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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 of salvation to social and political movements that seek
justice for those marginalized by racism, class structures, and
unjust legal systems. He then traces the reaction to racial
progress in the form of white backlash as he explores the fate of
civil reconciliation from the civil rights era to the Black Lives
Matter movement. This book argues that the church's work in
reconciliation can serve as a model for society at large and that
secular diversity and inclusion practices can benefit the church.
It offers a prophetic call to pastors, church leaders, and students
to recover reconciliation as the heart of the church's message to a
divided world. Foreword by William H. Willimon and afterword by
Michael B. Curry.
By offering an understanding of Geographic Information Systems within the social, economic, legal, political and ethical contexts within which they exist, the author shows that there are substantial limits to their ability to represent the very objects and relationships, people and places, that many believe to be most important. Focusing on the ramifications of GIS usage, Digital Places shows that they are associated with far-reaching changes in the institutions in which they exist, and in the lives of those they touch. In the end they call for a complete rethinking of basic ideas, like privacy and intellectual property and the nature of scientific practice, that have underpinned public life for the last one hundred years.
A literary and cultural history of coral—as an essential element
of the marine ecosystem, a personal ornament, a global commodity,
and a powerful political metaphor Today, coral and the human-caused
threats to coral reef ecosystems symbolize our ongoing planetary
crisis. In the nineteenth century, coral represented something
else; as a recurring motif in American literature and culture, it
shaped popular ideas about human society and politics. In Coral
Lives, Michele Currie Navakas tells the story of coral as an
essential element of the marine ecosystem, a cherished personal
ornament, a global commodity, and a powerful political metaphor.
Drawing on a wide range of sources, including works by such writers
as Sarah Josepha Hale, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frances Ellen Watkins
Harper, and George Washington Cable, Navakas shows how coral once
helped Americans to recognize both the potential and the limits of
interdependence—to imagine that their society could grow, like a
coral reef, by sustaining rather than displacing others. Navakas
shows how coral became deeply entwined with the histories of
slavery, wage labor, and women’s reproductive and domestic work.
If coral seemed to some nineteenth-century American writers to be a
metaphor for a truly just collective society, it also showed them,
by analogy, that society can seem most robust precisely when it is
in fact most unfree for the laborers sustaining it. Navakas’s
trailblazing cultural history reveals that coral has long been
conceptually indispensable to humans, and its loss is more than
biological. Without it, we lose some of our most complex political
imaginings, recognitions, reckonings, and longings.
In Florida, land and water frequently change places with little
warning, dissolving homes and communities along with the very
concepts of boundaries themselves. While Florida's landscape of
saturated swamps, shifting shorelines, coral reefs, and tiny keys
initially impeded familiar strategies of early U.S. settlement,
such as the establishment of fixed dwellings, sturdy fences, and
cultivated fields, over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries, Americans learned to inhabit Florida's liquid landscape
in unconventional but no less transformative ways. In Liquid
Landscape, Michele Currie Navakas analyzes the history of Florida's
incorporation alongside the development of new ideas of personhood,
possession, and political identity within American letters. From
early American novels, travel accounts, and geography textbooks, to
settlers' guides, maps, natural histories, and land surveys, early
American culture turned repeatedly to Florida's shifting lands and
waters, as well as to its itinerant enclaves of Native Americans,
Spaniards, pirates, and runaway slaves. This preoccupation with
Floridian terrain and populations, argues Navakas, reveals a deep
American concern with the challenges of settling a region so
exceptional in topography, geography, and demography. Navakas reads
a vast archive of popular, literary, and reference texts spanning
Revolution to Reconstruction, including works by William Bartram,
James Fenimore Cooper, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, to uncover an
alternative history of American possession, one that did not
descend exclusively, or even primarily, from the more familiar
legal, political, and philosophical conceptions of American land as
enduring, solid, and divisible. The shifting southern edge of early
America produced a new language of settlement, belonging,
territory, and sovereignty, and that language would ultimately
transform how people all across the rapidly changing continent
imagined the making of U.S. nation and empire.
A literary and cultural history of coral—as an essential element
of the marine ecosystem, a personal ornament, a global commodity,
and a powerful political metaphor Today, coral and the human-caused
threats to coral reef ecosystems symbolize our ongoing planetary
crisis. In the nineteenth century, coral represented something
else; as a recurring motif in American literature and culture, it
shaped popular ideas about human society and politics. In Coral
Lives, Michele Currie Navakas tells the story of coral as an
essential element of the marine ecosystem, a cherished personal
ornament, a global commodity, and a powerful political metaphor.
Drawing on a wide range of sources, including works by such writers
as Sarah Josepha Hale, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frances Ellen Watkins
Harper, and George Washington Cable, Navakas shows how coral once
helped Americans to recognize both the potential and the limits of
interdependence—to imagine that their society could grow, like a
coral reef, by sustaining rather than displacing others. Navakas
shows how coral became deeply entwined with the histories of
slavery, wage labor, and women’s reproductive and domestic work.
If coral seemed to some nineteenth-century American writers to be a
metaphor for a truly just collective society, it also showed them,
by analogy, that society can seem most robust precisely when it is
in fact most unfree for the laborers sustaining it. Navakas’s
trailblazing cultural history reveals that coral has long been
conceptually indispensable to humans, and its loss is more than
biological. Without it, we lose some of our most complex political
imaginings, recognitions, reckonings, and longings.
Arguably the most imaginative and energetic church response to the
pandemic has been that of HeartEdge, the interdenominational church
renewal movement founded at St Martin in the Fields by Samuel Wells
but now extending beyond the UK to Europe, North America and
Australia. From serving thousands of meals on London's streets to
becoming, in all but name, an online conference centre and
theological college offering hundreds of events, one outstanding
feature of its programme has been Samuel Wells' monthly
conversations about the future of the Church with leading figures
from Britain and America, attended by large online audiences. This
volume offers a distillation of those conversations which, instead
of being preoccupied with decline, focus on what Christian presence
and practice might look like in the world that is being reshaped by
what the pandemic has revealed, and the theology that is needed to
sustain such a vision.
Donald Featherstone, with over fifty wargaming books, is the most
prolific author in wargaming. His lifetime's output continues with
this book about wargaming commando operations. The Commandos were
one of Britain's elite fighting forces during World War II.
Included in Part One is an introduction to the Commandos, their
history, training and equipment. It also covers previously
unpublished material on a planning a raid, an attack on a gun
battery in 1942 and a beach assault in 1944. The second part of the
book includes three previously unpublished sets of Featherstone
rules, three scenarios and recollections from early wargamers about
some early commando wargames with Donald Featherstone and Lionel
Tarr. One of the scenarios is for a platoon level solo game of a
raid on a gun position. The third part of the book is Don
Featherstone's reflections on a lifetime of wargaming, the media
and being at war. The History of Wargaming Project aims to record
and publish key steps in the development of the hobby.
"A profound spiritual exploration into the life and work of the
beloved poet Kahlil Gibran, a much-needed guide for our times."
-Reza Aslan, author of Zealot In Search of a Prophet is a
fascinating journey through the spiritual life of Kahlil Gibran,
the great Lebanese poet and author of The Prophet, a book
originally published in 1923 that has sold over 10 million copies
and been translated into dozens of languages. Capturing our
imaginations and enriching our spirits, Paul-Gordon Chandler
explores this beloved writer and artist, a celebrated mystic who
sought to build bridges and tear down walls and who remains a
cultural icon among all people of goodwill. In Search of a Prophet
is not a traditional biography but a compelling spiritual journey
through Gibran's writings, art, and the places he lived. From
Gibran's birthplace village high in the snowy mountains of Lebanon,
Chandler leads us through his emigration to Boston, art training in
Paris, career in New York, and to the far-reaching places of
influence his writings and art have traveled, alerting readers of
Gibran's continuing relevance for today. This paperback edition,
commemorating the 100th anniversary of the publication of The
Prophet, includes a foreword by The Most Rev. Bishop Michael Curry,
former presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, as well as a new
preface by the author.
"The Work in the World " was first published in 1996. Minnesota
Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable
books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the
original University of Minnesota Press editions.
The writing or reading or buying or selling or judging of a
written work is always at the same time the act of making a
place-or making places. The author creates a special sort of place
for his ideas; the reader, for her engagement with the author; the
bookseller, for the notion of books as property to be categorized
and sold; and so on. In this book, Michael R. Curry develops a
geography of this process, a theory of the nature of space and
places in written work.
"The Work in the World" focuses on a paradox at the heart of
this project: Although the written work is inextricably bound up in
the construction of the places in which it is written, read,
published, circulated, and cited, it nonetheless denies the
importance of places. As the product of modern modes of knowledge,
technology, and intellectual property, written work seems to say
instead that only the encompassing universal space of ideas,
objects, and commodities matters.
Distinctive for the way it views theories in geography and
science as fundamentally embedded in written works, "The Work in
the World" argues eloquently that the philosophical questions
raised by theories can only be addressed within the broader context
of the work.
Michael R. Curry is associate professor of geography at the
University of California, Los Angeles.
"This attractive, compact handbook offers highly practical,
to-the-point guidance to residents and students. The Handbook gives
equal weight to both diagnosis and therapy, includes an
easy-to-reference emergency section, and maintains a focus on
practical disease management. The book's anatomically organized
sections are supplemented by special sections on management of GI
emergencies and the Top 10 GI Problems, including pertinent
algorithms and practice guidelines from the American
Gastroenterology Association. Useful appendices provide CT images
of common GI problems, normal laboratory ranges, and links to
useful websites"--Provided by publisher.
Widely used in marketing, business planning, government and
legislation, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a growing
industry. This work offers an understanding of GIS - the social
impacts of the development and the ethical issues surrounding their
use. Through non-technical analysis, the author draws upon recent
research in the field to offer a broad understanding of GIS and
their future impacts.
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