Author: Ray Buckley
Publisher: Abingdon Press
ISBN: 1426710046
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 59

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Hard To Dance With the Devil On Your Back

Author: Ray Buckley
Publisher: Abingdon Press
ISBN: 1426733526
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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In every culture and time, persons of faith, of all ages, have summoned trials and tribulations to find the endurance and strength to “dance.” They have danced with the weight of the world upon their shoulders, sustained by God and others dancing near them. Hard to Dance With the Devil On Your Back is a seven-session Lenten study that looks at the transcendent struggle in the lives of believers, while helping us to enter the continually crumbling world surrounding Jesus and the disciples in the days preceding Jesus. Appropriate for both group and individual use, the study provides one lesson for each week in Lent. Each lesson includes a Scripture reference, a brief reading, questions for reflection or discussion, a brief prayer, and a focus for the coming week.

Author: Bonnie Williamson
Publisher: Publishamerica Incorporated
ISBN: 9781413715965
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Murder and madness shouldn't be part of the choreography of a liturgical dance troupe called Spiritus. But the troupe and its spiritual leader, streetwise minister the Reverend Molly Ringer of Faith Congregational Church, find themselves face to face with some of the nastier aspects of life. Spiritus' members make their home in Crestwood, New Jersey, some 25 miles from New York City. Crestwood is a middle- to upper-class community. Despite its clean, friendly appearance, the lives of Crestwood's residents are anything but idyllic. The characters in Hard to Dance with the Devil on Your Back try to bring sanity to an insane world. Sometimes they succeed. Sometimes they don't.

Author: Margaret Pritchard Houston
Publisher: SPCK
ISBN: 0281069123
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 203

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Would you like to plan liturgical celebrations that are accessible to children while remaining true to the riches of the Anglican tradition? Then this book is for you. Drawing on her experience as a children's worker and primary school teacher, Margaret Pritchard Houston provides a whole year's worth of material to celebrate the church year with children.

Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN: 1429976187
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369

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Zarek's Point of View: Dark-Hunter: A soulless guardian who stands between mankind and those who would see mankind destroyed. Yeah, right. The only part of that Code of Honor I got was eternity and solitude. Insanity: A condition many say I suffer from after being alone for so long. But I don't suffer from my insanity-I enjoy every minute of it. Trust: I can't trust anyone...not even myself. The only thing I trust in is my ability to do the wrong thing in any situation and to hurt anyone who gets in my way. Truth: I endured a lifetime as a Roman slave, and 900 years as an exiled Dark-Hunter. Now I'm tired of enduring. I want the truth about what happened the night I was exiled-I have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Astrid (Greek, meaning star): An exceptional woman who can see straight to the truth. Brave and strong, she is a point of light in the darkness. She touches me and I tremble. She smiles and my cold heart shatters. Zarek: They say even the most damned man can be forgiven. I never believed that until the night Astrid opened her door to me and made this feral beast want to be human again. Made me want to love and be loved. But how can an ex-slave whose soul is owned by a Greek goddess ever dream of touching, let alone holding, a fiery star?

Author: Andrew M. Greeley
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765360853
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 561

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When the teenaged grand-daughter of Brigid Farrell is given a school assignment to research her heritage, she digs for the truth and uncovers secrets and scandal.

Author: Robert Cummings Neville
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438414617
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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This book provides a cross-cultural analysis of how religious symbols function from a theological and philosophical perspective. Showing how religious symbols can be true in various qualified senses, Neville presents a theory of religious symbolism in the American pragmatic tradition extending and elaborating Tillich's claim that religious symbols participate in the divine realities to which they refer and yet must be broken in order not to be idolatrous or demonic. The Truth of Broken Symbols offers a theory of religious symbolism treating reference, meaning, and interpretation, and discussing different functions of religious symbols in theological, practical, and devotional contexts. It shows that religious symbols are to be properly understood as true or false and that symbol-systems such as myths, theologies, or liturgical symbols are to be used to engage divine realities while internally exhibiting semiotic structures of reference, meaning, and interpretation.

Author: Craig Higginson
Publisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 9781770090514
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Set in a Drakensberg boarding school in the early 1980s, this eerily realistic novel examines San mythology through an 11-year-old boy’s unusual bond with nature and the supernatural. Haunted by dreams of creatures conjured by his culture’s mythology and encouraged by the enthusiastic teachings of an overly friendly school teacher, Andrew makes the Hill his retreat. Seeking solace, his trips to the Hill turn into a real-life nightmare as his mentor uses the area’s isolation and his student’s trust as an opportunity for abuse. A fusion of boyhood innocence, ancient lore, and the harsh reality of adult life, love, and betrayal, this haunting tale of obsession and trauma is at times both heartwarming and achingly sad.

Author: Janis Yaekel
Publisher: Twenty-Third Publications
ISBN: 9781585953882
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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No one goes to the desert for forty days without expecting to find someone or something there. Christians, by their very nature, are seekers. We look for direction, we look for fulfillment, and we look for others who want to walk the road with us. We knock on the doors of the Desert Fathers and Mothers, seeking shelter and wisdom. Embracing the Sacred Season is a guide in this search, at the center of which we hope to find God. What happens when the door is opened, and we know that we are in the presence of God? These unique reflections for the entire seasons of both Lent and Easter, based on Scripture readings, are direct, and help us take an honest look at our relationship with God. Each is followed up by reflection questions and a prayer. Let Janis Yaekel take you on a spiritual dance with God, as you embrace the sacred season.

Author: Harry Melling
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472582632
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 67

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A boy wakes up in a field somewhere in London. He's a door-to-door salesman: a pedlar boy. An encounter with an old acquaintance sends him into a frenzied questioning of everything: his life, his world, where he's coming from and where he's going to. peddling received its world premiere at Hightide Festival on 10 April 2014, performed by Harry Melling, before transferring to 59E59 Theatre, NY, for a four-week run.