Some Christians find it uncivilized and mean to push back against wickedness. The 19th century, Charles Spurgeon preacher said:“Christ Jesus is not neutral in the great contest between right and wrong: as warmly as he loves the one he abhors the other. We should imitate him both in his love and hate; they are both needful to complete a righteous character.”We have to see evil to expose it. We have to hear evil to understand it. We have to speak evil to shame those who toler...

He was a US Army general who was also the only ever Field Marshal of the Philippine Army, and this symbolizes MacArthur’s visionary belief that Asia would dominate the future of the world.How did he turn initial disasters in the Pacific War against Japan to a famous comeback that would make him a national hero? How did his occupation of Japan help transform the ancient nation into a modern peaceful rich society? Why did he spare Emperor Hirohito from near-certain trial for war crim...

This audiobook presents a fresh view of the British war leader as he pursues an independent, and then allied, war against Hitler and the Axis Powers. We analyse his crucial contribution to the greatest war in history, and the peace that ensued.Beginning with the fall of France and the defence of the island of Britain itself, Churchill's military decisions and simultaneous diplomatic efforts to gather an alliance, are explored. We show that his faith in an eventual American alliance...

Este audiolibro presenta una nueva visión del líder de la guerra británica mientras persigue una guerra independiente, y luego aliada, contra Hitler y las Potencias del Eje. Analizamos su crucial contribución a la mayor guerra de la historia, y la paz que siguió.Comenzando con la caída de Francia y la defensa de la propia isla de Gran Bretaña, se exploran las decisiones militares de Churchill y los esfuerzos diplomáticos simultáneos para formar una alianza. Mostramos que su fe en u...

The publication of the Vatican II document on Divine Revelation (Dei Verbum) was an exciting and challenging moment for the Church. While honouring the tradition, it also marked a quite dramatic development in the Church's attitude to modern critical analysis of the Bible and encouraged study and reflection on it by all members of the Church. The golden jubilee of its publication is a timely moment for a book such as this. It contains essays on various aspects of Dei Verbum by authors from...

Since the early hours September first 1939, when the guns of the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire on the Polish military base of Westerplatte in the former free city of Danzig (Gdansk) and triggered the Second World War, over seventy years have gone by.The outcome of the conflict - which claimed the lives of over 55 million people and involved most of the nations of the Earth – left the world divided into two armed camps: one, dominated by the USSR and its Communist...

Desde la madrugada del 1 de septiembre de 1939, cuando los cañones del acorazado alemán Schleswig-Holstein abrieron fuego contra la base militar polaca de Westerplatte, en la antigua ciudad libre de Danzig (Gdansk), y desencadenaron la Segunda Guerra Mundial, han pasado más de setenta años.El resultado del conflicto, que se cobró la vida de más de 55 millones de personas e involucró a la mayoría de las naciones de la Tierra, dejó al mundo dividido en dos campos armados: uno, domina...

A strikingly original play combining traditional storytelling with physical theatre, created by The Imaginary Body.Imagine that you must choose one single memory from your life.Imagine that choosing this memory is your only way of passing through to eternity.Imagine that you have just one hour to choose...100 was first performed at the 2002 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it won a Fringe First Award. It subsequently went on an extensive international...

This edited collection offers the first system-wide account of the impact of COVID-19 on crime and justice in England and Wales. It provides a critical discussion of the challenges faced by criminal justice agencies (prison, probation, youth justice, courts, police), professionals and service users in adapting to the extraordinary pressures of the pandemic on policy, practice and lived experience.The text integrates first-hand narrative and artistic accounts from a variety of key s...