Reframing Pilgrimage considers the meanings of pilgrimage in Christian, Mormon, Hindu, Islamic and Sufi traditions, as well as in secular contexts. [Read more...]
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You've searched a lifetime for that special person, but how can you be absolutely certain that you've found "The One"? And more important, how can you hold on to that love for the rest of your life? More Than a Match explores the "compatibility factor," demystifying the science behind matchmaking and giving you the tools you need to find the love you want. You'll learn how to apply the specifics of good compatibility to a prospective date or mate, as well as how to break things off when you find yourself in the wrong relationship. But since great relationships aren't built on compatibility alone, marriage experts Michael and Amy Smalley also delve into the "forever factor," giving you the skills you need to turn your romance into a lifelong love affair. You'll learn how to deal with conflict, how to develop a healthy sex life, and how to recover when you inevitably hurt one another. Fantastic marriages begin long before the exchange of the rings; they start when two people in search of love commit themselves to learning to how to love well - and forever. Because finding and keeping the love of your life is about much More Than a Match. [Read more...]
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When a brilliant billionaire is diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer, he realizes that all his considerable wealth cannot prepare him to meet his Maker. But he has an idea that might: He will stage life's greatest reality show. With his true agenda hidden, he auditions followers from all the world's major religions, inviting them to the trial of their lives on a remote island, defending their spiritual beliefs against all challenges. Oliver Finney, a feisty old judge with his own secrets, is "chosen" to defend Christianity. As the program takes a strange twist, he quickly realizes that he's trapped in a game of deadly agendas that may cost him his life. With internet access monitored, Finney sends coded messages to his former law clerk, Nikki Moreno. Aided by a teen crypto-geek, Nikki soon discovers the key to understanding Finney's clues in an apologetics book, The Cross Examination of Jesus Christ. In a unique twist, readers are invited to join Nikki in a race against time as she struggles to decipher the mysteries contained in the ancient words of Christ before her former boss dies defending them. [Read more...]
The Boundary Waters region of Minnesota and Ontario is a vast wilderness of quiet beauty, visited and loved by many, but home to only a rugged few. In 1928, Justine Kerfoot arrived, a Northwestern University graduate student headed for medical school until her family lost both their Illinois homes in the stock market crash. Thrust into year-round life at her mother's fledgling summer resort, Justine was confronted with learning survival in the frigid north woods, a challenge she met with extraordinary verve and recounts with great candor and humor in this remarkable book. As she relates her lessons from the Canadian Indians across the lakehow to paddle a canoe, hunt moose, drive a dog team, and stay warm at minus 40 degreesKerfoot gives us a rich sense of the world of the Indians and fur trappers. Telling the story of settlement in this rough resort area fifty miles from a town, she describes the effects of depression and forest fires and the struggles for modernization in the wild. Kerfoot has paddled all the lakes and streams in this border country, and she knows them well. Her lyrical descriptions of wildlife and seasonal environments express the deep reverence for nature that has become her way of life. In a final chapter, she reflects on the impact of restricted wilderness status on the regioncalled the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness since 1978and on her own convictions about people living in the wild. [Read more...]
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Based on the beloved top-grossing comedy, Animal House takes you from Rush Week to the Homecoming Parade, with Bluto, Otter, and the entire cast of characters for "individual acts of perversion so profound and disgusting that decorum prohibits listing them here." The novelization includes dialogue from the movie, original full-color art, and stills from the film, plus bonus behind-the-scenes photos of the cast and crew in action. Written by Animal House co-writer and National Lampoon Magazine legend Chris Miller, the book includes excerpts from the Faber "Orientation Booklet" and Daily Faberian newspaper, plus a new introduction and updated "Where are they now" section. [Read more...]
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Popular recording artist and worship leader Michael W. Smith speaks directly to teens on the topic of worship, encouraging people to live lives of more complete worship to God. [Read more...]
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Humorous retellings of three Bible stores about obedience, each with an introduction and follow-up by "Mr. Henry," who relates the experiences of Adam, Eve, Jonah, and Joshua to modern life. [Read more...]
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Jr High Character Vol. 1 - Attitudes Student Guide
This curriculum is built around three ready-to-change indicators: Attitude, Awareness and Accountability. Each session helps students gauge if they are ready to make the changes in their character that need to take place. Lesson Topics: Love Joy Peace Patience Each lesson in the Student Guide contains: Definition of the topic A relevant example of someone living out this principle A bible study with discovery questions Action steps to live out each principle The corresponding Facilitator's Guide builds on the Student Guide and contains the following additional information: Leader intro Team activities Movie clip ideas Additional resources Learning about character is a great way to help students start the process of becoming a leader. We all know that character is important to leadership. It only takes a second to think of the many leaders in ministry who have fallen because of a chink in their armor of character. We need to help Jr. High students come to the realization that developing godly character is necessary to their spiritual growth. This is what the Character Series is all about. Number of Lessons: 4 [Read more...]
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Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages
Nothing less than a rethinking of what we mean when we talk about "men" and "women" of the medieval period, this volume demonstrates how the idea of genderin the Middle Ages no less than nowintersected in subtle and complex ways with other categories of difference. Responding to the insights of postcolonial and feminist theory, the authors show that medieval identities emerged through shifting paradigmsthat fluidity, conflict, and contingency characterized not only gender, but also sexuality, social status, and religion. This view emerges through essays that delve into a wide variety of cultures and draw on a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical approaches. Scholars in the fields of history as well as literary and religious studies consider gendered hierarchies in western Christian, Jewish, Byzantine, and Islamic areas of the medieval world.Contributors: Daniel Boyarin, Ruth Mazo Karras, Mathew Kuefler, Martha Newman, Kathryn M. Ringrose, Elizabeth Robertson, Everett Rowson, Michael Uebel, Ulrike Wiethaus [Read more...]
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Carnival Theater
The murgas are troupes of performers, musicians, writers, and creators who, during Montevideos Carnival, perform on the tablados, temporary stages built in the neighborhoods of Uruguays capital city each year. Throughout the period of Uruguays subjection to a brutal dictatorship and in the following era of democratization, the murgas, envisioned originally as popular theater, were transformed into a symbol of social resistance, celebrated by many and perceived by others as menacing and subversive. Focusing on the cultural practices of the lower classes and more specifically on the processes and productions of the murgas, Gustavo Remedis Carnival Theater is a deeply thoughtful consideration of Uruguayan societys identity crisis and subsequent redefinition in the wake of the authoritarian-bureaucratic-technocratic regimes of the 1970s. A revealing work of cultural criticism, the book proposes a new set of criteria for the interpretation and critique of national culture. [Read more...]
What's your hurry? Navigate this elegant, history-steeped port in customary laid-back fashion. From the main attractions to the best local places, let this map guide you through your own Amsterdam experience. [Read more...]
Plunge into real life... If you can't cook, always shrink your socks, and have no idea where to find your stove's pilot light, check out this excellent guide to living on your own. [Read more...]
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States of Emergency
A passionate argument for the importance of radical documentary and experimental filmmaking in the face of rapid technological and political change. Todays political, technological, and aesthetic landscapes are rife with landmines. In this embattled milieu, leftist filmmakers and conservatives struggle for control of the national imaginary. Amid unprecedented mergers and consolidations, political conservatives have launched major attacks against the National Endowment for the Arts, the Public Broadcasting System, state arts councils, and other sponsors of oppositional programming. Meanwhile, developing technologies like satellites and the Internet have not only altered and globalized communication but also offer untapped possibilities for reconstructing democracies. All of these events signal a radical transformation in how we will view the world in the decades to come. In States of Emergency, Patricia R. Zimmermann describes the shifting terrains socially engaged documentary artists and experimental filmmakers encounter in the aftermath of these changes. Public space has been chiseled away and politically conscious documentaries forced to go underground. Viewing an array of subjects (including the wars in Bosnia, Chiapas, and the Persian Gulf; Japanese internment during World War II; homelessness; race; and reproductive rights) through technologies ranging from high-end video, camcorders, cable access, digital imaging systems, and media piracy, Zimmermann creates an explosive montage of colliding ideas and events. In combative terms, she charts the intricately layered relationships between independent documentary, power, money, and culture, and also analyzes how media artists use new technologies and radical media practices to undermine cuts in support and conservative backlash. States of Emergency anchors documentary into a social and historical context that shows the complex connections among audiences, filmmakers, funders, and subjects in the fascinating and fraught milieu in which they coexist. Zimmermann passionately and convincingly argues that the survival of democracies and public spaces is inextricably fueled by the robust endurance of documentary and other insurgent forms of communication. [Read more...]
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We all have questions about God. But very few of us get the answers we're looking for - if those answers even exist! Do they? Where (in heaven's name) do you go to find out? Eric Metaxas understands. That's why he's written this refreshingly down-to-earth take on the big questions everyone asks (but not always out loud). Finally a book that takes questions about God seriously enough to get silly (where appropriate). Wonderfully conversational and often very funny, this book joins you in wondering: How can a good God create a world that has evil and suffering? Is God anti-sex? Doesn't science make God obsolete? What's the real story on miracles? If God is everywhere, why go to church? Don't we already have God within us? Isn't God too busy running the universe to care about the details of my day? What does the Bible say about things like UFOs, ESP, and the afterlife - and what about Bigfoot? These questions (and many more like them) get straight answers that don't hide behind dull and confusing theological language. [Read more...]
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New York City - Activities (Chapter)
This is the Activities chapter from Lonely Planet's New York City guidebook, available to Pick & Mix.
Those keen for some good ol' fashioned sweat have a world of options: enjoy a hot dog at Yankee Stadium, chant at a yoga center, hear trash-talk at a stickball match (the ultimate street sport), ace it at the home of the US Open, surf the Atlantic or kayak to Brooklyn.
There's an old campfire song that says, ?They will know we are Christians by our love.? Eight more verses and you'd have all the fruit of the spirit wrapped up in a tasty chorus. Where the song leaves off, the Fruit of the Spirit small group curriculum jumps in. These lessons are designed to help your students understand not what being a Christian looks like, but how being a Christian makes you look. Each study focuses on giving students a Biblical understanding of the Fruit of the Spirit and then asks reflective questions to help them apply what they've learned. 8 lessons covering the Fruit of the Spirit: Love Joy and peace Patience Kindness Goodness Faithfulness Gentleness Self-control Help your students identify and understand what it is that makes the Fruit of the Spirit such a telling part of our walk with God. [Read more...]
