Author: Christine D. Pohl Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing ISBN: 0802849857 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 220
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Every Christian should read this provocative book! Christine thoroughly delineates the interlocking relationships and dangerous deformities of practices that could deepen our communities but often destroy them. This volume is pertinent to our families, churches, even places of work. -- Marva J. Dawn author of Truly the Community
Author: Chistine D. Pohl Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing ISBN: 9780802844316 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 224
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For most of church history, hospitality was central to Christian identity. Yet our generation knows little about this rich, life-giving practice.
Author: Adam B. Seligman Publisher: University of California Press ISBN: 0520284127 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 232
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Whether looking at divided cities or working with populations on the margins of society, a growing number of engaged academics have reached out to communities around the world to address the practical problems of living with difference. This book explores the challenges and necessities of accommodating difference, however difficult and uncomfortable such accommodation may be. Drawing on fourteen years of theoretical insights and unique pedagogy, CEDAR—Communities Engaging with Difference and Religion—has worked internationally with community leaders, activists, and other partners to take the insights of anthropology out of the classroom and into the world. Rather than addressing conflict by emphasizing what is shared, Living with Difference argues for the centrality of difference in creating community, seeking ways not to overcome or deny differences but to live with and within them in a self-reflective space and practice. This volume also includes a manual for organizers to implement CEDAR’s strategies in their own communities.
Author: Nancy Jewel Poer Publisher: ISBN: 9780974041308 Category : Languages : en Pages : 229
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Few people are aware they have a choice to care for their loved ones at death and to care for the body at home afterward. Not only is it possible and legal but has given deep fulfillment and closure for those who have done so. In addition there are considerable financial savings. This book, abundantly illustrated, gives each practical step in the process of care, and also tells many heart warming stories of families and communities that have received blessings from the dying and, in return, have honored them with this final act of love. Written in a warm and accessible style, the book includes many spiritual insights into the process of dying and our connection to our loved ones after death.
Author: William Metcalf Publisher: ISBN: 9781844090327 Category : Collective settlements Languages : en Pages : 0
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A basic introduction into community living that will interest all those searching for an alternative, more satisfying, and meaningful life.
Author: Majora Carter Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers ISBN: 1523000309 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 241
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Majora Carter shows how brain drain cripples low-status communities and maps out a development strategy focused on talent retention to help them break out of economic stagnation. "My musical, In the Heights, explores issues of community, gentrification, identity and home, and the question: Are happy endings only ones that involve getting out of your neighborhood to achieve your dreams? In her refreshing new book, Majora Carter writes about these issues with great insight and clarity, asking us to re-examine our notions of what community development is and how we invest in the futures of our hometowns. This is an exciting conversation worth joining.” —Lin-Manuel Miranda How can we solve the problem of persistent poverty in low-status communities? Majora Carter argues that these areas need a talent-retention strategy, just like the ones companies have. Retaining homegrown talent is a critical part of creating a strong local economy that can resist gentrification. But too many people born in low-status communities measure their success by how far away from them they can get. Carter, who could have been one of them, returned to the South Bronx and devised a development strategy rooted in the conviction that these communities have the resources within themselves to succeed. She advocates measures such as • Building mixed-income instead of exclusively low-income housing to create a diverse and robust economic ecosystem • Showing homeowners how to maximize the long-term value of their property so they won't succumb to quick-cash offers from speculators • Keeping people and dollars in the community by developing vibrant “third spaces”—restaurants, bookstores, and places like Carter's own Boogie Down Grind Cafe This is a profoundly personal book. Carter writes about her brother's murder, how turning a local dumping ground into an award-winning park opened her eyes to the hidden potential in her community, her struggles as a woman of color confronting the “male and pale” real estate and nonprofit establishments, and much more. It is a powerful rethinking of poverty, economic development, and the meaning of success.
Author: Art Gish Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1579101593 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 383
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This book is a description of what the church ought to be. Gish purposes to deal with the concrete issues of what it really means to be a Christian community, the body of Christ.
Author: Rachael Wonderlin Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN: 1421420651 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 220
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"When Someone You Know Is Living in a Dementia Care Community is an accessible guide offering answers to such questions as: How do I choose a place for my loved one to live? What can I find out by visiting a candidate memory-care community twice? What do I do if my loved one asks about going home? How can I improve the quality of my visits? What is the best way to handle conflict between residents, or between the resident and staff? How can I cope with my loved one's sundowning? What do I do if my loved one starts a romantic relationship with another resident?An indispensable book for family members and friends of people with dementia, When Someone You Know is Living in a Dementia Care Community touches the heart while explaining how to make a difficult situation better.
Author: Christine D. Pohl
Author: Chistine D. Pohl
Author: Adam B. Seligman
Author: Nancy Jewel Poer
Author: William Metcalf
Author: Majora Carter
Author: Art Gish
Author: Barbara M. Linde
Author: Rachael Wonderlin
Author: Ken E. Norwood