Where There's Hope
Where There's Hope

Author: Elizabeth Smart

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Published: 2019-04-02

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1250115531

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Elizabeth Smart follows up her #1 New York Times bestseller (October 2013), My Story—about being held in captivity as a teenager, and how she managed to survive—with a powerful and inspiring book about what it takes to overcome trauma, find the strength to move on, and reclaim one’s life. Author. Activist. Victim—no more. In her fearless memoir, My Story—the basis of the Lifetime Original movie I Am Elizabeth Smart—Elizabeth detailed, for the first time, the horror behind the headlines of her abduction by religious fanatic Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee. Since then, she’s married, become a mother, and travelled the world as the president of the Elizabeth Smart Foundation, sharing her story with the intent of helping others along the way. Over and over, Elizabeth is asked the same question: How do you find the hope to go on? In this book, Elizabeth returns to the horrific experiences she endured, and the hard-won lessons she learned, to provide answers. She also calls upon others who have dealt with adversity—victims of violence, disease, war, and loss—to explore the pathways toward hope. Through conversations with such well-known voices as Anne Romney, Diane von Furstenburg, and Mandy Patinkin to spiritual leaders Archbishop John C. Wester and Elder Richard Hinckley to her own parents, Elizabeth uncovers an even greater sense of solace and understanding. Where There’s Hope is the result of Elizabeth’s mission: It is both an up-close-and-personal glimpse into her healing process and a heartfelt how-to guide for readers to make peace with the past and embrace the future. From the book: “I was not willing to accept that my fate was to live unhappily ever after. Everything—my family, my home, my chance to go to school—had been given back to me, and I didn’t want to miss a second chance of living my own life.” —Elizabeth Smart “There are two types of survivors: the ones who did not die, and the ones who live. There will be those who will always remember and be the victim, and ones who just won’t. You have to go on, you have to learn, and you have to heal.” —Diane von Furstenberg

There's Hope for Your Church
There's Hope for Your Church

Author: Gary McIntosh

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2012-05

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0801014069

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Veteran church consultant calls church leaders back to the hope that God can and does restore churches, equipping them with practical tools to bring about healthy growth.

When There Is Hope
When There Is Hope

Author: Jane Goodger

Publisher: Saint Martin's Paperbacks

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780312958602

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Waking up from a coma to discover that she has been transported back to 1888, Susan Butler finds herself in the life of despised Maggie Johnsbury and must win the trust of Carter, Maggie's embittered husband. Original.

And Then There Was Hope
And Then There Was Hope

Author: Angie Odom

Publisher:

Published: 2014-10-02

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780692301210

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This book tells the story of a little girl named Hope, all the obstacles she has overcome in her young life and how God has provided for her every step of the way. There's no doubt this little girl - born in the month of Sanctity of Human Life - has a huge story to tell. Hope was born to a birth mother that overdosed on drugs at eight weeks pregnant, who was then placed on life support and remained in a vegetative state throughout the entire pregnancy. God had Hope in His hands and has provided miracle after miracle. Hope's story has already touched the life of a lost man she never met on his death bed which ended in him accepting Christ. This book, which Angie Odom wrote with co-author Abby Morris-Frye, tells the story of Odom's adopted daughter Hope and the miraculous story of her birth. Angie Odom has shared parts of Hope's story before, but this is the first time she is sharing the full story of Hope's birth, the circumstances which led up to the adoption and the things the family has faced each day in caring for a baby which was born addicted. "We want this to serve not only as a testament to the miracle God had performed, but as a way of giving hope to others," Odom said. "We feel like if we don't share the story then God doesn't get the glory." Odom said she also feels it is important to share the story in order to encourage others who may be facing circumstances which seem impossible. "Miracles really do still happen," she said. Odom hopes the book can provide encouragement for those who may battle addiction, face a crisis pregnancy, suffer from a life-threatening illness, face life-altering circumstances or any number of other difficult situations.

Hope in the Dark
Hope in the Dark

Author: Rebecca Solnit

Publisher: Haymarket Books

Published: 2016-05-14

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1608465799

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“[A] landmark book . . . Solnit illustrates how the uprisings that begin on the streets can upend the status quo and topple authoritarian regimes” (Vice). A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me, her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of activists at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them—and the unimaginable changes soon to come. In it, she makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argues that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable, and that pessimism and despair rest on an unwarranted confidence about what is going to happen next. Now, with a moving new introduction explaining how the book came about and a new afterword that helps teach us how to hope and act in our unnerving world, she brings a new illumination to the darkness of our times in an unforgettable new edition of this classic book. “One of the best books of the 21st century.” —The Guardian “No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that’s marked this new millennium.” —Bill McKibben, New York Times–bestselling author of Falter “An elegant reminder that activist victories are easily forgotten, and that they often come in extremely unexpected, roundabout ways.” —The New Yorker

As Long as There is a Tomorrow, There is Hope
As Long as There is a Tomorrow, There is Hope

Author: Gwendolyn Washington

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2018-11-07

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1642989509

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The present-day millennials live in the backdrop of New Orleans voodoo and camouflage of Jim Crow that seeps heavy in their history. For Autumn, every day was a new adventure; every day was a memory of yesterday and the conjured spirits chanting "Zebu, Zebu, Zephyr,Ge-Son Andre-Le-at-at-ma" to destroy Dominique. Dominique lived with Autumn's daily rituals as she struggled to find the reason for her season between the conflict and confusion of the uprising Nazi Cult who called themselves NWO (New World Organization) and the Klu Klux Klan. Dominique's jungle in life with all the twists and turns intertwined in a web of deceit. Click, click, Dominique's mind bounced back to the yesteryears of 1972 at the University of Munich where she was a writer for the school newspaper, the beginning of her affair with the N WO, who wanted to keep Hitler's dream alive. Click, click, the present days of 1982, Governor Louis York's son was killed, April Davis has been arrested for negligent homicide, and Dawn Davis has been hospitalized at Ochsner Foundation and is in critical condition. Steven York's funeral with both a somber mood and excitement of the band and the crowd prancing with that New Orleans flavor, twirling colorful umbrellas and strutting in that famous New Orleans second line. Louis York, the Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan, was running for President of the United States. Dominique's determination to avenge her father's death. The NWO and the Klu Klux Klan planning the dates for assassinations of governors and mayors in different states with the climax on Mardi Gras Day in New Orleans and Mardi Gras Day in Germany, which is celebrated on the same day. Each character follows their destinies to a climax on the Bonnie Carrie Spillway. Louis York's death to be announced on Dominique's weekly television show, New Orleans Weekly.

There is Hope
There is Hope

Author: Paul Beasley-Murray

Publisher: Inter-Varsity Press

Published: 2021-12-16

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 178974363X

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250,000 people die in the UK each year, and almost half will have a Christian funeral service. Preaching at a funeral is a vital part of pastoral ministry, but too often funeral sermons consist of generalities and platitudes used for multiple services rather than illuminating the hope gifted to us by the resurrection. In There is Hope veteran pastor Paul Beasley-Murray offers practical advice to help Christian leaders craft meaningful, biblically driven sermons and preach with confidence and compassion at funeral services. Drawing on his years of experience, he offers a sensitive, pastorally rich exposition of twenty key Bible passages, exploring how preachers can draw on them to show the hope beyond death that the Gospel offers. Alongside are funeral sermon examples that he has preached himself, as well as ideas, outlines and guidance for writing your own. There is Hope is the perfect book for ordinands and preachers who are new to giving funeral sermons, as well as for experienced preachers and pastors wanting to improve and grow in their pastoral ministry and are looking for new ideas for funeral sermons. Full of biblical depth, this guide will equip priests and pastors with all the tools they need to deliver comforting funeral sermons that truly deliver the message that even in death, in the Gospel there is hope.

Hope and Despair in the American City
Hope and Despair in the American City

Author: Gerald Grant

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-05-30

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 0674032942

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Reading the philosophy of Immanuel Levinas against postcolonial theories of difference, particularly those of Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Édouard Glissant, and Subcommandante Marcos, John E. Drabinski reconceives notions of difference, language, subjectivity, ethics, and politics and provides new perspectives on these important postcolonial theorists. He also underscores Levinas's relevance to related disciplines concerned with postcolonialism and ethics.