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The Lost Pilgrim is the story of one man¿s spiritual quest.Chris, a pastor filled with increasing despair, reaches a breaking point. He and his associate, Ruth, are into their third Sunday service when suddenly he rests his hand on her shoulder. Though intended as an innocent gesture, Chris erupts with doubts about his faith, his vocation, and himself. Deciding to take a sabbatical, he begins a pilgrimage to rediscover his faith¿and himself. On his journey, friends and colleagues are drawn to help him. Instead, they rediscover themselves and their own faith.Chris¿s journey climaxes in a way that none would expect, affecting the unwitting congregation dramatically. As the story unfolds, readers are led to explore hidden and fascinating dimensions of Christianity, as well as their own personal search for meaning.
Filipinos and Chinese authors have a rich, vibrant literature when it comes to speculative fiction, the realms of the strange and fantastical. But what about the fiction of the Filipino-Chinese, who draw their roots from the folklore of both cultures? This is what Lauriat attempts to answer. Featuring stories that deal with voyeur ghosts, taboo lovers, a town that cannot sleep, the Chinese zodiac, and an exile that finally comes home, Lauriat covers a diverse selection of narratives from fresh, Southest Asian voices.
The first book to look at wilderness in the northeastern US, Wilderness Comes Home features a new approach based on ecological reserve design to protect biological diversity, rewilding and restoring lands to wilderness, and embedding wilderness in a landscape of sustainably managed farmland and forestland. It addresses major theoretical and practical aspects of this important issue -- whether, why, and how to reestablish wilderness areas in the Northeast. Although Western wilderness models already exist for undeveloped areas, Eastern models are still evolving. Protection and social management are being urged not for the "forest primeval" but for recovering areas, in which returning species such as moose and peregrine falcons roam over new growth softwoods and hardwoods, interspersed with the stone walls that once marked field boundaries.
The Unfinished Business of the Civil Rights Movement: Failure of America's Public Schools to Properly Educate its African American Student Populations by Frank Simpkins The Unfinished Business of the Civil Rights Movement: Failure of America's Public Schools to Properly Educate its African American Student Population vividly describes the current crisis of America's inability to properly educate its African American students. Many of the details and cited statistics indicate alarming illiteracy rates and high dropout rates for disadvantaged Black and Latino students across the country. These rates stand in sharp contrast to those of their White peers and the Black/White academic achievement ...
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