Suffering and the Heart of God
Suffering and the Heart of God

Author: Diane Langberg

Publisher: New Growth Press

Published: 2015-09-01

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 1942572034

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She's seen slave dungeons in Ghana. Genocide in Rwanda. Systemic sexual abuse in Brazil. Child abuse and domestic violence in the US. After forty years of counseling abuse survivors around the world, Dr. Diane Langberg, a world renowned trauma expert, remains certain that what trauma destroys, Christ can and does restore. This book will convince you, too, of the healing heart of God. But it's not a fast process, instead much patience is required from family, friends, and counselors as they wisely and respectfully help victims unpack their traumatic suffering through talking, tears, and time. And it's not a process that can be separated from the work of God in both a counselor and counselee. Dr. Langberg calls all of those who wish to help sufferers to model Jesus's sacrificial love and care in how they listen, love, and guide. The heart of God is revealed to sufferers as they grow to understand the cross of Christ and how their God came to this earth and experienced such severe suffering that he too is "well-acquainted with grief." The cross of Christ is the lens that transforms and redeems traumatic suffering and its aftermath, not only for the sufferer, but it also transforms those who walk with the suffering. This book will be a great help to anyone who loves, listens to, and seeks to help someone impacted by trauma and abuse. There is no quick fix, but there is the hope for healing through the love of God in Christ.

Sacred Violence
Sacred Violence

Author: Brent D. Shaw

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-09

Total Pages: 931

ISBN-13: 0521196051

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Employs the sectarian battles which divided African Christians in late antiquity to explore the nature of violence in religious conflicts.

Missions in Context of Violence
Missions in Context of Violence

Author: Keith E. Eitel

Publisher: William Carey Publishing

Published: 2007-09-15

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 164508017X

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This volume deals with the contexts of violence. In an age of increasing concern for this type of missionary work, the missions community needs to hear from those that have reflected on the multifaceted elements involved in understanding the phenomenon of martyrdom-persecution violence as it relates to telling the age-old Gospel story. The place to begin is with Biblical and theological analysis followed by the grounding provided by constructing consequent lifestyles, strategies and practices in physically risky settings. Finally, insights from the live settings of violence are warranted.

Beasts of the Field
Beasts of the Field

Author: Richard Steven Street

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 944

ISBN-13: 9780804738804

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Written by one of America's preeminent labor historians, this book is the definitive account of one of the most spectacular, captivating, complex and strangely neglected stories in Western history--the emergence of migratory farmworkers and the development of California agriculture. Street has systematically worked his way through a mountain of archival materials--more than 500 manuscript collections, scattered in 22 states, including Spain and Mexico--to follow the farmworker story from its beginnings on Spanish missions into the second decade of the twentieth century. The result is a comprehensive tour de force. Scene by scene, the epic narrative clarifies and breathes new life into a controversial and instructive saga long surrounded by myth, conjecture, and scholarly neglect. With its panoramic view spanning 144 years and moving from the US-Mexico border to Oregon, Beasts of the Field reveals diverse patterns of life and labor in the fields that varied among different crops, regions, time periods, and racial and ethic groups. Enormous in scope, packed with surprising twists and turns, and devastating in impact, this compelling, revelatory work of American social history will inform generations to come of the history of California and the nation.

Violence and Hatred in the Mission Field.
Violence and Hatred in the Mission Field.

Author: Jack Gilbert

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-03-28

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9781545017784

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This book is humbly written, while craving the inspiration of God. I am a humble minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and as such, I am passionately interested in seeing HIS great will accomplished. As believers, we are the church, and we have a responsibility of recognizing the current condition of the church. We MUST determine if the church is, in fact, spiritually impacting our mission field, as our great God has designed. What can we clearly see, and determine, about American society TODAY? There is racial discord, there is violent hatred, and there is utter confusion. American society is spiritually self destructing due to this discord, hatred, and confusion. There is NO doubt, the church is meant to be a very proactive solution to the spiritual destruction of our society, NOT a contributor, or even a silent by-stander. Our great God, the head of the Church, Christ Jesus our Lord, in NO WAY promotes discord, violent hatred, or utter confusion, for HIS people. The church is meant to have a bond, and a unity of Spirit that is, in fact, much stronger than the bond of blood, or race. In reality, the STRONGEST bond of unity, are those that are bound together by the Spirit of God, through the blood of Christ. The church CANNOT be segregated by race, or any other demographic. We are one in the Spirit, we are one in The Lord. Society around us is falling hard. Each of us, as believers, certainly has a mission field. This mission field begins with our own family, and extends to the church, and the community around us. We have a holy obligation to serve in our mission field, as ambassadors of Christ. If we are not serving, and loving as Christ, than what we do is FRUITLESS, no matter how good it may appear. A strong spiritual effect on our mission field, will only be accomplished when we minister, as Christ Himself would minister. American society today is under a powerful spiritual stronghold. Christ working, through HIS church, is the power to break that stronghold in the lives of people. It is very sobering to realize that Christ is now, sitting at the right hand of The Father, empowering us, the church, to battle and overcome for a spiritual victory, in our mission field. I pray these humble words will encourage each of us, to take hold of the mantle given to us by Christ Himself, and finish our course with great victory, and Joy. Our great God is worthy, of our hard labor, for HIS great glory.

The Routledge International Handbook of Violence Studies
The Routledge International Handbook of Violence Studies

Author: Walter S. DeKeseredy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-30

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 1351981544

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Violence is a serious public health problem. The number of violent deaths tells only part of the story, and many more survive violence and are left with permanent physical and emotional scars. Violence also erodes communities by reducing productivity, decreasing property values, and disrupting social services. In recent years, scholars have broadened their definitions of violence beyond the realm of interpersonal harms such as murder, armed robbery, and male-to-female physical and sexual assaults in intimate relationships, to include behaviors often ignored by the criminal justice system, such as human rights violations, racism, psychological abuse, state terrorism, environmental violations, and war. Guided by this broader definition of violence, this handbook offers state of the art research in the field and brings together international experts to discuss empirical, theoretical, and policy issues.

Conflict Management in International Missions
Conflict Management in International Missions

Author: Olav Ofstad

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-01-09

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1317639014

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This book serves primarily as a field guide and curriculum for organisations training personnel for conflict management missions abroad. Currently, a gap exists between practitioners and academia in the field of conflict management and peacebuilding. Few practitioners have studied conflict management, and few academics have experience as field workers. Conflict literature contains a range of important insights and analyses, but is useful only to a limited degree to practitioners. This book provides practitioners with a much needed guidebook which is easy to understand, academically solid and which identifies with their mission and helps them relate to real-time challenges in the field. The book focuses on a number of case studies, including peacebuilding efforts in East Timor, and offers a range of practical advice for persons about to embark on a mission, from the receipt of an appointment to establishment in the field and encountering the realities and practical challenges that handling conflicts may imply. This book will be of much interest to students of conflict management, peacebuilding and conflict resolution, as well as practitioners in the field.

The Joy of the Gospel
The Joy of the Gospel

Author: Pope Francis

Publisher: Image

Published: 2014-10-07

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 0553419544

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The perfect gift! A specially priced, beautifully designed hardcover edition of The Joy of the Gospel with a foreword by Robert Barron and an afterword by James Martin, SJ. “The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus… In this Exhortation I wish to encourage the Christian faithful to embark upon a new chapter of evangelization marked by this joy, while pointing out new paths for the Church’s journey in years to come.” – Pope Francis This special edition of Pope Francis's popular message of hope explores themes that are important for believers in the 21st century. Examining the many obstacles to faith and what can be done to overcome those hurdles, he emphasizes the importance of service to God and all his creation. Advocating for “the homeless, the addicted, refugees, indigenous peoples, the elderly who are increasingly isolated and abandoned,” the Holy Father shows us how to respond to poverty and current economic challenges that affect us locally and globally. Ultimately, Pope Francis demonstrates how to develop a more personal relationship with Jesus Christ, “to recognize the traces of God’s Spirit in events great and small.” Profound in its insight, yet warm and accessible in its tone, The Joy of the Gospel is a call to action to live a life motivated by divine love and, in turn, to experience heaven on earth. Includes a foreword by Robert Barron, author of Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith and James Martin, SJ, author of Jesus: A Pilgrimage