In Jeanne Guyon’s Mystical Interpretation of Divinization: Her Biblical Commentary on St. Matthew’s Gospel, we read her most powerful declaration of the transformation called divinization. Jeanne Guyon reveals the Gospel of Matthew as describing the symbolic and hidden journey to participation in God. Guyon writes, “We are called to lose our will in that of God, and pass, transform, and change into God. This is called divinization. There are many other terms for this from...

The cities of Los Angeles and San Diego were boomtowns during World War II. California aviation companies designed many of the greatest combat aircraft of the era, and bustling armies of women and men helped quickly churn them out by the thousands. An astounding 41 percent of all US warplanes came from California drawing boards during the war. These planes saw combat service everywhere--from the deserts of North Africa to the frozen tundra of Alaska. Southern California planes were the fir...

The relationship between the church and the scriptures of Israel is fraught with complexities, particularly in regard to how the first Christians read scripture in light of the gospel of Christ. Patrick Egan examines the text of 1 Peter in light of its numerous quotations of scripture and demonstrates how the epistle sets forth a scriptural narrative that explains the nature and purpose of the church. Egan argues that 1 Peter sets forth an ecclesiology based in a participatory christology,...

Sermons and stories of faith, hope, and love from the heart of afriend and follower of Jesus. With humor and grace, these simplebut profound writings will lead you into the presence of One whoseword brings healing and hope to longing hearts.

Thomas Patrick Hughes's Dictionary of Islam is an ambitious nineteenth-century reference work that gathers doctrines, rituals, historical figures, legal concepts, sects, Qur'anic terminology, and social practices associated with Islam. Written in the alphabetic form of a scholarly lexicon, it combines philological explanation, comparative theology, and missionary-era ethnography. Its style is precise and documentary, often citing Arabic sources and earlier Orientalist scholarship, while al...

A compelling and refreshing look at our founding documents and what we stand to lose if we fail to remember our heritage. Locke doesn’t buy into labels: left or right, liberal or conservative. He is honest, compassionate and practical while maintaining a good sense of humor. Through the magnifying glass of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, Locke looks at government, politics, racism and bigotry, business and the economy, immigration, elections, entitlements and a host o...

A Global Guidebook for Activism in the Age of Climate Chaos and Social InjusticeIn 1994, Patagonia invited representatives from 75 grassroots nonprofit organizations to gather and learn from active experts how to be more effective at what they do. Through this ongoing conference as well as years of funding these organizations, Patagonia has helped thousands of activists make the changes they envision for the world.In 2016, Patagonia published*Tools for Gras...

The increased interest manifested in relation to all matters affecting the East, and the great attention now given to the study of comparative religion, seem to indicate that the time has come when an attempt should be made to place before the English-speaking people of the world a systematic exposition of the doctrines of the Muslim Faith. The present work is intended to supply this want, by giving, in a tabulated form, a concise account of the doctrines, rites, ceremonies, and customs, t...

James Patrick Thomas's path toward nuclear disarmament began on Good Friday, 1982, when he and his fellow peace pilgrims started walking away from the Trident Nuclear Submarine Base near Seattle. Their Bethlehem Peace Pilgrimage would span 6,700 miles across the United States and nine other countries, each step aimed at ending the nuclear arms race.After two years on the road, Jim continued his pursuit of peace and disarmament. Back in Spokane, Washington, Jim turned his attention ...

Education can be a battle, especially in the face of violent, aggressive and self-destructive behaviours. Patrick Thomas shares his 20 years of learning from the battles won and lost within the trenches of the alternate education system. He uniquely explains how and what these youths adaptive behaviours have not so subtly been communicating and how their identity development is the critical force behind their ability to change and achieving personal happiness. Within the guise of practical...

This introduction to social work with children and young people who are looked after (in care or accommodated) by statutory or voluntary agencies is the only textbook on the subject which addresses this area of work across all four nations of the UK.Providing a clear theoretical and ethical basis, it introduces and develops a set of core themes, reflective of contemporary developments including:• the influence of, and tensions between, dominant discourses that shape the soci...

This new edition of A Handbook of Children and Young People’s Participation brings together work from research and practice to reflect on some of the key developments in the field since the first edition published in 2010.Subtitled ‘Conversations for Transformational Change’, the collection focuses on both ongoing and new discourses that enable us to advance thinking and practice to better understand what it means for participation to be transformational. Featuring all new...