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David Wilkerson, a man on a mission, stepped onto some of the world's most dangerous streets armed only with the simple message of God's love and the promise of the Holy Spirit's power. Then the miracles began to happen.
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Truly amazing.......2007-09-24
I purchased this book after Teen Challenge came to our town and I heard about how this amazing group began. The Cross and The Switchblade is the true story of David Wilkerson's vision to create a safe place for teens who are endangered due to home situations and substance abuse.
This book was a good read that lead me as the reader through the ssituations that brought Teen Challenge to life.
Highly Recommend!.......2007-09-04
This is an amazing story of transformation and renewal. See what God has done in a person's life.
The Holy Spirit is in charge.......2007-07-24
The Cross and the Switchblade by David Wilkerson, Jove Edition October 1977, 23 printing, copyright © 1962 by Dave Wilkerson
The Epilogue states the truth about this book, p 173 "The Holy Spirit is in charge. As long as He remains in charge, the program will thrive. The minute we try to do things by our own power we will fail."
I first read this book 20 or more years ago, as a teenager. Now on rereading it I found where some of my thoughts on how God works in this world originated. This review is far drier than the book and is a result of thinking and looking for why I like the book. I have been told I think too much, but the book is fun, it is thrilling to read and see how God worked in the life of David Wilkerson. The ideas found in fad driven books like The Purpose Driven Life, The Prayer of Jabez, even Made to Count are seeds presented in this book. David Wilkerson lived those ideas, guided by the Holy Spirit, and he shares them with us in this book.
Wilkerson lives a life led by the Spirit of God and this book shows us how he did it, each story bigger and better than the next. Wilkerson shares many principles given to him by his Circuit Rider Grandfather. Thoughts on how and why God works in the events surrounding David Wilkerson's life are prevalent throughout the book. On p 39, "The day you learn to be publically specific in your prayers, that is the day you will discover power" is shared relating how his father at death's door, was cured of a stomach ulcer. He talks of prayer: when and how he does it, when he prays, how long he spends doing it, what he asks for, and how they are answered are found throughout the book. On p 11 he shares the place of TV in his life. On p 138-141 he relates a lesson on prayer that for all who read it will learn something for he writes "Lord . . . teach us a lesson in faith that will live with us forever."
On p 42 Wilkerson tells us that his grandfather, a Circuit Rider Preacher, said over and over again in his sermons "The heart of the Gospel is change. It is transformation. It is being born again to a new life. . . But that's the theory. The heart of Christ's message is extremely simple: an encounter with God--a real one--means change." Many people are changed in this book and Wilkerson tells us about who was changed, what was changed and how they were changed.
I have experienced it, but until I read it in print I never thought much of it. I recognize God has been at work or even is working when as Wilkerson relates it on p 26 "I felt the little shiver I always experience in the presence of God's perfect planning." Wow, other people react to God's working out his plan in this same way!
Wilkerson's take on tears: "Bit by bit I came to the horror these young people have of tears. What is it about tears that should be so terrifying? I asked them again and again, and each time got the impression that tears to them were a sign of softness, of realize weakness and childishness in a harsh world where only the tough survive. Yet I knew from my work in the church how important a role tears play in making a man whole. I think I could almost put it down as a rule that the touch of God is marked by tears. When finally we let the Holy Spirit into our innermost sanctuary, the reaction is to cry. I have seen it happen again and again. Deep soul-shaking tears, weeping rather than crying. It comes when that last barrier is down and you surrender yourself to health and to wholeness." p 66-67
On p 133 Wilkerson writes `"I've finally got it figured out, Reverend Wilkerson," said the girl, "Christ's love is a love with no strings attached." Elaine is right. Chris's love is a love without angles: a love that asks nothing in return. It is a love that only wants the best for these boys and girls. And this is the quality that redeems.' And later he writes of the Holy Spirit on p 161: "The Holy Spirit is what you need. And when you receive him, you will also receive ten special gifts which you can depend on. . ." (read the book for these)
An idea that Wilkerson came to fall upon time and time again is this: "It was becoming increasingly clear to us that the hand of the Lord was in our work. As long as we really let him lead, miracles all along the path were going to be ours to enjoy." p 103
That is why the book is exciting to read: Because he really let God lead, miracles all along the path became ours to enjoy. Praises to God Almighty!
The Epilogue states the truth about this book and Teen Challenge Centers worldwide (yes, they have gone to Europe and elsewhere, check out http://www.teenchallengeusa.com/about.php) p 173 "The Holy Spirit is in charge. As long as He remains in charge, the program will thrive. The minute we try to do things by our own power we will fail."
Best buy, best read!.......2007-07-08
It's a must read...over, and over, and over again! This book is as relevant today as it was a few decades ago. A must have for any literary collection especially literature geared toward christianity and spirituality.
worth reading again and again.......2007-06-25
This is the inspiring and amazing-but-true story of a man who obeyed God to sell his television and substitue prayer for his former viewing time.This is not an erudite theological treatise, but an account of the miracles that can follow simple love-inspired action. I have read it straight through for the fourth time and it does not get tiresome. Each time I read it, I am struck to think how many people God has asked to do something equally as bold, and how few have obeyed.Life-changing.
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Her world was the street gang, the sex party, the fix. Her destiny, a life of crime and an early grave. But Maria was rescued, along with thousands like her, by one dedicated crusader who carried the cross into the world of the switchblade.
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The Cross Is Still Mightier Than the Switchblade
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Good continuation.......2007-04-11
If you read the Cross & the Switchblade, you'll want to continue with this book. It ties up some loose ends. I recommend it.
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This is the classic account of one of the most dramatic episodes in Mexican history—the revolt of the Maya Indians of Yucatán against their white and mestizo oppressors that began in 1847. Within a year, the Maya rebels had almost succeeded in driving their oppressors from the peninsula; by 1855, when the major battles ended, the war had killed or put to flight almost half of the population of Yucatán. A new religion built around a Speaking Cross supported their independence for over fifty years, and that religion survived the eventual Maya defeat and continues today.
This revised edition is based on further research in the archives and in the field, and draws on the research by a new generation of scholars who have labored since the book’s original publication 36 years ago. One of the most significant results of this research is that it has put a human face on much that had heretofore been treated as semi-mythical.
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“Reed has not only written a fine account of the caste war, he has also given us the first penetrating analysis of the social and economic systems of Yucatán in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.”
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“In this beautifully written history of a little-known struggle between several contending forces in Yucatán, Reed has added an important dimension to anthropological studies in this area.”
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“Not only is this exciting history (as compelling and dramatic as the best of historical fiction) but it covers events unaccountably neglected by historians. . . . This is a brilliant contribution to history. . . . Don’t miss this book.”
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The talking cross.......2007-05-12
It is wrong that the Maya Indians had been abused since the Spaniards put a foot on this continent, but the Caste War showed a people that are savage, revengeful and that made the same atrocities as the Europeans: killed innocents, rape, killed prisoners...
Then the fake of the Cross that talks and told them to have a religious vendetta against the Europeans and its descendants, gave you a bad image of the exploited and abused Indians that were rebelling against years of sufferings and hunger. The book was written from the White man perspective and although it is based in historical data it let the Ideology of the writer to surface. That is not good for a history book...
A Detailed Analysis.......2006-02-28
Having recently bought property on the Maya Riviera and interacting with the Mayan construction workers I am fascinated by their culture. I like to immerse myself in the local culture and learn all I can of my new neighbors both Mexican and Mayan. It was stated in a book that the Yucatan was uninhabitable by white people until into the 1900's. Therefore I thought it worth a look at this historical event, the Caste War.
This author did extensive research and he tried to include too much into the book. Rather than giving a summation of the war or providing a "big picture", this book quickly dives into every little campaign that there was some journal detailing. And this detail is very thorough. So don't get confused as to what you are reading, this is a detailed analysis, not a history book. This is a slow read and very confusing if you are not familiar with the names as they can be so similar on both sides of the conflict. So many characters and classes are fighting that it sometimes is confusing who is on what side particularly when they switch sides.
But in the end, you will learn a great deal about the land, he people, and how the peninsula developed including the Governor's offer to be taken over by the United States. There are significant discussions of the crops and religion of the Mayans as well. A new "gabacho" such as me identifies the region from Cancun or the Mayan Riviera while the early history is centered around Merida and the West Coast with the Mayans seeming to control the lower East Coast.
Overall, I achieved what I wanted: an understanding of the culture and how it developed. But most of what I enjoyed was in the early 1900s when he began to discuss the economic development particularly the rope material that controlled the economy, henequen (sp?). The book moves forward in this period through the 1960s and the author's first visit to the peninsula and finally to a return trip in the 1990s. In many respects, not much has changed.
This is a fascinating part of Mexico and has charming, hard-working people who are currently going through an economic change that may or may not be to the benefit of the traditional Mayan people and culture. Read this book if you want to know about the area but be prepared that this is not a light reading but rather in-depth. Definitely not something to read lightly on the beach.
The Caste War of Yucatan.......2001-08-11
Nelson Reed's "Caste War of Yucatan" tells the story of an obscure Maya rebellion in Mexico in the 1840's with vigor and a style that makes this history come alive. This is a history that most Yucatecan ladinos didn't want told for many years. But in a masterful way, Reed has put life into one of the most interesting corners of the history of the Americas...the only successful native American rebellion...one that ended in disaster for all concerned.
The story covers the 53 year struggle of the communities of Yucatec Maya that rebelled against intolerable oppression in 1847 and whose events snowballed to an all out race war which raged on and off until its flame was finally extinguished due more to illness and exhaustion than to the resolve of the participants. This gripping tale of battles and desperation has enough horror and action to cause the reader to ponder who these Maya are that today greet the Cancun visitors with warm smiles and hospitality.
Mike Reed
Gripping true history of the Maya resistance.......2000-05-08
I'm the author of books and articles about Mexico, Cancun and the Yucatan Peninsula. I've lived in Cancun since 1983 and I find the The Caste War of Yucatan by Nelson Reed the most useful and fascinating book about this area.
The modern history of the North American continent began here in Quintana Roo, the site of the first Spanish landing on the mainland. The story of Quintana Roo is the story of Mexico in miniature. Nelson Reed's book is by far the most authoritative history of Quintana Roo ever published in English.
Although closely focused on the Maya rebellion that began in 1847 and continued well into the 20th Century, The Caste War of Yucatan presents a sensitive, accurate and comprehensive picture of the entire history of the Yucatan Peninsula, with many important insights into the history of Mexico as well.
Meticulously researched but written in a gripping narrative style that reads like a popular novel, this book is entertaining, horrifying, sad and always profoundly fascinating. Very highly recommended.
jules_siegel@cafecancun.com
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The first collection of documents devoted entirely to the nineteenth-century Yucatec Mayas. This compilation includes writings by priests, missionaries, Hispanic officials and military officers, foreign travelers and explorers, and the Mayas themselves. It follows the Mayas through the early national republic, the upheavals of the mid-century Caste War (1847-1901), the short-lived period of French Imperialism (1864-1867), and the repressive monoculture of the century's last two decades.
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Ensayo historico sobre las revoluciones de Yucatan: Desde el ano de 1840 hasta 1864
Serapio Baqueiro Preve
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Violent class struggles and ethnic conflict mark much of the history of Latin America, continuing in some regions even today. Perhaps the worst and most prolonged of these conflicts was the guerra de las castas or “Caste War,” an Indian rebellion that tore apart the Yucatan Peninsula for much of the nineteenth century (1847–1903). The struggle was not only ethnic, pitting indigenous peoples against a Hispanic or Hispanicized ruling class, but also economic, involving attacks by rural campesinos on plantation owners, merchants, overseers, and townspeople. The rebels met with sporadic and limited success but still managed at times to remove whole portions of the Yucatan Peninsula from state control.
Don E. Dumond’s work is the anticipated complete history of the Caste War. Drawing on primary sources, he presents the first comprehensive description of this turbulent century of conflict in Yucatan and sets forth a carefully argued analysis of the reasons and broader social, political, and economic processes underlying the struggle.
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A well researched and comprehensive Caste War history!.......2005-01-18
This carefully researched history of Yucatan's 19th Century Caste War is a long overdue addition to our understanding of one of the most fascinating chapters in the turbulent history of Mexico. Don Dumond draws from a wealth of primary source documents in this comprehensive overview of the 54 year life-and-death struggle that began in 1847 as a regional rebellion of Maya campesinos living on Yucatan's eastern wilderness frontier. Events rapidly spun out of control, when early Maya success on the battlefield unleased the pent-up energy of long-simmering grievances and hatred directed towards the Spanish-speaking elite, a group the Maya still thought of as foreigners three centuries after the Spanish conquest of Yucatan. As the rebellion caught fire, more Maya communities rose up, sensing the power of the moment, transforming the uprising into a peninsula-wide race war that came close to driving the Ladino population from the land.
Dumond presents a detached and balanced description of the major players and events of the rebellion, leaving the more colorful details of the battles and the stories of heroism and personal survival to Nelson Reed, whose excellent and very readable "Caste War of Yucatan" provides the stuff of a good war story. The appeal of The Cross and the Machete, is more to the student of Mexican history or the serious history buff. Here, Dumond removes the "climax" of the 1848 Maya offensive from its unlikely pedestal, where the Maya farmer-soldiers are closing in on the final Ladino enclave around the capital, Merida, only to abandon the field of battle at the first sign of the winged insects, whose presence in the skies call them to their sacred obligation to plant corn. Rather than "divine providence" saving the Yucatecan Ladinos, touted by many writers, Dumond argues that the Maya offensive petered out at the outskirts of Merida because the campesino army had not only overextended itself, but it had failed to inspire the long-dominated Maya of the Ladino northwest to join the revolt. In this story, the less exciting historical interpretation triumpths over the myth.
The Maya offensive and Ladino recovery of 1847 through 1850 are only the beginning to what turns into a protracted struggle for survival for the rebels and their descendants, who retreat into the wilderness of the eastern and southern forests, coalescing into a number of independent Maya communities in a permanent state of war against Ladino Yucatan, and much of the time, against each other. The most important of these rebel groups, who became known as the Cruzob, found strength and inspiration from a set of "speaking crosses," which appeared in1851 in a dell containing a small spring, deep in the eastern forest. Manipulated by a small group of rebel leaders, the crosses provided guidance and hope for the rebels in their darkest days, attracting large numbers of rebel families, who created a new Maya society there, and whose aggressive military carried out spectacular raids into Yucatan, and fought to a standstill the Yucatecan and Mexican armies sent against it. A well-equipped Mexican army finally put the rebellion to an end in 1901, by which time, disease, discord and desertions had decimated the ranks of the rebels.
"The Machete and the Cross" gives a great deal of attention to the Cruzob, and other rebel groups known as "Pacificos" who had signed vague peace treaties with Mexico, but lived in mostly independent and self-contained communities far from the reach of the Ladinos. Within the ranks of the Cruzob, Dumond brings to light previously unreported factions that operated somewhat outside of the tight control of the centralized leadership. We learn, for the first time, that the Cruzob town of Tulum, on the far north coast, actually became the most important center of the cross cult after the palace revolt that cut down the ruthless Cruzob leader, Venancio Puc and his Interpreter of the Cross in the capital of Noh Cah Santa Cruz in 1864.
Finally, the role of the munitions suppliers in British Honduras, and the delicate political position the colony found itself in as a result of its policies are explored at length in this well-crafted history.
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An impressive work of original scholarship.......2004-07-05
The "caste war" that took place in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico from 1847 to 1901 is justifiably considered to be the most successful Native American rebellion against European influence and domination to take place in the recorded history of the New World. It was the attempt by the Mayan people to eradicate foreign domination and revitalize their ancient culture. The conflict led eventually to successful agrarian reform and the reassertion of traditional Mayan land use. It also generate a new religion with priesthood and cultural practices focused on the worship of a prophetic "talking" cross. The resulting economic and cultural transformation provided informative insights for understanding present-day Mexico and the expansion of capitalism to the rural countryside. Yaxcaba And The Caste War Of Yucatan: An Archaeological Perspective by Rani T. Alexander (Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, New Mexico Statue University - Las Cruces) is an impressive work of original scholarship and a highly recommended addition to academic library reference collections and New World Archaeology supplemental reading lists.
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Conflicts between native Maya peoples and European-derived governments have punctuated Mexican history from the Conquest in the sixteenth century to the current Zapatista uprising in Chiapas. In this deeply researched study, Terry Rugeley delves into the 1800-1847 origins of the Caste War, the largest and most successful of these peasant rebellions. Rugeley refutes earlier studies that seek to explain the Caste War in terms of a single issue. Instead, he explores the interactions of several major social forces, including the church, the hacienda, and peasant villagers. He uncovers a complex web of issues that led to the outbreak of war, including the loss of communal lands, substandard living conditions, the counterpoise of Catholicism versus traditional Maya beliefs, and an increasingly heavy tax burden. Drawn from a wealth of primary documents, this book represents the first real attempt to reconstruct the history of the pre-Caste War period. In addition to its obvious importance for Mexican history, it will be illuminating background reading for everyone seeking to understand the ongoing conflict in Chiapas.
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Title: The Caste War of Yucatan.(Book Review)
Author: Rani T. Alexander
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Latin American Antiquity (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2004
Publisher: Society for American Archaeology
Volume: 15
Issue: 3
Page: 366(1)
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Correspondencia de la Guerra de Castas: Epistolario documental, 1843-1866 (Merida, la de Yucatan y el Quinto Centenario)
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