Are We an Accident...or Not? The question of cosmic origins and our place in the grand scheme of things has been debated for millennia. Why do we exist? Why does anything exist at all? Today's popular narrative, based on advancements in science, is that it all happened by natural, random processes. Melissa Cain Travis points to powerful evidence that the opposite is true—that cosmology, astronomy, biochemistry, and other disciplines strongly support what she calls "The Maker Thesis," which explains the origin, rationality, and intricacy of nature and the human mind's capacity to comprehend it. Our universe is made up of numerous complex systems of order that both interact and coexist with each other as if in a carefully choreographed dance. Follow along on a fascinating journey about how the structure of nature and the mind of man resonate in ways that point to a Maker who fully intended the astounding discoveries being made in the natural sciences today.
God's Cold War Ends... THE FIRST OF GOD'S FINAL TESTAMENT BIBLICAL PARABLES CHRONICLING THE FINAL WAR OF HEAVEN & HELL, & DISPELLING THE LONG-ENGRAINED FEAR OF DEATH BY ILLUMINATING THE TRUTH BEHIND THE PURPOSE OF HUMAN LIFE-WRITTEN BY THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST AND MARY MAGDALENE. Inspired by Actual Experiences. On the eve of the Day of Revelation, the Cold War between God and Satan is over; and the august, grandeur lives of Earth's elite echelon cataclysmically collide as the execution date for the brutal murder of Jesus Christ, and the rising Rebellion of Satan, eclipses the horizon. Now, Judgement is imminent; and humanity chooses sides when The Second Coming of Jesus Christ returns upon the modern world to fulfill God's Final Prophecy, gather the Chosen, build the Divine Army, and reclaim his Queen. Consequently, in the Prince of Darkness' desperate bid to defeat God, Eternal Salvation is at stake as Satan uses his one chance incarnate to hold humanity hostage and steal the only soul who can tip the scales of victory by making her his bride--Dr. Madeline Knight, The Second Coming of Mary Magdalene. From New Orleans to Salem, Chicago to Cincinnati, to Haiti and back again, eternity and extinction converge, and only the Faithful will survive when the top leaders of the Final War of Heaven and Hell descend and ascend upon the earthly plane. And unless Madeline defeats Satan in the battle to reclaim her namesake, she will never reunite with The Second Coming of Jesus Christ, and succumb to the same fate as the condemned souls he returned to save. www.thebookofdeath.net
Teacher Parade is a story of an end-of-year elementary school teacher car parade to say goodbye to the students and their families for the summer. Lizzy, who is in the second grade, is so excited to see her teacher after a long season of learning at home. She and her brother make posters and wait anxiously to see their teachers and the silly car decorations. This is a tender and heartfelt story of a little girl's love and appreciation for her teacher. This story was inspired by a real teacher parade in a small city in Northeast Georgia.
Throughout the nineteenth century, the performance of sacred drama on the English public stage was prohibited by law and custom left over from the Reformation: successive Examiners of Plays, under the control of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, censored and suppressed both devotional and blasphemous plays alike. Whilst the Biblical sublime found expression in the visual arts, the epic, and the oratorio, nineteenth-century spoken drama remained secular by force of precedent and law. The maintenance of this ban was underpinned by Protestant anxieties about bodily performance, impersonation, and the power of the image that persisted long after the Reformation, and that were in fact bolstered by the return of Catholicism to public prominence after the passage of the Catholic Relief Act in 1829 and the restoration of the Catholic Archbishoprics in 1850. But even as anti-Catholic prejudice at mid-century reached new heights, the turn towards medievalism in the visual arts, antiquarianism in literary history, and the 'popular' in constitutional reform placed England's pre- Reformation past at the centre of debates about the uses of the public stage and the functions of a truly national drama. This book explores the recovery of the texts of the extant mystery-play cycles undertaken by antiquarians in the early nineteenth century and the eventual return of sacred drama to English public theatres at the start of the twentieth century. Consequently, law, literature, politics, and theatre history are brought into conversation with one another in order to illuminate the history of sacred drama and Protestant ant-theatricalism in England in the long nineteenth-century.
Report from the WISP project which endeavoured to improve work placement components of study programs for international students in Australia. In particular the reseachers: identified current procedures and practices in relation to work-placement and associated assessment for international students in the discipline areas of Business, Education, Engineering, and Health in participating institutions; identified and explored challenges, concerns and successes for international students, their mentors (i.e. those people who are responsible for assessing and working with students during their placement) and coordinators (i.e. those people responsible for the coordination of placements, at both universities and workplaces) prior to, during and after the students leave; and developed and applied a working model of effective practice around internationalisation, work-place socialisation and reflection. The model provided a theoretical and evidence-based foundation in the development of support materials for current and prospective international students, their supervisors, coordinators and relevant university staff. Six universities participated in the project. [p.iii, ed].
Looks at the positive effects that having and training dogs have on their owners, and shares personal stories of how the dogs in his life have given him important lessons in respect, confidence, resilience, and authenticity.
Since World War II, Protestant sermons have been an influential tool for defining American citizenship in the wake of national crises. In the aftermath of national tragedies, Americans often turn to churches for solace. Because even secular citizens attend these services, they are also significant opportunities for the Protestant religious majority to define and redefine national identity and, in the process, to invest the nation-state with divinity. The sermons delivered in the wake of crises become integral to historical and communal memory—it matters greatly who is mourned and who is overlooked. Melissa M. Matthes conceives of these sermons as theo-political texts. In When Sorrow Comes, she explores the continuities and discontinuities they reveal in the balance of state power and divine authority following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the assassinations of JFK and MLK, the Rodney King verdict, the Oklahoma City bombing, the September 11 attacks, the Newtown shootings, and the Black Lives Matter movement. She argues that Protestant preachers use these moments to address questions about Christianity and citizenship and about the responsibilities of the Church and the State to respond to a national crisis. She also shows how post-crisis sermons have codified whiteness in ritual narratives of American history, excluding others from the collective account. These civic liturgies therefore illustrate the evolution of modern American politics and society. Despite perceptions of the decline of religious authority in the twentieth century, the pulpit retains power after national tragedies. Sermons preached in such intense times of mourning and reckoning serve as a form of civic education with consequences for how Americans understand who belongs to the nation and how to imagine its future.
Have you ever pondered your beginnings? The first religions. Diary of Ancient Rites explores this and more. Learn herbal and color magic as well as how to call on your gaurdian spirits. Not a book of complicated rituals, simple everyday magic for practical use.
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