Download or read book Agrarian Spirit written by Norman Wirzba and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This refreshing work offers a distinctly agrarian reframing of spiritual practices to address today’s most pressing social and ecological concerns. For thousands of years most human beings drew their daily living from, and made sense of their lives in reference to, the land. Growing and finding food, along with the multiple practices of home maintenance and the cultivations of communities, were the abiding concerns that shaped what people understood about and expected from life. In Agrarian Spirit, Norman Wirzba demonstrates how agrarianism is of vital and continuing significance for spiritual life today. Far from being the exclusive concern of a dwindling number of farmers, this book shows how agrarian practices are an important corrective to the political and economic policies that are doing so much harm to our society and habitats. It is an invitation to the personal transformation that equips all people to live peaceably and beautifully with each other and the land. Agrarian Spirit begins with a clear and concise affirmation of creaturely life. Wirzba shows that a human life is inextricably entangled with the lives of fellow animals and plants, and that individual flourishing must always include the flourishing of the habitats that nourish and sustain our life together. The book explores how agrarian sensibilities and responsibilities transform the practices of prayer, perception, mystical union, humility, gratitude, and hope. Wirzba provides an elegant and compelling account of spiritual life that is both attuned to ancient scriptural sources and keyed to addressing the pressing social and ecological concerns of today. Scholars and students of theology, ecotheology, and spirituality, as well as readers interested in agrarian and environmental studies, will gain much from this book.

Download or read book From Our Land to Our Land written by Luis J. Rodriguez and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luis J. Rodriguez writes about race, culture, identity, and belonging and what these all mean and should mean (but often fail to) in the volatile climate of our nation. His passion and wisdom inspire us with the message that we must come together if we are to move forward. As he writes in the preface, “Like millions of Americans, I’m demanding a new vision, a qualitatively different direction, for this country. One for the shared well-being of everyone. One with beauty, healing, poetry, imagination, and truth.” The pieces in From Our Land to Our Land capture that same fantastic energy and wisdom and will spark conversation and inspiration.

Download or read book This Land Is Our Land written by Ken Ilgunas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private property is everywhere. Almost anywhere you walk in the United States, you will spot “No Trespassing” and “Private Property” signs on trees and fence posts. In America, there are more than a billion acres of grassland pasture, cropland, and forest, and miles and miles of coastlines that are mostly closed off to the public. Meanwhile, America’s public lands are threatened by extremist groups and right-wing think tanks who call for our public lands to be sold to the highest bidder and closed off to everyone else. If these groups get their way, public property may become private, precious green spaces may be developed, and the common good may be sacrificed for the benefit of the wealthy few. Ken Ilgunas, lifelong traveler, hitchhiker, and roamer, takes readers back to the nineteenth century, when Americans were allowed to journey undisturbed across the country. Today, though, America finds itself as an outlier in the Western world as a number of European countries have created sophisticated legal systems that protect landowners and give citizens generous roaming rights to their countries' green spaces. Inspired by the United States' history of roaming, and taking guidance from present-day Europe, Ilgunas calls into question our entrenched understanding of private property and provocatively proposes something unheard of: opening up American private property for public recreation. He imagines a future in which folks everywhere will have the right to walk safely, explore freely, and roam boldly—from California to the New York island, from the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters.

Download or read book Nature and the Human Spirit written by Beverly L. Driver and published by Venture Publishing (PA). This book was released on 1996 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative and timely text advocates an expanded ethic oriented toward ecosystem sustainability and focuses on the role of nature in maintaining the human spirit. Diverse views are put forth in 38 chapters by 49 authors who represent all types of users and interests. This text presents a balanced, in-depth perspective on this difficult topic of hard-to-define values. The text encourages a sense of awe about the complexity of natural systems as it redefines the words spirit and spirituality by redirecting the reader from the realms of the sectarian, religious, or mystical toward a nature-based meaning. This perspective encompasses the physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, social, and economic well-being of people and communities, emphasizing the sameness of humans and land, and it lays the groundwork for an understanding of, and a need for an expanded land management ethic.

Download or read book From God s Hands to Your Land written by Jeanette Strauss and published by . This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Land Mines in Our Spiritual Journey written by Paul Barham and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Land Mines in our Spiritual Journey-this book is a Christian spiritual manual inspired by the Holy Spirit. It teaches us how to recognize Satan's lies and deceptions. How to love, honor, and worship God. How to observe and obey God's laws. How to govern your life responsibly and take responsibility as God's designated authority over the earth. It teaches us how to love and appreciate life and be confident. Everything is made perfect by God-the Creator of all things. God designed our pains, suffering, and failures, not to destroy our lives but to shape our destiny to His glory, to draw us closer to Himself.

Download or read book The Next Mile written by Mike Malkemes and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Next Mile" challenges readers to grow in Christ and to stretch their faith, making decisions that will allow God to change their lives for eternity. (Christian)

Download or read book Of the Land and the Spirit written by Lord Northbourne and published by World Wisdom, Inc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five years before Rachel Carson published her famous work "Silent Spring," Lord Northbourne helped to promote the importance of a holistic approach to the environment. This book not only features Northbourne's previously unpublished writings, but also his private correspondence with Thomas Merton.

Download or read book The Conclusion of the New Testament written by Witness Lee and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on 1985 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Walk in Your Season written by Anita Wamble and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecclesiastes 3 says there is a time and a season for everything and then lists those points in our lives when we experience the good and the bad. Lifes ups and downs are all a part of, and determined by, the spiritual seasons in which we find ourselves. In Walk in Your Season, author Anita Wamble shares a scriptural-based look at how these seasons affect our lives. She discusses how we spiritually enter a new season (spring), journey through trials and tribulations (summer), bloom (autumn or harvest), and go into dormant (winter) seasons as God dictates. Using everyday items such as seeds, soil, land, water, and tools to discuss spiritual seasons, spiritual planting, spiritual sowing, and spiritual reaping, Walk in Your Season helps you identify your current season, accept the season youre in, walk in your current season as you prepare for the next season, and prepare yourself for your harvest season. Through the essential elements of prayer, Gods word, praise, and obedience, Wamble shares what shes learned about the seasons to let others know theres more to their lives than what they are living and to help them achieve their God-given destinies.

Download or read book Land Spirit Power written by Diana Nemiroff and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhibition catalogue for 'Land, Spirit, Power' at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, in 1992, a collection of contemporary art intended as a response and contribution to current discussions on questions of cultural identity, from the specific perspective of First Nations. Includes three essays, and data on each artist.

Download or read book The All inclusive Christ written by Witness Lee and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on 1969 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book LATITUDE 20 04 N LONGITUDE 155 71 W written by R.K. Lindsey Jr. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latitude 20.04°N, Longitude 155.71°W is a Hawaiian story told through snapshots and snippets of the lives of fabled and fictionalized family members named Lindsey, Beckley, and others. Through them, I recall bits and pieces of Hawai i's rich and glorious past, everyday folks living ordinary lives doing extraordinary things. I hope you, as the reader, will be able to relate to and find the tie that binds us as God's children one planet, one people, one purpose. A wide swath of time is covered in this book of short chapters from the creation of the Hawaiian Islands (eighty million years ago), to the landing of our people at Wai ahukini (AD 300), to the arrival of James Cook (1778) and the first New England Missionary Company (1820), to the establishment of sugar and pineapple plantations and cattle empires (1800s), and to the political trade winds that blew across the archipelago; and from chiefdoms to unified kingdom (1819), to provisional government (1893), to republic (1895), to territory (1900), and to statehood (1959). Holly Birch and Mister John are focal characters. Latitude 20.04°N, Longitude 155.71°W is history written in shorthand in a fun, interesting, and dynamic way. I started this journey with that intent. I hope I have achieved my intention. You be the judge. Always with aloha . . . Bob Lindsey.

Download or read book The Spirit of Missions written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society.

Download or read book The Conclusion of the New Testament 4 written by Witness Lee and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Lord’s recovery during the past five hundred years the church’s knowledge of the Lord and His truth has been continually progressing. This monumental and classical work by Brother Witness Lee builds upon and is a further development of all that the Lord has revealed to His church in the past centuries. It is filled with the revelation concerning the processed Triune God, the living Christ, the life-giving Spirit, the experience of life, and the definition and practice of the church. In this set Brother Lee has kept three basic principles that should rule and govern every believer in their interpretation, development, and expounding of the truths contained in the Scriptures. The first principle is that of the Triune God dispensing Himself into His chosen and redeemed people; the second principle is that we should interpret, develop, and expound the truths contained in the Bible with Christ for the church; and the third governing principle is Christ, the Spirit, life, and the church. No other study or exposition of the New Testament conveys the life nourishment or ushers the reader into the divine revelation of God’s holy Word according to His New Testament economy as this one does.

Download or read book The Collected Works of Witness Lee 1965 volume 4 written by Witness Lee and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1965, volume 4, contains messages given by Brother Witness Lee from September 21 through December 26, 1965. Brother Lee spent the final quarter of 1965 in Taiwan and other places in Southeast Asia, during which time he ministered entirely in Chinese. The contents of this volume are divided into six sections, as follows: 1. Twenty-two messages taken from Brother Lee's ministry in Taiwan in September and October. These messages were previously published in Chinese under the title The Way of the Lord's Recovery. 2. Five messages given in Taipei, Taiwan, from September 26 through October 3. These messages are included in this volume under the title The Goal of God's Economy. 3. Seven messages given in Taichung, Chiayi, Tainan, and Kaohsiung, Taiwan, from October 7 through 18. These messages are included in this volume under the title Experiencing the Spirit in the Epistles. 4. Three messages given during a visit to Singapore from November 20 through December 6. These messages are included in this volume under the title God's Original Way. 5. Ten messages given in Baguio, Philippines, from December 23 through 26. These messages were previously published in Chinese and are included in this volume under the title God's Creation, Man's Fall, and the Lord's Redemption. 6. Eleven messages given in Taiwan and several places in Southeast Asia from September through November. Except for chapter 10, which is based on a transcript of the meeting, the other chapters in this section were compiled from notes taken by Brother K. H. Weigh. They are included in this volume under the title Notes on Miscellaneous Messages.

Download or read book The Ministry Vol 02 No 10 written by Various Authors and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of The Ministry contains the third and fourth messages given by Brother Lee to the co-workers in Southern California in September 1996. These messages comprise a timely, loving warning from our brother to beware of four destructive matters: ambition, pride, self-justification and exposing others’ failures and defects, and not conforming to the death of Christ. Trouble after trouble has come to the Lord’s recovery over the years simply because of these four matters. But if we will deal with these four matters, the Lord’s recovery will immediately have a revival. In addition to dealing with these four matters, we must also be right in following others. In actuality, our leading is not a person but the divine truth, the divine vision. Consequently, our following others must be according to the divine truth and the divine vision. The next three messages in this issue are the concluding messages of the Living Stream Ministry’s Summer Training of 1998 on the Crystallization-study of the Epistle to the Hebrews. Message Ten emphasizes the crucial matter of the dividing of soul and spirit for the experience of the reality of the Sabbath rest. Message Eleven indicates strongly that in order for the believers to be brought on to maturity (Heb. 6:1), we must progress from the word of the beginning of Christ—the milk—to the word of righteousness—the solid food. Message Twelve, as a conclusion to the summer training, stresses the critical need of being transformed and of being matured. To be transformed is to be metabolically changed in our natural life, whereas to be matured is to be filled with the divine life that changes us. We need to go on, to be brought on, to maturity by forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before, pursuing toward the fullest enjoyment and gaining of Christ for the uttermost enjoyment of Christ in the millennial kingdom. Ultimately, the Lord’s desire to bring us on to maturity must be matched by our willing cooperation with His gracious work. Lastly, we include a report concerning the International Elders’ Training in October 1998, held on the new campus for the ministry in Anaheim, California.