Dancing with Broken Bones
Author: Jasmin Sculark
Publisher:
Published: 2012-01-01
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ISBN-13: 9781467527804
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Dancing with Broken Bones
Author: David Wendell Moller
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-04-19
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 0199760136
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDancing with Broken Bones gives voice and face to a vulnerable and disempowered population whose stories often remain untold: the urban dying poor. Drawing on complex issues surrounding poverty, class, and race, Moller illuminates the unique sufferings that often remain unknown and hidden within a culture of broad invisibility. He demonstrates how a complex array of factors, such as mistrust of physicians, regrettable indignities in care, and inadequate communication among providers, patients, and families, shape the experience of the dying poor in the inner city. This book challenges readers to look at reality in a different way. Demystifying stereotypes that surround poverty, Moller illuminates how faith, remarkable optimism, and an unassailable spirit provide strength and courage to the dying poor. Dancing with Broken Bones serves as a rallying call for compassionate individuals everywhere to understand and respond to the needs of the especially vulnerable, yet inspiring, people who comprise the world of the inner city dying poor.
Dancing with Broken Bones : Portraits of Death and Dying among Inner-City Poor
Author: School of Medicine University of Missouri-Kansas City David Wendell Moller Director of Medical Humanities
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2003-10-25
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 0199759804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDancing with Broken Bones provides a chilling portrait of what it is like to die while living in urban poverty. Via interviews with patients and their families as well as powerful photographs, the author demonstrates that a complex array of factors shape the experience of dying poor in the inner city: mistrust of physicians; inadequate communication among providers, patients, and families; a sense of alienation within the bureaucratic maze of the public hospital system; and indignities in care. By demystifying the stereotypes surrounding poverty, the book illuminates how faith and an unassailable spirit provide strength and courage throughout the end of life experience. Dancing with Broken Bones is a rallying call for compassionate individuals everywhere to understand and respond to the needs of the especially vulnerable people who comprise the world of inner-city dying poor.
Let the Bones Dance
Author: Marcia W. Mount Shoop
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0664234127
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMinister and theologian Marcia Mount Shoop Offers an analysis of Reformed heritage---and an impassioned provocation that we live more adventurously. "Beautifully written and deeply felt. This work offers a vivid theology relocated in the flesh and blood of life's utter physicality. Finally a book to recommend when people ask about resources on bodies and theology!"---Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Pastoral Theology, The Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion, Vanderbilt University "An incredibly compelling theological work. Bringing together a host of cutting-edge concerns that matter not simply to academic theologians, but to the lived life of faith, this project invokes the importance of bodies and their marking by gender, race, ethnicity, etc. Mount Shoop uses these now-familiar themes to break new ground by revealing the inadequacy of the overly verbal and cognitive character of Protestant worship and practice. It is groundbreaking."---Mary McClintock Fulkerson, Professor of Theology, Duke Divinity School, and author of Places of Redemption: Theology for a Worldly Church "Mount Shoop thiks in new ways about central theological concepts and dares to imagine a new church emerging out of them. She combines the intellectual vigor of an academic with the heart and soul of a pastor who understands what it means to lead a congregation. Happily, she writes like a poet. Let the Bones Dance is provocative, stimulating, and readable."---John M. Buchanan, pastor, Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, Illinois, and author of A New Church for a New World Contemporary Christian faith and practice tend to address spiritual, mental, and emotional issues but ignore the body. As a result, many believers are uncomfortable in their own skins. Mount Shoop addresses this "dis-ease" with a theology that is attentive to physical experience. She also suggests how worship services can more fully invite God to inhabit every part of a congregation---including their flesh-and-blood bodies.
Dancing Bones
Author: Patsy Clairmont
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780849901768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA vision of what it looks like to live in the valley s those moments when we don't like the present and can't see the future.
Dancing with Broken Bones
Author: David Swartz
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780891091486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere's a Crack in Your Armor
Author: Perry Stone
Publisher: Charisma Media
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1621362485
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPut on the entire armor of God and be able to effectively survive and thrive during conflict.
Thriving in the Face of Mortality
Author: Daniel B. Hinshaw
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2023-01-27
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1666744824
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKenosis, a Greek word meaning “depletion” or “emptying” and a concept borrowed from Christian theology, has deeply profound implications for understanding and ordering life in a world marked by suffering and death. Whereas the divine kenosis was voluntary, human beings experience an involuntary kenosis which is characterized by the inevitable losses experienced during the lives of mortal creatures. How one chooses voluntarily to respond to this involuntary kenosis, regardless of faith commitments, in effect defines us, both in our relationships with other suffering creatures and with the entire cosmos. This book offers a unique perspective on how the losses of involuntary kenosis choreograph the suffering which is such a defining aspect of the lives of persons, communities, and the environment in which they live, and how the kenotic process, rather than being a source of despair, can be a source of hope presenting opportunities for extraordinary personal growth.
Dancing Through It
Author: Jenifer Ringer
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2014-02-20
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 069815150X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A glimpse into the fragile psyche of a dancer.” —The Washington Post Jenifer Ringer, a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, was thrust into the headlines after her weight was commented on by a New York Times critic, and her response ignited a public dialogue about dance and weight. Ballet aficionados and aspiring performers of all ages will want to join Ringer behind the scenes as she shares her journey from student to star and candidly discusses both her struggle with an eating disorder and the media storm that erupted after the Times review. An unusually upbeat account of life on the stage, Dancing Through It is also a coming-of-age story and an inspiring memoir of faith and of triumph over the body issues that torment all too many women and men.
