Reading Haggai and Malachi in conversation with feminist theory, rhetorical criticism, and masculinity studies reveals two communities in different degrees of crisis. The prophet Haggai successfully persuades a financially strapped people to rebuild the temple, but the speaker in Malachi faces sustained resistance to his arguments in favor of maintaining the priestly hierarchy. Both books describe conflicts among men based upon social class, and those who claim to speak for God find their claims and, with them, God's presumably unquestionable authority as the ultimate male contested. From the Wisdom Commentary series Feminist biblical interpretation has reached a level of maturity that now makes possible a commentary series on every book of the Bible. It is our hope that Wisdom Commentary, by making the best of current feminist biblical scholarship available in an accessible format to ministers, preachers, teachers, scholars, and students, will aid all readers in their advancement toward God's vision of dignity, equality, and justice for all. The aim of this commentary is to provide feminist interpretation of Scripture in serious, scholarly engagement with the whole text, not only those texts that explicitly mention women. A central concern is the world in front of the text, that is, how the text is heard and appropriated by women. At the same time, this commentary aims to be faithful to the ancient text, to explicate the world behind the text, where appropriate, and not impose contemporary questions onto the ancient texts. The commentary addresses not only issues of gender (which are primary in this project) but also those of power, authority, ethnicity, racism, and classism, which all intersect. Each volume incorporates diverse voices and differing interpretations from different parts of the world, showing the importance of social location in the process of interpretation and that there is no single definitive feminist interpretation of a text.

This book 'The Musings of a Young Girl' is written by Rebecca Mary John, a young girl of 12 years. She was born in Kerala, India and did her early school education there. When she was seven years old she came to Dubai, UAE. Rebecca composing poems since the tender age of eight. Her poems are based on various topics and mostly related to her age .While going to school in her father's car she noted things around her & started discussing and conjuring poetry. Thus her early poems took concrete shape mostly while travelling. She used to jot down these lines on bits of paper and once she came back home she would put the finishing touches. The journey from the early poem 'Torn Shaun' to 'The Cross' depicts her progression as a poetess. The steady progress over the years is clearly seen in this book where her poems are displayed in the order of age (with the exception of the introductory poem 'A Poetess' Journey'.).Rebecca is also a meritorious student. Additionally, she is a voracious reader who also engages in coin collection, stamp collection and singing.

Seelsorge gilt mit Recht als Herzsteck der Pastoral - einer Pastoral, die sich als kreative Konfrontation des Evangeliums mit unserer Gegenwart versteht. Pastoral lasst an Hirten, an bauerliches Leben denken, an biblische Kultur, an Agrikultur - und nicht etwa an heutige Kulturwelten. Die Konfrontation des Evangeliums mit unserer Gegenwart geht von Anfang an mit fremden, wenn nicht befremdlichen Ansprechen einher. Seelsorge ist konzeptionell eine interkulturelle Qualitat eigen, noch bevor Fragen einer interkulturellen Seelsorge laut werden, sei es aufgrund muslimischer Patientinnen und Patienten in katholischen oder evangelischen Krankenhausern, sei es aufgrund auslandischer Priester in Deutschland, sei es aufgrund vielfaltiger Migrations- und Fluchtbewegungen. Seelsorge interkulturell lasst programmatisch anklingen, dass es nicht allein um Gestalten interkultureller Seelsorge geht, sondern um eine Interkulturalitat, wie sie zum Selbstverstandnis jeder Seelsorge gehoert.Zu diesem Band tragen Autorinnen und Autoren mit praktisch-theologischer und insbesondere pastoralpsychologischer Kompetenz bei: Bischof Franz-Josef Bode, Ulrike Elsdoerfer, Ottmar Fuchs, Rebecca Marie Hafner MMS, Martin Kempen, Tobias Kessler CS, Klaus Kiessling, Agnes Lanfermann MMS, Jakob Mertesacker, Peter Claver Narh SVD und Lisa Strassberger.Dieser Band will die aktuellen pastoralpsychologischen Diskussionen inspirieren und vorantreiben. Er richtet sich an Seelsorgerinnen und Theologen sowie an alle, die sich in der Pastoral der Kirchen engagieren und dafer Verantwortung tragen.