Wilderness Taunts
Wilderness Taunts

Author: Ian Adams

Publisher: Canterbury Press

Published: 2016-11-30

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 1848259174

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Being a hopeful human being today is a demanding task. Taunts and temptations face us on every side. In a series of striking meditations accompanied by photographic images, Wilderness Taunts equips us to face them. Drawing on the Gospel accounts of Jesus' 40 days of testing in the wilderness, it names and explores the taunts we face now, the critical and challenging messages from without and within that may throw us off balance. Ian Adams encourages us to listen attentively to these taunts, and to hear in them deeper questions about life, love and faith. He looks beyond their accusations to show them as gifts that invite us to better understand who we are, and step with confidence into whatever is being called of us.

The Wilderness Writings of Howard Zahniser
The Wilderness Writings of Howard Zahniser

Author: Mark W. T. Harvey

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2014-07-01

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0295805153

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Howard Zahniser (1906–1964), executive secretary of The Wilderness Society and editor of The Living Wilderness from 1945 to 1964, is arguably the person most responsible for drafting and promoting the Wilderness Act in 1964. The act, which created the National Wilderness Preservation System, was the culmination of Zahniser’s years of tenacious lobbying and his work with conservationists across the nation. In 1964, fifty-four wilderness areas in thirteen states were part of the system; today the number has grown to 757 areas, protecting more than a hundred million acres in forty-four states and Puerto Rico. Zahniser’s passion for wild places and his arguments for their preservation were communicated through radio addresses, magazine articles, speeches, and congressional testimony. An eloquent and often poetic writer, he seized every opportunity to make the case for the value of wilderness to people, communities, and the nation. Despite his unquestioned importance and the power of his prose, the best of Zahniser's wilderness writings have never before been gathered in a single volume. This indispensable collection makes available in one place essays and other writings that played a vital role in persuading Congress and the American people that wilderness in the United States deserved permanent protection.

A Gracious Rain
A Gracious Rain

Author: Richard H. Schmidt

Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2008-08

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0819223263

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Using the Collects (opening prayers) for each Sunday and major feast day of the church year (including Christmas, Epiphany, and the days of Holy Week and Easter Week), the author offers a brief (one-page), anecdotal meditation on the relationship of the prayer's and season's theme to the realities of life. Beginning with the First Sunday of Advent, Richard Schmidt takes the reader on a journey through the church year as he reflects on the mystery and challenge of our human pilgrimage.

Doing Theology with Photographs
Doing Theology with Photographs

Author: Sarah Dunlop

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2024-07-25

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 0567713415

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This book is the first of its kind to fully explain how to use photographs for research within Practical Theology. An essential tool for anyone exploring how visual material can shed light on their research questions, the book functions as a guide to using the methods well. It includes a rationale for using photographs within the emerging field of empirical work within theology, which is useful for students or others within the academy who need to justify using a visual approach for their research projects and dissertations. Drawing on the author's own experience of using visual approaches, the book covers a variety of visual methods, including photojournalism, different types of photo elicitation, photo voice and studies of visual social media. Each chapter illustrates the method under discussion via a case study and photographs and contains a practical guide to using the method well and avoiding pitfalls. Additionally, the book explores how photographs can be used to resource theological reflection and spirituality, thus linking research and faithful practice within the rational for using visual material. Designed for the classroom use, each chapter contains: - Chapter summary (learning points) - Background information - 'how to' with examples of research projects - Advantages and limitations of the method - Conclusion

Priests in Secular Work
Priests in Secular Work

Author: Jenny Gage

Publisher: Sacristy Press

Published: 2020-12-15

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1789591422

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A substantial theological exploration of priesthood in secular work and its significance for the future of the Church in the twenty-first century, in which Jenny Gage argues that priests in secular work (PSW) have a specific vocation, which is not to be subsumed under any church-based model of ordained ministry.

Some Small Heaven
Some Small Heaven

Author: Ian Adams

Publisher: Canterbury Press

Published: 2017-08-31

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 184825993X

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In this Advent book with a difference, striking reflections and images combine to teach us to discover light in dark times, open ourselves to the possibility of newness and to become bearers of light ourselves. Daily seasonal meditations focus on: Advent as a time of waiting, which can occur in our lives at any time. Whether we are waiting for a darkness to pass or yearning for a light to come, learning how to wait in Advent will enable us better to understand how to negotiate the waiting times whenever they come, and to give that waiting our care and attention. Christmas and its capacity to nurture within us an openness to new possibilities coming into being, unseen, unlikely, unnoticed. We are helped to capture the wonder of God coming towards us, making a home in us. Epiphany, a time of revealing, invites us to look up and look out and see larger patterns at work in our world, to know that how things seem right now is not how they will always be, to see the holy child Jesus as a gift for all. In seeking light we discover how we too can be bearers of light.

Truth about Lies
Truth about Lies

Author: Frederick D. Gorini

Publisher: Xulon Press

Published: 2009-06

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 1607918730

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It is time to tell the truth about lies! The days we are living in are just like the days of Israel's great King David. As it was then, it is also now a time of great governmental and social change. Concerning King David during such times the Scripture records, "And everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered to him." Such words could be read right off this morning's newspaper! In the days of old people gathered to the royal King David to discover how to conquer the lies of formidable enemies. Today, discovering the power of the royal relationship between God and His people through the Lord Jesus Christ can set anyone and everyone free from the power of deception that is running rampant in our world today. It's time to tell the truth about lies! Read on and discover how your relationship to Christ can bring out the best from the worst, the strongest from the weakest, and the most from the least. The truth is; you are more than a conqueror through Jesus Christ our Lord! Pastor Fred Gorini is a loving husband and father, who along with his covenant wife of 34 years founded a local church in Daytona Beach, Florida, 26 years ago. A strong believer in the local church, Pastor Fred continues to serve at Rock Church of Daytona Beach. Pastor Fred's visionary teachings are seasoned with prophetic insight that has edified the local church in his own community as well as in many relationally networked congregations around the United States of America. His revelation of the Word of God has been tested and proven not only in the United States, but also in several nations of South America, Asia, and Africa.

Wilderness and the American Mind
Wilderness and the American Mind

Author: Roderick Frazier Nash

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2014-01-28

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 0300153503

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DIVRoderick Nash’s classic study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements, has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine included it in a survey of “books that changed our world,” and it has been called the “Book of Genesis for environmentalists.” For the fifth edition, Nash has written a new preface and epilogue that brings Wilderness and the American Mind into dialogue with contemporary debates about wilderness. Char Miller’s foreword provides a twenty-first-century perspective on how the environmental movement has changed, including the ways in which contemporary scholars are reimagining the dynamic relationship between the natural world and the built environment./div