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The Uncluttered Heart

Making Room for God During Advent and Christmas

By: Beth A. Richardson

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The Uncluttered Heart

Making Room for God During Advent and Christmas

By: Beth A. Richardson

It's a time when we prepare our lives—hearts, minds, and spirits—for the coming of the Christ child. We sweep out the corners of our hearts, cleaning up the clutter, to make space for God's hope, peace, joy, love, and presence. The Uncluttered Heart offers four weeks of guided reflection through the weeks of Advent on through Epiphany. Each day provides a quotation scripture passage reflection prayer This book includes a study guide for groups.

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Upper Room Books

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083581307X

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9780835813075

Child of the Light

Walking through Advent and Christmas

By: Beth A. Richardson

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Child of the Light

Walking through Advent and Christmas

By: Beth A. Richardson

If the Christmas season has become more of a chaotic consumer ritual rather than a nurturing spiritual time, you need this brilliant "Advent survival guide"! If you set aside just 10 minutes per day, Child of the Light will help you find your quiet center amid the stressful flurry of the November/December busyness. As you read the book's brief readings inspired by the season's carols and hymns, your spirit will be lifted, and your thoughts will be redirected to the purpose of the season: preparing for the coming of Christ. "Take time for God: that's exactly the challenge God gives us during this season of preparation," writes Richardson. "Personally and culturally, this time of year already seems to race out of control toward a Christmas finish line. In Advent, we are invited to take time out…[In] doing so, we nurture our spiritual self, that sometimes fragile part of us who longs for a connection with God." The reflections extend past Christmas to Epiphany, January 6, encouraging you to live into the joy of Christmas beyond traditional seasonal celebrations. A 5-week study guide is included at the back of the book, offering a simple structure for meetings: centering, reflecting, reading scripture, going deeper, and closing. The use of hymns and carols will engage even the most nonmusical among us to fully appreciate the lyrical richness of the season. Do you long for a more sacred and measured observance this year? Be joyfully carried through the pre- and post-Christmas pandemonium as a child of the light!

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0835812502

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Walking in the Wilderness

Seeking God During Lent

By: Beth A. Richardson

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Walking in the Wilderness

Seeking God During Lent

By: Beth A. Richardson

People of faith are struggling these days as they watch unbelievable events unfold. The United States, once a refuge for immigrants, has closed its borders to many of the world's most vulnerable citizens. Fear of people different from us has created an atmosphere of hatred, incivility, and violence. We are living in a time of wilderness and exile. Yet the wilderness is a familiar place for those who follow Jesus. Like Jesus, we spend 40 days in the wilderness. During Lent God calls us to examine ourselves, repent, and make room in our lives for the Holy One. Walking in the Wilderness is meant to be a companion for readers' journey through Lent. It may be studied by individuals or groups. The book includes daily reflections for Ash Wednesday through Easter. Sunday of each week introduces a spiritual practice for the wilderness. The practices for the six Sundays of Lent are Being Present, Lament, Lectio Divina, Trust, Compassion, and Hospitality. Each reading contains a quotation from an Upper Room resource, a short scripture passage, an insightful reflection and prayer written by Richardson, and a single word for readers to carry with them throughout the day. "We come hungry to this season of Lent," Richardson writes, "hungry for words of life, for rituals of preparation, for disciplines to help us on our way." Walking in the Wilderness provides a spiritual feast for readers during the longest season of the Christian year.

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Upper Room Books

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0835819353

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9780835819350

The Reformation in Rhyme

Sternhold, Hopkins and the English Metrical Psalter, 1547–1603

By: Beth Quitslund

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The Reformation in Rhyme

Sternhold, Hopkins and the English Metrical Psalter, 1547–1603

By: Beth Quitslund

The Whole Booke of Psalmes was one of the most published and widely read books of early modern England, running to over 1000 editions between the 1570s and the early eighteenth century. It offered all of the Psalms paraphrased in verse with appropriate tunes, together with an assortment of other scriptural and non-scriptual hymns, and prose prayers for domestic use. Because the Elizabethan Church rapidly and pervasively (if unofficially) adopted this metrical psalter for congregational singing, and because it had in practical terms no rivals for church use until the end of the seventeenth century, essentially the entire conforming population of early modern England after 1570 would have been familiar with its psalms and hymns as elements of both public worship and private devotion. Yet, despite the significant impact of The Whole Booke of Psalmes upon English culture and literature, this is the first book-length study of it, and the first sustained critical examination of the texts of which it comprises. In large part this neglect is due to the reputation it gained after the mid-seventeenth century as a work of poor poetry mainly valued by vulgar and/or sectarian audiences. This later reception, however, was the product of not only changing literary tastes but an ideological desire to reshape the history of the Reformation. This study focuses on the actual aims of its authors and editors over the course of its gradual composition during the tumultuous religious changes of the mid-sixteenth century, and recovers its significant influence on the English church and literary practice. By tracing the ways in which historical contingency, religious fervor and the print marketplace together created and were changed by one of the most successful books of English verse ever printed, this study opens a new window through which to view the intellectual and ecclesiastical culture of Tudor England. It also shows how, in metrical psalmody, Protestant reformers discovered what turned out to be a uniquely flexible and effective instrument for advancing their vision of a godly society.

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Routledge

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1351883038

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Christ Beside Me, Christ Within Me

Celtic Blessings

By: Beth A. Richardson

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Christ Beside Me, Christ Within Me

Celtic Blessings

By: Beth A. Richardson

Do you wonder where God is present in your day? Let Beth Richardson help you learn to bless the life you have and experience the sacredness of every moment. Christ Beside Me, Christ Within Me guides you to be present in the moment and find God in your everyday circumstances through the use of blessings. Use the blessings in this book as touchstones throughout the day-a calm center to focus on despite whatever is happening around you. In typical Celtic style, the blessings encourage us to notice God's presence in each moment-especially through nature. A sense of joy and gratitude for ordinary moments pervades this book. Beth Richardson leads us to realize the richness of the gifts of life, express our feelings about special moments and times of struggle, and find ways to pray for the world and all its people.

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108

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Upper Room Books

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0835815242

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A Genealogy of the Gentleman

Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century

By: Mary Beth Harris

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A Genealogy of the Gentleman

Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century

By: Mary Beth Harris

A Genealogy of the Gentleman argues that eighteenth-century women writers made key interventions in modern ideals of masculinity and authorship through their narrative constructions of the gentleman. It challenges two latent critical assumptions: first, that the gentleman’s masculinity is normative, private, and therefore oppositional to concepts of performance; and second, that women writers, from their disadvantaged position within a patriarchal society, had no real means of influencing dominant structures of masculinity. By placing writers such as Mary Davys, Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Lennox, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Mary Robinson in dialogue with canonical representatives of the gentleman author—Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, David Hume, Samuel Johnson, and Samuel Richardson—Mary Beth Harris shows how these women carved out a space for their literary authority not by overtly opposing their male critics and society’s patriarchal structure, but by rewriting the persona of the gentleman as a figure whose very desirability and appeal were dependent on women’s influence. Ultimately, this project considers the import of these women writers’ legacy, both progressive and conservative, on hegemonic standards of masculinity that persist to this day.

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Rutgers University Press

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1644533308

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The Uncluttered Heart

Making Room for God During Advent and Christmas

By: Beth A. Richardson

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Making Room for God During Advent and Christmas

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Creating a Win-Win IEP for Students with Autism

A How-To Manual for Parents and Educators

By: Beth Fouse

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Creating a Win-Win IEP for Students with Autism

A How-To Manual for Parents and Educators

By: Beth Fouse

This book is a must-read for every parent or educator who participates in the IEP process. Dr. Fouse takes readers through the entire range of a "child-centered" educational process, from the initial stages of identification and diagnosis to full implementation and monitoring of the individualized education program. She walks you through the process of setting goals and objectives, getting the most out of IEP meetings, determining proper placement, requesting assistive technology, and much more. She explains laws that you will need to know inside and out, such as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Section 504, Americans with Disabilities Act, and FERPA. Finally, she lists some common mistakes that schools and parents often make, and gives great advice on how to avoid conflicts.

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Future Horizons

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188547752X

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Christ Beside Me, Christ Within Me

Celtic Blessings

By: Beth A. Richardson

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Celtic Blessings

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A Literate South

Reading Before Emancipation

By: Beth Barton Schweiger

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A Literate South

Reading Before Emancipation

By: Beth Barton Schweiger

A provocative examination of literacy in the American South before emancipation, countering the long-standing stereotype of the South's oral tradition Schweiger complicates our understanding of literacy in the American South in the decades just prior to the Civil War by showing that rural people had access to a remarkable variety of things to read. Drawing on the writings of four young women who lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Schweiger shows how free and enslaved people learned to read, and that they wrote and spoke poems, songs, stories, and religious doctrines that were circulated by speech and in print. The assumption that slavery and reading are incompatible--which has its origins in the eighteenth century--has obscured the rich literate tradition at the heart of Southern and American culture.

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Yale University Press

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030011253X

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Walking in the Wilderness

Seeking God During Lent

By: Beth A. Richardson

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Seeking God During Lent

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Child of the Light

Walking through Advent and Christmas

By: Beth A. Richardson

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Walking through Advent and Christmas

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Book's by Beth A. Richardson

The Uncluttered Heart

The Uncluttered Heart

Child of the Light

Child of the Light

Walking in the Wilderness

Walking in the Wilderness

The Reformation in Rhyme

The Reformation in Rhyme

Christ Beside Me, Christ Within Me

Christ Beside Me, Christ Within Me

A Genealogy of the Gentleman

A Genealogy of the Gentleman

The Uncluttered Heart

The Uncluttered Heart

Creating a Win-Win IEP for Students with Autism

Creating a Win-Win IEP for Students with Autism

Christ Beside Me, Christ Within Me

Christ Beside Me, Christ Within Me

A Literate South

A Literate South

Walking in the Wilderness

Walking in the Wilderness

Child of the Light

Child of the Light

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