Evensong

Author : Gail Godwin
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345434777

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Evensong by Gail Godwin Pdf

To read Gail Godwin is to touch the very core of human experience. With inimitable grace and aching emotional precision, Godwin probes our own complexities in characters whose lives oscillate between success and struggle, stoic resolve and quixotic temptation, bitter disappointment and small, sacred joys. Now with Evensong, she again translates our everyday existence into soul-touching truths as she brings to brilliantly realized life the people of a small Smoky Mountain town--and a woman whose world is indelibly altered by them.

Author : John Love
Publisher : Start Publishing LLC
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781597805667

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A near-future thriller where those who protect humanity are not always completely human. The future is a dangerous place. Keeping the world stable and peaceful when competing corporate interests and nation-states battle for power, wealth, and prestige has only gotten harder over the years. But that’s the United Nations’ job. So the UN has changed along with the rest of the world. When the UN’s “soft” diplomacy fails, it has harder options. Quiet, scalpel-like options: The Dead—biologically enhanced secret operatives created by the UN to solve the problems no one else can. Anwar Abbas is one of The Dead. When the Controller-General of the UN asks him to perform a simple bodyguard mission, he’s insulted and resentful: mere bodyguard work is a waste of his unique abilities. But he takes the job, because to refuse it would be unthinkable. Anwar is asked to protect Olivia del Sarto, the host of an important upcoming UN conference. Olivia is head of the world’s fastest-growing church, but in her rise to power she has made enemies: shadowy enemies with apparently limitless resources. Anwar is one of the deadliest people on earth, but her enemies have something which kills people like him. And they’ve sent it for her. It’s out there, unstoppable and untraceable, getting closer as the conference approaches. As he and Olivia ignite a torrid affair, Anwar must uncover the conspiracy that threatens to destroy her, the UN, and even The Dead.

Author : Richard Morris
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781474614245

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Evensong by Richard Morris Pdf

Parish churches have been at the heart of communities for more than a thousand years. But now, fewer than two in one hundred people regularly attend services in an Anglican church, and many have never been inside one. Since the idea of 'church' is its people, the buildings are becoming husks - staples of our landscapes, but without meaning or purpose. Some churches are finding vigorous community roles with which to carry on, but the institutional decline is widely seen as terminal. Yet for Richard Morris, post-war parsonages were the happy backdrop of his childhood. In Evensong he searches for what it was that drew his father and hundreds like him towards ordination as they came home from war in 1945. Along the way we meet all kinds of people - archbishops, chaplains, campaigners, bell-ringers, bureaucrats, archaeologists, gravediggers, architects, scroungers - and follow some of them to dark places. Part personal odyssey, part lyrical history, Evensong asks what churches stand for and what they can tell us; it explores why Anglicanism has often been fractious, and why it has become so diffuse. Spanning over two thousand years, it draws on new discoveries, reflects on the current state of the Church in England and ends amid the messy legacies of colonialism and empire.

Author : The Reverend Richard Coles
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781803364834

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Murder Before Evensong by The Reverend Richard Coles Pdf

"I've been waiting for a novel with vicars, rude old ladies, murder and sausage dogs... et voila!" Dawn French This first in a new series is a charming, warm and witty tale of secrets and murder set among the parishioners of a quaint English village. The No.1 Sunday Times bestselling crime novel, perfect for fans of Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club series. 'Whodunnit fans can give praise and rejoice' IAN RANKIN Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rectory alongside his widowed mother–opinionated, fearless, ever-so-slightly annoying Audrey–and his two dachshunds, Cosmo and Hilda. When Daniel announces a plan to install a lavatory in church, the parish is suddenly (and unexpectedly) divided: as lines are drawn, long-buried secrets come dangerously close to destroying the apparent calm of the village. And then Anthony Bowness–cousin to Bernard de Floures, patron of Champton–is found dead at the back of the church, stabbed in the neck with a pair of pruning shears. As the police moves in and the bodies start piling up, Daniel is the only one who can try and keep his fractured community together... and catch a killer. A delightful, cosy murder mystery with a sharp edge from the bestselling author.

Author : M. L. St. Sure
Publisher : Booksurge Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-14
Category : Opera
ISBN : 1419668242

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Evensong by M. L. St. Sure Pdf

Growing up on a poor farm in Missouri, and learning how to sing opera from her war-scarred father, young Christina Cross has no idea that the powerful forces of good and evil, of music and war, will one day pull her into the maelstrom of World War II, compelling her to make life-or-death decisions about who she is fighting for in her life, and the price that she is willing to pay. [from back cover of book].

Author : John Merbecke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Anglican chants
ISBN : NYPL:33433079890780

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The book of common prayer noted by John Merbecke Pdf

Author : William Smith,Samuel Cheetham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1190 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Christian antiquities
ISBN : PRNC:32101079837256

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A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities : Being a Continuation of the Dictionary of the Bible by William Smith,Samuel Cheetham Pdf

Author : William Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1178 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Christian antiquities
ISBN : UVA:X000883719

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A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities by William Smith Pdf

Author : William Smith,Samuel Cheetham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1174 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Christian antiquities
ISBN : UOM:39015015350500

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A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Kal-Zoe by William Smith,Samuel Cheetham Pdf

Author : Sir William Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1188 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Christian antiquities
ISBN : UCAL:$B43345

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A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities by Sir William Smith Pdf

Author : Simon Reynolds
Publisher : Darton Longman and Todd
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0232534624

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Lighten Our Darkness by Simon Reynolds Pdf

** Now available for pre-order (title will be released on April 29th) **Over the course of the past 25 years, a quiet but persistent revolution has been taking place in English cathedrals, in some larger churches in major towns and cities, as well as the chapels of university colleges. The numbers of people drawn by the distinctive musical character of their worship has risen significantly, with Choral Evensong becoming the locus of this persistent growth in the numbers of worshippers. A significant number of these people are under 40 years of age; and many others have, until now, lived their lives on the edges of the Church - if not completely beyond it.Simon Reynolds believes Evensong is providing a place of sanctuary for people seeking space for reflection in a frenetic world. It is becoming a significant part of the Church of England's mission. Lighten Our Darkness provides the definitive guide to Choral Evensong, and will be a fascinating introduction for newcomers to this historic form of worship, and for clergy and students wishing to explore its roots.

Author : Christopher Wordsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:591071572

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Ten Addresses by Christopher Wordsworth Pdf

Author : St. Andrew's Church (Headington, Oxford, England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Headington (Oxford, England)
ISBN : OXFORD:555055989

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The Headington Parish Magazine by St. Andrew's Church (Headington, Oxford, England) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Christian literature, English
ISBN : OXFORD:555055790

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The Parish Magazine for Berkeley, Dursley, Stinchcombe, and Uley by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher Wordsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Church and state
ISBN : UCAL:B3334761

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Miscellanies, Literary and Religious by Christopher Wordsworth Pdf