Henry A Mitchell

The Intellectual Commons: Toward An Ecology Of Intellectual Property

The Intellectual Commons: Toward an Ecology of Intellectual Property

Celebration and Experience in Preaching

God Bless Fortress America

Glitter Day at the Sky Carnival

Black Belief: Folk Beliefs of Blacks in America and West Africa

The Recovery of Preaching

Soul Theology: The Heart of American Black Culture

List of Charmed characters

…One of the few innocents throughout the series who knows of the Charmed ones' magic powers and is okay with their wiccan ways, he joins Darryl Morris and his wife, Sheila, and later Paige's future husband, Henry Mitchell. In a later episode, "House Call", Glen tries to marry Jessica, but fir...

Black Preaching: The Recovery of a Powerful Art

Henry H. Mitchell has completely revised and integrated his popular books The Recovery of Preaching and Black Preaching for seminarians and pastors--both Black and White--who are seeking to add power and vision to their sermons. Mitchell persuasively demonstrates that Black culture and preaching st...

The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening

"The most soul-satisfying gardening book in years." ―New York Times (March 1982, reviewing the 1981 cloth edition from IU Press)."Genuinely a classic..." ―Los Angeles Times (on the occasion of Houghton Mifflin's paperback edition, which came out in 1994)."Is there anyone alive with the slightest int...

Black Church Beginnings: The Long-Hidden Realities of the First Years

Black Church Beginnings provides an intimate look at the struggles of African Americans to establish spiritual communities in the harsh world of slavery in the American colonies. Written by one of today's foremost experts on African American religion, this book traces the growth of the black church ...

Celebration and Experience in Preaching

Henry H. Mitchell’s great contribution to the study of preaching has been his insistence that the homiletical practices of the Black church are gifts to the whole church. Nowhere has he made this point more forcefully than in Celebration and Experience in Preaching. In this classic text he advocates...

Any Day

Henry Mitchell wrote for the Washington Post from the early 1970s to 1991. He was best known for his gardening columns, some of which have been gathered in two beloved books, The Essential Earthman and One Man’s Garden. In addition to his gardening columns, Mr. Mitchell also wrote feature stories an...

Henry Mitchell on Gardening

For readers who like gardening (and love the English language), this posthumous collection of Henry Mitchell's Washington Post "Earthman" columns is "equal parts entertainment and shrewd horticultural advice" (Science News). Henry Mitchell is "beloved for his witty, smart, informed, philosophical, w...

One Man's Garden

In the sequel to The Essential Earthman, the Washington Post columnist offers a harvest of sharp observations and humorous adventures gathered during a year in his garden, along with much down-to-earth advice on horticulture.