The Gentle Rain from Heaven
The Gentle Rain from Heaven

Author: Mark Nicholls

Publisher: Prahran Publishing

Published: 2019-04-01

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 1922263192

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Athena, an Australian nurse working overseas, is raped and murdered. Her father, John, must decide whether to grant clemency to her murderer, who is facing execution by beheading. Margaret, an ex-school teacher on a career change as a junior Australian Government official, is sent in to counsel and assist the grieving man. When the situation proves predictably challenging, Margaret’s daughter, Nina, provides a clarity of counsel and assistance that is so irresistibly logical it may well prove to be the most practical solution.

Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students
Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students

Author: Leung Che Miriam Lau

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-09-23

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 9811005826

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This is a teacher’s resource book tailor-made for EFL teachers who want to bring Shakespeare into their classes. It includes forty innovative lesson plans with ready-to-use worksheets, hands-on games and student-oriented activities that help EFL learners achieve higher levels of English proficiency and cultural sensitivity. By introducing the plots, characters, and language arts employed in Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Merchant of Venice, the book conveys English grammatical rules and aspects like a walk in the garden; complicated rhetorical features such as stress, meter, rhyme, homonymy, irony, simile, metaphor, euphemism, parallelism, unusual word order, etc. are taught through meaning-driven games and exercises. Besides developing EFL learners’ English language skills, it also includes practical extended tasks that enhance higher-order thinking skills, encouraging reflection on the central themes in Shakespeare’s plays.

Raindrops from Heaven (Faux Leather Edition)
Raindrops from Heaven (Faux Leather Edition)

Author: Twila Belk

Publisher: Broadstreet Publishing

Published: 2018-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781424556151

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Raindrops from Heaven is a beautifully designed book with short readings for every day of the year. Each page includes a reminder from God's Word of His power, presence, or purpose. Join the author as she revels in the rain. Splash in the puddles of God's goodness, and delight in the deluge of His incredible love. Let the words in each chapter descend on you like dew and shower your spirit with the reality of who God is. "Let us acknowledge the LORD; Let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the son rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth." Hosea 6:3, NIV

God, Mind and Knowledge
God, Mind and Knowledge

Author: Andrew Moore

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-15

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1317126467

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The themes of God, Mind and Knowledge are central to the philosophy of religion but they are now being taken up by professional philosophers who have not previously contributed to the field. This book is a collection of original essays by eminent and rising philosophers and it explores the boundaries between philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and epistemology. Its introduction will make it accessible to newcomers to the field, especially those approaching it from theology. Many of the book’s topics lie at the focal point of debates - instigated in part by the so-called New Atheists - in contemporary culture about whether it is rational to have religious beliefs, and the role these beliefs can or should play in the life of individuals and of society.

The Humane Perspective
The Humane Perspective

Author: John Cottingham

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024-07-11

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0198918933

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The book brings together fourteen essays from the work of John Cottingham on moral philosophy and the philosophy of religion spanning the past fifteen years. The papers are closely related in so far as they all deal with the perennial moral and spiritual challenges of human existence, and the search for meaning and value in human life. As well as being thematically linked, they also share a common style and methodology, illustrating the distinctive goal that has increasingly informed the author's work in recent years, that of promoting a more 'humane' conception of philosophizing. While in no way discarding the technical tools of the professional philosopher such as abstract argumentation and analysis, whose value and importance are unquestionable, this approach is notable for drawing on the full range of resources available to the human mind, including those that depend on literary, artistic, poetic, imaginative, aesthetic, and emotional modes of awareness. In contrast to the model of the philosopher as a kind of detached scrutineer, the essays exemplify the belief that there is a distinctive and valuable kind of philosophical understanding that requires a more involved and engaged stance. The philosophical questions dealt in the volume all fall broadly within the familiar domains of moral philosophy and the philosophy of religion, but the reflections offered on these areas of human thought and practice always aim to be sensitive to how morality and religion actually operate in the lives of the human beings involved.

Gentle Rain
Gentle Rain

Author: Bitsy Ayres Rubsamen

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9780805454543

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God's grace sprinkles down from the heavens over all His creation. Growing up on a country farm, Bitsy Rubsamen experienced the beauty of nature. But it wasn't until she recognized the glorious power of God's infinite mercy, falling on humankind like a gentle rain, that she fully understood its splendor. Using a harmonious mixture of poetry and prose, her rich and profound memories recall the grace of God in every word.