“Memory Echo Words” contains poems by David Allan Evans whose writing grants and awards include one from the National Endowment for the Arts and one from the Bush Artist Foundation, Maureen Tolman Flannery who is the recipient of the Illinois Arts Award (2000), several Pushcart Prize nominations and a Pulitzer nomination, Bruce Roseland whose poetry has received the 2006 Wrangler Award and the 2009 Will Rogers Medallion. It also includes work from: Steve Boint, Craig Challender, Susan Spaeth Cherry, Kevin L. Cole, Matt Dorweiller, Jan Evans, John Grey, Larry D. Griffin, Roberta Haar, Arn Henderson, Constance Hoffman, Brenda K. Johnson, Charles Luden, Rosemary Dunn Moeller, Lindy Obach, Barbara Schmitz, Brad Soule, Jennifer Soule, Christine Stewart-Nuñez, Suzanne Sunshower, Jean Van Alstyne, Nancy Veglahn and Norma C. Wilson.
Suffering from a nervous breakdown, infected with a chronic disease and afflicted with the torments of demons, I looked for answers. Over a period of eight years, I met with over thirty doctors, pastors, priests, exorcists, psychologists, faith healers, deliverance ministries and counselors searching for help, but to no avail. Exhausted, I asked God to end my life. My petition was not granted. Finally, I was led to the right people at the right time. I learned that things like self-rejection, pain, unforgiveness, generational sin, willful rebellion, the power of words and self-delusions rooted in pride had kept me from a fuller communion with God. I learned about the transformative power and restoration of true confession. In the end, I was healed of the chronic disease, the nervous breakdown, and the demons that had resided inside me for so long were exorcised. The God of Abraham and the compassion of Jesus Christ granted me freedom from my miseries and a new found peace. This is the story of what led up to, the struggles during, and how I was ultimately delivered from my eight-year Dark Night of the Soul. But more than that, it is a story about the perfect nature of God. I pray my journey will give hope to those who are living in their own misery not knowing where to go for inner healing, and insight to those who work with the afflicted. Keywords: Demons, Exorcism, Deliverance, Healed, God, Jesus, Miracle, Memoir, Testimony, Forgiveness
Brad Pasanek's unusual work is the written report of a massive digital humanities project that involved searching 18th-century texts for the many ways writers use metaphors to characterize the mind. The book takes a selection of broad metaphorical categories that the author discovered in his digital research - including animals, coinage, metal, rooms, and writing - and examines particular examples within each category. Pasanek also frames the "dictionary" elements of the project with a more theoretical discussion of what he calls "desultory reading," a form of "unsystematic perusal" of writing exemplified in the way we approach dictionaries. Pasanek not only argues that 18th-century thinkers largely employed desultory reading, but also that his work on this very project is itself an instance of this approach. The project succeeds twofold: in treating 18th-century writing as its topic and in exemplifying its approach. Pasanek maintains an accompanying website (https://metaphorized.com) that collects the results of his digital searches.
This comprehensive guide to research, sources, and theories about nonviolent action as a technique of struggle in social and political conficts discusses the methods and techniques used by groups in various encounters. Although violence and its causes have received a great deal of attention, nonviolent action has not received its due as an international phenomenon with a long history. An introduction that explains the theories and research used in the study provides a practical guide to this essential bibliography of English-language sources. The first part of the book covers case-study materials divided by region and subdivided by country. Within each country, materials are arranged chronologically and topically. The second major part examines the methods and theory of nonviolent action, principled nonviolence, and several closely related areas in social science, such as conflict analysis and social movements. The book is indexed by author and subject.
This book explores the important implications of printed vernacular appeals to a nascent public by the reformer William Tyndale, by religious conservatives such as Thomas More, and by Henry VIII’s regime in the volatile early years of the English Reformation.
Lance Ford and Brad Brisco walk leaders through the major shifts involved in converting consumer-model churches into congregations on a quest for the kingdom of God. Addressing everything from sowing the seeds of incarnational thinking to stepping out in the local community, The Missional Questwill prepare your church for the long run.
Vampires are ubiquitous in our popular culture--from movies to television, in fiction and art, and even within the hallowed halls of academia. But in the not-so-distant past, these undead creatures held more fear than fascination; they lived in the shadows and were the stuff of nightmares. In 1897, Bram Stoker introduced Dracula to the Western world--and our concept of vampires was changed forever. For over sixty years, the undead have bled the television airwaves, appearing in every type of programming imaginable. Un-Dead TV catalogues over one thousand unique vampire appearances—and is the first book of its kind to explore this phenomenon to the extent that it truly deserves.
The American Military: A Narrative History presents a comprehensive introduction to more than four centuries of American military history. Presents a chronological account of American military history from clashes between militias and Native Americans to 21st-century operations in Afghanistan and Iraq Features personal vignettes to put a human face on armed conflict Addresses patterns of national service, the evolution of civil-military relations, and the advent of all-volunteer forces Puts events in historical context, and considers cultural, social, political, economic, and technological developments
Many present-day Australians see the dingo as a threat and a pest to human production systems. An alternative viewpoint, which is more in tune with Indigenous culture, allows others to see the dingo as a means to improve human civilisation. The dingo has thus become trapped between the status of pest animal and totemic creature. This book helps readers to recognise this dichotomy, as a deeper understanding of dingo behaviour is now possible through new technologies which have made it easier to monitor their daily lives.
One of the most significant developments within contemporary American Christianity, especially among younger evangelicals, is a groundswell of interest in the Reformed tradition. In Reformed Resurgence, Brad Vermurlen provides a comprehensive sociological account of this phenomenon known as New Calvinism and what it entails for the broader evangelical landscape in the United States. Vermurlen develops a new theory for understanding how conservative religion can be strong and thrive in the hypermodern Western world. His paradigm uses and expands on strategic action field theory, a recent framework proposed for the study of movements and organizations that has rarely been applied to religion. This approach to religion moves beyond market dynamics and cultural happenstance and instead shows how religious strength can be fought for and won as the direct result of religious leaders' strategic actions and conflicts. But the battle comes at a cost. For the same reasons conservative Calvinistic belief is experiencing a resurgence, present-day American evangelicalism has turned in on itself. Vermurlen argues that in the end, evangelicalism in the United States consists of pockets of subcultural and local strength within the "cultural entropy" of secularization, as religious meanings and coherence fall apart.
This title aimed at the sci-fi fan and TV viewer -- the Trekkie, broadly defined -- serves as a tie-in to the hit TV series -- 22 new episodes just commissioned by the Sci-Fi Channel -- and a companion to the Putnam Berkley novelizations. "Sliders" is an illustrated guide to the fantasy adventures of the time- and space-traveling crew, and provides detailed descriptions of the parallel universes that are visited. "Sliders" also serves up plot lines of the episodes, as well as in-depth interviews with its stars and a behind-the-scenes tour led by the show's writers and producers.
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