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Author: Holly Burkhalter Publisher: Convergent Books ISBN: 1601425104 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 210
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“In this extraordinary memoir, one of the foremost human rights advocates of the last half century shares her brutally and hilariously honest story of finding God.” —Gary A. Haugen, president and CEO, International Justice Mission For years, Holly Burkhalter was a heartbroken idealist working on the front lines of change around the world—a witness to the brutalities of genocide, sex trafficking, rape, slavery, greed and injustice. Throughout her career she found herself angrily, sometimes hilariously at odds with a God who seemed distant at best and tyrannical at worst. Until the day she found herself drawn into a community of fellow activists who loved, worshiped, and served another God altogether—a God who hated injustice, too. And who had a plan for combating it. Us. It was the greatest, most radiant surprise of her life. Today Holly engages deeply with the questions that kept her from faith for most of her adult life: How could a good God allow brutality, mental illness, and AIDS? Why does God seem indifferent when we are in great need? What is our part in pushing back the darkness? Through riveting stories from her life, she wrestles these questions to the ground. Sometimes she wins. Sometimes the questions do. Either way, Good God, Lousy World & Me will transform your understanding of God’s presence and purpose—and ours—in a broken world. Now includes a small group discussion guide.
Author: Holly Burkhalter Publisher: Convergent Books ISBN: 1601425104 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 210
Book Description
“In this extraordinary memoir, one of the foremost human rights advocates of the last half century shares her brutally and hilariously honest story of finding God.” —Gary A. Haugen, president and CEO, International Justice Mission For years, Holly Burkhalter was a heartbroken idealist working on the front lines of change around the world—a witness to the brutalities of genocide, sex trafficking, rape, slavery, greed and injustice. Throughout her career she found herself angrily, sometimes hilariously at odds with a God who seemed distant at best and tyrannical at worst. Until the day she found herself drawn into a community of fellow activists who loved, worshiped, and served another God altogether—a God who hated injustice, too. And who had a plan for combating it. Us. It was the greatest, most radiant surprise of her life. Today Holly engages deeply with the questions that kept her from faith for most of her adult life: How could a good God allow brutality, mental illness, and AIDS? Why does God seem indifferent when we are in great need? What is our part in pushing back the darkness? Through riveting stories from her life, she wrestles these questions to the ground. Sometimes she wins. Sometimes the questions do. Either way, Good God, Lousy World & Me will transform your understanding of God’s presence and purpose—and ours—in a broken world. Now includes a small group discussion guide.
Author: Bruce Bickel Publisher: Harvest House Publishers ISBN: 0736921974 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 194
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A refreshingly honest and often humorous look at some believers' outlandish behaviors helps bridge the communication gap between Christians and non-Christians, helping Christians share their beliefs more freely without judgmental attitudes, hypocrisy, and condemnation. Original.
Author: Bob Keith Bonebrake Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1481711067 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 217
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"What you walk away with after reading this book will be profound. If you let it, it can be the kind of experience that you will never forget." - Dr. Phil Cooke, filmmaker and bestselling author (Jolt, One Big Thing, Unique) "Bob combines a painful personal story with a powerful Christian apologetic, to provide a book that can benefit both doubters and believers." -Dr. Mark Rutland, bestselling author (ReLaunch, Resurrection, Power) Third President, Oral Roberts University One Lousy Friday Before Easter is a personal story of faith lost in grief and reclaimed in rationality. It gives the layman a guide to Christian apologetics, and finding God in life, science and personal experience as well as in the Bible. Bob Keith Bonebrake has spent more than 30 years as a writer, editor and researcher, working for the Associated Press and other news and publishing groups in Oklahoma, Washington D.C. and California. He is a graduate of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma and did graduate work in journalism and creative writing at the University of Oklahoma.
Author: Francis Knight Publisher: Orbit ISBN: 0316217697 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 202
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From the depths of a valley rises the city of Mahala It's a city built upwards, not across -- where streets are built upon streets, buildings upon buildings. A city that the Ministry rules from the sunlit summit, and where the forsaken lurk in the darkness of Under. Rojan Dizon doesn't mind staying in the shadows, because he's got things to hide. Things like being a pain-mage, with the forbidden power to draw magic from pain. But he can't hide for ever. Because when Rojan stumbles upon the secrets lurking in the depths of the Pit, the fate of Mahala will depend on him using his magic. And unlucky for Rojan -- this is going to hurt.
Author: Greg Epstein Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 006167012X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 274
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An inspiring and provocative exploration of an alternative to traditional religion Questions about the role of God and religion in today's world have never been more relevant or felt more powerfully. Many of us are searching for a place where we can find not only facts and scientific reason but also hope and moral courage. For some, answers are found in the divine. For others, including the New Atheists, religion is an "enemy." But in Good Without God, Greg Epstein presents another, more balanced and inclusive response: Humanism. He highlights humanity's potential for goodness and the ways in which Humanists lead lives of purpose and compassion. Humanism can offer the sense of community we want and often need in good times and bad—and it teaches us that we can lead good and moral lives without the supernatural, without higher powers . . . without God.
Author: Bishop William H. Willimon Publisher: Abingdon Press ISBN: 1426748515 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 175
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Take the best preacher you’ve ever heard; add in the teacher who first opened your eyes to the excitement and meaning of your favorite subject in school; combine these with that member of the family to whom you could always turn for the best advice; stir them all together, and you’ll get a flavor of the writing of Ellsworth Kalas. And now the very best thoughts and reflections of this wise teacher and guide are available together in one volume. Across his career Ellsworth Kalas has worn many hats: pastor, professor, seminary president. Through all of them, however, he has remained first and foremost an interpreter of God’s Word. His most potent skill is to open up new insights and meanings in even the most familiar biblical stories. Gathered here are some Kalas’s most humorous, touching, and enlightening writings, drawn from his own experience of finding God in Scripture.
Author: Anne Waldman Publisher: Shambhala Publications ISBN: 1590304551 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 402
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The Beat movement exploded into American culture in the early 1950s with the force of prophecy. Not just another literary school, it was an artistic and social revolution. William S. Burroughs proclaimed that the Beat writers were “real architects of change. There is no doubt that we’re living in a freer America as a result of the Beat literary movement, which is an important part of the larger picture of cultural and political change in this country during the last forty years, when a four-letter word couldn’t appear on the printed page and minority rights were ridiculous.” Anne Waldman, a renowned poet and longtime friend of many of these writers, has gathered in this volume a range of the best and most exemplary writings of the Beat poets and novelists. Selections from the Beat classics appear, as well as more recent prose and poetry demonstrating the continued vitality of the Beat experiment. Included are short biographies of the contributors, an extensive bibliography of Beat literature, and a unique guide to “Beat places” around the world—from Kerouac’s hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, where his novel Dr. Sax takes place, to Tangier, where Burroughs wrote parts of Naked Lunch.
Author: Jack Kerouac Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc. ISBN: 0802195725 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 256
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“Kerouac’s best book.”—TIME Dr. Sax is a haunting novel of deeply felt adolescence, Jack Kerouac tells the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up in Kerouac’s own birthplace, the dingy factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts. There, Dr. Sax, with his flowing cape, slouched hat, and insinuating leer, is chief among the many ghosts and demons that populate Jack’s fantasy world. Deftly mingling memory and dream, Kerouac captures the accents and textures of his boyhood in Lowell in this novel of a cryptic, apocalyptic hipster phantom that he once described as “the greatest book I ever wrote, or that I will write.”
Author: Sigmund Heinz Landau Publisher: Stackpole Books ISBN: 0811715825 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 224
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Rare memoir of a foreigner serving with the Germans on the Eastern Front. • Firsthand descriptions of combat at the siege of Budapest and the final battle for Berlin in 1945 • Insights into what motivated soldiers to fight for Nazi Germany • Copies of the out-of-print original edition are highly prized
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