Author: Luke A. Powery
Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Corp
ISBN: 1611649137
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Valuable not only for their sublime musical expression, the African American spirituals provide profound insights into the human condition and Christian life. Many spirituals focus on the climax of the Christian drama, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the ways in which those events bring about the liberation of Gods people. In these devotions for the season of Lent, Luke A. Powery leads the reader through the spirituals as they confront the mystery of Christs atoning death and victory over the grave. Each selection includes the lyrics of the spiritual, a reflection by the author on the spirituals meaning, a Scripture verse related to that meaning, and a brief prayer.
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Category : Spirituals (Songs)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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With her mother off to New York City to study art, fourteen-year-old Jamie is frustrated and confused by her dreams of life in the big city and the realities of life in her predictable small town with her father and younger brother.
Author: William Eleazar Barton
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Author: David Emmanuel Goatley
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725288311
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Contemporary Christian theology continues to struggle with the tragedy of inexplicable human suffering and the endurance of evil. The pressing issue of "Where is God?" in seemingly godless situations provides the focus of Were You There? Godforsakenness in Slave Religion. In this book, David Emmanuel Goatley investigates the doctrine of God in relation to the experience of those living under conditions of extreme oppression. In this experience of "Godforsakenness" Goatley finds an echo of Jesus' poignant cry from the cross, "My God, why have you forsaken me?" Were You There? approaches this question through a narrative methodology, particularly by examining the slave narratives as well as the spirituals that were products of the same era. Both these sources provide important ways of viewing the experience of "Godforsakenness" and the problem of God's presence or absence in the extremities and absurdities of human suffering. Using these insights as a hermeneutic, Were You There? then proceeds to an interpretation of Jesus' cry of dereliction in Mark.
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ISBN: 9780005995785
Category : Hymns
Languages : en
Pages : 744
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Author: Sarah A. O'Malley
Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 9780814623558
Category : Stations of the Cross
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Beginning in the Garden of Gethsemane and concluding at the tomb, this work offers a powerful, yet personal rendition of the Passion of Jesus. Based on John Paul II's Scriptural Way of the Cross, first prayed by the Pope on March 29,1991, this work's purpose is to renew a time honored devotion. This book makes the journey come alive through its personal and dramatic style.
Author: Judy Blume
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1665921315
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Originally published by Bradbury Press in 1970.
Author: Eve Bunting
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547533195
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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On a winter night long ago, a baby boy was born in a stable with only the animals to witness his arrival. But it wasn’t just the cows and donkeys and soft little lambs who were present. Smaller, less loved creatures were there, too: the snake, the scorpion, the cockroach, and others. Lyrically written by Eve Bunting and luminously illustrated by Wendell Minor, this beautiful book offers a unique and moving perspective on the Christmas story. It reminds us that all God’s creatures, both great and small, celebrated the arrival of the Christ child.
Author: Nicole Beaulieu Herder
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486416779
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Beloved spirituals include such lasting favorites as All God's Children Got Shoes, Balm in Gilead, Deep River, Down by the Riverside, Ezekiel Saw the Wheel, Gimme That Ol'-Time Religion, He's Got the Whole World in His Hand, Roll, Jordan, Roll, Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, Steal Away to Jesus, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, This Train, Wade in the Water, We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder, Were You There When They Crucified My Lord? and many more. Excellent for sing-alongs, community programs, church functions, and other events.
Author: Maria Riva
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1639361405
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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A richly imagined portrait of an immigrant woman in the heady and unpredictable first half of the twentieth century. Sweeping and panoramic, You Were There Before My Eyes is the epic and intimate story of a young woman who chafes at the stifling routine and tradition of her small, turn-of-the-century Italian village. When an opportunity presents itself for her to emigrate to America, her hunger for escape compels her to leave everything behind for the gleaming promises that await her and her young husband in Mr. Ford’s factories. Determined to survive, and perhaps even thrive, young Jane finds herself navigating not just a new language and country, but a world poised upon the edge of economic and social revolution—and war. As Jane searches for inner fulfillment while building young family, the tide of history ebbs and flows. From the chaos of Ellis Island to the melting pot of industrial Detroit, You Were There Before My Eyes spills over with colorful characters and vivid period details. Maria Riva paints an authentic portrait of immigrant America and poignantly captures the ever evolving nature of the American dream.
