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Confederate monuments figure prominently as epicenters of social
conflict. These stone and metal constructs resonate with the
tensions of modern America, giving concrete definition to the
ideologies that divide us. Confederate monuments alone did not
generate these feelings of aggravation, but they are far from
innocent. Rather than serving as neutral objects of public
remembrance, Confederate monuments articulate a narration of the
past that forms the basis for a normative vision of the future. The
story, told through the character of a religious mythos, carries
implicit sacred convictions; thus, these spires and statues are
inherently theological . In Cut in Stone , Ryan Andrew Newson
contends that we cannot fully understand or disrupt these statues
without attending to the convictions that give them their power.
With a careful overview of the historical contexts in which most
Confederate monuments were constructed, Newson demonstrates that
these "memorials" were part of a revisionary project intended to
resist the social changes brought on by Reconstruction while
maintaining a romanticized Southern identity. Confederate monuments
thus reinforce a theology concerning the nature of sacrifice and
the ultimacy of whiteness. Moreover, this underlying theology
serves to conceal inherited collective wounds in the present. If
Confederate monuments are theologically weighted in their allure,
then it stands to reason that they must also be contested at this
levelaprecisely as sacred symbols. Newson responds to these
inherently theological objects with suggestions for action that are
sensitive to the varying contexts within which monuments reside,
showing that while all Confederate monuments must come under
scrutiny, some monuments should remain standing, but in redefined
contexts. Cut in Stone represents the first detailed theological
investigation of Confederate monuments, a resource for the larger
collective task of determining how to memorialize problematic pasts
and how to shape public space amidst contested memory.
A tail of the fursome undead! While helping her best friend Danny
film his latest horror flick, Mellie discovers a scraggly cat
behind a dumpster outside the YummCo Foods factory. Mellie names
the stray Bert and hides him in her room, knowing her parents won't
let her keep him. But soon Bert has decapitated all her stuffed
animals, and before long he is leaving the headless corpses of
birds and mice as gifts for her. Danny is convinced the cat is a
zombie, living on the brains of its victims. But is that what's
really going on? Award-winning author Kara LaReau lets loose a
fresh and sharply funny new mystery, with an irresistible touch of
the macabre. Fans of creepy stories and animal lovers alike will
devour this fast-moving adventure in one heady gulp.
I have come not to bring peace, but a sword." These words of Christ
echo in our current times. In recent years, a growing number
of commentators have decried a lack of civility in
public discourse. Considered in isolation this concern is
innocent enough, but no call for civility happens in a
vacuum, and there is good reason to be suspicious of civility
in our current political context. Calls for civility can
encourage passivity and blunt prophetic action
against injustice; further, truly heinous policies can
be pursued under the guise of civility. And yet
civility should not be dismissed outright, especially
as presented by its more nuanced defenders--when it
is presented as a limited good in a pluralist society.In The
End of Civility, Ryan Andrew Newson analyzes the development of the
concept of "civility" as we know it in modern discourse and names
some of the criteria Christians can use to judge between healthy
and toxic appeals to civility. The challenge, Newson
contends, is discerning when civility is called for and when
its pursuit becomes vicious. Pleas for civility cannot
be assessed without considering the context in which they are
made. Some appeals to civility merely seek to lessen
conflict, even conflict necessary in the struggle for a more
just world. But when issued by people struggling for
justice on the margins of society, calls for civility
can name the types of conflict that might lead to liberation.
One must be attentive to what counts as "civil" in the first
place and who gets to make that determination. Which bodies are
considered civil and "ordered," and which people are under
suspicion of being "uncivil" before they ever say a word?
For Christians, civility can never be an ultimate good but
remains subordinate to the call to follow Christ--in
particular, the Christ who is not always "civil"Â but who
calls people to an ethic of resistance to injustice and
solidarity with people who are suffering.
This is quite simply the first volume of its kind dedicated to
the area of high time resolution astrophysics. High time resolution
astrophysics (HTRA) is an important new window on the universe and
a vital tool in understanding a range of phenomena from diverse
objects and radiative processes. Underlining this science
foundation, technological developments in both instrumentation and
detectors are described.
High Time Resolution Astrophysics (HTRA) is an important new window
to the universe and a vital tool in understanding a range of
phenomena from diverse objects and radiative processes. This
importance is demonstrated in this volume with the description of a
number of topics in astrophysics, including quantum optics,
cataclysmic variables, pulsars, X-ray binaries and stellar
pulsations to name a few. Underlining this science foundation,
technological developments in both instrumentation and detectors
are described. These instruments and detectors combined cover a
wide range of timescales and can measure fluxes, spectra and
polarisation. These advances make it possible for HTRA to make a
big contribution to our understanding of the Universe in the next
decade.
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Return of ZomBert (Paperback)
Kara LaReau; Illustrated by Ryan Andrews
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It's the night of the annual Autumn Equinox Festival, when the town
gathers to float paper lanterns down the river. Legend has it that
after drifting out of sight, they'll soar off to the Milky Way and
turn into brilliant stars. This year, Ben and his classmates are
determined to find out where those lanterns really go, and they
made a pact with two simple rules: No one turns for home. No one
looks back. The plan is to follow the river on their bikes for as
long as it takes to learn the truth, but it isn't long before the
pact is broken by all except for Ben and (much to Ben's
disappointment) Nathaniel, the one kid who just doesn't seem to fit
in. Together, Nathaniel and Ben will travel down a winding road
full of magic, wonder, and unexpected friendship.
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The Dollar Kids (Paperback)
Jennifer Richard Jacobson; Illustrated by Ryan Andrews
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Twelve-year-old Lowen Grover, a budding comic-book artist, is still reeling from the shooting death of his friend Abe when he stumbles across an article about a former mill town giving away homes for just one dollar. It not only seems like the perfect escape from the city and all of the awful memories associated with it, but an opportunity for his mum to run her very own business. But is the Dollar Program too good to be true? The homes are in horrible shape, and the locals are less than welcoming. Will the Grovers find they've traded one set of problems for another? From the author of Small as an Elephant and Paper Things comes a heart-tugging novel about guilt and grief, family and friendship, and, above all, community.
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Rise of ZomBert (Paperback)
Kara LaReau; Illustrated by Ryan Andrews
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James Wm. McClendon, Jr. (1924-2000) was the most important
""baptist"" theologian of the twentieth century. McClendon crafted
a systematic theology that grew out of the immediacy of preaching
the text, refused to succumb to the pressures of individualism, and
lamented the stunted public witness of a fractured Protestant
ecclesiology. This third and final volume of his Collected Works
provides a compendium of McClendon's sermons - examples of what he
called ""first-order"" theology in action. While McClendon was
predominantly known as a philosophical theologian, he persisted in
the belief that the theology that mattered most occurred in
ordinary congregations seeking to bear faithful witness in the
world. The sermons in this collection - many rarely seen and never
before published - provide an important window into McClendon's own
theology and witness to his convictions about theology's purpose
and end. This third volume serves as an invaluable resource for
ministers, students, and theologians who seek a fuller
understanding of McClendon's ""baptist"" theology.
Wang Yang, a memoir follows the touching and equally gripping story
of Ryan Andrew Peters, a young man of Indian and African origin who
grew up in Apartheid South Africa. When he decides to move to China
in search of an adventurous new life and a chance to get away from
his alcohol and drug fused days in London, he gets way more than he
ever bargained for Ryan finds himself spiraling out of control once
again as he slips into another destructive lifestyle. More
traumatic events unravel around him everyday, such as an earthquake
that kills over 70,000 people, leaving him to wonder what the
meaning of life really is. As Ryan starts singing in a local bar,
he meets a wonderful guitarist he falls head over heels in love
with. It won't be easy, but it will be an adventure to remember
Follow Ryan Andrew Peters as he barrels through a life of pain,
adventure, love and whimsical hope. It's a travel memoir that
readers will be clinging to until the very last hypnotizing page
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