Examines the sexual beliefs and practices of different religions, cultures, genders, and relationships to propose a modern-day framework on the topic that is more focused on love rather than sex.
From one of the UK's most widely respected gay Christians comes a powerful faith memoir of overcoming inner conflict and taking a stand against one of the greatest institutional injustices of our time. Just Love is the autobiography of Jayne Ozanne, a prominent gay Anglican, who struggled for over 40 years to reconcile her faith with her sexuality before becoming one of the leading figures that is ushering in a new era of LGBTI acceptance in the Church. Her journey incorporates a range of powerful faith encounters with people across the world, from Argentina to Moscow and from the jungles of Burma to the White House. She gives an inside view of what it was to be a founding member of the Church of England's Archbishops' Council to working alongside international figures such as Tony Blair and the Vicar of Baghdad. At times both raw and shocking, she explains what led her to be hospitalized after seeking healing for her sexuality before becoming ostracized by many Christians after she finally deciding she had no choice but to come out. Jayne's story serves as a lifeline for LGBTI Christians struggling to reconcile their faith with their sexuality and forces the Church to reflect on the impact of its current teaching.
When love seeks within, there is no room for the hatred for someone... Where love resides it’s always the beautiful heart that rules the outer beauty. This book is a compilation of poems, short narratives from various Co-Authors who set down their rare love stories where, a person can fall in love with a person, the inner beauty, a protagonist of his favorite novel, the beautiful nature, and small gestures that touch your soul. Each writer have spread their inks into an appealing Narrative or a poem to make this book a heavenly experience for its readers
Winner of the 2008 Grawemeyer Award in Religion This long-awaited book by one of American Christianity's foremost ethicists proposes a framework for sexual ethics whereby justice is the criterion for all loving, including love that is related to sexual activity and relationships. It begins with historical and cross-cultural explorations, then addresses the large questions of embodiment, gender, and sexuality, and finally delineates the justice framework for sexual ethics. Though Just Love's particular focus is Christian sexual ethics, Farley's framework is broad enough to have relevance for multiple traditions. Also covered are specific issues in sexual ethics, including same-sex relationships, marriage and family, divorce and second marriage.
JUST LOVE contains everything, the entire universe. It describes a Love that has been addressed before - after all, there is essentially nothing new to add to the wisdom of the Holy Scriptures of both East and West - yet the way this Love is addressed is new and speaks to us at the beginning of the 21st century in a way that touches us deeply. JUST LOVE is expressed by someone who not only knows about the all-pervading, all-sustaining Divine force that forms the creation of the Universe, but who is completely one with it. JUST LOVE is the first major book written with words directly from Sri Swami Vishwananda. It contains a collection of 52 talks expressed by a fully realized soul to enable each and everyone to attain the Divine Light in a simple way. Sri Swami Vishwanada's message is simple: Just Love. Yes, just love. Love is all there is. Love is all you have to do; the rest will take care of itself.
In a pathbreaking exploration of sexual ethics, Farley--who is highly regarded by her peers on both the right and the left, by religious feminists and Christian moralists--sheds new light on key issues: justice, personhood, the family, feminism, homosexuality, reproductive technology, and more. Farley is the author of Personal Commitments: Making, Keeping, Breaking.
"I’ve loved you all your life, every single day. I love you oh so much—I’ll tell you all the ways!” Come see all the ways with Elmo and his Sesame Street friends!
A personal, candid description of the author's life experience before, approaching and during the early stages of Alzheimer's Disease, enabling readers to better understand people with dementia.
Hi! My name is Nuthan Poojari. To be specific and short about me, I am the guy one who knotted the blindfold himself in the matter of ‘Belief’, without being able to identify the ‘Lie’ which is carefully assembled between the ‘Belief’. I am the guy who has given the way to some unknown; to cross his beautifully structured life, without his own knowledge and re-constructed the most horrible conclusion which was supposed to be happy ending. And you know, it all happened in the wake of, what people call ‘True Love’. Nevertheless, Now I am bit relaxed because I got know, I am not the only ill-fated creature of this universe as I had assumed. They are many out there and perhaps, you could be one of those. Which was that one moment that could have given me the better turning? What was that one thing that changed the entire scene? What was that one thing, that was connected to my life without my invitation and what made me to connect? Board bus with me. Let’s go on a journey through the heart of the dense forest of Malenadu; by allowing me to illustrate the subject of Love.
The third and final volume of the ‘JUST LOVE: Questions & Answers’ series focuses particularly on that which has been the cause of more debate, discussion, mystery and curiosity than anything else in the history of mankind: God Himself. In addition, for the first time Paramahamsa Vishwananda gives answers to personal questions, describing details about His own life and experiences, as well as addressing questions about Mahavatar Babaji, the role of the Guru, religion, the meaning and purpose of Divine incarnations, and a deeper understanding about the mystical elements of spirituality and how that relates to our daily lives.