Witness to My Life
Author : Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 24,12 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Authors, French
ISBN : 0743244052
Author : Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 24,12 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Authors, French
ISBN : 0743244052
Author : Amber Scorah
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 29,71 MB
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 073522255X
"A fascinating glimpse into the consciousness of being an outsider in every possible way, and what it takes to find your path into the life you'd like to lead."--Nylon A riveting memoir of losing faith and finding freedom while a covert missionary in one of the world's most restrictive countries. A third-generation Jehovah's Witness, Amber Scorah had devoted her life to sounding God's warning of impending Armageddon. She volunteered to take the message to China, where the preaching she did was illegal and could result in her expulsion or worse. Here, she had some distance from her community for the first time. Immersion in a foreign language and culture--and a whole new way of thinking--turned her world upside down, and eventually led her to lose all that she had been sure was true. As a proselytizer in Shanghai, using fake names and secret codes to evade the authorities' notice, Scorah discreetly looked for targets in public parks and stores. To support herself, she found work at a Chinese language learning podcast, hiding her real purpose from her coworkers. Now with a creative outlet, getting to know worldly people for the first time, she began to understand that there were other ways of seeing the world and living a fulfilling life. When one of these relationships became an "escape hatch," Scorah's loss of faith culminated in her own personal apocalypse, the only kind of ending possible for a Jehovah's Witness. Shunned by family and friends as an apostate, Scorah was alone in Shanghai and thrown into a world she had only known from the periphery--with no education or support system. A coming of age story of a woman already in her thirties, this unforgettable memoir examines what it's like to start one's life over again with an entirely new identity. It follows Scorah to New York City, where a personal tragedy forces her to look for new ways to find meaning in the absence of religion. With compelling, spare prose, Leaving the Witness traces the bittersweet process of starting over, when everything one's life was built around is gone.
Author : Mark A. Wood
Publisher : Connected to Christ
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,64 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780758668530
Evangelism is broken people bringing the Good News of Christ to other broken people. But as a broken person yourself, you may feel inadequate to the task. Evangelism may feel burdensome or may become a source of frustration, fear, and guilt rather than joy. It's understandable if you feel this way, given all the misguided ideas about being a witness. Author Mark Wood can help you and other Christians discover the joy of being Christ's witnesses, offering insights into being a disciple of Jesus that will aid you in actively sharing the Good News. There's a world full of broken people-including your neighbors, co-workers, friends, and family members-counting on it. Book jacket.
Author : Witness Lee
Publisher : Living Stream Ministry
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 37,52 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 0870834177
Author : Karen Hesse
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 21,97 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545345944
Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse emerses readers in a small Vermont town in 1924 with this haunting and harrowing tale. Leanora Sutter. Esther Hirsh. Merlin Van Tornhout. Johnny Reeves . . .These characters are among the unforgettable cast inhabiting a small Vermont town in 1924. A town that turns against its own when the Ku Klux Klan moves in. No one is safe, especially the two youngest, twelve-year-old Leanora, an African-American girl, and six-year-old Esther, who is Jewish.In this story of a community on the brink of disaster, told through the haunting and impassioned voices of its inhabitants, Newbery Award winner Karen Hesse takes readers into the hearts and minds of those who bear witness.
Author : Alan Noble
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 35,50 MB
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830881093
What should Christian witness look like in our contemporary society? In this timely book, Alan Noble looks at our cultural moment, characterized by technological distraction and the growth of secularism, laying out individual, ecclesial, and cultural practices that disrupt our society's deep-rooted assumptions and point beyond them to the transcendent grace and beauty of Jesus.
Author : Larry R. Helyer
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 23,14 MB
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830866558
Larry R. Helyer embarks on a comprehensive study of a much neglected figure in New Testament studies. Reconstructing Peter's life, theology and legacy from evidence in 1 and 2 Peter, the Gospels, Acts, Paul's letters and texts from the early church, Helyer renders a great service for future students of the New Testament.
Author : Pramod Kapoor
Publisher : Roli Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,12 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9788174366993
Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a pioneering American photojournalist. As staff photographer for the popular 'Life' magazine, she captured some of the defining moments of the 20th century, which often took her to trouble spots around the world. She was the first female war correspondent, and covered combat during the Second World War. This book contains a selection of photographs that were taken in India and Pakistan.
Author : Mark Katz
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,46 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Photographers
ISBN : 9781558537422
Alexander Gardner's photographs are among the most memorable images of the Civil War, and they fill this powerful biography, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in History. "This album of Gardner's work is nothing less than sensational " -- "Booklist"
Author : Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 2012-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1611454980
In these letters, de Beauvoir tells Sartre everything, tracing the extraordinary complications of their triangular love life; they reveal her not only as manipulative and dependent, but also as vulnerable, passionate, jealous, and...