Download or read book The Neon Church Journal written by Charles Lemar Brown and published by Broken L Press. This book was released on 2023-03-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you’ve dug the hole so deep you can no longer see the light above, it’s time to put the shovel down and start climbing. Hank has hit rock bottom and storm clouds are gathering on the horizon. Does he have what it takes to turn it all around? Can he become the father his son needs? He has fifty-two weeks to get it figured out.
Download or read book Agatha of Little Neon written by Claire Luchette and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Honoree “An enchanting, sparkling book about the many meanings of sisterhood.” —Kristin Iversen, Refinery29 Claire Luchette's debut, Agatha of Little Neon, is a novel about yearning and sisterhood, figuring out how you fit in (or don’t), and the unexpected friends who help you find your truest self Agatha has lived every day of the last nine years with her sisters: they work together, laugh together, pray together. Their world is contained within the little house they share. The four of them are devoted to Mother Roberta and to their quiet, purposeful life. But when the parish goes broke, the sisters are forced to move. They land in Woonsocket, a former mill town now dotted with wind turbines. They take over the care of a halfway house, where they live alongside their charges, such as the jawless Tim Gary and the headstrong Lawnmower Jill. Agatha is forced to venture out into the world alone to teach math at a local all-girls high school, where for the first time in years she has to reckon all on her own with what she sees and feels. Who will she be if she isn’t with her sisters? These women, the church, have been her home. Or has she just been hiding? Disarming, delightfully deadpan, and full of searching, Claire Luchette’s Agatha of Little Neon offers a view into the lives of women and the choices they make.
Download or read book Grit and Grace written by Caryn Rivadeneira and published by Sparkhouse Family. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the grit and grace of seventeen women of the Bible through creative first-person retellings of each person's story. This book connects preteen girls with the women of the Bible, showing them that they are created in the image of God to do mighty things in this world. Grit and Grace is for girls who long to know where they fit in God's kingdom, who want to know they are made for more than the frilly and frivolous, and that they can make a difference in the world around them. Through stories, reflection questions, and action ideas, the book helps readers become the gutsy, grace-filled girls God made them to be.
Download or read book Heart Breaks and Cannon Fodder written by Charles Lemar Brown and published by Broken L Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetic trip through the life of one poet. Laugh at the humor. Cry at the heartbreaks. Soar on the wings of Love. And that just the first half – Lust, Sex, Love, Heartbreaks. Scream at injustice. Plead for change. And Question everything – in Politically Incorrect and Cannon Fodder. Prepare to have your emotions exhausted as you travel through thirty-five years of poetic therapy. But be forewarned, if it’s only nice, sweet innocent poetry you are looking for, this is not the place for you. The poetry within this volume is no holds barred and raw. The poetic voyage from young man to old. From completely lost to new beginnings. And you are invited to share in the journey.
Download or read book A History of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus written by John Hackett and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Post Horror written by David Church and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horror’s longstanding reputation as a popular but culturally denigrated genre has been challenged by a new wave of films mixing arthouse minimalism with established genre conventions. Variously dubbed 'elevated horror' and 'post-horror,' films such as The Babadook, It Follows, The Witch, It Comes at Night, Get Out, The Invitation, Hereditary, Midsommar, A Ghost Story, and mother! represent an emerging nexus of taste, politics, and style that has often earned outsized acclaim from critics and populist rejection by wider audiences. Post-Horror is the first full-length study of one of the most important and divisive movements in twenty-first-century horror cinema.
Download or read book Journals of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd 1998 2002 written by Catechesis of Good Shepherd Publications and published by LiturgyTrainingPublications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd is a child-centered, Montessori-based process of Christian formation. Since 1984, catechists in the United States who have worked in the Catechesis have exchanged the fruits of their work -- children's drawings, work, and prayers; practical ideas and how-to's -- and materials for study and encouragement in an annual journal. These collected journals from 1984 to 1997, and now from 1998 to 2002, provide a valuable resource for Good Shepherd catechists and a history of their work in the United States for anyone interested in knowing more about the Catechesis. Book jacket.
Download or read book Church Advertising Public Relations and Marketing in Twentieth Century America written by John C. Hardin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-12-14 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the complex relationship between religion and business in twentieth-century America. It is the story of how Christianity’s most basic institution, the local church, wrestled with the challenges and compromises of competing in the modern marketplace through adopting the advertising, public relations, and marketing methods of business. It follows these sacred promoters, and their critics, as they navigated between divinely inspired and consumer demanded. Amid an animated and contentious battleground for principles, practices and parishioners, John C. Hardin explores the landscape of selling religion in America and its evolution over the twentieth century.
Download or read book God in Gotham written by Jon Butler and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A master historian traces the flourishing of organized religion in Manhattan between the 1880s and the 1960s, revealing how faith adapted and thrived in the supposed capital of American secularism. In Gilded Age Manhattan, Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant leaders agonized over the fate of traditional religious practice amid chaotic and multiplying pluralism. Massive immigration, the anonymity of urban life, and modernity's rationalism, bureaucratization, and professionalization seemingly eviscerated the sense of religious community. Yet fears of religion's demise were dramatically overblown. Jon Butler finds a spiritual hothouse in the supposed capital of American secularism. By the 1950s Manhattan was full of the sacred. Catholics, Jews, and Protestants peppered the borough with sanctuaries great and small. Manhattan became a center of religious publishing and broadcasting and was home to august spiritual reformers from Reinhold Niebuhr to Abraham Heschel, Dorothy Day, and Norman Vincent Peale. A host of white nontraditional groups met in midtown hotels, while black worshippers gathered in Harlem's storefront churches. Though denied the ministry almost everywhere, women shaped the lived religion of congregations, founded missionary societies, and, in organizations such as the Zionist Hadassah, fused spirituality and political activism. And after 1945, when Manhattan's young families rushed to New Jersey and Long Island's booming suburbs, they recreated the religious institutions that had shaped their youth. God in Gotham portrays a city where people of faith engaged modernity rather than floundered in it. Far from the world of "disenchantment" that sociologist Max Weber bemoaned, modern Manhattan actually birthed an urban spiritual landscape of unparalleled breadth, suggesting that modernity enabled rather than crippled religion in America well into the 1960s.
Download or read book Raised Redneck written by Charles Lemar Brown and published by Broken L Press. This book was released on 2024-03-13 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howdy Y’all. Jimbo, Harold, and the gang are back for some more good old fashion backwoods, countrified, Redneck humor. I have to say that visiting with folks who read Raised Redneck Vol. 1 has been truly amazing. More than a few of them have told me they could see members of their own family in these stories. Or, that they have a very similar story about some of their own kinfolk. This made me realize that there are a few redneck truths about all of us: (1) nearly every family has at least one redneck in it, (2) there are different levels of redneckness, and (3) we all have our redneck moments. With that in mind, it is with pleasure that I share with you this volume of good old down home southern redneck humor. Prepare to have your funny bone tickled.
Download or read book The Christian Science Journal written by Mary Baker Eddy and published by . This book was released on 2008-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: OPEN LETTERS. A Personal Experience. The personal experiences, contributed to your pages,- have been .exceedingly helpful to me, and 1 venture to offer my mite, trusting it may be useful to others, as theirs have been to me. When I studied Christian Science, my teacher impressed on my mind the necessity of taking at least one hour in the day for reading Science And Health, the Bible, and for silent communion. I was determined to do this, and for a year was slowly, but surely gaining in spiritual understanding. But a very subtle temptation came to me, to prove me, in the form of an invitation to spend the winter with some friends, who were wholly absorbed in a life of gayety. They " sat down to eat and drink, and then rose up to play" (1 Cor 10-7). I thought, now is my opportunity to interest these dear friends in Christian Science. I soon found that whatever I did, must be through the language of silence. At first I held to the hour, but gradually the magnetism of my surroundings blinded my sense of Truth to such a degree, that society demands crowded out every other, and I excused myself by saying, it is. no use to try. " While I am with the Romans I will do as they do," and so conformed to the condition of those about me. Often the inner voice would speak to me, but I would answer, " When I get home I will make up for all the hours of time I've taken from Christian Science Study." One evening, in the midst of music and dancing, with the swiftness of an arrow, I was struck with an old belief, of which I had been healed through Christian Science treatment. It returned with tenfold poignancy. I tried to deny and overcome it, but felt that, like Sampson, I was shorn of my strength, and helpless in the midst of the enemy. I was obliged, suddenly, to withdraw from the gay sc...
Download or read book Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Our book table."
Download or read book Dark Days Bright Nights written by Matthew O'Brien and published by Central Recovery Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid and enlightening oral account of homelessness in the Las Vegas storm drains and the hard work of re-entering mainstream society. Are you aware that hundreds of people live underground in the flood channels of Las Vegas? Few people were until Matthew O'Brien grabbed a flashlight, tape recorder, and expandable baton for protection and explored the storm-drain system in depth. This research resulted in his landmark book Beneath the Neon. Now the drains have been covered by CNN, Fox News, NPR, Dr. Phil, the New York Times, the BBC, Al Jazeera, and many other media outlets. They have even found their way on to popular TV shows, including CSI, Criminal Minds, and into mainstream movies. But the fact that several of these drug- and gambling-addicted tunnel dwellers have clawed their way out of the drains and turned around their lives has received far less attention. Dark Days, Bright Nights shares their harrowing stories and provides a unique perspective on one of America's most fascinating cities. It also paints a larger picture of homelessness and recovery in America. These stories are the happy (though not Hollywood) ending to the infamous tunnel tale. The narrative is complemented by bios and stark, black-and-white images of the survivors, putting a scarred, knowing face to the unblinkingly honest accounts.
Download or read book A Protestant Church in Communist China written by John Craig William Keating and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom of religious belief is guaranteed under the constitution of the People's Republic of China, but the degree to which this freedom is able to be exercised remains a highly controversial issue. Much scholarly attention has been given to persecuted underground groups such as Falun, but one area that remains largely unexplored is the relationship between officially registered churches and the communist government. This study investigates the history of one such official church, Moore Memorial Church in Shanghai. This church was founded by American Methodist missionaries. By the time of the 1949 revolution, it was the largest Protestant church in East Asia, running seven day a week programs. As a case study of one individual church, operating from an historical (rather than theological) perspective, this study examines the experience of people at this church against the backdrop of the turbulent politics of the Mao and Deng eras. It asks and seeks to answer questions such as: were the people at the church pleased to see the foreign missionaries leave? Were people forced to sign the so-called "Christian manifesto"? Once the church doors were closed in 1966, did worshipers go underground? Why was this particular church especially chosen to be the first re-opened in Shanghai in 1979? What explanations are there for its phenomenal growth since then? A considerable proportion of the data for this study is drawn from Chinese language sources, including interviews, personal correspondence, statistics, internal church documents and archives, many of which have never previously been published or accessed by foreign researchers. The main focus of this study is on the period from 1949 to 1989, a period in which the church experienced many ups and downs, restrictions and limitations. The Mao era, in particular, remains one of the least understood and seldom written about periods in the history of Christianity in China. This study therefore makes a significant contribution to our evolving understanding of the delicate balancing act between compromise, co-operation and compliance that categorizes church-state relations in modern China.
Download or read book The Presbyterian Journal written by George Aiken Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book More Than a Marathon written by Jack Weitzel MD Bill Barry MD Ken Weitzel DC and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those of you who have followed Dr. Weitzel's writings will be pleased to find that this volume builds on his previous work to provide a rather intimate picture of his life trajectory, rising above personal doubts and challenges to become a general surgeon. His brother Ken and I (who was one of his fellow residents) have added our own vignettes, to flesh out the flavor of these formative years. References to well-known, contemporaneous events add additional historical context. When substantial physical adversities took Dr. Weitzel from active medical practice, he continued to serve his fellow men as a pastor and author. While this book is really a love story for friends and family to treasure, it provides a deeply moving insight into Christian faith.
Download or read book The Powerful Purpose of Introverts written by Holley Gerth and published by Revell. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would it surprise you to know that Joanna Gaines, Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Oprah, Jerry Seinfeld, C. S. Lewis, Max Lucado, and Meryl Streep are all introverts? Even though introverts make up half the population, most people still don't fully understand what it means to be one. Research shows the qualities introverts may see as struggles can be their greatest strengths. Introverts don't need to act more like extroverts to thrive, lead, and make a difference. Instead, they need to truly understand who God created them to be so they can avoid pitfalls like insecurity or anxiety and bravely offer their gifts to the world. In this transformative book, Holley Gerth dives into the brain science behind introversion to help you understand the psychological, relational, and spiritual aspects of being an introvert. She explores how introverts can make meaningful connections, experience quiet confidence, cultivate soul-filling solitude, exercise unexpected influence, and much more. If you're an introvert, or if you love, lead, or share life with an introvert, you need this empowering, insightful book!
