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Author: Patrick B. Reyes
Publisher: Chalice Press
ISBN: 0827225326
Size: 13.88 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2016-12-13
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Nobody Cries When We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. When the screams of innocents dying engulf you, how do you hear God's voice? Will God and God's people call you to life when your breath is being strangled out of you? For people of color living each day surrounded by violence, for whom survival is not a given, vocational discernment is more than "finding your purpose" - it's a matter of life and death. Patrick Reyes shares his story of how the community around him - his grandmother, robed clergy, educators, friends, and neighbors - saved him from gang life, abuse, and the economic and racial oppression that threatened to kill him before he ever reached adulthood. A story balancing the tension between pain and healing, Nobody Cries When We Die takes you to the places that make American society flinch, redefines what you are called to do with your life, and gives you strength to save lives and lead in your own community. Part of the FTE (Forum for Theological Exploration) Series

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Author: Patrick B. Reyes
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 164698191X
Size: 77.37 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2021-03-16
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Purpose Gap eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In The Purpose Gap, Patrick Reyes reflects on a family member's death after a long struggle with incarceration and homelessness. As he asks himself why his cousin's life had turned out so differently from his own, he realizes that it was a matter of conditions. While they both grew up in the same marginalized Chicano community in central California, Patrick found himself surrounded by a host of family, friends, and supporters. They created a different narrative for him than the one the rest of the world had succeeded in imposing on his cousin. In short, they created the conditions in which Patrick could not only survive but thrive. Far too much of the literature on leadership tells the story of heroic individuals creating their success by their own efforts. Such stories fail to recognize the structural obstacles to thriving faced by those in marginalized communities. If young people in these communities are to grow up to lives of purpose, others must help create the conditions to make that happen. Pastors, organizational leaders, educators, family, and friends must all perceive their calling to create new stories and new conditions of thriving for those most marginalized. This book offers both inspiration and practical guidance for how to do that. It offers advice on creating safe space for failure, nurturing networks that support young people of color, and professional guidance for how to implement these strategies in one's congregation, school, or community organization.

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Book Detail:
Author: Patrick B. Reyes
Publisher: Chalice Press
ISBN: 0827225334
Size: 11.54 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2016-12-13
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Nobody Cries When We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. When the screams of innocents dying engulf you, how do you hear God's voice? Will God and God's people call you to life when your breath is being strangled out of you? For people of color living each day surrounded by violence, for whom survival is not a given, vocational discernment is more than "finding your purpose" - it's a matter of life and death. Patrick Reyes shares his story of how the community around him - his grandmother, robed clergy, educators, friends, and neighbors - saved him from gang life, abuse, and the economic and racial oppression that threatened to kill him before he ever reached adulthood. A story balancing the tension between pain and healing, Nobody Cries When We Die takes you to the places that make American society flinch, redefines what you are called to do with your life, and gives you strength to save lives and lead in your own community. Part of the FTE (Forum for Theological Exploration) Series

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Author: Isabelle Clark-Decès
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520243145
Size: 77.48 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2005-02-22
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF No One Cries For The Dead eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "A vivid, well-written, and deeply insightful ethnography."—Kirin Narayan, author of Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels "This is a book of true creative insight, originality, and extraordinarily rich materials. Clark-Deces shows a gift for finding and articulating very central, evocative cultural issues in her study of Tamil laments. She writes with sensitivity and care, and with a certain daring and boldness that repay close attention."—David Shulman, author of Classical Telugu Poetry "A stunning ethnographic essay."—Alan Dundes, author of Two Tales of Crow and Sparrow "In this book, Isabelle Clark-Deces gives us a clear-eyed view of the bond between the state of untouchability in India, and the pain of death and irretrievable loss. This is not a distanced work: the reader is always right there with the people Clark-Deces writes about; one can see them and hear their voices as one reads. The author also achieves some powerful theoretical insights that go beyond the words and other communicative acts of her informants."—Margaret Trawick, Professor of Social Anthropology, Massey University, New Zealand, and author of Notes on Love in a Tamil Family

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Book Detail:
Author: Joe Kempf
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
ISBN: 1612782191
Size: 72.17 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2012-02-06
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF No One Cries The Wrong Way eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Have you ever found yourself tongue-tied when encountering someone suffering, dying, or having just lost someone close? As people of faith, we are invited to trust in the wonderful goodness of God. Then how are we to understand the sufferings of so many of God's people? Where is God to be found in the midst of a world filled with so much pain and loss? What difference does it make to pray? No One Cries the Wrong Way offers some glimpses into these great questions. Certainly, there are no easy answers. Any words about God will fall far short of the truth of who God is. Indeed, we stand here before the great mystery. But we do not stand along; without hope; or without something to offer. Consoling in a way that is both simple and profound, Fr. Kempf helps us trust the Love in the midst of the pain. At the end of the book, there is a prayer service for each chapter, questions for reflect or discussion, and quotes for meditation and prayer.

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Book Detail:
Author: Seamus O'Mahony
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 125011280X
Size: 50.31 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2017-07-25
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF The Way We Die Now eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. We have lost the ability to deal with death. Most of our friends and beloved relations will die in a busy hospital in the care of strangers, doctors, and nurses they have known at best for a couple of weeks. They may not even know they are dying, victims of the kindly lie that there is still hope. They are unlikely to see even their family doctor in their final hours, robbed of their dignity and fed through a tube after a long series of excessive and hopeless medical interventions. This is the starting point of Seamus O’Mahony’s The Way We Die Now, a thoughtful, moving and unforgettable book on the western way of death. Dying has never been more public, with celebrities writing detailed memoirs of their illness, but in private we have done our best to banish all thought of dying and made a good death increasingly difficult to achieve.

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Author: Robin Sharma
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780008210304
Size: 32.84 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2016-08-01
Category:
Language: en
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Download PDF Life Lessons From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. 101 inspirational lessons on how to achieve true happiness, find fulfilment and live peacefully and meaningfully every day, from Robin Sharma, leading life coach and author of the multi-million-copy bestseller The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. How can one achieve true happiness? Is it possible to live with joy, passion and purpose every day? It is, and this potent book - with its powerful life lessons and profound wisdom - can show you how.Here Robin Sharma, one of the world's leading life teachers and bestselling authors, takes you on a journey towards a new way of living, allowing you to re-purpose your time to make every day meaningful.Offering simple solutions to life's most frustrating challenges, this is a guide to rebalancing the conflicting forces in your life. Its lessons include:- How to discover your calling- How to see your troubles as blessings- How to enjoy the path - not just the rewards- How to live fully, so you can die happyThis is a truly remarkable book that you will treasure for a lifetime.

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Book Detail:
Author: Harold S. Kushner
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 0805241930
Size: 80.59 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2001
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF When Bad Things Happen To Good People eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Offers an inspirational and compassionate approach to understanding the problems of life, and argues that we should continue to believe in God's fairness.

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Book Detail:
Author: Tyler Sit
Publisher: Chalice Press
ISBN: 0827235534
Size: 67.43 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2021-04-06
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Staying Awake eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Jesus asked his followers to stay awake, which begs the question: stay awake to what? Staying Awake is a practical exploration of Christianity for people who want to show up for justice and stay in the movement. Complete with stories, worksheets, poetry, illustrations, and a commitment to centering queer people of color, this book is here to support you in staying awake: to God, to the evils of oppression, and the world’s coming liberation.

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Book Detail:
Author: Adam Silvera
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062457810
Size: 38.78 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2017-09-05
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF They Both Die At The End eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Adam Silvera reminds us that there’s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day. #1 New York Times bestseller * 4 starred reviews * A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * A Kirkus Best Book of the Year * A Booklist Editors' Choice * A Bustle Best YA Novel * A Paste Magazine Best YA Book * A Book Riot Best Queer Book * A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of the Year * A BookPage Best YA Book of the Year On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They’re going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they’re both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There’s an app for that. It’s called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure—to live a lifetime in a single day. In the tradition of Before I Fall and If I Stay, They Both Die at the End is a tour de force from acclaimed author Adam Silvera, whose debut, More Happy Than Not, the New York Times called “profound.” Plus don't miss The First to Die at the End: #1 New York Times bestselling author Adam Silvera returns to the universe of international phenomenon They Both Die at the End in this prequel. New star-crossed lovers are put to the test on the first day of Death-Cast’s fateful calls.

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Book Detail:
Author: Liz Levine
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982109343
Size: 28.60 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2020-01-28
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF Nobody Ever Talks About Anything But The End eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A genuinely moving, funny, and inventive account of loss and grief, mental illness and suicide, from film and TV producer Liz Levine (Story of a Girl), written in the aftermath of the deaths of her sister and best friend. I feel like I might be a terrible person to be laughing in these moments. But it turns out, I’m not alone. In November of 2016, Liz Levine’s younger sister, Tamara, reached a breaking point after years of living with mental illness. In the dark hours before dawn, she sent a final message to her family then killed herself. In Nobody Ever Talks About Anything But the End, Liz weaves the story of what happened to Tamara with another significant death—that of Liz’s childhood love, Judson, to cancer. She writes about her relationship with Judson, Tamara’s struggles, the conflicts that arise in a family of challenging personalities, and how death casts a long shadow. This memorable account of life and loss is haunting yet filled with dark humor—Tamara emails her family when Trump is elected to check if she’s imagining things again, Liz discovers a banana has been indicted as a whistleblower in an alleged family conspiracy, and a little niece declares Tamara’s funeral the “most fun ever!” With honesty, Liz exposes the raw truths about grief and mourning that we often shy away from—and almost never share with others. And she reveals how, in the midst of death, life—with all its messy complications—must also be celebrated.

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Book Detail:
Author: Carolyn B. Helsel
Publisher: Chalice Press
ISBN: 0827200951
Size: 75.76 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2020-06-19
Category: Family & Relationships
Language: en
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Download PDF The Abcs Of Diversity eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Learn the language of diversity and raise kids who respect differences and honor similarities. The ABCs of Diversity equips parents, teachers, and community leaders to have intergenerational and intercultural conversations about the differences between us. In addition to discussions of race, intercultural dialogue involves understanding our differences related to political affiliation, gender, class, religion, ability, nationality, and sexual orientation. This book helps parents and teachers of children, youth, and young adults navigate conversations about differences so they can raise up individuals committed to respectful civic engagement. Such intercultural dialogues can support communities as they work for the mutual well-being of all. This book includes specific resources and activities for persons of various ages that parents and community leaders can employ to encourage compassion and empathy. An ideal resource for teachers, parents, ministry personnel, non-profit leaders, human resources directors, and librarians.

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Book Detail:
Author: Michael W. Waters
Publisher: Chalice Press
ISBN: 0827235429
Size: 41.97 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2017-02-07
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Stakes Is High eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. What happens when a people can take no more injustice rained down upon their sons and daughters? When each new travesty echoes the cries of ancestors killed for the color of their skin? How do a people rediscover hope? And how do they use that new-found hope as momentum and strength for change? In his powerful new book Stakes Is High, pastor, activist, and community leader Michael W. Waters blends hip-hop lyricism and social justice leadership, creating an urgent voice demanding that America listen to the suffering if it hopes to redeem its soul. Weaving stories from centuries of persecution against the backdrop of today's urban prophets on the radio and in the streets, Waters speaks on behalf of an awakened generation raging against racism - yet fueled by the promise of a just future. Through the pain and hard but holy work, you will hear the call to join the faithful struggle for racial justice.

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Book Detail:
Author: Robert Newton Peck
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
ISBN: 0307574512
Size: 79.71 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2010-01-13
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF A Day No Pigs Would Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Originally published in hardcover in 1972, A Day No Pigs Would Die was one of the first young adult books, along with titles like The Outsiders and The Chocolate War. In it, author Robert Newton Peck weaves a story of a Vermont boyhood that is part fiction, part memoir. The result is a moving coming-of-age story that still resonates with teens today.

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Book Detail:
Author: Mitch Albom
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 1401388884
Size: 37.66 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2007-04-01
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Five People You Meet In Heaven eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him, as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: "Why was I here?"

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Book Detail:
Author: Mark Lowry
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 141851621X
Size: 79.71 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2000-10-18
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Live Long Die Laughing eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. InLive & Die Laughing,comedian/singer Mark Lowry pulls his wild-and-wacky train of thought into the station with musings about everything from God's character to church potlucks. Using material from his email newsletter, along with responses from its nearly 40,000 subscribers ("reMarkable,"www.marklowry.com), Lowry underscored the idea that God tirelessly loves and looks after his believers, no matter how quirky we are!

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Book Detail:
Author: Thomas M. Nichols
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190469412
Size: 42.55 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2017
Category: Political Science
Language: en
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Download PDF The Death Of Expertise eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A cult of anti-expertise sentiment has coincided with anti-intellectualism, resulting in massively viral yet poorly informed debates ranging from the anti-vaccination movement to attacks on GMOs. As Tom Nichols shows in The Death of Expertise, there are a number of reasons why this has occurred-ranging from easy access to Internet search engines to a customer satisfaction model within higher education.

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Book Detail:
Author: Markus Zusak
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0307433846
Size: 58.81 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2007-12-18
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Book Thief eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. “The kind of book that can be life-changing.” —The New York Times “Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.” —USA Today DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.

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Book Detail:
Author: Mary Roach
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393324826
Size: 18.60 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2004-04-27
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Language: en
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Download PDF Stiff The Curious Lives Of Human Cadavers eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A look inside the world of forensics examines the use of human cadavers in a wide range of endeavors, including research into new surgical procedures, space exploration, and a Tennessee human decay research facility.

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Book Detail:
Author: Ron Powers
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 031634110X
Size: 60.28 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2017-03-21
Category: Psychology
Language: en
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Download PDF No One Cares About Crazy People eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. * Finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award * Washington Post Notable Book of the Year * People Magazine Best Book of the Year * Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year * "Extraordinary and courageous . . . No doubt if everyone were to read this book, the world would change."---New York Times Book Review New York Times-bestselling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia. From the centuries of torture of "lunatiks" at Bedlam Asylum to the infamous eugenics era to the follies of the anti-psychiatry movement to the current landscape in which too many families struggle alone to manage afflicted love ones, Powers limns our fears and myths about mental illness and the fractured public policies that have resulted. Braided with that history is the moving story of Powers's beloved son Kevin--spirited, endearing, and gifted--who triumphed even while suffering from schizophrenia until finally he did not, and the story of his courageous surviving son Dean, who is also schizophrenic. A blend of history, biography, memoir, and current affairs ending with a consideration of where we might go from here, this is a thought-provoking look at a dreaded illness that has long been misunderstood.

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