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The lively essays collected here explore colonial history, culture, and thought as it intersects with Jewish studies. Connecting the Jewish experience with colonialism to mobility and exchange, diaspora, internationalism, racial discrimination, and Zionism, the volume presents the work of Jewish historians who recognize the challenge that colonialism brings to their work and sheds light on the diverse topics that reflect the myriad ways that Jews...
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A Devotional for Harvesting God-Given Spiritual Fruits
As Christians, we long for a spiritually fruitful life. However, our attempts to work more and hustle harder only leave us feeling weary and worn. Thankfully, God's word supplies the nourishment we so desperately need. As we abide in Jesus, he fills our emptiness with an abundant crop of spiritual fruit.
Through the trusted voices of several female bestselling authors, editors, and Bible teachers,...
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La obra má s completa de Martí n Lutero acerca de la justificació n por la fe, su Comentario sobre la Epí stola de San Pablo a los Gá latas, se ha traducido y editado desde el latí n a un estilo vivaz, equivalente a sus conferencias orales. El fundamento bí blico para la crucial doctrina de la justificació ...
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From sermons and clerical reports to personal stories of faith, this book of translated primary documents reveals the lived experience of Orthodox Christianity in 19th- and early 20th-century Russia. These documents allow us to hear the voices of educated and uneducated writers, of clergy and laity, nobles and merchants, workers and peasants, men and women, Russians and Ukrainians. Orthodoxy emerges here as a multidimensional and dynamic faith. Beyond...
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Read along with Disney! Sofia is hosting the annual school tea party. Her stepsister Amber thinks that bigger, fancier parties are best. Amber tells Sofia she needs floating furniture and swan ice sculptures at her party, but Sofia wants something more simple. Follow along with word-for-word narration as Sofia chooses between what she wants and what is expected of her.
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Through his radio and film works, such as The War of the Worlds and Citizen Kane, Orson Welles became a household name in the United States. Yet Welles's multifaceted career went beyond these classic titles and included lesser-known but nonetheless important contributions to television, theater, newspaper columns, and political activism. Orson Welles in Focus: Texts and Contexts examines neglected areas of Welles's work, shedding light on aspects...
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Five hundred years ago, the Reformers were defending doctrines such as justification by faith alone, the authority of Scripture, and God's grace in salvation-some to the point of death. Many of these same essential doctrines are still being challenged today, and there has never been a more crucial time to hold fast to the enduring truth of Scripture.
In Reformation Theology, Matthew Barrett has brought together a team of expert theologians and historians...
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Introductions to the New Testament often take a defensive stance, focusing on historical-critical issues but failing to address the interests and needs of pastors and Bible teachers. However, with an emphasis on the theology, key themes, and overall message of each book in the New Testament, this collaborative effort of nine biblical scholars takes a more positive and pastorally relevant approach. Written from a distinctly Reformed, covenantal, and...
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Item #176: A fire drill. No, not an exercise in which occupants of a building practice leaving the building safely. A drill which safely emits a bit of fire, the approximate shape and size of a drill bit.
Item #74: Enter a lecture class in street clothes. Receive loud phone call. Shout "I NEED TO GO, THE CITY NEEDS ME!" Remove street clothes to reveal superhero apparel. Run out for the good of the land.
Item #293: Hypnotizing a chicken...
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Follow along with Mickey and his friends in this English-Spanish bilingual storybook. Mickey Mouse y Goofy están muy emocionados por su viaje de pesca anual, pero cuando sus amigos deciden unirse a ellos, ¡la tranquila excursión de Goofy y Mickey se convierte en una misión de rescate! Mickey Mouse and Goofy are excited for their annual fishing trip. But when the other Roadster Racers decide to join them, Mickey and Goofy's quiet outing turns into...
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With real-life stories, this collection "focuses on the role of music in the often-delicate negotiations surrounding weddings in immigrant communities" (Ellen Koskoff, author of A Feminist Ethnomusicology).
Music in the American Diasporic Wedding explores the complex cultural adaptations, preservations, and fusions that occur in weddings between couples and families of diverse origins. Discussing weddings as a site of negotiations between generations,...
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"Everyone who believes in God at all believes that He knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow."
–C. S. Lewis
This understanding of God's foreknowledge has united the church for twenty centuries. But advocates of "open theism" are presenting a different vision of God and a different view of the future.
The rise of open theism within evangelicalism has raised a host of questions. Was classical theism decisively tainted by Greek philosophy? How...
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Officer Judy Hopps is on an exciting case in Zootopia. Her day started out like any other, until she stumbled across a crying elephant who was missing his Jumbo-pop. Hand-in-hand, the two retraced his steps and followed clues across the city. Will this whirlwind tour lead them to the Jumbo-pop before it melts?
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`Give me a word, Father', visitors to early desert monks asked. The responses of these pioneer ascetics were remembered and in the fourth century written down in Coptic, Syriac, Greek, and later Latin. TheirSayings were collected, in this case in the alphabetical order of the monks and nuns who uttered them, and read by generations of Christians as life-giving words that would help readers along the path to salvation.
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Now in paperback, this helpful volume by pastor and best-selling author John MacArthur guides readers in cultivating a biblical worldview on a wide range of issues.
What we think shapes who we are. That's why the Bible tells us, "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind" (Romans 12:2a). In a world of differing voices competing for our allegiance, we must learn to "think biblically" so we can distinguish good...
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"Recueil de récits d'horreur, de suspense et de mystèreCe livre d'horreur est un voyage vers l'inconnu. Chaque récit est une porte qui s'entrouvre sur le mystère, une invitation à explorer les coins les plus sombres de l'imagination. Avec des narrations captivantes, vous vous plongerez dans un monde o l'inattendu et le sinistre s'entremêlent, déclenchant des frissons qui parcourent votre colonne vertébrale.Oserez-vous ouvrir vos oreilles aux...
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Surfing the New Wave
In the '60s, the New Wave swept over science fiction. Women rode that wave and pushed beyond, into new waters.
These stories are darker, exploring psychological horrors in ways that their older sisters didn't dare to. They're innovative, playing with form and structure. They're challenging, forcing us to confront the demons not just outside us, but within us.
Come Rediscover nineteen of the era's best works-and dive...