Download or read book Cohabiting Couples and Cold Feet written by Robert W. Prichard and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clergy today are faced with a profound shift in American attitudes about marriage that affects the role they play with each couple. Our society at large today has strikingly different attitudes from those of just fifty years ago. Couples today are more likely to have cohabited before marriage, more likely to have children born out of wedlock, more likely to be married outside of the church, and more likely to be previously divorced than were their counterparts of the mid-20th century. This new pastoral resource, grounded in real-life examples, will be an important new pastoral tool for clergy and seminarians in the Episcopal Church and other mainline Protestant churches. It is organized chronologically, beginning with how to engage the couple making a first-time contact with a member of the clergy. It next unpacks the marriage rite itself, within contemporary and traditional viewpoints. Finally, the book addresses the critically important application of long-term support for the couple throughout their married lives.
Download or read book Liturgical Resources 2 written by and published by Church Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marriage Rites for the Whole: Liturgical Resources 2 includes the marriage rites newly authorized for trial use and essays of pastoral, liturgical, and theological significance to the topic. This resource incorporates "The Witnessing and Blessing of a Marriage," "The Celebration and Blessing of a Marriage 2," "The Blessing of a Civil Marriage 2," and "An Order for Marriage 2" as authorized for trial use by the 79th General Convention.
Download or read book Family Therapies written by Mark A. Yarhouse and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark A. Yarhouse and James N. Sells survey the major approaches to family therapy and treat significant psychotherapeutic issues within a Christian framework, offering timely wisdom for therapeutic practice. Fully updated and revised, this second edition is an indispensable resource for those in the mental health professions, including counselors, psychologists, family therapists, social workers, and pastors.
Download or read book A History of the Episcopal Church Third Revised Edition written by Robert W. Prichard and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thorough, carefully researched history sets church events against the background of social changes. This third revised edition will be up-to-date through the events of the 2012 General Convention of the Episcopal Church.
Download or read book Marriage In Motion written by Richard Schwartz and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Psychiatrists Richard Schwartz and Jacqueline Olds show the reader how to harness the natural rhythms of a relationship to ensure a strong, enduring marriage."
Download or read book Why There Are No Good Men Left written by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008-12-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hard-hitting, groundbreaking exploration of the new mating conditions that are changing the face of love, commitment, and marriage as we know it. A double revolution is at work in modern American love: A revolution in higher education has created the most professionally accomplished and independent generation of young women in history, and a revolution in mating has created a prolonged and perplexing search for Mr. Right. Based on extensive research and interviews, Why There Are No Good Men Left explores the romantic plight of this high-status woman with findings that are sure to rouse debate. Cultural historian, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead documents the new social climate in which the demands of work, the epidemic of cohabitation, the disappearance of courtship, and the exacting standards of educated women are leading them to stay single longer–and to find the search for a mate even harder when the time is right. From the frontlines of college, where dating is dead, to the trenches of corporate solitude, Whitehead reports on a wholesale shift that has stacked the marriage deck against the best and brightest women. The thirty-something, perplexed single woman is today’s new cultural icon. Why There Are No Good Men Left is the first book to take a serious approach to analyzing where she came from and to ask how she can realize her dreams of lasting love.
Download or read book Love Sex Marriage Volume 2 written by Barrington O. Burrell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BISHOP BARRINGTON BURRELL is a senior minister in the New Testament Church of God (UK) for over fort-two years. He is an author, counsellor, Bible teacher and family life conference speaker. He is a graduate from the Ebenezer Bible Institute in Switzerland. His profound love for humanity, coupled with a distinct call of God, has brought him face to face with the practical and spiritual issues of todays generation. He is married to beautiful Maxine, and they are blessed with two grown-up children and four gorgeous grandchildren. He is very committed to his lovely family.
Download or read book Love Sex Marriage Volume 1 written by Barrington O. Burrell Ph.D and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a valuable book on the topical subjects of love, sex and marriage, from a practical Christian perspective. The author uses clear, understandable language to point out the God-given purpose of sex in marriage, and some of the potential dangers of sexual abuse. He explores the early beginnings of new-born babies and their subsequent growth over the years to puberty and adolescence. Teenagers are like strangers in a foreign country. They are experiencing a difficult period of transition between childhood and adulthood. At this crucial stage of their development, young people have a keen interest in fashion, music and sex. Many are sexually active, and some begin to think about marriage and family life, although they often confuse love with lust, and they are not mature enough to assume the responsibility of parenthood.
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Finding Mr Right written by Josie Brown and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of Mr. Right Nows, a guide to Mr. Right . . . Chock full of solid advice, this guide for women offers exercises to help the reader learn more about herself. She then uses that information to recognize mates with compatible qualities. In it are the five myths about Mr. Right, the seven deadly sins that women make while dating, how to spot Mr. Wrong, where to meet Mr. Right, dating DOs and DON'Ts, and much more. • From the editors of John Gray's MarsVenus.com and relationship editors of SingleMindedWomen.com
Download or read book Intimate Partners written by Maggie Scarf and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Anyone involved in, embarking on, or yearning for, an intimate relationship should buy, borrow or steal Intimate Partners.” –New Woman What goes on in our intimate attachments? What patterns of relationships do couples tend to follow, and why? The bonds we create affect every aspect of our lives, and yet our grasp of them is limited by our emotional reactions and learned responses. Now, in Intimate Partners, bestselling author Maggie Scarf gives us the classic book on marriage–on how love relationships are formed and how they change over the course of the marital cycle. Here you’ll discover • how to understand one’s inherited emotional history–and how fits with a partner’s • the fascinating ways in which power and control, and intimacy and autonomy exert strong effects upon the kind of partnership two people create • surprising observations on the role of sex and the impact of children on marriage • why change can be experienced as a form of betrayal–and how to ensure that a relationship matures with, and is not impeded by, each individual’s growth • simple exercises that couples can do to resolve tensions and change the nature of the world they share • verbal and physical techniques to cope with sexual difficulties and enliven a couple’s connection during sex • straightforward methods for how to engage in healthy–not dysfunctional–quarrels Intimate Partners is a book that changes not only how we view love relationships, but also how we live them. “Every marriage contains a story, and it begins long before the wedding, Maggie Scarf tells us in her ambitious, thought-provoking . . . ultimately compelling study. . . . Read it and feel consoled.” –USA Today “Listen to Maggie Scarf . . . and you’ll come away thinking that yes, marriage can be tough, living long-term with another person is one of the greatest challenges there is, but it’s well worth the effort.” –Chicago Tribune “Provocative . . . Scarf writes lucidly and convincingly.” –The Washington Post Book World
Download or read book The Marriage Book written by Lisa Grunwald and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mining centuries and cultures, sources and genres, bestselling editors Lisa Grunwald and Stephen Adler offer answers from ancient history and modern politics, poetry and pamphlets, plays and songs, newspaper ads and postcards. An A-to-Z compendium, exploring topics from Adam and Even to Beginnings, Fidelity to Grievances, Sex to Triumphs. You'll hear from novelists, clergymen, sex experts, and presidents, with guest appearances by the likes of Napoleon and Josephine, Lucy and Desi, Luois C.K., and Neil Patrick Harris. Casanova calls marriage the tomb of love, and Stephen King calls it his greatest accomplishment.
Download or read book New Directions in the Psychology of Close Relationships written by Dominik Schoebi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes for strong and enduring relationships? It is a question of increasing scientific and popular interest as it has become clear that relationships can make life happier, healthier, and longer. In this collection, the reader will find an overview of state-of-the-art research on this question and a glimpse of the new directions that will define the future of this field of study. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, the book offers cutting-edge perspectives on the factors and processes that contribute to strong, thriving, and resilient close relationships. Split into three parts, the first part discusses important factors and processes contributing to strong relational bonds in the form of different types of relationships. The second part spotlights contexts such as culture and gender as the domain for future advances in this area of research. Finally, the last part covers data analytic techniques and future directions. Offering a unique perspective on each topic covered, the authors highlight the promising next steps which will inspire advances in the field in the years to come. Bringing together important trends from different areas of research, this text will make a significant contribution to social psychology and is essential for students and academics interested in the psychology of relationships.
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Stress and Stress Related Diseases Second Edition written by Ada P. Kahn and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information on stresses in the environment, their causes, effects, and possible ways to minimize or eliminate them.
Download or read book Modern Marriage and the Lyric Sequence written by Jane Hedley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Marriage and the Lyric Sequence investigates the ways in which some of our best poets writing in English have used poetic sequences to capture the lived experience of marriage. Beginning in 1862 with George Meredith’s Modern Love, Jane Hedley’s study utilizes the rubrics of temporality, dialogue, and triangulation to bring a deeply rooted and vitally interesting poetic genre into focus. Its twentieth- and twenty-first-century practitioners have included Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Lowell, Rita Dove, Eavan Boland, Louise Glück, Anne Carson, Ted Hughes, Claudia Emerson, Rachel Zucker, and Sharon Olds. In their poetic sequences the flourishing or failure of a particular marriage is always at stake, but as that relationship plays out over time, each sequence also speaks to larger questions: why we marry, what a marriage is, what our collective stake is in other people’s marriages. In the book’s final chapter gay marriage presents a fresh testing ground for these questions, in light of the US Supreme Court’s affirmation of same-sex marriage.
Download or read book Think Like a Shrink written by Emmanuel Dr. Rosen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-07-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion for the Uncouched Based on a highly regarded article in Psychology Today that has been reprinted worldwide, Think Like a Shrink is a personality primer that refines years of psychiatric training into 100 principles. Here you will quickly learn to understand what motivates your boss, your spouse, your parents -- and yourself. Incorporating the most basic fundamentals that drive the human personality, these principles are short, clear, and simple, but not simplistic. They include enlightening observations and real eye-openers, such as: Some people never forgive a favor. In any marriage, there can only be one number one. Too much love may mean hate; too much hate may mean love. Successful neuroses help people fail. Electra and Oedipus keep psychiatrists in business.
Download or read book Cold Feet written by Sonya Rhodes and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1989 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, at last, is a book for the thousands of women who find themselves in a frustrating situation of drawing closer to the man in their life--only to discover that just when things seem to be going great, he backs away. The hottest relationship book of the year!
Download or read book Man in the Dark written by Paul Auster and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2008-08-19 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel exploring war in an alternate post–9/11 America “is an undoubted pleasure to read. Auster really does possess the wand of the enchanter” (Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books) From Paul Auster, a “literary original” (Wall Street Journal) comes a novel that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence. Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident at his daughter’s house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget: his wife’s recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter’s boyfriend, Titus. The retired book critic imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the twin towers did not fall and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union and a bloody civil war ensued. As the night progresses, Brill’s story grows increasingly intense, and what he is desperately trying to avoid insists on being told. A Washington Post Best Book of the Year “Absorbing.” —The New Yorker “Probably Auster’s best novel.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Astute and mesmerizing.” —Booklist, starred review “Auster’s book leaves one with a depth of feeling much larger than might be expected from such a small and concise work of art.” —San Francisco Chronicle “[Auster is] a master of voice, an avuncular confidence man who can spin dark stories out of air.” —Entertainment Weekly
