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Books

Books Exclusively about the Church Without a Name
Books with References to the Church Without a Name

Reference Books that list the Church Without a Name
Books using 2x2 Backgrounds

Recent Periodicals - Magazines
Manuscripts, Thesis & Essays about the Church Without a Name
Unverified Periodicals
Unverified Books

Notice:  Telling The Truth has a hard copy of each document, book, newspaper article, reference, etc. listed on the this website (unless noted otherwise).

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Order Books in North America from:

Research & Information Services

P.O. Box 1685
Sisters, OR 97759
Fax: 1-541-385-6236 (24 hours)

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. Books EXCLUSIVELY About The Church Without A Name, Cooneyites, Tramps, Dippers, Go-Preachers, etc.

By Lynn Cooper
*The Church With No Name - Known as The Cooneyites, Two by Twos, 1996
Author's Website:  In Defence of Truth
Order book from author

By Crisp, Cedric, Compiler
Over 100 Years of Fond Memories in Photos, 2012
Printed by Bookprint Pty Ltd., 69 Boland St., Launceton, Tasmania 7250
Order from Cedric Crisp at: cedriccrisp@bigpond.com
563 pages

Joan F. Daniel, Compiler
Reflected Truth - Former Workers and Followers Unmask Life in a Large, Little-known Sect, 1996;
Research & Information Services, PO Box 1685, Sisters, OR 97759.
Published by and order from RIS

By Kevin Daniel
Reinventing the Truth, 1994 (ISBN 0-9639419-0-9);
Research & Information Services, PO Box 1685, Sisters, OR 97759
Published by and order from RIS

By Lloyd Fortt
A Search for the Truth, 1994 (ISBN 0-9639425)
Research & Information Services, PO Box 1685, Sisters, OR 97759
Published by and order from RIS

By Kathleen (Kathy) Lewis
The Church Without a Name, 2004, revised. Published by Author
Order from: www.2x2church.com
Read on-line.

By Grace & Gene Luxon
*Has the Truth Set You Free --------MOST RECENT BOOK PRINTED!!
Second Edition; published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (August 16, 2012)
ISBN-10: 1475081324
ISBN-13: 978-1475081329
Order from Amazon.com
First Edition; Published by Authors, 1990 (No ISBN) Out of Print
Note: Gene Luxon passed away October 2, 2008

By Alfred Magowan
*Outline of the History of a Peculiar People from 1900-1931
Published by G.S., Sydney, Australia, 1931
*Testimony of a Witness for the Defence, 1956
*Cross-Examination of a Witness & Address to Jury,
Published by: The Portadown News, undated
Out of Print - Read On line

By Doug & Helen Parker
The Secret Sect, 1982 (ISBN 0-9593398-0-9); MacArthur Press Pty. Ltd, Sydney, Australia
Available from RIS,
Also By Douglas Parker:
*A Spiritual Fraud Exposed, 1954; Utility Press, Padstow, NSW, Australia

By William E. Paul
They Go About TWO BY TWO, The History and Doctrine of a Little Known Cult, 1977 
Rreprinted in TTT by permission of author
Impact Publications
Available from RIS, See: Two by Twos

By Patricia Roberts
1. The Life and Ministry of Edward Cooney, 1867-1960, 1990
(ISBN 0 9510109 4 8)
2. Selected Letters, Hymns and Poems of Edward Cooney, 1867-1960, 1991
3. Selected Letters of Fred Wood 1890-1986, 1997
4. The Go Preacher Movement- An Anthology, 2000
William Trimble, Ltd., Enniskillen, N. Ireland
Available from Ms. Patricia Roberts,  Bridgemont, Drumcullion, Ballinamallard, Enniskillen,
N Ireland  BT942AE     Tel: +44 (028) 6638 8487

By Phebe Ava Spiller
On the Rungs of a Ladder - Steps out of Darkness, 2003;  
ISBN 1-881825-46-9
Spiller Prodeuctions
PO Box 530072
Lake Park, FL 33403-8900

By David Stone
*The Church Without a Name, 1990; Published by Author (No ISBN)
 Out of Print
2nd Edition published by Kathleen Lewis in 2004.  

By W.C.T. (William C. Trimble) (From the "Impartial Reporter")
The Tramp or Go-Preachers (Sometimes called Pilgrims), 1910
Impartial Reporter Printing Works, Enniskillen, No. Ireland  
Out of Print.
Click Here to read on TTT
Click Here to download pdf copy from RIS..

The Go-Preachers - History Timeline and Doctrinal Comparison, 1995
Research & Information Services, (RIS)
Available from RIS

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Belfast, N. Ireland

Order books in Australia from:
E. Coleman
P.O. Box 199
Woden, ACT 2606
Australia
E-mail: liz.coleman@covenant.act.edu.au

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Professing Veteran Reunion Memory Books
Ft. Sam Houston Army Reunion 1965-1972 Memory Book; San Antonio, Texas;
June 17-19, 1992; Pioneer Printing Co., 1712 Macklind Ave, St. Louis, MO 63110

World War II Reunion Memory Book;Charleston, SC; April 19-21, 1995;
Pioneer Printing Co., 1712 Macklind Ave, St. Louis, MO 63110

World War II Reunion – McCarran House, Sparks, Nevada;  April 13-15, 1999
Publisher of book unknown.
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World War II Reunion - 1989 Memory Book - source unknown
World War II Reunion - 1992 Memory Book - source unknown

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Books With References
To The Church Without a Name, Cooneyites, Tramps, Dippers, Go-Preachers, etc.

(In order by Author 's Surname)

By Dair Rioga Local History Group
All in Good Faith
Leinster Leader, Naas, Co. Kildare; 2005
See: Chapters 70-71 - The Church With No Name, p.322 - 336
About the history in County Meath, Ireland
(Has no ISBN Number)

By Paul Baker
King and Country Call - New Zealanders, Conscription and the Great War; Auckland University Press, NZ, 1988
See: "Testimony of Jesus," Pp 173

By Ballinamallard Historical Society
Ballinamallard, Enniskillen,  N. Ireland, BT94 2 FY,  2004
Ballinamallard, a Place of Importance
Read:  "The Crocknacrieve Conventions,"  Pp 64-72
About the history of Ballinamallard, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.  200 pages

By James A. Beverley
Nelson's Illustrated Guide to Religions - A Comprehensive Introduction to the Religions of the World
Thomas Nelson Inc., Publishers - Out of Print - Read book on line here
See: The Two-by-Two's
ISBN: 0785244913
ISBN-13: 9780785244912 (2009 version available at amazon.com)

David G. Bromley, Editor
Religion and the Social Order - Sex, Lies, and Sanctity: Religion and Deviance in Contemporary North America
M.J.Neitz & M.S. Goldman, Eds,  JAI Press,  (ISBN  1-55938-904-4)
Read Chapter:  "Christians in Hiding: The 'No Name' Sect," Pp37-55 by Benton Johnson.
Click Here to read on-line: 
Order today from Amazon 

Steve Bruce
Religion in the Modern World - From Cathedrals to Cults
Oxford University Press, 1996
ISBN 0-19-878152-0
Page 70 (Cooneyites, Two by Twos)

Editors: Morton Klass and Maxine K. Weisgrau
Across the Boundaries of Belief: Contemporary Issues in the Anthropology of Religion
Publisher: Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado and Oxford, U.K.,1999
Article Title: "On Founders and Followers: Some Factors in the Development of New Religious Movements"
By Benton Johnson, Pp 377-379 (ISBN 978-0-8133-2695-5)
Click Here to read on line

By Elmer Talmadge Clark
The Small Sects in America
Abingdon Press, NY, 1949 Revised Edition, Page 184
Abingdon Press, NY, 1965 Revised Edition, Page 184
(ISBN 0-8446-1862-4) Library of Congress No. 49-10200
See: "The Cooneyites or Go-Preachers," Page 184
Out of Print

By George J. Coalter
Memoirs or Selections from the Diary of Geo. J. Coalter
(Schoolmaster and Evangelist)
"Beaulah Hill," Enniskillen, N. Ireland
Written between the years of 1890 and 1950
Printed by William Trimble, Enniskillen
Pages 16, 54-56

By Rev. Richard Lee Cole, M.A. B.D.
History of Methodism in Ireland 1860-1960
Irish Methodist Publishing Co. Ltd., Epworth House, Belfast N. Ireland, 1960
See Heading: "World War, 1910-1920," Pp 100-101
Out of Print

One Methodist Church
By Richard Lee Cole, Charles Henry Crookshank
Irish Methodist Publishing Co. Ltd., Epworth House, Belfast N. Ireland, 1960
Page: 101

By John B. Cunningham, Esq.
Oscar Wilde's Enniskillen: Fermanagh on mid-Victorian Time 1864-1871
First Publisher: Davog Press, Belleek, County Fermanagh N. Ireland, 2002
Contact online Bookshop of Erne Heritage Tours
Read online on Google Books
Pp. 14, 65 ("Mr. Cooney")

By Dr. Eryl Davies
Truth Under Attack; Evangelical Press, 1996; County Durham, England
(ISBN: 0-85234-341-8)
See: "Cooneyites: `Go Preachers,'"  Pp 99-101
Order today from Amazon 

By Ronald M. Enroth
Churches that Abuse, 1992, Zondervan Publishing House;  (ISBN 0-310-53290-6)
Dr. Ronald M. Enroth, Professor of Sociology, Westmont College
955 La Paz Road, Santa Barbara, CA  93108-1099; Tel:  805/565-6776
See: "Two-By-Twos;" Pp 133-135, 155.

By David Grant
Out in the Cold - Pacifists & Conscientious; Objectors in New Zealand during World War II
Reed Methuen Publishers, Ltd, 1986 Auckland, NZ
See:  Christian Assembly, Pp 157, 165-6
Out of Print

By Esther C. Hall
My Book of Remembrance
Harlo Press, Detroit, MI, 1982

Edited by Richard Hanson
The James & Ina Hill Clan, 1987
The Hanson Book Company, Portland, OR
See: William Irvine, Pp 7-9
Out of Print

By Branson Hopkins
Unmasking Christadelphianism: The Hopelessness of "The Hope"
Jubilee Publishers, PO Box 36-44 Wellington 6330 New Zealand
ISBN: 0-9583417-8-8
See:  Deceptive Influence, Wm Irvine, p. 8

By James Hutchison
Weavers, Miners and the Open Book - A History of Kilsyth;
Cumbernauld, Scotland: Kelvinprint, 1986 (ISBN 0 9511362)
See: "Cooneyites," Pp 72, 170

By William C. Irvine, Compiler
Timely Warnings, 1917; renamed:  *Heresies Exposed, 1973 (29 printings)
By W.M.Rule, Loizeaux Brothers, Neptune, NJ
See Chapter: "The Cooneyites or Go-Preachers and Their Doctrines,"  Pp 73-78
This chapter is a reprint of the booklet by W. M. Rule:
The Cooneyites or Go-Preachers - A Warning
Out of Print

Rebuttal to above Booklet
By Leonard Ashby
A Different Gospel, An examination of the teaching of the Cooneyites
By Pickering & Inglis, London, 1939
See: pp 14
Out of Print

By Dr. Cornelius J. Jaenen
The Apostles' Doctrine and Fellowship.  A documentary history of the early church and restorationist movements.
(ISBN I-894508-48-3)
Publisher:  Legas Publishing, Ottawa, Toronto 
4 Wood Aster Bay, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K2R 1B3
TEL:  613-562-5217; FAX:  613-562-5138
See "Nameless spiritual fellowship," Pages 518-end.

By Jessica Keyes
The Ultimate Multimedia Handbook;
McGraw-Hill, 1997;
ISBN: 0-07-034530-9
See Photos,  Pp 59.2-3

By Michael Largo
God's Lunatics; Lost Souls, False Prophets, Martyred Saints, Murderous Cults, Demonic Nuns, and Other Victims of Man's Eternal Search for the Divine
Harper Collins Publishers, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-06-172384-3
Pp 257-258

By Tom Lennie
Glory in the Glen - A History of Evangelical Revivals in Scotland 1880-1940
ISBN: 978-1-84550-377-2
Christian Focus Publications, Geanis House, Fearn, Ross-shire, Scotland
Pp 166, 422-426

By Dr. P. J. Lineham
There We Found Brethren, 1977; Palmerston North, New Zealand
See:  Cooneyites, Pp. 81, 97
Out of Print

By Peadar Livingstone
The Fermanagh Story, 1969 Publisher:
Clogher Historical Society; St. Michael's College, Enniskillen, N. Ireland; 1990
Publisher: L.W.N. Hall, Booksellers; Enniskillen, No. Ireland;
Heading: "The Dippers," Page 234
Out of Print

Edited by Seamas Mac Annaidh
Publisher: Fermanagh Authors' Association, Enniskillen, 2008
The Fermanagh Miscellany 2
Chapter: Notes on Edward Cooney's family background, Page 45
No ISBN

By Lorri MacGregor
Coping with the Cults - Practical Insight for Concerned Christians, 1992
(ISBN 0-89081-940-8); Harvest House Publishers, Eugene, OR
See: "Cooneyites (Two by Twos)," Page 179
MacGregor Ministries

By William Edward Mann
Sect, Cult and Church in Alberta, 1955;
University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada
See: "Cooneyites," Pp 15,27-28,30,33,45,56,70,108,110,116
Out of Print

By George A. Mather, Larry A. Nichols and Alvin J. Schmidt, Editors, 2006
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Cults, Sects, and World Religions
Rev. and updated edition.
Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan
ISBN 978-0-310-23954-3
Formerly published as Dictionary of Cults, Sects, Religions, and the Occult
Zondervan, 1993
ISBN: 978-0310531005

By Chad B. Moore
Testimony of Truth
Published by Haley Printing Press, 2006
ISBN:  149505370
Available from:  Chad B. Moore, P.O. Box 1377, Canyon, Texas 79015 USA

By John F. Mulholland
Hawaii's Religions, 1970; Charles E. Tuttle Co., Rutland, VT
See Heading:  "A Church Without A Name," Page 205
Out of Print

Editors: Eileen M. Murphy and William J. Roulston
Fermanagh History and Society
Geography Publications, Dublin, 2004
ISBN: 0906602521
See: "Cooneyites," Pp 402-403

By Casper B. Nervig
Christian Truth and Religious Delusions, 1941;
Augsburg Publishing House, USA
Chapter IX, See "Two-By-Twos;" By J. Oswald Sanders
Out of Print

Edited by Jerome Neu. 2002
In Memoriam: Norman O. Brown
Publisher: New Pacific Press, Santa Cruz, CA, 2005
Pp. 19-23 (Re: Gills at Ashmount in 1920's)
ISBN: 09712546-1-4
Click Here to read free on Google Books

By Arthur Carl Piepkorn
Profiles in Belief - The Religious Bodies of the United States and Canada, Vol. IV
Evangelical, Fundamentalist, and other Christian Bodies.  
Harper & Row Publishers Inc., June, 1979
ISBN: 0-06-066581-5 Out of print. (author died 1973)
Pp. 58 - 62

By Jon E. Quick
Odyssey of a Soul in Bondage
ISBN 978-0-9639419-5-4; Library of Congress Control No. 2007942144
112 pages, soft cover
The story of one man's journey out of the spiritual prison of psychological and emotional bondage
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By J. Oswald Sanders
Cults & Isms, Ancient and Modern
Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, MI, 1962
Publisher: Lakeland, 1969
See Heading: "Cooneyites," Page 166
Out of Print

By J. Oswald Sanders and J. Stafford Wright
Some Modern Religions, 1963; The Tyndale Press, London, England  U.K.
See Heading: "Cooneyites," Page 69
Out of Print

Compiled and Edited by Clifford W. Smith
Yesterdays of Brome County, 1976; The Brome County Historical Society,
Publisher; Brome Lake, Knowlton, Quebec, Canada
See Pp 119-120
Out of Print

By Alan Stanley
I met Murder on the way – The Story of the Pearsons of Coolacrease (Ireland)
ISBN: 095017588
The Leinster Leader Ltd., Naas, Co. Kildare, Ireland, 2005
In Memory of Richard and Abraham Pearson, cruelly executed June, 1921
See: Cooneyites, Christian Conventions, pp 32-33
See also article about this book: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/76350

By Rev. C. C. Stimson
The Price to be PAID - The Tramp Preachers, 1988
Publisher: Peaceprint - The Brotherhood Church, Stapleton, Ponteract, Yorks, ISBN 8719300
See: pp. 47-49
Out of Print

By Tony Taylor  (pseudonym)
Walk to Heaven, 1993
Publisher: Tony Taylor,  P.O. Box 404, Kwinana 6167 Western Australia
ISBN 0-646-16295-0
See pp. 23-24:  Guidance

By Joan Vincent
Encyclopedia of World Cultures. Vol. 4: Europe 
New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 1996
pp. 177-180.

By F. J. Wilkin
Spiritualism and The Go-Preachers, or Cooneyites
Australian Baptist print, Glebe, N.S.W. Australia [19-?]
See Pp 13-16: The Go-Preachers, or Cooneyites
Out of Print

Edited by Bryan R. Wilson
The Social Impact of New Religious Movements,  First Edition, 1981
(ISBN 0-932894-09-7)
Unification Theological Seminary, Barrytown, NY. Distributor: Rose of Sharon Press, NY, NY;
Chapter by Roy Wallis, Professor of Sociology, Queens University, Belfast, Pg 97:
Yesterday's Children: Cultural and Structural Change in a New Religious Movement.
See: "Cooneyites," Pp 122-133
Note:  Reportedly Prof. Wallis committed suicide in the early 1990's.

By Bryan R. Wilson
Diskus Vol. 1 No. 2 (1993) also also: http://www.basr.ac.uk/diskus/diskus1-6/1_2DISKUS.TXT
The Persistence of Sects .
All Souls College Oxford
pp. 1-12 ("the Testimony," "also known as Christian Conventions...Cooneyites, Go Preachers, Two-by-Twos")

By Windthorst History Book Committee, 1983
Windthorst Memories, A History of Windthorst and District,
Saskatchewan, Canada, 1806-1981; Windthorst, Saskatchewan, Canada
See: "The Church In The Home," Page 258
Out of Print

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Unverified Books with References
To the Church WIthout a Name, Cooneyites, Tramps, Dippers, Go-Preachers, etc.

NOTE: Internet research has determined that the following books contain references to the church called the Cooneyites, 2x2 church, Dippers, Two by Twos, The Way, Nameless House Church, Edward Cooney, etc. However, the library of Telling The Truth does not contain a copy of these books.

In Alphabetical Order by Author:

Title: A different Gospel: an examination of the teaching of the Cooneyites
Author: Leonard Ashby
Publisher: Pickering & Inglis, 19--?, London

Title: World Christian Trends, AD 30-AD 2200: interpreting the annual Christian megacensus
Authors: David B. Barrett, Todd M. Johnson, Christopher R. Guidry, Peter F. Crossing
Publisher: William Carey Library, 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8780-8608-5
Page: 299

Title: Challenging Religion: Cults and Controversies
Author: James Beckford
Publisher: Routledge, 2003
ISBN: 978-0-4153-0948-6
Pp. 15, 20

Title: Canadian Society; Sociological Perspectives
Author: Bernard R. Blishen
Publisher: Macmillan of Canada, 1968 (third edition)
Page: ?

Title: The True Believers: oddities and curiosities of religious faith
Author: Peter Bowler
Publisher: Methuen, 1986
ISBN 978-0-4540-0986-6
Page: 49

Title: The A to Z of New Religious Movements?
Author: George D. Chryssides
Publisher: Scarecrow Press/Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.,
Lanham , Maryland , 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8108-5588-5
Pp: 330-331

Title: Historical Dictionary of New Religious Movements
By George D. Chryssides
Lanham, Maryland and London: Scarecrow Press, 2001
ISBN 0-8108-4095-2

Title: The Road to St. Julien: letters of a stretcher-bearer from the Great War
Authors: William St. Clair, John St. Clair
Publisher: Leo Cooper, 2004
ISBN: 978-1-8441-5017-5
Page: 223

Title: Dictionary of Christian Denominations
Author: Peter Day
Publisher: Continuum ( London), 2003
Page: ?

Title: New 20th-century Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
Authors: James Dixon Douglas, Robert G. Clouse
Publisher: Baker Book House, 1991 (second edition)
Page: 237
(Cooneyites. A sect founded about 1885 in Northern Ireland by William Irvine and George Walker but later dominated by Edward Cooney...)

Title: Cooneyiten: Eine Warnung
Author: Gideon J Gerber
Publisher: Dalton, Ohio: G. J. Gerber
Date 1934

Title: Religions of Man: Facts, Fibs, Fears and Fables
Author: Charles Douglas Greer
Publisher: AuthorHouse, December 19, 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4389-0831-1
Pg. 329

Title: Understanding Social Change
Authors: Anthony Francis Heath, John Ermisch, Duncan Gallie, British Academy
Editors: Anthony Francis Heath, John Ermisch, Duncan Gallie
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2005
ISBN: 978-0-1972-6314-3
Page: 299

Title: Book of Witches
Author: Oliver Madox Hueffer
Current Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC (reprint 2003)
Original Publisher: The Scolar Press, Ltd. (Ilkley, Yorkshire), Original Date: 1908
ISBN-13: 978-0-7661-4569-6
Page: 8
(shows that they were a known sect by 1908)

Title: Observers: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Author: Icon Group International, Inc.
Publisher: ICON Group International, Inc., 2008
ISBN 0546668178, 9780546668179
Pp: 392, 555

Title: The Joy of Sects: An A-Z of cults, cranks and religious eccentrics
Author: Sam Jordison
Publisher: Robson, 2005
ISBN: 978-1-8610-5905-5
Page: 226

Title: The "Finnegans Wake" Notebooks at Buffalo: Notebook VI.B.10
Volume 6
Authors: James Joyce, Vincent Deane, Daniel Ferrer, Geert Lernout
Publisher: Brepols, : 2001
ISBN: 2503509592
Page: 138 - Mentions "gifts to the Cooneyites"

Title: The Dictionary of Religious Terms
Author: Donald T. Kauffman
Publisher: Revell, 1967
Page: 132

Title: A Tipperary landed estate: Castle Otway, Templederry 1750-1853
Author: Miriam Lambe
Publisher: Irish Academic Press,1998
ISBN: 978-0-7165-2705-3
Page: 46 - Mentions a pamphlet published in 1910 called "The Cooneyites or Dippers: a plain refutation of their errors"

Title: The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects and New Religions
Author: James R. Lewis
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York, 1998
ISBN: 1-57392-222-6
Article: THE TWO-BY-TWOS
Page: 494

Title: Irish Migrants in New Zealand, 1840-1937: "The Desired Haven"
Author: Angela McCarthy
Publisher: Boydell Press, 2005
ISBN: 9781843831433
Page 245 - Quotes from a 1923 letter which mentions their existence. No other details.

Title: Journey into Malaya
Author: Amy McIntosh
Publisher: China Inland Mission,1956 (second edition)
Page: 187
Title: Journey into Malaya, 1965
Publisher: Good News Publishers, Westchester, Illinois
NOTE: The 1965 Edition is condensed from the book ''Journey into Malaya'' published by China Inland Mission/Overseas Missionary Fellowship.

Title:  Canada: A Sociological Profile
Author: William Edward Mann
Publisher: Copp Clark Publishing Co., 1971 (2nd Edition)
Page: 424 - Mentions the sending out of Two by Two itinerants into the Canadian countryside.

Title: The Irish Protestant Churches in the Twentieth Century
Author: Alan Megahey
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, November 4, 2000
ISBN: 978-0-3122-3601-4
Pp. 154-155

Title: Rural Life in Northern Ireland: five regional studies made for the Northern Ireland Council of Social Service, Inc.
Authors: John M. Mogey, Northern Ireland Council of Social Service
Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press, 1947
Pp: 29-30, 199

Title: The Feel of Truth
Author: Peter Munz
Publisher: Victoria University Press. 1969
Place: Wellington, New Zealand
Page: 52 (account of coming across a man in New Zealand who was a member of a group called "Cooneyites" though they called themselves "Christians" and seemed to have split at one time)

Title: The Nameless Sect Known as: "The Way", Cooneyites, Two by Twos, etc.
Publisher: Middleton Ministries, 1989

Title: Contagious conflict: The impact of American dissent on European life
Authors: Arie Nicolaas Jan den Hollander, European Association for American Studies
Publisher: E. J. Brill,1973

Title: The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star (Volume 68)
Publisher: Charles W. Penrose. Liverpool, England, 1908
Page: ? ("On that occasion a 'Cooneyite' showed his 'Christianity' by turning us out of his house after reasoning with us for two and a half hours.")

Title: Music in Rural New England Family and Community Life, 1870-1940 (Revisiting New England)
Author: Jennifer C. Post
Publisher: New Hampshire, October 22, 2004
ISBN: 978-1-5846-5415-5
Page: 295 (endnotes)

Title: Pentecostal Origins: Early pentecostalism in Ireland in the context of the British Isles, Studies in evangelical history and thought
Author: James Robinson
Publisher: Paternoster, 2005
ISBN: 978-1-8422-7329-6
Pp. 33-35

Title: Religious and theological abstracts (V. 40)
Author: William Sailer, Editor
Publisher: Theologial Publications, Inc.,1997

Title: A Sociological Yearbook of Religion in Britain (V. 1-4)
Publisher: SCM Press,1968
Pp: 84, 102
Title: A Sociological Yearbook of Religion in Britain, Issues 2
Edited by David Martin
Author: Socio-Religious Research Services
Publisher: SCM Press Ltd,1969
Pp. 84, 102 (references Keith Crow’s thesis)

Title: Ayrshire
Authors: John Strawhorn, William Boyd
Publisher: Oliver and Boyd,1951
Page: 663

Title: Invitation to World Missions: A Trinitarian Missiology for the Twenty-first Century
Author: Timothy C. Tennent
Publisher: Kregel Academic, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Year: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8254-3883-7
Page: 41 (brief mention of "the Cooneyites in Australia")

Title: Religions of Man: Facts, Fibs, Fears and Fables
Author: Charles Douglas Greer
Publisher: AuthorHouse, Bloomington, Indiana, 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4389-0831-1
Page: 329 (short definition for "Two-by-Twos")

Title: Mind you, I've said nothing: Forays in the Irish Republic
Author: Honor Tracy
Publisher: R. B. Luce,1968
Page: 125

Title: The Elusive Paradox
Author: William T. Voris
Publisher: Xulon Press, 2006
ISBN: 978-1-6003-4623-1
Page: 301

Title: The Concise Guide to Today's Religions and Spirituality: Includes Hundreds of Definitions of Sects, cults, and Occult Organizations
Author: James K. Walker
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers, 2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-7369-2011-7
Pp. 117-118

Title: Spiritualism and the Go-preachers, or Cooneyites‎
Author: Frederick John Wilkin
Publisher: Australian Baptist Print; Publish Date: 19??
Booklet

Title: The Original Dr. Steve's Almanac of Christian Trivia: A Miscellany of Oddities, Instructional Anecdotes, Little -Known Facts and Occasional Frivolity
Author: Steve Wilkens
Publisher: IVP Books, 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8308-3438-9
Pp. 131-132

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Title: Religious and Theological Abstracts (v. 40)
Publisher: Theologial Publications, Inc., 1997
Page: ?

Title: Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher: H.M. Stationery Office, 1912 (v. 118)
Page: ?

Title: Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher: H.M. Stationery Office,1912 (v. 43)
Page: ?

Title: The Journal of religious history, Volume 17
Author: Association for the Journal of Religious History
Publisher: Association for the Journal of Religious History,1992

Title: The Parliamentary debates (official report)., Volume 43
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher: H.M.S.O., 1912

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Reference Books That List The Church Without a Name

The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition, Vol. I A-Edu, 1988
(ISBN 0-88830-326-2); Hurtig Publishers, Ltd, Edmonton, Canada
Heading: "Christians, Assemblies of," Page 424

By Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Active New Religions, Sects and Cults, 1993
Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., NY, NY; (ISBN 0-8239-1505-0)
Heading: "The Two-By-Two's," Page 298
Order 2nd Ed., 1997, Rosen Publishing Group;  ISBN:  0823925862
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By Dr. J. Gordon Melton
Encyclopedia of American Religions, 5th Ed.; Gale Research, Inc
6th Edition:  Pp               , 1998 (ISBN 0-8103-8417-5)
5th Edition:  Pp 501-502, 1996 (ISBN 0-8103-7714-4)
4th Edition:  Pp 558-559, 1992 (ISBN 0-8103-6904-4)
3rd Edition:  Pp 507-509, 1989 (ISBN 0-685-48433-5)
Heading: "The Two-By-Two's"
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By J. Gordon Melton
Encyclopedia of American Religions, Vol. 1, 1978 (ISBN 0-8434-6437)
McGrath Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC; Pp 443-445; Footnotes 57-59 on Pg 550
Heading: "The Two-By-Two's"

Dr. J. Gordon Melton, Director, Institute for the Study of American Religions
P.O. Box 90709, Santa Barbara, CA 93109-0709
Gale Research, 835 Penobscot Bldg, Detroit, MI  48226-4094

By Robert Humphreys and Rowland Ward
Religious Bodies in Australia - A Comprehensive Guide, Third Edition
(ISBN 0646-24552 X)
New Melbourne Press, 1995; 358 Mountain Hwy, Wantirna, Victoria, 3152
Pp 218-219

By Lefferts A. Loetscher, Editor
Twentieth Century Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (The New Schaff-Herzog),
Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, MI, 1955; Heading: "Cooneyites," Page 298
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David Barrett, Editor
World Christian Encyclopedia, 1982
Oxford University Press, NY, NY; (ISBN 0-19-5724356);
Heading: "Cooneyites"
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David B. Barrett, George Thomas Kurian, Todd M. Johnson (Editors)
World Christian Encyclopedia: A Comparative Survey of Churches and Religions in the Modern World Volume I: The World by Countries: Religionists, Churches, Ministries, 2nd edition 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, NY, NY (ISBN: 978-0-1951-0318-2)
Pp. 146, 389, 681, 785, 825

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Books Using 2x2 Backgrounds

In alphabetical order by author

By Shelley Bates
Title: Grounds to Believe
Steeple Hill Books, 2004, 2007 (ISBN 0-373-78610-7)
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By Shelley Bates
Title: Pocketful of Pearls
FaithWords, 2005 (ISBN 0-446-69491-6)
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By Shelley Bates
Title: A Sounding Brass
FaithWords, 2006 (ISBN 0-446-69492-4)
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By Henry de Waal
Title: The Church That Is In Their House, 1966
Myrtle Tree Press, 8120 Beddington Blvd NW, Suite 809, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T3K 2A8

By Eileen Fairweather, Roisin McDonough and Melanie McFadyean
Title: Only the rivers run free - Northern Ireland - The women's war,
Pluto Press, London & Sydney, 1984
ISBN: 0861046684
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By Bernice Gerard
Title: Bernice Gerard - Today and for Life, 1988;
Welch Publishing Co., Inc.; 960 The Gateway, Burlington, Ontario L7L 5K7 Canada
ISBN: 1-55011-071-3
Order from:  Bernice Gerard Ministries, Box 2100 Blaine, WA, 98231
or Box 3366, Vancouver, BC  V6B 3Y3  Canada

By Neil Greene
Title: The Badgertots, 2004
Authorhouse, 1663 Liberty Drive #200, Bloomington, IN 47403 USA
800-839-8640; www.AuthorHouse.com

By Faye Cashatt Lewis (M.D.)
Title: Nothing to Make a Shadow, 1972; Iowa State University Press, Ames, IA;
Chapter 15: The Preacher Ladies, Pp 119-124 
[NOTE:  Two sister workers in the story: Miss Hannah Nystrun who entered the work in Nebraska in 1913, and Miss Gibbs who was Emma Gill]
Out of Print

By Lou Mandler
Title: This Storied Land:  A Montana Memoir, 2004
Publisher:  Pronghorn Press (pronghornpress.org)
Library of Congress Control No. 2002105569
ISBN:  1-932636-05-6; paperback, 268 pages
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By L. M. Montgomery
Title: Mistress Pat - A Novel of Silver Bush
Publisher: Oxford City Press (March 3, 2012)
ISBN-10: 1781391041; ISBN-13: 978-1781391044
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By Michael Perry
Title: Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs and Parenting
Harper, April 21, 2009
ISBN: 0-061-24043-5
See pages: 76-78; 94-95; 309-312, 325-329; 333-334
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By Raymond Reid
Title: The Gate Seldom Found
Published by Harvest House Publishers, 2004
ISBN:  0-7369-1369-6
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By Will Weaver
Title: A Gravestone Made of Wheat, 1989;  Short Story: "Gabriel's Feather," Pp 39-59
Simon and Schuster, NYC, NY
ISBN: 0968795609
"Author grew up in the faith but no longer follows it", (Birmingham Post-Herald, Birmingham, AL, Nov. 8, 1986, Page A3)
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By Will Weaver (Professor of English at Bemidji State Univ, MN, 2005)
Title: Full Service, 2005; 240 pages
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 03744324859
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By Bob Williston
Title: The Unworthy Servant
Order from: Xlibris.com Bookstore
ISBN13: 978-1-4363-3611-6 (Trade Paperback)
ISBN: 1-4363-3611-2 (Trade Paperback)
ISBN13: 978-1-4363-3612-3 (Hardback)
ISBN: 1-4363-3612-0 (Hardback)
Pages: 405
Subject: FICTION / Religious

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  Post-1965 Periodicals - Magazines

Concordia Theological Monthly published by Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, MO;
Vol. XLIII January 1972, No. 1;  Pp 36-41
"Brief Studies: Christian Fellowship (People on the Way, Disciples of Jesus, Friends, Two-by-Twos)"  By Arthur Carl Piepkorn (author deceased in 1970's)

Evangelical Times published by Evangelical Times Limited
 July, 1998; p 20
"Two-By-Twos: The Nameless Cult  by Eryl Davies

British Columbia Report published by BC Report Magazine Ltd., Vancouver, BC
September 15, 1997, p 28
"A Church Invisible - 'Sect or cult?' is the question a judge will have to answer"
by Joe Woodard

Religion Analysis Service, Inc.
PO Box 22098, Robbinsdale, MN 55422; Tel: 800-562-9153
Subject:  Cooneyites or 2x2s
The Discerner:
Vol 23, No. 2 Apr-June, 2003, Pp 13-15
"The Two by Two's (Cooneyites, Church With No Name, etc,)" by JoAnn Bevier
Vol XIV, No. 10 Apr-June, 1994, Pp 7-11
"The Two By Two's: The Workers' Nameless House Sect" by Bob N. Daniel
Vol XI, No. 9 Jan-Mar, 1985, Pp 9-11
"The Nameless Cult" by Ewald Eisele
Vol II, No. 9 Jan-Mar, 1958, Pp 12-15
"Who are the Cooneyites?" by Roy Divers

Western Catholic Reporter
By Sr. Louise Zdunich, Edmonton, Canada
Week of October 7, 2002
"Who are the Two by Twos?"
http://www.wcr.ab.ca/columns/zdunich/2002/zdunich100702.shtml

Plain Truth - Christianity Without the Religion
Though the Desert in a Cult with No Name
By Pastor Ken Armstrong
September/October 2009, pp 6-12

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Unverified Periodicals

NOTE: Internet research has determined that the following periodicals contain references to the church called the Cooneyites, 2x2 church, Dippers, Two by Twos, The Way, Nameless House Church, Edward Cooney, etc. However, the library of Telling The Truth does not contain a copy of these periodicals.

In Alphabetical Order by Author:

Magazine Title: The Homiletic Review
An International Monthly Magazine of Current Religious Thought, Sermonic Literature and Discussion of Practical Issues (Vol. LVI) July to September 1908
Publisher: Funk and Wagnalls Company, New York,1908
Article Date: December 1908 (issue number 6) Page 454
Article Text:
The Religious Outlook Abroad (Our London Correspondent)
Irish Imitators of Tolstoy.
"Emulators of the famous philosopher of Yasnaya Polyana are scattered through all lands, but for the most part these disciples of Count Leo Tolstoy are successful only as caricaturists of his system, if indeed it can be said that so eccentric a thinker ever devised any system of religion. The newest Tolstoyans have sprung up in Northwest Ireland, their head center being the beautiful and prosperous town on the banks of the picturesque Lough Erne, Enniskillen, in County Fermanagh. But Tolstoy is not overtly recognized or acknowledged in this case, for the members of this cult call themselves Cooneyites, after their local leader. He insists on the adoption of the " Jesus Way, " that is to say, the manner in which the Savior lived and taught. These adherents give up all their money and possessions for mutual benefit, because, as Jesus had no substance, they must have none. All the characteristics of ecclesiasticism, such as sanctuaries, collections, salaries for ministry, musical instruments, and other features of organization are ascribed by these "simple life" eccentrics to the devil and are vehemently repudiated. Immersion is practiced, large numbers are being baptized every week, and so contagious is the zeal of these enthusiasts that many thousands have joined the movement. Unfortunately, it is characterized by the same bitterness of spirit which has been developed in connection with what is known as "Plymouth Brethrenism," and like animosity to all denominations is being displayed in the denunciations of the Cooneyites. They are extending their efforts over a very large district in Ireland."

Magazine Title: The Lincolnshire Magazine
Publisher: Lindsey Local History Society (V. 3), 1936
Page: 60

Religious History of New Zealand: A Bibliography (4th edition)
by Peter James Lineham
Published by Department of History, Massey University, 1993
ISBN 0908665792
See reference to Cooneyites

Magazine Title: The Windsor Magazine: an illustrated monthly for men and women (V. 39)
Publisher: Ward, Lock and Bowden, Limited, 1914
Page: 439

Title: The Lutheran Witness (V. 51)
Author: Lutheran Church-- Missouri Synod
Publisher: Concordia Pub. House, 1932
Page: 110
(mentions teaching "Bible is a dead book unless interpreted" by the workers)

Title: The Northwestern Lutheran
Author: Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, 1932
Heading: The Cooneyites
Page: 39

Article Title: Leaving the Cooneyites: Analysis of the leaving process for long-term members of a sect, with Christine Wilson.
Author: Arnold Parr
Publication: Australian Religion Studies Review, 11, 1, 17--28. (Journal Article), 1988
http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/UCResearchProfile/Researcher.aspx?researcherid=84159

Article Title: Out of Ireland, Local Ties, Embroider Exhibits Elegant View of 'Irish in Religion'
Author: Michael Eck
Publication: Albany Times Union ( Albany, NY)
Publisher: Thomson Scientific, Inc., August 30, 2001.

Article Title: When Faith Fails Children.
Author: Rita Swan
Publication: The Humanist. Volume: 60. Issue: 6;
Publisher: Gale Group, November 2000
Page: 11

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Manuscripts, Thesis & Essays About The Church Without a Name

By Keith W. Crow
The Invisible Church, 1964; Thesis, University of Oregon; Eugene, OR (289.9 C783C)
Note:  Reportedly Mr. Crow committed suicide.

By Wade Gardner
In the Beginning...of `The Truth', 1995; Manuscript, Pepperdine University; Los Angeles, CA

By Ingrid (Larson) Hagen
Inside Religion, 1994; Manuscript, University of Phoenix; Phoenix, AZ

By Cindy Owre
The Two by Twos' Immigration to Canada - Reading Between the Lines of Pain, 2007
Unpublished Paper, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Received honorable mention in student essay contest (2007) for the Canadian Theological Society

By Shannon Leigh Vivian (For Soc 257)
New Religious Movements
2000; Manuscript, University of Virginia

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