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Book Nurturing Different Dreams

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katherine Turpin
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2014-10-09
  • ISBN : 163087552X
  • Pages : 157 pages

Download or read book Nurturing Different Dreams written by Katherine Turpin and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly, adolescents and young adults in the United States are racially and socioeconomically diverse, while the teaching population remains predominantly white and middle class. Many youth ministry programs that utilize volunteer mentors recruit adults who are ill-equipped to bridge cultural differences and effectively build sustainable relationships with adolescents who come from different backgrounds than their own. College and university campus ministries that are historically white struggle to provide adequate support and mentoring for students who have traditionally not been represented in the college population. Often, mentoring relationships break down over cultural misunderstandings. As educators who come from backgrounds marked by privilege, Katherine Turpin and Anne Carter Walker draw from their experiences in an intentionally culturally diverse youth ministry program to name the challenges and inadequacies of ministry with young people from marginalized communities. Through engaging case studies and vignettes, the authors re-examine the assumptions about youth agency, vocational development, educational practice, and mentoring. Offering concrete guidelines and practices for working effectively across lines of difference, Nurturing Different Dreams invites readers to consider their own cultural assumptions and practices for mentoring adolescents, and assists readers in analyzing and transforming their practices of mentoring young people who come from different communities than their own.

Book Nurturing Dreams

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  • Author : Fumihiko Maki
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2012-09-21
  • ISBN : 0262311682
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Nurturing Dreams written by Fumihiko Maki and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-09-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unavailable as a collection until now, these essays document both the intellectual journey of one of the world's leading architects and a critical period in the evolution of architectural thought. Born in Tokyo, educated in Japan and the United States, and principal of an internationally acclaimed architectural practice, celebrated architect Fumihiko Maki brings to his writings on architecture a perspective that is both global and uniquely Japanese. Influenced by post-Bauhaus internationalism, sympathetic to the radical urban architectural vision of Team X, and a participant in the avant-garde movement Metabolism, Maki has been at the forefront of his profession for decades. This collection of essays documents the evolution of architectural modernism and Maki's own fifty-year intellectual journey during a critical period of architectural and urban history. Maki's treatment of his two overarching themes—the contemporary city and modernist architecture—demonstrates strong (and sometimes unexpected) linkages between urban theory and architectural practice. Images and commentary on three of Maki's own works demonstrate the connection between his writing and his designs. Moving through the successive waves of modernism, postmodernism, neomodernism, and other isms, these essays reflect how several generations of architectural thought and expression have been resolved within one career.

Book How   What to Pursue in Life

Download or read book How What to Pursue in Life written by Yoon-Jeong Kim and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-23 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do I live as a small human being in this huge universe?' The answer to this question is simple and clear. 'It is to feel genuine happiness.' Then, another question arises. 'How and what makes one happy?' And this question cannot be answered right away. Feeling genuine happiness is something that can't be achieved easily in this world, where many complicated circumstances are intertwined. In order to feel genuine happiness, one must understand oneself, know about the world and see through the universe. You are the one who feels happiness, you can't be happy simply by yourself, and happiness is the universe's response to your choices. This book contains the principles by which the universe responds to your choices. It contains the very specific details. This book elucidates the five constitutions of your mind to help you understand yourself, and it explains the nine essences of how you communicate with the universe to help you understand your fate. Based on such understanding, it guides you to the path to happiness. We ought to be happy, because happiness is the fate, as well as an obligation, that we little human beings, living in this huge universe, have.

Book Dream Director

    Book Details:
  • Author : Krysten Taprell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-02
  • ISBN : 9781922358967
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book Dream Director written by Krysten Taprell and published by . This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arlo discovers that he can stop his dreams from being scary by becoming the Dream Director! Watch as Arlo's dreams go from frightening to funny. What kind of dreams could you direct?

Book Calling All Years Good

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathleen A. Cahalan
  • Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
  • Release : 2017-07-05
  • ISBN : 1467447862
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Calling All Years Good written by Kathleen A. Cahalan and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A uniquely comprehensive discussion of vocation from infancy to old age Do infants have a vocation? Do Alzheimer's patients? In popular culture, vocation is often reduced to adult work or church ministry. Rarely do we consider childhood or old age as crucial times for commencing or culminating a life of faith in response to God's calling. This book addresses that gap by showing how vocation emerges and evolves over the course of an entire lifetime. The authors cover six of life's distinct seasons, weaving together personal narrative, developmental theory, case studies, and spiritual practices. Calling All Years Good grounds the discussion of vocation in concrete realities and builds a cohesive framework for understanding calling throughout all of life.

Book Children s Dreams

Download or read book Children s Dreams written by Kelly Bulkeley and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children’s Dreams teaches readers how to understand and appreciate memorable “big dreams” of childhood. The book introduces readers to the basic psychology and neuroscience of dreaming, then discusses dreams from early childhood through adolescence, exploring why we dream and how dreams can help us enhance creativity and make sense of our lives.

Book Make Your Creative Dreams Real

Download or read book Make Your Creative Dreams Real written by SARK and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-02-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with whimsical humor and tender understanding of human foibles, extensive resource sections, and lots of exercises, "Make Your Creative Dreams Real" is the all-in-one book for everyone who has ever wanted to live a more deeply creative and satisfying life.

Book Conundrums in Practical Theology

Download or read book Conundrums in Practical Theology written by Joyce Ann Mercer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this landmark volume, internationally recognized scholars address with unheralded honesty key intellectual and practical conundrums that not only trouble practical theology but reflect biases and breakdowns in the construction of theological knowledge in academy and religious communities at large.

Book The Handbook of Religion and Communication

Download or read book The Handbook of Religion and Communication written by Yoel Cohen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a contemporary view of the intertwined relationship of communication and religion The Handbook on Religion and Communication presents a detailed investigation of the complex interaction between media and religion, offering diverse perspectives on how both traditional and new media sources continue to impact religious belief and practice across multiple faiths around the globe. Contributions from leading international scholars address key themes such as the changing role of religious authority in the digital age, the role of media in cultural shifts away from religious institutions, and the ways modern technologies have transformed how religion is communicated and portrayed. Divided into five parts, the Handbook opens with a state-of-the-art overview of the subject’s intellectual landscape, introducing the historical background, theoretical foundations, and major academic approaches to communication, media, and religion. Subsequent sections focus on institutional and functional perspectives, theological and cultural approaches, and new approaches in digital technologies. The essays provide insight into a wide range of topics, including religious use of media, religious identity, audience gratification, religious broadcasting, religious content in entertainment, films and religion, news reporting about religion, race and gender, the sex-religion matrix, religious crisis communication, public relations and advertising, televangelism, pastoral ministry, death and the media, online religion, future directions in religious communication, and more. Explores the increasing role of media in creating religious identity and communicating religious experience Discusses the development and evolution of the communication practices of various religious bodies Covers all major media sources including radio, television, film, press, digital online content, and social media platforms Presents key empirical research, real-world case studies, and illustrative examples throughout Encompasses a variety of perspectives, including individual and institutional actors, academic and theoretical areas, and different forms of communication media Explores media and religion in Judeo-Christian traditions, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, religions of Africa, Atheism, and others The Handbook on Religion and Communication is an essential resource for scholars, academic researchers, practical theologians, seminarians, and undergraduate and graduate students taking courses on media and religion.

Book Coming Home to Myself

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marion Woodman
  • Publisher : Conari Press
  • Release : 2001-04-01
  • ISBN : 9781573245661
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book Coming Home to Myself written by Marion Woodman and published by Conari Press. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A meditation book for women seeking to raise to their self-esteem & connect more fully with themselves.

Book Gender in Lorraine Hansberry s A Raisin in the Sun

Download or read book Gender in Lorraine Hansberry s A Raisin in the Sun written by Gary Wiener and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2011-02-10 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landmark play A Raisin in the Sun takes its title from a Langston Hughes poem which poses the questions "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" Focusing on a working-class African-American family in Chicago who save enough to purchase either a business in a black neighborhood or a house in a white neighborhood, the plays exposes issues of racism and gender as the women of the family make important decisions that push against both racial and gender lines. This volume discusses gender in the play, looking at how the female characters fight both racism and male chauvinism, how the play is dominated by strong female characters, and how characters resist the stereotype of the emasculating female. The book also presents contemporary perspectives on race and feminism in the twenty-first century. Contributors include Barbara Ehrenreich, Jewelle L. Gomez, and Sharon Friedman.

Book Bond Beyond

Download or read book Bond Beyond written by Gaurav Sharma and published by Think Tank Books. This book was released on with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bond Beyond: Building and Sustaining Lifelong Love" is a transformative guide to cultivating enduring and meaningful connections. Drawing on psychological research, real-life experiences, and expert insights, this non-fiction gem delves into the intricacies of love and provides practical tools for couples to forge a bond that withstands the test of time. Authoritative yet accessible, the book explores communication strategies, emotional intelligence, and the art of compromise, offering readers a roadmap to navigate the complexities of relationships. With a focus on fostering intimacy and resilience, "Bond Beyond" is an indispensable manual for anyone seeking to build, enhance, and sustain a deep, lifelong connection with their partner.

Book    Same Is Better

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cari Myers
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2022-10-31
  • ISBN : 1793655138
  • Pages : 201 pages

Download or read book Same Is Better written by Cari Myers and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As younger generations drift away from evangelical churches, the number of religiously unaffiliated young adults grows. Is the drift because of politics, personal morality, rebelliousness, culture wars, or something else? In this project, 16 young adults from the Churches of Christ participate in qualitative interviews over a five-year span. They describe messages they learned about success and survival from their faith communities as children, and how they have embraced and reinterpreted those messages into helpful life principles as adults. The resulting study explores issues of ethnicity in evangelical borderland communities and contrasts Latinx narratives with white narratives in religious and educative contexts. Findings also revealed gendered narratives, class-based narratives, and the glaring absence of helpful narratives around sexuality, filtered through the lenses of religion and education. The central finding of the interviews is this: participants experienced the Church of Christ as rewarding conformity with community, a strategy (when it works) which secures the future of the denomination and cements a conservative doctrine in the next generation of leadership. However, the study concludes that true survival narratives were the narratives participants constructed in response to the narratives provided by Churches of Christ.

Book Youth Ministry As Peace Education

Download or read book Youth Ministry As Peace Education written by Elizabeth W. Corrie and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2021 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth Ministry as Peace Education offers clergy, students, and practitioners a new approach to youth ministry-to equip young people to transform violence and oppression as part of their Christian vocation. In this theologically robust and pedagogically innovative and tested resource, Elizabeth W. Corrie shows that youth, like all of us, are meant to work to establish God's shalom-peace, justice, and well-being-on earth as it is in heaven. Book jacket.

Book Embodying Youth

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wesley W. Ellis
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2020-05-21
  • ISBN : 1000038866
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book Embodying Youth written by Wesley W. Ellis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embodying Youth: Exploring Youth Ministry and Disability seeks to help close the gap between disability theology and youth ministry education. What is youth ministry? And who is it for? Christian youth workers and ministers in the West have been answering these questions either implicitly or explicitly for decades. The ways we answer these questions, and the ways in which we go about answering them, have huge implications with regards to the faithfulness and effectiveness of the church’s ministry with young people. These questions have not always been pursued with the experience of disability in mind. In fact, it is often excluded, not only from the academic field but from the church’s practice of youth ministry as well. In this book, scholars and youth workers seek to attend to the questions of youth ministry by putting the experience of disability at the forefront, with hope not only that the church might include young people with disabilities, but also that our very understanding of what youth ministry is, and who youth ministry is for might be transformed, for the sake of the gospel. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Disability & Religion.

Book Destiny s Amazingly Different Dreams

Download or read book Destiny s Amazingly Different Dreams written by Molly Schaefer and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of one amazing girl who understands that being different is BETTER than being ordinary. We each have different gifts + talents to celebrate. Remarkable human beings deserve to be accepted for WHO they are with great JOY.

Book Inquiry Mindset

    Book Details:
  • Author : Trevor MacKenzie
  • Publisher : Elevate
  • Release : 2019-02
  • ISBN : 9781733646840
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Inquiry Mindset written by Trevor MacKenzie and published by Elevate. This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harness the Power of Curiosity to Foster Students' Love for Learning From their youngest years, our children are innately curious. Cultivate an inquiry mindset both as a teacher and in your students! Adopt an inquiry approach that results in the most authentic and inspiring learning you've ever experienced!