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Author: Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Publisher: Penguin Mass Market
Published: 1995-08
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780140249675
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Combining the passion of a family member with the skepticism of a social sicentist, Lightfoot raises the standard of authenticity in African American biography."-Washington Post Book World. Winner of the Christopher Award.
Author: Timothy Larsen
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2019-04-02
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 0830872965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPulitzer Prize–winning novelist Marilynne Robinson is one of the most eminent public intellectuals in America today, and her writing offers probing meditations on the Christian faith. Based on the 2018 Wheaton Theology Conference, this volume brings together the thoughts of leading theologians, historians, literary scholars, and church leaders who engaged in theological dialogue with Robinson's work—and with the author herself.
Author: Lanford Wilson
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9780822216278
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Author: John Lovelle Withers
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9781684716432
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn May 1945, as World War II ended, an all-black U.S. Army truck company, including Lieutenant John L. Withers of Greensboro, North Carolina, rushed emergency supplies to an unknown German town. Long victims of harsh racial abuse, the soldiers were nonetheless shocked at the horrors they witnessed when the "town" turned out to be the Dachau concentration camp. They were further shocked, days later, when two destitute young Jews, former Dachau inmates, appeared at their encampment and pleaded for help. Housing non-military personnel was strictly forbidden, but the soldiers, with their Lieutenant's endorsement, sheltered the boys nevertheless. After the war, as he raised a family and launched a career in government, Withers always remembered the Jewish boys and told of the year they hid out in his unit, working alongside and forging close friendships with his soldiers. He himself became their surrogate parent, guiding them towards understanding that, however horrid the past, the future yet held hope. When he went home in 1947, the boys--fondly nicknamed Pee Wee and Salomon by the troops--were ready to start life anew. Although they eventually lost touch, Withers' memory of his friends never faded. What, he wondered, had become of them? Would he ever see them again? Balm in Gilead traces the author's prolonged search for the roots of his father's story--a search that one day, miraculously, ended with the old friends finding each other again--back cover.
Author: Lewis V. Baldwin
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781451412987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines King's roots in Black popular culture and their role as the source of his power and vision
Author: Thomas H. Holmes
Publisher: Sagwan Press
Published: 2018-02-09
Total Pages: 70
ISBN-13: 9781377227337
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Author: John Wesley Work
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 148
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Adina Senft
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2015-07-21
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1455548685
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe third installment in the Healing Grace series finds young Amish widow Sarah Yoder facing her greatest challenge--herself. Sarah Yoder hasn't seen Henry Byler since he became engaged to an Englisch woman, which is best for her peace of mind. Since Henry never joined the Amish church, any relationship but a neighborly one is impossible. So she stays busy with her family, welcoming her son back from the ranch he's been working on in Colorado, doing a little matchmaking for her sister-in-law, and making the teas and tinctures that heal the members of her church. Then Henry seeks her out, desperate for a balm for his sensitive hands before his success as a potter is jeopardized, and Sarah must call on every ounce of strength to deny the cry of her heart. Yet there is Someone who just might have a special cure in mind-a healing balm with the power to change everything. But with Henry's wedding only weeks away, is it already too late?
Author: Daniel P. Sulmasy
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 2006-09-20
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 1589012739
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnce rarely discussed in medical circles, the relationship between spirituality and health has become an important topic in health care. This change is evidenced in courses on religion and medicine taught in most medical schools, articles in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, and conferences being held all over the country. Yet, much of the discussion of the role of religion and spirituality in health care keeps the critical distance of only being about spirituality. A Balm for Gilead goes further, offering a work of spirituality. Sulmasy moves between the poetic and the speculative, addressing his subject in the tradition of great spiritual writers like Augustine and Bonaventure. He draws from philosophical and theological sources—specifically, Hebrew and Christian scripture—to illuminate how the art of healing is integrally tied to a sense of the divine and our ultimate interconnectedness. Health care professionals—and anyone else involved with the care of the sick and dying—will find this series of meditations both inspiring and instructive. Sulmasy addresses the spiritual malaise that physicians, nurses, and other health care workers experience in their professional lives, and explores how these Christian healers can be inspired to persevere in the care of the sick. Drawing on the parable of the prodigal son, for instance, Sulmasy illustrates how some physicians have put financial gain ahead of their patients, and how genuine spirituality might change their hearts. He examines both enigmatic topics such as the relationship between sinfulness, sickness, and suffering and the spirituality of more routine topics such as preventive medicine. In one especially stirring and poignant meditation, he reflects on the spirituality of dying in the light of Christian hope. A Balm for Gilead interweaves prayer and reflection, pointing the way to a twenty-first-century spirituality for health care professionals and their patients.
Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2011-09-06
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0771008791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred’s persistent memories of life in the “time before” and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood’s devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaid’s Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning.
