Download or read book Barry Barack Hussein Soetoro Obama written by Peter J. Mccusker and published by . This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barack Obama ordinarily pretends that he's all-black, and America ordinarily pretends to accept him as such. But in reality, he has a disingenuous conflicted racial identity. The first biracial president's racial confusions aligned so perfectly in 2008 that Obama was elected president. It was a huge win, given that Barack Obama had no record of legislative leadership prior to becoming president. Despite this, most blacks and many whites voted for him based exclusively on who and what he said he was and what they wished him to be. Obama's identity, however, soon came under scrutiny, and critics questioned his views after his mentor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, openly maligned white America in a widely publicized rant. The president responded to such questions by publicizing a photo of himself with his white mother, grandmother, and grandfather, further complicating the issue. Explore how Obama's conflicted racial identity heritage aligns with the nation's uncertain identity. By learning more about the nation's first biracial president, you'll discover more about the individual and group attitudes that drive America's views on race.
Download or read book Barry Barack Hussein Soetoro Obama Identity and Racial Hypocrisy in America written by Peter J. McCusker and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barack Obama has had a unique opportunity to promote American race relations, since, despite what he pretends and what others proclaim, every cell in his body certifies an incontrovertible truth: Obama is precisely half-black and half-white. Barack was born and raised in a white family, benefited from an elite Hawaiian prep school, and enjoyed an Ivy League post high school education. Sadly, however, Barack Obama has ignored his personal reality and has exploited America's sad racial psychosis for his own political, financial, and narcissistic gains. Dr. McCusker's Barry Barack Hussein Soetoro Obama, Identity, and Racial Hypocrisy in America describes how the President has exacerbated America's racial problems, and the book proffers strategies to improve the country's intractable race relations.
Download or read book Don t Rest in Peace written by Peter J. McCusker and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't Rest in Peace is a self-help approach to healthful lifestyle improvement that focuses on the process of change more than on the content of any particular change. In that way, readers are empowered to select the health sectors most important to them. Six health essentials are emphasized: cognitive-emotional status, interpersonal relationships, physical conditioning diet-nutrition, work, and relaxation-recreation. Readers are guided toward understanding how their unique histories, temperaments, personalities, and environments contribute to their current lifestyles and to potential health-enhancing alterations. They then are taught concrete fundamental goal implementation strategies proven to promote rational, organized, comprehensive, and long-lasting physical and mental health.
Download or read book Justifiably Paranoid Resisting Intrusive and Malicious Influences written by Peter J. McCusker and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are under assault from an unrelenting army of determined, intrusive, sometimes malicious, influencers who seek to gain from their intrusion. Some truly believe that they have something worthwhile to offer to you, and mostly want the esteem and prestige that comes with exerting influence. Others could not care less about you, and want only unilateral fortune or fame. These professional influence soldiers equip themselves with the latest influence weapons. They invade via high tech devices, such as smart phones and computers. And they infiltrate your social networks, distorting them to their advantage.The influence assault troops train assiduously, guided by manuals and methods created by their influence generals who have risen in rank because their weaponry and tactics win influence battles. If discredited, they are replaced by another cadre of commanders, offering cutting edge influence theory and practice.Justifiably Paranoid trains and equips you to fight the influence war. You will learn how the influence professionals think and how they manipulate. When in an influence-vulnerable position, you will know what the influencer is trying to do, and how to counter their strategies. By skillfully employing your own weaponry, you will maintain your autonomy so that you can accept beneficial influences and reject non-beneficial ones. For instance, when purchasing a new product, you will know how to separate hype from reality, and how to negotiate from a position of strength.
Download or read book Why Study History written by John Fea and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the purpose of studying history? How do we reflect on contemporary life from a historical perspective, and can such reflection help us better understand ourselves, the world around us, and the God we worship and serve? Written by an accomplished historian, award-winning author, public evangelical spokesman, and respected teacher, this introductory textbook shows why Christians should study history, how faith is brought to bear on our understanding of the past, and how studying the past can help us more effectively love God and others. John Fea shows that deep historical thinking can relieve us of our narcissism; cultivate humility, hospitality, and love; and transform our lives more fully into the image of Jesus Christ. The first edition of this book has been used widely in Christian colleges across the country. The second edition provides an updated introduction to the study of history and the historian's vocation. The book has also been revised throughout and incorporates Fea's reflections on this topic from throughout the past 10 years.
Download or read book Native written by Kaitlin B. Curtice and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native is about identity, soul-searching, and the never-ending journey of finding ourselves and finding God. As both a citizen of the Potawatomi Nation and a Christian, Kaitlin Curtice offers a unique perspective on these topics. In this book, she shows how reconnecting with her Potawatomi identity both informs and challenges her faith. Curtice draws on her personal journey, poetry, imagery, and stories of the Potawatomi people to address themes at the forefront of today's discussions of faith and culture in a positive and constructive way. She encourages us to embrace our own origins and to share and listen to each other's stories so we can build a more inclusive and diverse future. Each of our stories matters for the church to be truly whole. As Curtice shares what it means to experience her faith through the lens of her Indigenous heritage, she reveals that a vibrant spirituality has its origins in identity, belonging, and a sense of place.
Download or read book The Next Mormons written by Jana Riess and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Millennials--the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s--have been leaving organized religion in unprecedented numbers. For a long time, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was an exception: nearly three-quarters of people who grew up Mormon stayed that way into adulthood. In The Next Mormons, Jana Riess demonstrates that things are starting to change. Drawing on a large-scale national study of four generations of current and former Mormons as well as dozens of in-depth personal interviews, Riess explores the religious beliefs and behaviors of young adult Mormons, finding that while their levels of belief remain strong, their institutional loyalties are less certain than their parents' and grandparents'. For a growing number of Millennials, the tensions between the Church's conservative ideals and their generation's commitment to individualism and pluralism prove too high, causing them to leave the faith-often experiencing deep personal anguish in the process. Those who remain within the fold are attempting to carefully balance the Church's strong emphasis on the traditional family with their generation's more inclusive definition that celebrates same-sex couples and women's equality. Mormon families are changing too. More Mormons are remaining single, parents are having fewer children, and more women are working outside the home than a generation ago. The Next Mormons offers a portrait of a generation navigating between traditional religion and a rapidly changing culture.
Download or read book Barry Soetoro A K A Barack Hussein Obama The Puppet and His Puppeteers written by Servando Gonzalez and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books about Barry Soetoro (a.k.a. Barack Hussein Obama) have proliferated at a fast rate and, fueled by the Internet, became a new cottage industry. What makes this one unique, though, is that its major emphasis is not criticizing Soetoro, but pointing to the ones that deserve to be blamed for his actions: Soetoro's puppet masters. In the film Aliens, the spaceship's crew under attack finally realize that just taking out the aliens one by one is an exercise in frustration, because the evil creatures reproduce themselves faster than they can zap them. Then a member of the crew realizes that, in order to solve the problem, they must begin by taking out the alien queen. The author's point is that fighting Soetoro, or trying to impeach him, was a waste of time and an exercise in frustration, because the alien queen is currently hatching dozens of eggs that will provide replacements for the new generations of Kissingers, Brzezinskis, Carters, Clintons, Bushes and Soetoros. And the alien queen's nest is at the Harold Pratt House in Manhattan, headquarters of the Council on Foreign Relations - the true and only Secret Government of the United States.
Download or read book The Sophiology of Death written by Sergii Bulgakov and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Making Sense of the Bible Leader Guide written by Adam Hamilton and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this six week video study, Adam Hamilton explores the key points in his new book, Making Sense of the Bible. With the help of this Leader Guide, groups learn from Hamilton as his video presentations lead groups through the book, focusing on the most important questions we ask about the Bible, its origins and meaning.
Download or read book The Redneck Manifesto written by Jim Goad and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-05-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Redneck Manifesto", Goad elucidates redneck politics, religion, and values in his own unique way. "A furious, profane, smart, and hilariously smart-aleck defense of working-class white culture".--"Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel".
Download or read book Jesus according to the New Testament written by James D. G. Dunn and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Testament scholar James D. G. Dunn has published his research on Christian origins in numerous commentaries, books, and essays. In this small, straightforward book designed especially for a lay audience, Dunn focuses his fifty-plus years of scholarship on elucidating the New Testament witness to Jesus, from Matthew to Revelation. Dunn’s Jesus according to the New Testament constantly points back to the wonder of those first witnesses and greatly enriches our understanding of Jesus.
Download or read book If God Still Breathes Why Can t I written by Angela N. Parker and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A challenge to the doctrine of biblical inerrancy that calls into question how Christians are taught more about the way of Whiteness than the way of Jesus Angela Parker wasn’t just trained to be a biblical scholar; she was trained to be a White male biblical scholar. She is neither White nor male. Dr. Parker’s experience of being taught to forsake her embodied identity in order to contort herself into the stifling construct of Whiteness is common among American Christians, regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation. This book calls the power structure behind this experience what it is: White supremacist authoritarianism. Drawing from her perspective as a Womanist New Testament scholar, Dr. Parker describes how she learned to deconstruct one of White Christianity’s most pernicious lies: the conflation of biblical authority with the doctrines of inerrancy and infallibility. As Dr. Parker shows, these doctrines are less about the text of the Bible itself and more about the arbiters of its interpretation—historically, White males in positions of power who have used Scripture to justify control over marginalized groups. This oppressive use of the Bible has been suffocating. To learn to breathe again, Dr. Parker says, we must “let God breathe in us.” We must read the Bible as authoritative, but not authoritarian. We must become conscious of the particularity of our identities, as we also become conscious of the particular identities of the biblical authors from whom we draw inspiration. And we must trust and remember that as long as God still breathes, we can too.
Download or read book Immortal Diamond written by Richard Rohr and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dissolve the distractions of ego to find our authentic selves in God In his bestselling book Falling Upward, Richard Rohr talked about ego (or the False Self) and how it gets in the way of spiritual maturity. But if there's a False Self, is there also a True Self? What is it? How is it found? Why does it matter? And what does it have to do with the spiritual journey? This book likens True Self to a diamond, buried deep within us, formed under the intense pressure of our lives, that must be searched for, uncovered, separated from all the debris of ego that surrounds it. In a sense True Self must, like Jesus, be resurrected, and that process is not resuscitation but transformation. Shows how to navigate spiritually difficult terrain with clear vision and tools to uncover our True Selves Written by Father Richard Rohr, the bestselling author of Falling Upward Examines the fundamental issues of who we are and helps us on our path of spiritual maturity Immortal Diamond (whose title is taken from a line in a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem) explores the deepest questions of identity, spirituality, and meaning in Richard Rohr's inimitable style.
Download or read book Night Comes written by Dale C. Allison and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he was 23 years old, Dale Allison almost died in a car accident. That terrifying experience dramatically changed his ideas about death and the hereafter. In Night Comes Allison wrestles with a number of difficult questions concerning the last things — such questions as What happens to us after we die? and Why does death so often frighten us? Armed with his acknowledged scholarly expertise, Allison offers an engaging, personal exploration of such themes as death and fear, resurrection and judgment, hell and heaven, in light of science, Scripture, and his own experience. As he ponders and creatively imagines — engaging throughout with biblical texts, church fathers, rabbinic scholars, poets, and philosophers — Allison offers fascinating fare that will captivate many a reader’s heart and soul.
Download or read book Stranger God written by Richard Beck and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessible, challenging, funny, and one of the best reads on how to love others in any situation. Love and hospitality can change the way you see the world and others. That's exactly what modern-day theologian, Richard Beck, experienced when he first led a Bible study at a local maximum security prison. Beck believed the promise of Matthew 25 that states when we visit the prisoner, we encounter Jesus. Sure enough, God met Beck in prison. With his signature combination of biblical reflection, theological reasoning, and psychological insight, Beck shows how God always meets us when we entertain the marginalized, the oppressed, and the refugee. Stories from Beck's own life illustrate this truth -- God comes to him in the poor, the crippled, the smelly. Psychological experiments show how we are predisposed to appreciate those who are similar to us and avoid those who are unlike us. The call of the gospel, however, is to override those impulses with compassion, to "widen the circle of our affection." In the end, Beck turns to the Little Way of St. Thérèse of Lisieux for guidance in doing even the smallest acts with kindness, and he lays out a path that any of us can follow.
