Download or read book Of God and Pelicans written by Jay Byrd McDaniel and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jay McDaniel's book discusses the understanding of God's relationship to all living things, the foundations and guidelines for a life-centered ethic, the understanding of Christian spirituality, and feminism. It is a powerful statement on justice, peace, and respect for the integrity of all creation.
Download or read book The Wisdom of Pelicans written by Donald W. McCullough and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2002 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revered Presbyterian pastor, McCullough saw his world come crashing down when an extramarital affair went public. Overnight he found himself a middle-aged man without a job, a marriage, or a clue about his future. In this heartfelt, deeply moving memoir, McCullough recounts his journey to healing and renewed faith.
Download or read book Lord of the Pelicans and Other Sermons written by Pierre Burns and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-09-28 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of twelve sermons by Pierre Burns explores the wonder and grandeur of God and His Creation, and offers guidance as to how we can honor Him in our relationships with each other and in our daily lives. The Preface by his wife, Mary, relates ways that God shaped their fifty years together
Download or read book The Wisdom of Pelicans written by Donald W. McCullough and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-03 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald McCullough, a respected Presbyterian pastor and president of San Francisco Theological Seminary, watched his world tumble down around him when a private confession of an affair became public. Writing with courage and absolute candor, McCullough describes the pain of hitting bottom, and how watching the pelicans at the ocean shore helped him to recover the hope - and the faith - he thought he had lost forever.
Download or read book The Wonderful Story Of The Pelican written by Joseph Bloch and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, the pelican has been a symbol of love and sacrifice. In this book, readers will learn how pelicans eat, fly and provide for their families.This wonderful bird's connection to the Holy Land is explored in magnificent details, engaging text and inspiring art, informing and entertaining readers of all ages.The author, Joseph Bloch is an American-born writer and educator.He has a deep love for the holy land, its history and traditions. Married with three children, he lives in the Jerusalem area.
Download or read book Like a Pelican in the Wilderness written by Stelios Ramphos and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dialogue with the teachings of the desert fathers, to see what light they can shed on some of the central theological issues of today.
Download or read book The Day of the Pelican written by Katherine Paterson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2009-10-19 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2013 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award Meli Lleshi is positive that her drawing of her teacher with his pelican nose started it all. The Lleshis are Albanians living in Kosovo, a country trying to fight off Serbian oppressors, and suddenly they are homeless refugees. Old and young alike, they find their courage tested by hunger, illness, the long, arduous journey, and danger on every side. Then, unexpectedly, they are brought to America by a church group and begin a new life in a small Vermont town. The events of 9/11 bring more challenges for this Muslim family--but this country is their home now and there can be no turning back.A compassionate, powerful novel by a master storyteller.
Download or read book Consider the Birds written by Debbie Blue and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From biblical times to today, humans have found meaning and significance in the actions and symbolism of birds. We admire their mystery and manners, their strength and fragility, their beauty and their ugliness—and perhaps compare these very characteristics to their own lives in the process. Though admired today, the birds of Scripture are largely unseen and underappreciated. From the well-known image of the dove to the birds that gorge on the flesh of the defeated “beast” in Revelation, birds play a dynamic part in Scripture. They bring bread to the prophets. They are food for the wanderers. As sacrifices, they are the currency of mercy. Highlighting 10 birds throughout Scripture, author Debbie Blue explores their significance in both familiar and unfamiliar biblical stories and illustrates how and why they have represented humanity across culture, Christian tradition, art, and contemporary psyche. With these (usually) minor characters at the forefront of human imaginations, poignant life lessons illuminate such qualities as desire and gratitude, power and vulnerability, insignificance and importance—even as readers gain a better understanding that God’s mysterious grace is sometimes most evident in His simplest of creatures.
Download or read book His Name is Jesus written by Max Lucado and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2009-03-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max Lucado's first book that journeys from the birth of Christ to His resurrection. Drawing from his classic writing on Jesus combined with new reflections and breathtaking art, Max Lucado again opens our eyes—and hearts—to the life and work of the Savior in a way that will change lives forever. “Jesus was, at once, common and not; alternately normal and heroic. One minute blending in with the domino players in the park, the next commanding the hell out of madmen, disease out of the dying, and death out of the dead.” Who was this man who spoke as easily with kids and fishermen as widows and waves? It is the question that has echoed down through the centuries to us today, and here is a visually stunning book that answers aspects of that question.
Download or read book The Way of Beauty written by David Clayton and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Way of Beauty, David Clayton describes how a true Catholic education is both a program of liturgical catechesis and an inculturation that aims for the supernatural transformation of the person so that he can in turn transfigure the whole culture through the divine beauty of his daily action. There is no human activity, no matter how mundane, that cannot be enhanced by this formation in beauty. Such enhanced activity then resonates in harmony with the common good and, through its beauty, draws all people to the Church--and ultimately to the worship of God in the Sacred Liturgy. The Way of Beauty will be of profound interest not only to artists, architects, and composers, but also to educators, who can apply its principles in home and classroom for the formation and education of children and students of all ages and at all levels--family, homeschooling, high school, college, and university. "Since the good, the true, and the beautiful are a manifestation of the Trinity, it is always a grievous fault to leave beauty out of any discussion of the relationship between faith and reason. This being so, I am thrilled at the way David Clayton illustrates how beauty stands in eternal communion with the good and the true."--JOSEPH PEARCE, Aquinas College "In spite of the great proclamation that the sacred liturgy is the font and apex of all we are about as Catholics, fifty years after the Council we still seem far from seeing and living this truth in all its fullness. Drawing upon years of experience as artist and teacher, David Clayton thoroughly unpacks this truth and shows, with an impressive range of examples, how it can and should play out every day in our schools, academic curricula, cultural endeavors, and practice of the fine arts. His treatment of the ways in which architecture, liturgy, and music reflect the mathematical ordering of the cosmos and the hierarchy of created being is illuminating and exciting. The Way of Beauty is a manifesto for the re-integration of the truth laid hold of in intellectual disciplines, the beauty aspired to in art and worship, and the good embodied in morals and manners. Ambitiously integrative yet highly practical, this book ought to be in the hands of every Catholic educator, pastor, and artist."--PETER KWASNIEWSKI, Wyoming Catholic College "In The Way of Beauty, David Clayton offers us a mini-liberal arts education. The book is a counter-offensive against a culture that so often seems to have capitulated to a 'will to ugliness.' He shows us the power in beauty not just where we might expect it--in the visual arts and music--but in domains as diverse as math, theology, morality, physics, astronomy, cosmology, and liturgy. But more than that, his study of beauty makes clear the connection between liturgy, culture, and evangelization, and offers a way to reinvigorate our commitment to the Good, the True, and the Beautiful in the twenty-first century. I am grateful for this book and hope many will take its lessons to heart."--JAY W. RICHARDS, Catholic University of America "Every pope who has promoted the new evangelization has spoken about how essential 'the way of beauty' is in engaging the modern world with the Gospel. What is it about the experience of beauty that can arrest the heart, crack it open, and stir its deepest longings, leading us on a pilgrimage to God? David Clayton's book provides compelling answers."--CHRISTOPHER WEST, Founder and President of The Cor Project DAVID CLAYTON is an internationally acclaimed Catholic artist, teacher, and published writer on sacred art, liturgy, and culture. He was Fellow and Artist in Residence at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in New Hampshire from 2009 until May 2015 and is the founder of the Way of Beauty program, which has been taught for college credit, featured on television, and is now presented in this book.
Download or read book God Bless the Pelicans written by Edward Hartman and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Hartmanas book of poetry powerfully reflects many of his life experiences. The book contains humor, light verse, and serious renderings of love, environment, feelings and impressions that will touch the soul. Readers will discover poems that will remind them of their own experiences. Catching a snapping turtle, love, and growing old are a few of the subjects given poetic expression. Many of the poems will be taken as the readeras own and read often.
Download or read book Celebrate the Sun written by James J. Kavanaugh and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An allegory of celebration in the form of Harry Langendorf Pelican and his family of pelicans who live on a small island off the coast of Mexico.
Download or read book Psalms 101 150 Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible written by Jason Byassee and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible encourages readers to explore how the vital roots of the ancient Christian tradition inform and shape faithfulness today. In this addition to the series, a well-known pastoral theologian offers a theological reading of Psalms 101-150. As with other volumes in the series, this commentary is designed to serve the church--providing a rich resource for preachers, teachers, students, and study groups--and to demonstrate the continuing intellectual and practical viability of theological interpretation of the Bible.
Download or read book The Grief of God written by Ellen M. Ross and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing a wide range of textual and pictorial evidence, the author finds that the bleeding flesh of the wounded Savior manifests divine presence; in the intensified corporeality of the suffering Jesus whose flesh not only condemns, but also nurtures, heals, and feeds, believers meet a trinitarian God of mercy.
Download or read book God of Becoming and Relationship written by Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, DHL and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You no longer have to choose between what you know and what you believe—an accessible introduction to a theological game-changer. "I wrote this book for you if you want to be able to locate your life in a single, encompassing story, one that includes everything from the first moment the universe began until yesterday, a narrative that embraces deepest personal meaning, a yearning to love and be loved, a quest for social justice and compassion." —from the Introduction Much of what you were told you should believe when you were younger forces you to choose between your spirit and your intellect, between science and religion, between morality and dogma: unchanging laws of nature vs. miracles that sound magical; a good God vs. the tragedies that strike all living creatures; a God who knows the future absolutely vs. an open future that you help to shape through your choices. This fascinating introduction to Process Theology from a Jewish perspective shows that these are false choices. Inspiring speaker, spiritual leader and philosopher Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson presents an overview of what Process Theology is and what it can mean for your spiritual life. He explains how Process Theology can break you free from the strictures of ancient Greek and medieval European philosophy, allowing you to see all creation not as this or that, us or them, but as related patterns of energy through which we connect to everything. Armed with Process insights and tools, you can break free from outdated religious dichotomies and affirm that your religiosity, your spirit, your mind and your ethics all strengthen and refine each other.
Download or read book Thank God the Pelican written by Anita DeYoung and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his mother dies just as he hatches, the little pelican takes her last exclamation, "Thank God," to be his name. Now he must learn what he is and how to live in the world without a parent. Luckily, he is helped along the way by a host of friendly animals.
Download or read book The Signature of God written by Jaan Ranne and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces of beauty and structure permeate all corners of the living world. What would you see if you took the time to look more closely? In The Signature of God, Jaan Ranne guides us through the wonders of creation from a Biblical view. This tour of the natural world mirrors God’s first six days of creation. Day by day, we are introduced to the marvellous variety, detail, and power of light, air, land, seas, plants, outer space, and animals of all kinds. The Signature of God invites an appreciation of the incredible diversity found in nature, and Ranne urges his readers to think critically about the science behind a creationist view. This investigation is a testament to God’s infinite wisdom and power, but it is also a lighthearted and accessible learning resource for budding biologists. Covering everything from orchids to Noah’s flood, The Signature of God unearths traces of the divine in every corner of the natural world.
