Author: Jeffrey Arnold
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1770979182
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
The author takes us on a raucous journey into the life and mind of Richard Bonhom. He is a post modern portrait of success despite his failed marriage, delinquent drug addicted daughter and looming financial scandal at work. The story takes place in a one week period preceding Bonhom's fiftieth birthday. A growing discomfort at facing this turning point in his life, and the urgent need to make things right, are the driving forces motivating his desperate search for some form of salvation. These issues force him to dig deep, hold on, and take stock. This serious, but often hilarious, search for meaning and purpose to Richard's world takes the reader along an almost satirical path filled with interesting and often outrageous characters. The setting is Vancouver, Canada. The time is now. When we look out at the world around us, and within us, through the eyes of Richard Bonhom, we inevitably see ourselves, and more importantly, what truly matters in our lives....
Nobody's Laughing
Author: Jeffrey Arnold
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1770979182
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
The author takes us on a raucous journey into the life and mind of Richard Bonhom. He is a post modern portrait of success despite his failed marriage, delinquent drug addicted daughter and looming financial scandal at work. The story takes place in a one week period preceding Bonhom's fiftieth birthday. A growing discomfort at facing this turning point in his life, and the urgent need to make things right, are the driving forces motivating his desperate search for some form of salvation. These issues force him to dig deep, hold on, and take stock. This serious, but often hilarious, search for meaning and purpose to Richard's world takes the reader along an almost satirical path filled with interesting and often outrageous characters. The setting is Vancouver, Canada. The time is now. When we look out at the world around us, and within us, through the eyes of Richard Bonhom, we inevitably see ourselves, and more importantly, what truly matters in our lives....
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1770979182
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
The author takes us on a raucous journey into the life and mind of Richard Bonhom. He is a post modern portrait of success despite his failed marriage, delinquent drug addicted daughter and looming financial scandal at work. The story takes place in a one week period preceding Bonhom's fiftieth birthday. A growing discomfort at facing this turning point in his life, and the urgent need to make things right, are the driving forces motivating his desperate search for some form of salvation. These issues force him to dig deep, hold on, and take stock. This serious, but often hilarious, search for meaning and purpose to Richard's world takes the reader along an almost satirical path filled with interesting and often outrageous characters. The setting is Vancouver, Canada. The time is now. When we look out at the world around us, and within us, through the eyes of Richard Bonhom, we inevitably see ourselves, and more importantly, what truly matters in our lives....
Rip-Raps
Author: Will Kerr
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382158507
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382158507
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Literary Humour
Author: Judson K. Cornelius
Publisher: St Pauls BYB
ISBN: 9788171083749
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher: St Pauls BYB
ISBN: 9788171083749
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Church of Saint Thomas Paine
Author: Leigh Eric Schmidt
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691217262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The forgotten story of the nineteenth-century freethinkers and twentieth-century humanists who tried to build their own secular religion In The Church of Saint Thomas Paine, Leigh Eric Schmidt tells the surprising story of how freethinking liberals in nineteenth-century America promoted a secular religion of humanity centered on the deistic revolutionary Thomas Paine (1737–1809) and how their descendants eventually became embroiled in the culture wars of the late twentieth century. After Paine’s remains were stolen from his grave in New Rochelle, New York, and shipped to England in 1819, the reverence of his American disciples took a material turn in a long search for his relics. Paine’s birthday was always a red-letter day for these believers in democratic cosmopolitanism and philanthropic benevolence, but they expanded their program to include a broader array of rites and ceremonies, particularly funerals free of Christian supervision. They also worked to establish their own churches and congregations in which to practice their religion of secularism. All of these activities raised serious questions about the very definition of religion and whether it included nontheistic fellowships and humanistic associations—a dispute that erupted again in the second half of the twentieth century. As right-wing Christians came to see secular humanism as the most dangerous religion imaginable, small communities of religious humanists, the heirs of Paine’s followers, were swept up in new battles about religion’s public contours and secularism’s moral perils. An engrossing account of an important but little-known chapter in American history, The Church of Saint Thomas Paine reveals why the lines between religion and secularism are often much blurrier than we imagine.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691217262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The forgotten story of the nineteenth-century freethinkers and twentieth-century humanists who tried to build their own secular religion In The Church of Saint Thomas Paine, Leigh Eric Schmidt tells the surprising story of how freethinking liberals in nineteenth-century America promoted a secular religion of humanity centered on the deistic revolutionary Thomas Paine (1737–1809) and how their descendants eventually became embroiled in the culture wars of the late twentieth century. After Paine’s remains were stolen from his grave in New Rochelle, New York, and shipped to England in 1819, the reverence of his American disciples took a material turn in a long search for his relics. Paine’s birthday was always a red-letter day for these believers in democratic cosmopolitanism and philanthropic benevolence, but they expanded their program to include a broader array of rites and ceremonies, particularly funerals free of Christian supervision. They also worked to establish their own churches and congregations in which to practice their religion of secularism. All of these activities raised serious questions about the very definition of religion and whether it included nontheistic fellowships and humanistic associations—a dispute that erupted again in the second half of the twentieth century. As right-wing Christians came to see secular humanism as the most dangerous religion imaginable, small communities of religious humanists, the heirs of Paine’s followers, were swept up in new battles about religion’s public contours and secularism’s moral perils. An engrossing account of an important but little-known chapter in American history, The Church of Saint Thomas Paine reveals why the lines between religion and secularism are often much blurrier than we imagine.
The Reverend Green Willingwood; Or, Life Among the Clergy
Author: Robert Fisher
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Rip-Raps
Author: William Furniss
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429004215
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
American lawyer and man of letters describes two trips through the U.S. taken twenty years apart, observing New England and the Mid-Atlantic regions, mostly, later traveling into the South and Midwest.
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429004215
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
American lawyer and man of letters describes two trips through the U.S. taken twenty years apart, observing New England and the Mid-Atlantic regions, mostly, later traveling into the South and Midwest.
Bentley's Miscellany
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Bentley's Miscellany
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 744
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Merrie England in the Olden Time
Author: George Daniel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Sermons of Sunrise
Author: Charles Gordon Ames
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, American
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, American
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description