Spirited Conversations...Next?

Spirited Conversations...Next?

Author: Sherry Hanes

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2024-08-15

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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The effusive memorial service has come to a solemn end. The mournful congregation of family and friends gather outside of the ominous doors of the funeral home. They weep deeply, hearing the sound of the hearse door being slammed shut, signifying the end of life. They take that tear-filled ride in the motorcade to the cemetery plot. The lowering of the casket into the grave is all that is left of a life once lived! They say their last goodbyes. Your loved one is gone forever...or are they? In this factual and mind-provoking book, you will read a myriad of absolutely true paranormal events, strange coincidences, hauntings, and some most mysterious occurrences. Every story has been the personal or shared experience of the author, and she is excited to share them with you. From her personal collection of recollections, this series evokes intrigue and mystery when it comes to the supernatural events that have become commonplace for Sherry in her everyday life. For Sherry, when it comes to ghosts or spirits, paranormal readings, premonitions, seeing the past or the future, or communicating with the dead, these are all just part of having the sixth sense, otherwise known as being clairvoyant. These stories reveal the many times Sherry has been contacted by the dearly departed, that their voices be heard, to deliver messages to the living. In some cases, spirits who have reached out were not always known to the living, but acknowledgment of their presence was still very necessary. In other cases, souls are just lost and cannot find their way to their heaven. Sometimes there were very frightening experiences, and other times, the experiences were coming from a place of love and desperation. You will also read about the results of paranormal encounters and also how delivering divine messages has forever impacted the recipients. Sherry has delivered many messages to people of many different faiths and cultures. She believes that she has been entrusted to be of divine service for this most precious undertaking. Sherry has this to say about faith: "Faith is believing when common sense tells you not to." Sherry's only hope is to be of service to those who suffer, and that includes the living and the dead. There is a favorite quote that Sherry loves to share. It was written by Herbert Spencer under the "Spiritual Experience" from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, which can be applied to just about any circumstance in life: "There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance--that principle is contempt prior to investigation."


The Age of Conversation

The Age of Conversation

Author: Benedetta Craveri

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2006-08-01

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 9781590172148

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Now in paperback, an award-winning look at French salons and the women who presided over them In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, between the reign of Louis XIII and the Revolution, French aristocratic society developed an art of living based on a refined code of good manners. Conversation, which began as a way of passing time, eventually became the central ritual of social life. In the salons, freed from the rigidity of court life, it was women who dictated the rules and presided over exchanges among socialites, writers, theologians, and statesmen. They contributed decisively to the development of the modern French language, new literary forms, and debates over philosophical and scientific ideas. With a cast of characters both famous and unknown, ranging from the Marquise de Rambouillet to Madame de Sta‘l, and including figures like Ninon de Lenclos, the Marquise de Sevigne, and Madame de Lafayette, as well as Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, Diderot, and Voltaire, Benedetta Craveri traces the history of this worldly society that carried the art of sociability to its supreme perfection–and ultimately helped bring on the Revolution that swept it all away.


Tocsinagon

Tocsinagon

Author: Joshua P. Strychalski

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2006-09-08

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 146780651X

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As a little boy, Titus wanted nothing more than to play for the Camplay Stallions just like his father, Hobb. But as a young man, Titus now fights to break free from the shadow cast over him by Hobb, the greatest tocsinagon player the province of Norixis has ever seen. Tocsinagon: Follow The Footsteps vividly describes Titus's quest for the Game of Fire and tocsinagon immortality. It may be just a game, but for Titus and the Norian people tocsinagon is life.


The Seeker and the Monk

The Seeker and the Monk

Author: Scott Sophfronia

Publisher: Broadleaf Books

Published: 2021-03-16

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1506464963

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What if we truly belong to each other? What if we are all walking around shining like the sun? Mystic, monk, and activist Thomas Merton asked those questions in the twentieth century. Writer Sophfronia Scott is asking them today. In The Seeker and the Monk, Scott mines the extensive private journals of one of the most influential contemplative thinkers of the past for guidance on how to live in these fraught times. As a Black woman who is not Catholic, Scott both learns from and pushes back against Merton, holding spirited, and intimate conversations on race, ambition, faith, activism, nature, prayer, friendship, and love. She asks: What is the connection between contemplation and action? Is there ever such a thing as a wrong answer to a spiritual question? How do we care about the brutality in the world while not becoming overwhelmed by it? By engaging in this lively discourse, readers will gain a steady sense of how to dwell more deeply within--and even to love--this despairing and radiant world.


Milton's Loves

Milton's Loves

Author: Rosamund Paice

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-04-25

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1000865843

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This book is about the multiple loves of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained: sanctioned loves and outlawed loves, sincere loves and false loves, Christian loves, classical loves, humanist loves, and love as emotion. In showing how these loves motivate the most significant actions of the Paradise epics, it reveals Milton to have made creative use of the tensions between philosophical ideals, social conventions, and the rather messier ways in which love emerges in practice. Love, so central to Milton’s view of Edenic joy and obedience to God, unsettles earthly and heavenly communities and is the origin of Miltonic transgression. Milton’s Loves sheds new light on some of the most prominent concerns of Milton scholarship, including why Milton’s God is so difficult for readers to connect to, Satan’s apparent heroism, Milton’s radical theology, and the nature of Milton’s muse. It is a book that will appeal to students and scholars of Milton and early modern studies more broadly and is structured in a way that will aid easy reference.


Queer Ministers’ Voices from the Global South

Queer Ministers’ Voices from the Global South

Author: Lisa Isherwood

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-10-13

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1000988716

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This book brings together the narratives of diverse ministers from the Global South in order to show that queer theologies are impacting many parts of the world and queer lives are molding and enriching Christian ministry. Across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, we are witnessing the emergence of queer faith-based communities in very different contexts and with very different histories. The perspectives included in the book form a tapestry that honors diversity among the Global South’s queer communities and ministries. They demonstrate the various ways in which queer ministry challenges and changes theological understanding as well as religious practice. Each chapter highlights issues pertaining to liturgy, sacraments, pastoral rites, and the personal faith journey that each minister underwent to foster pastoral queer theologies. Contributors focus on their understanding of the relationship between faith and sexuality, how rituals relate to the daily lives of queer believers, and the struggles they face within the political structures of religious institutions. The narratives highlight some of the challenges and mechanisms deployed to cope with ingrained LGBTIQ+ phobia. They also evidence how communities enact interreligious and multi-religious dialog and rituals while honoring faith and activism, and how prophetic ministries counter oppressive discourses and colonial performativities. This is a valuable resource for academics and religious leaders interested in the study of queer theologies, Asian, African, and Latin American Christianity, as well as ecclesiastical and liturgical issues.


Your Way with God's Word

Your Way with God's Word

Author: David J. Schlafer

Publisher: Cowley Publications

Published: 1995-01-25

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1461732891

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Schlafer’s book is an adventure in homiletical spirituality and imagination. It leads us through reflection and practical exercises to deepen our self-awareness as preachers. These exercises allow us to discern whether we are poets, storytellers, or essayists; discover our preaching “parents” and mentors, and develop a preaching style that avoids rigidity and self-preoccupation. Developed in workshops and conferences around the country, Your Way with God’s Word can also be used in diverse settings and groups, including homiletical workshops, sermon reflection groups in the parish, and preaching colleagues groups. The introduction to the book gives numerous practical suggestions for its use. As a personal preaching resource, this book is also a powerful aid to prayer and spirituality.