Postcards From God

Author : Imtiaz Dharker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcards from God written by Imtiaz Dharker and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anguished god surveys a world stricken by fundamentalism in these powerful poems by a writer whose cultural experience spans three countries: Pakistan, the country of her birth, and Britain and India, her countries of adoption. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home, displacement, religious strife and terror, and latterly, grief. She is also an accomplished artist, and all her collections are illustrated with her drawings, which form an integral part of her books. Postcards from god was her first book from Bloodaxe. It combines two collections published separately in India, Purdah (1989) and Postcards from god (1994). In Purdah she memorialises the betweenness of a traveller between cultures, exploring the dilemmas of negotiation among countries, lovers, children. Postcards from god meditates upon disquietudes in the poet's chosen society: its sudden acts of violence, its feuds and insanities, forcing her into a permanent wakefulness that fits her eyes with glass lids. If the poems collected in Purdah are windows shuttered upon a private world, those gathered into Postcards from god are doorways leading out into the lanes and shanties where strangers huddle, bereft of the tender grace of attention.

Author : Imtiaz Dharker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcards from God written by Imtiaz Dharker and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Imtiaz Dharker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcards from God I. written by Imtiaz Dharker and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Claire Cloninger
Publisher : W Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780849909757
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcards from Heaven written by Claire Cloninger and published by W Publishing Group. This book was released on 1992 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several years ago, Cloninger began personalizing Scripture by rephasing God's words as if they were written directly to her--like personal postcards from Heaven. Now she presents these messages of hope and encouragement in this album-style devotional book. Cloninger's warm style will send a special message to anyone who needs to hear a loving word from God.

Author : Claire Cloninger
Publisher : New Hope Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781563098437
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcards from Heaven written by Claire Cloninger and published by New Hope Pub. This book was released on 2004 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of postcards--offering messages of hope, healing, comfort, encouragement, and affirmation--is written as if God were speaking directly to the reader.

Author : Joe Dervin
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 145352293X
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcards from God written by Joe Dervin and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brian Zahnd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578213774
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcards from Babylon: The Church In American Exile written by Brian Zahnd and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original gospel proclamation that the Lord of the nations was a crucified Galilean raised from the dead and that salvation was found in vowing allegiance to Jesus of Nazareth unleashed a shock wave that turned the Roman Empire upside down. Early Christianity was subversive and dangerous-dangerous for Christians and a threat to the keepers of the old order. Most of all Christianity was countercultural. But what about contemporary American Christianity? Is it the countercultural way of Jesus or merely a religious endorsement of Americanism? In his provocative book, Postcards From Babylon, Brian Zahnd challenges the reader to see and embrace a daring Jesus-centered Christianity that can again turn the world upside down."In a bold and daring articulation, Brian Zahnd has sketched a 'Theology of the Cross' for our time and place in the United States of the twenty-first century. He does so in a way that deeply resonates with the primal claims of evangelical theology. He sees that the Gospel is inherently and inescapably countercultural because the God of the Gospel is in particular and passionate solidarity with the 'left behind.'"--Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary"If I had miraculous powers, I would interrupt the programming of every religious broadcast in America, then, as Jesus replaced water with wine, I would substitute the message from Brian Zahnd that you'll read in this book. Read it and you'll see why. I recommend that you buy two copies of this book. Immediately read one-underline it and extract quotes from it to share on Facebook and Twitter, and refer to it in sermons and casual conversations. Send the other to that friend or relative who likes to talk about God and country. Include a note asking if they'd be willing to talk with you about it after they read it. Then see what happens as these Postcards from Babylon do their work in you and in others."--Brian D. McLaren, author of The Great Spiritual Migration"This love letter from a concerned pastor will enrage contemporary Pharaohs and their false prophets who blaspheme by blessing everything that Christ came to free us from. Postcards from Babylon diagnoses the diabolical and invites us to become pilgrims on Christ's narrow road that delivers us out into life."--Jarrod McKenna, pastor, founder of First Home Project for refugees in Australia

Author : Ian Coffey
Publisher : Inter-Varsity Press
ISBN 13 : 1783592133
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcards from the Edge written by Ian Coffey and published by Inter-Varsity Press. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God often seems most distant when we are going through our hardest times. And yet many people have found that it is exactly at the moments of their greatest struggle that they have met God most closely. Through vivid retellings of the stories of eight biblical characters who met God at points of extremity in their lives, Ian Coffey offers us inspirational ways of making the struggles we face an opportunity for growth. By sharing both modern examples of people who have faced the same sorts of struggles, and events in his own life, he gives us practical help and hope in our hardest moments. Esther & courage Jeremiah & inadequacy John & doubt Paul & fear Peter & imprisonment Ruth & loss Elijah & despair Mark & failure Full of rich reflection and thought-provoking questions, it will help us to discover the God who walks with his people through their darkest moments.

Author : Charles R. Swindoll
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 9780849987373
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Testament Postcards written by Charles R. Swindoll and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 1996-12-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These one-chapter books of the Bible may be short, but they illustrate how to live authentic Christian lives in the middle of a culture opposed to truth and grace. Still-relevant issues include: how our oneness in Christ transcends social boundaries, how to love with discernment, and how to deal with false teachers who are wrecking the church.

Author : Imtiaz Dharker
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Speak for the Devil written by Imtiaz Dharker and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2003 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imtiaz Dharker S Cultural Experience Spans Three Countries. Born In Pakistan She Grew Up In Glasgow, And Now Divides Her Time Between Bombay And London. It Is From This Life Of Transitions That She Draws Her Themes: Childhood, Exile, Journeying, Home And Religious Strife. In Her Latest Work, The Woman S Body Is A Territory, A Thing That Is Possessed, Owned By Herself Or By Another. The Title Of The Book Speaks For The Devil In Acknowledging That In Many Societies Women Are Respected, Or Listened To, Only When They Are Carrying Someone Else Inside Their Bodies A Child; A Devil. For Some, To Be Possessed Is To Be Set Free. Dharker S Poems Trace A Complex And Revelatory Journey, Starting With A Striptease Where The Claims Of Nationality, Religion And Gender Are Cast Off, To Allow An Exploration Of New Territories. Strong And Economical, They Raise Issues Of Political Activity, Homesickness, Urban Violence And Religious Anomalies In The Most Ordinary And Unobtrusive Of Settings.