For teens growing up in a post-Christian society, Lorraine Peterson brings a most important message: Make prayer a living, vital part of your life, and then you'll be able to face whatever life throws at you.
Lorraine Peterson presents thirteen weeks of inspiring and challenging devotional readings for teens to help them discover the truth of a person's value in Christ.
Dying of Embarrassment & living to tell about it squarely faces the primary issues confronting teens at school, on the job, with friends and family:Feelings of inferiorityLack of self-acceptanceConstant lies from SatanPressure from society and peersBestselling author Lorraine Peterson helps teens develop a healthy self-image by:Focusing on seeing themselves as God sees them.Discovering the truth of a person's value in Christ.Applying biblical truth to their circumstances.Thirteen weeks of challenging and inspiring readings promise to build foundations for new patterns of thinking and action, freedom and joy.
Since Oxford University Press's publication in 2000 of Michael Emerson and Christian Smith's groundbreaking study, Divided by Faith (DBF), research on racialized religion has burgeoned in a variety of disciplines in response to and in conversation with DBF. This conversation has moved outsideof sociological circles; historians, theologians, and philosophers have also engaged the central tenets of DBF for the purpose of contextualizing, substantiating, and in some cases, contesting the book's findings. In a poll published in January 2012, nearly 70% of evangelical churches professed adesire to be racially and culturally diverse. Currently, only around 8% of them have achieved this multiracial status. To an unprecedented degree, evangelical churches in the United States are trying to overcome the deep racial divides that persist in their congregations. Not surprisingly, many of these evangelicals have turned to DBF for solutions. The essays in Christians and the Color Line complicate the researchfindings of Emerson and Smith's study and explore new areas of research that have opened in the years since DBF's publication. The book is split into two sections. The chapters in the first section consider the history of American evangelicalism and race as portrayed in DBF. In the second sectionthe authors pick up where DBF left off, and discuss how American churches could ameliorate the problem of race in their congregations while also identifying problems that can arise from such attempted amelioration.
The best-selling author of If God Loves Me, Why Can't I Get My Locker Open?uses believe-it-or-not facts of science and the life experiences of teens to paint the portrait of God's love, forgiveness, and purpose in our lives.
Author Lorraine Peterson says God gives grace to teens when their parents are breaking up, when it's dangerous to go to school, when they feel clumsy and uncool, when they don't measure up to others' expectations, and when security is nowhere to be found. The bestselling author of "If God Loves Me, Why Can't I Get My Locker Open?" gives teens a life-changing look on God's salvation by grace through faith.
Written in language sure to touch the heart of teens, this devotional on prayer encourages young people to build endurance, faithfulness, moral strength, and courage into their lives.
Stories of thirteen prominent Old Testament characters form the basis of thirteen weeks of daily lessons presenting issues common to today's teens and the Biblical heroes.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate a new educational doctorate-training program initiated at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana that utilized both distant learning and cohort paradigms, and incorporated the requirements for a Superintendent's Certification, in addition to the Ph.D. degree. Stufflebeam's "process" method of evaluation was employed using both surveys and personal or phone interviews to obtain data from students who had either graduated or completed the course work. Questions were asked regarding student expectations, curriculum, adequacy of inclusion of the latest IPSB Standards, cohorts, distant learning technology, communication methods used, graduation roadblocks, and aids to job performance. Findings included the following suggestions: greater use of mentors and the program's web site, using a Polycam system for instruction except for technical courses, like statistics, which should be taught in-person, the necessity for professors to maintain contact with students after the completion of course work, more information regarding finance budgeting, and negotiations presented with the aid of case studies applicable to present-day school situations, and structuring the courses so that dissertation topics, relevant literature research and the first three chapters be accomplished upon completion of the course work.
This talkabout book is perfect for preschool children. Talking together about pictures of favourite things and doing related activities such as matching, story sequencing, and counting will help your child to build essential early learning skills.
In Roger Sandall’s Films and Contemporary Anthropology, Lorraine Mortimer argues that while social anthropology and documentary film share historic roots and goals, particularly on the continent of Australia, their trajectories have tended to remain separate. This book reunites film and anthropology through the works of Roger Sandall, a New Zealand–born filmmaker and Columbia University graduate, who was part of the vibrant avant-garde and social documentary film culture in New York in the 1960s. Mentored by Margaret Mead in anthropology and Cecile Starr in fine arts, Sandall was eventually hired as the one-man film unit at the newly formed Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies in 1965. In the 1970s, he became a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Sydney. Sandall won First Prize for Documentary at the Venice Film Festival in 1968, yet his films are scarcely known, even in Australia now. Mortimer demonstrates how Sandall’s films continue to be relevant to contemporary discussions in the fields of anthropology and documentary studies. She ties exploration of the making and restriction of Sandall’s aboriginal films and his nonrestricted films made in Mexico, Australia, and India to the radical history of anthropology and the resurgence today of an expanded, existential-phenomenological anthropology that encompasses the vital connections between humans, animals, things, and our environment.
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