Crossed Lives Crossed Purposes

Author : Ray Blunt
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621894056

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Crossed Lives—Crossed Purposes by Ray Blunt Pdf

Thomas Jefferson and William Wilberforce were born at a time of great, dangerous challenges where unprecedented revolutions in thought, governments, worldview and culture swept in. Their lives, from their beginning tragedies down to their calling and early commitments to end slavery, make their stories even more amazing. Powerfully formed as leaders by exceptional mentors and lifelong supporters, they were sustained in their difficult journeys through several critical forks. While each experienced the early failure to abolish slavery, eventually one man backed away from his responsibility while the other became a globally recognized leader of mercy to the oppressed. Why the so-called tyrant monarchy, England, was led to dissolve slavery peacefully and why the first democracy formed in liberty wasted six hundred thousand lives for the same end remains a conundrum to this day. Even more puzzling is why, despite fierce opposition, Wilberforce persisted to lead this victory while Jefferson failed to do so. This even deeper question reveals much about the power of purpose, of beliefs, worldviews, and what constitutes true success. In the end, their competing stories produce valuable lessons apt for our equally perplexing times. Whether an aspiring, young leader, one who seeks to shape the next generation, or a student of history, the reader will find here answers to important questions we all share. For those interested in further resources for leadership development, worldview, history, finishing well and other themes from this book, visit the website at http://crossedlives.org

Author : Ray Blunt
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610975711

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Crossed Lives--Crossed Purposes by Ray Blunt Pdf

Thomas Jefferson and William Wilberforce were born at a time of great, dangerous challenges where unprecedented revolutions in thought, governments, worldview, and culture swept in. Their lives, from their beginning tragedies down to their calling and early commitments to end slavery, make their stories even more amazing. Powerfully formed as leaders by exceptional mentors and lifelong supporters, they were sustained in their difficult journeys through several critical forks. While each experienced the early failure to abolish slavery, eventually one man backed away from his responsibility while the other became a globally recognized leader of mercy to the oppressed. Why the so-called tyrant monarchy, England, was led to dissolve slavery peacefully and why the first democracy formed in liberty wasted six hundred thousand lives for the same end remains a conundrum to this day. Even more puzzling is why, despite fierce opposition, Wilberforce persisted to lead this victory while Jefferson failed to do so. This even deeper question reveals much about the power of purpose, of beliefs, worldviews, and what constitutes true success. In the end, their competing stories produce valuable lessons apt for our equally perplexing times. Whether an aspiring, young leader, one who seeks to shape the next generation, or a student of history, the reader will find here answers to important questions we all share. For those interested in further resources for leadership development, worldview, history, finishing well and other themes from this book, visit the website at http://crossedlives.org

Author : Jerome McGann
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226818467

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Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes by Jerome McGann Pdf

Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes unpacks the interpretive problems of colonial treaty-making and uses them to illuminate canonical works from the period. Classic American literature, Jerome McGann argues, is haunted by the betrayal of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Indian treaties—“a stunned memory preserved in the negative spaces of the treaty records.” A noted scholar of the “textual conditions” of literature, McGann investigates canonical works from the colonial period, including the Arbella sermon and key writings of William Bradford, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Cotton Mather’s Magnalia, Benjamin Franklin’s celebrated treaty folios and Autobiography, and Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia. These are highly practical, purpose-driven works—the record of Enlightenment dreams put to the severe test of dangerous conditions. McGann suggests that the treaty-makers never doubted the unsettled character of what they were prosecuting, and a similar conflicted ethos pervades these works. Like the treaty records, they deliberately test themselves against stringent measures of truth and accomplishment and show a distinctive consciousness of their limits and failures. McGann’s book is ultimately a reminder of the public importance of truth and memory—the vocational commitments of humanist scholars and educators.

Author : Beverly Easler
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781973664048

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Crossing That Foggy Bridge by Beverly Easler Pdf

Depression is an unwelcome intrusion in the lives of many, with remedies and solutions that often seem elusive. Thrown off-balance by the intricacies of “doing life,” we often sink into frustration and despair. So what do we do to restore our hope that change is possible? Crossing That Foggy Bridge offers a new look at depression from the inside out—from author Beverly Easler’s heart to yours. With courage and persistence, Bev has found a way to redirect her path through depression by learning to ask better questions about the common issues we all face in life: managing our feelings, breaking old habits, setting boundaries, and controlling our wayward thoughts. While candidly sharing her personal story, Bev reveals valuable lessons she has learned while trudging through the darkness of persistent depression. Dealing with depression isn’t easy. We can quickly become captured by the deceptions and lies of Satan. Crossing That Foggy Bridge clears away the fog and reflects the light of Jesus, reaffirming that He came to reveal to us a whole new way of thinking, behaving, and believing!

Author : Robert J. Eisen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798385213788

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Confessions of a Contemplative Crossing Guard by Robert J. Eisen Pdf

This book is intended to help manage the messiness of adulthood. Serving as a crossing guard at a local elementary school, the author found himself moved and inspired by the experiences and encounters that greeted him each and every day. This book is a record of his reflections on those moments and how they led him to a deeper understanding of the concise ambiguity of what it means to be an adult. He watched his charges and wondered not “Why did the chicken cross the road?” but, rather, “What are all these chickens going to do once they get there?” Life is an effort to “cross the road,” and we do so every day. Now that we are there, what, and how, are we going to do so that our lives are “more than long”? Using especially his experience as a pulpit rabbi for over four decades, the author offers answers to those questions that can help everyone put one foot in front of the other and move forward confidently—once the crossing guard says that it is okay to go!

Author : Lucy A. Forster-Smith
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781498272629

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Crossing Thresholds by Lucy A. Forster-Smith Pdf

With candor, passion, and deep love for her work, Lucy Forster-Smith takes us across the threshold as a chaplain on a college campus. This vocational narrative braids the story of her faith journey that began on a porch when she was a four-year-old, was shaken by a sexual assault as a seminarian, and through healing and grace brought her to claim a call to ministry with students. With delightful humor and an infectious love for her work, Forster-Smith invites the reader into her world. Crossing Thresholds is a theological narrative, weaving together the story of faith in the context of the professional life of a college chaplain. Lighting on the power of spiritual awakening at a college, once named as the number one institution of higher education that "ignored God on a regular basis," Forster-Smith jars loose the assumptions about the avowedly secular campus. Her journey of healing and grace illuminates and guides to cross the threshold of the campus's soul.

Author : Iowa. Board of Railroad Commissioners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Railroads
ISBN : HARVARD:HL2HPG

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Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners for the Year Ending ... by Iowa. Board of Railroad Commissioners Pdf

Author : Sheila L. Mills
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781607999805

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Crossing Your Jordan in Faith by Sheila L. Mills Pdf

In the Old Testament, The Israelites took an intimidating, faith-filled journey across the Jordan River to move forward into the land God promised. For believers in the twenty-first century, our modern-day Jordan represents facets of our daily Christian walk-obstacles, temptations, and detours that threaten to push us off course. InCrossing Your Jordan in Faithauthor Sheila L. Mills invites you to discover that God's covenant promise To The Israelites as they journeyed across the Jordan is still available to us. Nothing is too hard for God, and it is only through faith in the Creator that we can reach our inherited place of promise. So get moving To The edge of your Jordan and prepare for God to move mightily on your behalf. Are you still standing there? Keeping going-your Jordan awaits.

Author : John A. McCarthy
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512805468

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Crossing Boundaries by John A. McCarthy Pdf

Crossing Boundaries focuses on the intellectual and social factors that led to the emergence and first flowering of the German essay. John McCarthy challenges traditional ways of thinking about literature by concentrating on the impact of Enlightenment philosophy, rhetoric, genre theory, and literary life on the evolution of essayistic writing in German. Taking issue with the commonly held view that the German essay did not evolve until after 1750—and then only under the influence of French and British models—McCarthy argues that Enlightenment skepticism and the social ideas of the galant homme spawned an early native form. Varieties of that form, a kind of writing the author terms "essayism," were pervasive, extending into a variety of genres in the hands of writers such as Leibniz, Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, and Schlegel. He combines in-­depth analyses of representative essays with unique adaptations of recent developments in literary theory, intellectual history, literary history, and social history. McCarthy's argument is centrally concerned with the critical reexamination of the categories of knowledge and of the means of disseminating information that characterized eighteenth-century thought. The essay, an experimental form that crosses boundaries of discipline and genre, is derived from this new emphasis and is the clearest reflection of the dialectic interplay among thinking, writing, and reading. It is also, as such, the genre or mode most closely related to Enlightenment philosophy itself.

Author : Albert Borgmann
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226161488

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Crossing the Postmodern Divide by Albert Borgmann Pdf

In this eloquent guide to the meanings of the postmodern era, Albert Borgmann charts the options before us as we seek alternatives to the joyless and artificial culture of consumption. Borgmann connects the fundamental ideas driving his understanding of society's ills to every sphere of contemporary social life, and goes beyond the language of postmodern discourse to offer a powerfully articulated vision of what this new era, at its best, has in store. "[This] thoughtful book is the first remotely realistic map out of the post modern labyrinth."—Joseph Coates, The Chicago Tribune "Rather astoundingly large-minded vision of the nature of humanity, civilization and science."—Kirkus Reviews

Author : Jay Davis,Andrew Garrod
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135688172

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Crossing Customs by Jay Davis,Andrew Garrod Pdf

In this collection of essays, 13 foreign exchange students write their compelling stories detailing their experiences studying at Dartmouth College. They not only convey their own joys and sorrows, but illuminate U.S. culture from a perspective not seen by many American students or citizens.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1052 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Bridges
ISBN : WISC:89081271314

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TH 36/STH 64 St. Croix River Crossing Project by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pauline Edward
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0738701998

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Astrological Crosses in Relationships by Pauline Edward Pdf

For the first time ever, here is an astrology book that focuses on astrological crosses (the cardinal, fixed, and mutable aspects of the signs of the zodiac) and their impact on people's lives, behavior, actions, and motivations. Crosses are so important to truly understanding a chart that you will wonder how you ever completed an astrological analysis without this essential component. Astrological Crosses in Relationships explores the strengths and challenges of each cross, using many real-life stories taken from the author's consulting practice. Crosses revealed in the birth chart provide the best clue to personal energy style: ·Cardinal energy dreams and initiates ·Fixed energy desires and creates ·Mutable energy communicates and analyzes With this innovative guide, you can learn to identify crosses in everyday life experiences, mend star-crossed relationships, and balance a lack or overemphasis of crosses in your birth chart. This is a Print-on-Demand title. Please allow an additional 2-3 days for delivery

Author : Edward Stourton
Publisher : Random House
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446487044

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Cruel Crossing by Edward Stourton Pdf

The mountain paths are as treacherous as they are steep – the more so in the dark and in winter. Even for the fit the journey is a formidable challenge. Hundreds of those who climbed through the Pyrenees during the Second World War were malnourished and exhausted after weeks on the run hiding in barns and attics. Many never even reached the Spanish border. Today their bravery and endurance is commemorated each July by a trek along the Chemin de la Liberté – the toughest and most dangerous of wartime routes. From his fellow pilgrims Edward Stourton uncovers stories of midnight scrambles across rooftops and drops from speeding trains; burning Lancasters, doomed love affairs, horrific murder and astonishing heroism. The lives of the men, women and children who were drawn by the war to the Pyrenees often read as breathtakingly exciting adventure, but they were led against a background of intense fear, mounting persecution and appalling risk. Drawing on interviews with the few remaining survivors and the families of those who were there, Edward Stourton’s vivid history of this little-known aspect of the Second World War is shocking, dramatic and intensely moving.

Author : Paul Rodgers,Libby Brodhurst,Duncan Hepburn
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780203088531

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Crossing Design Boundaries by Paul Rodgers,Libby Brodhurst,Duncan Hepburn Pdf

This book presents over 100 papers from the 3rd Engineering & Product Design Education International Conference dedicated to the subject of exploring novel approaches in product design education. The theme of the book is "Crossing Design Boundaries" which reflects the editors’ wish to incorporate many of the disciplines associated with, and integral to, modern product design and development pursuits. Crossing Design Boundaries covers, for example, the conjunction of anthropology and design, the psychology of design products, the application of soft computing in wearable products, and the utilisation of new media and design and how these can be best exploited within the current product design arena. The book includes discussions concerning product design education and the cross-over into other well established design disciplines such as interaction design, jewellery design, furniture design, and exhibition design which have been somewhat under represented in recent years. The book comprises a number of sections containing papers which cover highly topical and relevant issues including Design Curriculum Development, Interdisciplinarity, Design Collaboration and Team Working, Philosophies of Design Education, Design Knowledge, New Materials and New Technologies in Design, Design Communication, Industrial Collaborations and Working with Industry, Teaching and Learning Tools, and Design Theory.