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A City Church: The First Century of Service is the history of Country Club Christian Church, a Disciples of Christ congregation in Kansas City, Missouri that emerged from the 19th Century Restoration Movement. The account examines the Church's story throughout the 20th century in the context of the larger social, cultural, and economic currents present in the city and nation throughout its existence. The stately Gothic revival building, built during an era of suburbanization, has been an anchor and locus of discussion and action for such community issues as Pendergast-era machine politics, racial crisis, and urban change. Through the years the Church, as an institution and a community of faith, intersected with wars, Civil Rights and racial conflict, and the evolving role of women. As a religious institution that has continued to thrive in a time of declining church presence in American society, the saga of Country Club Christian Church considers how it has affirmed tradition while changing in a way that allows it to be church in a contemporary world.

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Dr. Linna Place is an American social and cultural historian. In her more than forty years at teaching at University of Missouri-Kansas City, she introduced courses on using material culture to understand and interpret the past that included a popular living history course taught at several of the important historic sites in the greater Kansas City area. She earned her Master's Degree in American folklife and material culture from the Cooperstown Graduate programs, and her doctorate in American Studies from the University of Kansas. Her research on religion in the 19th and early 20th century, women's history, and American folk art focuses on the intersection of social institutions with the social, cultural and economic events and issues of the tiem. She has lectured and consulted with numerous museums and cultural agencies throughout the region. Linna and her husband Craig and their three children are long time members of Country Club Christian Church.

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