Download or read book Freelance Christianity written by Vance G. Morgan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How can you be a Christian and a philosopher at the same time?" This question has haunted Vance Morgan ever since it was posed by a good friend almost thirty years ago. Freelance Christianity is rooted in Morgan's conviction that, far from being fundamentally opposed, truly philosophical energies and a commitment to a vibrant, lived faith are complementary, mutually supporting, and marks of a healthy quest for the divine. This book brings together his training as a philosopher and experience as a person of faith in an investigation of how the life of faith can be lived with a rigorous commitment to the pursuit of knowledge in real time.
Download or read book At the Temple Gates written by Heidi Wendt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his sixth satire, Juvenal speculates about how Roman wives busy themselves while their husbands are away, namely, by entertaining a revolving door of exotic visitors who include a eunuch of the eastern goddess Bellona, an impersonator of Egyptian Anubis, a Judean priestess, and Chaldean astrologers. From these self-proclaimed religious specialists women solicit services ranging from dream interpretation to the coercion of lovers. Juvenal's catalogue suggests the popularity of such "freelance" experts at the turn of the second century and their familiarity to his audience, whom he could expect to get the joke. Heidi Wendt investigates the backdrop of this enthusiasm for the religion of freelance experts by examining their rise during the first two centuries of the Roman Empire. Unlike civic priests and temple personnel, freelance experts had to generate their own authority and legitimacy, often through demonstrations of skill and learning in the streets, in marketplaces, and at the temple gates, among other locations in the Roman world. Wendt argues that these professionals participated in a highly competitive form of religious activity that intersected with multiple areas of specialty, particularly philosophy and medicine. Over the course of the imperial period freelance experts grew increasingly influential, more diverse with respect to their skills and methods, and more assorted in the ethnic coding of their practices. Wendt argues that this context engendered many of the innovative forms of religion that flourished in the second and third centuries, including phenomena linked with Persian Mithras, the Egyptian gods, and the Judean Christ. The evidence for freelance experts in religion is abundant, but scholars of ancient Mediterranean religion have only recently begun to appreciate their impact on the empire's changing religious landscape. At the Temple Gates integrates studies of Judaism, Christianity, mystery cults, astrology, magic, and philosophy to paint a colorful portrait of religious expertise in early Rome.
Download or read book Christian Writers Market Guide 2010 written by Sally E. Stuart and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies approximately one thousand markets for Christian writers, including book publishers and periodicals, each with contact information and submission guidelines, and includes listings of literary agents, poetry, greeting card, music, and photography markets, and contests.
Download or read book Where to Submit Christian Writing written by Jake Doberenz and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Essential Resource for Christian Writers New and Old Searching for where to submit your articles, short stories, poems, scripts, book reviews and more is time consuming and boring. Where to Submit Christian Writing helps you focus on the craft of writing by providing you with a catalog of magazines, websites, and organizations with ongoing submissions for short Christian writing. This guidebook features 34 categories of writing each divided into paid gigs and unpaid gigs. Whether you are interested in only writing on a single topic or love to write everything, there is something for you. Categories include academic writing, devotionals, ministry, health, and lifestyle. In total, there are over a hundred different submission opportunities! Categories Included Academic Book Reviews Biblical Studies Catholic Devotionals Encoruagement & Inspiration Fiction Kids & Youth Marriage and Relationships Ministry Plays and Theaterical Scripts Poetry Songs, Lyrics, or Music Screenwriting and Film And more!
Download or read book The Free Lance Christian written by R. Reed Hervey and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name ?Free Lance Christian? was coined by my wife to appease other questioning individuals about our lack of membership in some manner of religious organization. It seems as though our identity as Christians was supposed to include an affiliation to some sort of church. The term free lance originally referred to a mercenary soldier or military adventurer of the Middle Ages, often of knightly rank, who offered his services to whomever he chose. Also spelled freelance, it has become more popular as the term used for a self-employed person hired to do specific assignments as in a ?freelance journalist?. Therefore, ?The Free Lance Christian? is not intended to promote any religious or church (organizational/denominational) ideology. Actually it attempts to describe the opposite. It is a term that is intended to promote the idea that an individual can have a relationship with God through Jesus the Christ without being under the headship or ascribe to the formulas (doctrines) of any man-made religiously oriented entity.
Download or read book ThirdWay written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monthly current affairs magazine from a Christian perspective with a focus on politics, society, economics and culture.
Download or read book Gracious Christianity written by Douglas Jacobsen and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to vibrant Christian faith for a new generation that demonstrates how believers can manifest the fruit of the Spirit to a watching world
Download or read book Christian Writers Market Guide 2008 written by Sally Stuart and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2009-02-25 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Resource Guide to Getting Published A unique guide to publishing for Christian readers, the Christian Writers’ Market Guide 2008 offers the most proven and comprehensive collection of ideas, resources, and contact information to the industry. For more than twenty years, the Christian Writers’ Market Guide has delivered indispensable help to Christian writers, from a CD-ROM of the full text of the book so you can easily search for topics, publishers, and other specific names; to up-to-date listings of more than 1,200 markets for books, articles, stories, poetry, and greeting cards, including forty-three new book publishers, fifty-one new periodicals, and fifteen new literary agencies. Perfect for writers in every phase, this is the resource you need to get noticed–and published. “An indispensable tool. The reference you have to buy.” Writers’ Journal “Essential for anyone seeking to be published in the Christian community.” The Midwest Book Review “Stands out from the rest with its wealth of information and helpful hints.” Book Reviews for Church Librarians Completely updated and revised the Guide features more than… 1,200 markets for the written word * 675 periodicals * 405 book publishers * 240 poetry markets * 114 card and specialty markets * 37 e-book publishers * 120 literary agents * 332 photography markets * 98 foreign markets * 98 newspapers * 53 print-on-demand publishers * writers’ conferences and groups * pay rates and submission guidelines * more resources and tools for all types of writing and related topics.
Download or read book Christian Writers Market Guide 2011 written by Sally E. Stuart and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-12-27 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only guide written exclusively for this specialized market, this title provides the most up-to-date marketing resource information available to beginning and advanced writers, freelancers, editors, publishers, publicists, and all others interested in, or involved with, writing.
Download or read book Christian Writers Market Guide 2009 written by Sally Stuart and published by WaterBrook Press. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now updated for 2009 comes one of the most comprehensive marketing resources for Christian writers, with information on agents, editors, publisher guidelines, specialty markets, and more.
Download or read book ThirdWay written by and published by . This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monthly current affairs magazine from a Christian perspective with a focus on politics, society, economics and culture.
Download or read book ThirdWay written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monthly current affairs magazine from a Christian perspective with a focus on politics, society, economics and culture.
Download or read book ThirdWay written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monthly current affairs magazine from a Christian perspective with a focus on politics, society, economics and culture.
Download or read book My Name s Johnny Pope written by J. A. Bouma and published by EmmausWay Press. This book was released on with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He Blessed Souls for a Living. Now He Fights Them. For decades, Johnny “Pope” Papadopoulos heard dark confessions, administered last rites, and sat with criminals before execution—weekly reminders the world ain’t right. Finally, he’d had enough. He left the priesthood and put out a private-eye shingle to bring a little light into a very dark world—seeking justice for the very souls he used to shepherd behind the clerical collar. Johnny Pope’s a P.I. for hire, but only taking the cases that put the world to rights. Sometimes the cases come for him, yanking him into the injustice of others but fighting just the same. Johnny’s the guy you want when life comes at you with a left hook that lays out on your backside. He’s a former priest turned private investigator coming for injustices of all shapes and sizes. Dive into five original private eye short story mysteries that will remind you there’s at least one person trying to make things right in a very wrong world.
Download or read book The Christian Moses written by Jared C. Calaway and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two verses about Moses in the Bible have been the subject of debate since the first century. In Exodus 33:20, God tells Moses that no one can see God and live, but Numbers 12:8 says that Moses sees the form of the Lord. How does one reconcile these two opposing statements? Did Moses see God, and who gets to decide? The Christian Moses investigates how ancient Christians from the New Testament to Augustine of Hippo resolved questions of who can see God, how one can see God, and what precisely one sees. Jaeda Calaway explains that the decision about whether and how Moses saw God was not a neutral exercise for an early Christian. Rather, it established the interpreter's authority to determine what was possible in divine-human relations and set the parameters for the nature of humanity. As a result, Calaway argues, interpretations of Moses' visions became a means for Jews and Christians to jockey for power, allowing them to justify particular social arrangements, relations, and identities, to assert the limits of humans in the face of divinity, and to create an Other. Seeing early Christians with new eyes, The Christian Moses reassesses how debates on Moses' visions from the first through the fifth centuries were, in reality, debates on the boundaries of humanity.
Download or read book Speaking of Faith written by Krista Tippett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-01-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thought-provoking, original appraisal of the meaning of religion by the host of public radio's On Being Krista Tippett, widely becoming known as the Bill Moyers of radio, is one of the country's most intelligent and insightful commentators on religion, ethics, and the human spirit. With this book, she draws on her own life story and her intimate conversations with both ordinary and famous figures, including Elie Wiesel, Karen Armstrong, and Thich Nhat Hanh, to explore complex subjects like science, love, virtue, and violence within the context of spirituality and everyday life. Her way of speaking about the mysteries of life-and of listening with care to those who endeavor to understand those mysteries--is nothing short of revolutionary.
Download or read book ThirdWay written by and published by . This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monthly current affairs magazine from a Christian perspective with a focus on politics, society, economics and culture.
