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Irish artist Gwen Wilkinson's fascinating, fun adventures travelling the length of Ireland in a self-built canoe. Beautifully illustrated with the artist's striking lino and woodcut prints. Highlights include the celebration of women who have left their mark on the Irish landscape.
Mike Stonecypher spent thirty-seven years spreading the word of God in Africa, and he shares his heartfelt testimony in this book. In it, you will read about his inspiring encounters with Nigerian and Nigerien Christians and missionaries from around the world. He highlights times of victory and of testing—and how God revealed the redemptive power of Jesus over and over again. He recalls serving the Lord in three schools, encouraging hundreds of students and dozens of teachers to find their faith. He taught English, the Bible, drama, and writing, working side by side with Nigerians, Nigeriens, Cameroonians, Congolese, Canadians, British, Swiss, French, Germans, Brazilians, Koreans, and Americans. The theme throughout is that only Jesus leads us day by day, year after year, bringing into our lives the people and the events that shape us. Only Jesus keeps our hearts tender to His voice and the needs of those around us. Some of these stories will have you laughing and rejoicing, while others will burden your heart and call you to prayer. In every story, you will be reminded of God’s profound love for humanity.
Public affairs—or sex scandals—involving prominent politicians are as revealing of American culture as they are of individual peccadillos. Implicated in their unfolding are a broad range of institutions, trends, questions, and struggles, including political parties, Hollywood, the Christian right, new communications technologies, the restructuring of corporate media, feminist and civil rights debates, and the meaning of public life in the “society of the spectacle.” The contributors to Public Affairs examine, from a variety of perspectives, how political sex scandals take shape, gain momentum, and alter the U.S. political and cultural landscape. The essays in Public Affairs reflect o...
Judith Perraino investigates how music has been used throughout history to call into question norms of gender and sexuality. Beginning with an examination of the mythology surrounding the Sirens, she goes on to consider musical creatures, gods, humans and music-addled listeners.
The lyrics of medieval "courtly love" songs are characteristically self-conscious. Giving Voice to Love investigates similar self-consciousness in the musical settings. Moments and examples where voice, melody, rhythm, form, and genre seem to comment on music itself tell us about musical responses to the courtly chanson tradition, and musical reflections on the complexity of self-expression.
At a time of unprecedented secularization and declining church attendance, youth ministry in the twenty-first century should be doomed. So why is Protestant youth ministry in Sydney vibrant, and in many places growing? This book sets out to answer this question, which is of such importance for the future of the Australian church. A pioneering model of youth ministry evolved in the 1930s and was already flourishing in churches, schools, and university by the 1950s. Its early high point was the Billy Graham Crusade of 1959, which may legitimately be seen as an Australian youth revival. The new model broke with past practice by cultivating ministry leadership by young people, by promoting peer ...
"Journey of a Hope Merchant" recounts the epic journey that took Neil Petersen from apartheid-era South Africa to a place in history as the first black man to race his yacht solo around the globe.
This book provides a unique and charming look at the history of Durham city through an eclectic collection of over 200 photographs.
Seven years ago a man shoots himself in the head in his bedroom. Now another man is found dead in his bedroom from a similar gunshot wound. Echo Rose has a new job and a place of her own. She feels it will be a great opportunity to be more independent and also make a mark for herself in a new city. But things don’t work out as she had hoped for. Detective Skip Malloy is called in to investigate an apparent suicide, but the more Skip looks into it, the more he begins to question if it was self-inflicted. After another death, Echo and Skip must work together to solve a seven year old mystery. Keywords: Female protagonist series, murder mystery series, police procedural mysteries, mystery series most popular, police procedurals series, detective thriller series, suspense thriller series