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Moments with Martin Luther: 95 Daily Devotions
Par Donald K. McKim. 2016
"Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life…
on it a thousand times. This knowledge of and confidence in God's grace makes men glad and bold and happy in dealing with God and with all creatures" (Martin Luther, Prefaces to the New Testament, LW 35:370). In time for the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, this book is a devotion for readers to use to engage with the writing and thoughts of Martin Luther, the founder of the Protestant Reformation. Each of the ninety-five entries includes a passage of writing from Luther followed by a reflection on that passage by Reformed theologian and writer Donald K. McKim. Readers will be able to gain familiarity with the writings of Luther in an accessible, devotional format. A brief bibliography is included for those who want to further study Luther's writings.Secrets of a Hutterite Kitchen: Unveiling The Rituals Traditions And Food Of The Hutterite Cultu
Par Mary-Ann Kirkby. 2014
The highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning national bestseller, I Am HutteriteIn I Am Hutterite, Kirkby took her readers on…
a fascinating journey inside a Hutterite colony in Manitoba, where she grew up. Known as Canada&’s forgotten people, Hutterites live in higher numbers in Canada than anywhere else in the world. Drawing back the curtains on this mysterious and extraordinary way of life, Kirkby enchanted the public with a vivid portrait of her people, rich in detail and memorable characters. Could you go back? was the enduring request from her readers, hungry for more.Now in Secrets of a Hutterite Kitchen, Kirkby returns to her roots and into the heart of the community and the life she was born into. She traveled from colony to colony for more than two years, working with the women in their kitchens: cooking, baking, plucking ducks, and gossiping. Kirkby reveals intimate details of the community and experiences what her life would have been like if her family hadn&’t left the colony when she was a young girl.Secrets of a Hutterite Kitchen is a candid snapshot of present-day Hutterite life, unraveling the inner workings of this closed society and unveiling the rituals, traditions, and food of her culture through the lens of the community kitchen. Kirkby witnesses the rites of passage from cradle to grave: births, romantic entanglements, marriage ceremonies, sacred holidays, and other celebrations. Through it all, she rediscovers what she has always known—that it is the Hutterite women who are the soul of their community.The Life & Pontificate of Pope Pius XII: Between History & Controversy
Par Frank J. Coppa. 2013
&“Focuses not just on . . . the pope&’s response to the Holocaust, but on [his] life and papacy . . . as a whole . . . A…
refreshingly balanced approach&” (Catholic Courier). Written by one of the foremost historians of Pius XII, this present biographical study—unlike the greater part of the vast and growing historiography of Pope Pius XII—is a balanced and nonreactive account of his life and times. Its focus is not on the pope&’s silence during the Holocaust, though it does address the issue in a historical and objective framework. This is a biography of the man before and during his papacy. It probes the roots of his traditionalism and legalism, his approach to modernity and reformism in Church and society, and the influences behind his policies and actions. &“This book adds a great deal to what we currently know about this most written about pope. The author introduces a number of principles which need to be discussed by experts and also by biographers of this pope, most importantly the concepts of papal impartiality and anti-Judaism as related to Pope Pius XII.&” —Charles R. Gallagher, S.J., assistant professor of history, Boston College &“It sets up a closer examination and better understanding of Pius XII&’s decisions and behaviors dealing with three distinct historically important topics: the Holocaust, the question of Palestine and Israel after World War II, and the Cold War.&” —Catholic Books Review &“Tries to move away from the controversy and toward a greater and broader focus on the entire life of Pacelli—his formative influences, personal interests, and papacy after the war.&” —New Oxford ReviewA Godly Humanism: Clarifying the Hope That Lies Within
Par Francis E. George OMI. 2015
Is the Catholic Church a movement built around ideas, or a communion built around relationships? In A Godly Humanism,…
Francis Cardinal George shares his understanding of the Church in lively, compelling prose, presenting a way to understand and appreciate the relationships of God to human beings and of human beings to one another. These loving relationships are continually made available to us in and through the Church, from the time of Jesus&’s first disciples down to our own day. We are introduced to how the spiritual and intellectual life of Christians, aided in every generation by the Holy Spirit working through the Apostles and their successors, resist the danger of splitting apart from one another. Though they take different outward forms at different times, both wisdom and holiness are made possible for every Christian in any station of life. Sign-posting his conversation by the milestones of his own spiritual and intellectual journey, Cardinal George invites us to view the Church and her history in ways that go beyond the categories of politics—through which we find merely human initiative, contrivance, and adjustment—and rather to see the initiative as God&’s first and foremost. God is the non-stop giver, we are non-stop recipients of his gifts, and the recent popes, no less than the Father of the Church, have made every effort to make us aware of the graces—that is, of the unearned benefits—that God confers on us as Catholics, as Christians, as believers, and simply as human beings. Pope Francis, he reminds us, contrasts human planning with God&’s providence, and this book is at once an exposition of that providence and a personal response of gratitude for the way it has operated in one man&’s life.The Child–Parent Caregiving Relationship in Later Life: Psychosocial Experiences
Par Bethany Morgan Brett. 2023
This book presents a sensitive account of the challenges faced by adult children when making difficult decisions about care for…
and with their ageing parents in later life. It offers new insights into the practical, emotional and physical effects that witnessing the ageing and death of parents has on those in late midlife and how these relationships are negotiated during this phase of the life course. The author uses a psychosocial approach to understand the complexity of the experience of having a parent transition to care and the ambiguous feelings that these decisions evoke.We Were The Future: A Memoir of the Kibbutz
Par Sondra Silverston, Yael Neeman. 2016
The beautiful, understated memoir by bestselling Israeli author Yael Neeman detailing the intimate, collective memories of children raised on the…
kibbutz. The kibbutz is one of the greatest stories in Israeli history. These collective settlements have been written about extensively over the years: The kibbutz has been the subject of many sociological studies, and has been praised as the only example in world history of entire communities attempting, voluntarily, to live in total equality. But there's a dark side to the kibbutz, which has been criticized in later years, mainly by children who were raised in these communities, as an institution which victimized its offspring for the sake of ideology. In this spare and lucid memoir, Neeman--a child of the kibbutz--draws on the collective memory of hundreds of thousands of Israelis who grew up in a kibbutz during their height and who intimately share their memories with her. We Were the Future is more than merely a compelling personal account of growing up in the kibbutz movement; it is an unstintingly honest examination of the perils of pioneering and a new lens through which to see the history of Israel.Sin, Pride and Self-Acceptance: The Problem of Identity in Theology and Psychology
Par Terry D. Cooper. 2003
What is at the root of the problem of humanity? Is it pride or lack of self-esteem?Do we love ourselves…
too much or too little?The debate about the human condition has often been framed this way in both theological and psychological circles. Convictions about preaching, teaching, marriage and child rearing, as well as politics, social welfare, business management and the helping professions, more often than not, fall on one side or the other of this divide. With theological and psychological insight Terry D. Cooper provides trenchant analysis of this centuries-long debate and leads us beyond the usual impasse. Humanistic psychology has often regarded traditional Christianity as its archrival in assessing the human condition. Cooper demonstrates how the Christian doctrine of a sinful and fallen humanity sheds light on the human condition which exhibits both pride and self-denigration. Bringing theological insights ranging from Augustine and John Calvin to Reinhold Niebuhr together with the psychological theories of Freud, Jung, Carl Rogers, Gerald May and Karen Horney, Cooper guides readers through the maze of competing claims to a resolution which affirms Christian conviction while critically engaging modern psychological theory. A model of the proper integration of Christian theology and the discipline of psychology,Sin, Pride & Self-Acceptance will be of special help to students and practitioners of psychology, pastoral counseling and clinical psychology.The Exhibitionist: Living Museums, Loving Museums
Par Karl Katz. 2016
The renowned curator gives a personal tour of his journey from archeology to the Met, the Jewish Museum, and helping…
found the Israel Museum. In The Exhibitionist, museum director Karl Katz discusses his tireless, impassioned work spanning six decades and numerous countries. As a young man, Karl traveled to the newly-formed state of Israel to pursue archaeology, only to be thrust into the role of directing the Bezalel National Art Museum in Jerusalem. From that early trial by fire to his many leadership roles at the Museum of Tolerance, the International Center of Photography, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and elsewhere, Katz found innovative ways to make museums inviting, educational, living, and vibrant. A book for lovers of history and art criticism, as well as collectors, curators, administrators, and students, The Exhibitionist is filled with a wide range of discussions both cultural and personal. Katz discusses the exhibits, the discoveries, and the incredible people he worked with along the way, from his mentor Teddy Kollek, the mayor of Jerusalem and founder of the Israel Museum, to Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis and Broadway showman Billy Rose.From Exile to Washington: A Memoir of Leadership in the Twentieth Century
Par W. Michael Blumenthal. 2013
“The former Treasury Secretary has shared his story in a memoir that is both an engrossing personal narrative and a…
thoughtful reflection on leadership” (Henry Kissinger, author of On China). In a life that has spanned nearly nine decades and has taken him around the world and back, W. Michael Blumenthal has borne witness to the world’s convulsions and transformations during the twentieth century. Born in Germany between the two world wars, Blumenthal narrowly escaped the Nazi horror, when, in 1939, he and his family fled to Shanghai’s chaotic Jewish ghetto, where they spent the entirety of the WWII. From these fraught and humble beginnings, Blumenthal would emerge a major leader in American business and politics. In the second half of the century, Blumenthal headed two major American corporations—Bendix and Burroughs (later Unisys); served as a US trade ambassador in the State Department and the White House, advising John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson; and served under Jimmy Carter as the secretary of the treasury. After his retirement from business and politics, he began an entirely new chapter in his career when he conceived and served as the director of Europe’s largest Jewish museum—the Jewish Museum of Berlin. An essential autobiography by one of America’s great political figures, From Exile to Washington is an engaging chronicle of the twentieth century’s greatest upheavals, and a tribute to a lifetime of courage, leadership, and decisiveness. “Blumenthal’s astute understanding of history allows him to ably demonstrate the significance of good leadership.” —Kirkus Reviews “An astounding life, splendidly recorded.” —Fritz Stern, author of Five Germanys I Have KnownWord for Word: A Translator's Memoir of Literature, Politics, and Survival in Soviet Russia
Par Lilianna Lungina. 2014
A remarkable memoir of living in the Soviet Union and working as a literary translator. In the early twentieth century,…
Lilianna Lungina was a Russian Jew born to privilege, spending her childhood in Germany, France, and Palestine. But when she was thirteen, her parents moved to the USSR—where Lungina became witness to many of the era’s greatest upheavals. Exiled during World War II, dragged to KGB headquarters to report on her friends, and subjected to her new country’s ruthless, systematic anti-Semitism, Lungina nonetheless carved out a career as a translator, introducing hundreds of thousands of Soviet readers to Knut Hamsun, August Strindberg, and, most famously, Astrid Lindgren. In the process, she found herself at the very center of Soviet cultural life, meeting and befriending Pasternak, Brodsky, Solzhenitsyn, and many other major literary figures of the era. Her extraordinary memoir—at once heartfelt and unsentimental—is an unparalleled tribute to a lost world.We Were The Future: A Memoir of the Kibbutz
Par Sondra Silverston, Yael Neeman. 2016
The beautiful, understated memoir by bestselling Israeli author Yael Neeman detailing the intimate, collective memories of children raised on the…
kibbutz. The kibbutz is one of the greatest stories in Israeli history. These collective settlements have been written about extensively over the years: The kibbutz has been the subject of many sociological studies, and has been praised as the only example in world history of entire communities attempting, voluntarily, to live in total equality. But there's a dark side to the kibbutz, which has been criticized in later years, mainly by children who were raised in these communities, as an institution which victimized its offspring for the sake of ideology. In this spare and lucid memoir, Neeman--a child of the kibbutz--draws on the collective memory of hundreds of thousands of Israelis who grew up in a kibbutz during their height and who intimately share their memories with her. We Were the Future is more than merely a compelling personal account of growing up in the kibbutz movement; it is an unstintingly honest examination of the perils of pioneering and a new lens through which to see the history of Israel.Karla Faye Tucker Set Free: Life And Faith On Death Row
Par Linda Strom. 2000
Karla Faye Tucker, the first woman executed in Texas in over one hundred years, became an evangelist for Christ during…
her fourteen-year imprisonment on Death Row. This is the story of Karla's spiritual journey, the women and men she reached, and the God who offers redemption and hope to the hardest of hearts.As memórias marcantes de uma combatente judia da resistência e sobrevivente do campo de concentração de Ravensbrück. Um poderoso testemunho…
da luta contra a desumanidade. Selma van de Perre tinha 17 anos quando a Segunda Guerra Mundial começou. Até então, ser judeu na Holanda não era sinónimo de perigo, mas em 1941 tornou-se uma questão de vida ou morte. Selma juntou-se ao movimento de resistência contra os nazis e durante dois anos arriscou tudo. Usando o pseudónimo Margareta van der Kuit e passando por ariana, viajou pelo país a entregar documentos, a partilhar informações e a manter o ânimo entre os colegas — fazendo, como diria mais tarde, o que «tinha que ser feito». Em julho de 1944, a sua sorte acabou. Detida, foi transportada para o campo de concentração feminino de Ravensbrück como prisioneira política. Ninguém ali sabia que era judia. Ao contrário dos seus pais e da sua irmã — que descobriria mais tarde terem morrido noutros campos —, ela sobreviveu. Somente depois do fim da guerra é que conseguiu recuperar a sua identidade e se atreveu a voltar a dizer: o meu nome é Selma. Inclui 16 páginas com fotografias. «A minha história mostra o que aconteceu com milhares de judeus e não judeus [...] a pura sorte que salvou alguns de nós e as atrocidades que levaram à morte de tantos.» Selma van de Perre «É impossível não ficarmos atónitos com a sua firmeza e coragem.» Times Literary Suplement «Uma incrível história de coragem e compaixão.» Kirkus ReviewsEstrada Leste-Oeste: As Origens do Genocídio e dos Crimes Contra a Humanidade
Par Philippe Sands. 2016
Um livro extraordinário: profundamente pessoal, narrado com devoção, fúria e precisão. «Um livro extraordinário: profundamente pessoal, narrado com devoção, fúria…
e precisão.» - John Le Carré Numa cidade hoje pouco conhecida, mas que foi um importante centro cultural da Europa de Leste, «a pequena Paris da Ucrânia», a um tempo chamada de Lemberg, Lwów, Lvov ou Lviv, consoante a potência ocupadora, uma estrada percorria-a de leste a oeste. Ao longo dessa estrada, em momentos diferentes, moraram três homens: Leon Buchholz, avô do autor, Hersch Lauterpacht, que viria a cunhar a expressão «crimes contra a humanidade», e Rafael Lemkin, que criaria o conceito de «genocídio», apresentados pela primeira vez nos julgamentos de Nuremberga. Este livro narra a evolução pessoal e intelectual de Lauterpacht e Lemkin, ambos estudantes de Direito na Universidade de Lviv, cada um dos quais considerado o pai do moderno Direito Internacional, ambos presentes em Nuremberga, alheios ao facto de que o homem que julgam - Hans Frank, governador-geral da Polónia ocupada - pode ter sido o responsável pelo assassínio da quase totalidade das suas famílias. Mas este livro é também a memória de uma família, com o autor a traçar a história do seu avô - uma vida envolta em segredos, com muitas perguntas e poucas ou nenhumas respostas - e da sua fuga pela Europa em face das atrocidades nazis. Estrada Leste-Oeste é um livro que mostra que nem tudo foi dito sobre a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Uma meditação sobre a barbárie, a culpa e o desejo de justiça. Raramente se justifica aplicar a qualificação de indispensável a um livro, mas este é esse livro. «Nenhum romance se pode equiparar à realidade.» - Antony BeevorRuth Blau: A Life of Paradox and Purpose (Perspectives on Israel Studies)
Par Motti Inbari. 2023
Ruth Blau: A Life of Paradox and Purpose explores the life of a curious, if not mysterious, character in modern…
Jewish history. Born a French Catholic, Ruth Blau (Ben-David) (1920–2000) lived a constantly twisting life. During World War II, Blau was active in the French Resistance, and under their command, she joined the Gestapo as a double agent. After the war, she studied philosophy as a PhD candidate at the Sorbonne during the 1950s. After converting to Judaism and moving to Israel in 1960, Blau was involved in concealing Yossele Schumacher, a seven-year-old child, as part of a militant conflict between ultra-Orthodox and secular Jews in Israel. In 1965, despite a huge scandal, she married Amram Blau, head of the anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox Neturei Karta. After the death of her husband in 1973, Blau took upon herself to travel to Arab countries to help the Jewish communities in distress in Lebanon and Iran, where she met Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and his deputy Abu Jihad. But the most significant connections she made were in Iran. In 1979, she met with the leader of the Iranian revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini.Ruth Blau: A Life of Paradox and Purpose represents the first full-length biography of this remarkable woman. Drawing on a trove of archival materials and interviews with those who knew Ruth, Motti Inbari offers a complex, multifaceted portrait of a woman undertaking a remarkable and influential journey through modern European and Middle Eastern history.The Prophet Muhammad: A Role Model for Muslim Minorities
Par Muhammad Yasin Siddiqi. 2006
This book identifies what guidance the Prophet's example offers for Muslims living as a minority. In so doing, the author…
examines how Islam was practised in Makkah under constant prejudice, how Muslims led their lives as migrants in Abyssinia and how Muslim minorities were treated by the Islamic state of Madinah.Health Expectations for Older Women: International Perspectives
Par Sarah B. Laditka. 2002
Explore international trends in health and longevity--with a special focus on older women!This essential book examines the latest research on…
life expectancy and “active life expectancy”--the number of years that women can expect to live free from major disability--in developed and developing countries around the world. It also explores the policy implications of the contributors’ findings. Here you'll find a global study using data from the World Health Organization, a European study using data from OECD countries, and studies of women in the United Kingdom, Fiji, The Netherlands, Japan, Canada, and the United States.With contributions from demographers, economists, epidemiologists, gerontologists, medical statisticians, policy analysts, physicians, public health directors, and sociologists, International Perspectives on Health Expectancies for Older Women compares mortality and morbidity trends in various populations. In addition to reviewing the current literature on active life expectancy, this informative book looks at: the distribution of total, unimpaired, and impaired life for several groups of older women defined by race, education, and marital history gender differences in health profiles in The Netherlands gender differences in life with and without six major diseases, including both morbid and mortal conditions in the United States how mortality and morbidity patterns differ for Canadian women and men 45 years of age and older, focusing on risk factors and chronic conditions such as low income, low education, abnormal body mass index, lack of physical activity, smoking, cancer, diabetes, and arthritis patterns of healthy life expectancy for older women around the globe a comparison of the development and progression of physical disability in Japanese men and women and more!The Original Memoirs of Charles G. Finney
Par Garth M. Rosell, Richard Dupuis. 2002
In 1989, the first complete, restored text of revivalist Charles Finney’s memoirs was published by Zondervan. Until then, all editions…
had reflected editorial liberties introduced in the first 19th-century publication, edited after Finney’s death. The restored text—the culmination of over ten years of research by editors Garth Rosell and Richard Dupuis—brought to light Finney’s entire memoirs in their original language. Longstanding omissions and inaccuracies were corrected. Comprehensive annotations supplied detailed, phrase-by-phrase and even word-by-word explanations. The 1989 edition was a scholar’s and historian’s delight. However, the average reader who simply wants to read what Finney wrote doesn’t need the scholarly minutiae. This new edition provides the complete, restored text of Finney’s memoirs with no unnecessary details to obstruct a straightforward read. In bold, untouched language, Finney’s thoughts march across the page with fascinating clarity and cohesiveness. For students of revival or anyone interested in the life of one of America’s foremost evangelists, here in his own words is Charles Finney: his life, his thoughts, his struggles and accomplishments, and his abiding love for God and enduring commitment to the gospel of Christ.Social Exclusion in Europe: Problems and Paradigms
Par Paul Littlewood, Ignace Glorieux, Ingrid Jönsson. 1999
Exclusion has come to hold a prominent place in the political discourse of all governments in the European Union and…
in the European Commission itself. As such, it figures importantly in various research agencies’ funding priorities attracting academics to develop and conduct major research programmes. But what does it mean? This book analyzes the different meanings the term exclusion has come to convey and surveys a wide variety of actual applications in different European countries.Villages of Poland hide the lost secrets of World War II1944: Heavy footfalls thud on the road on a rainy…
May night. A band of gunmen scour a hilltop farm, acting on rumors that it harbors a Jewish family. For 18 months, the Rozeneks have been hiding safely, but their luck is about to run out. Only one from the family of six will live to see the sunrise. Sixteen-year-old Hena Rozenek shelters in the woods until morning… and then she runs.Forty years later: Holocaust survivor Sam Rakowski Ron has lived in the United States for decades, never thinking he could return to the Polish village he fled as a teenager. But now he's ready to talk about what he heard, what he saw, and what he knows about two separate families of cousins who were his neighbors, and presumably were killed during the war. The story Poland presents to the world is that Poles saved more Jews than citizens of any other nation, that any murders in Poland were committed by Nazis and Nazis alone. But Sam, while defending his countrymen, suspects a painful truth. The stories he shares with his younger cousin, Judy, an investigative journalist, send them off on a decades-long journey unlike any other to find out what happened to the Rozenek family and ultimately reveal the secrets the Polish government is still desperate to keep.Jews in the Garden is a globe-trotting detective story that turns investigative eyes and ears toward the hidden events in Poland during the Holocaust. Judy and Sam, the unlikeliest of sleuthing duos, knock on doors, petition court documents, seek clandestine meetings, and ultimately discover what really happened to the "Jews in the garden next door."