Drunk Log

Author : Mark E. Scott
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
ISBN 13 : 1645405540
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drunk Log written by Mark E. Scott and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If all goes according to plan, tonight will be Jack Current’s last. The young engineer is at the end of his emotional rope and plans to take his own life. But first, a bar crawl through his downtown Cincinnati neighborhood is in order. Accompanying him during his final hours is a dollar store notebook. The Drunk Log. In it, he documents the evening, ruminates on his existence and remembers his 7-year-old nephew, who died exactly a year earlier. It is a loss for which Jack feels responsible—a lapse in judgement for which there is no forgiveness. Buckling under the weight of oppressive guilt, Jack plans to jump off the scenic suspension bridge spanning the Ohio River between Cincinnati and Covington, Kentucky. Drunk Log, from Mark E. Scott, is a darkly humorous, deeply introspective exploration into one man’s attempt to find peace in the face of unrelenting pain. Told with a fast clip, the entire book covers about 8 hours and deftly avoids becoming an ominous dirge through relatable—and flawed—characters, unexpectedly funny situations, a budding romance and the wobbly balancing act of a man who must remain sober enough to write in his journal and finish what he started, but drunk enough to jump off a bridge.

Author : Johnson Thomaskutty
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567680207
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saint Thomas the Apostle: New Testament, Apocrypha, and Historical Traditions written by Johnson Thomaskutty and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are the Thomas references in the Gospel of John, the Thomas compositions, and the early Thomas traditions in northwestern and southern India purely legendary as biblical scholars have assumed or do they preserve unexamined historical traditions intermittently as the Thomas Christians in India have believed? Didymus Judas Thomas is one of the most misunderstood characters from the beginning of the New Testament history and interpretation. In this study, Thomaskutty addresses the following questions: whether Thomas was merely a 'doubting Thomas' or a 'genuine Thomas'? Can we understand Thomas comprehensively by bringing the New Testament, apocrypha, and historical traditions together? How was Thomas connected to eastern Christianity and how does the Thomas literature support/not support this connectivity? Can we understand the Thomas traditions related to Judea, Syria, and India with the help of canonical, extra canonical, and traditio-historical documents? Thomaskutty investigates the development of the Thomas literature right from the beginning, examining and questioning the approaches and methodologies that have been employed in interpreting these documents, and analyzes the Thomas literature closely in order to understand the character, his mission involvements, and the possible implications this may have for understanding early Christianity in the east.

Author : Matthew Gorkos
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506470106
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Storied Church written by Matthew Gorkos and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew Gorkos begins The Storied Church with this compelling statement: "I believe in the church--in the power of faithful people serving a good and gracious God--and I believe in the power of a good story. Moreover, I believe, as this book will argue, that church and story--harnessed together--could be an even more powerful force for goodness in our world." Neuroscientists, anthropologists, archeologists, and psychologists all agree. Story is how our brains and our communities make sense of things. Storytelling helps us cope with change and loss. Storytelling helps us transmit lessons and life-skills to the next generation. As human beings, it seems we can't do without story. This book--indeed, this whole idea of story-centered church renewal--was born of a suspicion that the restorative, transformative, life-giving function that stories have for us as individuals may serve communities of faithful people as well. If stories help us survive as human creatures, why can't they help churches survive? The problem that story-centered renewal seeks to remedy has only become more prevalent and urgent in the age of Covid-19. Our churches need hope now more than ever. Writing from a pastor's perspective, Gorkos hopes to encourage and empower other pastors and lay leaders with both the hope and the tools they need to effect revitalizing change in their faith communities. Each chapter includes questions for reflection to help readers listen to and tell the stories that will lead to renewal and transformation.

Author : Sarah A. Benton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031335281X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding the High-Functioning Alcoholic written by Sarah A. Benton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-02-27 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is the typical alcoholic among the 12.5 million living in the United States now? Many, if not most of us when asked that question, would envision a skid row bum or someone at least out of work or with little education locked into a low-skill, low-paying job. But that is not accurate, according to the results of a national study released in June, 2007 by the National Institutes of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. The NIAAA determined that alcoholics in the United States really fall into five subtypes, including nearly 20 percent who are highly functional alcoholics, well-educated with good incomes. They include corporate presidents, powerful politicians, police, lawyers, doctors, scientists, and other highly-skilled, highly-educated people who are middle- to high-income and by most accounts successful. In this unprecedented book, mental health counselor Sarah Benton takes us into the worlds and minds of so-called high-functioning alcoholics, to understand how people so intelligent and achievement-oriented get drawn into states in which they secretly cannot control their liquor consumption but still manage to excel in their careers. The book includes a look at celebrity alcoholics like singer Eric Clapton and actor/comedian Robin Williams, as well as alcoholics in high positions including Chris Albrecht, former Chairman and CEO of HBO. Other high-profile people included in this book are Miss USA 2007 Tara Conner and football legend Joe Namath. With her own story of alcoholism and her recovery woven into the text, Benton takes us into the lives and challenges of these well-educated and successful people, seeking to understand how, when, and why they became addicted, as well as the reasons their alcoholism is, for most, so hard to admit, cope with, and recover from.

Author : Steven Kuhn
Publisher : Untreed Reads
ISBN 13 : 1611873657
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Drunk Logs written by Steven Kuhn and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Drunk Logs is a narrative of life within the walls of Stone River, an addiction treatment center found among a picturesque countryside. The serene setting belies the frenzied mindsets of those who, for a short time, call it home. Matt Hoffman is the newest arrival at Stone River. In a state of denial and with his defenses on high, Matt comes to realize that he has been a longtime member of society's outcasts, though he never wanted to admit it. Alleviating the pain of his situation, Matt focuses on the darkly comical side of addiction as he is befriended by an odd assortment of patients, resulting in funny, pathetic, and surreal experiences. Through this last chance at recovery, and indeed life, Matt discovers that in the end, it is the experiences he both learns and shares from the other patients that transform his life.

Author : William Owtram
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Dissertations on Sacrifices written by William Owtram and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : LeRoy Bright
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1637641567
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Detox to Dignity written by LeRoy Bright and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Detox to Dignity: How I Attained and Maintained Sobriety for More than 50 Years By: LeRoy Bright With his own personal experiences and insight, LeRoy Bright shares his successful and positive experience of being sober for over fifty years. Expressing how good it feels to be free from the shackles of addiction will help those battling addiction to stay on the right path and remain positive.

Author : Petr Pokorný
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0567502503
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Commentary on the Gospel of Thomas written by Petr Pokorný and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This commentary is opened by a study offering information about all aspects of the Gospel of Thomas, especially about its relation to other texts of early Christian literature, including the canonical Gospels. The successive commentary is based upon the Coptic version and discusses also all fragments of the original Greek text. The volume is divided into two parts: The first discusses the function of each logion (saying) within the frame of piety and theology of the Thomasine group, for which the Gospel is composed; The second part discusses its literary shape and its history, including its relation to the historical Jesus. The result is a portrait of the Gospel as a radical interpretation of Jesus' heritage, still preserving some forgotten features of his teaching.

Author : Alfred Cave
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.P4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scriptural Doctrine of Sacrifice written by Alfred Cave and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : captain arthur w. stiffe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book return of wrecks and casualties in indian waters for the year 1883 written by captain arthur w. stiffe and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: