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The whole language : the power of extravagant tenderness / by Boyle, Greg,author.;
Gregory Boyle, the beloved Jesuit priest and author of the inspirational bestsellers Tattoos on the Heart and Barking to the Choir, returns with a call to witness the transformative power of tenderness, rooted in his lifetime of experience counseling gang members in Los Angeles. Over the past thirty years, Gregory Boyle has transformed thousands of lives through his work as the founder of Homeboy Industries, the largest and most successful gang-intervention program in the world. Boyle's new book, The Whole Language, follows the acclaimed bestsellers Tattoos on the Heart, hailed as an "astounding literary and spiritual feat" (Publishers Weekly) that is "destined to become a classic of both urban reportage and contemporary spirituality" (Los Angeles Times), and Barking to the Choir, deemed "a beautiful and important and soul-transporting book" by Elizabeth Gilbert and declared by Ann Patchett to be "a book that shows what the platitudes of faith look like when they're put into action." In a community struggling to overcome systemic poverty and violence, The Whole Language shows how those at Homeboy Industries fight despair and remain generous, hopeful, and tender. When Saul was thirteen years old, he killed his abusive stepfather in self-defense; after spending twenty-three years in juvenile and adult jail, he enters the Homeboy Industries training and healing programs and embraces their mission. Declaring, "I've decided to grow up to be somebody I always needed as a child," Saul shows tenderness toward the young men in his former shoes, treating them all like his sons and helping them to find their way. Before coming to Homeboy Industries, a young man named Abel was shot thirty-three times, landing him in a coma for six months followed by a year and a half recuperating in the hospital. He now travels on speaking tours with Boyle and gives guided tours around the Homeboy offices. One day a new trainee joins Abel as a shadow, and Abel recognizes him as the young man who had put him in a coma. "You give good tours," the trainee tells Abel. They both have embarked on a path to wholeness. Boyle's moving stories challenge our ideas about God and about people, providing a window into a world filled with fellowship, compassion, and fewer barriers. Bursting with encouragement, humor, and hope, The Whole Language invites us to treat others-and ourselves-with acceptance and tenderness.
Subjects: Boyle, Greg.; Christian life; Church work with juvenile delinquents; Church work; Compassion.; Gang prevention.;
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Girl in the tunnel : my story of love and loss as a survivor of the Magdalene laundries / by Sullivan, Maureen,1952-author.;
"When Maureen Sullivan was just twelve years old, she confided in her teacher that she was being physically and sexually abused by her stepfather. Never, in her darkest imaginings, could she have dreamt that she would be the one who would face harrowing punishment. Within twenty-four hours, Maureen was taken from her home and her beloved grandmother, and sent to the Magdalene Laundry in New Ross, Co. Wexford, run by the Order of the Good Shepherd nuns. She was told that she would receive an education there, but instead she was immediately stripped of her meagre possessions and thrown into forced labour, washing clothes and scrubbing floors in inhumane and unrelenting conditions. Not allowed to speak, barely fed, and often going without water, the child was viciously beaten by the nuns for years, and hidden away in an underground tunnel when government inspectors came. No one must see how cruelly the nuns were treating her. In the heart-breaking Girl in the Tunnel, Maureen bravely recounts her agonising journey from a monstrously violent home to the cold and brutal Magdalene laundry, and her desperate, gruelling fight for freedom and for justice."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Sullivan, Maureen, 1952-; Abused children; Abused children; Child abuse; Church work with children; Church work with children; Inmates of institutions; Reformatories for women;
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The righteous Gemstones. [videorecording] / by Alan-Williams, Gregory,actor.; Baltz, Tim,actor.; Cavalero, Tony,actor.; DeVine, Adam,1983-actor.; Freeman, Cassidy,actor.; Goodman, John,1952-actor.; McBride, Danny,actor,television director.; Patterson, Edi,1974-actor.; HBO Video (Firm),production company.; Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Firm),distributor.;
Danny McBride, Adam Devine, John Goodman, Edi Patterson, Cassidy Freeman, Tim Baltz, Tony Cavalero, Gregory Alan Williams.From the creative team behind Vice Principals and Eastbound and Down comes Season one of this comedy series about a celebrity televangelist family behind a big-money megachurch. Danny McBride stars as Jesse Gemstone, the eldest of three grown children, who receives a blackmail video that could put his reputation at risk.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Television comedies.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Evangelistic work; Families; Big churches; Television in religion;
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Happiness in this life : a passionate meditation on earthly existence / by Francis,Pope,1936-author.; Stransky, Oonagh,translator.; translation of:Francis,Pope,1936-Works.Selections.English.;
Subjects: Christian life; Happiness; Joy;
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Spotlight [videorecording] / by Keaton, Michael,1951-actor.; McAdams, Rachel,1978-actor.; McCarthy, Tom,1966-screenwriter,director.; Ruffalo, Mark,actor.; Shore, Howard.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada),publisher.;
Camera, Masanobu Takayanagi ; production design, Stephen Carter ; editor, Tom McArdle ; music, Howard Shore.Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery.A team of investigative reporters for the Boston Globe work to expose decades of sexual abuse by Catholic priests and cover-ups of the crimes by the Catholic Church.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Catholic Church; Biographical films.; Child sexual abuse; Feature films.; Historical films.; Investigative reporting;
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The exvangelicals : loving, living, and leaving the white evangelical church / by McCammon, Sarah,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-302) and index.A work of memoir and investigative journalism on the exvangelical movement: its origins; stories of its members; and massive social, cultural and political impact.
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; McCammon, Sarah.; Christianity and culture; Christianity and politics; Christians, White; Evangelicalism.; Evangelicalism; Ex-church members;
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Not that fancy : simple lessons on living, loving, eating, and dusting off your boots / by McEntire, Reba,author.; Brooks, Garth,writer of foreword.;
The best things in life are really not that fancy-time with family, hard work, and a good bowl of beans and cornbread. This photo-driven book featuring all things Reba invites you to get back to the basics of life: fun, food, friends, and family. In her first book in over two decades, actress and country music legend Reba McEntire takes you behind the scenes and shares the stories, recipes, and Oklahoma-style truths that guide her life.
Subjects: Cookbooks.; Recipes.; McEntire, Reba.; Comfort food.; Cooking.;
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Your love never fails [videorecording] / by Donovan, Elisa,1971-; Feifer, Michael.; Feifer, Michael.; Rowe, Brad,1970-; Schenck, Jeffrey.; Schenck, Jeffrey.; Schneider, John,1960-; Skerritt, Tom.; Sullivan, Peter,1976-; Sullivan, Peter,1976-; Willard, Fred,1939-; Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc.; Hybrid Films (Firm);
Music, Andres Boulton ; editor, Sean Robert Olson ; director of photography, Kobi Zaig.Elisa Donovan, Brad Rowe, Fred Willard, Tom Skerritt, John Schneider.The story of Laura, a working mother who just wants to spend more time with her daughter Kelsey. Unfortunately, her demanding boss Paul has other ideas. When Kelsey's father Dylan files for joint custody, Laura is forced to take Kelsey to Texas, where she confronts the lifestyle, church, and father that she left behind. With the help of the local church minister, Pastor Frank, Laura and Dylan will find their way back to the commitment they made to each other and to Kelsey.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD; NTSC, region 1; Dolby digital 5.1; anamorphic widescreen presentation.
Subjects: Fathers and daughters; Feature films.; Mothers and daughters; Single mothers;
© c2011., Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment,
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Rev. by Bonneville, Hugh,actor.; Liemann, Lucy,actor.; Jupp, Miles,actor.; Colman, Olivia,actor.; McBurney, Simon,actor.; Evets, Steve,actor.; Hollander, Tom,actor.; BBC Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Hugh Bonneville, Lucy Liemann, Miles Jupp, Olivia Colman, Simon McBurney, Steve Evets, Tom HollanderOriginally produced by BBC Studios in 2010.Meet The Rev. Adam Smallbone. He's a Church of England Vicar, newly promoted from a sleepy rural parish to the busy, inner-city world of St Saviour's in Hackney, East London. It's a world he has no experience of. And it shows. It really shows. Alex - Adam's long-suffering wife - does her best to support him, but she's got her own career as a solicitor to worry about. And she is no one's idea of a conventional vicar's wife. Anybody can and does come into St Saviour's. From scheming MPs trying to educate their children on the cheap to Colin, a heavy drinking, unemployable lost soul… Rev. is an authentic - albeit highly comic - portrait of the life of a modern, inner-city vicar. Heavily researched and supported by anecdotes from a number of working city vicars and church insiders it lifts the lid on how the modern church actually functions, and what life is really like in a dog collar.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.; Comedy films.;
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Rev: S1. by Cattaneo, Peter,film director.; Bonneville, Hugh,actor.; Liemann, Lucy,actor.; Jupp, Miles,actor.; Colman, Olivia,actor.; McBurney, Simon,actor.; Evets, Steve,actor.; Hollander, Tom,actor.; BBC Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Hugh Bonneville, Lucy Liemann, Miles Jupp, Olivia Colman, Simon McBurney, Steve Evets, Tom HollanderOriginally produced by BBC Studios in 2010.Meet The Rev. Adam Smallbone. He's a Church of England Vicar, newly promoted from a sleepy rural parish to the busy, inner-city world of St Saviour's in Hackney, East London. It's a world he has no experience of. And it shows. It really shows. Alex - Adam's long-suffering wife - does her best to support him, but she's got her own career as a solicitor to worry about. And she is no one's idea of a conventional vicar's wife. Anybody can and does come into St Saviour's. From scheming MPs trying to educate their children on the cheap to Colin, a heavy drinking, unemployable lost soul… Rev. is an authentic - albeit highly comic - portrait of the life of a modern, inner-city vicar. Heavily researched and supported by anecdotes from a number of working city vicars and church insiders it lifts the lid on how the modern church actually functions, and what life is really like in a dog collar.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.; Comedy films.;
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