Time Out! is a book of more than 50 capsules of youth ministry experiences for Catholic youth groups--presentations, discussions, scripture study, community building activities, prayer experiences, games, role-plays, and more.
Teens place their faith in the media, as witnessed by the hours per day spent with television, radio, advertisements, the Internet, etc. But does the media place its faith in teens? In fact the media has gone to great expense to connect with teen culture -- often at the expense of Christian values. This mini-course focuses on the essentials of media awareness and literacy to enable and empower teen discernment -- and hopefully -- impact on the media and its message.
For nearly thirty years Sr. Kieran Sawyer, S.S.N.D. has written activities, exercises, discussions, prayers, and retreat capsules for teens that can best be summed up in two words: they work. Now, in The Faith Difference, Sr. Kieran has collected many of her most requested materials and organized them into five easy-to-use sections of lessons, community building, activities, prayer, and games. These materials, whether used separately or joined together by themes, work well in a variety of settings--retreats, religion classes, youth group meetings, workshops--held for high school age youth. All of the units offer clear directions, lists of needed materials and preparations, presentation scripts, and reproducible handouts for teen use. Sr. Kieran, has not only spoken the Good News in ways that teens can really hear, but has taught thousands of adults who work with teens to be equally as effective. A quick look through The Faith Difference will reveal the secret of Sr. Kieran's success--these are materials that cut through the maze of complicated directions and religious jargon to offer simple, proven, ways to share the faith with teens. Spiral bound for easy photocopying.
Contains everything necessary to begin the program and conduct each session. The introductory section provides the program coordinator with a background of initiation theology and confirmation catechesis, and practical tips for training adult volunteers, implementing the candidate-mentor program, and doing advance planning for the entire program schedule. Two plans for Orientation Meetings -- one for parents and teenagers and one for adult mentors -- allow for easy introduction into the program. Twelve working sessions on the themes of the Catholic Christian faith are presented. An After Confirmation session provides a bridge between sacrament preparation and assimilation into full community participation. Plans for conducting liturgical rites are also included. A 16-page tear-out section contains all the material to be duplicated for use during the sessions.
The turn of the millennium is an obvious and dramatic milepost of church history. The people and events of today will be studied and critiqued for many generations to come. The Church at 21 (Centuries) helps teenagers center themselves in a 2,000 year-old institution in which they not only belong, but which they are to be the key shapers of history in the next generation. The Church at 21 (Centuries) roots the teen's understanding of church in the models of church they have grown up with and experienced in the years following the dramatic second Vatican Council. From this starting point, the teenagers move back to the beginning to explore the earliest calls to form church, the life and death challenges faced by Christians in the years since, and the ways that faith and fellowship in Jesus Christ has been codified and preserved through the ages.
Teens have nothing against Jesus, but he is often like a friend who gets left behind. This mini-course reintroduces teenagers to Jesus in ways appropriate to their own experience. Personal relationships, contemporary issues, life goals, joys and tragedies are each examined through both the eyes of the teens and the eyes of Jesus. This is an opportunity for them to deepen, and re-energize their relationship with Jesus and see how every day spent in friendship with the Lord can lead to a better life.
St. John Berchmans once posed this question regarding daily happenings and occurrences: "What is this from the viewpoint of eternity?" Prayer requires that we take the time to see what is essential. What is essential is often visible only through faith-filled prayer. Why Pray? helps teenagers open their eyes to discover the extraordinary in the ordinary, and to find in Jesus a best friend who truly companions them on the journey of life. Why Pray? is a primer course on prayer, designed especially to help teens understand the meaning of prayer, various ways to pray, including meditation and contemplation, and how to pray with and for others. In developing this knowledge and practice, the teens grow in their understanding that it is their friendship with Jesus that is most essential.
Mentor Handbook...Faith Development Program for High School Students Preparing to Celebrate the Sacrament of Confirmation with the Support of the Entire Faith Community
Mentor Handbook...Faith Development Program for High School Students Preparing to Celebrate the Sacrament of Confirmation with the Support of the Entire Faith Community
Everything you need to know about classic literature in one handy guide by lecturer Maureen Hughes. Covering everything from the authors to the plays themselves and their common themes, accessibility is a key selling point with factboxes highlighting key or curious facts about the subject. Its size makes it the perfect stocking filler for the Christmas market or at anytime of the year for those wanting more information about what theyre reading or studying in a handy, pocket-sized guide.
The Brain-Based Classroom translates findings from educational neuroscience into a new paradigm of practices suitable for any teacher. The human brain is a site of spectacular capacity for joy, motivation, and personal satisfaction, but how can educators harness its potential to help children reach truly fulfilling goals? Using this innovative collection of brain-centric strategies, teachers can transform their classrooms into deep learning spaces that support their students through self-regulation and mindset shifts. These fresh insights will help teachers resolve classroom management issues, prevent crises and disruptive behaviors, and center social-emotional learning and restorative practices.
Can we have objective knowledge of right and wrong, of how we should live and what there is reason to do? The thought that we can is beset by sceptical problems. In the face of radical disagreement, can we be sure that we are not deceived? If the facts are independent of what we think, is our reliability a mere coincidence? Can it be anything but luck when our beliefs are true? In Knowing Right From Wrong, Kieran Setiya confronts these questions in their most compelling and articulate forms: the argument from ethical disagreement; the argument from reliability and coincidence; and the argument from accidental truth. In order to resist the inference from disagreement to scepticism, he argues, we must reject epistemologies of intuition, coherence, and reflective equilibrium. The problem of disagreement can be solved only if the basic standards of epistemology in ethics are biased towards the truth. In order to solve the problem of coincidence, we must embrace arguments for reliability in ethics that rely on ethical beliefs. Such arguments do not beg the question in an epistemically damaging way. And in order to make sense of ethical knowledge as non-accidental truth, we must give up the independence of ethical fact and belief. We can do so without implausible predictions of convergence or relativity if the facts are bound to us through the natural history of human life. If there is objective ethical knowledge, human nature is its source.
This “up-close [and] graceful account” of the polar bear combines historical accounts, research, and the author’s own encounters in the Arctic (Kirkus Reviews). Polar bears are creatures of paradox: They are white bears whose skin is black; massive predators who can walk almost silently; Arctic residents whose major problem is not staying warm, but keeping cool. Fully grown they can measure ten feet and weigh close to two thousand pounds, but at birth they are just twenty ounces. Human encounters with these legendary creatures can be both exhilarating and terrifying. Tales throughout history describe the ferocity of polar bear attacks on humans. But human hunters have exacted a far larger toll, obliging Arctic nations to try to protect their region’s iconic species before it’s too late. Now another threat to the polar bears’ survival has emerged, one that is steadily destroying sea ice and the life it supports. Without this habitat, polar bears cannot exist. The Great White Bear celebrates the story of this unique species. Through a blend of history, myth, personal observations, and scientific accounts, Kieran Mulvaney tells the story of the polar bear: its history, its life, and its uncertain fate.
Ohio’s small towns have great stories. Little Ohio presents 100 of the state’s tiniest towns and most miniature villages. With populations under 500, these charming and unique locations dot the entire state—from Lake Seneca in the Northwest corner to Neville, bordering the Ohio River and the state of Kentucky. Little Ohio even ventures into Lake Erie, telling the story of Put-in-Bay. The selected locations help readers to appreciate the broader history of small-town life in Ohio. Yet each featured town boasts a distinct narrative, as unique as the citizens who call these places home. Some villages offer hundreds of years of history, such as Tarlton, laid out before Ohio had even gained statehood. Others were built with more expedience, such as Yankee Lake, a town that was incorporated simply so its founder could host dances on Sundays without breaking state law. With full-color photographs, fun facts, and fascinating details about every locale, it’s almost as if you’re walking down Main Street, waving hello to folks who know you by name. These residents are innovators, hard workers, and—most of all—good neighbors. They’re people who have piled into small school houses to wait out roaring flood waters, rebuilt after disastrous fires took their homes, and captured bandits straight out of the Wild West. Little Ohio, written by lifelong resident Kieran Robertson, is for anyone who grew up in a small town and for everyone who takes pride in being called an Ohioan. It’s one book with one hundred places to love.
Digital Literary Studies presents a broad and varied picture of the promise and potential of methods and approaches that are crucially dependent upon the digital nature of the literary texts it studies and the texts and collections of texts with which they are compared. It focuses on style, diction, characterization, and interpretation of single works and across larger groups of texts, using both huge natural language corpora and smaller, more specialized collections of texts created for specific tasks, and applies statistical techniques used in the narrower confines of authorship attribution to broader stylistic questions. It addresses important issues in each of the three major literary genres, and intentionally applies different techniques and concepts to poetry, prose, and drama. It aims to present a provocative and suggestive sample intended to encourage the application of these and other methods to literary studies. Hoover, Culpeper, and O’Halloran push the methods, techniques, and concepts in new directions, apply them to new groups of texts or to new questions, modify their nature or method of application, and combine them in innovative ways.
This book analyses three of the most prevalent illnesses of late modernity: anxiety, depression and Alzheimer’s disease, in terms of their relation to cultural pathologies of the social body. Usually these conditions are interpreted clinically in terms of individualized symptoms and responded to discretely, as though for the most part unrelated to each other. However, these diseases also have a social and cultural profile that transcends their particular symptomologies and etiologies. Anxiety, depression and Alzheimer’s are diseases related to disorders of the collective esprit de corps of contemporary society. Multidisciplinary in approach, the book addresses questions of how these conditions are manifest at both the individual and collective levels in relation to hegemonic biomedical and psychologistic understandings. Rejecting such reductive diagnoses, the authors argue that anxiety, depression and Alzheimer’s disease, as well as other contemporary epidemics, are to be analysed in the light of individual and collective experiences of profound and radical changes in our civilization. A diagnosis of our times, Late Modern Subjectivity and its Discontents will appeal to a broad range of scholars with interests in health and illness, the sociology of medicine and contemporary life.
Thank you for visiting our website. Would you like to provide feedback on how we could improve your experience?
This site does not use any third party cookies with one exception — it uses cookies from Google to deliver its services and to analyze traffic.Learn More.