Download or read book Ghetto Tears of the Gods written by Lee Stokes and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghetto Tears of the Gods is a classic novel that takes us on a journey through the impoverished slums of Little Rock, Arkansas, better known as the gangbanged capital of the South. The tale is about a young black gang leader who is released from the ADC after over a decade. Now his eyes are open to who he is. Dark temptation attempts to influence him to embrace his old gutta lifestyle. He commands a crew of young soldiers. His right-hand man was the notorious Fat Cat, whom he trusts with his life. But he will soon learn that with money and power comes jealousy and envy. While facing the adversities of the ghetto, he meets a beautiful woman named Charlotte, whom he thinks would change his life. The question is, Would it be for the better or for the worse? Charlotte is kidnapped, and Woo is left devastated and puzzled, trying to come up with the ransom money to save the woman of his dreams, a stranger who would turn his life into a living nightmare. So Woo and his goons jump into action, peace, and love.
Download or read book The Gift of Tears written by Corey Russell and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Holy Spirit is bringing the Church to a new place of prayer that we haven't seen in this generation. This kind of praying is prayer on the other side of words and is wrought in a people who have been delivered from their own strength, wisdom, and resource. this kind of praying is ugly, desperate, and vulnerable as God delivers us from our programs, personalities, and strategies, and gifts us the greatest gift He could give: The Gift of Tears. The Gift of Tears is God's work in a people who have come to the end of the themselves and find a new prayer born deep within them: tears.
Download or read book Sweat Blood and Tears written by Xan Hood and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time he graduated college, Xan Hood appeared to have everything a young, privileged modern male needed for success and adulthood. But like so many others his age, he was afraid to take that next step. So he took a slight detour and headed west, surrounding himself wtih a class of men he had been raised to avoid. Follow Xan as he learns lessons that can only be taught by God's grace, hard work, and the presence of older men. Sweat, Blood, and Tears is a searingly honest coming-of-age story. It is a look at how God raises a man--a story for young men and those who love them.
Download or read book Ghetto Revival written by Belinda Guest Weale and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When twelve-year-old Sherza, an exceptional student, walks out with his father in Saint Louis, Missouri, he sees a boy about his age who appears to be homeless. Sherza, a Christian, wants to help him, although his father is hesitant. He warns Sherza that the child could be involved in criminal activity, and does not want him involved with anyone with that background. Sherza persists in his desire to help the young boy and, going against his own better judgment, Sherza's father gives his son some money to share with the child. Sherza introduces himself to the thirteen-year-old boy named Cos, who is in fact homeless. Sherza and Cos immediately become friends, and Sherza learns about Cos' life, including his involvement in illegal activities, such as theft, robbery and drug dealing. Then Sherza and Cos are kidnapped, and Sherza is separated from his family. What can he do to save himself? Is there any way, with all of the gangster members around him, that he can escape poverty and crime, and possibly help spawn a Ghetto Revival?
Download or read book Black Gods of the Asphalt written by Onaje X. O. Woodbine and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J-Rod moves like a small tank on the court, his face mean, staring down his opponents. "I play just like my father," he says. "Before my father died, he was a problem on the court. I'm a problem." Playing basketball for him fuses past and present, conjuring his father's memory into a force that opponents can feel in each bone-snapping drive to the basket. On the street, every ballplayer has a story. Onaje X. O. Woodbine, a former streetball player who became an all-star Ivy Leaguer, brings the sights and sounds, hopes and dreams of street basketball to life. He shows that big games have a trickster figure and a master of black talk whose commentary interprets the game for audiences. The beats of hip-hop and reggae make up the soundtrack, and the ballplayers are half-men, half-heroes, defying the ghetto's limitations with their flights to the basket. Basketball is popular among young black American men but not because, as many claim, they are "pushed by poverty" or "pulled" by white institutions to play it. Black men choose to participate in basketball because of the transcendent experience of the game. Through interviews with and observations of urban basketball players, Onaje X. O. Woodbine composes a rare portrait of a passionate, committed, and resilient group of athletes who use the court to mine what urban life cannot corrupt. If people turn to religion to reimagine their place in the world, then black streetball players are indeed the hierophants of the asphalt.
Download or read book Loving the Soul written by Dr. Samuel White III and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loving the Soul: How to Love should be read by every clergy and professional caregiver who wants to improve their quality of service to humanity, especially the marginalized. Moreover, it should be read by every child of God who wants to know how to listen, learn, and love souls. If you want to be a more loving person and enhance your relationship with Jesus Christ, this book is for you. Loving the Soul: How to Love is an essential training manual that every pastor should have to “equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ” (Eph. 4:12, ESV). This book provides a wide variety of ministries that will help your church fulfill the missionary mandates of the gospel.
Download or read book A Christmas Wish for Junior Up in the Inner City Hood in Uptown Harlem written by Eugene Bolden and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Christmas Wish for Junior Up in the Inner City Hood in Uptown Harlem entails the lives of young people living in the inner city and ghetto of Harlem, New York. This story is based on unity in the community via love, death, friendship, comedy, fun, and personal bonding and love for God. A Christmas Wish for Junior Up in the Inner City Hood in Uptown Harlem is truly a wish becoming a dream, the dream becoming a vision, and the vision becoming totally true and actual reality.
Download or read book May God Avenge Their Blood written by Rachmil Bryks and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: May God Avenge Their Blood: a Holocaust Memoir Triptych presents three memoirs by the Yiddish writer Rachmil Bryks (1912–1974). In "Those Who Didn't Survive," Bryks portrays inter-war life in his shtetl Skarżysko-Kamienna, Poland with great flair and rich anthropological detail, rendering a haunting collective portrait of an annihilated community. "The Fugitives" vividly charts the confusion and terror of the early days of World War II in the industrial city of Łódź and elsewhere. In the final memoir, "From Agony to Life," Bryks tells of his imprisonment in Auschwitz and other camps. Taken together, the triptych takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey from Hasidic life before the Holocaust to the chaos of the early days of war and then to the horrors of Nazi captivity. This translation by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub brings the extraordinary memoirs of an important Yiddish writer to English-language readers for the first time.
Download or read book God Ain t Blind written by Mary Monroe and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Monroe is a masterful storyteller." --Philadelphia Inquirer There are some things even forever friends can't fix. . . Annette Goode Davis is a survivor. Life has often knocked her down, but she's never stayed there for long. To Annette, it's all about family and old friends like Rhoda O'Toole. And right now, Annette needs all the friends she can get. Because lately, her husband, Pee Wee, barely has the time of day for her. And she has no idea why. . . Desperate to regain Pee Wee's affections, Annette goes on a crash diet, gets a makeover, and looks hotter than she has in a long time. Everyone notices--except Pee Wee. So when handsome Louis Baines showers her with attention, Annette finds herself having an affair and spending money on Louis like there's no tomorrow. But when she learns a terrible secret about her new lover, she realizes she's in way over her head. Soon Annette must face the fact that she may have destroyed the life she loved--and this time, not even Rhoda can help her make things right. . . "A fast-paced, sexy, tense story that will make readers think twice before getting tangled up in an affair." --Booklist "Monroe's never better than when she's writing about Annette and Rhoda. . .who are always getting in trouble." --Publishers Weekly
Download or read book From Geek to God the novel written by Eddy Parisi and published by Eddy V. Parisi. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something different! A romantic comedy with action, humor, some geeky nerdy stuff, mild erotic and the most interesting Christian fantasy you will ever read! The book touches back to the 60's highlighting a lot of the old 60's and 70's Rock-N-Roll. Based on real-life experiences. The first 60% is true, but there is a Yellow Brick road type of fantasy journey where the main character meets a series of people out of the Bible that educate him about his life, what happens after life and a very interesting fact about Hell!. You love Tommy because he has a heart of gold, he is a funny class clown and encounters a strange childhood in S. Calif. After high school he went on a road trip that is unbelievable and bizarre, but true experiences. After that he fell in love and had to get a job, with no education he bluffs his way into a high paying job, there he finds his inner genius and makes worldwide developments. Soon enough he is a master Geek! This eventually causes him loss of love and the ability to be social. He gets in an accident and has a yellow brick road type of journey where he meets characters and has an outer body experience, what happens after that you must read to find out! By the way, if you met Jesus, would you argue with him? Tommy did.
Download or read book Confronting the Silence A Holocaust Survivor s Search for God written by Walter Ziffer and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2019-08-10 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this memoir, Walter Ziffer, a Holocaust survivor born in Czechoslovakia in 1927, recounts his boyhood experiences, the Polish and later German invasions of his hometown, the destruction of his synagogue, his Jewish community’s forced move into a ghetto, and his 1942 deportation and ensuing experiences in eight Nazi concentration and slave labor camps. In 1945, Ziffer returned to his hometown, trained as a mechanic and later emigrated to the US where he converted to Christianity, married, graduated from Vanderbilt University with an engineering degree, worked for General Motors before becoming a Christian minister. He taught and preached in Ohio, France, Washington DC and Belgium. He later returned to Judaism and considers himself a Jewish secular humanist. “The compelling story of an unfolding life carried by an insatiable search for meaning.” — Mahan Siler, retired Baptist minister “In Walter Ziffer’s beautifully written new book, you will learn of Walter’s complex life journey, and you may experience, thanks to his skillfully told story and clearly articulated questions and insights, a sense of his presence, the presence of a great man who finds in his own story lessons important for the rest of us, especially now.” —Richard Chess, Director, The Center for Jewish Studies at UNC Asheville “A powerful and unique addition to the literature of the Holocaust. Walter Ziffer’s memoir not only recounts his own personal resilience and survival of the camps, but also his own unusual spiritual journey in which he both becomes a Christian minister while retaining his quintessential Jewish identity. This is a learned, well-crafted, and fascinating new dimension to this literature.” — Michael Sartisky, President Emeritus, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities “The Holocaust portion [of this memoir]... is as true and chilling as a parent’s last words. His tale-telling prowess makes as strong a mental impression as it makes a factual one.” — Rob Neufeld, Asheville Citizen-Times
Download or read book God s Plenty written by W. J. Keith and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion volume to Canadian Odyssey: A Reading of Hugh Hood's The New Age, God's Plenty surveys the short fiction of the writer dubbed Canada's Proust. Hugh Hood, an unparalleled stylist, was equally accomplished in short forms and long: this straight-talking assessment of Hood's stories is thorough, insightful, readable, and profound. With its story-by-story breakdown and rigorous engagement with Hood's technique, God's Plenty offers an excellent introduction not just to an undersung master, but to the art of short fiction full stop. W.J. Keith is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto.
Download or read book Bride of the Sabbath written by Samuel Ornitz and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Tell God from the Devil written by A. Roy Eckardt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Tell God From the Devil is the first book to depict the relationship among comedy, the Devil, and God. Drawing from Jewish and Christian theories, Eckardt describes comedy as a means to distinguish the divine from the diabolic. He presents a thorough critique of efforts throughout history to justify God in the presence of radical evil and suffering. How to Tell God From the Devil is a sequel to Eckardt's fascinating earlier study Sitting in the Earth and Laughing. Eckardt offers a theological vision of the comic, and shows its practical use in differentiating God from the Devil. The viewpoint presupposed is a special application of the incongruity theory of humor, which sees humor as an attempt to deal with inexplicable occurrences. Eckardt shows how humor can make faulty explanations tolerable for examining evil and suffering, particularly the notion that God can somehow be "excused" for the terrible evils extant in the world. Eckardt critiques dualistic views that make the Devil and God independent sovereign beings, and monistic views that try to reduce evil to non-being. Eckardt holds God to be ultimately responsible for evil, in such ways that the only final resolution of evil-if there is such-is a form of divine comedy. Eckardt employs a variety of historical, psychological, sociological, philosophical, and theological sources. He discusses and assesses such diverse figures as Martin Luther, Reinhold Niebuhr, Zen Buddhists, Conrad Hyers, Nancy A. Walker, Jon D. Levenson, and Harvey Cox. How to Tell God From The Devil is an exceptional work, and will be significant and enjoyable for sociologists, theologians, philosophers, and specialists concerned with the study of humor.
Download or read book Bearing the Unbearable written by Frieda W. Aaron and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a pioneering study of Yiddish and Polish-Jewish concentration camp and ghetto poetry. It reveals the impact of the immediacy of experience as a formative influence on perception, response, and literary imagination, arguing that literature that is contemporaneous with unfolding events offers perceptions different from those presented after the fact. Documented here is the emergence of poetry as the dominant literary form and quickest reaction to the atrocities. The authors shows that the mission of the poets was to provide testimony to their epoch, to speak for themselves and for those who perished. For the Jews in the condemned world, this poetry was a vehicle of cultural sustenance, a means of affirming traditional values, and an expression of moral defiance that often kept the spirit of the readers from dying. The explication of the poetry (which has been translated by the author) offer challenging implications for the field of critical theory, including shifts in literary practices—prompted by the growing atrocities—that reveal a spectrum of complex experimental techniques..
Download or read book How the Hood Was Healed written by The Heal The Hood Foundation Of Memphis and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Latino Studies written by Ilan Stavans and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century, the Latino minority, the biggest and fastest growing in the United States, is at a crossroads. Is assimilation taking place in comparable ways to previous immigrant groups? Are the links to the countries of origin being redefined in the age of contested globalism? How are Latinos changing America and how is America changing Latinos? The Oxford Handbook of Latino Studies reflects on these questions, offering a sweeping exploration of Latinas and Latinos' complex experiences in the United States. Edited by leading expert Ilan Stavans, the handbook traces the emergence of Latino studies as a vibrant and interdisciplinary field of research starting in the 1980s, assessing the current state of the discipline while suggesting new paths for exploration. With its twenty-three essays and a conversation by established and emerging scholars, the book discusses various aspects of Latino life and history, from literature, popular culture, and music, to religion, philosophy, and language identity. The articles present new interpretations of important themes such as the Chicano Movement, gender and race relations, the changes in demographics, the tension between rural and urban communities, immigration and the US/Mexico border, the legacy of colonialism, and the controversy surrounding Spanglish. The first handbook on Latino Studies, this collection offers a multifaceted and thought-provoking look at how Latinos are redefining the American identity.
