Download or read book On the Margins written by Human Rights Watch (Organization) and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 2009 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Redemptive Trauma written by David Giffen and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Giffen was once a defrocked priest. Having spent a decade as an Anglican cleric in Southwestern Ontario, David served in leadership in three urban social-justice focused appointments as a priest in the Anglican Church of Canada. David was deprived of ministry and terminated from his appointment as incumbent priest of his parish on December 12th, 2018. He was in his fourth month on medical leave. David was formally accused, investigated and found guilty of sexual misconduct, all while he was drugged out, melting down on social media. As someone working to heal from traumatic stress injuries from childhood, David's diagnosis with Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in 2018 led him to become a public advocate for the de-stigmatization of mental health and addiction issues (especially when related to generational trauma). He quickly learned the challenges and opportunities this presents, as he himself is one of the examples. Redemptive Trauma: Confession of a Defrocked Priest is a memoir embracing hard truths of trauma to help others heal their own. David holds both a Bachelor's and Master's degree from Huron University College at the Western University in London, Ontario. For most of his adult life, David served as a street-involved pastor in Toronto and London. His major focuses of ministry were related to social outreach, restorative justice, and learning to wrestle with life and faith in the rapidly evolving social media age. The author is almost certain that if you don't like stories about sex, drugs, rock stars, alcohol, and the uneven rise and fall of the guilty and the innocent, you probably won't like the Bible either. Or this book. Otherwise, go ahead, dig into both.
Download or read book Copyright Illuminated written by David Nimmer and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For several decades now David Nimmer has maintained a steady flow of insightful, witty, and deeply-informed commentary on copyright in the law journals. His well-earned reputation as a major authority and theorist on copyright law is unassailable. In this new volumeanda companion to his very well received Copyright: Sacred Text, Technology, and the DMCA, published by Kluwer in 2003andNimmer once again tackles some of the thorniest issues that arise in the practice of copyright law, including the following and much more: and the work for hire doctri? and repeat infringers; and fair use determination; and and substantial similarity of computer programs. Although the volume collects articles originally published between 1988 and 2006 (mostly in the past few years), Nimmer has scrupulously updated the texts and woven them together into a unified whole. What the book offers as a result is a microscopic scrutiny of the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976 and all its amendments, with an immeasurable abundance of interpretation grounded in the authorands unmatched familiarity with the law and its application. This is a work that no lawyer handling copyright casesandor indeed no student or scholar of any branch of intellectual property lawandwill want to be without.
Download or read book Catholicism For Dummies written by Rev. John Trigilio, Jr. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are more than one billion Catholics in the world, and each one has a similar set of basic beliefs and practices that he or she follows. Some of the teachings of Catholicism are thousands of years old, while others are more recent. So what is the Catholic culture like and what do they believe? Catholicism For Dummies answers these and many other questions. Whether you’re a Catholic or not, you may be totally clueless or just unaware of some aspects of Catholic traditions, history, doctrine, worship, devotion, or culture. No sweat. Regardless of whether you’re engaged, married, related to a Catholic, or just curious about what Catholics really do believe, this book is for you. Catholicism For Dummies is not a catechism or religious textbook, but a casual, down-to-earth introduction for non-Catholics and reintroduction for Catholics. It gives commonsense explanations so that the next time you’re invited to a Catholic wedding, Baptism, funeral, Confirmation, or First Communion, you won’t be totally confused. You’ll also discover other important topics that can help you better understand the Catholic culture—from morality and devotions to worship and liturgy. This book will familiarize you with Catholicism by showing you: What it means to be a Catholic: traditions, prayers, beliefs, and holidays Who is who in the Catholic hierarchy How Catholics worship What the Seven Sacraments and Ten Commandments are The book regarded as the holiest to Catholics: The Bible The Church’s stand on some sticky issues Catholicism For Dummies presents a rich tapestry and history of the Catholic faith—from devotions to doctrines. This intelligent and faithful look at Catholicism will open your eyes to this religion and answer many of the questions you may have about it.
Download or read book Camp Nameless written by Rain Siyakim Chetdav and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-08-30 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once in a millennium emerges an all-encompassing assisted reality and science fiction novel that exemplifies literary greatness and unique storytelling dexterity. Camp Nameless main character, Leigh-Ellen Srey, a fearless protagonist who welcomes challenges from all aspects of life from flying USAF F-22 Raptor in Iraq to training in artistic gymnastics for the 2024 Paris Olympics in her preteen years. Camp Nameless derives its sequences of events from Leigh- Ellen’s point of view which derives from her dream sequences, and dream sequences within dream sequences; readers will engulf in events such as post nuclear apocalyptic Korea, multiple virtual reality environments, US West Point Military Academy’s outpost summer camp, and military covert operations with multinationals elite troopers. Camp Nameless is an enmeshed-up genres...but the one thing remains constant is Leigh-Ellen Srey’s zany, witty persona: she speaks her mind and outwardly exhibits her personal belief in sense of judicatory for all.
Download or read book Buddhism in Court written by Cuilan Liu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhism in Court is the first English language study of the legal interaction between Buddhism and the state in China. It uncovers a long-overlooked Buddhist campaign for clerical legal privileges that aimed to make ordained Buddhist monks and nuns immune from facing trials and punishment in the state court.
Download or read book Leopold Murphy Defrocked written by David Spitz and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leopold Murphy Defrocked is a wild philosophical comedy about a Catholic priest experiencing a crisis of faith. Our hero-if you can call him that-is not your conventional clergyman. Equal parts angry and inconsiderate, Leo spends his time penning heretical essays, having an affair with his choir director, and stewing in jealousy over his younger brother's success as a televangelist. When a series of unfortunate events leads Leo to embezzle thousands of dollars in charity funds, he uses the money to finance a personal Caribbean vacation, hoping that the trip (make that pilgrimage) will reconcile him with God. Though farcical in many ways, the novel is, at its core, both ambitiously existential and intimately human. It asks hard questions about suffering, faith, jealousy, disappointment, growing old, and the role of religion and art in achieving communion with the divine. Oh, and it's also damn funny.
Download or read book For the Love of Mike written by Mike Royko and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-04-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of more than one hundred columns by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Mike Royko.
Download or read book Blest Be the Tie written by Alexander Lawrence and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BLEST BE THE TIE is the first volume of THE GOINS BRICOLAGE, a comic history of a visionary and his family, and the time and place in which they live. It is the story of Wilton Fox Goins, a highly competent and driven businessman of the first half of the 20th century who aspires to wealth, power and influence for himself, his family, his church and his beloved community of Aschburgh. A clear-eyed fellow, determined to get what he wants out of life, while at the same time doing God's will, Wilton's dreams and aspirations are all too often thwarted by the even greater artistic aspirations of his wife Marva, by the Great Depression and the triumph of his bete noire Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as well as by the grinding provincial realites of life in Tecumseh and Stonewall Counties in the great Hoosier State of Indiana.
Download or read book Thematic Dictionary of Matthew written by Rev. Prof. PETER PRYCE and published by Rev. Dr. Peter Pryce. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problems that we set out to solve were: 1. How do I understand the Book of Matthew? 2. Since the Scriptures testify that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is a mystery, how do I know what the real message is in the Book of Matthew? 3. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is written in parables. Therefore, what technique can I use to find the real meanings and messages in the Book of Matthew? 4. How can I know that I have found the right message? 5. What are the spiritual themes, topics, and doctrines in the Book of Matthew, how do I locate them, and how do I understand them? 6. How many doctrines altogether did Jesus Christ teach in His 3-year Ministry? Those were the questions that prompted this book – Thematic Dictionary of Matthew – Intralingual Translation of Spiritual Themes. In the process, we developed 188 chapters in answers to all those questions. The first five chapters were devoted to academic and theoretical fundamentals that support the research carried out in this book, and they were mostly reproduced from my other published books as referenced at the beginning of each chapter. This has been a qualitative research in as much as it aligns with a Biblical constructivist paradigm of re-interpreting Scripture in a way that impacts spiritual and redemptive thought. We approached this research with methodical data collection from the Book of Matthew. In fact, we did a verse by verse reading and analysis of Matthew followed by an in-depth critical analyses of Scripture and hypotheses, using both inductive and deductive reasoning in the process whereby, if Christians will verify and yield to the teachings contained in this book, their spiritual life would greatly advance to the acknowledgment of the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as recorded in the Book of Matthew. The research in this book also draws from two research methods: (1) Constructive Research methods, using the Perfect Harmony Theory of Translation and Interpreting (Pryce, 2011), by which we developed solutions to some 1,774 Scripture questions on multiple platforms, producing some 7,000 plus pages of Scripture Research, Bible Commentary, and other Christian books in the process. The full list of all my 99 books are listed at the end of this book. The second research method used in this book is the Empirical Research by which we tested the feasibility of the Perfect Harmony Theory for Translation and Interpreting (Pryce, 2011) to discover scriptural solutions to relevant questions.
Download or read book Birth Criminal History and Judgment of the Roman C Church written by Luis Munoz and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a fresh and strictly biblical interpretation of passages which for centuries remained a mystery to the student of Bible prophecy, including "Mystery, Babylon the great, the mother of harlots and of the abominations of the earth." I will explore the myths and deception of Roman Catholicism and their direct connection with the idolatrous worship system of the Mother and Child of ancient Babylon. The claim that Roman Catholicism is the only true Church of Christ on Earth and the claim that man can't find salvation apart from her is the greatest deception the world has ever known. Centuries of moral crisis and sexual exploitation of children speak volumes about the true nature of the leaders of the Catholic Church. The abhorrence of marriage and the negative view of women recorded in the Canon Laws clearly reflect the Gnostic belief on sexual intercourse and the imposition of celibacy. Many people throughout the world equate "Christianity" with everything that is vile, contemptible and depraved. For centuries the Catholic Church suppressed basic human rights. The Church persecuted and brutally murdered those who held beliefs that conflicted with Church dogma. During the horror of the Inquisition tens of thousands of people were tortured, beaten, burned alive, or dismembered, all in the name of a fraudulent faith. Roman Catholicism is the false representation of truth and is the cause great many people have hated and repudiated true Christianity.
Download or read book A Vindication of a Life written by Stephen Baddeley and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continuing story of Tom and Annie. The story of Eli Rubenstein, the only man conceived in Dachau, and the owner of an island in the Calvados Chain off the tail of New Guinea.
Download or read book Siberian Passag written by Innokenty Tolmachoff and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siberian Passage, first published in 1949, is a fascinating look at the land and peoples of far northern Russia in the early 1900s. The author was a member of a Russian scientific expedition which explored the then little known boreal and arctic regions of Siberia, and describes the lives of the natives they encountered, travels by dog-sled, dealing with the many difficulties in travel, including wild extremes in temperature, and provides an insightful overview of the region.
Download or read book Marginalized Voices written by Timothy B. Cremeens and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Orthodox Church has been characterized by some as "the best-kept secret in North America." Making use of personal interviews and correspondence, magazine and news articles, and other publications, Timothy Cremeens weaves the story of a spiritual renewal movement that began in the United States in the early 1960s and rapidly spread around the globe touching millions of Roman Catholics and Protestants, what is today called the Charismatic Renewal Movement. In 2017, this Movement, celebrated its 50th Jubilee anniversary in the Roman Catholic Church. However, Cremeens presents here the never-before heard story of that Movement among the Orthodox Churches in North America. He recounts the history of this spiritual renewal movement through the first-hand accounts and eyewitnesses of Orthodox clergy and laity who testify to their life-changing encounters with the Holy Spirit.
Download or read book Penal Law in Action written by Msgr. Daly, Brendan and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on penal law explains the main topics of penal law, with cases and examples of its implementation, using the changed text of Book 6 of the Code of Canon Law that will come into effect on December 8, 2021. Pope Francis has revised Book 6 of the Code of Canon Law, “Penal Sanctions in the Church,” canons 1311-1399. Of these 89 canons, 63 have been changed and others have been renumbered. Changes include a new canon 1376 concerning the crimes of stealing and misappropriation of church property; canon 1398 §2 making the sexual abuse of minors by religious brothers and sisters a crime; c. 1398 §1 no. 2 making grooming a crime. Other changes in canon law since 1983 have been incorporated into the new book 6. These include raising the age for sexual abuse from under age 14 to under age 18; a 1988 law imposing penalties for recording confessions; penalties for the attempted ordination of a woman; penalties for bishops failing to report or take sufficient measures against perpetrators of sexual abuse; and for clerics using pornography of those under age 18.
Download or read book Rowing in Eden written by Barbara Rogan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ROWING IN EDENSam is not the only tormented soul in the tiny upstate village of Old Wickham. There's also Peter Quinn, a brilliant, troubled fourteen-year-old with quick fists, no past, and a truckload of attitude. Although a judge found him innocent, Peter knows better. Some things, he figures, "it don't matter why you did 'em, only that you did 'em." On its surface, Old Wickham, New York, is a Norman Rockwell montage of red-cheeked youngsters skating on ponds, dogs frolicking in the snow, and villagers huddled around wood-burning stoves. Yet someone in this idyllic community has been setting fires. Suspicions divide the village along the usual fault lines. Scapegoats are sought, outsiders shunned. The back room of the country store gives rise to a Greek chorus of collective rage. In this crucible of distrust, unlooked for alliances are forged, old alliances are tested, and no one emerges unchanged. Alice Hoffman hails Barbara Rogan as a "masterful story teller." The New York Times praises her as a passionate writer whose prose is "as vivid as lightning bolts." Now, with Rowing in Eden, a morally complex story about friendship, love, marriage, and family -- in other words, all the things that matter most -- Barbara Rogan not only fulfills but generously exceeds the expectations of fans and reviewers alike.
Download or read book Realism and Explanatory Priority written by J. Wright and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the central areas of concern in late twentieth-century philosophy is the debate between Realism and anti-Realism. But the precise nature of the issues that form the focus of the debate remains controversial. In Realism and Explanatory Priority a new way of viewing the debate is developed. The primary focus is not on the notions of existence, truth or reference, but rather on independence. A notion of independence is developed using concepts derived from the theory of explanation. It is argued that this approach enables us to clarify the exact nature of the empirical evidence that would be required to establish Realism in any area. The author defends a restricted form of Realism, which he calls Nomic Structuralism. The book will be suitable for professional philosophers of language, science and metaphysics, and their graduate students.
