Author: Clemens Bartollas Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 153264714X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 171
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From Disgrace to Dignity: Redemption in the Life of Willie Rico Johnson examines the life of Rico Johnson who became the head of the Conservative Vice Lords, one of the largest street gangs in the United States. In addition to highlighting his life, this work considers how redemption has affected his life. In addition, Minister Rico is identified as a Godfather. Much like the Godfathers found in organized crime families, Rico sees himself as providing a positive force to Vice Lords’ gang members. On one hand, what this involves is taking care of their needs (he feeds 150 families a day) and, on the other hand, providing guidance and direction for members’ lives.
Author: Reggie Longcrier Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1641140062 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 172
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I pray this book will help you come to know, as I did, that God is still in the miracle working business. He can transform the worst in us from disgrace to dignity.
Author: Elizabeth S. Anker Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 0801465192 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 273
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Over the past fifty years, debates about human rights have assumed an increasingly prominent place in postcolonial literature and theory. Writers from Salman Rushdie to Nawal El Saadawi have used the novel to explore both the possibilities and challenges of enacting and protecting human rights, particularly in the Global South. In Fictions of Dignity, Elizabeth S. Anker shows how the dual enabling fictions of human dignity and bodily integrity contribute to an anxiety about the body that helps to explain many of the contemporary and historical failures of human rights, revealing why and how lives are excluded from human rights protections along the lines of race, gender, class, disability, and species membership. In the process, Anker examines the vital work performed by a particular kind of narrative imagination in fostering respect for human rights. Drawing on phenomenology, Anker suggests how an embodied politics of reading might restore a vital fleshiness to the overly abstract, decorporealized subject of liberal rights. Each of the novels Anker examines approaches human rights in terms of limits and paradoxes. Rushdie's Midnight's Children addresses the obstacles to incorporating rights into a formerly colonized nation's legal culture. El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero takes up controversies over women’s freedoms in Islamic society. In Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee considers the disappointments of post-apartheid reconciliation in South Africa. And in The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy confronts an array of human rights abuses widespread in contemporary India. Each of these literary case studies further demonstrates the relevance of embodiment to both comprehending and redressing the failures of human rights, even while those narratives refuse simplistic ideals or solutions.
Author: Joy Myron Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 322
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Can Love Conquer Time?Delilah Sutton is a broke college student, with few friends and uncertain plans for the future. When she receives an invitation to her cousin's wedding, she travels to England to rekindle a relationship with the only family she has left. It is there that her life takes a dramatic turn, and she travels not only to the past, but to the fictitious world of Pride and Prejudice. Despite longing to return home and constantly struggling to hide her true identity, Delilah finds herself drawn in by this new life, 19th century customs, and the unexplored sides of Jane Austen's classic characters. Inevitably, Delilah begins living out a story all her own, weaving webs of lies, and falling for history's most judgmental nobleman: Fitzwilliam Darcy.While an accident of time has brought them together, it may also be the thing that tears them apart. Dignity & Disgrace collides past and present, entwining reality with fiction; a page-turning reimagining that examines the sacrifices one must make for happiness, and determines if love can transcend centuries.
Author: L. Juliana Claassens Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit ISBN: 1589838963 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 347
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Human dignity insists that every human deserves respect and a safe place to live. For many, this is not a reality. The essays collected here analyze the background of this problem in contemporary family life and society at large, with special emphasis on the role of women and on the Bible as a source of inspiration and transformation. The collection is the product of a six-year conversation on family, violence, and human dignity between the Protestant Theological University in Kampen, The Netherlands, and the Faculty of Theology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, a North-South dialogue that included annual conferences, a series of responsive letters, and additional external responses. The contributors are Cheryl B. Anderson, Hendrik Bosman, Gerrit Brand, Athalya Brenner, L. Juliana Claassens, Dorothea Erbele-Küster, Leo J. Koffeman, Frits de Lange, Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon, Magda Misset-van de Weg, Beverly Eileen Mitchell, Anne-Claire Mulder, Ian Nell, Mary-Anne Plaatjies-van Huffel, Jeremy Punt, Petruschka Schaafsma, D. Xolile Simon, Lee-Ann J. Simon, Gé Speelman, Klaas Spronk, Ciska Stark, Elsa Tamez, Charlene van der Walt, Robert Vosloo, and Yusef Waghid.
Author: J. M. Coetzee Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1524705462 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 228
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The provocative Booker Prize winning novel from Nobel laureate, J.M. Coetzee "Compulsively readable... A novel that not only works its spell but makes it impossible for us to lay it aside once we've finished reading it." —The New Yorker At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire, but lacking in passion. When an affair with a student leaves him jobless, shunned by friends, and ridiculed by his ex-wife, he retreats to his daughter Lucy's smallholding. David's visit becomes an extended stay as he attempts to find meaning in his one remaining relationship. Instead, an incident of unimaginable terror and violence forces father and daughter to confront their strained relationship and the equallity complicated racial complexities of the new South Africa. 2024 marks the 25th Anniversary of the publication of Disgrace
Author: Mary Robinson Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1475971583 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 88
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Exposing the realities of this world and showing how humans have forsaken the morals and values by which they should live, author Mary Robinson discusses the necessity of acknowledging the wisdom that God has supplied humankind. Through her personal testimony, she shares how she was led to Christ and has not looked back. In From Disgrace to Grace, Robinson explains how the two sins of fornication and adultery are destroying lives. She reveals the path to begin living a life that God intended, which involves changing a mind-set to live a godly life; knowing God by having a personal relationship with him; understanding Gods will and honoring his word; showing appreciation for the grace he bestows; avoiding fornication and adultery; and renouncing the devil. Through Bible scripture, From Disgrace to Grace shows how to live by the words of God and be thankful that he gave humans the Holy Spirit to endure the challenges faced in life.
Author: Justin S. Holcomb Publisher: Crossway ISBN: 1433515989 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 246
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Helps adult victims of sexual assault move from brokenness to healing. This book outlines a theology or redemption and includes an application of how the disgrace of the cross can lead victims toward grace.
Author: Sarah Morgan Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative ISBN: 4596691940 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 129
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Bella, the daughter of a wealthy family, disgraced the Balfour name and was banished to the desert as punishment. She had lived in the city and led an exciting life?she couldn’t bear the uncivilized life of the desert camp, so she decided to escape to a nearby village… Sheikh Zafiq, the country’s ruler, was headed to the desert for his yearly week of relaxation and meditation when he rescues a woman who has collapsed in his path. What will happen to these opposites who met in the middle of the desert? What will happen when they start living in an oasis together under the same roof?
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