Suffering in Slow Motion

Suffering in Slow Motion
Author: Pamala Condit Kennedy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2003
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781569553596

This inspirational book answers questions about terminal illness, dementia, and coping with these situations.

Quiet Times for Those Who Need Comfort

Quiet Times for Those Who Need Comfort
Author: H. Norman Wright
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2005-07-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0736933689

Bestselling author and family counselor Norm Wright has written an informative and encouraging devotional that will gentle readers forward through the grieving process. He uses his years of counseling experience coupled with his own journeys through grief to help readers learn how to... Draw strength in times of weakness Find comfort when hope is gone Experience God's boundless love Working through more than 60 insightful devotions, readers will explore how to clarify their feelings of loss, establish a healthy outlook on the future, find strength in the arms of their Heavenly Father, and much more. Biblically based and solution-oriented, Quiet Times for Those Who Need Comfort is a must-have for anyone who has recently experienced a loss, someone going through the grieving process, ministers, and family counselors.

Suffering in Slow Motion

Suffering in Slow Motion
Author: Pamala C. Kennedy
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2013-10-31
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781493648061

This book takes the reader on the journey of Dr. Richard Kennedy's diagnoses of Frontal Temporal Dementia from the family's perspective as well as his. Pamala, his wife and caregiver actually took notes from Richard's journal during the lengthy disease and has put his thoughts and feelings in the book as well as her own authentic feelings and fears throughout the illness. This is a must read for all families faced with terminal illness. It offers help for all.

The Creed in Slow Motion

The Creed in Slow Motion
Author: Martin Kochanski
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2022-06-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1399801554

I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth... The Creed is the bones of our faith. In all our different ways, it makes us who we are. But when we stand up and recite the Creed in unison, we have no time to contemplate what it is that we are committing ourselves to. The words rush past, their meaning blurred by familiarity. If we could only slow them down and hear them properly, they would have the power to change worlds. That is what The Creed in Slow Motion aims to do. This is a book for people who like to think things through from first principles. It will not tell you what to believe. (It is for you to engage your mind and discover that for yourself. And for unbelievers to learn what exactly they disbelieve, and why.) In forty short chapters, with clarity and wit, The Creed in Slow Motion draws examples from real-life stories, history and even science to uncover the core claims of Christianity. By turns it is deep, heartening, startling, revolutionary and even, by the world's standards, outrageous.

Unhomed

Unhomed
Author: Pamela Robertson Wojcik
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2024
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0520390350

"In this rich cultural history, Pamela Robertson Wojcik examines America's ambivalent and shifting attitude toward homelessness through a close study of film cycles from five distinct historical moments that show characters as unhomed and placeless, mobile rather than fixed: failing, resisting, or opting out of the mandate for a home of one's own. From the tramp films of the Silent Era to the Oscar-winning Nomadland in 2021, Wojcik shows how film cycles reveal a tension in the American imaginary between viewing homelessness as, on the one hand, deviant or threatening, and, on the other, emblematic of freedom and independence. Blending social history with insights drawn from a complex array of films, both canonical and fringe, Wojcik effectively 'unhomes' dominant narratives that cast aspirations for success and social mobility as the focus of American cinema, reminding us that genres of precarity have been central to the American cinema (and American story) all along"--

The Future of Human Rights

The Future of Human Rights
Author: Upendra Baxi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 583
Release: 2007-12-12
Genre:
ISBN: 019908789X

This book critically examines the contemporary discourses on the nature of 'human rights', their histories, the myths that are embedded in them, and contributes an alternative reading of those histories by placing the concerns and interests of the 'people in struggle and communities of resistance' at centre stage. The work analyses the significance of the United Nations (UN) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and goes on to study the more contemporary issues such as women's struggle to feminize the understanding and practice of human rights, the postmodernist critique of the universal idiom of human rights and, most pertinently for the current world scene, it analyses the impact of globalization on the human rights movement. The volume includes a discussion on the proposed UN norms regarding the human rights responsibilities of multinational corporations and other business entities.

Paradox Bound

Paradox Bound
Author: Peter Clines
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2017-09-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0553418343

“One cool novel. If the Tardis were a Ford Model A , this might be Doctor Who meets National Treasure.”—F. Paul Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of the Repairman Jack series “GET IN THE CAR, MR. TEAGUE. THE ROAD BECKONS.” The traveler sped through Eli Teague’s life long ago. With her tricorne hat, flintlock rifle, and steampunked Model-A Ford, she was a living anachronism, and an irresistible mystery—and she was gone as soon as she arrived, in a cloud of gunfire and a squeal of tires. So when Eli sees her again, he’s determined that this time, he’s going to get some answers. But his hunt soon yields far more than he bargained for, plunging him headlong into a dizzying world full of competing factions and figures straight out of legend. To make sense of the secret at its heart, he must embark on a breakneck chase across the country and through two centuries of history­—with nothing less than America’s past, present, and future at stake. Praise for Paradox Bound “So good you’ll want to invent time travel and send a copy back to yourself, just so you can read it again for the first time. A tour de force.”—Jason M. Hough, New York Times bestselling author of The Darwin Elevator “A timey-wimey, full-barrel adventure novel that also teaches a nonironic lesson in American civics . . . [featuring] an epithet-wielding, pistol-packing heroine that will capture hearts.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A fast and resonant time-travel thriller and tour of America, bursting with fun ideas.”—Django Wexler, author of The Shadow Campaigns novels “Lively, likeable, and wonderfully amusing.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Finding Hope and Meaning in Suffering

Finding Hope and Meaning in Suffering
Author: Trystan Owain Hughes
Publisher: SPCK
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2012-04-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0281065187

Everyone suffers at some time or other - it's simply a part of life. But however bad things seem, we are never completely helpless. For the deeply affirming truth is that we can choose how to respond to adverse circumstances. Trystan Owain Hughes suggests that learning how to suffer and how to wait patiently may be the secret of finding joy in our lives. Diagnosed with a degenerative spinal condition, he was surprised to discover that, instead of increasing his unhappiness, it spurred him on to seek out sources of hope and meaning. The book opens by encouraging us to take a step back from our anxieties and worries and rest in the love of God. We then explore five areas where that love may be found in the midst of pain: in nature, memory, art, laughter and other people. By becoming conscious of the echoes of the transcendent in these areas, we will gain new strength. And paradoxically, through facing our suffering, learn to truly live.

How to Suffer ... In 10 Easy Steps

How to Suffer ... In 10 Easy Steps
Author: William Arntz
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2019-10-08
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1786783002

What!? A “Self-Help” book on How to Suffer!? You must be kidding. Well YES and NO. YES in that it’s a satirical roast of self-help books that promise everything and tell you it’ll be easy (and it never is). NO in that it turns out that looking at and dealing with suffering is the Gorilla in the room that everyone avoids, to our own undoing. And YES there is some kidding around, as a humorous approach is the best way to sneak up on the mothership of bad times: Suffering. And NO you won’t have to suffer to read it! Following the 10 Easy Steps (just do the opposite and don’t suffer) there is the Suffering Hall of Fame, and then the 6 Slippery Steps to End, or at least change, your suffering state. Chapters include: Buddha Kicks the Habit (of Suffering), The Power of Not-Now, Beyond the Roast – Let’s Get Real and The Pseudo Science of Suffering –in which you learn how to construct and use your very own Sufferometer. It’s a lot for one little book, but then again it is a subject which consumes, directs and shapes so much of what we all do, and/or try not to do, in every day life.