Broken Words

Author : Jonathan Dudley
Publisher : Crown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307720795

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Broken Words by Jonathan Dudley Pdf

Abortion. Homosexuality. Environmentalism. Evolution. Conservative positions on these topics are the current boundaries of mainstream Evangelical Christianity. But what if the theological arguments given by popular leaders on these “big four” were not quite as clear cut as they claim? Growing up as an evangelical Christian, Jonathan Dudley was taught that faith was defined by the total rejection of abortion, homosexuality, evolution, and environmentalism. But once he had begun studying biology and ethics, his views began to change and he soon realized that what he had been told about the Bible – and those four big issues – may have been misconstrued. Broken Words: The Abuse of Science and Faith in American Politics assesses the scientific and cultural factors leading evangelicals to certain stances on each issue, shows where they went wrong, and critically challenges the scriptural, ethical, and biological arguments issued by those leaders today. In Broken Words, Dudley applies the Bible and biology to challenge the fixed political dogmas of the religious right. Evangelicals are confronted for the first time from within their ranks on the extent to which faith has been corrupted by conservative politics, cultural prejudice and naive anti-intellectualism. A re-ordering of American Christianity is underway – and this book is an essential part of the conversation.

Author : Minister Vernon Cockrum
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781098050481

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Broken Word, Broken People, Broken World by Minister Vernon Cockrum Pdf

This book covers from when Satan was kicked out of heaven and why he was kicked out of heavenaEUR"the real reasonaEUR"to when Satan introduced sin into the Garden of Eden, to how that sin grew into murder, and how murder grew into a world that's out of control with every kind of sin you can imagine. This also covers how these chain reactions were started from the first lie off of Satan's lips to Donald Trump and the United States in Bible prophecy! And also, it tackles Bible prophecy compared to predictions of Nostradamus, the French astrologer and physician. And they all lead to and point to our White House of today and Donald Trump, our president! It's time to wake up and smell the coffee. We are in the evil days and times. And we all have a choice we have to make, the most important choice of your life. Which master will you serve? Either you are with God or against God. There is no serving two masters. That's another one of SatanaEUR(tm)s lies! I only hope this book will help someone out there make a wise choice on which God to serve and why, in these days and times, we really need an understanding of God and His Word! Without an understanding of God and His Word, we become broken in word, broken as people, living in a broken world! We can at least fix ourselves through GodaEUR(tm)s Word, even if we canaEUR(tm)t fix the world.

Author : Line Ryberg Ingerslev,Karl Mertens
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781040094365

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Phenomenology of Broken Habits by Line Ryberg Ingerslev,Karl Mertens Pdf

This volume explores the phenomenology of broken habits and their affective, social, and involuntary dimensions. It shows how disruptive experiences impact self-understanding and social embeddedness. The chapters in this volume investigate the epistemic and existential relevance of breakdown of habits and the corresponding kinds of self-understanding available to the agent. The first part focuses on the double-sidedness of habitual life. On the one hand, habits allow us to arrange and navigate in a familiar home world; on the other hand, habits can take hold of us in such a way that we lose our sense of autonomy. The contributors argue that habitual agency is structurally carried by a dynamic that entails both freedom and necessity. As habits enable us to inhabit and thus acquire a world, they also affectively provide a texture and a background for our feeling at home in the world. The chapters in Part 2 focus on the breakdowns of our habitual social and technological life forms and the phenomenology of their affective texture. History and habitual learning are sedimented in our body memory and in our language, and these sedimented layers are partly out of our direct control. Part 3 focuses on the structural openness of habits in relating to one’s past and one’s traumatic experiences. Part 4 reflects on the ways in which we might become aware of and thus transform or appropriate our culturally given habits. Phenomenology of Broken Habits will appeal to researchers and advanced students working in phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of psychology.

Author : Alexandra Vasiliu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798603975160

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Healing Words by Alexandra Vasiliu Pdf

Healing Words is an uplifting poetry collection of raw emotions and thoughtful pieces about loss, loneliness, heartbreak, healing, hope, and love. Because everyone sometimes finds themselves within the abyss of feeling alone, heartbroken, or depressed, we all need healing words to pull us out, to give us hope and inspiration, and to bring back the courage to love again. Gather strength from these empowering poems and allow yourself to rise again. One day, you will remind yourself, "I am healed. I am whole. I am worthy of love."

Author : Liyana Musfirah,Maimunah Rosli
Publisher : IMAN Publication Sdn Bhd
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789672459750

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Dear Broken Soul, Return Home to God by Liyana Musfirah,Maimunah Rosli Pdf

“What’s beautiful about being broken is that you start to realise how much feelings you carry. You are introduced to the layers of emotions that you never knew were in you all along.” *** Life is a place for us to be tested — this is something we know but going through a painful and heartbreaking experience can leave the heart feeling like it’s shattered into pieces. We succumb to the pain, drown ourselves in the whirlwind of emotions, and we end up becoming a person we no longer recognise because of our “brokenness”. But love and pain are emotions from God. So why does one bring us joy and the other makes us feel like we’re trapped in a dark hole? *** In Dear Broken Soul, Islamic educator, Liyana Musfirah, and licensed psychotherapist, Maimunah Mosli, explore what happens to us when we go through a heartbreaking experience and how we can revive the heart by seeking God through our brokenness. It also invites us to embrace one certain fact – our heart and its brokenness will always have a home to come back to – and that is with God.

Author : Carolyn Dever
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521622806

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Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud by Carolyn Dever Pdf

The cultural ideal of motherhood in Victorian Britain seems to be undermined by Victorian novels, which almost always represent mothers as incapacitated, abandoning or dead. Carolyn Dever argues that the phenomenon of the dead or missing mother in Victorian narrative is central to the construction of the good mother as a cultural ideal. Maternal loss is the prerequisite for Victorian representations of domestic life, a fact which has especially complex implications for women. When Freud constructs psychoanalytical models of family, gender and desire, he too assumes that domesticity begins with the death of the mother. Analysing texts by Dickens, Collins, Eliot, Darwin and Woolf, as well as Freud, Klein and Winnicott, Dever argues that fictional and theoretical narratives alike use maternal absence to articulate concerns about gender and representation. Psychoanalysis has long been used to analyse Victorian fiction; Dever contends that Victorian fiction has much to teach us about psychoanalysis.

Author : Elisabeth Kübler-Ross,David Kessler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781476775555

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On Grief and Grieving by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross,David Kessler Pdf

Ten years after the death of Elisabeth K bler-Ross, this commemorative edition of her final book combines practical wisdom, case studies, and the authors' own experiences and spiritual insight to explain how the process of grieving helps us live with loss. Includes a new introduction and resources section. Elisabeth K bler-Ross's On Death and Dying changed the way we talk about the end of life. Before her own death in 2004, she and David Kessler completed On Grief and Grieving, which looks at the way we experience the process of grief. Just as On Death and Dying taught us the five stages of death--denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance--On Grief and Grieving applies these stages to the grieving process and weaves together theory, inspiration, and practical advice, including sections on sadness, hauntings, dreams, isolation, and healing. This is "a fitting finale and tribute to the acknowledged expert on end-of-life matters" (Good Housekeeping).

Author : Kimberly Johnson
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781662472398

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When You've Been Broken by Kimberly Johnson Pdf

When the tests and trials of life weigh you down and you feel like there is nothing left to do, God is always there waiting to hear from you. He is ready to rescue you when you call! It is God’s desire that we are free from heavy weights and burdens. This handbook will help you gain revelation and insight into freedom from depression, anger, bitterness, unforgiveness, rejection, and many other burdens that can weigh you down. Learning, understanding, and applying scripture to your life is one of the most powerful weapons for healing and breakthrough. God wants you to know that you can be healed and delivered from these issues. Be healed, be free, and walk in your divine destiny!

Author : Paula Blank
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134774739

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Broken English by Paula Blank Pdf

The English language in the Renaissance was in many ways a collection of competing Englishes. Blank investigates the representation of alternative vernaculars in both linguistic and literary works of the time.

Author : Joel Collishaw
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781257061525

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Beautifully Broken by Joel Collishaw Pdf

Beautifully Broken features a rollercoaster of emotion from the lives we live, bringing out the most secretive and deeply hidden feelings we never thought about sharing. A collection of poetry that connects with a world of good and evil. Focusing on the gifts of love and the tragedy of loss, there's a consistent message that despite all we go through, we are beautiful just the way we are.

Author : Doris Seale,Beverly Slapin
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780759114715

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A Broken Flute by Doris Seale,Beverly Slapin Pdf

A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children is a companion to its predecessor published by Oyate, Through Indian Eyes: The Native Experience in Books for Children. A compilation of work by Native parents, children, educators, poets and writers, A Broken Flute contains, from a Native perspective, 'living stories,' essays, poetry, and hundreds of reviews of 'children's books about Indians.' It's an indispensable volume for anyone interested in presenting honest materials by and about indigenous peoples to children.

Author : Edwin M. Best
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781480974852

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Broken Promise by Edwin M. Best Pdf

Broken Promise by Edwin M. Best These few lines of stanza were written over a few years. After having to move so many times and seeing the handwritten words start to fade off the pages they were written on, author Edwin M. Best decided to type them up before they completely disappeared. After typing up a few, it only made sense to share it with the world. The funny thing is life is like poetry written on a few pages; unless you take care of those pages, the writing will eventually fade away. We all have been through some rough relationships. We all have tried to do things to impress the opposite sex. We all have lost something, whether it’s a relationship, a loved one, or even time. This book is about all those things and the Broken Promises to one another and even to ourselves.

Author : M. F. Hyde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044097053128

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Practical Lessons in ... English ... by M. F. Hyde Pdf

Author : Edmund Yates
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664572837

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Broken to Harness by Edmund Yates Pdf

'Broken to Harness: A Story of English Domestic Life', begins as author Edmund Yates takes readers on a journey through the inner workings of a daily newspaper and the personal lives of its staff. The novel unfolds with a vivid description of the office of the Statesman daily journal, a place that is difficult to find but bustling with activity at night. The protagonist, Mr. Churchill, is a principal contributor to the paper and has been working tirelessly in the editor's absence.

Author : Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Publisher : London : Hurst and Blackett
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V001480315

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The Unkind Word, and Other Stories by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Pdf