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The Other Cheek

Gospel, Empire, and Memory in One Christian's Journey

By: Cordell Strug

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The Other Cheek

Gospel, Empire, and Memory in One Christian's Journey

By: Cordell Strug

Cordell Strug served as a small town pastor in rural Minnesota from 1982-2010. He reflects, “The last decade of my service fell at the beginning of the third Christian millennium, during the increasingly pointless and seemingly endless wars America was fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. I might say I wasn't called to analyze, let alone denounce, American society or its government, week by week, but to proclaim the gift and task of the gospel within that society. But there was one time that forced a confrontation with the fact and the force of war: Memorial Day Weekend, especially in the years when the Iraq war was going sour. I thought it might be of some historical interest to gather up a number of the sermons I gave on the Sunday of that weekend over the years, to see what a person like me, with the calling I had, found to say about war and peace in that time. I have added some reflections on growing up as a Christian in America after WWII and through the Vietnam War years, as well as some thoughts on how things seem to me looking back.”

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1532688458

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9781532688454

If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Already

By: Cordell Strug

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If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Already

By: Cordell Strug

Back in the days of Ronald Reagan's America, those far-from-innocent days of nostalgic rot and willful illusion, small-town life was thought to be simple, pure, the source of all decent values, and the home of true hearts and ever helpful neighbors who bear each other's burdens. James McGrath, a church musician who has just destroyed his personal life and his career through an act of catastrophic stupidity, believes this nonsense just long enough to flee a city he loves. Hoping to heal, he goes to live with his father in a tiny town on the Canadian border. He finds what fools have always found: truths more ordinary and more bitter than he wants to accept and a life more impoverished and antagonistic than he imagined. Descending into this bleak reality, like Jesus in the wilderness, James must face and answer the question: what do we live by? He makes some friends, falls in and out of love, rediscovers his art, and eventually finds a way back into his life. But it's not a smooth journey, and it comes with a price.

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1532688482

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Lament of an Audience on the Death of an Artist

-1985

By: Cordell Strug

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Lament of an Audience on the Death of an Artist

-1985

By: Cordell Strug

This is the record of the pilgrimage of one great artist, reflected in the experience of one small audience. When Sam Peckinpah died in 1984, I spent some time working out my responses to his work as a whole and, more generally, puzzling over the experience of following contemporary artists as their work takes shape. I ended up lamenting Peckinpah’s death, pondering those wonderful movies, and reflecting on what all our watching, reading, and listening amounts to in our living.

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1532688423

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On Religious Life: William James and I

An Affectionate Rumination

By: Cordell Strug

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On Religious Life: William James and I

An Affectionate Rumination

By: Cordell Strug

William James was a great-hearted and generous philosophical spirit. He was also--beneath his human sympathy, his experiments, his scholarship, and his captivating writings--a religious seeker, a pilgrim looking for a new Jerusalem he was ready to define for himself. Cordell Strug, as a young philosophy student, was enthralled by James, especially by his lectures on religion, The Varieties of Religious Experience. He was drawn by the alternative James offered to religious traditions, by his passionate searching, and by his rich humanity. Yet he found he had to part company with James on the very nature of religious experience and the source of its power. Out of the struggle with James's religious vision, he found a way back to a more traditional religious life, eventually becoming a Lutheran pastor. In this book, he looks back at how he came under James's spell, how he embraced and wrestled with James's vision, and how James remained with him as a living presence, both a guiding and a critical companion.

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1498290329

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Path of Shadows, Flickering Light

Living Toward Death as a Christian Pastor

By: Cordell Strug

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Path of Shadows, Flickering Light

Living Toward Death as a Christian Pastor

By: Cordell Strug

This is one pastor’s story of the touch of death on life: how he first learned of it and what it brings upon us, how he met its coming to those he served as pastor, and how he awaits its coming to him as he ages. The book is marked by shifting perspectives, beginning with a child experiencing the deaths of others and ending with an elderly person acutely aware of frailty and loss. But those common stages of life are themselves seen from the perspective of a Christian pastor who served in older communities. The heart of the book is a ground-level description of how a working pastor deals with the approach of death and the shaping of the funeral experience; another perspective is provided by some of the sermons given in the wake of the deaths described. The book ends with a brief epilogue continuing these meditations during the coronavirus outbreak, pondering the power death has to isolate and obsess us, both physically and spiritually.

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If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Already

By: Cordell Strug

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Lament of an Audience on the Death of an Artist

(1985)

By: Cordell Strug

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(1985)

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All Hands Stand By to Repel Boarders

Tales from Life as a Lutheran Pastor

By: Cordell Strug

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All Hands Stand By to Repel Boarders

Tales from Life as a Lutheran Pastor

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Cordell Strug served as a Lutheran pastor for almost twenty-eight years in rural Minnesota. In these stories and reflections, he gives a picture of a pastor's life from the inside. He writes of sitting with the dying and meeting with the angry, of visiting shut-ins and writing sermons, of lonely drives over frozen roads, of work he can't finish and wounds he can't heal. He is candid about what surprised or bothered him, about his misjudgments and failures, about the ever-growing weight of stress and sorrow. He tells who inspired him and who drove him nuts, which advice he found priceless and which he found useless. He shows the ideals of faith colliding with the realities of life in the struggling congregations he served.

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The Other Cheek

Gospel, Empire, and Memory in One Christian's Journey

By: Cordell Strug

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Gospel, Empire, and Memory in One Christian's Journey

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The Passion Conversation

Understanding, Sparking, and Sustaining Word of Mouth Marketing

By: Robbin Phillips,Greg Cordell,Geno Church,John Moore

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The Passion Conversation

Understanding, Sparking, and Sustaining Word of Mouth Marketing

By: Robbin Phillips,Greg Cordell,Geno Church,John Moore

No passion, no conversation. No conversation, no word of mouth. No word of mouth, no successful business. If you think you are in the marketing business, think again. You’re in the people business, and The Passion Conversation teaches you how to get people to fall passionately and madly in love with your organization or cause. The author’s mash-up of the latest in wonky academic research with practical, real-world stories shows how any business can spark and sustain word of mouth marketing. Readers learn how loving your customers results in not just building a thriving community, but also driving meaningful conversations, ultimately impacting the financial success of a business. The Passion Conversation will change your perspective on marketing by: Explaining the three motivations for people to talk about businesses and causes Detailing how every marketing problem is a people problem in disguise Giving heartfelt evidence that marketing materials are now conversation tools Showing how customer communities sustain word of mouth while also sparking financial impact Helping your business apply these marketing lessons through a series of workbook exercises called "Passion Explorations" The time is now for marketers and businesses to go beyond the product conversation to understanding, sparking and sustaining the passion conversation for why your business is in business.

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111853333X

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The 10 Stupidest Mistakes Men Make When Facing Divorce

And How to Avoid Them

By: Joseph Cordell

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The 10 Stupidest Mistakes Men Make When Facing Divorce

And How to Avoid Them

By: Joseph Cordell

The Knowledge Every Man Needs for a Successful Divorce Each year 500,000 men will face divorce, and most of them make at least one crucial—and often irreversible—mistake. These errors might seem minor, such as moving out while things get sorted out, or thinking of “temporary” orders as being truly temporary. But when they get to court, these men discover they have put themselves in a terrible position. They may have to give up their house, pay impossibly high alimony, or even lose custody. You could be one of these men. But you don’t have to be. Joseph Cordell, the founder of the nation’s largest law firm focusing on men’s divorce and the creator of DadsDivorce.com, has seen the consequences of the mistakes men make. Drawing upon the huge number of cases that Cordell & Cordell has handled, this book identifies the 10 most common mistakes that end up hurting men in divorce. Cordell demystifies the divorce process, explains what judges consider in making their final decisions, and lays out a road map for positive actions men can take to achieve the best possible outcome. No man should face divorce without this book.

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Harmony

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0307589811

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Ethnic Conflict

Causes, Consequences, and Responses

By: Karl Cordell,Stefan Wolff

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Ethnic Conflict

Causes, Consequences, and Responses

By: Karl Cordell,Stefan Wolff

Investigating the causes and consequences of ethnic conflict, the authors argue that the most effective responses are those that take into account factors at the local, state, regional and global level and that avoid seeking simplistic explanations and solutions to what is a truly complex phenomenon." "Ethnic conflicts are man-made, not natural disasters, and as such they can be understood, prevented and settled. However, it takes skilful, committed and principled leaders to achieve durable settlements that are supported by their followers, and it takes the long-term commitment of the international community to enable and sustain such settlements." --Book Jacket.

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Polity

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0745639313

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Path of Shadows, Flickering Light

Living Toward Death as a Christian Pastor

By: Cordell Strug

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Living Toward Death as a Christian Pastor

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What's New, What's Old

Telling Stories, Trading Quips, Brainstorming, Spitballing, and Arguing with Saint Matthew

By: Cordell Strug

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What's New, What's Old

Telling Stories, Trading Quips, Brainstorming, Spitballing, and Arguing with Saint Matthew

By: Cordell Strug

Cordell Strug has always loved collages, those jumbled forms assembled from parts of other, usually more coherent, forms. During the pandemic, when everyone had time to meditate and entertain possibilities, it came to him that by extracting the stories, wisecracks, and reflections from the sermons he'd given through the years, he might construct a kind of collage-commentary on the passages of Scripture that he had addressed. This book is what he came up with from the sermons preached on Matthew's Gospel. Like any living tradition, Christianity is always hearing the voices of its past. It echoes them, expands them, argues with them; it finds light in them or stands bewildered by their darkness. In every living Christian voice, we hear the present both questioning the past and trying to guide the future. In this book, the reader can hear some of the layers of those overlapping conversations in one pastor's preaching ministry.

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On Religious Life: William James and I

An Affectionate Rumination

By: Cordell Strug

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An Affectionate Rumination

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All Hands Stand By to Repel Boarders

Tales from Life as a Lutheran Pastor

By: Cordell Strug

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Tales from Life as a Lutheran Pastor

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What's New, What's Old

Telling Stories, Trading Quips, Brainstorming, Spitballing, and Arguing with Saint Matthew

By: Cordell Strug

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What's New, What's Old

Telling Stories, Trading Quips, Brainstorming, Spitballing, and Arguing with Saint Matthew

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Cordell Strug has always loved collages, those jumbled forms assembled from parts of other, usually more coherent, forms. During the pandemic, when everyone had time to meditate and entertain possibilities, it came to him that by extracting the stories, wisecracks, and reflections from the sermons he’d given through the years, he might construct a kind of collage-commentary on the passages of Scripture that he had addressed. This book is what he came up with from the sermons preached on Matthew’s Gospel. Like any living tradition, Christianity is always hearing the voices of its past. It echoes them, expands them, argues with them; it finds light in them or stands bewildered by their darkness. In every living Christian voice, we hear the present both questioning the past and trying to guide the future. In this book, the reader can hear some of the layers of those overlapping conversations in one pastor’s preaching ministry.

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