Spoken:

Web sources:
Eric Noe, Why Hasn't Boom in Religious Merchandise Helped Retailers? Posted 6/27/05 on ABCnews.go.com
Richard McGill Murphy, Jesus inc.: What does it take to serve God and Mammon? Posted 2/3/06 on money.cnn.com
Cindy Crosby, Not Your Mother's Bible. Posted 10/30/06 on www.publishersweekly.com
Carrie Coolidge, Christian Capitalism: David vs. Goliath. Posted 9/15/03 on www.forbes.com
Mark Weber, Stats, Please: Christian Music by the Numbers. Posted 1/12/05 on christianmusic.about.com
(Author unknown) News Archives: Good Christians Pirating Songs of Praise. Archived in the 2006 Breaking News section of www.ccauthority.com/news
Russell D. Moore, Christian Retailing and the Great Commission. Posted 7/27/06 on merecomments.typepad.com
Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, Praying for Profits. Posted 8/9/05 on www.time.com

Magazine sources:
Ted Olsen, What really unites pentecostals? Christianity Today, Dec. 2006, p. 18-19
Elizabeth Atkins, Sweet harmonies translate to sales, Black Issues Book Review, July-August 2003.

Mixed sources used for Number One (revision of an article originally written by me in 1982 called "Competition" which was not published):

Margaret Mead, Cooperation and Competition Among Primitive Peoples (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1937)
Reuben R. Frost, Psychological Concepts Applied to Physical Education and Coaching (Boston: Addison-Wesley, 1971)
Ashley Montagu, The American Way of Life (New York: Putnam, 1967)
Katherine Bryn, Does kids' competition really make better adults? Science Digest, Nov. 1974, pp. 39-44.
George Maxey, The qualities of the early Americans, Vital Speeches of the Day, Jan. 1, 1944, pp. 170-173.
Albert Lauterbach, Man, Motives, and Money: Psychological Frontiers of Economics (Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell Univ. Press, 1954)
George B. Leonard, False worship of winning, Minneapolis Tribune, April 11, 1975.
Barbara Langstern, Try the male art of "roast and boast," Vogue, March 1982, p. 226.
Eugene C. Bianchi, Help kill the individualism myth, National Catholic Reporter, July 20, 1973.
Alfred Krass, Letter to a June graduate, the Other Side, June 1982, pp. 34-35.
(Author unknown) Loser of the month, The Wittenburg Door, Dec. 1980-Jan. 1981, p. 21.
David Wilkerson, The Fatal Race, publ. by David Wilkerson Crusades, 1982.

Cited in the Bible Study Template series:

Campbell McAlpine, Alone with God: a Manual of Biblical Meditation (Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1981)
Benjamin S. Bloom, Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1984)
Bob Mumford, 15 Steps Out (Plainfield, N. J.: Logos International, 1969)
Gerald Bray, Creeds, Councils and Christ (Intervarsity Press, 1984) Creeds given on pages 204-207.
Robert Pollock, The Everything World's Religions Book (Avon, Massachusetts, Adams Media Corporation, 2002) Part of the "Everything Series" by F+W Publications, Inc.
Huston Smith, The World's Religions (San Francisco, HarperCollins, 1991)
(Author unknown) Comparing Confucianism and Christianity. Posted on persecution.com/link/beliefs.cfm?ID=20 (date unknown).
M. Thomas Starkes, Confronting Popular Cults (Nashville, Broadman Press, 1972)
Walter R. Martin, The Kingdom of the Cults (Minneapolis, Bethany House, 1997)

Cited on the References and Tools page:

Kenneth N. Taylor, The Living Bible (Carol Stream, Ill., Tyndale House Publ., Inc., 1971)
The New Living Translation (Carol Stream, Ill. Tyndale House Publ., Inc., 2004)
Eugene H. Peterson, The Message (Colorado Springs, NavPress, 2002)
The Amplified Bible (Grand Rapids, Mich., Zondervan Publishing House, 1965)
Ed. Barbara Friberg and Timothy Friberg, Analytical Greek New Testament (Grand Rapids, Mich., Baker Book House, 1981)
James Strong, Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (Nashville, Tenn., Crusade Bible Publishers, Inc., date not given)
Robert Young, Young's Analytical Concordance (Peabody, Mass., Hendrickson Publishers, 1984)
Alexander Cruden, Cruden's Complete Concordance (Grand Rapids, Mich., Zondervan, 1999)
Ed. John R. Kohlenberger III, The Expanded Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words (Minneapolis, Minn., Bethany House Publishers, 1984)
William Smith, Smith's Bible Dictionary (Old Tappan, N. J., Fleming H. Revell Co.,1967)
Henry H. Halley, Halley's Bible Handbook (Grand Rapids, Mich., Zondervan, 2007)
Ed. Lawrence O. Richards, The Revell Bible Dictionary (Old Tappan, N. J., Fleming H. Revell Co., 1990)
Ed. David Noel Freedman, Eerdman's Dictionary of the Bible (Grand Rapids, Mich., William B. Eerdman Publishing Co., 2000)
Ed. Bruce Metzger and Michael Coogan, The Oxford Companion to the Bible (New York City, NY, Oxford Press, 1993)
Ed. J. I. Packer and M. C. Tenney, Illustrated Manners and Customs of the Bible (Nashville, Tenn., Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1980)
Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Peabody, Mass., Hendrickson Publishers, 2008)
Jamieson, Fausset, Brown, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Grand Rapids, Mich., Zondervan, 1999)
James M. Gray, Christian Worker's Commentary (Peabody, Mass., Hendrickson Publishers, 1999)
Orville J. Nave, Nave's Topical Bible (Nashville, Tenn., The Southwestern Company, 1962)
Atlas of the Bible Lands (New York, C. S. Hammond & Co., 1959)
Walter R. Martin, The Kingdom of the Cults (Minneapolis, Bethany House, 1997)

Cited in OK, I Admit It and in The Christianese Top Ten List:

C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves (New York: Harcourt Trade Publ., 1971)

Cited in The Religious Marketplace (not all that I found, but all that I quoted from):

David Limbaugh, Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity (Washington, D. C., Regnery Publishing, 2003)
Joyce Morrison, Zoned Out of Worship. Posted on 5/28/06 on NewsWithViews.com
Nissa Annakindt, No Prayer Zone. Posted on The Daggett Demagogue page, as a reprint from a 1995 publication of the Porcupine Press.
Jonathan D. Thoburn, Zoning as a Threat to Religious Liberty. Posted on the Acton Institute website at acton.org as an article for Religion & Liberty--Vol. 4, No. 2, Mar. & Apr 1994.

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