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Alone but Not Lonely

Reclaim Your Identity and Be Unapologetically You

By: Robin Joy Meyers

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Alone but Not Lonely

Reclaim Your Identity and Be Unapologetically You

By: Robin Joy Meyers

Very often, life takes over. Family, job, children, etc., and we forget to remember that we are individuals as well. This often leaves us feeling scattered, confused, and most of all, alone. Alone is not a bad thing. Actually, it can be a powerful, fulfilling state of being where you find your clarity and creative time. However, if you dont continue to develop and find your individual passions no matter what transition of life you are going through, then alone can become a darker, lonelier place. Alone but Not Lonely is a story of personal growth and change that will inspire any reader to analyze their life. Create the life that you want to live and invite others to share it with you if you choose to do so. Find your alignment and balance. Rediscover who you were truly meant to be, and reclaim the life that you were destined to live as a powerful individual, proudly and unapologetically you.

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Alone but Not Lonely

Reclaim Your Identity and Be Unapologetically You

By: Robin Joy Meyers

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Reclaim Your Identity and Be Unapologetically You

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Saving Jesus from the Church

How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

By: Robin R. Meyers

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Saving Jesus from the Church

How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

By: Robin R. Meyers

Countless thoughtful people are now so disgusted with the marriage of bad theology and hypocritical behavior by the church that a new Reformation is required in which the purpose of religion itself is reimagined. Meyers takes the best of biblical scholarship and recasts these core Christian concepts to exhort the church to pursue an alternative vision of the Christian life: Jesus as Teacher, not Savior Christianity as Compassion, not Condemnation Prosperity as Dangerous, not Divine Discipleship as Obedience, not Control Religion as Relationship, not Righteousness This is not a call to the church to move to the far left or to try something brand new. Rather, it is the recovery of something very old. Saving Jesus from the Church shows us what it means to be a Christian and how to follow Jesus' teachings today.

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Harper Collins

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006156821X

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9780061568213

Why the Christian Right Is Wrong

A Minister's Manifesto for Taking Back Your Faith, Your Flag, Your Future

By: Robin Meyers

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Why the Christian Right Is Wrong

A Minister's Manifesto for Taking Back Your Faith, Your Flag, Your Future

By: Robin Meyers

I join the ranks of those who are angry, because I have watched as the faith I love has been taken over by fundamentalists who claim to speak for Jesus but whose actions are anything but Christian." —Robin Meyers, from his "Speech Heard Round the World" Millions of Americans are outraged at the Bush administration's domestic and foreign policies and even angrier that the nation's religious conservatives have touted these policies as representative of moral values. Why the Christian Right Is Wrong is a rousing manifesto that will ignite the collective conscience of all whose faith and values have been misrepresented by the Christian Right. Praise for Why the Christian Right Is Wrong: "In the pulpit, Robin Meyers is the new generation's Harry Emerson Fosdick, George Buttrick, and Martin Luther King. In these pages, you will find a stirring message for our times, from a man who believes that God's love is universal, that the great Jewish prophets are as relevant now as in ancient times, and that the Jesus who drove the money changers from the Temple may yet inspire us to embrace justice and compassion as the soul of democracy. This is not a book for narrow sectarian minds; read it, and you will want to change the world." —Bill Moyers "In this book, a powerful and authentic religious voice from America's heartland holds up a mirror to the Bush administration and its religious allies. The result is a vision of Orwellian proportions in which values are inverted and violence, hatred, and bigotry are blessed by one known as 'The Prince of Peace,' who called us to love our enemies. If you treasure this country and tremble over its present direction, this book is a must-read!" —John Shelby Spong author, The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love "This is a timely warning and a clarion call to the church to recover the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to a great nation to resist the encroachment of the Christian Right and of Christian fascism. Many of us in other parts of the world are praying fervently that these calls will be heeded." —Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470184639

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9780470184639

The Underground Church

Reclaiming the Subversive Way of Jesus

By: Robin Meyers

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The Underground Church

Reclaiming the Subversive Way of Jesus

By: Robin Meyers

The Underground Church proposes that the faithful recapture the spirit of the early church with its emphasis on what Christians do rather than what they believe. Prominent progressive writer, speaker, and minister Robin Meyers proposes that the best way to recapture the spirit of the early Christian church is to recognize that Jesus-following was and must be again subversive in the best sense of the word because the gospel taken seriously turns the world upside down. No matter how the church may organize itself or worship, the defining characteristic of the church of the future will be its Jesus-inspired countercultural witness. Meyers debunks commonly held beliefs about the early church and offers a vision for the future rooted in the past. He proposes that the church of the future must leave doctrinal tribalism behind and seek a unity of mission instead. Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu says of this volume: "Robin Meyers has spoken truth to power, and the church he loves will never be the same.

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Fortress Press

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150646338X

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9781506463384

Morning Sun on a White Piano

Simple Pleasures and the Sacramental Life

By: Robin R. Meyers

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Morning Sun on a White Piano

Simple Pleasures and the Sacramental Life

By: Robin R. Meyers

There's a lot of talk these days about slowing down, simplifying, living in the moment, but it isn't really happening. We all talk the talk, but the walk we walk seems to be getting faster and faster, and we seem to be enjoying it less and less. Our problem is that, in search of life, we pass it by. Morning Sun on a White Piano is the perfect tonic for the freneticism of contemporary life. In twelve lucid, straightforward essays, Dr. Robin Meyers offers a brilliant guide to achieving the simple and sacramental life by recognizing what is holy in the seemingly insignificant details of everyday life: Books. Music. Letters. Children. Morning Sun on a White Piano is a book about finding joy in the present, about reclaiming the lost art of living, hearing again, in a culture that has gone deaf; seeing again, in a culture that's blinded; and feeling again, in a culture that overstimulates and numbs itself. If simplifying our lives means singing the song, Morning Sun on a White Piano challenges us to learn the dance. Compact, accessible, gorgeously written, and beautifully designed, here is a book that is a perfect gift for anyone--especially ourselves.

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Galilee Trade

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030787544X

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9780307875440

With Ears to Hear

Preaching as Self-Persuasion

By: Robin R. Meyers

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With Ears to Hear

Preaching as Self-Persuasion

By: Robin R. Meyers

What makes good sermons? And how do they come to be? Appropriating insights from the history of rhetoric and modern communications theory, Robin Meyers proposes that truly effective sermons involve more than moralistic proselytizing or three points and a joke. Rather, the preacher must enter into dialogue--not only with Scripture and the congregation but creatively with him- or herself as well. This willingness to listen to one's own sermon, this willingess to be freshly persuaded, will help enable the preacher to communicate with greater passion, insight, poetry, and clarity.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1556356307

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9781556356308

Spiritual Defiance

Building a Beloved Community of Resistance

By: Robin Rex Meyers

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Spiritual Defiance

Building a Beloved Community of Resistance

By: Robin Rex Meyers

Calls readers to reinvigorate the church by returning it to its roots as a community of resistance, against the dominant culture, egoism, and forces that threaten human life and dignity.

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Yale University Press

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0300203527

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9780300203523

Saving God from Religion

A Minister's Search for Faith in a Skeptical Age

By: Robin R. Meyers

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Saving God from Religion

A Minister's Search for Faith in a Skeptical Age

By: Robin R. Meyers

A revelatory manifesto on how we can reclaim faith from abstract doctrines and rigid morals to find God in the joys and ambiguities of everyday life, from the acclaimed author of Saving Jesus from the Church “In this book of stories from four decades of ministry, Meyers powerfully captures what it means to believe in a God who’s revealed not in creeds or morals but in the struggles and beauty of our ordinary lives.”—Richard Rohr, bestselling author of The Universal Christ People across the theological and political spectrum are struggling with what it means to say that they believe in God. For centuries, Christians have seen him as a deity who shows favor to some and dispenses punishment to others according to right belief and correct behavior. But this transactional approach to a God “up there”—famously depicted by Michelangelo on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel—no longer works, if it ever did, leaving an increasing number of Christians upset, disappointed, and heading for the exits. In this groundbreaking, inspiring book, Robin R. Meyers, the senior minister of Oklahoma City’s Mayflower Congregational United Church of Christ, shows how readers can move from a theology of obedience to one of consequence. He argues that we need to stop seeing our actions as a means for pleasing a distant God and rediscover how God has empowered us to care for ourselves and the world. Drawing on stories from his decades of active ministry, Meyers captures how the struggles of ordinary people hint at how we can approach faith as a radical act of trust in a God who is all around us, even in our doubts and the moments of life we fear the most.

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Convergent Books

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1984822519

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Discovering Feminist Philosophy

Knowledge, Ethics, Politics

By: Robin May Schott

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Discovering Feminist Philosophy

Knowledge, Ethics, Politics

By: Robin May Schott

Discovering Feminist Philosophy provides an accessible introduction to the central issues in feminist philosophy. At the same time, it answers current objections to feminism, arguing that in today's world it is as compelling as ever to probe the impact of the dualism of the sexes. This unique book is equal parts survey, viewpoint, and scholarship--ideal for anyone seeking to understand the current and future role of feminist philosophy.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742514552

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The Making of the Cold War Enemy

Culture and Politics in the Military-Intellectual Complex

By: Ron Theodore Robin

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The Making of the Cold War Enemy

Culture and Politics in the Military-Intellectual Complex

By: Ron Theodore Robin

At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government enlisted the aid of a select group of psychologists, sociologists, and political scientists to blueprint enemy behavior. Not only did these academics bring sophisticated concepts to what became a project of demonizing communist societies, but they influenced decision-making in the map rooms, prison camps, and battlefields of the Korean War and in Vietnam. With verve and insight, Ron Robin tells the intriguing story of the rise of behavioral scientists in government and how their potentially dangerous, "American" assumptions about human behavior would shape U.S. views of domestic disturbances and insurgencies in Third World countries for decades to come. Based at government-funded think tanks, the experts devised provocative solutions for key Cold War dilemmas, including psychological warfare projects, negotiation strategies during the Korean armistice, and morale studies in the Vietnam era. Robin examines factors that shaped the scientists' thinking and explores their psycho-cultural and rational choice explanations for enemy behavior. He reveals how the academics' intolerance for complexity ultimately reduced the nation's adversaries to borderline psychotics, ignored revolutionary social shifts in post-World War II Asia, and promoted the notion of a maniacal threat facing the United States. Putting the issue of scientific validity aside, Robin presents the first extensive analysis of the intellectual underpinnings of Cold War behavioral sciences in a book that will be indispensable reading for anyone interested in the era and its legacy.

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Princeton University Press

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1400830303

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9781400830305

Voyage of the Sable Venus

and Other Poems

By: Robin Coste Lewis

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Voyage of the Sable Venus

and Other Poems

By: Robin Coste Lewis

This National Book Award-winning debut poetry collection is a "powerfully evocative" (The New York Review of Books) meditation on the black female figure through time. Robin Coste Lewis's electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems meditating on the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self. In the center of the collection is the title poem, "Voyage of the Sable Venus," an amazing narrative made up entirely of titles of artworks from ancient times to the present—titles that feature or in some way comment on the black female figure in Western art. Bracketed by Lewis's own autobiographical poems, "Voyage" is a tender and shocking meditation on the fragmentary mysteries of stereotype, juxtaposing our names for things with what we actually see and know. A new understanding of biography and the self, this collection questions just where, historically, do ideas about the black female figure truly begin—five hundred years ago, five thousand, or even longer? And what role did art play in this ancient, often heinous story? Here we meet a poet who adores her culture and the beauty to be found within it. Yet she is also a cultural critic alert to the nuances of race and desire—how they define us all, including her own sometimes painful history. Lewis's book is a thrilling aesthetic anthem to the complexity of race—a full embrace of its pleasure and horror, in equal parts.

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Knopf

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1101911204

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Old Testament Story and Christian Ethics

The Rape of Dinah as a Case Study

By: Robin A. Parry

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Old Testament Story and Christian Ethics

The Rape of Dinah as a Case Study

By: Robin A. Parry

Christian use of the Old Testament has tended to focus on law and wisdom literature and to marginalize narrative materials. This book restores story to its rightful place in Old Testament ethics and aims to set out parameters within which Christian ethical reappropriations of Old Testament narratives can take place. The argument begins by examining recent philosophical studies of the role of story in the ethical life. Special attention is paid to the work of Paul Ricoer, Martha Nussbaum and Robert C. Roberts. Then the theological foundations are laid by demonstrating the importance of narrative for Old Testament ethics and of the biblical metanarrative for Christian interpretation. Genesis 34 is examined as a detailed case study to exemplify the fruits of the method for Christian readers. The study considers reception history, feminist interpretation, discourse analysis and canonical context to shed new light on the terrible story of the rape of Dinah.

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1597522295

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Men of the Zodiac Boxed Set

By: Amy Andrews,Amanda Usen,Wendy Byrne,Sonya Weiss,Annie Seaton,Roxanne Snopek,Jackie Braun,Robin Covington,Sarah Ballance,Rachel Lyndhurst,Marisa Cleveland,Theresa Meyers

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Men of the Zodiac Boxed Set

By: Amy Andrews,Amanda Usen,Wendy Byrne,Sonya Weiss,Annie Seaton,Roxanne Snopek,Jackie Braun,Robin Covington,Sarah Ballance,Rachel Lyndhurst,Marisa Cleveland,Theresa Meyers

12 months. 12 men. 12 fantasies come true. Drop everything and one-click your way to a world where alpha billionaires know how to take care of a woman... Success, power, and money...these men have it all. Whether you swoon for a crowned prince, melt for a real estate mogul, or get hot and bothered over a self-made powerhouse, the Men of Zodiac bundle will indulge all of your fantasies. They’re all yours. Just click the button. Impulse Control by Amanda Usen The Millionaire's Deception by Wendy Byrne The Millionaire's Forever by Amazon Bestselling author Sonya Weiss Ten Days in Tuscany by Amazon Bestselling author Annie Seaton The Millionaire Daddy Project by USA Today Bestselling author Roxanne Snopek Revenge Best Served Hot by Jackie Braun The Prince's Runaway Lover by USA Today Bestselling author Robin Covington The Colonel's Daughter by USA Today Bestselling author Amy Andrews One Night with the Billionaire by Sarah Ballance The Greek Tycoon's Tarnished Bride by Rachel Lyndhurst Blurring the Lines by NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Marisa Cleveland Her Sworn Enemy by Theresa Meyers

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Entangled: Indulgence

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1633756157

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9781633756151

Saving Jesus from the Church

How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

By: Robin R. Meyers

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Saving Jesus from the Church

How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

By: Robin R. Meyers

“With crisply prophetic joy, Meyers calls seekers and believers alike to leave belief about God behind in favor of becoming imitators of Jesus.” —Diana Butler Bass, author of A People’s History of Christianity Robin Meyers, a rising star of liberal Christianity, restores the true mission of the faith that captures the heart of Jesus’s concern for people over “right belief.” Saving Jesus from the Church will resonate deeply with those who enjoy the works of John Shelby Spong, Marcus Borg, and John Dominic Crossan. “In a progressive rather than negatively critical mode, in strong contrast to much of Far Right Protestantism, pastor/NPR commentator Meyers suggests with typical elegance that a recovery of true Christianity emphasizes compassion over condemnation, blessing over sin, and equity over individual prosperity. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal (starred review) “Scholarly, pastoral, prophetic, and eloquent. The invitation to follow Jesus instead of worshiping Christ could not come at a more important time, or be issued by a more credible source.” —Desmond Tutu “Robin Meyers emerges in Saving Jesus from the Church as a national voice for a new Christianity. He is a well read scholar and a superb communicator. He writes with a refreshing honesty and a disarming authority. This book is a treat.” —John Shelby Spong, author of Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism “Meyers’ insightful and provocative critique of contemporary Christianity will stimulate energetic theologizing: deconstruction, reconstruction, or impassioned defense of the inherited tradition. Thank you, Robin, for convening this urgently needed conversation.” —Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr., president and founder of The Healing of the Nations Foundation

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Harper Collins

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0061973068

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Book's by Robin Joy Meyers

Alone but Not Lonely

Alone but Not Lonely

Alone but Not Lonely

Alone but Not Lonely

Saving Jesus from the Church

Saving Jesus from the Church

Why the Christian Right Is Wrong

Why the Christian Right Is Wrong

The Underground Church

The Underground Church

Morning Sun on a White Piano

Morning Sun on a White Piano

With Ears to Hear

With Ears to Hear

Spiritual Defiance

Spiritual Defiance

Saving God from Religion

Saving God from Religion

Discovering Feminist Philosophy

Discovering Feminist Philosophy

The Making of the Cold War Enemy

The Making of the Cold War Enemy

Voyage of the Sable Venus

Voyage of the Sable Venus

Old Testament Story and Christian Ethics

Old Testament Story and Christian Ethics

Men of the Zodiac Boxed Set

Men of the Zodiac Boxed Set

Saving Jesus from the Church

Saving Jesus from the Church

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