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By Bo Burlingham. 2016
How maverick companies have passed up the growth treadmill -- and focused on greatness instead It s an axiom of…
business that great companies grow their revenues and profits year after year Yet quietly under the radar a small number of companies have rejected the pressure of endless growth to focus on more satisfying business goals Goals like being great at what they do creating a great place to work providing great customer service making great contributions to their communities and finding great ways to lead their lives In Small Giants veteran journalist Bo Burlingham takes us deep inside fourteen remarkable companies that have chosen to march to their own drummer They include Anchor Brewing the original microbrewer CitiStorage Inc the premier independent records-storage business Clif Bar Co maker of organic energy bars and other nutrition foods Righteous Babe Records the record company founded by singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco Union Square Hospitality Group the company of restaurateur Danny Meyer and Zingerman s Community of Businesses including the world-famous Zingerman s Deli of Ann Arbor Burlingham shows how the leaders of these small giants recognized the full range of choices they had about the type of company they could create And he shows how we can all benefit by questioning the usual definitions of business success In his new afterward Burlingham reflects on the similarities and learning lessons from the small giants he covers in the book From the Hardcover editionBy John Marks, Caroline Cox, John Azumah, Bernie Power, Michael Nazir-Ali, Peter Cotterell, Derek Tidball, Peter Riddell, Tony Lane, Gordon Nickel, Anthony O’mahony, Sean Oliver-Dee, Gerry Redman, Keith Small, Charlotte Thorneycroft. 2013
The relationship between Christianity and Islam is complex This collection of essays by scholars and human rights activists engages…
with some of the most pressing issues in Christian-Muslim relations addressing matters of theology the encounter between civilisations and inter-religious affairs Some of the most controversial and sensitive questions are considered ranging from sacred text to the politics of multiculturalism These are key questions for the 21st century a period when Christianity and Islam are destined to interact more closely than ever before in human historyBy Ian Forrest. 2018
The medieval church was founded on and governed by concepts of faith and trust--but not in the way that is…
popularly assumed Offering a radical new interpretation of the institutional church and its social consequences in England Ian Forrest argues that between 1200 and 1500 the ability of bishops to govern depended on the cooperation of local people known as trustworthy men and shows how the combination of inequality and faith helped make the medieval church Trustworthy men in Latin virifidedigni were jurors informants and witnesses who represented their parishes when bishops needed local knowledge or reliable collaborators Their importance in church courts at inquests and during visitations grew enormously between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries The church had to trust these men and this trust rested on the complex and deep-rooted cultures of faith that underpinned promises and obligations personal reputation and identity and belief in God But trust also had a dark side For the church to discriminate between the trustworthy and untrustworthy was not to identify the most honest Christians but to find people whose status ensured their word would not be contradicted This meant men rather than women and usually the wealthier tenants and property holders in each parish Trustworthy Men illustrates the ways in which the English church relied on and deepened inequalities within late medieval society and how trust and faith were manipulated for political endsBy Oonagh Stransky, Pope Francis. 2016
P In his first official book published as Pope in celebration of his Jubilee of Mercy Pope Francis…
here addresses all humanity in an intimate and personal dialogue At the center of this book is the subject closest to his heart--mercy--which has long been the cornerstone of his faith and is now the central teaching of his papacy These pages resonate with a desire to reach all those souls who are looking for meaning in life a road to peace and reconciliation and the healing of physical and spiritual wounds P In this conversation with Vatican reporter Andrea Tornielli Francis explains--through memories from his youth and moving anecdotes from his experiences as a pastor--his reasons for proclaiming a Holy Year of Mercy He reiterates that the Church cannot close the door on anyone--that on the contrary its duty is to find its way into the consciousness of people so that they can assume responsibility for and move away from the bad things they have done P And to those who already count themselves among the ranks of the just Francis counsels Even the Pope is a man who needs the mercy of God P The Name of God Is Mercy is being published in more than eighty countries around the world Translated by Oonagh Stransky P b A New York Times Bestseller bBy John Eldredge. 2010
Every woman was once a little girl And every little girl holds in her heart her most precious dreams…
She longs to be swept up into a romance to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure to be the beauty of the story Those desires are far more than child s play They are the secret to the feminine heart And yet-how many women do you know who ever find that life As the years pass by the heart of a woman gets pushed aside wounded buried She finds no romance except in novels no adventure except on television and she doubts very much that she will ever be the Beauty in any tale Most women think they have to settle for a life of efficiency and duty chores and errands striving to be the women they ought to be but often feeling they have failed Sadly too many messages for Christen women add to the pressure Do these ten things and you will be a godly woman The effect has not been good on the feminine soul But her heart is still there Sometimes when she watches a movie sometimes in the wee hours of the night her heart begins to speak again A thirst rises within her to find the life she was meant to live-the life she dreamed of as a little girl The message of Captivating is this Your heart matters more than anything else in all creation The desires you had as a little girl and the longings you still feel as a woman are telling you of the life God created you to live He offers to come now as the Hero of your story to rescue your heart and release you to live as a fully alive and feminine woman A woman who is truly captivatingLeonard Gentine operated a financially challenged mortuary business for sixteen years. Yet, by the time he died, he stood at…
the helm of Sargento Foods, Inc.--a profitable cheese company and a household name. How does one go from a struggling funeral director to a competitive force in the natural cheese category? This book tells the full, untold story. 2018.By Henri J. Nouwen. 2006
Henri Nouwen—beloved author, priest, and internationally recognized spiritual master, counselor, and guide—offers gentle wisdom for universal questions of the spiritual…
life:Who am I? Where have I been and where am I going? Who is God for me? Where do I belong? How can I be of service? As a priest, pastor, and professor of spirituality at Notre Dame, Yale, and Harvard, Nouwen offered spiritual direction to many students, but his famous course on spiritual direction was never recorded during his lifetime. Now, in Spiritual Direction, the first of a series, one of Nouwen's students (Michael Christensen) and one of his editors (Rebecca Laird) have developed his courses and practice of spiritual direction into a book of profound wisdom for living a deep spiritual life.By Brant Pitre. 2014
In Jesus the Bridegroom Brant Pitre once again taps into the wells of Jewish Scripture and tradition and…
unlocks the secrets of what is arguably the most well-known symbol of the Christian faith the cross of Christ In this thrilling exploration Pitre shows how the suffering and death of Jesus was far more than a tragic Roman execution Instead the Passion of Christ was the fulfillment of ancient Jewish prophecies of a wedding when the God of the universe would wed himself to humankind in an everlasting nuptial covenant To be sure most Christians are familiar with the apostle Paul s teaching that Christ is the Bridegroom and the Church is the Bride But what does this really mean And what would ever possess Paul to compare the death of Christ to the love of a husband for his wife If you would have been at the Crucifixion with Jesus hanging there dying is that how you would have described it How could a first-century Jew like Paul who knew how brutal Roman crucifixions were have ever compared the execution of Jesus to a wedding And why does he refer to this as the great mystery Ephesians 5 32 As Pitre shows the key to unlocking this mystery can be found by going back to Jewish Scripture and tradition and seeing the entire history of salvation from Mount Sinai to Mount Calvary as a divine love story between Creator and creature between God and Israel between Christ and his bride--a story that comes to its climax on the wood of a Roman cross In the pages of Jesus the Bridegroom dozens of familiar passages in the Bible--the Exodus the Song of Songs the Wedding at Cana the Woman at the Well the Last Supper the Crucifixion and even the Second Coming at the End of Time--are suddenly transformed before our eyes Indeed when seen in the light of Jewish Scripture and tradition the life of Christ is nothing less than the greatest love story ever toldBy William Lane Craig. 2010
This concise guide is filled with illustrations sidebars and memorizable steps to help Christians stand their ground and…
defend their faith with reason and precision In his engaging style Dr Craig offers four arguments for God s existence defends the historicity of Jesus personal claims and resurrection addresses the problem of suffering and shows why religious relativism doesn t work Along the way he shares his story of following God s call in his own life This one-stop how-to-defend-your-faith manual will equip Christians to advance faith conversations deliberately applying straightforward cool-headed arguments They will discover not just what they believe but why they believe--and how being on guard with the truth has the power to change lives foreverBy Pierre C Poulin. 2016
Cet ouvrage relate la vie et l'oeuvre d'Hervé Pomerleau, un Beauceron pure laine qui a érigé une entreprise de construction…
connue internationalement. Ce livre vient célébrer 50 ans de travail au développement d'un fleuron dans son domaine au Québec et au Canada. 2016.Most theology proceeds under the assumption that divine grace works on human beings at the points of our (supposed) uniqueness…
among earth’s creatures—our freedom, our self-awareness, our language, or our rationality. Inner Animalities turns this assumption on its head. Arguing that much theological anthropology contains a deeply anti-ecological impulse, this book draws creatively on historical and scriptural texts to imagine an account of human life centered in our creaturely commonality. The tendency to deny our own human animality leaves our self-understanding riven with contradictions, disavowals, and repressions. How are human relationships transformed when God draws us into communion through our instincts, our desires, and our bodily needs? This study argues that humanity’s exceptional status is not the result of divine endorsement, but a delusion of human sin. Where the work of God knits human beings back into creaturely connections, ecological degradation is no longer just (just!) a matter of bodily life and death, but a matter of ultimate significance.Inner Animalities enters the growing fields of Critical Animal Studies and Human-Animal Studies from a theological perspective, putting Gregory of Nyssa and Karl Rahner in conversation with Jacques Derrida, Giorgio Agamben, Kelly Oliver, and Cary Wolfe. What results is not only a counterintuitive account of human life in relation with nonhuman neighbors, but also a new angle into ecological theology.By John R. Claypool. 1974
With over a million copies sold one s pastor s personal experience with devastating grief…
and learning to heal through faith has touched countless hearts John Claypool had been a pastor for almost two decades ministering to others who suffered through the loss of loved ones when loss hit home with the death of his eight-year-old daughter In Tracks of a Fellow Struggler Rev Claypool shares his own journey through the darkness of heartbreaking grief through four extraordinary sermons The first was delivered just eleven days after his daughter s diagnosis of leukemia the second after her first major relapse nine months later and the third weeks after her death The final sermon an inspiring reflection on the process of grieving was preached three years later Loss is something we must all cope with and one of the greatest spiritual challenges is sustaining faith when life seems most unfair sometimes tragic With a depth of compassion born of his own personal experience the author of Mending the Heart brings emotional comfort and spiritual strength to anyone who has suffered the loss of a loved oneBy R. Larry Moyer. 2002
By Diogo dos Santos Farias, Bernard Levine. 2018
Que tristeza e que tragédia terrível é o fato de que a nação judaica, "O Povo das Escrituras", não crê…
em Jesus. Se os judeus ao menos percebessem que, sem Jesus, eles não receberão a graça maravilhosa da vida eterna. Pois, por não aceitarem Jesus como seu companheiro, os judeus também estão desperdiçando a oportunidade de experienciar o grandioso poder do que o sangue de Jesus pode fazer em suas vidas. Os judeus estão perdendo a chance de ter seus pecados remitidos e perdoados. Devido aos sacrifícios de sangue do Velho Testamento haverem cessado, e já não serem observados, os judeus não podem mais ter seus pecados expurgados e perdoados sem sangue. Há tantas coisas sobre Jesus que os judeus nunca ouviram, ou que não eles não sabem... Você vai falar de Jesus aos judeus?By Bernard Levine, Priscila Oviedo. 2018
Qu triste y qu terrible tragedia es que la naci n jud a …
la Gente del Libro no crea en Jes s Los jud os est n obsesionados con seguir guardar y obedecer todas las muchas leyes y tradiciones hechas por el hombre que sus rabinos han compilado Debido a que los sacrificios de sangre del Antiguo Testamento han sido eliminados y ya no se observan los jud os no pueden purificar sus pecados y perdonarlos sin sangre Hay tanto acerca de Jes s que los jud os nunca han escuchado y no saben Les dir s a los jud os acerca de Jes sBy Britt Halvorson. 2018
Drawing on more than two years of participant observation in the American Midwest and in Madagascar among Lutheran clinicians …
volunteer laborers healers evangelists and former missionaries Conversionary Sites investigates the role of religion in the globalization of medicine Based on immersive research of a transnational Christian medical aid program Britt Halvorson tells the story of a thirty-year-old initiative that aimed to professionalize and modernize colonial-era evangelism Creatively blending perspectives on humanitarianism global medicine and the anthropology of Christianity she argues that the cultural spaces created by these programs operate as multistranded conversionary sites where questions of global inequality transnational religious fellowship and postcolonial cultural and economic forces are negotiated A nuanced critique of the ambivalent relationships among religion capitalism and humanitarian aid Conversionary Sites draws important connections between religion and science capitalism and charity and the US and the Global SouthBy C. S. Lewis. 2017
A repackaged edition of the revered author's fictitious collection of letters in which he ruminates on the nature of prayer—what…
it is, how it works, and how it should be practiced.C. S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics—shares his understanding of the role of prayer in our lives and the ways we might better imagine our relationship with God. Composed as a collection of fictitious dispatches to his friend, Malcolm, Letters to Malcolm, Chiefly on Prayer considers this basic display of devotion in its form, content, and regularity, and the ways it both reflects our faith and shapes how we believe.By James Martin. 2014
A gifted storyteller and spiritual director, Father James Martin, SJ, invites readers to experience the stories of the Gospels in…
a completely new, vivid, and exciting way to gain a deeper understanding of Jesus. Moving sequentially through the Gospels, considering not only familiar passages but also the "hidden life" of Jesus, the book offers a bold retelling of the life of Christ, faithful to the Christian tradition, while meditating on parts of the narrative that have often escaped notice. Martin provides personal stories from his own life, the most up-to-date biblical scholarship, and powerful anecdotes from beloved spiritual teachers, and brings the reader along on his own real-life travels through the Holy Land. Combining the fascinating insights of historical Jesus studies with profound spiritual reflections about the Christ of faith, Martin re-creates the world of first-century Galilee and Judea to usher us into Jesus's life and times and reveal how Jesus speaks to us today. Jesus: A Pilgrimage is an invitation to know Jesus as Father Martin knows him: Messiah and Savior, as well as friend and brother.In The People’s Zion, Joel Cabrita tells the transatlantic story of Southern Africa’s largest popular religious movement, Zionism. It began…
in Zion City, a utopian community established in 1900 just north of Chicago. The Zionist church, which promoted faith healing, drew tens of thousands of marginalized Americans from across racial and class divides. It also sent missionaries abroad, particularly to Southern Africa, where its uplifting spiritualism and pan-racialism resonated with urban working-class whites and blacks. Circulated throughout Southern Africa by Zion City’s missionaries and literature, Zionism thrived among white and black workers drawn to Johannesburg by the discovery of gold. As in Chicago, these early devotees of faith healing hoped for a color-blind society in which they could acquire equal status and purpose amid demoralizing social and economic circumstances. Defying segregation and later apartheid, black and white Zionists formed a uniquely cosmopolitan community that played a key role in remaking the racial politics of modern Southern Africa. Connecting cities, regions, and societies usually considered in isolation, Cabrita shows how Zionists on either side of the Atlantic used the democratic resources of evangelical Christianity to stake out a place of belonging within rapidly-changing societies. In doing so, they laid claim to nothing less than the Kingdom of God. Today, the number of American Zionists is small, but thousands of independent Zionist churches counting millions of members still dot the Southern African landscape.By John W. O'Malley. 2018
The enduring influence of the Catholic Church has many sources its spiritual and intellectual appeal missionary achievements…
wealth diplomatic effectiveness and stable hierarchy But in the first half of the nineteenth century the foundations upon which the church had rested for centuries were shaken In the eyes of many thoughtful people liberalism in the guise of liberty equality and fraternity was the quintessence of the evils that shook those foundations At the Vatican Council of 1869 1870 the church made a dramatic effort to set things right by defining the doctrine of papal infallibility In Vatican I The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church John W O Malley draws us into the bitter controversies over papal infallibility that at one point seemed destined to rend the church in two Archbishop Henry Manning was the principal driving force for the definition and Lord Acton was his brilliant counterpart on the other side But they shrink in significance alongside Pope Pius IX whose zeal for the definition was so notable that it raised questions about the very legitimacy of the council Entering the fray were politicians such as Gladstone and Bismarck The growing tension in the council played out within the larger drama of the seizure of the Papal States by Italian forces and its seemingly inevitable consequence the conquest of Rome itself Largely as a result of the council and its aftermath the Catholic Church became more pope-centered than ever before In the terminology of the period it became ultramontane