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A Pilgrim's Digress

Author : John D. Spalding
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Pilgrim's Digress written by John D. Spalding and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a long, strange journey to paradise, and often hilarious one, if you bravely follow the road less traveled--wherever it leads. John D. Spalding certainly has. In this smart and insightful collection, Spalding, Beliefnet.com's popular offbeat humorist, wanders America as a modern-day "pilgrim" seeking the Celestial City. Loosely organizing his comic misadventures according to John Bunyan's classic The Pilgrim's Progress, Spalding describes how he spent three days as a street preacher in Times Square ("Excuse me, sir, did you know you're going to hell?"); went to the mat (conversationally) with Omega and Apocalypse, two mainstays of the Christian Wrestling Federation; and visited a man who, practicing the art of trepanation, drilled a hole in his head to make himself permanently happy. He also experienced his own funeral, courtesy of the Dying-to-Get-In Company. Like Christian, Bunyan's beleaguered pilgrim, Spalding never knows who is waiting around the next bend. On his journey, he finds himself at the mercy of rebirthing therapists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Mormon missionaries, and in the company of a psychic "ghost counselor," America's luckiest (and perhaps divinely blessed) lottery winner, and a mysterious, barefoot holy man named Whatsyourname. Finally, he makes an ancient, five-hundred-mile pilgrimage across Spain, during which he learns what it truly means to be a pilgrim. Funny, wry, and revealing, the stories in A Pilgrim's Digress describe Spalding's satirical quest for the righteous path and what he discovers about the spiritual zeitgeist along the way.

The Pilgrim's Digress

Author : T. J. Martinell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781951897307
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book The Pilgrim's Digress written by T. J. Martinell and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-25 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Pilgrim's Digress

Author : Benjamin Szumskyj
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692488263
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (882 download)

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Download or read book The Pilgrim's Digress written by Benjamin Szumskyj and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Pilgrim's Digress, former editor and literary critic Benjamin Szumskyj details the time he spent writing and working in the genres of fantasy and horror literature. Biographically reflecting on the years he spent as a teenager and young adult, Szumskyj realized that his newly-discovered Christian faith was inconsistent with his involvement with secular fiction. Upon leaving the field of literary criticism, he was concerned to discover that many Christian readers embraced the genres that he once studied. To counter this, Szumskyj began writing The Pilgrim's Digress as a work of discernment in order to expose these genres as not being credible instruments in living out the Great Commission, to rebut claims that secular literature should be celebrated and read by Christians, and to admonish so-called Christian fantasy and horror authors and their novels. Unlike many other Christian books that condone such genres, Szumskyj's The Pilgrim's Digress is a labor of love that seeks to promote a high view of Scripture, redeem the time spent reading works not born of the Kingdom, and inform Christian readers of the dangers in reading both Christian and secular literature that are labeled fantasy and horror.

Practicing Pilgrimage

Author : Brett Webb-Mitchell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1620329484
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Practicing Pilgrimage written by Brett Webb-Mitchell and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practicing Pilgrimage: On Being and Becoming God's Pilgrim People explores both the theological, cultural, and spiritual roots of Christian pilgrimage, and is a "how-to" book on doing pilgrimage in our suburban backyards, city streets, rural roads, churches, retreat centers, and our everyday life. Brett Webb-Mitchell takes the ancient practice of Christian pilgrimage and applies it to our contemporary lives. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }

Christianity and the Postmodern Turn

Author : Myron B. Penner
Publisher : Brazos Press
ISBN 13 : 144120251X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Christianity and the Postmodern Turn written by Myron B. Penner and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our post-Cold War, post-colonial, post-Christian world, Western culture is experiencing a dramatic shift. Correspondingly, says Myron Penner, recent philosophy has taken a postmodern turn in which traditional concepts of reality, truth, language, and knowledge have been radically altered, if not discarded. Here James K.A. Smith, John Franke, Merold Westphal, Kevin Vanhoozer, Douglas Geivett, and R. Scott Smith respond to the question, "What perils and/or promises does the postmodern turn hold for the tasks of Christian thinkers?" Addressing topics such as the nature of rationality and biblical faith, the relationship of language to reality, and the impact of postmodern concerns on ethics, this book presents a variety of positions in vigorous dialogue with each other.

Faith in Small Groups of Adolescents

Author : Harmen van Wijnen
Publisher : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
ISBN 13 : 9463010742
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Faith in Small Groups of Adolescents written by Harmen van Wijnen and published by Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The church is struggling with the gap between the church and adolescents. Over the last decades, the problem of ‘bridging the gap’ was often outsourced to youth ministry in different forms, such as special youth workers, faith-learning programs, local activities, national events, holidays, and education of youth leaders. However, the overall conclusion is that over the last ten years, traditional youth ministry forms cannot function as the bridge they should be; the gap is too deep and too wide, or perhaps the metaphor of the gap is no longer appropriate to describe the current situation regarding the church and adolescents. This book aims to provide a creative and innovative contribution to the search for new paradigms in youth ministry. This book shows that small groups are very important for adolescents. The natural social environment greatly influences adolescents in their process of transformation from childhood to adulthood, including faith socialization. The emphasis on the natural social environment can be defined as follows: “Being goes before organizing, and the individual cannot ‘be’ without others.” Briefly, “being together as a basic given.” The conclusion of this book is that youth ministry needs a twofold turn: a turn from the individual to the communal, and a turn from an organized environment to a natural environment.

The Drama of Doctrine

Author : Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664223274
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book The Drama of Doctrine written by Kevin J. Vanhoozer and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Observing a strange disappearance of doctrine within the church, Kevin Vanhoozer argues that there is no more urgent task for Christians today than to engage in living truthfully with others before God. He details how doctrine serves the church--the theater of the gospel--by directing individuals and congregations to participate in the drama of what God is doing to renew all things in Jesus Christ. Taking his cue from George Lindbeck and others who locate the criteria of Christian identity in Spirit-led church practices, Vanhoozer relocates the norm for Christian doctrine in the canonical practices, which, he argues, both provoke and preserve the integrity of the church's witness as prophetic and apostolic.

Validity in the Identification and Interpretation of Literary Allusions in the Hebrew Bible

Author : David R. Klingler
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666720240
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Validity in the Identification and Interpretation of Literary Allusions in the Hebrew Bible written by David R. Klingler and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the present state of affairs in the area of intertextuality, along with the multitude of competing interpretations of Scripture, Validity in the Identification and Interpretation of a Literary Allusion in the Bible seeks to bring a measure of reason and methodological control back into the discussion. With that in mind, this work is heavily philosophical yet also deeply practical. By defining what literary allusions are and how they work, David Klingler seeks to provide some interpretive criteria for assessing the various claims about literary allusions in the Bible.

The Pun-Dementals

Author : David C. Campbell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666760072
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book The Pun-Dementals written by David C. Campbell and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-04-13 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains limericks galore, Packed with puns, but also much more: Academic lights And helpful insights May be seen as o’er pages you pore. Is the Bible (gasp!) boring? This set of limericks may change your mind, or at least supply you with enough puns to keep your students awake all semester and enough rhymes to jog their memories before the exam. Or perhaps you want to get onto (or removed from) the church sign committee. Looking at familiar (or less familiar) biblical passages and events in church history from a different angle may even provide new insights—especially if the viewing angle is slightly askew. And, as Proverbs 17:22 says, “A merry heart doeth good like a medicine,” so buckle your seatbelt for a ride on the Romans road less taken.

Roadside Religion

Author : Timothy Kandler Beal
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807010624
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Roadside Religion written by Timothy Kandler Beal and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 2002, Timothy K. Beal loaded his family into a twenty-nine-foot-long motor home and hit the rural highways of America in search of roadside religious attractions-sites like the World's Largest Ten Commandments, Golgotha Fun Park, and Precious Moments Chapel. Why, he wanted to know, would someone use miniature golf to tell the story of the Creation? Or build a life-size replica of Noah's ark in Maryland? As a scholar, Beal hoped to come to understand the meaning of these places as expressions of religious imagination and experience. But as someone who had grown up in an evangelical Christian church in which he no longer rested comfortably, Beal found himself driven by a desire to venture beyond the borders of his cynicism to encounter faith in all its awesome absurdity. And so he found himself deep in conversation with people like Bill Rice, whose Cross Garden features thousands of makeshift crosses and old air conditioners bearing the message NO ICE WATER IN HELL! FIRE HOT! Part travel narrative, part religious study, and part search for the divine madness that is faith, Roadside Religion takes the reader on a tour of the strange and often wondrous ways people have tried to give outward form to their inner religious experiences. Religion is most interesting-and most revealing-Beal shows us, where it's least expected.

How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith

Author : Crystal Downing
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830827587
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith written by Crystal Downing and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2006-05-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crystal L. Downing introduces students (especially those in the arts) to postmodernism: where it came from, and how Christians can best understand, critique and benefit from its insights.

Blessed and Beautiful

Author : Lisa Washington Lamb
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630871982
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Blessed and Beautiful written by Lisa Washington Lamb and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colleges can do it. Hospitals can do it. Workplaces can do it. Why does the church in the United States still find it so difficult to integrate across racial and ethnic divides? In Blessed and Beautiful Lisa Lamb trains her sights on one often overlooked facet of forging life together: the magnetic power of shared memories. Those common narratives bind ethnic groups together and keep them apart. This book explores the sociological and theological dimensions of social memory and considers the particularly powerful tool preaching could be for shaping individuals who are willing to risk remembering their people's past in church and for shaping churches capable of hearing those stories. While keenly aware of the complex dynamics involved, Lamb ultimately gives pastors and other church leaders a glimmer of hope as they seek to build reconciled communities of faith.

A Pilgrim's Path

Author : Wesley Henry
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1604622768
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book A Pilgrim's Path written by Wesley Henry and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seasonal arrangement collection of devotions and daily living, of common things with eternal effects, set in Kentucky, by Minister of Education, Wesley Henry.

C. S. Lewis

Author : Bruce L. Edwards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313082081
Total Pages : 1398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book C. S. Lewis written by Bruce L. Edwards and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 1398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most popularly known as the author of the children's classic The Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis was also a prolific poet, essayist, novelist, and Christian writer. His most famous work, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, while known as a children's book is often read as a Christian allegory and remains to this day one of his best-loved works. But Lewis was prolific in a number of areas, including poetry, Christian writing, literary criticism, letters, memoir, autobiography, sermons and more. This set, written by experts, guides readers to a better understanding and appreciation of this important and influential writer. Clive Staples Lewis was born on November 29, 1898, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. His mother died when he was young, leaving his father to raise him and his older brother Warren. He fought and was wounded in World War I and later became immersed in the spiritual life of Christianity. While he delved into the world of Christian writing, he did not limit himself to one genre and produced a remarkable oeuvre that continues to be widely read, taught, and adored at all levels. As part of the circle known as the Inklings, which consisted of writers and intellectuals, and included J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and others, he developed and honed his skills and continued to put out extensive writings. Many different groups now claim him as their own: spanning genres from science fiction to Christian literature, from nonfiction to children's stories, his output remains among the most popular and complex. Here, experts in the field of Lewis studies examine all his works along with the details of his life and the culture in which he lived to give readers the fullest complete picture of the man, the writer, and the husband, alongside his works, his legacy, and his place in English letters.

Notes on the Pilgrim's Way, in West Surrey

Author : Edward Renouard JAMES
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Notes on the Pilgrim's Way, in West Surrey written by Edward Renouard JAMES and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Pilgrimage to the Temples and Tombs of Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1845-6

Author : Isabella Frances Romer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book A Pilgrimage to the Temples and Tombs of Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1845-6 written by Isabella Frances Romer and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Death of a Pilgrim

Author : David Dickinson
Publisher : C & R Crime
ISBN 13 : 1780334133
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Death of a Pilgrim written by David Dickinson and published by C & R Crime. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1905. A young man called James Delaney is dying in a New York hospital. The doctors and the nuns cannot save him. When his life is spared his tycoon father takes it as a miracle and organizes a family pilgrimage to the resting place of the boy's name saint, Saint James the Greater in Santiago de Compostela in Spain, the greatest pilgrimage site of the Middle Ages. The first modern-day pilgrim is killed in Le Puy en Velay in Southern France and Powerscourt is summoned to investigate. The pilgrims' progress across the holy sites is punctuated by further bizarre deaths. After his own life is put in terrible danger Powerscourt finally solves the murders on the day of the Bull Run at Pamplona in Southern Spain where young men race down the cobbled streets pursued by the bulls. The careless are gored to death, but it is up to Powerscourt to beware of the horns and other hidden dangers to finally resolve the Deaths of the Pilgrims.