Natural Saints

Author : Mallory McDuff
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199335954
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Saints written by Mallory McDuff and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mallory McDuff shows that churches and faith organizations are reconnecting with conservation and working to save the natural world.

Author : Mallory D. McDuff
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Saints written by Mallory D. McDuff and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The urgent task of conserving our natural resources demands the work of many. A large majority of the U.S. population is affiliated with Christian denominations. At a time when the churches are becoming increasingly politically engaged, this community represents an important potential source of environmental activism. This book presents the concrete evidence that churches and faith organizations are reconnecting with conservation and working to save the natural world. On a national level, the National Council of Churches, which represents 45 million people in a wide range of Protestant, Anglican, and Orthodox faith groups, has instituted an Eco-Justice Program. The program sponsors such initiatives as "Churches for the Chesapeake," a consortium working to protect the resources of Chesapeake Bay. On the local level, individual churches like St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle have integrated "creation care" into the core values of the congregation. Through interviews and field visits across the country, McDuff uses a framework of five bioregions in which to present the responses of churches to pressing environmental issues. She shows that the local congregation is the right vehicle for connecting social and environmental justice in a community. Despite the growth of this movement, she argues, most environmental professionals are unaware of the power of this partnership between Christians and conversation. This book is meant to help bring churches, faith organizations, and environmental activists together in the service of this vital cause.

Author : Mary Haseltine
Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor
ISBN 13 : 1681921758
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Made for This written by Mary Haseltine and published by Our Sunday Visitor. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of women have felt the power of birth, and countless women long for it. But for too many, birth can seem like a purely clinical experience — something to get through as quickly as possible in order to get on with the joys of being a mother. In Made for This, author Mary Haseltine draws on Pope St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body to show that birth is an essential part of who God created women to be, body and soul. With real-life stories from many moms and practical tips — including preparing for birth, making informed choices, helping fathers embrace their role in the birth room, and encountering the work of labor — this book is an indispensable guide for navigating the physical and spiritual dimensions of pregnancy and birth. Expectant mothers will find the tools they need to approach birth as a gift, and to invite God into the experience. About the Author Mary Haseltine is a theology graduate and a certified birth doula and childbirth educator. With a passion for building a culture of life through the teachings of the Theology of the Body, she works to bring an awareness and practice of the teachings of the Church into the realm of childbirth, mothering, and pregnancy loss. She lives in Western New York with her husband and five sons. You can find more of her writing at www.betterthaneden.com.

Author : Mallory McDuff
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1506464467
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Last Best Act: Planning for the End of Our Lives to Protect the Peop written by Mallory McDuff and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we align our end-of-life choices with our values? In a world experiencing a climate crisis and a culture that avoids discussions about death and dying, environmentalist and educator Mallory McDuff takes readers on a journey to discover new, sustainable practices around death and dying.

Author : Daniel José Older
Publisher : Imprint
ISBN 13 : 1250185823
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Lost Saints written by Daniel José Older and published by Imprint. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Lost Saints is an evocative multigenerational Cuban-American family story of revolution, loss, and family bonds from New York Times-bestselling author Daniel José Older. Marisol vanished during the Cuban Revolution, disappearing with hardly a trace. Now, shaped by atrocities long-forgotten, her tenacious spirit visits her nephew, Ramón, in modern-day New Jersey. Her hope: that her presence will prompt him to unearth their painful family history. Ramón launches a haphazard investigation into the story of his ancestor, unaware of the forces driving him on his search. Along the way, he falls in love, faces a run-in with a murderous gangster, and uncovers the lives of the lost saints who helped Marisol during her imprisonment. The Book of Lost Saints by Daniel José Older is a haunting meditation on family, forgiveness, and the violent struggle to be free. An Imprint Book "Spellbinding." —Marlon James, Man Booker Prize-winning author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf "A lyrical, beautiful, devastating, literally haunting journey." —N.K. Jemisin, award-winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy

Author : Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 0374721157
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of Saints and Madmen written by Jeff VanderMeer and published by Picador. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Jeff VanderMeer, the author of Borne and Annihilation, comes the paperback reissue of his cult classic City of Saints and Madmen. In this reinvention of the literature of the fantastic, you hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you’ve ever visited—an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians. City of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervor and wanton lusts. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. In Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. An artist receives an invitation to a beheading—and finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced that he’s made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that he’s really from a place called Chicago . . . By turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and “eyewitness” reports invokes a universe within a puzzle box where you can lose—and find—yourself again.

Author : Michael E. Wittmer
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310516390
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming Worldly Saints written by Michael E. Wittmer and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If following Jesus involves a life of sacrifice and suffering, is it wrong for a Christian to seek purpose and joy in this world? Many Christians sense a tension between their desire to enjoy life in this world—the beauty of God’s creation, the rich love of deep relationships with others—and the reality that this world is fallen and broken, in need of redemption. How can we embrace and thrive in the tension between enjoying creation and promoting redemption? By living out our God-given purpose. As “worldly saints,” created in the image of God, we are natural creatures with a supernatural purpose—to know and love God. Because we live in a world that is stained by the curse of sin, we must learn to embrace our nature as creatures created in the image of God while recognizing our desperate need for the grace that God offers to us in the gospel. Writing in a devotional style that is theologically rich, biblically accurate, and aimed at ordinary readers, Mike Wittmer helps readers understand who they are, why they are here, and the importance of the story they tell themselves. In Becoming Worldly Saints, he gives an integrated vision that shows how we can be heavenly minded in a way that leads to earthly good, empowering believers to seize the abundant life God has for them.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The True Latter-Day-Saints' Herald written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 862 pages
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Download or read book Bibliotheca Sacra written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Penny Allen
Publisher : Zoland Books, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781581950281
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Geography of Saints written by Penny Allen and published by Zoland Books, Incorporated. This book was released on 2001 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its mountains and plains setting and laconic cowgirl drawl, A Geography of Saints is not just a great western story; but a great American story."--BOOK JACKET.