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Widely viewed as a liberal, Dunstan Mitchell, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Kentucky,has been aggressively pressing his agenda for the Episcopal Church, including ordination of openly gay clergy and the blessing of same-sex marriages. His actions have severely offended the more conservative elements of the Diocese. Mitchell also has some personal habits that his allies in the Church find distasteful, and it soon becomes apparent that he is a liability-one that the church may want to eliminate. Six weeks later, the bishop's desecrated body is found in the covered swimming pool of one of his archenemies, crusty Circuit Judge James Chancellor. An extensive police and forensic inves...
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Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and transforming our vision of human flourishing. Burnout has become our go-to term for talking about the pressure and dissatisfaction we experience at work. But in the absence of understanding what burnout means, the discourse often does little to help workers who suffer from exhaustion and despair. Jonathan Malesic was a burned out worker who escaped by quitting his job as a tenured professor. In The End of Burnout, he dives into the history and psychology of burnout, traces the origin of the high ideals...
This e-book includes the full text of the book plus an exclusive additional chapter from Susan Gregory that is not found in the print edition! What if you could grow closer to God and improve your health in just 21 days? Susan Gregory, “The Daniel Fast Blogger,” has a plan to help you do just that. Widely recognized as the expert on this 21-day fast inspired by the book of Daniel, Susan has helped thousands of people discover a safe and healthy way to fast. The principles you learn from The Daniel Fast will change the way you view food, your body, and your relationship with the one who created you. Includes 21 days’ worth of Daniel Fast recipes!
A struggling Irish family in nineteenth century England sets its hopes on a new generation in the third volume of this dramatic historical saga. England, 1875. The Feeney family has finally escaped the squalid slums of York. Though they have worked hard to rise up from poverty, they have not left hardship behind. The father Patrick remains a man of simple tastes, increasingly out of touch with his wife Thomasin’s ambition to expand her business empire across Yorkshire. After losing their son, the Feeneys’ hopes for the family’s future now lie with their grandchildren. There is Rosanne, set to follow a rebel lover down a star-crossed road, and Erin’s daughter Belle, gifted and headstrong but born with a disability. The family has faces many challenges before, but what happens next will test them all.
Explores how marriage in Ireland was perceived, negotiated and controlled by church and state as well as by individuals across three centuries.
A touching and darkly hilarious novel about a man granted a drug-based reprieve from his HIV death sentence. Ed Dell is gay, single and confidante to goddess Oprah Winfrey--at least in his fertile imagination. He writes for a Chicago newspaper, takes care of his ailing parents, and likes to annoy his snobbish sister. HIV-positive and very private, Ed has seen better days. With the new drugs working--and with his parental obligations miraculously vanished--he suddenly, surprisingly has the chance to live again. If only he could remember how...--From publisher description.