Heavy Burdens

Author : Bridget Eileen Rivera
Publisher : Brazos Press
ISBN 13 : 1493432672
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heavy Burdens written by Bridget Eileen Rivera and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious faith reduces the risk of suicide for virtually every American demographic except one: LGBTQ people. Generations of LGBTQ people have been alienated or condemned by Christian communities. It's past time that Christians confronted the ongoing and devastating effects of this legacy. Many LGBTQ people face overwhelming challenges in navigating faith, gender, and sexuality. Christian communities that uphold the traditional sexual ethic often unwittingly make the path more difficult through unexamined attitudes and practices. Drawing on her sociological training and her leadership in the Side B/Revoice conversation, Bridget Eileen Rivera, who founded the popular website Meditations of a Traveling Nun, speaks to the pain of LGBTQ Christians and helps churches develop a better pastoral approach. Rivera calls to mind Jesus's woe to religious leaders: "They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of others; but they themselves are unwilling to lift a finger to move them" (Matt. 23:4). Heavy Burdens provides an honest account of seven ways LGBTQ people experience discrimination in the church, helping Christians grapple with hard realities and empowering churches across the theological spectrum to navigate better paths forward.

Author : Chanequa Walker-Barnes
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630871923
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Too Heavy a Yoke written by Chanequa Walker-Barnes and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black women are strong. At least that's what everyone says and how they are constantly depicted. But what, exactly, does this strength entail? And what price do Black women pay for it? In this book, the author, a psychologist and pastoral theologian, examines the burdensome yoke that the ideology of the Strong Black Woman places upon African American women. She demonstrates how the three core features of the ideology--emotional strength, caregiving, and independence--constrain the lives of African American women and predispose them to physical and emotional health problems, including obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and anxiety. She traces the historical, social, and theological influences that resulted in the evolution and maintenance of the Strong Black Woman, including the Christian church, R & B and hip-hop artists, and popular television and film. Drawing upon womanist pastoral theology and twelve-step philosophy, she calls upon pastoral caregivers to aid in the healing of African American women's identities and crafts a twelve-step program for Strong Black Women in recovery.

Author : Sandra Rollings-Magnusson
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 088864793X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heavy Burdens on Small Shoulders written by Sandra Rollings-Magnusson and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2012-06-11 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on children’s work on family farms in western Canada, an “absolutely fascinating . . . marvellously fresh account of the lives of prairie pioneers.” —The Calgary Herald The phrase “child labour” carries negative undertones in today’s society. However, only a century ago on the Canadian Prairies, youngsters laboured alongside their parents, working the land, cleaning stovepipes, and chopping wood. By shouldering their share of the chores, these children learned the domestic and manual labour skills needed for life on a Prairie family farm. Sandra Rollings-Magnusson uses historic research, photographs, and personal anecdotes to describe the kinds of work performed by children and how each task fit into the family economy. This book is a vital contribution to western Canadian history as well as family and gender studies.

Author : Judy Verseghy
Publisher : Demeter Press
ISBN 13 : 1772582042
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heavy Burdens: Stories of Motherhood and Fatness written by Judy Verseghy and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heavy Burdens: Stories of Motherhood and Fatness seeks to address the systemic ways in which the moral panic around “obesity” impacts fat mothers and fat children. Taking a life-course approach, the book begins with analyses of the ways in which fatphobia is enacted on pregnant (or even not-yet-pregnant) women, whose bodies immediately become viewed as objects warranting external control by not only medical professionals, but family members, and even passers-by. The story unfolds as adults recount childhood stories of growing up fat, or growing up in fear of being fat, and how their mothers’ relationships with their own bodies and attempted weight-loss experiences shaped how food, exercise, and body management were approached in their homes in sometimes harmful ways. Finally, the book concludes with stories of women who have since become mothers, examining the ways in which having their own children altered their views on their own bodies and their perceptions of their mothers’ actions, and working to find fat-friendly futures via their own parenting (or grand-parenting) techniques.

Author : John Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cause of the Heavy Burdens of Great Britain and of Her National Debt written by John Allen and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John ALLEN (of Liskeard.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cause of the Heavy Burdens of Great Britain, and of Her National Debt; Comprising a Rapid Survey of Some of the Great Events Especially Connected with the Finances of British History During the Last Hundred and Fifty Years. [By John Allen.] Second Edition Revised written by John ALLEN (of Liskeard.) and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward J. Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780891125488
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I was Under a Heavy Burden written by Edward J. Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julie Kraulis
Publisher : Tundra Books
ISBN 13 : 1770494030
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whimsy's Heavy Things written by Julie Kraulis and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whimsy's heavy things are weighing her down. She tries to sweep them under the rug, but she trips over them. She tries to put them in a tree, but they fall on her. She even tries to sail them out to sea, but they always come back. Eventually Whimsy decides to deal with the heavy things one at a time... and a surprising thing happens. With exquisite illustrations and delightfully simple text, Whimsy's Heavy Things is a sweet story about changing the things that weigh us down into the things that lift us up.

Author : Judy Verseghy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781772581744
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heavy Burdens written by Judy Verseghy and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heavy Burdens: Stories of Motherhood and Fatness seeks to address the systemic ways in which the moral panic around ?obesity? impacts fat mothers and fat children. Taking a life-course approach, the book begins with analyses of the ways in which fatphobia is enacted on pregnant (or even not-yet-pregnant) women, whose bodies immediately become viewed as objects warranting external control by not only medical professionals, but family members, and even passers-by. The story unfolds as adults recount childhood stories of growing up fat, or growing up in fear of being fat, and how their mothers? relationships with their own bodies and attempted weight-loss experiences shaped how food, exercise, and body management were approached in their homes in sometimes harmful ways. Finally, the book concludes with stories of women who have since become mothers, examining the ways in which having their own children altered their views on their own bodies and their perceptions of their mothers? actions, and working to find fat-friendly futures via their own parenting (or grand-parenting) techniques.This book contains the artwork, stories, and analyses of nearly 20 contributors, all of whom seek to change the ways in which fatness is perceived, experienced, and vilified. It is the editors? hope that these works will compel readers to reconsider their negative views on fatness and to retain softness toward every mother and child who are simply fighting to exist in the face of fatphobia.

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437981003
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Investigating Very High Rent Burdens Among Renters in the American Housing Survey written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: