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In a lifetime of diverse careers, Canadian Fred Madryga has worked as a logger, in an abattoir, as a roofing kettle, tin basher, a university lecturer and a psychologist in private psychological practice with sexual offenders.
His literary essays demonstrate a keen eye for detail and insights into diverse personalities as well as a capacity for self-reflection and personal growth through a wide range of experience and openness to the world around...
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"That old childhood saying 'pick what you want from the tree of life' simply not working anymore? Becoming a foreigner in Indonesia might be as good a stab at something new and rewarding, as anything..."
Armed with a teaching contract, some poems, and a guitar-playing buddy, Roberts discovers a potentially life-changing experience in 2013. And so the Bajaj Boys make themselves at home.
Indonesia is revealed as a challenging but welcoming land...
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Amethysts and Emeralds is a selection of Daniel King's award-winning poetry, much of which has been published in journals around the world. The poems embrace a wide variety of forms, from free verse to sonnet, roundel, villanelle, and sestina. Thematically, too, the poems are very varied, ranging from the realist "Head in the Sand", published in the prestigious London Magazine, to a song lyric from Shadows of 1876: The Wild Birds have Returned, a...
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Shadow Patterns spans two continents and a lifetime of hopes, fears, laughter, regrets, joys and agonies. Take a journey deep into humanity and lose yourself amongst the simple, life-affirming truths of the characters who will become your fellow travellers.
This engaging novel spans two continents and a lifetime of hopes, fears, laughter, regrets, joys and agonies.
Penelope Knight can't escape her past. Each time she runs to a new place and...
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Heather Taylor Johnson's poetry captures the immediacy of a crisp Rocky Mountains landscape and the moments of intimacy we wish we could freeze-frame. This is a celebration of clean air, snow and sunflowers, and a home divided between two continents, but it's mostly about the vibrancy and transforming power of love.
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Murray Alfredson has many moods, many dictions, many themes. He at once glories in and laments the ephemeral, the only lasting quality in his world. This harmonises with his Buddhist outlook on life.
His is a religious sensibility that draws, however, on many traditions and myths, one of respect for all beings, the soils, the rocks, the plants, the people and other animals, the living, the dead. The moods range widely, from the tortures of mental...
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In the 2019 Backhouse Lecture, Jason shares what he has learnt about accompanying West Papuans - and to a lesser extent Aboriginal people, Bougainvilleans and East Timorese - in their struggle for self-determination. Through personal stories, he tries to make sense of this experience in ways that might speak more broadly to Quakers. His lecture is a deeply personal reflection on what one person thinks it takes to animate freedom and accompany Indigenous...
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Diese Ausgabe von "Ohne Kreuz keine Krone" wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert.
William Penn (1644-1718) gründete die Kolonie Pennsylvania im Gebiet der heutigen USA. 1693 verfasste er den "Essay towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe".
Aus dem Buch:
"1. Was das Kreuz Christi ist. - Das Wort Kreuz ist ein figürlicher Ausdruck der göttlichen Kraft, welche die Welt kreuzigt. §. 2. So versteht es Paulus...
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What if you could make the most important decisions of your life by following just one thing: the deepest truth you know? Living the Deepest Truth You Know explores the remarkable guidance that's available when you look inward to discern your inner wisdom-the "still, small voice"-around personal questions or issues. With unique stories from his own and others' experience, author Albert Bellg describes the process, challenges, and rewards of living...
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