In the same uncompromising style of Jesus Freaks, bestselling authors Michael Tait and TobyMac of dc Talk now urge readers to take their stand for America's future--by examining our past. Using unforgettable accounts of both famous and little-known Americans, Under God examines the stories of men and women who forged our nation. Against these, they pair the dark side of America's legacy--racism, slavery, injustice--in order that a new generation might seek God's face and avoid repeating sins of the past. The authors draw on the resources of WallBuilders, a national organization that distributes historical, legal, and statistical information and helps citizens become active in their communities.
Building from the stories in Under God, each of the 60 four-page readings opens with Scripture and then presents a theme--including justice, mercy, and sacrifice, among others--illustrated in the lives and events of our country's past. Excerpts from Under God are married with deeper biblical exploration of these virtues, followed by tips on how they can be put into action in young people's lives today. Questions for further study and discussion starters facilitate the use of Living Under God in group settings.
The author gives a moving, often amusing, account of his seven attempts to be selected for the Catholic priesthood between 1976 and 2010, and, in doing so, provides one explanation as to why there are so few priests and why the situation can only deteriorate unless there is a big rethink in the way of doing things. Along the way he opens the lid on life in a series of seminaries and religious houses, some well-known, and notes how the issues of homosexuality and child abuse have increasingly come to dominate the fears of those in authority. Coupled with the inevitable tensions of ecclesiastical politics, this has made true discernment of vocation nigh on impossible. The results are there for all to see.
Lent 1977 is a particularly penitential season for Catholic priest Andrew Boulton. Attempting to be faithful to the Church to which he converted at Cambridge, he finds himself trying to steer an even path in the troubled waters following the Second Vatican Council. On the one hand, he is being courted by traditionalists in the shape of his old mentor Monsignor Charlie Payne and the devious Tridentine seminarian Aelred Blair, On the other hand he is being persecuted by the newly appointed area bishop Michael Follett who regards him as an awkward relic of the past. He attempts to escape from all this by devoting himself to his parish and particularly to helping a young parishioner with dyslexia, but, as the weeks progress, he finds himself increasingly overwhelmed, his anguish reflected in the unfolding Lenten liturgy. The climax takes place on Maundy Thursday night with a great act of betrayal.
In the fourth and final story of the Rainbow Quartet, it is Good Friday 2016, and eighty-five year old Father Andrew Boulton is arrested on charges of historic child abuse. Schoolboy Miles campaigns for the priest's innocence when he is not working for his A Levels, trying to find his long-lost father, helping with his own new-born baby, not to mention looking for a man. Old friends and enemies from Orgy and Hosanna return to play their part along with Jake and Sadia, JR and Don. Many loose threads are resolved, but it is by no means a case of happy endings all round.
On holiday in Malta, Jake wakes up in a hotel bedroom that is not the one he went to sleep in. Possible scenarios race through his head. Perhaps he has died and gone to heaven. Abduction by aliens? Unlikely, but he could be dreaming. Or has he been kidnapped to become a sex-slave? None of these theories comes even near to the astonishing reality of what has really happened to the pleasure-loving gay. He leaves his room and seems to be the only guest. The questions multiply. Who are all these stunning women waiting on his every whim? Is he being watched? Is he free to leave? As the day unfolds, the mysteries increase, and he and those around him are presented with choices which not only affect their futures but also threaten their very identities. No one emerges unscathed.
This second book of the Syon Trilogy covers the years from 1512 to 1523. Rick is settling down to the life of a Brigittine monk while his former lover, Will, is making the best of his post as governor of a fortress in the Pale of Calais as well as seeking diversion from a second, unhappy, marriage. That leaves their old friend Erasmus leading a lonely and frustrated existence in Cambridge. Translating the Bible becomes increasingly onerous so he fobs off much of the work on to doctoral student, Richard Reynolds, who is intent on becoming a Brigittine. One way of escape for Erasmus is to seek love, and fellow scholar, Beatus Rhenanus, seems ideal. But the question of his old religious vocation keeps returning. Always on the edge.A surprise encounter with a young friend in Basel sharpens the issues and helps the Dutch scholar to make up his mind. But is it all too late?
After their adventure in Malta, Jake, Sadia and JR start out on their new life together in London. Their attempt to make the menage work is complicated by the unusual nature of the situation and of the characters involved. It is further frustrated by the reappearance of figures from the past like the egoistical Michel, the smooth and sexy Bing and the evil Don. Not to mention the appearance of new characters such as the pious but knowing schoolboy, Miles, and his creepy priest mentor. Gay Jake's desperation for a baby with prostitute Sadia is only one of the factors which tests loyalties and opens up new scenarios for the trio. The resurfacing of Aelred Blair and Mark East recalls events from forty years ago and is a disturbing omen of trouble for the future.
Six pen-portraits of the Archbishops of Canterbury during Queen Victoria's reign show how the Church of England and the Anglican Communion became what they are today.
Prize-winning study traces the rise of the vector concept from the discovery of complex numbers through the systems of hypercomplex numbers to the final acceptance around 1910 of the modern system of vector analysis.
Features recent advances and new applications in graph edgecoloring Reviewing recent advances in the Edge Coloring Problem, GraphEdge Coloring: Vizing's Theorem and Goldberg's Conjectureprovides an overview of the current state of the science,explaining the interconnections among the results obtained fromimportant graph theory studies. The authors introduce many newimproved proofs of known results to identify and point to possiblesolutions for open problems in edge coloring. The book begins with an introduction to graph theory and theconcept of edge coloring. Subsequent chapters explore importanttopics such as: Use of Tashkinov trees to obtain an asymptotic positive solutionto Goldberg's conjecture Application of Vizing fans to obtain both known and newresults Kierstead paths as an alternative to Vizing fans Classification problem of simple graphs Generalized edge coloring in which a color may appear more thanonce at a vertex This book also features first-time English translations of twogroundbreaking papers written by Vadim Vizing on an estimate of thechromatic class of a p-graph and the critical graphs within a givenchromatic class. Written by leading experts who have reinvigorated research inthe field, Graph Edge Coloring is an excellent book formathematics, optimization, and computer science courses at thegraduate level. The book also serves as a valuable reference forresearchers interested in discrete mathematics, graph theory,operations research, theoretical computer science, andcombinatorial optimization.
Delegates to the convention examined Newfoundland's economy and society, and debated the merits of returning to responsible government (suspended in 1934) or joining the Canadian confederation. A number of public figures of the 1950s and 1960s came into prominence during the convention, most notably Joseph R. Smallwood, leader of the confederate group. This unique and remarkable historical document is a must for Commonwealth and Canadian specialists and research libraries.
Randall Davidson was Archbishop of Canterbury for quarter of a century. Davidson was a product of the Victorian ecclesiastical and social establishment, whose advance through the Church was dependent on the patronage of Queen Victoria, but he became Archbishop at a time of huge social and political change. He guided the Church of England through the turbulence of the Edwardian period, when it faced considerable challenges to its status as the established Church, as well as helping shape its response to the horrors of the First World War. Davidson inherited a Church of England that was sharply divided on a range of issues, and he devoted his career as Archbishop to securing its unity, whilst ensuring that its voice continued to be heard both nationally and internationally. A modest and pragmatic man, he was widely respected both within the Church of England and beyond, helping to find solutions to a range of political and ecclesiastical problems. This book explores Davidson’s role within the Church and in the life of Britain more broadly during his time at Canterbury. It includes a large selection of documents that help to reveal the Archbishop’s character and cast light on the way in which he carried out his varied and demanding duties.
This edition makes available in a single edition all of Hunt's major works, fully annotated and with a consolidated index. The set will include all of Hunt's poetry, and an extensive selection of his periodical essays.
In 1938: Modern Britain, Michael John Law demonstrates that our understanding of life in Britain just before the Second World War has been overshadowed by its dramatic political events. 1938 was the last year of normality, and Law shows through a series of case studies that in many ways life in that year was far more modern than might have been thought. By considering topics as diverse as the opening of a new type of pub, the launch of several new magazines, the emergence of push-button radios and large screen televisions sets, and the building of a huge office block, he reveals a Britain, both modern and intrigued by its own modernity, that was stopped in its tracks by war and the austerity that followed. For some, life in Britain was as consumerist, secular, Americanized and modern as it would become for many in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Presenting a fresh perspective on an important year in British social history, illuminated by six engaging case studies, this is a key study for students and scholars of 20th-century Britain.
George Tallis arrived in Australia as a 17-year-old immigrant in 1886, and rose to become head of J.C. Williamson Ltd, the world's largest entertainment organisation. This book is his story, an intriguing view of Australian entertainment between 1886 and 1938.
Informed by “recognized Civil War . . . experts”, this pictorial is “a detailed look at the soldiers who served with the Union and Confederate Armies.” (Jennifer Locke Jones, Chair and Curator, Division of Armed Forces History, Smithsonian National Museum of American History) In the world of historical painting, Don Troiani stands alone, universally acclaimed for the accuracy, drama, and sensitivity of his depictions of America’s past. His images, both stirring and informative, define the view Americans have of the epochal Civil War. In this new collection of Troiani artworks, ten years in the making, Troiani teams his signature large format battle paintings with detailed paintings of both Union and Confederate soldiers along with over three hundred photographs of uniforms, equipment, and artifacts from the nation’s most respected museum and private collections to give a full picture of the life of the Civil War soldier. Civil War uniform and equipment experts Earl J. Coates and Michael McAfee have contributed accompanying text. Includes fifty paintings and over three-hundred photographs.
Hilbert's Program was founded on a concern for the phenomenon of paradox in mathematics. To Hilbert, the paradoxes, which are at once both absurd and irresistible, revealed a deep philosophical truth: namely, that there is a discrepancy between the laws accord ing to which the mind of homo mathematicus works, and the laws governing objective mathematical fact. Mathematical epistemology is, therefore, to be seen as a struggle between a mind that naturally works in one way and a reality that works in another. Knowledge occurs when the two cooperate. Conceived in this way, there are two basic alternatives for mathematical epistemology: a skeptical position which maintains either that mind and reality seldom or never come to agreement, or that we have no very reliable way of telling when they do; and a non-skeptical position which holds that there is significant agree ment between mind and reality, and that their potential discrepan cies can be detected, avoided, and thus kept in check. Of these two, Hilbert clearly embraced the latter, and proposed a program designed to vindicate the epistemological riches represented by our natural, if non-literal, ways of thinking. Brouwer, on the other hand, opted for a position closer (in Hilbert's opinion) to that of the skeptic. Having decided that epistemological purity could come only through sacrifice, he turned his back on his classical heritage to accept a higher calling.
Corporate Accounting in Australia, Fourth Edition, is a textbook designed for one- or two-semester company accounting courses at both under- and postgraduate level.
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