Author: Steven James
Publisher: Standard Publishing
ISBN: 9780784717684
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Astonishing Tales of Spiritual Truth features Jesus’ parables that are also retold for a 21st century teen audience. Questions for reflection and suggestions for sharing your thoughts with God included.
Astonishing Tales of Spiritual Truth
Author: Steven James
Publisher: Standard Publishing
ISBN: 9780784717684
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Astonishing Tales of Spiritual Truth features Jesus’ parables that are also retold for a 21st century teen audience. Questions for reflection and suggestions for sharing your thoughts with God included.
Publisher: Standard Publishing
ISBN: 9780784717684
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Astonishing Tales of Spiritual Truth features Jesus’ parables that are also retold for a 21st century teen audience. Questions for reflection and suggestions for sharing your thoughts with God included.
Cassandra Speaks
Author: Elizabeth Lesser
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062887203
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one believed her? What if women had been the storytellers? Elizabeth Lesser believes that if women’s voices had been equally heard and respected throughout history, humankind would have followed different hero myths and guiding stories—stories that value caretaking, champion compassion, and elevate communication over vengeance and violence. Cassandra Speaks is about the stories we tell and how those stories become the culture. It’s about the stories we still blindly cling to, and the ones that cling to us: the origin tales, the guiding myths, the religious parables, the literature and films and fairy tales passed down through the centuries about women and men, power and war, sex and love, and the values we live by. Stories written mostly by men with lessons and laws for all of humanity. We have outgrown so many of them, and still they endure. This book is about what happens when women are the storytellers too—when we speak from our authentic voices, when we flex our values, when we become protagonists in the tales we tell about what it means to be human. Lesser has walked two main paths in her life—the spiritual path and the feminist one—paths that sometimes cross but sometimes feel at cross-purposes. Cassandra Speaks is her extraordinary merging of the two. The bestselling author of Broken Open and Marrow, Lesser is a beloved spiritual writer, as well as a leading feminist thinker. In this book she gives equal voice to the cool water of her meditative self and the fire of her feminist self. With her trademark gifts of both humor and insight, she offers a vision that transcends the either/or ideologies on both sides of the gender debate. Brilliantly structured into three distinct parts, Part One explores how history is carried forward through the stories a culture tells and values, and what we can do to balance the scales. Part Two looks at women and power and expands what it means to be courageous, daring, and strong. And Part Three offers “A Toolbox for Inner Strength.” Lesser argues that change in the culture starts with inner change, and that no one—woman or man—is immune to the corrupting influence of power. She provides inner tools to help us be both strong-willed and kind-hearted. Cassandra Speaks is a beautifully balanced synthesis of storytelling, memoir, and cultural observation. Women, men and all people will find themselves in the pages of this book, and will come away strengthened, opened, and ready to work together to create a better world for all people.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062887203
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one believed her? What if women had been the storytellers? Elizabeth Lesser believes that if women’s voices had been equally heard and respected throughout history, humankind would have followed different hero myths and guiding stories—stories that value caretaking, champion compassion, and elevate communication over vengeance and violence. Cassandra Speaks is about the stories we tell and how those stories become the culture. It’s about the stories we still blindly cling to, and the ones that cling to us: the origin tales, the guiding myths, the religious parables, the literature and films and fairy tales passed down through the centuries about women and men, power and war, sex and love, and the values we live by. Stories written mostly by men with lessons and laws for all of humanity. We have outgrown so many of them, and still they endure. This book is about what happens when women are the storytellers too—when we speak from our authentic voices, when we flex our values, when we become protagonists in the tales we tell about what it means to be human. Lesser has walked two main paths in her life—the spiritual path and the feminist one—paths that sometimes cross but sometimes feel at cross-purposes. Cassandra Speaks is her extraordinary merging of the two. The bestselling author of Broken Open and Marrow, Lesser is a beloved spiritual writer, as well as a leading feminist thinker. In this book she gives equal voice to the cool water of her meditative self and the fire of her feminist self. With her trademark gifts of both humor and insight, she offers a vision that transcends the either/or ideologies on both sides of the gender debate. Brilliantly structured into three distinct parts, Part One explores how history is carried forward through the stories a culture tells and values, and what we can do to balance the scales. Part Two looks at women and power and expands what it means to be courageous, daring, and strong. And Part Three offers “A Toolbox for Inner Strength.” Lesser argues that change in the culture starts with inner change, and that no one—woman or man—is immune to the corrupting influence of power. She provides inner tools to help us be both strong-willed and kind-hearted. Cassandra Speaks is a beautifully balanced synthesis of storytelling, memoir, and cultural observation. Women, men and all people will find themselves in the pages of this book, and will come away strengthened, opened, and ready to work together to create a better world for all people.
Buried Saints
Author: Brin Miller
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1631525107
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
One terrible night in 2011, Brin Miller’s life is upended when she learns that her teenage stepson has been sexually abusing her two daughters. Once this secret is discovered, Brin’s marriage, already crumbling and unable to sustain itself, breaks apart. But against all odds, Brin and her husband, along with their daughters, are gradually able to learn resilience, forgiveness, strength, and courage, and—miraculously—Brin’s marriage begins to heal. Haunting and horrible yet hopeful and beautiful, Buried Saints is a fast and raw memoir of forgiveness and resilience, a revelatory look into a family deeply destroyed by deceit, and a truly astonishing story about the intense, unpredictable love of two parents who have to decide whether to fall or flourish in a tragic situation.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1631525107
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
One terrible night in 2011, Brin Miller’s life is upended when she learns that her teenage stepson has been sexually abusing her two daughters. Once this secret is discovered, Brin’s marriage, already crumbling and unable to sustain itself, breaks apart. But against all odds, Brin and her husband, along with their daughters, are gradually able to learn resilience, forgiveness, strength, and courage, and—miraculously—Brin’s marriage begins to heal. Haunting and horrible yet hopeful and beautiful, Buried Saints is a fast and raw memoir of forgiveness and resilience, a revelatory look into a family deeply destroyed by deceit, and a truly astonishing story about the intense, unpredictable love of two parents who have to decide whether to fall or flourish in a tragic situation.
The God of the Fairy Tale
Author: Jim Ware
Publisher: WaterBrook
ISBN: 0307552691
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
What Treasures Are Hidden in the Enchanted Woods? More than just bedtime traditions, more than simple children’s literature, the most enduring stories are echoes of the greatest of all stories, the Gospel. God of the Fairy Tale is a collection of spiritual reflections on the truths found in classic fairy tales, truths that point us to the ultimate Truth about God, redemption, and ourselves. Delving into twenty classic folk and fairy tales, God of the Fairy Tale leads us into the mystical landscape of elves, goblins, and talking animals to reveal the jewels of truth that hide inside these most simple of stories. Through the fables of Snow White, Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, and many others, we discover a perspective not unlike that of the Bible–a world of people trying to be something more, questing to do good in a realm fraught with evil, where a turn of the tables leaves the strong defeated and the weak victorious. Each tale is presented along with a meditation on the spiritual and theological themes present. God of the Fairy Tale will warm your heart with a world of characters, creatures, and circumstances that spin an entertaining yarn and affirm the most essential Christian worldviews.
Publisher: WaterBrook
ISBN: 0307552691
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
What Treasures Are Hidden in the Enchanted Woods? More than just bedtime traditions, more than simple children’s literature, the most enduring stories are echoes of the greatest of all stories, the Gospel. God of the Fairy Tale is a collection of spiritual reflections on the truths found in classic fairy tales, truths that point us to the ultimate Truth about God, redemption, and ourselves. Delving into twenty classic folk and fairy tales, God of the Fairy Tale leads us into the mystical landscape of elves, goblins, and talking animals to reveal the jewels of truth that hide inside these most simple of stories. Through the fables of Snow White, Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, and many others, we discover a perspective not unlike that of the Bible–a world of people trying to be something more, questing to do good in a realm fraught with evil, where a turn of the tables leaves the strong defeated and the weak victorious. Each tale is presented along with a meditation on the spiritual and theological themes present. God of the Fairy Tale will warm your heart with a world of characters, creatures, and circumstances that spin an entertaining yarn and affirm the most essential Christian worldviews.
Visions of Glory
Author: John M. Pontius
Publisher: CFI
ISBN: 9781462128433
Category : RELIGION
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher: CFI
ISBN: 9781462128433
Category : RELIGION
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
How to Smell Like God
Author: Steven James
Publisher: Standard Publishing
ISBN: 9780784717752
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
How to Smell Like God is filled with humorous and gripping true stories to help teens discover what it really means to know God, serve Jesus, and be led by the Holy Spirit. After each story readers are challenged to apply the message to their own lives.
Publisher: Standard Publishing
ISBN: 9780784717752
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
How to Smell Like God is filled with humorous and gripping true stories to help teens discover what it really means to know God, serve Jesus, and be led by the Holy Spirit. After each story readers are challenged to apply the message to their own lives.
The Truth Is
Author: H. W. L. Poonja
Publisher: Weiser Books
ISBN: 9781578631759
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
A collection of spontaneous "satsangs," or truths, spoken from Sri H. W. L. Poonja's experience of the highest and yet simplest truth: that we are pure love and consciousness, the totality of existence. Reveals thousands of ways to help us inquire into who we really are, to bring our awareness into the infinity of the moment, and surrender to the wisdom of our Truth.
Publisher: Weiser Books
ISBN: 9781578631759
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
A collection of spontaneous "satsangs," or truths, spoken from Sri H. W. L. Poonja's experience of the highest and yet simplest truth: that we are pure love and consciousness, the totality of existence. Reveals thousands of ways to help us inquire into who we really are, to bring our awareness into the infinity of the moment, and surrender to the wisdom of our Truth.
Touching the Heart
Author: William J. Bausch
Publisher: Twenty-Third Publications
ISBN: 9781585956173
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
No one can write about storytelling like Father Bill Bausch. Both his words and his stories are compelling, convincing, and completely absorbing. Here in this landmark work, which he insists is his last, his goal is to help readers see the centrality of stories, to read and hear Scripture as story and not as history, and to learn to enrich and expand their lives by looking at the ?story behind the story.? He wants to break readers out of the literalism that constricts their spiritual and social lives, so they might gain an appreciation of metaphor and symbol and the ?sacramentality? of the world.
Publisher: Twenty-Third Publications
ISBN: 9781585956173
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
No one can write about storytelling like Father Bill Bausch. Both his words and his stories are compelling, convincing, and completely absorbing. Here in this landmark work, which he insists is his last, his goal is to help readers see the centrality of stories, to read and hear Scripture as story and not as history, and to learn to enrich and expand their lives by looking at the ?story behind the story.? He wants to break readers out of the literalism that constricts their spiritual and social lives, so they might gain an appreciation of metaphor and symbol and the ?sacramentality? of the world.
Jack Turner
Author: David Luckman
Publisher: CF4Kids
ISBN: 9781527107922
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Advenures in the arctic Pharmacist, pastor and Bible translator Part of the popular Trail Blazers series
Publisher: CF4Kids
ISBN: 9781527107922
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Advenures in the arctic Pharmacist, pastor and Bible translator Part of the popular Trail Blazers series
Spiritual Business
Author: Michael Peter Langevin
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing
ISBN: 1571743707
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
In the inside story of "Magical Blend"--which started as a San Francisco commune in the late 1970s and morphed into a lifestyles magazine featuring pieces on holistic health, travel, music, and more--Langevin presents an up-close, real-life look at making dreams a reality despite life's challenges.
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing
ISBN: 1571743707
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
In the inside story of "Magical Blend"--which started as a San Francisco commune in the late 1970s and morphed into a lifestyles magazine featuring pieces on holistic health, travel, music, and more--Langevin presents an up-close, real-life look at making dreams a reality despite life's challenges.