Even Our Friendship Was Illegal
Even Our Friendship Was Illegal

Author: Dorothy Quiggin

Publisher:

Published: 2016-09-29

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9781539138983

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Mississippi in 1962 was fighting to remain segregated despite recent Federal laws banning the practice. And yet, a resistance movement built on love and peaceful protest was gaining momentum.Without fully understanding what they were getting into, 12 students from Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa embarked on a two-week summer service project. They lived on the campus of Tougaloo Southern Christian College, a historically black college, where they befriended students, met civil rights leaders, and quietly fostered change.Just for being an integrated group, these students experience hatred and bigotry. They were harassed and some were jailed, but they continued to fight for justice. Through memoir and journal entry, "Even Our Friendship Was Illegal" tells the story of their eye-opening adventure and shows how their lives were changed forever by these experiences.

Illegal Prayers
Illegal Prayers

Author: Bob Sorge

Publisher: Bob Sorge

Published: 2014-11-05

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13:

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This book explores how Jesus taught us to pray when we need an answer from God right now. There’s a bold way to pray that receives today what God was intending to do tomorrow. All you need is a close friendship with God. When you have relational equity with God, you can pray with such audacity that others are like, “You shouldn’t talk to God like that!” But it’s precisely to this kind of illegal praying that Jesus surprisingly invites us. You’re a friend of God—so ditch propriety, forget the rules, throw caution to the wind, and pray illegal prayers.

The Five Seasons of Love
The Five Seasons of Love

Author: João Almino

Publisher: Host Publications, Inc.

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 9780924047503

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Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Portugese by Elizabeth Jackson. In THE FIVE SEASONS OF LOVE, acclaimed Brazilian writer Joao Almino presents a compelling and sympathetic portrait of a woman whose life has not turned out as she anticipated, and whose once audacious dreams have been replaced by half-truths, failures, and frustration. To fulfill a pact made during her student days, fifty-five-year-old Ana Kauffman plans a party to celebrate the new millennium. As old friends resurface and the countdown to the new century draws near, Ana's past undergoes a series of unexpected revisions--beginning with the arrival of Berta, the newly minted post-op persona of Ana's former boyfriend Norberto. Set amidst the chaos of contemporary Brasilia, a place where even the most basic human affairs--love, friendship, sex, and work--can take unlikely shapes, Ana's story is both relentlessly modern and profoundly timeless. Winner of the Casa de las Americas 2003 Literary Award, THE FIVE SEASONS OF LOVE is an extraordinary novel by a writer at the height of his powers.

Practical Friendship
Practical Friendship

Author: Christian Langkamp

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2021-09-24

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 3754351648

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Practical Friendship brings insights together from ancient and contemporary philosophy, theology, psychology and sociology to identify what good friendship means and how we can live it. Based on the analysis it proposes we adopt a role based view of friendship, that also can be used to analyse loneliness. Based on research and anecdotal evidence the book compiles a range of recommendations on how to maintain our friendships in good repair and how to foster friendship in old age. The book addresses an audience of professionals working to fight loneliness in our society as well as lay people wanting to reflect on how to improve the friendships in their lives. Additional sections are addressed at researchers in sociology and psychology who want to expand their understanding of friendship in order to tune their research to generate insight for loneliness-support.

Big Friendship
Big Friendship

Author: Aminatou Sow

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2020-07-14

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1982111925

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A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can contain. Anyone will tell you that! But for all the rosy sentiments surrounding friendship, most people don’t talk much about what it really takes to stay close for the long haul. Now two friends, Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, tell the story of their equally messy and life-affirming Big Friendship in this honest and hilarious book that chronicles their first decade in one another’s lives. As the hosts of the hit podcast Call Your Girlfriend, they’ve become known for frank and intimate conversations. In this book, they bring that energy to their own friendship—its joys and its pitfalls. Aminatou and Ann define Big Friendship as a strong, significant bond that transcends life phases, geographical locations, and emotional shifts. And they should know: the two have had moments of charmed bliss and deep frustration, of profound connection and gut-wrenching alienation. They have weathered life-threatening health scares, getting fired from their dream jobs, and one unfortunate Thanksgiving dinner eaten in a car in a parking lot in Rancho Cucamonga. Through interviews with friends and experts, they have come to understand that their struggles are not unique. And that the most important part of a Big Friendship is making the decision to invest in one another again and again. An inspiring and entertaining testament to the power of society’s most underappreciated relationship, Big Friendship will invite you to think about how your own bonds are formed, challenged, and preserved. It is a call to value your friendships in all of their complexity. Actively choose them. And, sometimes, fight for them.

Daring, Trusting Spirit
Daring, Trusting Spirit

Author: John W. De Gruchy

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published:

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9781451411607

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The compelling story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, his resistance to the Nazi regime, and his sweeping postwar influence owe much to his close friendship with his fellow pastor Eberhard Bethge. In this important and engaging work, distinguished theologian John de Gruchy narrates the course and consequences of that friendship, building on interviews and newly available primary sources. Sympathetic yet astute, de Gruchy relates Bethge's own development, his unlikely yet devoted friendship with Bonhoeffer, their fateful involvement in the Confessing Church movement and opposition to Hitler, and Bethge's remarkable postwar journey, nurturing worldwide reception and regard for Bonhoeffer's signal theological insights. Book jacket.