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My Story Starts Here: Voices of Young Offenders
By Deborah Ellis. 2019
Jamar found refuge in a gang after leaving an abusive home where his mother stole from him. Fred was arrested…
for assault with a weapon, public intoxication and attacking his mother while on drugs. Jeremy first went to court at age fourteen (“Court gives you the feeling that you can never make up for what you did, that you’re just bad forever”) but now wears a Native Rights hat to remind him of his strong Métis heritage. Kate, charged with petty theft and assault, finally found a counselor who treated her like a person for the first time.Many readers will recognize themselves, or someone they know, somewhere in these stories. Being lucky or unlucky after an incident of shoplifting, or the drug search at school, or hanging out with the wrong kids at the wrong time. The encounter with a mean cop, or a good one, that can change the trajectory of a kid’s life. Couch-surfing, or being shunted from one foster home to another. The effect of youth crime on families (the book includes the points of view of family members as well as “voices of experience” — adults looking back at their own experiences as young offenders).The kids in this book represent a range of socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, sexual orientations and ethnicities. Every story is different, but there are common threads — loss of parenting, dislocation, poverty, truancy, addiction, discrimination.Most of all, this book leaves readers asking the most pressing questions of all. Does it make sense to put kids in jail? Can’t we do better? Have we forgotten that we were once teens ourselves, feeling powerless to change our lives, confused about who we were and what we wanted, and quick to make a dumb move without a thought for the consequences?À la recherche de l'or intérieur
By Anselm Grün. 2012
" De même que l'or se trouve dans des lieux divers, au sein de la nature, il est possible de…
trouver des trésors dans notre vie quotidienne. Anselm Grün nous invite à goûter les fruits du silence, du pardon, de l'amitié, de la nature, de la présence divine et à nous enrichir de la lecture, de nos rêves, de nos rencontres, de nos voyages. Ces réflexions d'Anselm Grün aideront le lecteur à percevoir les trésors cachés que recèle sa propre vie. " -- 4e de couvLa guérison du monde
By Frédéric Lenoir. 2012
" L'homme est-il seulement un homo economicus ? Notre monde est malade, mais la crise économique actuelle, qui polarise toutes…
les attentions, n'est qu'un symptôme de déséquilibres beaucoup plus profonds. La crise que nous traversons est systémique : elle touche tous les secteurs de la vie humaine. Elle est liée à des bouleversements de nos modes de vie sans doute aussi importants que le tournant du néolithique, lorsque l'être humain a cessé d'être nomade pour devenir sédentaire. Il existe pourtant des voies de guérison. En m'appuyant sur des expériences concrètes, je montre l'existence d'une autre logique que celle, quantitative et mercantile, qui conduit notre monde à la catastrophe : une logique qualitative qui privilégie le respect de la Terre et des personnes au rendement ; la qualité d'être au toujours plus . Je plaide aussi pour une redécouverte éclairée des grandes valeurs universelles - la vérité, la justice, le respect, la liberté, l'amour, la beauté - afin d'éviter que l'homme moderne mû par l'ivresse de la démesure, mais aussi par la peur et la convoitise, ne signe sa propre fin ". -- 4e de couvImmortelle randonnée: Compostelle malgré moi (Démarches)
By Jean-Christophe Rufin. 2013
'' Jean-Christophe Rufin a suivi à pied, sur plus de huit cents kilomètres, le Chemin du Nord jusqu'à Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle. Beaucoup…
moins fréquenté que la voie habituelle des pèlerins, cet itinéraire longe les côtes basque et cantabrique puis traverse les montagnes sauvages des Asturies et de Galice. Chaque fois que l'on m'a posé la question : "Pourquoi êtes-vous allé à Santiago ?", j'ai été bien en peine de répondre. Comment expliquer à ceux qui ne l'ont pas vécu que le Chemin a pour effet sinon pour vertu de faire oublier les raisons qui ont amené à s'y engager ? On est parti, voilà tout. Galerie de portraits savoureux, divertissement philosophique sur le ton de Diderot, exercice d'autodérision plein d'humour et d'émerveillement, Immortelle randonnée se classe parmi les grands récits de voyage littéraires. '' -- 4e de couvCréés pour être aimés
By Christian Lépine. 2012
" Les assises de la pensée et de la vie chrétiennes sont aujourdhui largement méconnues. À travers un chapelet de…
textes limpides, Mgr Christian Lépine nous conduit à plonger au cœur des grands thèmes chrétiens que sont le sens de la vie, la famille, la souffrance, le pardon, la vie en Église, la conversion et le carême. On en découvre ou on en revisite alors toute la profondeur et la beauté. Ces écrits sont aussi une occasion de faire connaissance avec larchevêque de Montréal, un homme attachant par son audace dans la foi et par sa ferveur communicative, mais surtout un pasteur sous la plume duquel le christianisme apparaît comme un vivifiant appel à croire en lAmour. " -- 4e de couvVote!: women's fight for access to the ballot box
By Coral Celeste Frazer. 2020
August 18, 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, which prohibited states and the…
US government from denying citizens the right to vote on the basis of sex. This book reveals how the seventy-year-long fight for women's suffrage was hard-won by leaders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, Carrie Chapman Catt, and others. It demonstrates how their success led to the civil rights and feminist movements of the mid- and late- twentieth century, as well as today's #MeToo, #YesAllWomen, and Black Lives Matter movements. In the face of voter ID laws, voter purges, gerrymandering, and other restrictions, Americans continue to fight for equality in voting rightsThe rebirthing of God: Christianity's struggle for new beginnings
By J. Philip Newell. 2020
In the midst of dramatic changes in Western Christianity, internationally respected spiritual leader, peacemaker, and scholar John Philip Newell offers…
the hope of a fresh stirring of the Spirit among us. He invites us to be part of a new holy birth of sacred living. Speaking directly to the heart of Christians - those within the well-defined bounds of Christian practice and those on the disenchanted edges - as well as to the faithful and seekers of other traditions, he explores eight major features of a new birthing of Christianity:- Coming back into relationship with the Earth as sacred- Reconnecting with compassion as the ground of true relationships- Celebrating the Light that is at the heart of all life- Reverencing the wisdom of other religious traditions- Rediscovering spiritual practice as the basis for transformation- Living the way of nonviolence among nations- Looking to the unconscious as the wellspring of new vision- Following love as the seed-force of new birth in our lives and worldAll-caps you: a 30-day adventure toward finding joy in who god made you to be
By Emma Mae Jenkins. 2020
Young women are under more pressure than ever before: pressure to be pretty, to be successful, to have a perfect…
selfie game. Is it possible for them to be their true selves? Or must they fit into the same mold as the rest of their peers? Into this world of ever-growing pressure bursts Emma Mae Jenkins with a message of hope and unabashed joy. Emma Mae knows what it feels like to be judged and bullied, but she chooses to ignore the haters and instead focus on a message of love and acceptance in Jesus Christ. In this powerful devotional, Emma Mae will show young women what it looks like to live a life of rejoicing in God's love and the incredible excitement they can feel when they "live in ALL CAPS" for HimThe drama of Scripture: finding our place in the biblical story
By Michael W. Goheen, Craig G. Bartholomew. 2020
This bestselling textbook surveys the grand narrative of the Bible, demonstrating how the biblical story forms the foundation of a…
Christian worldview. The second edition has been thoroughly revised. Additional material is available online through Baker Academic's Textbook eSources, offering course help for professors and study aids for students. Resources include discussion questions, a Bible reading schedule, an adult Bible class schedule, and a course syllabusMs. Gloria Steinem: a life
By Winifred Conkling. 2020
Gloria Steinem was no stranger to injustice even from a young age. Her mother, Ruth, having suffered a nervous breakdown…
at only 34, spent much of Gloria's childhood in and out of mental-health facilities. And when Gloria was only 10 years old, her father divorced her mother and left for California, unable to bear the stress of caring for Ruth any longer. Gloria never blamed her mother for being unable to hold down a job to support them both after that, but instead blamed society's intrinsic hostility toward women, and working women in particular. This was the spark that lit a fire in her that would burn for decades and that continues to burn brightly todayThe power of a woman's words
By Sharon Jaynes. 2020
Words are one of the most powerful forces in the universe, and they can be used for good or evil.…
When God created our world, He did so with words. He said Let there be... and it was so. While our words cannot bring into existence things that are not, they do have the power to build courage into a husband's life, instill confidence into a child's heart, fan into flames the dying embers of a friend's smoldering dreams, and draw the lost to Christ.This book is for every woman who desires to use her words to build up rather than tear down, to encourage rather than discourage, to cheer rather than jeer. It is for all who desire to have more control over that mighty force called the tongueQue viennent les étoiles: regards et attentes-- avec Benoît Lacroix
By Benoît Lacroix, Simone Saumur-Lambert, Pierrot Lambert. 2015
" Le père Benoît Lacroix, qui dans La mer récompense le fleuve retraçait près d'un siècle de présence au cœur…
de la société québécoise, se livre à une nouvelle conversation, avec les deux mêmes interlocuteurs, Simone Saumur-Lambert et Pierrot Lambert. Le propos est différent. L'échange se déploie à la faveur d'un arrêt sur images (la brunante, les visiteurs du soir, l'apparition des étoiles, les lueurs d'infini) pour décliner les expériences et la philosophie d'un âge avancé, mais aussi les observations d'un homme plus que jamais en dialogue avec de multiples auditoires de tout le Québec. Le père Lacroix revient sur quelques-uns des personnages qu'il a connus, puis la conversation esquisse une vision spirituelle (lueurs d'infini) où l'essence du christianisme rejoint la contemplation d'un astrophysicien bouddhiste et trouve même à s'exprimer dans une prière islamique." -- 4e de couvSi j'avais su: s'ouvrir pour prévenir le suicide : témoignage
By Louise Desautels. 2013
" La vie est un acquis bien fragile. Je l'ai compris dans la souffrance alors que mon conjoint venait de…
se suicider, sans me donner la moindre chance de lui tendre la main. Nos deux enfants, des adolescents qui avaient tout pour se développer dans un climat familial agréable, ont été profondément bouleversés. Ils le sont encore, après cinq ans. Pour arriver à comprendre ce qui a entraîné, de façon invisible, mon compagnon de vie, jen suis venue à m'impliquer et mon témoignage le rappelle... " -- 4e de couvThe Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing
By Sonia Faleiro. 2021
A shattering, utterly immersive work of investigative journalism, The Good Girls slips behind political maneuvering, caste systems and codes of…
honour in a village in northern India to tell the real story behind the tragic deaths of two teenage girls and an epidemic of violence against women.In the early dawn one day in 2014, a man discovered the dead bodies of 14-year-old Lalli Shakya and 16-year-old Padma Shakya hanging from a mango tree on the edge of their village in Uttar Pradesh. When the inseparable cousins hadn't returned from a walk to the fields to relieve themselves the evening before, their families had begun searching for them. Upon hearing of the discovery and reaching the bodies, the grief-stricken women of the family formed a protective shield around the tree. They knew that if their girls were taken down immediately, they would be forgotten, lost in a brutally inefficient and prejudiced system; but if media arrived, and photos of the bodies went viral, those in power could not ignore the deaths and justice would be served. Dramatic images of the Shakya girls spread across India and the world, inciting horror and despair. Padma and Lalli died two years after the Delhi bus rape, and many saw the cousins as victims of an ongoing epidemic of violence, one that was emerging in rural villages. The reality that Sonia Faleiro deftly illuminates,wrapped in pressures of caste, gender, technology and teenage desire, proves to be more complicated, and just as devastating. Intimate, mesmerizing, based on years of meticulous reportage, The Good Girls uncovers the heartbreaking truth of what happened that night through the voices of the girls' families, those who saw them last and the legal and medical officials who touched the case.When She Was Bad: How and Why Women Get Away with Murder
By Patricia Pearson. 2021
In this provocative book, award-winning journalist Patricia Pearson argues that our culture is in denial of women's innate capacity for…
aggression. We don't believe that women batter their husbands or abuse the majority of children in North America. We ignore the 200 percent increase in crime by women in a period when most crime statistics are dropping. Pearson weaves the stories of women such as Karla Homolka and Mary Beth Tinning (who smothered eight of her children) with the results of criminologists and psychiatrists to expose the myth of female innocence.Sodoma: enquête au coeur du Vatican
By Frédéric Martel. 2019
Enquête menée pendant quatre ans qui dévoile la face cachée de l'Eglise et ses contradictions : l'homosexualité est condamnée par…
de nombreux cardinaux et prêtres alors que le Vatican constitue l'une des plus grandes communautés homosexuelles au monde.Every thing is sacred: 40 practices and reflections on the universal christ
By Richard Rohr. 2021
In this companion to The Universal Christ, Richard Rohr and Patrick Boland offer forty reflections and practices exploring what it…
means to live &“in Christ.&” In his landmark book The Universal Christ , Richard Rohr articulated a transformative view of what it means to recognize Jesus as &“Christ&”—as a portrait of God&’s constant, unfolding work in the world. Now, in partnership with Patrick Boland, a psychotherapist and member of Rohr&’s Center for Action and Contemplation community, he invites readers to engage with the themes of the book through spiritual practice. Each reflection in this book draws on a key passage of The Universal Christ , paired with prayers, journal prompts, and embodied exercises that invite readers into a more personal encounter with the truth that the presence and compassion of the Christ are in every thing. Whether read daily for the season of Lent or explored over the course of a year, Every Thing Is Sacred is a hope-filled journey into the love at the heart of all thingsThe black church in the african american experience
By C. Eric Lincoln. 2021
Black churches in America have long been recognized as the most independent, stable, and dominant institutions in black communities. The…
Black Church in the African American Experience, based on a ten-year study, is the largest nongovernmental study of urban and rural churches ever undertaken and the first major field study on the subject since the 1930s. Drawing on interviews with more than 1,800 black clergy in both urban and rural settings, combined with a comprehensive historical overview of seven mainline black denominations, C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya present an analysis of the Black Church as it relates to the history of African Americans and to contemporary black culture. In examining both the internal structure of the Church and the reactions of the Church to external, societal changes, the authors provide important insights into the Church's relationship to politics, economics, women, youth, and music. Among other topics, Lincoln and Mamiya discuss the attitude of the clergy toward women pastors, the reaction of the Church to the civil rights movement, the attempts of the Church to involve young people, the impact of the black consciousness movement and Black Liberation Theology and clergy, and trends that will define the Black Church well into the next centuryUn temps pour changer: viens, parlons, osons rêver...
By Pape François. 2020
« Il y a un temps pour tout », nous disent les Écritures. Et dans la crise décisive que nous…
traversons, le pape François n'en doute pas un instant : c'est le temps de changer.Né de sa propre expérience du confinement, ce dernier livre du pape est un vibrant appelà l'action. Alors que le monde traverse une nuit d'épreuves, il s'agit plus que jamais d'y discerner une dynamique de conversion. Comment un changement se produit dans l'Histoire, comment nous l'embrassons ou lui résistons, comment Dieu vient à chaque instant rencontrer notre condition.« Viens, parlons, osons rêver... », ainsi le pape interpelle-t-il chacun, qu'il soit croyant ou non. Ce faisant, comme le dit Mgr Benoist de Sinety, il nous invite « à rêver, non pas de petits rêves personnels et autosuffisants, mais à rêver ensemble, à rêver grand ».Franchement grosse
By Vanessa Duchel. 2020
Vivre dans la peau d'une grosse personne, c'est beaucoup de contraintes, de malaises et de soucis. Vivre avec la différence…
est difficile... surtout quand on consacre son temps et son énergie à vouloir ressembler à tout le monde. Au lieu de changer, Vanessa Duchel a choisi de miser sur sa différence. D'aimer ce corps que les standards rejettent. D'en prendre soin, de le mettre en valeur, de s'y incarner complètement. Sans y avoir tout à fait réussi, elle a résolu d'essayer sans cesse, parce que c'est au bout de ce long travail d'acceptation qu'on trouve le bonheur, la paix, l'authenticité et, surtout, l'amour de soi. Dans un langage direct et coloré, et avec une franchise presque douloureuse parfois, elle se livre ici pour inviter lecteurs et lectrices à s'aimer pour qui ils sont, et à construire un monde où, au lieu d'être un problème, la différence sera enfin perçue comme une richesse.