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Women of Courage (Paperback)
Mary Kay J. D. Green, J. D. Mary Kay Green
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This book is about the Constitutional rights of illegitimate
children and their parents, about the right to give birth and raise
your own children regardless of race and marital status. It was
inspired by Chrystal Chambers and her lawsuit against the Omaha
Girls Club for pregnancy and race discrimination tried in l986. Ms.
Chambers' case had a role in the passage of the l991 Civil Rights
Act, Section 105 (a)(2)(a) banning the use of the business
necessity defense in cases where intentional discrimination is
alleged. It literally took an act of Congress to get the Omaha
Girls Club to abandon their single pregnancy negative role modeling
discharge policy. The case has been covered in "The Loud Voice" of
the national media. In June of 2003, Ms. Chambers and her case were
featured by national black syndicated morning radio talk show host
Tom Joyner Show in his segment "Little Known Black Heroes." In the
winter of l986, the case was featured in the New York Times, in
Newsweek, in The New York Daily News as well as locally. The case
was also featured twice on National Public Radio's 'All Things
Considered, ' and Ms. Chambers and her lawyer Mary Kay Green and
others were featured on Phil Donahue's national talk show. The book
also covers the Magdalene asylums in Ireland for unwed mothers, and
challenges the Constitutionality of the Welfare Reform Act.
This book is about the Constitutional rights of illegitimate
children and their parents, about the right to give birth and raise
your own children regardless of race and marital status. It was
inspired by Chrystal Chambers and her lawsuit against the Omaha
Girls Club for pregnancy and race discrimination tried in l986. Ms.
Chambers' case had a role in the passage of the l991 Civil Rights
Act, Section 105 (a)(2)(a) banning the use of the business
necessity defense in cases where intentional discrimination is
alleged. It literally took an act of Congress to get the Omaha
Girls Club to abandon their single pregnancy negative role modeling
discharge policy. The case has been covered in "The Loud Voice" of
the national media. In June of 2003, Ms. Chambers and her case were
featured by national black syndicated morning radio talk show host
Tom Joyner Show in his segment "Little Known Black Heroes." In the
winter of l986, the case was featured in the New York Times, in
Newsweek, in The New York Daily News as well as locally. The case
was also featured twice on National Public Radio's 'All Things
Considered, ' and Ms. Chambers and her lawyer Mary Kay Green and
others were featured on Phil Donahue's national talk show. The book
also covers the Magdalene asylums in Ireland for unwed mothers, and
challenges the Constitutionality of the Welfare Reform Act.
The core narrative of Christianity, the book that conveys it (the
Bible) and the institution of the church have been marginalised by
the development of modernity and post-modernity. Strangely,
post-modernity created an opportunity for religious thinking and
experience to re-enter many lives. Yet post-modernity is not an
adequate framework for thinking about life. There is therefore an
opportunity for Christians to imagine what comes after and to
prepare the church for a new engagement of mission with western
culture. The church, through a creative missionary imagination, can
re-define western cultural life. This sketches what such an
approach might look like. 'if you have a taste for the subversive,
a passion for the church, a heart for biblical engagement, and an
eye on the future; this book is a must-read.' Roy Searle,
Northumbria Community, former President of the Baptist Union of
Great Britain.
In this second rich and original volume from the Scripture and
Hermeneutics Seminar, the importance of linguistic issues for
biblical interpretation is analysed, the challenge of postmodernism
is explored, and some of the most creative developments in
philosophy and theology of language are assessed and updated for
biblical interpretation. From Paternoster. CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE:
Mary Hesse Ray Van Leeuwen Anthony Thiselton Kevin Vanhoozer
Nicholas Wolterstorff
The book is about the evolution of 'Augustinianism' in a process of
'spiritual transvaluation' as Augustine of Hippo's thought was
appropriated by spiritual masters in the mediaeval period. The
chapters deal with a range of experiences in 'spiritual
transvaluation' beginning with Augustine's own philosophic
transvaluation of Christian 'affectivity'. The first study is about
St Gregory the Great's 'pastoral' transvaluation of Augustine's
spirituality; the second about William of St Thierry's 'mystical'
transvaluation in the twelfth century; and the final one is about
Walter Hilton's 'christo-centric' transvaluation, writing as an
Augustinian Canon Regular in late fourteenth century England. The
Epilogue draws together the themes of each chapter as a reflection
about the spiritual nature of 'Augustinianism'.
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