How do Christ’s followers reach across the dividing lines of our culture to offer hospitality and hope? How do local congregations worship God faithfully on Sunday and bear witness to their neighbors with fitting words and deeds during the week? Christ has called his people to follow the ways of his kingdom in their homes, workplaces, schools, churches, and neighborhoods. The Drama of Discipleship is a resource for being and making disciples of Jesus in the everyday tasks of being human. Each episode offers at least one group activity that is designed to catalyze group action on your local stage and build your congregation's practice of taking off the old ways of being human and putting on the true image of God—Christ. The Drama concludes with additional tools for those who lead small groups in the heartwork of discipleship, as well as a neighborhood survey for those who lead congregations in the fieldwork of discipling the nations.
This book explores lament in African American history from a theological perspective. Part One examines examples of African Americans’ use of lament as a framework for engaging both historical memory and social action. Part Two offers examples of lament as a pedagogical tool in classrooms and other educational settings.
This first full reconstruction of Perry Anderson's distinguished career provides an overview of the evolution of the British New Left since 1956 and reveals a great deal about the vicissitudes of Marxist theory and political practice in the era of post-Stalinist communism. Gregory Elliott ultimately argues that, notwithstanding significant discontinuities in his intellectual development, Anderson remains a critically engaged thinker of the intransigent Left - a contemporary historian whose commitment to the long view renders him an indispensable commentator on our times. Elliott also sketches the collective career of New Left Review, one of the most influential international journals of the postwar period."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Contesting the Global Order explores what it means to be a radical intellectual as political hopes fade. Gregory P. Williams chronicles the evolution of intellectual visionaries Perry Anderson and Immanuel Wallerstein, who despite altered circumstances for radical change, continued to advance creative interpretations of the social world. Wallerstein and Anderson, whose hopes were invested in a more egalitarian future, believed their writings would contribute to socialism, which they anticipated would be a postcapitalist future of relative social, economic, and political equality. However, by the 1980s dreams of socialism had faded and they had to face the reality that socialism was neither close nor inevitable. Their sensitivity to current events, Williams argues, takes on new significance in this century, when many scholars are grappling with the issue of change in a world of declining state power.
Running Between The Raindrops is a metaphor that expresses how I felt as a young black child growing up in Harlem (and later the Bronx) facing the inner city's daily challenges and adversities. I remember continually running home to escape from bullies, drugs, and the horrors of street life. There were also other issues to deal with: the illegal numbers game, poor housing, street gangs, neglectful supermarkets, and disruptive schools. These many problems were a deluge of raindrops I felt would eventually touch or even drench me. I wanted more out of life than was being offered on the block, and the only way I saw to avoid drowning in the downpour I was facing was to keep Running Between the Raindrops-running towards opportunity; running fast, with power and purpose, toward something better; running outside of the neighborhood to see what else was available, never stopping forward movement in the manifestation of my dreams. And so, I began a constant search for what creates success and a better life. Greg will teach you what you need to know about achieving peak performance using a formula he discovered and identifies as PD4H. He also discusses three unique distinctions-Thought, Language, and Action-that contribute to success regarding the results individuals want to achieve.
Lester worries that his life is not adventurous enough for his visiting Auntie June, but the diner where they meet offers plenty of activity after all.
242 pages with 59 total maps Locating original landowners in maps has never been an easy task-until now. This volume in the Family Maps series contains newly created maps of original landowners (patent maps) in what is now Perry County, Mississippi, gleaned from the indexes of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. But it offers much more than that. For each township in the county, there are two additional maps accompanying the patent map: a road map and a map showing waterways, railroads, and both modern and many historical city-centers and cemeteries. Included are indexes to help you locate what you are looking for, whether you know a person's name, a last name, a place-name, or a cemetery. The combination of maps and indexes are designed to aid researchers of American history or genealogy to explore frontier neighborhoods, examine family migrations, locate hard-to-find cemeteries and towns, as well as locate land based on legal descriptions found in old documents or deeds. The patent-maps are essentially plat maps but instead of depicting owners for a particular year, these maps show original landowners, no matter when the transfer from the federal government was completed. Dates of patents typically begin near the time of statehood and run into the early 1900s. What's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . . 3910 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map) 44 Cemeteries plus . . . Roads, and existing Rivers, Creeks, Streams, Railroads, and Small-towns (including some historical), etc. What YEARS are these maps for? Here are the counts for parcels of land mapped, by the decade in which the corresponding land patents were issued: DecadeParcel-count 1820s2 1840s51 1850s219 1860s65 1870s15 1880s1918 1890s844 1900s510 1910s258 1920s28 What Cities and Towns are in Perry County, Mississippi (and in this book)? Barbara, Batt Place, Beaumont, Belleville, Benmore, Brewer, Corinth, Deep Creek, East Side, Ferguson, Good Hope, Hercules Station, Hintonville, Indian Springs, Janice, Kittrell, Little Creek, Mahned, McSwain, New Augusta, Oak Grove, Progress, Redhill, Rhodes, Richton, Runnelstown, Tallahala, Wingate
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