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Cancer: A Pilgrim Companion

By: Gillian Straine

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A cancer diagnosis is a seismic event. It divides life into before and after, and propels the diagnosed into places of suffering, pain and isolation; life is turned upside down in the present while the future horizon clouds with uncertainty and fear. Despite someone getting diagnosed with cancer in the UK every two minutes, cancer is a disease that is often described as lonely as the sufferer sets out on a tough journey through waiting, treatment and recovery. In this wise and compassionate book, cancer survivor Gillian Straine proposes that this journey through illness, pain and anxiety be reconceptualised as a pilgrimage of discovery. The Christian faith is that we are never abandoned by God, and this promise holds wherever we might find ourselves, whether that is in the doctor's waiting room, in a chair receiving chemotherapy or lying on the surgeons table. Following the journey of Jesus through the darkness of Gethsemane, to the cross and into the silent waiting of Holy Saturday, this book invites the reader to seek God in their experience of cancer and, by pointing to the glimmers of resurrection hope in remission and beyond, to find healing in their own story of illness.

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Introducing Science and Religion

A path through polemic

By: Gillian Straine

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Introducing Science and Religion

A path through polemic

By: Gillian Straine

We can look at science and religion and see conflict; or we can separate them into different worlds. This book helps the reader understand both sides of this 'conflict' and how they throw light on each other's approach. Of particular interest is what we are learning about personality, mind and psychology, and where consciousness comes from. This book suggests several different paths through the debates that surround science and religion. These paths offer ways of holding a rational interest in the world and scientific attempts to understand it and a lively and questioning faith in God which takes the Bible seriously.

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Cancer: A Pilgrim Companion

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By: Gillian Straine

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Introducing Science and Religion

A path through polemic

By: Gillian Straine

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A path through polemic

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0281068747

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Book's by Gillian Straine

Cancer: A Pilgrim Companion

Cancer: A Pilgrim Companion

Introducing Science and Religion

Introducing Science and Religion

Cancer: A Pilgrim Companion

Cancer: A Pilgrim Companion

Introducing Science and Religion

Introducing Science and Religion

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