Rethinking Fellowship

Author : Cyndee Ownbey
Publisher : Onb Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1733471049

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Rethinking Fellowship by Cyndee Ownbey Pdf

Planning women's ministry events that attract women of all ages, encourage community, and focus on our faith is a challenge!There are so many things you could do, how do you decide what to do? Rethinking Fellowship will break through the overwhelm of event ideas and teach you how to select the best ideas for the women in your church. Rethinking Fellowship will help you:?Apply fellowship principles modeled by the early church in Acts 2?Determine which types of fellowship events your ministry needs?Create an effective framework for women's ministry fellowships and meetings?Select décor, door prizes, and devotionals that point women to Christ?Rethink your fellowship format so it also encourages discipleshipHaving planned church events of all sizes for over twenty years, Cyndee has discovered the secret to hosting meaningful women's ministry meetings that women want to attend. She'll inspire and guide you through the planning process with hundreds of event ideas.For author bio: Cyndee Ownbey serves as a mentor to thousands of women's ministry leaders through her website, podcast, and Facebook community, Women's Ministry Toolbox. She is the best-selling author of Rethinking Women's Ministry: Biblical, Practical Tools for Cultivating a Flourishing Community. A veteran women's ministry leader (20+ years), Cyndee serves on the women's ministry team in her local church.

Author : Dominique DuBois Gilliard
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780830887736

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Rethinking Incarceration by Dominique DuBois Gilliard Pdf

IVP Readers' Choice Award Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year The United States has more people locked up in jails, prisons, and detention centers than any other country in the history of the world. Mass incarceration has become a lucrative industry, and the criminal justice system is plagued with bias and unjust practices. And the church has unwittingly contributed to the problem. Dominique Gilliard explores the history and foundation of mass incarceration, examining Christianity’s role in its evolution and expansion. He then shows how Christians can pursue justice that restores and reconciles, offering creative solutions and highlighting innovative interventions. The church has the power to help transform our criminal justice system. Discover how you can participate in the restorative justice needed to bring authentic rehabilitation, lasting transformation, and healthy reintegration to this broken system.

Author : Verónica Garibotto
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253038531

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Rethinking Testimonial Cinema in Postdictatorship Argentina by Verónica Garibotto Pdf

For roughly two decades after the collapse of the military regime in 1983, testimonial narrative was viewed and received as a privileged genre in Argentina. Today, however, academics and public intellectuals are experiencing "memory fatigue," a backlash against the concepts of memory and trauma, just as memory and testimonial films have reached the center of Argentinian public discourse. In Rethinking Testimonial Cinema in Postdictatorship Argentina, Verónica Garibotto looks at the causes for this reticence and argues that, rather than discarding memory texts for their repetitive excess, it is necessary to acknowledge them and their exhaustion as discourses of the present. By critically examining how trauma theory and subaltern studies have previously been applied to testimonial cinema, Garibotto rereads Argentinian films produced since 1983 and calls for an alternate interpretive framework at the intersection of semiotics, theories of affect, scholarship on hegemony, and the ideological uses of documentary and fiction. She argues that recurrent concepts—such as trauma, mourning, memory, and subalternity—miss how testimonial films have changed over time, shifting from subaltern narratives to official, hegemonic, and iconic accounts. Her work highlights the urgent need to continue to study these types of narratives, particularly at a time when military dictatorships have become entrenched in Latin America and memory narratives proliferate worldwide. Although Argentina is Garibotto's focus, her theory can be adapted to other contexts in which narratives about recent political conflicts have shifted from alternative versions of history to official, hegemonic accounts—such as in Spanish, Chilean, Uruguayan, Brazilian, South African, and Holocaust testimonies. Garibotto's study of testimonial cinema moves us to pursue a broader ideological analysis of the links between film and historical representation.

Author : Lorraine Byrne Bodley,Julian Horton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190200121

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Rethinking Schubert by Lorraine Byrne Bodley,Julian Horton Pdf

In Rethinking Schubert, today's leading Schubertians offer fresh perspectives on the composer's importance and our perennial fascination with him. Subjecting recurring issues in historical, biographical and analytical research to renewed scrutiny, the twenty-two chapters yield new insights into Schubert, his music, his influence and his legacy, and broaden the interpretative context for the music of his final years. With close attention to matters of style, harmonic and formal analysis, and text setting, the essays gathered here explore a significant portion of the composer's extensive output across a range of genres. The most readily explicable aspect of Schubert's appeal is undoubtedly our continuing engagement with the songs. Schubert will always be the first port of call for scholars interested in the relationship between music and the poetic text, and several essays in Rethinking Schubert offer welcome new inquiries into this subject. Yet perhaps the most striking feature of modern scholarship is the new depth of thought that attaches to the instrumental works. This music's highly protracted dissemination has combined with a habitual critical hostility to produce a reception history that is hardly congenial to musical analysis. Empowered by the new momentum behind theories of nineteenth-century harmony and form and recently-published source materials, the sophisticated approaches to the instrumental music in Rethinking Schubert show decisively that it is no longer acceptable to posit Schubert's instrumental forms as flawed lyric alternatives to Beethoven. What this volume provides, then, is not only a fresh portrait of one of the most loved composers of the nineteenth century but also a conspectus of current Schubertian research. Whether perusing unknown repertoire or refreshing canonical works, Rethinking Schubert reveals the extraordinary methodological variety that is now available to research, painting a contemporary portrait of Schubert that is vibrant, plural, trans-national and complex.

Author : Edward C. Green
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11-30
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780313053849

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Rethinking AIDS Prevention by Edward C. Green Pdf

This is not another book about how AIDS is out of control in Africa and Third World nations, or one complaining about the inadequacy of secured funds to fight the pandemic. The author looks objectively at countries that have succeeded in reducing HIV infection rates...along with a worrisome flip side to the progress. The largely medical solutions funded by major donors have had little impact in Africa, the continent hardest hit by AIDS. Instead, relatively simple, low-cost behavioral change programs—stressing increased monogamy and delayed sexual activity for young people—have made the greatest headway in fighting or preventing the disease's spread. Ugandans pioneered these simple, sustainable interventions and achieved significant results. As National Review journalist Rod Dreher put it, Rather than pay for clinics, gadgets and medical procedures—especially in the important earlier years of its response to the epidemic—Uganda mobilized human resources. In a New York Times interview, Green cited evidence that partner reduction, promoted as mutual faithfulness, is the single most effective way of reducing the spread of AIDS. That deceptively simple solution is not merely about medical advances or condom use. It is about the ABC model: Abstain, Be faithful, and use Condoms if A and B are impossible. Yet deeply rooted Western biases have obstructed the effectiveness of AIDS prevention. Many Western scientists have attacked the ABC approach as impossible and moralistic. Some Western activists and HIV carriers have been outraged, thinking the approach passes moral judgment on their behaviors. But there is also a troubling suspicion among a growing number of scientists who support the ABC model that certain opponents may simply be AIDS profiteers, more interested in protecting their incomes than battling the disease. This book is a bellwether in the escalating controversy, offering persuasive evidence in support of the ABC approach and exposing the fallacies and motivations of its opponents.

Author : Will Kymlicka
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015045643403

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Finding Our Way by Will Kymlicka Pdf

Many people today believe that ethnocultural politics in Canada are spiralling out of control, with ever more groups in society making ever greater demands. Finding Our Way offers a more balanced view. Will Kymlicka argues that the difficulties involved in accommodating ethnoculturaldiversity are not insurmountable, and that Canadians have an impressive range of experience and resources on which to draw in addressing them. A crucial part of his argument is the distinction between the ethnic groups formed by immigration and the 'nations within' constituted by the Quebecois andAboriginal peoples, whose existence predates that of the Canadian state. With respect to immigrant groups, he maintains that the 'multicultural' model of integration adopted by the federal government in 1971 has worked much better than is commonly thought, and can be adapted to new circumstances.The challenges of accommodating the self-government demands of national minorities are admittedly greater. Yet here too Kymlicka argues that we have all the experience we need: what we lack is the will to apply what we know. At a time when many Canadians appear to have lost confidence in ourability to work out fair and mutually beneficial solutions to ethnocultural conflicts, Finding Our Way makes an invaluable contribution to two critical national debates.

Author : Olivia Bloechl,Melanie Lowe,Jeffrey Kallberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107026674

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Rethinking Difference in Music Scholarship by Olivia Bloechl,Melanie Lowe,Jeffrey Kallberg Pdf

This major essay collection takes a fresh look at how differences among people matter for music and musical thought.

Author : Carina L. Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521769273

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Cultural Hierarchy in Sixteenth-Century Europe by Carina L. Johnson Pdf

Concentrating on the Habsburg Empire, this book examines the creation of cultural hierarchy in sixteenth-century Europe.

Author : John P. Meier
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300156027

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A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume IV by John P. Meier Pdf

John Meier's previous volumes in the acclaimed series A Marginal Jew are founded upon the notion that while solid historical information about Jesus is quite limited, people of different faiths can nevertheless arrive at a consensus on fundamental historical facts of his life. In this eagerly anticipated fourth volume in the series, Meier approaches a fresh topic-the teachings of the historical Jesus concerning Mosaic Law and morality-with the same rigor, thoroughness, accuracy, and insightfulness on display in his earlier works.

Author : Nsongurua Udombana,Violeta Beširević
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9786155211003

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Re-thinking Socio-Economic Rights in an Insecure World by Nsongurua Udombana,Violeta Beširević Pdf

From November 28 - 29, 2005, the Center for Human Rights of Central European University (CEU) organized a roundtable around the theme: Re-thinking Socio-Economic Rights in an Insecure World. The roundtable brought together scholars and human rights practitioners from different regions to reflect on the following questions relating to social and economic rights, particularly in the context of the global insecurity: If social rights are human rights, how does the failure to advance these rights undermine security? Are social rights human rights or do the claims they incorporate represent social needs? Are they moral or legal rights? Who has a duty to respect these rights? Is there a hierarchy among those who have such duties? How can these duties be fulfilled? What is an appropriate approach to social and economic concerns in developing countries? Is the argument for socio-economic rights an argument that overcomes the causes and legacy of conflicts? Do socio-economic rights deserve constitutional protection? What are the problems behind constitutional protection of such rights? Is the vagueness of social and economic rights an enough reason not to assign such rights to people? Is the rhetoric of social and economic rights helpful in protecting marginalized and neglected groups?

Author : Monique Yaari
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789042025004

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Rethinking the French City by Monique Yaari Pdf

This book considers the post-68 French city as a prism through which to understand the contemporary world and France's specificity within it. The reader is invited to join in a series of exploratory strolls through texts, buildings, and neighborhoods, and thereby share in a process of discovery. Zeroing in on international architectural debates, a range of key Parisian exhibitions, and major urban design decisions in Paris, Montpellier, and Lille, Yaari unravels an often-acerbic French critique of both modern and postmodern positions on culture, technology, and the city. This critique-stemming from the competing claims of national identity, the ethics of architecture and display, and an anthropologically informed revision of prevailing views on the city-has sparked in France a passionate search for a third path, which the author proposes to term apres-moderne. Breaking new ground in the field of French Studies through cultural analysis of the contemporary city, this study brings new insight to scholars and professionals in architecture and urbanism, and will interest all others for whom France and cities in general hold special appeal. Monique Yaari is a specialist of twentieth-century French literary and cultural studies. For the past decade, her research has focused on the contemporary city. The author of Ironie paradoxale et ironie poetique: sur les traces de Gide dans Paludes (Summa Publications, 1988) as well as numerous articles on contemporary French art and architecture, Professor Yaari teaches in the Culture and Civilization option of the Department of French and Francophone Studies at The Pennsylvania State University.

Author : Laura Monrós-Gaspar
Publisher : Universitat de València
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788491342618

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Re-Thinking Literary Identities by Laura Monrós-Gaspar Pdf

Great Britain is changing, and so is Europe. The aim of this book, therefore, is to reflect upon the processes of (re)creation of art and literature within and against the backdrop of the shifting paradigms of the world as we know it. At a time when the political relations between Great Britain, Europe and the rest of the world are being redefined, this book examines the (de)construction of modern identities through the (de)codification of classical and contemporary mythologies.

Author : Pope Benedict XVI
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780898709636

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Pilgrim Fellowship of Faith by Pope Benedict XVI Pdf

Characterised by Ratzinger's concisely reasoned style it helps those who wish to understand the modern Church and the thinking of Pope Benedict XVI.

Author : Ben Kafka
Publisher : Zone Books
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781942130352

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The Demon of Writing by Ben Kafka Pdf

A history and theory of the powers, the failures, and even the pleasures of paperwork. Since the middle of the eighteenth century, political thinkers of all kinds—radical and reactionary, professional and amateur—have been complaining about “bureaucracy.” But what, exactly, are they complaining about? In The Demon of Writing, Ben Kafka offers a critical history and theory of one of the most ubiquitous, least understood forms of media: paperwork. States rely on records to tax and spend, protect and serve, discipline and punish. But time and again, this paperwork proves to be unreliable. Examining episodes that range from the story of a clerk who lost his job and then his mind in the French Revolution to an account of Roland Barthes's brief stint as a university administrator, Kafka reveals the powers, the failures, and even the pleasures of paperwork. Many of its complexities, he argues, have been obscured by the comic-paranoid style that characterizes much of our criticism of bureaucracy. Kafka proposes a new theory of what Karl Marx called the “bureaucratic medium.” Moving from Marx to Freud, he argues that this theory of paperwork must include both a theory of praxis and of parapraxis.

Author : Laymen's foreign mission inquiry. Commission of appraisal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Missions
ISBN : CORNELL:31924052119538

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