Wed by the Wayside
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Wed by the Wayside

A True Story of Love, Family and Community

Alana Valentine

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Wed by the Wayside

A True Story of Love, Family and Community

Alana Valentine

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About This Book

Can marriage be an act of rebellion? This is the story of Wayside Chapel, a quiet revolution from a side street of Kings Cross, Sydney.Alana Valentine's mother, Janice, was remarried in 1969 at the Wayside Chapel, run by the charismatic and controversial minister Ted Noffs and his wife Margaret. Many years after her mother died, Alana found the wedding photo, and the longing to speak to her mother about that day drove Alana to seek out others who had begun new chapters of their lives at Wayside.What Alana found was a remarkable group of people, whose stories are told here with kaleidoscopic effect. Brought together, these Wayside stories reshape our understanding of this country's social history, from a uniquely Australian institution where people have been welcomed for decades in spite of social taboos around race, class, religion and sexuality.Told with grace and insight by one of Australia's most acclaimed playwrights, Wed by the Wayside is a deeply personal quest, as Alana searches for her own origin story. It is also a celebratory ode to the different, the discarded, the broken and the brave who changed the world from Kings Cross.

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Publisher
Pantera Press
Year
2024
ISBN
9780645818000
Topic
History
Subtopic
Social History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. About the book
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Prologue: Yearning grips my soul
  5. Introduction: Members, one of another
  6. Chapter One: The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
  7. Chapter Two: Taking up the Cross
  8. Chapter Three: The way, the truth, the life
  9. Chapter Four: Love covers a multitude of sins
  10. Chapter Five: Every wind of doctrine
  11. Chapter Six: Disciples of all nations
  12. Chapter Seven: With timbrel and dancing
  13. Chapter Eight: Faithful friends are beyond price
  14. Chapter Nine: Arise my love, my fair one
  15. Chapter Ten: The belt of truth
  16. Chapter Eleven: A fly in the ointment
  17. Chapter Twelve: Remember your history, your long and rich history
  18. Chapter Thirteen: Fearfully and wonderfully made
  19. Chapter Fourteen: New heaven and a new earth
  20. Epilogue: Glory and honour and power
  21. Acknowledgements
  22. Sources
  23. About the Author
  24. Copyright
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