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Your Church Is Too Safe Why Following Christ Turns the World Upside-Down

Your Church Is Too Safe Why Following Christ Turns the World Upside-Down
Mark Buchanan, "Your Church Is Too Safe: Why Following Christ Turns the World Upside-Down"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0310331234, 0310523281 | 240 pages | EPUB / MOBI | 0.91 MB
"These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also." - Acts 17:6 That was the startled cry, circa 50 AD, from a hastily assembled mob in Thessalonica. Paul and Silas had been arrested for preaching the gospel. They were viewed as revolutionaries, dangerous men who were upsetting the status quo and inciting riots. But they were just two ordinary men, walking in the power of God, sharing a simple message of his love and grace. It's been a while since we've seen the likes of this. If you ever find church boring or you believe something is missing from our churches today, you aren't alone. Mark Buchanan believes there is a visible gap between the life Jesus offered to us and the life we're living, between the church Jesus envisioned and the church we see today. When Jesus announced that the Kingdom was at hand, this can't be what he meant. Instead of counting everything loss to be found in Christ, we've made it our priority to be safe instead of dangerous, nice instead of holy. Author and pastor Mark Buchanan believes that we need to recover a simple idea: that God meant his church to be both good news and bad news, an aroma and a stench - a disruptive force to whoever or whatever opposes the Kingdom of God and a healing, liberating power to those who seek it.

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You've already cum that much today, mom-Forbidden Explicit, Hottest and Dirty Anthology of taboo sex stories

You've already cum that much today, mom-Forbidden Explicit, Hottest and Dirty Anthology of taboo sex stories
"You've already cum that much today, mom"-Forbidden Explicit, Hottest and Dirty: Anthology of taboo sex stories by Evelyn Sykes
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BMH32J1W | 1040 pages | PDF | 3.70 Mb
A filthy bundle of HOT sweltering and forbidden erotica stories that will rock your night over and over again.

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Yosemite

Yosemite
Yosemite By Ann Marie Brown
2003 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 1566916232 | PDF | 78 MB
For more than 30 years, the award-winning Moon Handbooks series has been the top choice among independent travelers who want a unique experience, a new perspective, and a few new stories to tell. With Moon Handbooks travelers are given the tools to make their own choices and create a travels strategy that's theirs alone. The results? A more personal and ultimately more satisfying travel experience.

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Ximing Monastery History and Imagination in Medieval Chinese Buddhism

Ximing Monastery History and Imagination in Medieval Chinese Buddhism
Ximing Monastery: History and Imagination in Medieval Chinese Buddhism By Wang Xiang
2015 | 300 Pages | ISBN: 3659676713 | PDF | 23 MB
Presented in the cultural context of medieval Chang'an and the broader network of Buddhist Asia, this book provides an interdisciplinary study of Ximing Monastery (Ximingsi) in Tang China (618-907). As a premier center of Buddhist learning, Ximingsi not only served as a national shrine active in state-protection movement, but also attracted a steady stream of Chinese pundits, Indian missionaries, Korean scholars and Japanese pilgrims. Despite its fame, Ximingsi has yet to receive a full scholarly treatment. Drawing from a large body of widely-scattered literature as well as numerous marginal notes, the first part of the book offers a consideration of the monastery's dark prehistory, a sketch of its literary imaginaire, and a presentation of its complex religio-political history, with special attention to the interaction between politics and Buddhism. The present study also attempts to reconstruct the religious space of Ximingsi in relation to the Indian Jetavana Vihara and the Daianji Temple in Japan. Lastly, the final chapters explore the monastery's celebrated library, highlighting its rich bibliographical tradition and its role in cultural exchange between China and Japan.

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Workshops of Empire Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing during the Cold War

Workshops of Empire Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing during the Cold War
Eric Bennett, "Workshops of Empire: Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing during the Cold War"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1609383710 | PDF | pages: 231 | 1.6 mb
During and just after World War II, an influential group of American writers and intellectuals projected a vision for literature that would save the free world. Novels, stories, plays, and poems, they believed, could inoculate weak minds against simplistic totalitarian ideologies, heal the spiritual wounds of global catastrophe, and just maybe prevent the like from happening again. As the Cold War began, high-minded and well-intentioned scholars, critics, and writers from across the political spectrum argued that human values remained crucial to civilization and that such values stood in dire need of formulation and affirmation. They believed that the complexity of literature-of ideas bound to concrete images, of ideologies leavened with experiences-enshrined such values as no other medium could.

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Words of Power A Feminist Reading of the History of Logic

Words of Power A Feminist Reading of the History of Logic
Andrea Nye, "Words of Power: A Feminist Reading of the History of Logic"
English | 2019 | pages: 207 | ISBN: 0367426870, 0367426900, 0367417073 | PDF | 20,2 mb
Originally published in 1990. A common complaint of philosophers, and men in general, has been that women are illogical. On the other hand, rationality, defined as the ability to follow logical argument, is often claimed to be a defining characteristic of man. Andrea Nye undermines assumptions such as: logic is unitary, logic is independent of concrete human relations, logic transcends historical circumstances as well as gender. In a series of studies of the logics of historical figures Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Zeno, Abelard, Ockham, and Frege she traces the changing interrelationships between logical innovation and oppressive speech strategies, showing that logic is not transcendent truth but abstract forms of language spoken by men, whether Greek ruling citizens, imperial administrators, church officials, or scientists. She relates logical techniques, such as logical division, syllogisms, and truth functions, to ways in which those with power speak to and about those subject to them. She shows, in the specific historical settings of Ancient and Hellenistic Greece, medieval Europe, and Germany between the World Wars, how logicians reworked language so that dialogue and reciprocity are impossible and one speaker is forced to accept the words of another.

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Women in Modern Burma

Women in Modern Burma
Women in Modern Burma By Tharaphi Than
2013 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0415687578 | PDF | 16 MB
This book challenges the popular notion that Burmese women are powerful and are granted equal rights as men by society. Throughout history Burmese women have been represented as powerful and as having equal status to men by western travellers and scholars alike. National history about women also follows this conjecture. This book explains why actually very few powerful Burmese women exist, and how these few women help construct the notion of the high status of Burmese women, thereby inevitably silencing the majority of 'unequal' and disempowered women. One of the underlying questions throughout this book is why a few powerful women feel compelled to defend the notion that women hold privileged positions in Burmese society. Combining historical archives with statistical data published by UN agencies, this book highlights the reality of women's status in modern Burma. Case studies include why the first Burmese women's army was disbanded a few months after its establishment; how women writers assessed the conditions of Burmese women and represented their contemporaries in their works; the current state of prostitution; how modern-day sex-workers are trying to find their voice; and how women fared vis-à-vis men in education.

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