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Blending keen insight with engaging anecdotes and practical advice, this easy-to-listen to audiobook, narrated by the authors, will give you the tools you need to feel confident living with, working with and supporting our First Nations peoples.
Equip yourself with the skills to communicate without fear of misunderstanding or offence. Build strategies for engaging communities respectfully and strengthening partnerships. And most of all, be proud...
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In the kingdom of God, it is not us against them. The problem of racism stretches back as far humanity's origin in the book of Genesis. Brother pitted against brother, tribe against tribe––people have warred against one another, fueled by contempt for racial differences. Yet the gospel is a message of reconciliation. The kingdom of God is us reconciled to one another. Editors Russell Moore and Andrew T. Walker of the Ethics and Religious...
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What divides us?
What sets us against each other?
What stops us from being able to come home to our true selves?
I had found truth in Thailand, discovered another wall inside me and freed another part of my soul.
There were things to be done, journeys to be taken, strangers to meet, mistakes and regrets to put right and only some of them were mine. But my mistakes alone were enough to change everything.
I had started in Spain, this Camino de...
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A slave runs away from his master. A mutual friend steps in to mediate between the two of them. Can there be healing in such a scarred relationship?
This is the situation faced in the book of Philemon. From this short New Testament letter, pastor and author Dhati Lewis (Among Wolves) unpacks key principles that Paul applied to being an advocate in the midst of division.
In 2 Corinthians 5, God commissioned us to be his ambassadors and gave us the...
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What divides us?
What sets us against each other?
What stops us from being able to come home to our true selves?
I had found truth in Thailand, discovered another wall inside me and freed another part of my soul.
There were things to be done, journeys to be taken, strangers to meet, mistakes and regrets to put right and only some of them were mine. But my mistakes alone were enough to change everything.
I had started in Spain, this Camino de...
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The language of Christianity is unique. Its meaning is powerful. Its application is life-changing. Its implications are offered by no other religion. But its understanding has increasingly been diminished by a lack of its teaching. The language of Christianity has been re-defined and negated by culture. It's even sometimes neglected and discounted by Believers. The Dictionary Resource provides a dictionary of common and familiar terms within the...
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Does Being "Saved" Have Anything of Substance to Offer in Today's World?
What does it truly mean to be "saved"? In From Alienation to Reconciliation pastor turned attorney, Adam Rodrigues, tackles the difficult questions of what Christianity means, explaining how to effectively live a life of true salvation every day.
Adam shows how an "incarnational faith"-a faith that transforms our bodies as much as our spirits-is key to walking out our salvation....
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Moving stories of American immigrants and their journeys.
In an era when immigration on a global scale defines the fears and aspirations of Americans, Crossing Borders presents the complexities of migration through the stories of families fleeing violence and poverty, the government and nongovernmental organizations helping or hindering their progress, and the American communities receiving them.
Ali Noorani, who has spent years building bridges...
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"I hated my father-really, really hated him. I hated working for him and I hated being around him. I hated it when he walked through the front door at home. And we feared him from the moment he pulled up in front of the house in his car."
So writes conservative firebrand and popular radio host Larry Elder. For ten years Elder and his father did not talk to each other.
When they finally did, the conversation went on for eight hours-eight hours...
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From the beginning, American cinema has been both a powerful mythmaker and a social critic. D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation, arguably the first feature film, shows us just how early in its history cinema had established its influence. Birth of a Nation famously portrayed the Klu Klux Klan in a favorable light, a portrayal that contributed to the modern resurgence of the group and brought racist depictions of African Americans imported from the minstrel...
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The authors tell how they grew up in China, met in India and were reunited in England and Japan. They share their discovery of the key to reconciliation between China and Japan.
Digging deep into their personal histories and borrowing freely from their understanding of the world, the authors offer a reflection that seeks to absorb the still-resounding messages, meant for humanity as a whole, of Hiroshima and Nanjing. Rajmohan Gandhi, historian and...
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After slavery was abolished, how far would white America go toward including African Americans as full participants in the country's institutions? A schism over slavery split Methodism into northern and southern branches, but Union victory in the Civil War provided the northern Methodists with the opportunity to send missionaries into the territory that had been occupied by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. To a remarkable degree, the M. E. Church...
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Nationally recognized speaker and church leader Jay Augustine demonstrates that the church is called and equipped to model reconciliation, justice, diversity, and inclusion.
This book develops three uses of the term "reconciliation": salvific, social, and civil. Augustine examines the intersection of the salvific and social forms of reconciliation through an engagement with Paul's letters and uses the Black church as an exemplar to connect the concept...
17) Forgiveness Makes You Free: A Dramatic Story of Healing and Reconciliation from the Heart of Rwanda
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In Forgiveness Makes You Free, Fr. Ubald Rugirangoga offers five spiritual principles that can help those traumatized by the past to experience healing and peace in Christ.
In 1994 the world looked on in disbelief and horror as Rwanda erupted in violent bloodshed. All across the landlocked African country, militant Hutus rose up to exterminate the Tutsi population, including women and young children. One hundred days later, a million bodies littered...
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vii, 355 pages ; 24 cm
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"The Declaration of Independence identified "the pursuit of happiness" as one of our unalienable rights, along with life and liberty. Jeffrey Rosen, the president of the National Constitution Center, profiles six of the most influential founders--Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton--to show what pursuing happiness meant in their lives. By reading the classical Greek and Roman moral...
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"Sages from Cicero to Oprah have told us that forgiveness requires us to let go of negative emotions and that it has a unique power to heal our wounds. In Failures of Forgiveness, Myisha Cherry argues that these beliefs couldn't be more wrong -- and that the ways we think about and use forgiveness, personally and as a society, can often do more harm than good. She presents a new and healthier understanding of forgiveness -- one that will give us a...
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"An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln's powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today--by best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize. Abraham Lincoln grappled with the greatest crisis of democracy that has ever confronted the United States. While many books have been written about his temperament, judgment, and steady hand in guiding the country through the Civil War, we know...
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