Описание: Taylor Schumann survived a school shooting, yet she was left with permanent wounds, both visible and invisible. Weaving her own incredible story into a larger conversation about gun violence in America, Taylor shares another painful truth: Christians have largely been silent on this issue. With compassion and honesty, she encourages readers to join her in taking action for a safer future.
Автор: Clark-Pujara Christy Название: Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island ISBN: 1479855634 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781479855636 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3887.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In Dark Work, Christy Clark-Pujara tells the story of one state in particular whose role was outsized: Rhode Island. Historians have written expansively about the slave economy and its vital role in early American economic life. Like their northern neighbors, Rhode Islanders bought and sold slaves and supplies that sustained plantations throughout the Americas; however, nowhere else was this business so important. During the colonial period trade with West Indian planters provided Rhode Islanders with molasses, the key ingredient for their number one export: rum. More than 60 percent of all the slave ships that left North America left from Rhode Island. During the antebellum period Rhode Islanders were the leading producers of “negro cloth,” a coarse wool-cotton material made especially for enslaved blacks in the American South. Clark-Pujara draws on the documents of the state, the business, organizational, and personal records of their enslavers, and the few first-hand accounts left by enslaved and free black Rhode Islanders to reconstruct their lived experiences. The business of slavery encouraged slaveholding, slowed emancipation and led to circumscribed black freedom. Enslaved and free black people pushed back against their bondage and the restrictions placed on their freedom. It is convenient, especially for northerners, to think of slavery as southern institution. The erasure or marginalization of the northern black experience and the centrality of the business of slavery to the northern economy allows for a dangerous fiction—that North has no history of racism to overcome. But we cannot afford such a delusion if we are to truly reconcile with our past.
Описание: The myth of light and progress has blinded us. In our electric world, we are everywhere surrounded by effortlessly glowing lights that simply exist, as they should, seemingly clear and comforting proof that human genius means the present will always be better than the past, and the future better still. At best, this is half the story. At worst, it is a lie.
From whale oil to kerosene, from the colonial period to the end of the U.S. Civil War, modern, industrial lights brought wonderful improvements and incredible wealth to some. But for most workers, free and unfree, human and nonhuman, these lights were catastrophes. This book tells their stories. The surprisingly violent struggle to produce, control, and consume the changing means of illumination over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries transformed slavery, industrial capitalism, and urban families in profound, often hidden ways. Only by taking the lives of whalers and enslaved turpentine makers, match-manufacturing children and coal miners, night-working seamstresses and the streetlamp-lit poor—those American lucifers—as seriously as those of inventors and businessmen can the full significance of the revolution of artificial light be understood.
Автор: Haight Roger, Pach Alfred, Kaminski Amanda Avila Название: Grace and Gratitude: Spirituality in Martin Luther ISBN: 1531502229 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781531502225 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 1248.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Martin Luther (1483–1546) is a classic Christian author who spearheaded the Reformation and whose witness has relevance for life in the present-day world. Grace and Gratitude presents two texts that represent his spirituality. Because Luther wrote so much in so many different genres, the choice of only two texts provides a limited taste of his spirituality. But they open up a specific, central, and distinctive mark of his conception of the structure of Christian life. The name of the theme, justification by grace through faith, often spontaneously correlates with Luther’s name and his theology. The phrase points to a key theological doctrine that centered his thinking; it lay so deeply ingrained in his outlook that it sometimes explicitly but always tacitly shaped all his early theological views and bestowed a distinctive character to his ethics and spirituality. The two texts are chosen to illustrate how the conviction represented by the phrase draws its authority from scripture, especially Paul, and was discursively analyzed in an early foundational work on Christian life, The Freedom of a Christian. These texts do not represent all there is to say about spirituality in Luther’s thought by any means, and this part should not be taken for the whole. But the coupling of these texts penetrates deeply into what may be called Luther’s Christian spirituality of gratitude.
Автор: Clark-Pujara Christy Название: Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island ISBN: 1479870420 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781479870424 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 12289.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In Dark Work, Christy Clark-Pujara tells the story of one state in particular whose role was outsized: Rhode Island. Historians have written expansively about the slave economy and its vital role in early American economic life. Like their northern neighbors, Rhode Islanders bought and sold slaves and supplies that sustained plantations throughout the Americas; however, nowhere else was this business so important. During the colonial period trade with West Indian planters provided Rhode Islanders with molasses, the key ingredient for their number one export: rum. More than 60 percent of all the slave ships that left North America left from Rhode Island. During the antebellum period Rhode Islanders were the leading producers of “negro cloth,” a coarse wool-cotton material made especially for enslaved blacks in the American South. Clark-Pujara draws on the documents of the state, the business, organizational, and personal records of their enslavers, and the few first-hand accounts left by enslaved and free black Rhode Islanders to reconstruct their lived experiences. The business of slavery encouraged slaveholding, slowed emancipation and led to circumscribed black freedom. Enslaved and free black people pushed back against their bondage and the restrictions placed on their freedom. It is convenient, especially for northerners, to think of slavery as southern institution. The erasure or marginalization of the northern black experience and the centrality of the business of slavery to the northern economy allows for a dangerous fiction—that North has no history of racism to overcome. But we cannot afford such a delusion if we are to truly reconcile with our past.
Описание: This book is a commentary on Love to the Lost, a pamphlet published by the early Quaker James Nayler in February 1656. It explores Nayler`s theology described in this pamphlet, which was written prior to his blasphemy conviction. This book puts Nayler`s thought into its historical and biographical context.
Описание: This book is a commentary on Love to the Lost, a pamphlet published by the early Quaker James Nayler in February 1656. It explores Nayler`s theology described in this pamphlet, which was written prior to his blasphemy conviction. This book puts Nayler`s thought into its historical and biographical context.
Описание: This lavish over-size 10 x 12 book in beautiful landscape format brings to life the more than one dozen colorful places the great 20th century novelist Ernest Hemingway called home--for short periods or for years. Hemingway won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and in 1954 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Hundreds of spectacular new digital images capture the odyssey of the adventurous authors remarkable life. Starting at his birthplace home in Oak Park, Illinois, youll follow his footsteps north to his boyhood summer home on Lake Superior in northern Michigan. Then onto the Italian front during World War I and Milan; Paris and Pampola; Key West to Sun Valley, Africa to Havana. Hemingway made all these places and more as vivid and indelible as his fictional characters. Juxtaposed against page after page of lush landscapes and cityscapes are historic sepia portraits of the author, friends and family in all these far-flung locations. This is a book filled with the romance and inspiration of a great writers favorite places--the perfect gift for the literate traveler.
Автор: Faith Sister Mary Название: Life: Light and Dark Joy and Anguish ISBN: 1663204810 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781663204813 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3309.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: When loving God, it is possible to move beyond the hope of a good outcome. In doing so, we begin to firmly believe that our destiny is God and heaven. In a compilation of Christian reflections and meditations accompanied by illustrations, Sister Mary Faith explores a variety of spiritual topics that include biblical references to light and dark in holy scripture, the annunciation, and the agony in the garden to gently remind all followers of the Lord that he is all-good, all-loving, and all-merciful, that each of us is responsible for making a conscious decision to follow him to enter bliss, and that in his eyes, we are all equally one of his children. Life: Light and Dark shares lyrical reflections and meditations that lead Christians on a journey inward to explore their faith in God while embracing his grace and steadfast love.
Автор: Orr Katie Название: Everyday Obedience: Walking Purposefully in His Grace ISBN: 162591525X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781625915252 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2482.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Looking for a quality Bible study for short on time? Try a FOCUSed15 study In as few as 15 minutes a day, discover God's purpose for you as offered through Colossians 3:1-17. As you gain new understanding of the rich truths of these verses, you will soon find yourself longing to respond to God's grace through joyful obedience to Him, and the world around will want the freedom you have as well. Designed for women who are pressed for time but crave more depth from their Bible study, Everyday Obedience--an easy-to-use, four-week study--offers a relevant and lasting approach for reading and understanding Scripture as you work through the FOCUS method each week: F--Foundation: Enjoy Every Word O--Observation: Look at the Details C--Clarification: Uncover the Original Meaning U--Utilization: Discover the Connections S--Summation: Respond to God's Word Most of us know that our lives have purpose. But somehow day-to-day moments cloud our perspective and we lose sight of God's grace and purpose for our life. Everyday Obedience will help you better understand the correlation of how God's grace coupled with your obedience leads you to unexpected freedom as you walk forward in holy living. Focus on quality, not quantity--no fear or intimidation. Make each minute of your valuable time count, and find a renewed enjoyment and connection with God's Word.
