Many Christians view the Bible as an instruction manual. While the Bible does provide instruction, it can also captivate, comfort, delight, shock, and inspire. In short, it elicits emotion--just like poetry. By learning to read and love poetry, says literature professor Matthew Mullins, readers can increase their understanding of the biblical text and learn to love God's Word more. Each chapter includes exercises and questions designed to help readers put the book's principles and practices into action.
Postmodernism in Pieces performs a postmortem on what is perhaps the most contested paradigm in literary studies. In the wake of a critical consensus proclaiming its death, Matthew Mullins breaks postmodernism down into its most fundamental orthodoxies and reassembles it piece by piece in light of recent theoretical developments in Actor-Network-Theory, object-oriented philosophy, new materialism, and posthumanism. In the last two decades postmodernism has collapsed under the weight of the very phenomena it set out to deconstruct: language, whiteness, masculinity, class, the academy. Recasting these categories as social constructs has done little to alleviate their material effects. Through detailed analyses of everyday objects in novels by Leslie Marmon Silko, Toni Morrison, Jonathan Lethem, John Barth, David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo, and Julia Alvarez, Mullins argues that what makes fiction postmodern is its refusal to accept "social" explanations for problems facing a given culture, and its tendency instead to examine everyday things and people as constituent pieces of larger networks. The result is a new story of postmodernism, one that reimagines postmodernism as a starting point for a new mode of literary history rather than a finish line for modernity.
Do you find yourself with an endless amount of wasted time? Do you see your friends and family enjoying their lives?This is the perfect gift for them and you! No seriously, this book is more of a cry for help than anything. Plus this is technically a Self Help book now. This makes a perfect gag gift, time waster, and if you hate yourself or the people around you.
In Why We Do What We Do, professors of the Arts and Sciences at Le Moyne College describe their lives as scholars, artists, counselors, clinicians, and especially as teachers, and by doing so testify to the value of a college education. Revealing the paths that brought them here, these professionals demonstrate the values and the learning that Le Moyne's students can carry with them into the world.
Reverend Matthew Hogan straddles the line between raw, at times poignant, honesty and detailed information in this must-read book for Christians and non-Christians alike. Weaving personal details effortlessly with scripture and engaging analysis, Hogan imparts to the reader the depth and breadth of the love Christ has for them despite what their past may hold. Journeying through my own past while simultaneously going on the journey through Hogan's past left me crying, laughing, and examining several of the restrictive truths I've long held about God's love for me. This book is for anyone, Christian or not, who has wondered if they are worthy of the love of God. Isn't that all of us? Amber Powers - Former Counselor
For the past nine years, the ABC has been besieged. Its funding has been slashed. It has been assailed by complaints from ministers and prime ministers. Its board has been stacked with political appointees. It has been relentlessly attacked by commercial media outlets. And it has endured crisis after crisis. Who Needs the ABC? charts how, in its 90th year, the best-trusted news organisation in Australia arrived at its current plight: doing the most it ever has, with less than it needs, under a barrage of constant criticism. This book examines the profound changes that have swept through the Australian media, technology, and political landscapes in the past decade, and explores the tense relationship between the ABC and governments of both stripes over the last 40 years. It dispels any complacency about the ABC’s future by charting the very real threat now posed by the Liberal– National Party coalition, and the damage that it has done to the ABC while in office. Who Needs the ABC? identifies the vital role that the ABC plays in Australia today: in its award-winning journalism, in its vast array of cultural programming on television, on radio, and online, and in the comprehensive service it provides to people across the country. At a time when the truth has to vie with obfuscation and misinformation, this book offers a rejoinder to the ABC’s critics, points to solutions that will see the ABC thrive, and answers the question posed here: Who Needs the ABC? We all do.
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