Download or read book Shelter in a Time of Storm written by Jelani M. Favors and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 Museum of African American History Stone Book Award 2020 Lillian Smith Book Award Finalist, 2020 Pauli Murray Book Prize For generations, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have been essential institutions for the African American community. Their nurturing environments not only provided educational advancement but also catalyzed the Black freedom struggle, forever altering the political destiny of the United States. In this book, Jelani M. Favors offers a history of HBCUs from the 1837 founding of Cheyney State University to the present, told through the lens of how they fostered student activism. Favors chronicles the development and significance of HBCUs through stories from institutions such as Cheyney State University, Tougaloo College, Bennett College, Alabama State University, Jackson State University, Southern University, and North Carolina A&T. He demonstrates how HBCUs became a refuge during the oppression of the Jim Crow era and illustrates the central role their campus communities played during the civil rights and Black Power movements. Throughout this definitive history of how HBCUs became a vital seedbed for politicians, community leaders, reformers, and activists, Favors emphasizes what he calls an unwritten "second curriculum" at HBCUs, one that offered students a grounding in idealism, racial consciousness, and cultural nationalism.
Download or read book A Shelter in the Time of Storm written by Paul David Tripp and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-two meditations on Psalm 27 instruct and encourage believers to worship God through the ups and downs of life. Psalm 27 is a psalm of trouble and worship, of difficulty and beauty, of the evil of people against people, and of the mercy of God. Because of its honesty about life in this fallen world, Psalm 27 speaks into the life of every believer. At the same time it places joyful and self-sacrificing worship right next to the trouble that is the psalm's background theme. This juxtaposition makes Psalm 27 unique, interesting, practical, challenging, and encouraging. A Shelter in the Time of Storm takes readers through this roller-coaster-ride of a psalm in fifty-two brief and engaging meditations. These meditations are designed to fill hearts with a patient hope that grows stronger as the trouble-spotted days go by. Reflection questions at the end of the chapter make these meditations thought-provoking and practical.
Download or read book Refuge in the Storm written by Nathan Jishin Michon and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 24 wise and compassionate Buddhist perspectives on crisis care—contemplative practices and spiritual principles to help individuals, families, and communities in crisis and the care providers who support them. Refuge in the Storm presents a wide range of Buddhist perspectives on crisis care. Written by experienced chaplains, spiritual teachers, psychotherapists, pastoral counselors, medical providers, and scholars, the essays in this timely anthology explore a spectrum of personal and global crises: climate chaos, COVID, natural disasters, racism, social inequity, illness, and dying. Drawing on Buddhist principles and practices, these essays offer a wealth of insights for supporting individuals and communities in crisis as well as preventing fatigue and burnout in care providers. The 24 essays in this anthology show readers how to: • Provide spiritual companionship to ill, aging, and dying clients • Infuse crisis care with mindfulness, compassion, prayer, and even playfulness • Prevent burnout with self-care practices rooted in Buddhist principles • Develop self-awareness and self-knowledge as a care provider • Pursue the path of Buddhist chaplaincy Edited by Nathan Jishin Michon—Buddhist priest, chaplain, meditation teacher, and editor of A Thousand Hands: A Guidebook to Caring for Your Buddhist Community—this one-of-a-kind anthology helps care providers develop the compassion, attention, wisdom, and presence needed to support individuals and communities to move through suffering into healing.
Download or read book Southern Storm written by Terri Blackstock and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blair Ownes knows there is foul play when Police Chief Cade suddenly disappears.
Download or read book Be the Refuge written by Chenxing Han and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-read for modern sanghas--Asian American Buddhists in their own words, on their own terms. Despite the fact that two thirds of U.S. Buddhists identify as Asian American, mainstream perceptions about what it means to be Buddhist in America often whitewash and invisibilize the diverse, inclusive, and intersectional communities that lie at the heart of American Buddhism. Be the Refuge is both critique and celebration, calling out the erasure of Asian American Buddhists while uplifting the complexity and nuance of their authentic stories and vital, thriving communities. Drawn from in-depth interviews with a pan-ethnic, pan-Buddhist group, Be the Refuge is the first book to center young Asian American Buddhists' own voices. With insights from multi-generational, second-generation, convert, and socially engaged Asian American Buddhists, Be the Refuge includes the stories of trailblazers, bridge-builders, integrators, and refuge-makers who hail from a wide range of cultural and religious backgrounds. Championing nuanced representation over stale stereotypes, Han and the 89 interviewees in Be the Refuge push back against false narratives like the Oriental monk, the superstitious immigrant, and the banana Buddhist--typecasting that collapses the multivocality of Asian American Buddhists into tired, essentialized tropes. Encouraging frank conversations about race, representation, and inclusivity among Buddhists of all backgrounds, Be the Refuge embodies the spirit of interconnection that glows at the heart of American Buddhism.
Download or read book Cape Refuge written by Terri Blackstock and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2002 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thelma and Wyane Owens are found dead and their son-in-law is arrested for the crime.
Download or read book Refugee written by Alan Gratz and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling novel from Alan Gratz tells the timely--and timeless--story of three different kids seeking refuge. A New York Times bestseller! JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world... ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America... MAHMOUD is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe... All three kids go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All will face unimaginable dangers -- from drownings to bombings to betrayals. But there is always the hope of tomorrow. And although Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud are separated by continents and decades, shocking connections will tie their stories together in the end. As powerful and poignant as it is action-packed and page-turning, this highly acclaimed novel has been on the New York Times bestseller list for more than four years and continues to change readers' lives with its meaningful takes on survival, courage, and the quest for home.
Download or read book Molly and the Storm written by Christine Leeson and published by Little Tiger Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molly and the mice are caught in a storm. The other animals offer shelter but their nests are too high, too small or too crowded. At last the mice find a safe place but Molly can't settle. She's worried about their friends. So she sets off into the storm to find them...
Download or read book Living with Pandemics written by Bryson, John R. and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an integrated and multi-level analysis of the impacts of COVID-19 on people, place, economies and policies, across the globe, this timely book explores how the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic combines failure with success. It focuses on exploring rapid adaptation and improvisation by individuals, organisations, and governments as they attempted to minimise and mitigate the socio-economic and health impacts of the pandemic.
Download or read book Honor s Refuge Love and Honor Book 3 written by Hallee Bridgeman and published by Revell. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she was just five years old, Melissa Braxton watched her father take her mother's life. Separated from her sister, Lola, at that time, Melissa grew up with a strong desire to help those stuck in abusive relationships. It's why she became a therapist and opened a domestic abuse shelter. After losing a leg to a gunshot wound in the line of duty, Phil Osbourne has felt like a man without a purpose--until he hears Melissa's story and decides to use his Special Forces contacts to track down her missing sister. He knows what he discovers will break Melissa's heart. What he doesn't realize is that helping the women reunite will bring the cartel down on them like the category 5 hurricane striking Miami. Bruised yet not quite broken, Melissa and Phil battle the storm and the cartel, calling on strength they didn't know they had to escape death, save the innocent, and--just maybe--find healing in each other's arms.
Download or read book Shelter in the Storm written by Michael Herzog and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spring, 1944: Maria Herzog is a thirteen-year-old German girl living in Ukraine and praying for the end of World War II. On March 19th, Maria, her father, mother (eight months pregnant), and three younger brothers are put on a small horse-drawn wagon and sent west, along with thousands of other ethnic Germans "liberated" by the retreating Nazi army. Over the next three years, Maria carries her new baby brother in her arms as she trudges alongside the too-small wagon through Romania and Poland, helps her mother protect and feed her four brothers even while she herself must be safe-guarded from soldiers of various armies, survives countless nights in a Berlin air raid shelter, works on a farm in what will become East Germany and, along with her mother and four brothers, is finally reunited with her ex-p.o.w father in what will become West Germany. Multiple, repeated efforts over five years result in Maria and her family coming to the United States, where she can finally leave behind the life of a refugee across half a dozen countries and become an American citizen. She marries a good man and has the opportunity to raise her own children and grandchildren in the peace and freedom denied to her for the fi rst twenty years of life. This is the first-person narrative of Maria Herzog McKeirnan, now 86 years old, and the story of thousands of others like her who survived a communist regime and German occupation in Ukraine, a harrowing 1,500 mile trek through war-ravaged Europe, and countless dangers, as she and her family found various temporary shelters in the midst of the raging storms that were her daily experience of life. Her story is a tribute to the importance of hope and to the resilience of the human spirit in the midst of violence and the seemingly inevitable destruction of civilization. Anyone who is interested in the power of family and its role in human survival will find this story to be interesting, inspiring and restorative.
Download or read book A Place to Hide a Place to Seek written by Thelma Mabry and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you going through a personal storm this very minute? Did you just come out of a storm that left you battered, bruised, and weakened? Do you have days when it seems like the storms just won't cease? If you answered yes to either of these questions, you need a place of refuge. You need a place to hide to prevent further damage and to heal. You also need a place to seek God's guidance and direction for your life. We may not be able to prevent the storms from coming into our lives, but we can have a place of refuge to prepare us to withstand any level of damage. A Place to Hide, A Place to Seek is designed to take you on a journey to achieving the power God wants to see working in our lives. It is designed to prepare you for whatever level of force any storm may bring. The journey begins in the City of Praise. We will then travel a short distance to the City of Prayer. After we have spent some time on our knees, we will journey to the City of Promise. The next important city is the City of Peace. After we have peace, we need the City of Perseverance. We must be able to hang in there. The next city is the City of Prosperity. You have probably been waiting for this city. The last city, the one we need for God to do exceedingly, abundantly in our lives, is the City of Power. Let the journey begin!
Download or read book Refuge written by Jackie French and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliant in construct, compelling and extraordinarily moving, this is a book that speaks to each of us and reminds us that while we mightn't be refugees, we are all newcomers to this country and that everyone has a story worth hearing. When a boat carrying a group of asylum seekers is sunk by a freak wave, Faris wakes from the shipwreck in an Australia he's always dreamed of. There are kangaroos grazing under orange trees and the sky is always blue. On a nearby beach, Faris meets a group of young people who have come from far different times and places. They are also seeking refuge, and each has their own story of why they had to leave their own country to make a new life for themselves. It is only when Faris chooses to return to 'real life' and find his father in Australia that he learns the extraordinary truth about the friends he made in the golden beach.From one of Australia's best-loved authors comes a remarkable story about Australia's long history of migration and the people who make up our country. PRAISE 'French treats her characters sensitively and has crafted an inventive, progressive work of fiction which is sure to have a powerful impact on young and old readers alike' - West Australian 'I was thoroughly moved by Refuge -- or moreover, the people I met within its pages. This is a lyrical, highly imaginative and important book. It allows children to truly experience and FEEL the impact of refugee like and how it has formed the country we are today -- the world we are today' - Kids' Book Review 'It's perfect timing for Jackie French's fictional intervention -- a young-adult novel that inspires an imaginative engagement with the lives of refugees our government so obviously lacks' - The Sydney Morning Herald
Download or read book Refuge from the Storm written by Kristina Hall and published by Refuge. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doubt. Persecution. Forgiveness. Tony Dorence should be dead. But after months in prison, he's home. Yet even at home, he's not safe from trials that hit from every angle. Merri Dorence couldn't be more thankful her brother is home, yet doubts have attacked her newfound faith and left her questioning all too much. When they face a threat greater than either of them could've imagined, will they find refuge from the storm or be overcome by a relentless evil?
Download or read book Refuge written by Karen Lynch and published by Karen Lynch. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To keep the people she loves safe, Sara left everything she knew behind. She soon learns this new world is nothing like her old one, and she struggles to make a place for herself among the Mohiri. But it soon becomes apparent to Sara and to everyone one around her that she is not your typical warrior. As the weeks pass, Sara builds new relationships, copes with her new trainers, and tries to manage her ever-changing powers, while keeping her unique heritage a secret. Looming in the background is the constant shadow of the Master who will do anything to find her. Sara finds herself on a journey of self-discovery that uncovers her true strengths and awakens a part of her she never knew existed. She experiences the delight of new friendships, the sweetness and pain of first love, and a loss so deep it could be the thing that finally breaks her. At the end of it all, she discovers that the one place she was supposed to be safe might not be the refuge she thought it was.
Download or read book Drowned City written by Don Brown and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sibert Honor Medalist ∙ Kirkus' Best of 2015 list ∙ School Library Journal Best of 2015 ∙ Publishers Weekly's Best of 2015 list ∙ Horn Book Fanfare Book ∙ Booklist Editor's Choice On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of the city flooded, in some places under twenty feet of water. Property damages across the Gulf Coast topped $100 billion. One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three people lost their lives. The riveting tale of this historic storm and the drowning of an American city is one of selflessness, heroism, and courage--and also of incompetence, racism, and criminality. Don Brown's kinetic art and as-it-happens narrative capture both the tragedy and triumph of one of the worst natural disasters in American history. A portion of the proceeds from this book has been donated to Habitat for Humanity New Orleans.
Download or read book Shelter from the Storm Devo Lu written by Christian Art Publishers and published by Christian Art Gifts Incorporated. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find shelter from the storms life brings by reading this devotional book with topics on God's provision, comfort, forgiveness, hope and more. A Shelter from the Storm will bring hope to your heart and strength to your soul. As you meditate on the encouraging and inspiring devotions, your heart will be filled with sweet assurance of the comfort and presence of God. These 366 devotions in large print format will encourage you with assurance of the unfailing love of our refuge. The messages are easy to understand and adopt into daily living. The refined design of debossed leaves, foiled title and luxleather cover give this devotional a superb quality. It has full-color insides and gilt-edged pages. The ribbon marker is perfect for keeping your place. Give this handsome devotional book to the special man in your life on his birthday or Father's day. This would also be an appropriate gift of encouragement to give to anyone struggling through a storm brought about by the complexities of life. A presentation page for gift giving is ideal for marking the occasion. Size: 4 1/2 (W) x 6 7/8 (H) LuxLeather Cover Foiled Title Full-Color Insides Ribbon Marker 400 Gilt-Edged Pages 366 Devotions
