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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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Bad Mormon : a memoir / by Gay, Heather,author.;
"Straight off the slopes and into the spotlight, Heather Gay is known to dish God's honest truth. Whether as a businesswoman, mother, or television personality, Heather is unafraid to blaze a new trail; even if at the isolation of her family, friends, and church. Heather was born and bred Mormon. Growing up in Utah, not even the snow-capped mountains could draw attention from the state's most prominent resident: the Mormon Church. Between attending orthodox services, embarking on an eighteen-month mission, attending Brigham Young University, and marrying into a "royal" family, Heather was the definition of a "good Mormon." However, when the doting wife's husband unexpectedly filed for divorce, she was left out in the cold by her church and her community. In this funny, brash, and unbelievably vulnerable book, Bad Mormon recounts Heather's experiences as a single mother to three girls, navigating life post-divorce and post-Mormonism. It follows Heather's early days as a young girl in the church, through to her disavowal of the Mormon faith and success in both business and television. The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star documents the challenges of raising strong women despite feeling broken, and teases out the complicated relationship between duty to self and duty to God. Bad Mormon works to reconcile cultural and religious beliefs, with shifting ideologies about the world and its inhabitants. And Heather is its charming narrator. Hers is a story of honesty and transparency in a community where skeletons line the closets. Heather Gay is anything but shy, and it shows in her work. It's a story about finding healing after heartbreak and accomplishment after abandonment-from a woman unafraid of holding anything back"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Gay, Heather.; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.; Divorced women; Ex-church members; Mormons; Women television personalities;
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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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Good time girl / by Gay, Heather,author.;
"In Bad Mormon, Heather Gay pulled back the veil on her orthodox adolescence and marriage in the Mormon Church, and the painful process of leaving it all behind. Becoming a successful business owner and reality TV star gave the single mom of three a second lease on life. After years of living in an insular bubble, Heather emerged bright-eyed, eager to take on the world. Now ... the mother of three proves that she isn't just a Bad Mormon; she's also a Good Time Girl. ... [Here] Heather recounts the humorous trysts, mishaps, and serendipitous success she's found as a life-long reveler in all things indulgent. Coming off the heels of the most-watched RHOSLC episode of all time, Heather gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the receipts, proof, timeline, and screenshots of that fateful night in Bermuda. From illicit high school trips to Tijuana and awkward dates set up by her overzealous costars, Good Time Girl is a ... meditation on community, love, independence, womanhood, and ...second chances."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Gay, Heather.; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.; Divorced women; Ex-church members; Latter Day Saints; Women television personalities;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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I felt the end before it came : memoirs of a queer ex-Jehovah's Witness / by Cox, Daniel Allen,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.""I spent eighteen years in a group that taught me to hate myself. You cannot be queer and a Jehovah's Witness--it's one or the other." Daniel Allen Cox grew up with firm lines around what his religion considered unacceptable: celebrating birthdays and holidays; voting in elections, pursuing higher education, and other forays into independent thought. Their opposition to blood transfusions would have consequences for his mother, just as their stance on homosexuality would for him. But even years after whispers of his sexual orientation reached his congregation's presiding elder, catalyzing his disassociation, the distinction between "in" and "out" isn't always clear. Still in the midst of a lifelong disentanglement, Cox grapples with the group's cultish tactics--from gaslighting to shunning--and their resulting harms--from simmering anger to substance abuse--all while redefining its concepts through a queer lens. Can Paradise be a bathhouse, a concert hall, or a room full of books? With great candour and disarming self-awareness, Cox takes readers on a journey from his early days as a solicitous door-to-door preacher in Montreal to a stint in New York City, where he's swept up in a scene of photographers and hustlers blurring the line between art and pornography. The culmination of years spent both processing and avoiding a complicated past, I Felt the End Before It Came reckons with memory and language just as it provides a blueprint to surviving a litany of Armageddons."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Creative nonfiction.; Cox, Daniel Allen; Cox, Daniel Allen.; Ex-church members; Ex-church members; Gay men; Authors, Canadian (English);
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Ministerial record of Reverend Robert Barnes Beynon, July, 1896-December, 1940 : nominal index / by Boos, Josephine "Jodine" (Beynon).; Beynon, Robert Barnes,1864-1942.; Gallinger, Patricia C.,1952-;
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Subjects: Beynon, Robert Barnes, 1864-1942; Church records and registers; Registers of births, etc.; Methodist Church;
© 1991., Shenrone Enterprises,
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Colosseum [videorecording] / by Beattie, Ian,1965-actor.; Cargill, Robert R.,1973-narrator.; Mariotti, Alexander,actor.; Reiné, Roel,television director.; Scott, Campbell,actor.; History Channel (Television network),production company,broadcaster.; Lions Gate Home Entertainment,publisher.;
Narrated by Robert R. Cargill ; Alexander Mariotti, Ian Beattie, Campbell Scott.This eight-part documentary vividly brings to life the rise and fall of the Roman Empire through the lens of one of the most exhilarating and brutal arenas in the history of humanity-the Colosseum. From the savage truth of a gladiator's life as a slave-warrior to the fascinating ways Rome's Emperors used the vast amphitheater to demonstrate total power, “Colosseum” offers a unique and personal look inside history's most iconic empire.14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Nonfiction television programs.; Historical television programs.; Television mini-series.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Commodus, Emperor of Rome, 161-192.; Colosseum (Rome, Italy); Church history; Gladiators.; Hand-to-hand fighting.; Human-animal relationships.; Women gladiators.;
For private home use only.
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Father Brown. [videorecording] / by Barber, Ian,television director.; Carroll, Nancy,1974-actor.; Carter, Matt,television director.; Chambers, Tom,actor.; Cusack, Sorcha,1949-actor.; Flowerday, Rachel,screenwriter,creator.; Guner, Tahsin,screenwriter,creator.; Kinsman, Rob,screenwriter.; Lambert, Kit,screenwriter.; Meyrick, Ceri,television producer.; Muirden, Dan,screenwriter.; Patrick, Di,television director.; Price, Alex,actor.; Thompson, Paul Matthew,screenwriter.; Tindall, Jude,screenwriter.; Williams, Mark,1959-actor.; Television adaptation of (work):Chesterton, G. K.(Gilbert Keith),1874-1936.Father Brown.; BBC Worldwide Ltd,publisher.; British Broadcasting Corporation,production company.; Warner Home Video (Firm),film distributor.;
Mark Williams, Sorcha Cusack, Nancy Carroll, Tom Chambers, Alex Price.Originally produced as individual episodes of television in 2015.Welcome back to the village of Kembleford, where Father Brown uses his personal blend of intuition, psychology, compassion and justice to solve another series of gripping crimes. Assisted as always by parish secretary Mrs. McCarthy, glamorous socialite Lady Felicia Montague and her accommodating chauffeur Sid Carter Father Brown faces threats to his town, his friends and his faith. An assassination attempt, an art heist, ritual sacrifice and murder keep the twists and turns coming.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Detective and mystery television programs.; Fiction television programs.; Television crime shows.; Television series.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Catholic Church; Brown, Father (Fictitious character); Criminal investigation;
For private home use only.
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Pioneer cemeteries of Essa Township : and historical notes on their associated churches / by Ontario Genealogical SocietySimcoe County Branch.; Hammond, Norma.; Wilson, Arnott.; Wanless, Helen.; Reese, Ken.;
Includes index.Burn's Presbyterian Cemetery ; Egbert Methodist Cemetery ; Nicholson Presbyterian Cemetery ; St. Peter's Anglican Cemetery ; West Essa Methodist Cemetery ; Notes on Wilson's Hill Cemetery.
Subjects: Inscriptions; Registers of births, etc.;
© c2000., Ontario Genealogical Society, Simcoe County Branch.
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Lay your body down : a novel of suspense / by Clarke, Amy Suiter,author.;
"In Amy Suiter Clarke's brilliant sophomore thriller, a young woman returns to her rural Minnesota hometown for the funeral of her ex boyfriend-her first love-who died suspiciously, only to confront the ways a radical pastor's warped evangelical beliefs have poisoned the whole town"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Bloggers; Christian sects; Clergy; Evangelicalism; Ex-church members; Fundamentalism; Fundamentalist churches; Murder; Patriarchy;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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