Goodbye My Tribe

Author : Vic Sizemore
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780817320577

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Goodbye, My Tribe by Vic Sizemore Pdf

Memoir of a writer's growing disenchantment with his evangelical upbringing Goodbye, My Tribe: An Evangelical Exodus is Vic Sizemore's collection of personal essays chronicling two simultaneous transformations. One is the gathering of unconnected--and nonpolitical--evangelical congregations across the nation into the political juggernaut called the Religious Right; the other is the author's own coming to terms with the emotional and spiritual trauma of his life deep inside fundamentalist Christianity, and his struggle to free himself from its grasp. Sizemore, whose father was a preacher and professor at a small West Virginia Bible college, attended Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, arguably the crucible of American evangelical Christianity. Sizemore began writing these essays with the aim of exploring and understanding what happened when the mythology of his "tribe" crumbled from beneath his feet. He draws heavily on his upbringing and his family history as a framework for how his "tribe" of white evangelicals have found ways to reconcile Christianity with what the author finds to be troubling stances on many social issues, among them race, gender, sexuality, materialism, anti-intellectualism, and white supremacy. In a clear-eyed and eloquent voice, Sizemore grapples movingly with his own bewilderment and chagrin as he struggles to reconcile the essential philosophical and moral decay that he believes many evangelicals have come to embrace. His insights, arranged topically and thematically and told through graceful and accessible prose, toggle between memoir and literary journalism, along a spectrum that touches on history, philosophy, theology, and personal reflections.

Author : Rob Grafrath
Publisher : Ourania Publishing
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-23
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781953470027

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Neoprim by Rob Grafrath Pdf

The Genesis Faction has colonized a new world of primitive humans, hoping to hide from intelligence-hunting aliens lurking between the stars. These newly primitive inhabitants of the Land of Eden are dubbed “neoprims”. One neoprim per tribe every three generations is selected to join the world of advanced humans in the Land of Nod. Enter Zeta of the Scorpion Tail Tribe — a neoprim who must replay her past experiences to piece together her fractured memory. Oraxis and Genevieve worry they have taken on more than they can handle when Zeta breaks out of beta bootstrapping early, forcing them to call on the headstrong Jamji and her monster-pooch, Pepper, for help. When Zeta faces the unthinkable truths of the past, she is forced to decide between living in a fantasy world of her own creation or accepting her fate and finding her purpose in this new reality. Neoprim is Rob Grafrath’s debut novel. It is the first novel in the Zeta Trilogy, and the first work of the Sapiens^6 Universe.

Author : Victoria Adams
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725262447

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Redefining Job and the Conundrum of Suffering by Victoria Adams Pdf

As a species, we are storytellers. Our best stories, those that endure for generations, are stories of trials and suffering and of surmounting the challenges set before us. The biblical Job is such a story, one that has become encrusted with centuries of interpretations. Redefining Job and the Conundrum of Suffering sets out to retell the story, to make “once upon a time” have meaning for us today. The best way to break old patterns is to start from scratch. Redefining Job dissects the story, the history of interpretations, and the history of how humanity has dealt with suffering. As the story is rebuilt with different insights gained from research in biblical studies, humanities, and science, the message can be viewed in a fresh light. The author of Job lived at a time when knowledge was expanding and our perception of our place in the universe was changing. From this perspective, Job becomes a hero. No longer patiently waiting for some ambiguous answer, he is demanding something more of his Maker. “Before I heard, but now I see” becomes an affirmation that he grasped a new path to discovering why we suffer and how we should respond.

Author : Claire Leggett
Publisher : Bantilly Publishing
Page : 1207 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781925696974

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The Emperor's Conspiracy Boxset by Claire Leggett Pdf

Four strong heroines determined to do what’s right for their people, despite the odds against them. Shuree has always been the perfect khan’s daughter, obeying and supporting her father, even if she doesn’t agree with him. So when he is massacred in an ill-fated raid, she must step up to lead her people. But will others accept the peace she knows they so desperately need? As an imperial princess and an assassin, Lien lives by three rules: never disobey the emperor, never reveal her secret gift, and never trust a barbarian. When the emperor betroths her to the barbarian she’s sworn to kill, Lien is faced with an impossible decision. When a deadly disease sweeps through her village, Geriel despairs she’s not a good enough healer to rescue her people. With the outbreak spreading and her gift unstable, she’s sent on a desperate mission to locate the herbal cure deep in enemy territory. Lady’s maid Shan works for a privileged family, though she longs to see all servants treated fairly. But when she’s caught with equality propaganda, no favours can keep her from execution. With no other way to save herself, Shan reveals her ability to turn invisible and agrees to a risky mission spying on the emperor. This boxset contains three full length novels, plus an exclusive novella and short story not for sale anywhere else. Get swept away in the adventure today.

Author : Jace Repshire
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780615209081

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Faded Epoch by Jace Repshire Pdf

Author : John Graves
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780307773357

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Goodbye to a River by John Graves Pdf

In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretch of the river, which he had known intimately as a youth. Goodbye to a River is his account of that farewell canoe voyage. As he braves rapids and fatigue and the fickle autumn weather, he muses upon old blood feuds of the region and violent skirmishes with native tribes, and retells wild stories of courage and cowardice and deceit that shaped both the river’s people and the land during frontier times and later. Nearly half a century after its initial publication, Goodbye to a River is a true American classic, a vivid narrative about an exciting journey and a powerful tribute to a vanishing way of life and its ever-changing natural environment.

Author : Fred William Allsopp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Folklore
ISBN : UOM:39015002678756

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Folklore of Romantic Arkansas by Fred William Allsopp Pdf

Author : Randon Billings Noble
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781496229212

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A Harp in the Stars by Randon Billings Noble Pdf

What is a lyric essay? An essay that has a lyrical style? An essay that plays with form in a way that resembles poetry more than prose? Both of these? Or something else entirely? The works in this anthology show lyric essays rely more on intuition than exposition, use image more than narration, and question more than answer. But despite all this looseness, the lyric essay still has responsibilities—to try to reveal something, to play with ideas, or to show a shift in thinking, however subtle. The whole of a lyric essay adds up to more than the sum of its parts. In A Harp in the Stars, Randon Billings Noble has collected lyric essays written in four different forms—flash, segmented, braided, and hermit crab—from a range of diverse writers. The collection also includes a section of craft essays—lyric essays about lyric essays. And because lyric essays can be so difficult to pin down, each contributor has supplemented their work with a short meditation on this boundary-breaking form.

Author : Elise Cordaro
Publisher : Houtekiet
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-17
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9789052403526

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Thriving differently by Elise Cordaro Pdf

Elise Cordaro has autism and ADHD. She shares concrete tips and mind hacks with the reader, inspiring him or her not to see the diagnosis of autism or ADHD as an end point. Does a supermarket visit wear you out? Do you get stressed when your plans get disrupted? Do you feel like the world doesn’t quite suit you? Nothing to worry about, because everyone feels like that sometimes, right? Or is there more to it? Elise Cordaro only discovered at 27 that she has autism and ADHD. At first, psychologists waved away her request for help. After all, she looked perfectly normal, had two master’s degrees and had been living alone for a while. She turned out to be a master of camouflage. Over the years, she developed strategies to handle the everyday things others take for granted: studying, working, shopping, housework, small talk... The diagnoses came as a relief. Finally, she had an explanation for why everything takes so much effort, and she realized that she was handling it all quite well, actually. In this book, Elise speaks candidly about how she deals with her dual diagnosis. She encourages fellow neurodivergent tribe members with concrete tips, mind hacks and inspiration to function better with autism and ADHD.

Author : Theyiezelie Chakhesang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : UOM:39015065517313

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Goodbye, My Regiment by Theyiezelie Chakhesang Pdf

Author : Thomas P. Evans
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781450209076

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Murder on the 17th Hole by Thomas P. Evans Pdf

Web Miter is a retired business guru and a former CEO of United Eastern, one of the largest corporations in the country. He’s playing in a foursome in the Hartford Pro-Am, a PGA tour stop in the small town of Lordship, Connecticut, with pro golfer John Rollings. The best round of Miter’s life ends tragically when an explosion rocks the seventeenth hole. Is it a random killing by golf terrorists, or is it a calculated murder committed by one of Miter’s enemies? As Alco Insurance Company investigator Wayne Sedlock sifts through Miter’s past, the list of suspects runs the gamut and includes an anti-outsourcing group, an Indian tribe jockeying for a new casino, and a group of ex-Marines who served with Miter in Vietnam. A crime that breaks new ground, Sedlock and Detective Richard Geany of Lordship, Connecticut, Police Department, sift through all of the clues to determine who had the motive and means to murder Miter on the course.

Author : Mike Dines,Laura Way
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781443874762

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Postgraduate Voices in Punk Studies by Mike Dines,Laura Way Pdf

This volume represents the first academic collection to draw upon postgraduate research in exploring the punk scene. Cutting-edge studies, spanning both local and global contexts, are covered with contributions from a range of academic disciplines, including art and design, sociology, cultural studies, English, and music. The chapters are loosely focused around three themes: scenes; gender, “race” and sexuality; and therapy and laughter. The collection builds upon, and diversifies, existing academic work in punk studies covering such topics as “whitestraightboy” hegemony, straight-edge in France, CRT and the links between punk and the “rave” scene of the 1990s.

Author : Kathy Mosby
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781546209997

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Gather Your Tribe by Kathy Mosby Pdf

Kathy Mosbys life was fairly routine until 2014. In the beginning of that year, it was as though three bombs dropped in the middle of her life. In January, her mom passed away suddenly from a brain aneurysm. In February, her neighbors dead tree fell on her house during a storm. Then in March, she was diagnosed with lymphoma. The journey that followed is Gather Your Tribe. When Kathy was first diagnosed, one of her doctors said, I know youre used to being the mom and taking care of everything, but now its time to gather your tribe and accept the help. So Kathy did indeed gather her tribe through deeply candid emails to her friends and family, which she wrote throughout her journey. Gather Your Tribe is both painful and uplifting. Kathy hopes that by sharing her story, which includes the emails to her tribe, she will inspire others to face their biggest fears and challenges head-on. Amazing things can happen when you do, like receiving a call from the White House!

Author : Shirin Etessam
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781637585474

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Free to Be by Shirin Etessam Pdf

Do you find yourself feeling unfulfilled? Unworthy? Like you’ve checked all the boxes and built a life, a career, a family but still, something is missing? From an early age we’re taught that in order to be worthy, to find true happiness, to be “somebody,” we have to accomplish many things. We become achievement machines, always grasping for the next big win to send a signal to the world—and to ourselves—that we’ve “made it.” That we are happy. But do we ever “make it,” really? Are we truly happy not in the “#livingmybestlife” and “#blessed” way in which we caption our social media pages, but from a truly contented place of inner peace and joy? One where the yearning for the bigger house, the better job, the younger, more pliable spouse takes a backseat to the yearnings of our hearts and souls, a place where contentment just “is”? We’re often told to follow our heart; that fragile, fickle organ at the center of our physical being. What’s really meant by that idiom is to follow our soul; that all-knowing, ever-wise space within all of us. But most people have been disconnected from their souls for so long, they have no idea where to find it…let alone how to follow it. Free to Be is a simple six-week process of liberating your soul. With easy-to-digest daily exercises, it will lead you toward a life of deep fulfillment and lasting contentment. (That is, if you let it!) If you were given a guide that could reset your life—rewrite your story—right here and now, would you? If your answer is yes, let’s begin. “Good advice and a simple helpful program for inner well-being.” —Jack Kornfield, Author, Buddhist practitioner, Spirit Rock Meditation Center Founding Teacher

Author : CB Samet
Publisher : Novels by CB Samet
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Avant Champion by CB Samet Pdf

TWO FULL-LENGTH NOVELS AND TWO NOVELETTES The gripping conclusions to Abigail Cross’s fantasy adventure. Every millennia, an Avant Champion must contain an ancient evil. But Abigail’s quests don’t stop there. Follow her as she battles scheming giants, a deadly plague, and invading soldiers on journeys of love, loss, and self-discovery. Contents: Brother’s Bond (interim novelette) The Avant Champion ~Conquest~ Isabel (prequel novelette) The Avant Champion ~Redeem~ ~Conquest~ “Riveting story that sees the Avant champion accompany the queen, and efforts to save the kingdom that echo in unexpected ways.” —Booksprout Reviewer “Exhilarating ride! When Abigail loses her abilities at the hands of the evil king of Bellos who is intent on subjugating all of Crithos under his thumb, I had no idea how she was going to save the day. But once again, the author has cast her magic and after death-defying turns at every corner, this book delivers a most satisfying ending.”—Author H.M. Gooden ~Redeem~ “This is full of magic, suspense, and a story that will you have unable to put the book down. I was sucked in and fell in love with the characters and the story!” —Bookbub Reviewer “It is a wonderfully well-defined fantasy book in which magical creatures and Che stones lead the way. I found Abigail to have a warm and honest character that readers have to love.” —Booksprout Reviewer “A wonderful fantasy adventure…. well written and makes you feel as if you are there! …. This story has twists and turns as the journey goes and the characters will pull you in! This book is a great adventure!” —Bookbub Reviewer