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Welcoming Resistance

Author : William Chris Hobgood
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1566996910
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Welcoming Resistance written by William Chris Hobgood and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resistance can be a sign of vital, high-quality, and faithful life in a congregation, and a learning opportunity for congregational leaders who recognize the value of hearing from those who resist ministry initiatives, inviting their input and listening to their response. Hobgood proposes a "continuum of interventions" that can be made by pastors and lay leaders. He also observes that the degree of resistance will intensify as the degree of change deepens, but suggests that when we try to squelch resistance, we threaten the congregation's very existence. Congregational leaders will appreciate Hobgood's positive and pastoral approach to the resistance they encounter in their own faith communities and his concrete and practical suggestions for building more constructive relationships.

Welcome to the Revolution

Author : Charles Derber
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317235401
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Welcome to the Revolution written by Charles Derber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Women’s March gathered millions just one day after Trump’s inauguration, a new era of progressive action was born. Organizing on the far Right led to Trump’s election, bringing authoritarianism and the specter of neo-fascism, and intensifying corporate capitalism’s growing crises of inequality and injustices. Yet now we see a new universalizing resistance among progressive and left movements for truth, dignity, and a world based on democracy, equality, and sustainability. Derber offers the first comprehensive guide to this new era and an original vision and strategy for movement success. He convincingly shows how only a new universalizing wave, a progressive and revolutionary "movement of movements," can counter the world-universalizing economic and cultural forces of intensifying corporate and far-right power. Derber explores the crises and eroding legitimacy of the globalized capitalist system and the right wing movements that helped create the Trump era. He shows how left universalizing movements can--and must—converge to propel a mass base that can prevent societal, economic, or ecological collapse, stop a resurgent Right, and build a democratic social alternative. He describes tactics and strategies for thisnew progressive movement. Brief guest "interludes" by Medea Benjamin, Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader, Bill Fletcher, Juliet Schor, Gar Alperovitz, Chuck Collins, Matt Nelson, Janet Wallace, and other prominent figures tell how to coalesce and universalize activism into a more powerful movement wave—at local, community, national, and international levels. Vivid and highly accessible, this book is for activists, students, and all citizens concerned about the erosion of justice and democracy. It thoroughly illuminates the rationale, theory, practice, humanism, love, and joy of the social transformation that we urgently need.

Organic Resistance

Author : Venus Bivar
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469641194
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Organic Resistance written by Venus Bivar and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France is often held up as a bastion of gastronomic refinement and as a model of artisanal agriculture and husbandry. But French farming is not at all what it seems. Countering the standard stories of gastronomy, tourism, and leisure associated with the French countryside, Venus Bivar portrays French farmers as hard-nosed businessmen preoccupied with global trade and mass production. With a focus on both the rise of big agriculture and the organic movement, Bivar examines the tumult of postwar rural France, a place fiercely engaged with crucial national and global developments. Delving into the intersecting narratives of economic modernization, the birth of organic farming, the development of a strong agricultural protest movement, and the rise of environmentalism, Bivar reveals a movement as preoccupied with maintaining the purity of the French race as of French food. What emerges is a story of how French farming conquered the world, bringing with it a set of ideas about place and purity with a darker origin story than we might have guessed.

In It for the Long Haul

Author : Glenn E. Ludwig
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1566995582
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (669 download)

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Book Synopsis In It for the Long Haul by : Glenn E. Ludwig

Download or read book In It for the Long Haul written by Glenn E. Ludwig and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When pastors and congregations come together in ministry, they generally do so with the hope that the relationship will be long-lasting and dynamic. The reality, however, is that long-term pastorates are an increasingly rare phenomenon in congregations. White there are many reasons that most pastors can only sustain their ministries in a parish for a relatively limited number of years, Glenn Ludwig argues that this does not have to be the case if both pastors and congregations take deliberate steps toward an enduring friendship.

Addiction to Recovery

Author : David E. McCauley
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514482940
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Addiction to Recovery written by David E. McCauley and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, Addiction to Recovery: Unlocking Your Potential, is an accumulation of existential realization, many resources, years of recovery, education, insights, and years working in the field of addiction, with all adepts in the goal of personal transformation from addiction to recovery. This is an integrative approach to living in wellness of recovery. I vacated my own mind through deep personal process, my own form of meditation, and this book came about. My hope is this book unlocks the potential that advances new insight into the recovery process for each individual by reframing the process in such a way that the right interpretation by the reader will help recovery click into place. What we need to celebrate in recovery is the self-discovery of the individual. I offer my carefully considered overviews and assessments on the best-known treatments (theories) connected to recovery. I have provided a new outlook as a guide for the unwary who had failed at recovery in the past and those just coming into recovery for the first time. I count myself among the autodidacts, the self-taught perpetual student fueled by a passion for new answers and a sense of mission.

Absolute Essentials of Creative Thinking and Problem Solving

Author : Tony Proctor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000397122
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Absolute Essentials of Creative Thinking and Problem Solving written by Tony Proctor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise textbook provides a comprehensive and clear overview of the theory and practice of creative problem solving from a management perspective. The book works step by step through the creative thinking process. Beginning with theoretical frameworks, it considers ways of thinking, defining problems and structuring responses to them, techniques for generating ideas, evaluating and defining them, and finally how technology can be used within the creative problem-solving process. Pedagogical features to aid learning include objectives at the start of each chapter, further reading suggestions and practical examples. Divided into ten short chapters to suit content delivery, this textbook is designed as either core or recommended reading for advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, MBA and Executive Education students studying Creativity and Innovation, Management and Leadership and Management Skills.

The Romance of the Rose

Author : Guillaume de Lorris
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691257779
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Romance of the Rose written by Guillaume de Lorris and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many English-speaking readers of the Roman de la rose, the famous dream allegory of the thirteenth century, have come to rely on Charles Dahlberg's elegant and precise translation of the Old French text. His line-by-line rendering in contemporary English is available again, this time in a third edition with an updated critical apparatus. Readers at all levels can continue to deepen their understanding of this rich tale about the Lover and his quest--against the admonishments of Reason and the obstacles set by Jealousy and Resistance--to pluck the fair Rose in the Enchanted Garden. The original introduction by Dahlberg remains an excellent overview of the work, covering such topics as the iconographic significance of the imagery and the use of irony in developing the central theme of love. His new preface reviews selected scholarship through 1990, which examines, for example, the sources and influences of the work, the two authors, the nature of the allegorical narrative as a genre, the use of first person, and the poem's early reception. The new bibliographic material incorporates that of the earlier editions. The sixty-four miniature illustrations from thirteenth-and fifteenth-century manuscripts are retained, as are the notes keyed to the Langlois edition, on which the translation is based.

Starting with Spirit

Author : Bruce G. Epperly
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1566996392
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Starting with Spirit written by Bruce G. Epperly and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with Spirit is a spiritual and professional resource for new pastors, their family members, and congregations, as well as ministers in every season of ministry who seek to grow in vitality and skill in the ongoing adventure of ministry. For more than thirty years, Bruce Epperly has followed the call of the spirit, moving through his vocations as a congregational pastor, university chaplain, seminary and university professor, and seminary administrator. Drawing on these experiences, he addresses the new pastor's transition from seminary student to congregational leader; pastoral authority; the 'honeymoon;' boundaries; death; the pastor's spiritual life, health, and relationships; the role of the associate pastor; and continuing education.

Creative Problem Solving for Managers

Author : Tony Proctor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134685815
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Creative Problem Solving for Managers written by Tony Proctor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stimulating and developing the creative potential of all members of an organization (not just those in the more traditionally creative functions such as design or research and development) is widely seen as contributing to performance and results. This textbook introduces ideas, skills and models to help students understanding how creative thinking can aid problem-solving. The latest edition of this well-regarded book brings the story up to date whilst retaining popular features such as case studies and case histories together with extensive diagrams, examples and thought-provoking questions. New to this edition are sections on thinking styles and types, creativity and its role in innovation, implementation, and software aids to creativity. This rounded textbook will continue to be an ideal resource for a range of courses and modules across the business school curriculum including problem-solving, strategic management, creativity and innovation management.

Transforming Acts

Author : Bruce G. Epperly
Publisher : Energion Publications
ISBN 13 : 1938434641
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Transforming Acts written by Bruce G. Epperly and published by Energion Publications. This book was released on 2016-07-30 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Healing Marks (Energion Publications, 2012), Dr. Bruce Epperly challenged Christians to take the healings of Jesus seriously as a pattern for how we can become healing communities. Now he turns to the book of Acts as a pattern for the church in the 21st century. He says, “I believe that Acts of the Apostles provides a fluid, open-spirited, and holistic faith for twenty-first century people as well as a vision for congregational transformation and renewal. Anything can happen to those who follow Jesus. Life is adventurous, surprising, and interesting. Worship leads to mission and mission challenges narrow-mindedness and self-imposed limitations. For those who embrace the spirit of Acts of the Apostles, worship will never be boring and every day will be a holy adventure.” This book is not just an exposition of the book of Acts. It is a call to action. But it is more than that. It draws from the lessons of the early church a plan of individual and communal action to live an adventurous life of faith and to change the world. Each chapter includes activities to help you apply the content to your life and mission. Labeled “Transforming Acts” these point to the transforming acts you can take in your personal or congregational life . Acts is a story of a small group of people who set out to do what appeared humanly impossible – change their world. In this book you are invited to become a part of that story, to attempt the humanly impossible, and to bring transformation and renewal to the church and to the entire world.

Sub Rosa

Author : Stewart Alsop
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480446017
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Sub Rosa written by Stewart Alsop and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling history of the Office of Strategic Services, America’s precursor to the CIA, and its secret operations behind enemy lines during World War II. Born in the fires of the Second World War, the Office of Strategic Services, or OSS, was the brainchild of legendary US Maj. Gen. William “Wild Bill” Donovan, designed to provide covert aid to resistance fighters in European nations occupied by Germany’s Nazi aggressors. Paratroopers Stewart Alsop and Thomas Braden—both of whom would become important political columnists in postwar years—became part of Wild Bill’s able collection of soldiers, spies, and covert operatives. Sub Rosa is an enthralling insider’s history of the remarkable intelligence operation that gave birth to the CIA. In Sub Rosa, Alsop and Braden take readers on a breathtaking journey through the birth and development of the top secret wartime espionage organization and detail many of the extraordinary OSS missions in France, Germany, Dakar and Casablanca in North Africa, and in the jungles of Burma that helped to hasten the end of the Japanese Empire and the fall of Adolf Hitler’s powerful Reich. As exciting as any international thriller written by Eric Ambler or Graham Greene, Alsop and Braden’s Sub Rosa is an indispensable addition to the literary history of American espionage and intelligence.

Creative Problem Solving for Managers

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134282842
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Creative Problem Solving for Managers written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Congregational Resources for Facing Feelings

Author : William M. Kondrath
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1566994519
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Congregational Resources for Facing Feelings written by William M. Kondrath and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-12-29 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congregational Resources for Facing Feelings is a companion collection to Facing Feelings in Faith Communities by William Kondrath. This collection of practical applications for congregational situations in which exercising greater emotional competence will improve both our understanding of what is happening and the effectiveness of our actions and those of others.

www.congregationalresources.org

Author : Richard Bass
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1566997070
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book www.congregationalresources.org written by Richard Bass and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004-12-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ever-increasing number of resources compete for the attention of congregational leaders. With a seemingly endless number of choices, finding the best resource on a particular topic for a specific congregation is an often daunting challenge. www.congregationalresources.org, is an invaluable companion to the groundbreaking online version of Alban Institute’s and Indianapolis Center for Congregation’s jointly researched and produced Congregational Resource Guide, launched in 2001 and accessed by thousands of seekers each week. The book conveniently and cogently puts the rich array of important resources into context by examining in depth, the key books, organizations, Web sites, and people that will help leaders gain an understanding of important issues facing their congregations. The book features ten overviews of important topics by widely recognized experts in their fields, including Amy Sherman on Community Ministry, Tom Fischer on Congregational Health, Lee Ramsey on Preaching, Paul Chaffee on Leadership, John Janka on Evaluation, and Jean Trumbauer on Lay Ministry. Each essay is accompanied by an annotated list of selected resources for researching further information. Helpful guides for using these valuable resources to promote and encourage congregational understanding and transformation are also included.

Professional Learning and Identities in Teaching

Author : A. Cendel Karaman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000374211
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Professional Learning and Identities in Teaching written by A. Cendel Karaman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the reflective potentialities offered by analyses of teachers’ professional learning narratives. The book has a specific focus on narratives on professional learning and professional identities emerging from different contexts and gives a deeper understanding of successful teachers’ narratives globally. Diverging from universally standardized constructions of idealized teacher identity and professional learning, the book provides analyses of a diversified set of cases with detailed descriptions of each teacher’s idiographic and professional context to gain a deeper understanding of situated professional identities. With contributions from a range of international backgrounds, it shows teachers of various age groups, subject areas and curricula contribute their narratives to help readers reflect on different trajectories toward becoming a teacher. These narratives provide insight into and a deeper understanding of the conditions and complex processes that being a "successful" teacher involves within these case studies, providing a useful contribution to the field of teacher education. Professional Learning and Identities in Teaching: International Narratives of Successful Teachers will be of great interest to researchers, academics, and post-graduate students of teacher education and international and comparative education.

Master Conflict Without Being a Bitch

Author : Dr. Judy Morley
Publisher : Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
ISBN 13 : 1722527595
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Master Conflict Without Being a Bitch written by Dr. Judy Morley and published by Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media. This book was released on 2023-02-22 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you avoid conflict at all costs? If so, you are completely normal, but that doesn’t make you an effective friend, partner, or from a business perspective, a good leader. Leadership matters most when there is no agreement about how to move forward. And while conflict is a necessary component of peaceful, successful organizations, the most successful leaders know how to navigate conflict without drama and confrontation. That’s because healthy conflict isn’t intense or threatening. It can be as benign as a small difference of opinion, but it’s necessary for evolution since without conflict, nothing grows. This book is about YOU. If you have the discipline to master the five strategies Dr. Judy Morley lays out, you will be much more confident in situations with potential disagreement. Since you will no longer fear conflict, you won’t worry about interactions that might start it. You will enter every situation, relationship or conversation with the ability to stand up for yourself, listen thoroughly to the other person’s perspective, and avoid bruised egos or hurt feelings. Ultimately, you’ll have the confidence to get results. You will learn: How to Anticipate Potential Problems To Set Clear Expectations When to Hold People Accountable How to Overcome Resistance To End Unproductive Relationships Productively You can be a leader who has mastered the art of conflict—someone who is direct, clear, forceful, yet kind. You will be able to master conflict absolutely without being a bitch. And if someone happens to call you one, you will be able to walk away with enough confidence not to care

Reflecting with God

Author : Abigail Johnson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 156699618X
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Reflecting with God written by Abigail Johnson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Untangling the day-to-day issues in our multifaceted lives can seem daunting. Time to sit quietly and reflect is rare. If we are fortunate, we have good friends or close family members with whom to talk things through and find clarity, but many times we feel isolated and lonely. As people of faith, we add another layer to our reflections when we wonder where God fits into our lives. In a broad sense, theological reflection happens any time that we wonder about God, our faith, our beliefs, and our values. In this book, however, Abigail Johnson offers a structured process for engaging in theological reflection by looking at a situation or event through a series of questions. These questions are designed to help individuals and small groups think through situations with the eyes of faith. Johnson provides detailed instructions for group facilitators, making this book a valuable resource for any theological reflection leader. She demonstrates how theological reflection will enrich the faith life of the individual and increase group members’ sense of belonging to God and to the whole people of God. She also shows how small groups engaging in theological reflection affects the ongoing life of a congregation—particularly in the community’s worship and the members’ practice of spiritual disciplines.