Author : Peter Maass
Publisher : Pan MacMillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 19,18 MB
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Bosnia and Herzegovina
ISBN : 9780230768406
An up-close account of the devastating conflict in Bosnia, 1992-3
Author : Alice Crocker
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 12,13 MB
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1664207864
Love Thy Neighbor II, the sequel to Love Thy Neighbor, will lead you to fall in love with people the media has told you are enemies. The stories show the delight of not taking oneself too seriously, and how that frees friends from your host country to laugh with you, and thus bond your hearts forever. “They’re mostly Muslims—they’ll hate you!” was the dire warning given to the author before she embarked upon the adventure that would change her life. Time disproved that and many other negative predictions. In this world of “East versus West” or “Christian versus Muslim” mentalities, the real-life experiences of ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher Alice Crocker disprove much of what many people expect when they become full time residents in a country, culture, or even religious environment that is not their own. With endearing, earthy wit, infinite delight in her experiences—even the embarrassing ones—and most of all deep, abiding love and respect, Alice’s true stories prove that friendship knows no bounds and that of being a fish out of water can be the most humbling, instructional, and meaningful experience of all. Be encouraged to fully entrust your life to God, because a joyous adventure awaits, and open your heart to people who are “foreign” as individuals, not stereotypes. Because in the scope of creation and journeying through this temporary world with all its joy and promise, struggle and uncertainty, Alice and her beloved Indonesian friends, students and colleagues, prove that we are all in this together.
Author : Ayaz Virji, M.D.
Publisher : Convergent Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 18,18 MB
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0525577211
A powerful true story about a Muslim doctor's service to small-town America and the hope of overcoming our country's climate of hostility and fear. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY In 2013, Ayaz Virji left a comfortable job at an East Coast hospital and moved to a town of 1,400 in Minnesota, feeling called to address the shortage of doctors in rural America. But in 2016, this decision was tested when the reliably blue, working-class county swung for Donald Trump. Virji watched in horror as his children faced anti-Muslim remarks at school and some of his most loyal patients began questioning whether he belonged in the community. Virji wanted out. But in 2017, just as he was lining up a job in Dubai, a local pastor invited him to speak at her church and address misconceptions about what Muslims practice and believe. That invitation has grown into a well-attended lecture series that has changed hearts and minds across the state, while giving Virji a new vocation that he never would have expected. In Love Thy Neighbor, Virji relates this story in a gripping, unforgettable narrative that shows the human consequences of our toxic politics, the power of faith and personal conviction, and the potential for a renewal of understanding in America's heartland.
Author : Ann Warren Turner
Publisher : Dear America
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,11 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780439153089
In Greenmarsh, Massachusetts, in 1774, thirteen-year-old Prudence Emerson keeps a diary of the troubles she and her family face as Tories surrounded by American patriots at the start of the American Revolution.
Author : Belle Aurora
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,25 MB
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Croatian Americans
ISBN : 9781500738860
Asher 'Ghost' Collins and Natalie Kovac shared a passionate night together. One neither of them can forget. Why is it so hard for them to be around each other? With no hope of the two getting along they decide to go their separate ways. And somehow end up closer than they've ever been. Will friendship ever be enough for the pair?
Author : Lenn E. Goodman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 37,22 MB
Release : 2008-01-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199716447
In this book, Lenn E. Goodman writes about the commandment to "love thy neighbor as thyself" from the standpoint of Judaism, a topic and perspective that have not often been joined before. Goodman addresses two big questions: What does that command ask of us? and what is its basis? Drawing extensively on Jewish sources, both biblical and rabbinic, he fleshes out the cultural context and historical shape taken on by this Levitical commandment. In so doing, he restores the richness of its material content to this core articulation of our moral obligations, which often threatens to sink into vacuity as a mere nostrum or rhetorical formula. Goodman argues against the notion that we have this obligation simply because God demands it -- a position that too readily makes ethics seem arbitrary, relativistic, dogmatic, authoritarian, contingent or just unpalatable. Rather he proposes that we learn much about how we ought to think about God from what we know about morals. He shows that natural reasoning and appeals to scripture, tradition, and revelation reinforce one another in ethical deliberation. For Goodman, ethics and theology are not worlds apart connected only by a kind of narrow one-way passage; the two realms of discourse can and should inform each other. Engaging the philosophers, including Aristotle, Spinoza, and Kant, and assembling three-thousand years worth of Jewish textual masterpieces, Goodman skillfully weaves his Gifford Lectures, which he delivered in 2005, into an indispensable work.
Author : Debbie Macomber
Publisher : Center Point
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,54 MB
Release : 2012-10
Category : Large type books
ISBN : 9781611735154
For weeks, Lesley had been anxiously awaiting the arrival of her new neighbor. Since the house next door was the only other home in sight, she hoped that the new tenant would also become a friend. From the moment she saw him, Lesley knew Cole Daniels was an enigma. His dark, mesmerizing eyes didn't excuse his arrogance. His gentle concern for the wild deer in the woods out back didn't clear him of suspicion. There was definitely something mysterious about Cole - a handsome man who seemed to be hiding from the world. What was his secret?
Author : Norman L. Geisler
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 26,33 MB
Release : 2007-07-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1433520850
Love Your Neighbor is a concise introduction to Christian ethics. It begins with a look at the biblical basis for morality, defines and describes various philosophical approaches to the subject of ethics, then connects biblical morality with the idea of absolute truth in philosophy. The book then moves from its philosophical basis to a practical application of Christian ethics, considering a wide range of social, biomedical, and personal issues. It does not take a partisan or denominational approach to these issues, but squarely faces them with an open mind and open Bible. The book is based on sound biblical and philosophical reasoning and does not tell readers what to think but encourages them to think biblically and critically through these issues.
Author : Jennifer Grant
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 25,16 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1506452019
A young girl learns from her mother that everyone is her neighbor and that if she is observant, she can find ways to show love to neighbors near and far.
Author : Alice Crocker
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 33,7 MB
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780984108756
"They're mostly Muslims - they'll hate you!" was thedire warning given to the author before she embarkedupon the adventure that would change her life. Timedisproved that and many other negative predictions.In this world of "East Versus West" or "Christian Versus Muslim"mentalities, the real life experiences of ESL (English as a Second Language)teacher Alice Crocker disprove much of what many people expect whenthey become full time residents in a country, culture, or even religiousenvironment that is not their own. She learned one of her most valuablelife lessons, "Be yourself and let who you are speak to those you areconnecting with." With endearing, earthy wit, infinite delight in herexperiences - even the highly embarrassing ones - and most of all deep, abiding love and respect, Alice's true stories prove that friendship knowsno bounds and that being a fish out of water can be the most humbling, instructional, and meaningful life experience of all.These stories, all true, will encourage readers to fully entrust their livesto God, because a joyous adventure awaits, and will open their hearts topeople who are "foreign," causing them to see individuals, not stereotypes.Because in the scope of creation and journeying through this temporaryworld with all its joy and promise, struggle and uncertainty, Alice and herbeloved Indonesian friends and students prove that we are all in this together.
