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Raven’s Ladder: A Novel
by Jeffrey OverstreetA DEADLY MENACE IS BREAKING THROUGH THE GROUND. THE PEOPLE OF ABASCAR MUST ABANDON THEIR STONE REFUGE AND FLEE INTO VULNERABILITY IN THE FOREST. BUT THEIR KING HAS HAD A VISIONhellip; Following the beacon of Auralia’s colors and the footsteps of a mysterious dream-creature, King Cal-raven has discovered a destination for his weary crowd of refugees. It’s a city only imagined in legendary tales. And it gives him hope to establish New Abascar. But when Cal-raven is waylaid by fortune hunters, his people become vulnerable to a danger more powerful than the prowling beastmen––House Bel Amica. In this oceanside kingdom of wealth, enchantment, and beauty, deceitful Seers are all too eager to ensnare House Abascar’s wandering throng. Even worse, the Bel Amicans have discovered Auralia’s colors, and are twisting a language of faith into a lie of corruption and control. If there is any hope for the people of Abascar, it lies in the courage of Cyndere, daughter of Bel Amica’s queen; the strength of Jordam the beastman; and the fiery gifts of the ale boy, who is devising a rescue for prisoners of the savage Cent Regus beastmen. As his faith suffers one devastating blow after another, Cal-raven’s journey is a perilous climb from despair to a faint gleam of hope––the vision he sees in Auralia’s colors.
Raw Edges
by Sandra D. BrickerGrayson McDonough has no use for teal ribbons, 5k runs, or ovarian cancer support groups now that his beautiful wife Jenna is gone. But their nine-year-old daughter Sadie seems to need the connection. When Annabelle Curtis, the beautiful cancer survivor organizing the memory quilt project for the Ovacome support group, begins to bring out the silly and fun side of his precious daughter again, Gray must set aside his own grief to support the healing of Sadie's young heart. But is there hope for Gray's heart too along the way?
Raw Edges
by Sandra D. BrickerGrayson McDonough has no use for teal ribbons, 5k runs, or ovarian cancer support groups now that his beautiful wife Jenna is gone. But their nine-year-old daughter Sadie seems to need the connection. When Annabelle Curtis, the beautiful cancer survivor organizing the memory quilt project for the Ovacome support group, begins to bring out the silly and fun side of his precious daughter again, Gray must set aside his own grief to support the healing of Sadie's young heart. But is there hope for Gray's heart too along the way?
Raw Spirituality: The Rhythms of the Jesus Life (Renovare Resources)
by Tom SmithHave you ever felt a tension between developing your internal spiritual life and the call to outward service in the world? Those of us who are more naturally activists risk becoming bitter, tired and burned out. Those of us who gravitate toward the contemplative life may struggle to connect our spirituality with the world around us. How do we allow the life of Jesus to flow through our whole bodies into our everyday lives? This book is a result of how Tom Smith held these questions in tension, as Eugene H. Peterson reflects in his foreword: "There is a back story here that is helpful in understanding Tom Smith's fierce focus and energetic imagination. He grew up in South Africa during the years of apartheid. . . . He also was aware that the Rwanda genocide took place in a population mostly Christian. He became a pastor in a flourishing South African church and then came to North America. He experienced the temptation to degenerate church into a consumer program. . . . This book is a witness to what takes place when names trump numbers and stories with their accompanying metaphors keep relationships personal and prayerful." Having Jesus in our hearts is not enough. Jesus calls us to a spirituality that involves our everyday actions and interactions with others and extends our sphere of influence. In this raw, honest, whole-life approach to Christian formation, Tom Smith introduces us into a "rhythm of life" that that brings flourishing to our personal spirituality that then extends to our service in the world.
Rawls and Religion
by Tom Bailey Valentina GentileJohn Rawls's influential theory of justice and public reason has often been thought to exclude religion from politics, out of fear of its illiberal and destabilizing potentials. It has therefore been criticized by defenders of religion for marginalizing and alienating the wealth of religious sensibilities, voices, and demands now present in contemporary liberal societies.In this anthology, established scholars of Rawls and the philosophy of religion reexamine and rearticulate the central tenets of Rawls's theory to show they in fact offer sophisticated resources for accommodating and responding to religions in liberal political life. The chapters reassert the subtlety, openness, and flexibility of his sense of liberal "respect" and "consensus," revealing their inclusive implications for religious citizens. They also explore the means he proposes for accommodating nonliberal religions in liberal politics, developing his conception of "public reason" into a novel account of the possibilities for rational engagement between liberal and religious ideas. And they reevaluate Rawls's liberalism from the "transcendent" perspectives of religions themselves, critically considering its normative and political value, as well as its own "religious" character. Rawls and Religion makes a unique and important contribution to contemporary debates over liberalism and its response to the proliferation of religions in contemporary political life.
Rawls and Religion
by Bailey Tom Gentile ValentinaEstablished scholars of Rawls and the philosophy of religion reexamine and rearticulate the central tenets of Rawls's theory
Rawls, Political Liberalism and Reasonable Faith
by Paul WeithmanFor over twenty years, Paul Weithman has explored the thought of John Rawls to ask how liberalism can secure the principled allegiance of those people whom Rawls called 'citizens of faith'. This volume brings together ten of his major essays (including one new unpublished essay), which reflect on the task and political character of political philosophy, the ways in which liberalism does and does not privatize religion, the role of liberal legitimacy in Rawls's theory, and the requirements of public reason. The essays reveal Rawls as a thinker deeply engaged with political and existential questions that trouble citizens of faith, and explore how - in firm opposition to political realism - he tries to show that the possibility of liberal democracy and the natural goodness of humanity are objects of reasonable faith. The volume will be of interest to political philosophers, political theorists, moral theologians, and religious ethicists.
Rawlsian Explorations in Religion and Applied Philosophy (G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects)
by Daniel A. DombrowskiTo probe the underlying premises of a liberal political order, John Rawls felt obliged to use a philosophical method that abstracted from many of the details of ordinary life. But this very abstraction became a point of criticism, as it left unclear the implications of his theory for public policies and life in the real political world. Rawlsian Explorations in Religion and Applied Philosophy attempts to ferret out those implications, filling the gap between Rawls’s own empyrean heights and the really practical public policy proposals made by government planners, lobbyists, and legislators. Among the topics examined are natural rights, the morality of war, the treatment of mentally deficient humans and nonhuman sentient creatures, the controversies over legacy and affirmative action in college admissions, and the place of religious belief in a democratic society. The final chapter explores how Rawls’s own religious beliefs, as revealed in two works posthumously published in 2009, played into his formulation of his theory of justice.
Rawls's Political Liberalism (Columbia Themes in Philosophy)
by Martha C. Nussbaum Thom BrooksWidely hailed as one of the most significant works in modern political philosophy, John Rawls's Political Liberalism (1993) defended a powerful vision of society that respects reasonable ways of life, both religious and secular. These core values have never been more critical as anxiety grows over political and religious difference and new restrictions are placed on peaceful protest and individual expression.This anthology of original essays suggests new, groundbreaking applications of Rawls's work in multiple disciplines and contexts. Thom Brooks, Martha Nussbaum, Onora O'Neill (University of Cambridge), Paul Weithman (University of Notre Dame), Jeremy Waldron (New York University), and Frank Michelman (Harvard University) explore political liberalism's relevance to the challenges of multiculturalism, the relationship between the state and religion, the struggle for political legitimacy, and the capabilities approach. Extending Rawls's progressive thought to the fields of law, economics, and public reason, this book helps advance the project of a free society that thrives despite disagreements over religious and moral views.
Ray of Hope
by Vanessa Davis Griggs"Vanessa is a superb storyteller." --ReShonda Tate Billingsley"I absolutely love Vanessa's unique writing style. She is one of a kind." --Mary Monroe, New York Times bestselling authorTeen sisters Sahara and Crystal Nichols are acting up, and their risqué behavior is more than their mother can handle. Enter the girls' 75-year-old churchgoing grandmother, Ma Ray, who takes charge of the young women. She's determined to turn their lives around--and knows more about being a bad girl than either sister bargained for. And when they learn of their grandmother's former rebel antics, which were wild enough to rival their own, they begin to appreciate her present-day passion for leading a more productive life--via family, love, and faith. . ."There are enough tears, hugs, and lessons learned to appease readers, young and adult, who like a good dose of faith with their fiction." --Publishers Weekly
Ray of Light
by Shelley Shepard GrayWhen two hearts connect on a beach in Florida, is it a brief romance . . . or the start of a lasting love?After family secrets come to light, causing an uproar, Roman Keim is taking a much-needed vacation to Pinecraft, the Amish snowbird community in Florida. The warm weather is a welcome break from the bleak Ohio winter, as is a week off from all his familys drama. But Romans own drama begins when he meets his next-door neighbors: Amanda Yoder, a beautiful young widow, and her adorable daughter, Regina. In the two years since her husband died, Amanda has never looked at another man. She certainly doesnt intend to get married again. But she cant deny that theres something special between her and Roman. As his week in Pinecraft comes to a close, Amanda knows that, in spite of her attempt to remain distant, shes given Roman a piece of her heart. And her daughter seems to have fallen in love, too. Is there hope for a second chance at love for Amanda? Or will duty call Roman home first, far from the two women who have captured his heart?
Raymond Jonson and the Spiritual in Modernist and Abstract Painting (Routledge Research in Art History)
by Herbert R. Hartel, Jr.This is the most thorough and detailed monograph on the artwork of Raymond Jonson. He is one of many artists of the first half of the twentieth-century who demonstrate the richness and diversity of an under-appreciated period in the history of American art. Visualizing the spiritual was one of the fundamental goals of early abstract painting in the years before and during World War I. Artists turned to alternative spirituality, the occult, and mysticism, believing that the pure use of line, shape, color, light and texture could convey spiritual insight. Jonson was steadfastly dedicated to this goal for most of his career and he always believed that modernist and abstract styles were the most effective and compelling means of achieving it.
La razón de mi esperanza
by Billy GrahamEl Evangelizador de América presenta su obra maestra.¿Quién se rehusaría a ser salvado? Esta es la pregunta que Billy Graham hace a lo largo de este libro. La respuesta es muchas veces sorprendente porque, en efecto, hay personas que se rehúsan a ser salvadas aunque se encuentren en una situación de desesperanza. ¿Por qué? Cada capítulo de este libro atrae al lector planteándole preguntas para su reflexión y usando ilustraciones relevantes que le permitirán observar las diferencias entre lo que piensa el mundo y lo que la Biblia dice.El propósito de Billy Graham es lograr que el lector se interese por contemplar su vida a la luz del aquí, el ahora y el más allá. ¿Quién se rehusaría a ser rescatado de un accidente aéreo, de un naufragio, del incendio de un automóvil o de la bala de un asesino? Se incluyen relatos verdaderos que harán al lector preguntarse qué piensa y cómo respondería a experiencias similares, llevándolo al final a la pregunta más importante de la vida.En lo que podría ser su último libro, Billy Graham presenta el mensaje central que ha guiado su vida y su vocación por más de 70 años. Colmado de nuevas historias y una verdad siempre vigente, Graham invita al mundo a volver a su prioridad espiritual como solo él puede hacerlo. America's Evangelist presents his masterwork.Who would refuse rescue? This is the question Billy Graham asks throughout this book. The answer is sometimes surprising because there are actually people who refuse to be saved, even if they are in a hopeless situation. Why? Each chapter draws the reader in by posing questions for contemplation using relevant illustrations about what the world thinks in contrast to what the Bible says. As Mr. Graham has expressed for decades, his purpose is to engage the reader in considering his or her life in light of the here and now and the hereafter. Who would refuse rescue from a plane crash, a sinking boat, an automobile fire, or an assassin's bullet? True accounts are given that cause readers to ask what they think and how they would respond to similar experiences and to ultimately bring them to life's most important question.In what could be his final book, Billy Graham presents the core message that has guided his life and calling for more than 70 years. Filled with new stories and timeless truth, Graham once again calls the world back to its spiritual priority as only he can. The book coincides with a massive campaign of the same name by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association that will mobilize millions of people in the United States to invite friends and neighbors into their homes to hear the message of Jesus Christ through customized video and a new message from Mr. Graham.
Razor-Wire Dharma
by Calvin Malone Sunyana Graef Steven C RockefellerCalvin Malone has plenty to teach us all about ideas that we rarely associate with the penal system: Dignity. Compassion. Freedom behind bars. He speaks from experience: Malone is nearing the end of a 20-year prison sentence himself.Razor-Wire Dharma is his eloquent, enlightening, and utterly inspiring personal story how he found Buddhism--and real, transformative meaning for his life-despite being in one of the world's harshest environments.Some of his stories are hilarious, some are harrowing, but all express Buddhist wisdom as vividly as any practitioner could hope to do. Malone is living it, and in the unlikeliest of places. For him, the choice of staying true to his principles often requires that he quite literally jeopardize his life, safety, and the few small comforts available to him to try to do what's right.Razor-Wire Dharma makes it clear that if Calvin can do what's right in jail, he can do it anywhere. What's more, it proves that we can, too.
RBG's Brave & Brilliant Women: 33 Jewish Women to Inspire Everyone
by Nadine EpsteinThis collection of biographies of brave and brilliant Jewish female role models--selected in collaboration with Ruth Bader Ginsburg and including an introduction written by the iconic Supreme Court justice herself-- provides young people with a roster of inspirational role models, all of whom are Jewish women, who will appeal not only to young people but to people of all ages, and all faiths. The fascinating lives detailed in this collection--more than thirty exemplary female role models--were chosen by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, or RBG, as she was lovingly known to her many admirers. Working with her friend, journalist Nadine Epstein, RBG selected these trailblazers, all of whom are women and Jewish, who chose not to settle for the rules and beliefs of their time. They did not accept what the world told them they should be. Like RBG, they dreamed big, worked hard, and forged their own paths to become who they deserved to be. Future generations will benefit from each and every one of the courageous actions and triumphs of the women profiled here. Real Wonder Women, the passion project of Justice Ginsburg in the last year of her life, will inspire readers to think about who they want to become and to make it happen, just like RBG.
re: Transitioning Your Church to Living Color
by Mark Deymazre:MIX: Transitioning Your Church to Living Color is a practical guide for pastors, denominational leaders, and lay leaders who are seeking to transition their monoethnic congregations into healthy multiethnic churches of Christ-centered faith. The book is theologically sound, cross-culturally relevant, and based on field research. It provides transferrable lessons and practices that are applicable in a variety of local church and denominational contexts. Authors Mark DeYmaz and Bob Whitesel demonstrate that such transitions are not just timely or optional. Indeed, these biblically grounded transitions are necessary for churches pursuing growth and health in an increasingly diverse society. By becoming a church of living color, existing or declining churches present a more credible witness of God's love for all people and can achieve renewed significance and sustainability. re:MIX is full of instructive, immediately useful information in a clear and easy-to-use format and includes sidebar stories from church leaders in a variety of denominations who have transitioned their congregations to living color. "Wow! This is the practical tool for the church that I have been waiting for. Pentecost didn't occur until the diversity of 'every nation under heaven' was present. This book will become recommended reading for all of my seminary students." --Mike Slaughter, pastor, author, speaker, and activist
The Re-beginning: "The moment is now" Finding the way.
by Benedito Inácio Netobook that will show the way back to living intensely, without fear, sadness or pain. Life continues and you can´t remain still with no response to this precious gift that the Lord bequeathed you. A life is worth more than the whole world, you are too precious to give up on living. When you can not find any more strength to continue your life, know that there is hope, on reading this book, you can take this gift for yourself,which will put a direction in your daily path. If you have lost all hope,stop. Read this work that will guide you to having spiritual growth and it will show you that life is worthwhile. How can we overcome the fears, pains and anxieties which the problems of the world proportion to us? If you are in a great dilemma and you do not know what to do, this book will give you a step by step procedure to leave this abyss of disillusion. Your life will be transformed, believe in this, all is possible in that which brings you strength, life continues and you will have to pull out the roots that secure you in the evils that surround you. Don´t you want to live? know that your life is precious and will not be annihilated so easily, there is Someone who loves you a lot and he does not want you to suffer anymore. He screams your name every day but you do not hear him. Read this work that I have written with the intuition of helping you overcome the problems that involve you in your daily life. Do not let the problems become bigger than you, if you do not know how to re-start your life, here I will teach you what you should do. May God bless you greatly and pray to God to leave this dark phase of your life and turn over a new page to succeed in having more love and peace in your life. God bless you.
Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World
by John Shelby SpongFor two hundred years, scholars have been analyzing one of the most important books ever written-the Bible-and overturning much of what we once thought we knew. Everyday Christians, however, are not privy to this deeper conversation. It is for these people that renowned bishop and author John Shelby Spong presents Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World, a book designed to take readers into the contemporary academic debate about the Bible. A definitive voice for progressive Christianity, Spong frees readers from a literal view of the Bible. He opens the possibility that some of the characters in the New Testament are imaginary composites or even literary creations-such as Joseph, the earthly father of Jesus; Judas Iscariot; Nicodemus; the Samaritan woman by the well; and Lazarus who was raised from the dead. He presents the Bible as an ever-changing and always growing story. He demonstrates that it is possible to be both a deeply committed Christian and an informed twenty-first-century citizen. In this thorough, substantive guide, Spong explores the origin and essential meaning of each of the individual books in the Bible, examining the background, the context, the level of authenticity and even the trustworthiness of the messages found there. He explains why these particular books, written between two and three thousand years ago, came to be regarded as authoritative and preserved as sacred; he traces the pathway that biblical religion has traveled as it evolved through the centuries, and he shows how people have misused many of these texts in the service of their prejudices. Reaching far beyond the familiar Sunday-school stories that have provided the content of most people's biblical knowledge, Spong's journey into the heart of the Bible is his attempt to call his readers into their own journeys into the mystery of God. "One does not," he asserts, "have to twist one's brain into a first-century pretzel in order to take the Bible seriously in this increasingly non-religious world."
Re-Constructing the Man of Steel
by Martin LundIn this book, Martin Lund challenges contemporary claims about the original Superman's supposed Jewishness and offers a critical re-reading of the earliest Superman comics. Engaging in critical dialogue with extant writing on the subject, Lund argues that much of recent popular and scholarly writing on Superman as a Jewish character is a product of the ethnic revival, rather than critical investigations of the past, and as such does not stand up to historical scrutiny. In place of these readings, this book offers a new understanding of the Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in the mid-1930s, presenting him as an authentically Jewish American character in his own time, for good and ill. On the way to this conclusion, this book questions many popular claims about Superman, including that he is a golem, a Moses-figure, or has a Hebrew name. In place of such notions, Lund offers contextual readings of Superman as he first appeared, touching on, among other ideas, Jewish American affinities with the Roosevelt White House, the whitening effects of popular culture, Jewish gender stereotypes, and the struggles faced by Jewish Americans during the historical peak of American anti-Semitism. In this book, Lund makes a call to stem the diffusion of myth into accepted truth, stressing the importance of contextualizing the Jewish heritage of the creators of Superman. By critically taking into account historical understandings of Jewishness and the comics' creative contexts, this book challenges reigning assumptions about Superman and other superheroes' cultural roles, not only for the benefit of Jewish studies, but for American, Cultural, and Comics studies as a whole.
(Re)Create Yourself: Embracing greater self-love to unleash your potential
by Dorota Stanczyk'One of the best written works on self-awareness.' - Mo GawdatFOREWORD BY NEALE DONALD WALSH_____________The greatest relationship we have in life is with ourselves. On the journey to discovering our full potential, embracing self-love is the most powerful step to building self-esteem, confidence and finding happiness.Dorota is a Polish transformation artist, international speaker and wellbeing creator and in her first book she sets us on the path to greater self-awareness, by sharing her life story and her teachings.Full of insight, Dorota shows how we can recognise and unravel our limiting beliefs, dispel overthinking and release feelings of guilt and shame, all of which contribute to our sense of not being enough. Reading this book takes you on a journey of self-discovery, proving that with work, any trauma can be healed. Dorota's encouragement and warmth shines through on every page awakening you to the power of self-compassion, self-care and deep self-love.'Dorota is a talented creative who knows how to inspire. Whether its film, photography or video, she's amazing at creating beautiful art and speaking on the topic of creativity and inspiration.' - Vishen Lakhiani, NYT Bestselling author, Founder of Mindvalley
(Re)Create Yourself: Embracing greater self-love to unleash your potential
by Dorota Stanczyk'This book is my own personal path of self-healing. It describes my path from a lonely, frightened, untrusting and co-dependent little girl, to a woman who taught herself to love herself unconditionally, and who then opened herself to love, and to be loved by others. Who gave herself all her power back.' - Dorota StanczykUsing Dorota's personal path of self-healing and what she learned along the way this book will guide you through the process of accepting yourself unconditionally. It will show you how self-love is the key to personal growth and fulfilment.Drawing on the teaching of some of the most well-respected teachers in the personal development space, and including tools for digging deep into ourselves and asking the key questions, this audiobook provides a clear pathway for personal growth and closing in on the elusive search for happiness.(P) 2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
(Re)Create Yourself: Embracing greater self-love to unleash your potential
by Dorota Stanczyk'One of the best written works on self-awareness.' - Mo GawdatFOREWORD BY NEALE DONALD WALSH_____________The greatest relationship we have in life is with ourselves. On the journey to discovering our full potential, embracing self-love is the most powerful step to building self-esteem, confidence and finding happiness.Dorota is a Polish transformation artist, international speaker and wellbeing creator and in her first book she sets us on the path to greater self-awareness, by sharing her life story and her teachings.Full of insight, Dorota shows how we can recognise and unravel our limiting beliefs, dispel overthinking and release feelings of guilt and shame, all of which contribute to our sense of not being enough. Reading this book takes you on a journey of self-discovery, proving that with work, any trauma can be healed. Dorota's encouragement and warmth shines through on every page awakening you to the power of self-compassion, self-care and deep self-love.'Dorota is a talented creative who knows how to inspire. Whether its film, photography or video, she's amazing at creating beautiful art and speaking on the topic of creativity and inspiration.' - Vishen Lakhiani, NYT Bestselling author, Founder of Mindvalley
Re-creations (Grace Livingston Hill #89)
by Grace Livingston HillWhen lovely Cornelia Copley's mother becomes ill, Cornelia must leave her beloved college and return home to care for her family. But things at home have changed a great deal. Her family is living in near poverty in a shabby and dismal little house. And her younger brother has become rebellious and distant. Cornelia is filled with dismay and self-pity. Then she overhears her youngest brother and her sister calling her self-centered and ungrateful. Suddenly Cornelia realizes that what they are saying is true— she has only been making matters worse! So she devises a strategy to repair the damage she has caused. But is it too late? Can Cornelia find the right way to bring her precious family together again and bring them a renewed sense of faith and hope? There are 85 Books by Grace Livingston Hill in Bookshare's library with more on the way. America’s Best-loved storyteller is the beloved author of more than 100 books. Read and enjoyed by millions, her wholesome stories contain adventure, romance, and the heartwarming triumphs of people faced with the problems of life and love.
Re-enchanting Modernity: Ritual Economy and Society in Wenzhou, China
by Mayfair YangIn Re-enchanting Modernity Mayfair Yang examines the resurgence of religious and ritual life after decades of enforced secularization in the coastal area of Wenzhou, China. Drawing on twenty-five years of ethnographic fieldwork, Yang shows how the local practices of popular religion, Daoism, and Buddhism are based in community-oriented grassroots organizations that create spaces for relative local autonomy and self-governance. Central to Wenzhou's religious civil society is what Yang calls a "ritual economy," in which an ethos of generosity is expressed through donations to temples, clerics, ritual events, and charities in exchange for spiritual gain. With these investments in transcendent realms, Yang adopts Georges Bataille's notion of "ritual expenditures" to challenge the idea that rural Wenzhou's economic development can be described in terms of Max Weber's notion of a "Protestant Ethic". Instead, Yang suggests that Wenzhou's ritual economy forges an alternate path to capitalist modernity.
Re-enchanting the Activist: Spirituality and Social Change
by Keith HebdenAcross the world, grassroots movements for change are growing in number, skill, and impact on society. Finding a place at the intersect between spirituality and politics, these emerging activists are grounded in a deeper understanding of the world they wish to change, and act out of a deep sense that their simple acts can make a difference. With moving first-hand accounts, priest and community organiser Keith Hebden demonstrates what it means to be an engaged and alive human being in a world that is crying out for change, and how to play our part in it. Whether you have recently come alive to the possibilities of activism, or are familiar with the frustrations and challenges of working for change, this book will energise, inform and enchant you.