Download or read book Bullied in the Bible Belt written by Gene Skipworth and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rev. Skipworth's courage, candor, and compassion jump from the pages of this compilation of his weekly newspaper columns, "Letters to the Editor," rebuttals from area ministers, and responses from readers written in the heart of Tennessee's Bible Belt. This book is a give and take between a progressive follower of Jesus and his often-irate readers/respondents, most of whom are biblical literalists and evangelical white Christians. With Skip, what you see or read is what you get. He not only tackles the hard issues, while wearing vulnerably, but also brilliantly translates and integrates his columns with the informed biblical and theological understanding of many of the most learned minds within progressive Christianity. While making their work understandable for his readers, friends and foes alike, he painstakingly applies their insights to the divisive theological and political issues liberal clergy and laity have tragically failed to address honestly with each other. Skip deserves our gratitude for this informed and courageous gift, and the whole church owes him our thoughtful and willing dialogue. Taken from the Foreword by Bishop Joseph Sprague.
Download or read book Bible Bullies written by and published by Gadfly Publishing, LLC. This book was released on with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Big Bad Bible Bullies written by Scott Hagan and published by Charisma Kids. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love others even when it hurts! Though the Bible stories told in this book, your children can learn how to deal with bullies. God never intended for anyone to be a victim of a big, bad bully. Pastor Scott Hagan explains how to turn those brutal situations around by finding confidence and comfort in biblical stories and godly principles.
Download or read book School Bullying written by David R. Dupper and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consistent with an ecological systems perspective, this book utilizes a whole school approach as a framework for developing and implementing comprehensive evidence-based interventions to combat bullying in schools.
Download or read book Bully written by Lee Hirsch and published by Weinstein Books. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shares essays outlining recommendations for caregivers and educators, offers celebrity contributions, and includes an account of how Katy Butler campaigned to change the movie's rating to make it available to teen viewers.
Download or read book Making the Bible Belt written by Joseph L. Locke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making the Bible Belt upends notions of a longstanding, stable marriage between political religion and the American South. H.L. Mencken coined the term "the Bible Belt" in the 1920s to capture the peculiar alliance of religion and public life in the South, but the reality he described was only the closing chapter of a long historical process. Into the twentieth century, a robust anticlerical tradition still challenged religious forays into southern politics. Inside southern churches, an insular evangelical theology looked suspiciously on political meddling. Outside of the churches, a popular anticlericalism indicted activist ministers with breaching the boundaries of their proper spheres of influence, calling up historical memories of the Dark Ages and Puritan witch hunts. Through the politics of prohibition, and in the face of bitter resistance, a complex but shared commitment to expanding the power and scope of religion transformed southern evangelicals' inward-looking restraints into an aggressive, self-assertive, and unapologetic political activism. The decades-long religious crusade to close saloons and outlaw alcohol in the South absorbed the energies of southern churches and thrust religious leaders headlong into the political process--even as their forays into southern politics were challenged at every step. Early defeats impelled prohibitionist clergy to recast their campaign as a broader effort not merely to dry up the South, but to conquer anticlerical opposition and inject religion into public life. Clerical activists churned notions of history, race, gender, and religion into a powerful political movement and elevated ambitious leaders such as the pugnacious fundamentalist J. Frank Norris and Senator Morris Sheppard, the "Father of National Prohibition." Exploring the controversies surrounding the religious support of prohibition in Texas, Making the Bible Belt reconstructs the purposeful, decades-long campaign to politicize southern religion, hints at the historical origins of the religious right, and explores a compelling and transformative moment in American history.
Download or read book The Book on Bullies Break Free in Forty 40 Minutes or 40 Days written by Susan K. Boyd and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know what to do or say when you are bullied? Are you tolerating people who manipulate or abuse you? When others treat you badly do you just try harder to get along? Learn the inside story on what makes bullies tick, and discover your own vulnerabilities and your hidden strengths! This book will change the way you see bullies and change the way you see yourself. If you want to know what bullying is, why bullies target you, and a strategic method to get back control, then read: The Book On Bullies: Break Free in Forty (40 minutes or 40 days), today!
Download or read book Religious Trauma Queer Identities written by Joel Hollier and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a polarised milieu that too often posits “queer” and “Christian” as competing realms, this book explores the complexities of identity development, religious traumatisation, and the task of creating safe faith spaces in which LGBTQA+ people can find healing, particularly in the Evangelical context. First, Joel Hollier examines the historical path of Evangelicalism, providing context for the current terrain of the “culture war” we find ourselves in. He then parses out experiences of gender/sexuality and religious/spiritual identity development, grounding them in an evolving theoretical base. Finally, Hollier offers a rounded critique of Evangelical church structures and mechanisms of trauma that hinder the healing process, along with potential sources of healing. Central to this work are the voices of LGBTQA+ people whose stories weave together a deeper understanding of the harms the Church has perpetrated, and the path forward.
Download or read book The Bully Versus the Prophet written by Maxine Chisholm and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bully Versus the Prophet is a book about my nephew who from the moment he entered into the world had to face many challenges due to his small stature. He was constantly being bullied at school and after repeatedly being bullied, his dad gave him defense lessons. After summer break, Klyn and his family moved, and he had to go to a new school. Klyn found himself being bullied again. While trying to stay on the right path by reading his Bible on his lunch hours, instead of eating, he was forced to use the Word of God to fight off and to get rid of the bully. In the end, Klyn became fed up. He knew by him being a child of God that the words of God were his only defense against the bully. He knew at the age of seven how powerful words were. When the bully left him no other choice because it appeared the bully wasn’t going to stop bullying him, he used the scripture from Psalms, chapter 105, verse 15: “Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.” The next thing Klyn knew, the bully at his new school was permanently kicked out. Klyn overcame his bullying, and you can too. There is zero tolerance for bullying. So let’s all stand up against bullies and end the bullying. No one deserves to be treated unfairly. While bullying is no laughing matter, it’s real and it’s happening every day. Bullies are big monsters that like to pick on people smaller than them because that makes them feel powerful. If you know of anyone being bullied, don’t be afraid to speak up. Let someone, an adult or anyone in higher authority, know and never try to face or take the bully alone. It’s not fun being picked on or to pick on anyone.
Download or read book A Lynching in the Bible Belt written by Mitchell S. Wagner and published by Trafford. This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by a true story, A Lynching in the Bible Belt is an interraccial love story intertwined with a young lawyer's pursuit of justice against a wealthy white supremacist, who, in the guise of Christianity and under distortions of scripture, espouses racism and contempt for "race mixing" and incites a member of his religious fellowship to lynch an African-American high school student and his white girlfriend. Subplots include how the young lawyer gains strength and courage from his upbringing, from his best friend from childhood, and from the woman he loves, and stands up to prejudice after having lived with guilt over his own silence when confronted with prejudice in the past. The story explores the institutional prejudice that still prevades the field of law, how tolerance and racism are both passed on in families from one generation to the next, and the problems of interracial romance in the face of family prejudice. Ultimately, however, the story is about friendship, love, courage, and how they triumph over prejudice. A Lynching in the Bible Belt includes much courtroom drama, including, for sake of accuracy and authenticity, actual legal cases and principles of law, drawing from the author's experience as a trial lawyer.
Download or read book The New World written by Frederick W. Turner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set four hundred years in the future, Frederick Turner's epic poem, The New World, celebrates American culture in A.D. 2376. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book Religion and Ecological Crisis written by Todd LeVasseur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1967, Lynn White, Jr.’s seminal article The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis was published, essentially establishing the academic study of religion and nature. White argues that religions—particularly Western Christianity—are a major cause of worldwide ecological crises. He then asserts that if we are to halt, let alone revert, anthropogenic damages to the environment, we need to radically transform religious cosmologies. White’s hugely influential thesis has been cited thousands of times in a variety of disciplines, including but not limited to religious studies, environmental ethics, history, ecological science, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology. In practical terms, the ecological crisis to which White was responding has only worsened in the decades since the article was published. This collection of original essays by leading scholars in a variety of interdisciplinary settings, including religion and nature, environmental ethics, animal studies, ecofeminism, restoration ecology, and ecotheology, considers the impact of White’s arguments, offering constructive criticism as well as reflections on the ongoing, ever-changing scholarly debate about the way religion and culture contribute to both environmental crises and to their possible solutions. Religion and Ecological Crisis addresses a wide range of topics related to White’s thesis, including its significance for environmental ethics and philosophy, the response from conservative Christians and evangelicals, its importance for Asian religious traditions, ecofeminist interpretations of the article, and which perspectives might have, ultimately, been left out of his analysis. This book is a timely reflection on the legacy and continuing challenge of White’s influential article.
Download or read book Don t Be Bullied by the Devil Take Authority And Fight Back written by Sherri Downs and published by Trilogy Christian Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do I access this abundant life through Christ? I have observed many believers through the years live life broken, defeated, and void of the promises of God. I could not understand why promises were not fulfilled, dreams were not actualized, prophet- ic decrees and declarations spoken over them had not manifested. As I grew in my own faith walk with the Lord, I later came to understand spiritual matters and that the enemy is very cunning and strategic to stop believers from living the abundant life that Jesus mentions in John 10:10, "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. Where was this abundant life and why were there so many defeated believers?" My question was: how do I access this abundant life through Christ? Jesus's arrival on Earth was to defeat death, hell, and the grave. The coming of Christ was the catalyst by which heaven bruised Satan's head and the authority lost in the garden was restored back to man through Christ and salvation. Satan is a defeated foe, and believers must not be ignorant of his devices. This book highlights the many ways that the enemy of our souls attempts to bully believers out of the abundant life that belongs to us through Christ. It is available, and God wants you to abide in it! Lodged within this book are practical strategies on how to take back your authority which has been granted to all believers through Christ. As you read this book, may your faith increase, and the eyes of your understanding be enlightened.
Download or read book The Lights Will Never Fade written by Jackson Baer and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-02-18 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen-year-old Peyton is a typical Midwest girl - until the Shadow helps her escape the most gruesome murder that the small town of Jenks, Oklahoma has ever seen. Soon after, she returns home only to find the rest of her family dead. Haunted by the Shadow ever since, Peyton is not the only one this supernatural being has chosen - and now, no one is safe from its wrath. Escaping to live with her only living relative, Peyton discovers that they both have dark secrets that cannot remain buried. Secrets which fuel the Shadow's vengeance. In the end, can Peyton prevent any more bloodshed, or is there no stopping this supernatural nightmare?
Download or read book Bible Studies from an Asshole written by Ray Cabron and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Christianity, Look, I know you meant well, and I know you did the best you could, but I think it's time that we have an intervention. You've been getting it all wrong. I don't just mean the thing with being self-righteous and not feeding the hungry or caring for the misfortunate. Although that's certainly a part of it. No. It's more than that. It's much more. And I know you prefer everything to be nice and for there to be only clean language. That's part of the problem too. You see, your failure is so bad that I can't help but use bad words. So if you kindly would, please, give this a read. I promise you'll learn a lot about your Bible you did not know, and you'll never see your faith the same way ever again. And maybe then you can get it right for a change. From the author of the blog, Bible Studies from an Asshole, comes this humorous, heartfelt, and outrageously honest and eye-opening work. The Christian faith may never be the same again.
Download or read book Idiot Sojourning Soul written by Justin Rosolino and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is "Christianity"? What's it supposed to be? In a world where Trump, Obama, Putin, and Lady Gaga all claim Christianity as their spiritual home, it's not an easy question to answer. Part memoir, part historical-theological analysis, Idiot, Sojourning Soul tells the story of one former skeptic's exploration of Christian spirituality. Justin Rosolino was raised in a post-Christian context where all gods were up for grabs and all truth-claims equally dubious. While studying political theory in college, Justin found himself drawn to the writings of Augustine, Kierkegaard, and Martin Luther King Jr. Much to his surprise, he resonated with their profoundly Christian accounts of human nature, desire, lack, and love. With wit and scholarly precision, Idiot examines Christianity's historical development, from its ancient beginnings to its current and confounding condition. The result is a must read for anyone who's ever wondered what Jesus was really up to, and why contemporary Christianity bears so little semblance to its namesake.
Download or read book Stop the Bully written by Maria Paguaga-Collado and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you or your child ever been bullied? In this book, youaEUR(tm)ll read a story about a young lady who is getting bullied at school. She relies on God through prayer and learns a variety of non-violent practices to overcome the bullying. Read this with your child or students for a biblical perspective on one of the most common problems children are facing today in their communities.
