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Download or read book Unfettered Hope written by Marva J. Dawn and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dawn identifies the social and cultural issues and attitudes that contribute to despair and lack of hope in the world, and provides a way for Christians to identify appropriate primary concerns around which they should live their lives.
Download or read book Unfettered Hope written by Marva J. Dawn and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2003-03-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this prophetic call to faithful Christian living, Marva Dawn identifies the epidemic socio-cultural attitudes that destroy hope in our modern lives. Because affluent persons don't know what to value--how to choose what's important and weed out the rest--we remain dissatisfied with what we have and are compelled to want more. Dawn demonstrates, however, how Christians can organize their lives to live in ways that allow them to love God and neighbor and, in the process, alleviate the despair in their lives and in the lives of others in the world.
Book Synopsis Pastoral Virtues for Artificial Intelligence by : Jaco J. Hamman
Download or read book Pastoral Virtues for Artificial Intelligence written by Jaco J. Hamman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastoral Virtues for Artificial Intelligence (AI) acknowledges that human destiny is intimately tied to artificial intelligence. AI already outperforms a person on most tasks. Our ever-deepening relationship with an AI that is increasingly autonomous mirrors our relationship to what is perceived as Sacred or Divine. Like God, AI awakens hope and fear in people, while giving life to some and taking livelihood, especially in the form of jobs, from others. AI, built around values of convenience, productivity, speed, efficiency, and cost reduction, serve humanity poorly, especially in moments that demand care and wisdom. This book explores the pastoral virtues of hope, patience, play, wisdom, and compassion as foundational to personal flourishing, communal thriving, and building a robust AI. Biases of determinism, speed, objectivity, ignorance, and apathy within AI's algorithms are identified. These biases can be minimized through the incorporation of pastoral virtues as values guiding AI.
Download or read book Unfettered written by Mandy Smith and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Smith's sage advice will aid Christians in recognizing the simple joys of practicing their faith."--Publishers Weekly Western culture is in a tailspin, and Christian faith is entangled in it: we do kingdom things in empire ways. Western approaches to faith leave us feeling depressed, doubting, anxious, and burned out. We know something is wrong with the way we do faith and church in the West, but we're so steeped in it that we don't know where to begin to break old habits. Popular pastor and speaker Mandy Smith invites us to be unfettered from the deeply ingrained habits of Western culture so we can do kingdom things in kingdom ways again. She explores how we can be transformed by new postures and habits that help us see God already at work in and around us. The way forward isn't more ideas, programs, and problem-solving but in Jesus's surprising invitation to the kingdom through childlikeness. Ultimately, rediscovering childlike habits is a way for us to remember how to be human. Unfettered helps us reimagine how to follow God with our whole selves again and join with God's mission in the world. Foreword by Walter Brueggemann.
Book Synopsis Trajectory of the 21st Century by : Lawrence J. Terlizzese
Download or read book Trajectory of the 21st Century written by Lawrence J. Terlizzese and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trajectory of the Twenty-first Century explores what many prophets of the twentieth century, such as Oswald Spengler, Paul Tillich, Aldous Huxley, Jacques Ellul, and others, have predicted would transpire in the current century. Their vision included an out-of-control technological system and a return to religious sentiment that will ultimately undermine the system to which it is reacting. This book aims to accurately present their positions and draw certain logical conclusions from them that pertain to the course of history in our time. The book's theme argues that modernity is a secularized version of millennial Christianity, which reaches its fullest development in the twenty-first century and will regress into what Russian philosopher Nicholas Berdyaev called "the new Middle Ages" or a new religious period. This will mean the twilight of modern technological society, as its values of rationalism give way to a postrationalist society. Ironically, decline will come through further technological advance. Omnicide threatens through religious world war driven by transcendent values and modern weaponry. Jihadist thinking and posthumanist technology both establish the omnicidal mentatlity. New technologies such as genetic engineering and artificial intelligence created under millennial inspiration to reach for immortality could potentially bring an end to the human species either through a slow, steady obsolescence or through environmental catastrophe. The titanic forces of technological progress and regress are on a direct collision course in the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis Beyond Homelessness by : Steven Bouma-Prediger
Download or read book Beyond Homelessness written by Steven Bouma-Prediger and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a brilliant use of metaphor that makes clear why the world leaves us feeling so uneasy!
Download or read book 台灣光華雜誌2017年11月號中英文版 written by 光華畫報雜誌社 and published by 光華畫報雜誌社. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 在東南亞市場備受國際矚目之際，根據印尼投資協調委員會（BKPM）與我國投審會之統計，截至2016年底，台灣對印尼投資案達到2,425件，總額達151億美元，如今隨著政府「新南向政策」的啟動，雙邊關係將更加熱絡。 本期《光華》編採團隊，親赴印尼進行海外專訪，導報我國台商、新創、服務等新興產業於印尼之成果，以及在移工、教育、觀光等面向之交流情形，加上國合會印尼技術團於當地40載的援助計畫，讓國內外讀者深入了解印尼市場的變與不變。
Book Synopsis Feasting on the Word: Year C, Volume 2 by : David L. Bartlett
Download or read book Feasting on the Word: Year C, Volume 2 written by David L. Bartlett and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2009-10-12 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this new lectionary commentary series, Westminster John Knox offers the most extensive resource for preaching on the market today. When complete, the twelve volumes of the series will cover all the Sundays in the three-year lectionary cycle, along with movable occasions, such as Christmas Day, Epiphany, Holy Week, and All Saints' Day. For each lectionary text, preachers will find four brief essays--one each on the theological, pastoral, exegetical, and homiletical challenges of the text. This gives preachers sixteen different approaches to the proclaimation of the Word on any given occasion. The editors and contributors to this series are world-class scholars, pastors, and writers representing a variety of denominations and traditions. And while the twelve volumes of the series will follow the pattern of the Revised Common Lectionary, each volume will contain an index of biblical passages so that nonlectionary preachers, as well as teachers and students, may make use of its contents.
Download or read book Loving Jesus written by Mark Allan Powell and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essence of spirituality is loving God, says Powell. The Bible, the Talmud, and the Qu'ran all direct their followers not merely to believe in God, to trust God, to obey God, and to serve God but to love God. But how does one do that? Can we learn to love God? In this biblical spirituality for today, Powell's earnest plea is for Christians to revisit their faith not by blazing in religious enthusiasm but by harboring a steadier flame and deeper commitment. Living at the poetic heart of faith, he argues, entails seeing the coordinates of religious life love, understanding, truth, hope and especially devotion in a new way. Powell espouses the old-fashioned idea of piety. Drawing on his wide knowledge of the Bible and Christian tradition, as well as insights from his own journey, he shows how simple religious practices move us beyond the old certitudes of a naove and youthful faith into the less certain but more bracing terrain of a second naovete, a closer walk with Jesus.
Book Synopsis Stairway to Heaven by : Erich J. Goller
Download or read book Stairway to Heaven written by Erich J. Goller and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Erich's Tenth book, a wonderful variety of poetry about, life, inspiration, love, nature, dreams, faith, wisdom, fantasy, humor, lyrics, written in different poetic styles for all ages to Enjoy. It might bring back some pleasant memories and may stimulate some of your dreams,
Book Synopsis Inhabiting the Church by : Jon R. Stock
Download or read book Inhabiting the Church written by Jon R. Stock and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the church is more than just a building, what could it mean to live in it--to inhabit it as a way of life? From their location in new monastic communities, Otto, Stock, and Wilson-Hartgrove ask what the church can learn from St. Benedict's vows of conversion, obedience, and stability about how to live as the people of God in the world. In story-telling and serious engagement with Scripture, old wisdom breathes life into a new monasticism. But, like all monastic wisdom, these reflections are not just for monks. They speak directly to the challenge of being the church in America today and the good news Christ offers for the whole world.
Download or read book The Pessimist written by Oussama hamana and published by Oussama hamana. This book was released on 2023-11-12 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Pessimist" takes you on a captivating journey through history, unraveling the evolution of dreams from audacious predictions in 1923 to our contemporary reality. Explore the contrasting threads of optimism and pessimism, understanding their profound impact on decisions and shaping the course of history. Join this intellectual odyssey that challenges, inspires, and guides us through the uncertainties of the human experience.
Book Synopsis The Moving of Mountains by : Adhirath Sethi
Download or read book The Moving of Mountains written by Adhirath Sethi and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2024-02-22 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Agastya International Foundation is an Indian education trust and non-profit organization based in Bangalore, India, whose mission is to spark curiosity, nurture creativity and build confidence among economically disadvantaged children and teachers in India. A team of scientists, educators, and entrepreneurs led by Ramji Raghavan founded Agastya in 1999 and has since become one of the most remarkable social enterprise stories in the world. This book tells that story of Agastya's remarkable origins, the individuals who devoted their resources and efforts to make a difference, the vision and beliefs behind Agastya, and the many children who have benefitted from Agastya's renowned experiments in educational innovation and project-based learning programs. The Moving of Mountains is, moreover, the story of an extraordinary and generous dream of a group of people who wanted to make available a path of discovery for everyone.
Book Synopsis The Merging of Theology and Spirituality by : Larry S. McDonald
Download or read book The Merging of Theology and Spirituality written by Larry S. McDonald and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2006-07-29 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While acknowledging the inherent tension between evangelicals who emphasize theological propositions and those who emphasize personal experience, Alister McGrath believes that spirituality represents the interface between ideas and life, between Christian theology and human existence. The book explores the centrality of McGrath's theology in the development of his views on spirituality. McGrath does not approach spirituality from a theological void, but instead uses his theological perspective as the foundation. Through detailed examination of McGrath's previous work and the writing of other evangelicals, The Merging of Theology and Spirituality offers an overview of a unique thinker's contributions and a guide for future theological and spiritual exploration.
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Book Synopsis Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers by : Shane Claiborne
Download or read book Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers written by Shane Claiborne and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2009-10-16 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do." —from the Introduction Activists Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove show how prayer and action must go together. Their exposition of key Bible passages provides concrete examples of how a life of prayer fuels social engagement and the work of justice. Phrases like "give us this day our daily bread" and "forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors" take on new meaning when applied to feeding the hungry or advocating for international debt relief. If you hope to see God change society, you must be an ordinary radical who prays—and then is ready to become the answer to your own prayers.
Book Synopsis Culture Making (EasyRead Large Bold Edition) by : Andy Crouch
Download or read book Culture Making (EasyRead Large Bold Edition) written by Andy Crouch and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andy Crouch, a senior editor for Christianity Today International, discusses the creation and cultivation of culture and how Christians can and should be involved in the creative process.
