How music and poetry proclaim God’s justice and love.The Leader Guide contains discussion questions and session plans for a six-week study of Voices of Resistance. It includes opening and closing prayers, optional activities, and weekly session goals. It is designed to be used with the book and DVD.Voices of Resistance invites you to discover the powerful ways music and poetry give voice to the hopes, struggles, and faith of God’s people a...

How music and poetry proclaim God’s justice and love.Voices of Resistance invites you to discover the powerful ways music and poetry give voice to the hopes, struggles, and faith of God’s people across the ages. From ancient hymns of worship and lament to stirring proclamations of justice and love, this study uncovers how biblical songs continue to speak to us.Through Deborah’s and Hannah’s songs, Mary’s Magnificat, the laments of Jeremiah, the Psa...

James C. Scott’s discussion of “hidden transcripts” of defiance or resistance among subordinate groups has been taken up in suggestive ways by scholars who claim to detect elements of defiant transcripts in or behind Paul’s letters. Now, in Rumors of Resistance, Amanda C. Miller uses Scott’s theory to explain tensions within the narrative of the Gospel of Luke, between more accommodationist narratives and poetic or parabolic passages that announce a dramatic eschatological reversal (the Ma...

A Central Park, sotto una pioggia che cancella tracce e certezze, viene ritrovato il cadavere di una donna brutalmente uccisa. Tutto porta a un nome impossibile: Kathleen Mallory, detective geniale e temuta della Polizia di New York. Peccato che Mallory sia viva.Quando il telegiornale annuncia la sua morte, Mallory capisce che qualcuno ha deciso di entrare nel suo territorio. E di sfidarla.La vittima è in realtà Amanda Bosh, una giovane donna con un’esistenza segreta, legat...

Inspirational Regency romance with a Christmas twist from three best-selling authorsIn Joy to the World, three popular authors come together to offer a heartwarming collection of holiday Regency romance. Based on lines from a beloved Christmas carol, these three novellas in one book have depth, faith, and satisfying stories all packed into the perfect length for readers to curl up and take a brief break from their holiday busyness."Heaven and Nature ...

In the folklore of Eastern European Jewry, a dybbuk is a wandering soul that comes to rest in the body of a living person. In this case, the dybbuk is an impoverished student that possesses a young bride on her wedding day. She is taken to a great Chassidic rabbi for exorcism. But before he can expel the spirit, the sage must discover who the dybbuk was in life, why he has possessed the maiden, and most importantly, how to balance the scales of cosmic justice.Part folk tale, part l...

The sixteen stories and two screenplays that make up Volume One of the Emmy® Award–winning Netflix Original series Love, Death & Robots.Featuring bestselling authors and screenwriters from all over the globe, curated by filmmakers Tim Miller and David Fincher.Stories and screenplays by Alastair Reynolds, Alberto Mielgo, Claudine Griggs, David W. Amendola, Joe Lansdale, John Scalzi, Ken Liu, Kirsten Cross, Marko Kloos, Michael Swanwick, Peter F. Hamilton, Steven Lew...

Weihnachten - die Zeit, in der wir uns nach Ruhe, Wärme und ein paar stillen Momenten sehnen. Und doch sind gerade diese Wochen oft besonders voll und herausfordernd. Diese drei Novellen schenken deshalb kleine Auszeiten: kurze, berührende Reisen in die festliche Welt der Regency Ära, die sich wunderbar in ein paar Stunden genießen lassen. Inspiriert vom Lied »Freue dich, Welt« weben drei Autorinnen romantische, hoffnungsvolle Weihnachtsgeschichten voller Musik, Licht und Gefühl. »Melodie ...

The fifteen stories and three screenplays that make up Volumes Two and Three of the Emmy® Award–winning Netflix Original series Love, Death + Robots.Featuring bestselling authors and screenwriters from all over the globe, curated by filmmakers Tim Miller and David Fincher, and Supervising Director Jennifer Yuh Nelson.Stories by Neal Asher, Paolo Bacigalupi, J. G. Ballard, Alan Baxter, Justin Coates, Harlan Ellison, Joachim Heijndermans, Joe Lansdale, Rich Larson, A...

How to come out of your shell and lead a vibrant social life, even if you suffer from paralyzing shyness.Do you find it difficult to strike up a conversation with people you don't know very well?Do you lack the confidence to assert yourself in social settings?Are you looking for a guide to help you overcome these difficulties so you can live a fuller life and have more meaningful relationships?Social skills are vital, and if you don't have them, you need the...

Amanda Todd was a young girl who was lured into a bad decision by a cyber-stalker and then mercilessly targeted online and in real life over and over again, until it became too much for her to handle and she ended her life in October of 2012.She wanted to help other kids by sharing her story and letting them know they should never be punished for who they are or for making a mistake. AmandaToddLegacy.org is an organization that reaches out to kids in need, educates about the harmfu...

If ‘Life Begins at Forty’, then Charlotte Turner's not off to the best of starts.On top of a recent divorce, and trouble with her twelve-year-old son, the husband of her closest friend has just started to show a bit too much interest in her as a newly-single woman.But only when Charlotte has faced up to some uncomfortable truths about her past can she finally shed the unhappy skin she's been so comfortable in and open up her life – and her heart – to all the promise and p...