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Seeking the Straight and Narrow

Author : Lynne Gerber
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226288137
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Seeking the Straight and Narrow written by Lynne Gerber and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Losing weight and changing your sexual orientation are both notoriously difficult to do successfully. Yet many faithful evangelical Christians believe that thinness and heterosexuality are godly ideals—and that God will provide reliable paths toward them for those who fall short. Seeking the Straight and Narrow is a fascinating account of the world of evangelical efforts to alter our strongest bodily desires. Drawing on fieldwork at First Place, a popular Christian weight-loss program, and Exodus International, a network of ex-gay ministries, Lynne Gerber explores why some Christians feel that being fat or gay offends God, what exactly they do to lose weight or go straight, and how they make sense of the program’s results—or, frequently, their lack. Gerber notes the differences and striking parallels between the two programs, and, more broadly, she traces the ways that other social institutions have attempted to contain the excesses associated with fatness and homosexuality. Challenging narratives that place evangelicals in constant opposition to dominant American values, Gerber shows that these programs reflect the often overlooked connection between American cultural obsessions and Christian ones.

Saving History

Author : Lauren R. Kerby
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 146965590X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Saving History written by Lauren R. Kerby and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-02-21 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of tourists visit Washington, D.C., every year, but for some the experience is about much more than sightseeing. Lauren R. Kerby's lively book takes readers onto tour buses and explores the world of Christian heritage tourism. These expeditions visit the same attractions as their secular counterparts—Capitol Hill, the Washington Monument, the war memorials, and much more—but the white evangelicals who flock to the tours are searching for evidence that America was founded as a Christian nation. The tours preach a historical jeremiad that resonates far beyond Washington. White evangelicals across the United States tell stories of the nation's Christian origins, its subsequent fall into moral and spiritual corruption, and its need for repentance and return to founding principles. This vision of American history, Kerby finds, is white evangelicals' most powerful political resource—it allows them to shapeshift between the roles of faithful patriots and persecuted outsiders. In an era when white evangelicals' political commitments baffle many observers, this book offers a key for understanding how they continually reimagine the American story and their own place in it.

After the Wrath of God

Author : Anthony Michael Petro
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199391289
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book After the Wrath of God written by Anthony Michael Petro and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study demonstrates how Christian leaders and AIDS activists in the United States have posited HIV/AIDS as a religious and moral epidemic and asks how this understanding has informed cultural and political debates about prevention, healthcare, and sex education all over the world. Drawing upon archival research, oral histories, and textual analysis, this book maps the moral language regarding sexuality - and especially homosexuality - through which evangelicals, mainline Protestants, Catholic leaders, and gay and lesbian AIDS activists made sense of and responded to the epidemic.

What's Wrong with Fat?

Author : Abigail Saguy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199857083
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book What's Wrong with Fat? written by Abigail Saguy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's Wrong with Fat? examines the social implications of understanding fatness as a medical health risk, disease, and epidemic. Examining the ways in which debates over fatness have developed, Abigail Saguy argues that the obesity crisis literally makes us fat, intensifies negative body image, and justifies weight-based discrimination.

The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion, Sexuality, and Gender

Author : Donald L. Boisvert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474237819
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion, Sexuality, and Gender written by Donald L. Boisvert and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do religion, gender and sexuality interact? How have they impacted, and continue to impact, human culture? The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion, Sexuality and Gender brings together, for the first time, the key texts in the field. Designed as a textbook for use in a classroom setting, it offers thought-provoking selections of some of the most compelling and timely readings available today. The Reader is divided into three parts (bodies; desires; performances). Each considers, from a thematic perspective, the ways in which people have made sense of their religious and sexual experiences, the ways they imagine and talk about gender, sex and the sacred, and the multiple meanings they ascribe to them. Traditions represented include indigenous spiritualities, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Asian traditions and new religious movements. Some readings are more theoretical or historical in nature, thereby providing wide-ranging contexts for reflection and discussion. The reader includes extensive introductions to the book as a whole and to each of the three parts, as well as short paragraphs contextualizing each of the readings. Each section includes discussion questions for classroom use; additional readings and resources, as well as a glossary of key terms, are also provided. The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion, Sexuality and Gender is an ideal resource for courses on religion and sexuality, religion and gender, or religion and contemporary culture more generally.

Christians under Covers

Author : Kelsy Burke
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520961587
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Christians under Covers written by Kelsy Burke and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians under Covers shifts how scholars and popular media talk about religious conservatives and sex. Moving away from debates over homosexuality, premarital sex, and other perceived sexual sins, Kelsy Burke examines Christian sexuality websites to show how some evangelical Christians use digital media to promote the idea that God wants married, heterosexual couples to have satisfying sex lives. These evangelicals maintain their religious beliefs while incorporating feminist and queer language into their talk of sexuality—encouraging sexual knowledge, emphasizing women’s pleasure, and justifying marginal sexual practices within Christian marriages. This illuminating ethnography complicates the boundaries between normal and subversive, empowered and oppressed, and sacred and profane.

Miracle in the Mundane

Author : Tyler Knott Gregson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 052553752X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Miracle in the Mundane written by Tyler Knott Gregson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The national bestselling author of Chasers of the Light pulls back the curtain on his creative process to share how to unlock creativity and lead a more mindful and compassionate life Every day, Tyler Knott Gregson posts romantic and striking poems on Instagram, enchanting his many fans with his authentic and deeply personal voice. He has a remarkable ability to see the beauty within the seemingly mundane moments of our lives, and above all else this is what keeps his fans coming back for more. Tyler's newest book showcases his inspiring poems, but it also goes one step deeper to reveal his secrets to cultivating this sense of wonder for the world. In this insightful guide, you will learn how to uncover your creativity, find inspiration, and live a life that is "more." Through a series of challenges, you are encouraged to write, draw, photograph, and share as you discover how to see yourself in a new way. Featuring exercises on mindfulness and self-expression as well as a poem for every prompt, this book will broaden your heart and mind to see the miracles hidden all around you.

The Congregational Visiter

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Daily Devotional

Author : Glen A. Huff
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1453555439
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Daily Devotional written by Glen A. Huff and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-08-27 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daily Devotional is a worship aid designed to help the reader focus on scripture and its application each day. The book originated with weekly inspirational e-mail messages sent to a small group of readers who forwarded the messages to others. Over a period of more than 7 years the messages made their way into a variety of places including the Pentagon, prisons, military encampments in Iraq, used car lots and beauty salons, to name a few. Those messages have been compiled into the Daily Devotional.

Real Faith in Action

Author : Curl Oral Hazell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1606087819
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Real Faith in Action written by Curl Oral Hazell and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this day of increasing uncertainty and fear, faith in God is needed more than ever before. In addition to its incalculable other benefits, faith in God brings peace, comfort, and overflowing joy to those who put their trust in God. But not any kind of "faith" can procure these benefits, only biblical faith can. When understood in its biblical authenticity, and then put into action, faith always leads to triumph in that it enables us to experience what God ordained for us to obtain, perform, and become. In light of this, it is extremely important that we--the people of God--possess a comprehensive, biblically-based, practical tool to aid us in achieving this understanding. Real Faith in Action is that tool! It presents an unconventional, multi-dimensional view of faith, revealing many aspects usually not discussed in other works, through nine principles that are clearly laid out by the Holy Spirit in what is unquestionably the most comprehensive reporting of the working of faith in all of Scripture--the roll call of faith in Hebrews 11. The principles are thus illustrated through the real life experiences of fellow humans who dared to believe God for the impossible. Accordingly, the book goes beyond explaining faith to demonstrating faith. It is designed to captivate and draw the reader into the world of the faith heroes of the past, thus inspiring him or her to do likewise. Furthermore, in that real life experiences are discussed, any thought of being incapable of doing the same should be vanquished, knowing that others succeeded in their accomplishments by utilizing the same faith to which we also have access.

Enlightenment by Trial and Error

Author : Jay Michaelson
Publisher : Ben Yehuda Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Enlightenment by Trial and Error written by Jay Michaelson and published by Ben Yehuda Press. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “spiritual but not religious” are the fastest-growing denomination on America today. Yet what are the roadmaps? What does the spiritual search look like for a seeker in 21st century America, fully plugged-in, online, cynical, and sincere? Enlightenment by Trial and Error is a unique book by bestselling author and Daily Beast columnist Jay Michaelson. Today, Michaelson is a rabbi with a PhD in Jewish Thought, a teacher on the Ten Percent Happier meditation app, and a political columnist read by a quarter million readers per month. But not long ago, Jay was a young spiritual seeker, pursuing mystical experiences (and even enlightenment) with an open heart and restless intellectual curiosity. Drawn from essays written over a ten-year period of questioning and exploration, this book is a unique record of the spiritual search, from the perspective of someone who made plenty of mistakes along the way.

The Narrow Door

Author : Paul Lisicky
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979211
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book The Narrow Door written by Paul Lisicky and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Narrow Door, Paul Lisicky creates a compelling collage of scenes and images drawn from two long-term relationships, one with a woman novelist and the other with his ex-husband, a poet. The contours of these relationships shift constantly. Denise and Paul, stretched by the demands of their writing lives, drift apart, and Paul's romance begins to falter. And the world around them is frail: environmental catastrophes like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, natural disasters like the earthquake in Haiti, and local disturbances make an unsettling backdrop to the pressing concerns of Denise's cancer diagnosis and Paul's impending breakup. Lisicky's compassionate heart and resilience seem all the stronger in the face of such searing losses. His survival--hard-won, unsentimental, authentic--proves that in turning toward loss, we embrace life.

Why I Didn't Rebel

Author : Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 0718090179
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Why I Didn't Rebel written by Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique combination of personal history, interviews, and social science, a young millennial shares surprising reasons that youthful rebellion isn’t inevitable and points the way for raising healthy, grounded children who love God. Teen rebellion is seen as a cultural norm, but Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach begs to differ. In Why I Didn’t Rebel--based on a viral blog post that has been read by more than 750,000 people--Lindenbach shows how rebellion is neither unavoidable nor completely understood. Based on interviews with her peers and combining the latest research in psychology and social science with stories from her own life, she gives parents a new paradigm for raising kids who don’t go off the rails. Rather than provide step-by-step instructions on how to construct the perfect family, Lindenbach tells her own story and the stories of others as examples of what went right, inviting readers to think differently about parenting. Addressing hot-button issues such as courtship, the purity movement, and spanking--and revealing how some widely-held beliefs in the Christian community may not actually help children--Why I Didn’t Rebel provides an utterly unique, eye-opening vision for raising kids who follow God rather than the world.

Positive and Uplifting Poems & Quotes

Author : PercyLee Anderson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1467843512
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book Positive and Uplifting Poems & Quotes written by PercyLee Anderson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of words are to hopefully uplift in a positive way. There's Poems and Sayings of all kinds with a positive message for all.In the words are life experiences of the past,present,and future.l

Pursuing Sexual Wholeness

Author : Andrew Comiskey
Publisher : Charisma Media
ISBN 13 : 0884192598
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Pursuing Sexual Wholeness written by Andrew Comiskey and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 1989 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real help for Christians who struggle with homosexuality and for those who minister to them. "This book is a product of author Andrew Comiskey's Living Waters program...Pursuing Sexual Wholeness and its companion guidebook present Comiskey's teaching to the church at large."

Scripture Is a Compass to Jesus Christ

Author : Stephane Miron
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Scripture Is a Compass to Jesus Christ written by Stephane Miron and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-19 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book The truth has been lost, buried, distorted, hidden, and forgotten. Scripture Is a Compass to Jesus Christ demonstrate the importance of Scripture in our daily lives. Through select passages, Stephane Miron guides the reader through the truth found in the Bible. Each gives an interesting take on Scripture for those interested in finding answers to life’s difficult questions. About the Author Stephane Miron is a forty-six-year-old father of three who is seeking to shed light to the world. He is a deep follower and believer of Jesus Christ. He wishes to share truths he has discovered so far in his journey, hopefully guide other to Jesus Christ in the process.

Christianity Versus the God of Calvin

Author : John Boyd
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1600346596
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Christianity Versus the God of Calvin written by John Boyd and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the author, Satan laughs at the idea of people believing the worst about God, and as a result of Satan's plan, a false religion is taking American churches and seminaries by storm--a religion driven by the idea that God hates most of mankind. (Christian)