![]() ![]() Churches around the globe began to publicly identify themselves as progressive. Along came The Center for Progressive Christianity, now, and an organized movement was born. ![]() ![]() It used to be expressed as “liberal” or “mainline” Protestantism, terminology so fuzzy as to be nearly meaningless. Twenty-five years ago, hardly anyone used the term “progressive Christianity”. Other Democrats, including Cory Booker and Pete Buttigieg, speak the language of faith fluently as well, so a critical mass has formed of progressive Christians inspired by religion not to cut taxes for the rich but rather to slash poverty for children.” So wrote Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times recently. Raphael Warnock, a new senator, is an ordained Baptist pastor. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a Catholic who says her faith inspires her to address health care and climate change. Likewise, Vice President Kamala Harris is a Baptist who says she has regularly attended church. Biden attends Mass regularly and inhabits faith as Donald Trump merely brandished it (as if speaking to two Corinthians). “Enter Joe Biden, one of the most religious presidents of the last century, along with Jimmy Carter and George W. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() They protect vampire secrets-and human lives. Sydney Sage is an Alchemist, one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of humans and vampires. But instead of finding safety at Amberwood Preparatory School, Sydney discovers the drama is only just beginning. To avoid a civil war, Sydney is called upon to act as Jill's guardian and protector, posing as her roommate in the last place anyone would think to look for vampire royalty - a human boarding school in Palm Springs, California, where they also have to come out during the day. Jill Dragomir, the sister of Moroi Queen Lissa Dragomir, is in mortal danger, and the Moroi must send her into hiding. When Sydney is torn from her bed in the middle of the night, at first she thinks she's still being punished for her complicated alliance with dhampir Rose Hathaway. They protect vampire secrets - and human lives. Sydney is an alchemist, one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of humans and vampires. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ha Jin was born on February 21, 1956, in a small rural town in Liaoning province, China, the son of Danlin and Yuanfen Jin. It presents an in-depth portrait of a decent but deeply flawed man, Lin Kong, whose life is spoiled by his inability to experience strong emotions and to love wholeheartedly. But Waiting is primarily a novel of character. It contrasts city and country life and shows the restrictions on individual freedoms that are a routine part of life under communism. Beginning in 1963 and stretching over a twenty-year period, Waiting is set against the background of a changing Chinese society. The plot revolves around the fortunes of three people: Lin Kong, the army doctor his wife Shuyu, whom he has never loved and his girlfriend at the hospital where he works, the nurse Manna Wu. Jin thought that this situation would make a good plot for a novel, and he began working on Waiting in 1994. But now his second marriage was not working. ![]() At the hospital was an army doctor who had waited eighteen years to get a divorce so he could marry his long-time friend, a nurse. The book is based on a true story that Jin heard from his wife when they were visiting her family at an army hospital in China. ![]() ![]() Waiting (1999) is a novel written in English by Ha Jin, a Chinese author who as of 2006 was teaching creative writing at Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts. ![]() ![]() ![]() The question of celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the publication was considered during the last months of Pierre Guyotat's life. It’s the endpoint of colonialism as well as the starting point of a new history, for language, offering a new vision of the present, the past, and the future. Fifty years later, the work of Pierre Guyotat – who passed away on February 7th of this year – exerts an ever-growing impact, having proven to be prescient of a world on the verge of transformation, through violence, sexuality, decolonization, cosmology. We start with Mike Bouchet ) reading pages 22-23 #eden50 #mikebouchet - Since its release with legendary publishing house Gallimard on September 9th, 1970, Eden, Eden,Eden, the work of Pierre Guyotat, a young author then in his thirties, has provoked scandals, fascinations, and marvels. ![]() For LA, The Box and Semiotext(e) invited fellow-travelers to each read a page from the text during the whole day. On September 9, the day of the 50th anniversary of Pierre Guyotat’s subversive classic, artists and authors gather to celebrate it around the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What the hell was even wrong with my eyes lately? Letting him in had been dumb. I stared at them because meeting his eyes was out of the question. He had three small silver earrings in one ear playing peek-a-boo behind his hair. ![]() His dark hair hung down, framing his face. David wandered in and shut the door behind him. I just needed to put it in context and stay calm. Worse things had happened in the history of the world. Despite the fact that everyone I knew would likely see it. It was a stupid picture of me in a compromising position showing more skin than I liked, but so what. I locked the door and sat on the edge of the Jacuzzi, trying to slow my breathing, trying to be calm. “Excuse me a minute.”įortunately, the closest bathroom was only a short dash away. The pity in his eyes was more than I could take. “It’s okay,” I said, doing my best to believe it.ĭavid shoved his hands into his pockets. They both just looked at me, faces tense, waiting for me to burst into tears or something. This should never have happened but people get offered a lot of money for this sort of thing.” Or maybe that was just what remained of my tattered dignity.ĭavid gave me sad eyes. “How did they get it?” I asked, my voice wavering and my heart at my toes. My head spun woozily the same as it had then. I nodded, trying to remember more but coming up empty. The tattoo artist got mad at us for messing around.”ĭavid tipped his chin. I remembered it then, the buzz of the needle, and him talking to me, holding my hands. ![]() ![]() Rilke advises that ‘ a work of art is good if it has risen out of necessity’, that they must feel they ‘ would have to die if you were forbidden to write.’ From there, he instructs towards the soul-searching life of solitude which best cultivates the artists gift. ‘ Dig into yourself for a deep answer,’ he tells the young poet, ‘ and if this answer rights out in assent, if you meet this solemn question with a strong, simple “I must”, then build your life in accordance with this necessity.’ Letters To A Young Poet, written between 1903-08, contains some of the most passionately moving words of encouragement and examination into the life of an artist. ![]() Rainer Maria Rilke puts forth the question ‘ must I write?’ in these letters from the great poet to the unknown Mr. ![]() ‘ Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.’ ![]() ![]() ![]() Although it's not as disorienting as it sounds when reading, it is for the characters.Ĭharacter development was on point. One minute, things are one way, the next everything is other. The beginning of the story was pretty fast. Little do they know, love is also out there lurking and waiting for the right moment to make itself present. From poison to menacing beasts occupying the forest alongside them, they both work together to take it one day at a time. Crash-landed in the middle of the Amazon forest, Tristan will do whatever it takes to survive, and that includes Aimee surviving as well. ![]() The story is about Aimee flying to Brazil to arrive early for her wedding to her childhood friend. When I read the title 'Withering Hope' for some reason, I thought about Wuthering Heights. I didn't read the blurb until I got the ARC, I only wanted to read this because of its gorgeous cover, and my assumption of the title. ![]() This story was just something I did not expect. Get ready for the waterworks, this tear-jerker is just absolutely beautiful! ![]() ![]() About a thousand copies of the novella were printed and the novella was released under a Creative Commons NonCommercial license. After successfully funding the project, he quit his job at Current to write the novella full time. Sloan crowdfunded his novella Annabel Scheme in 2009 through Kickstarter. Sloan moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2004 to work at Current TV as a media strategist/interactive producer. In 2003, he founded the SnarkMarket blog with some friends. Petersburg, Florida, after graduation for a fellowship at the Poynter Institute. He graduated in 2002 with a degree in economics from the Eli Broad College of Business. ![]() He was also a columnist and cartoonist for The State News student newspaper. Sloan attended Michigan State University, where he co-founded the literary magazine Oats. He graduated from Athens High School in 1998. ![]() He grew up in Troy, Michigan, where he attended Wattles Elementary School. Sloan was born to a home economics teacher and an appliance salesman. ![]() Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, was published in 2012. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Inhabited by characters who are wise and loony, unimpeachably pious and deliciously irreverent, Cold Sassy, Georgia, is the perfect setting for the debut of a storyteller of rare brio, exuberance, and style. Olive Ann Burns has given us a timeless, funny, resplendent novel - about a romance that rocks an entire town, about a boy's passage through the momentous but elusive year when childhood melts into adolescence, and about just how people lived and died in a small Southern town at the turn of the century. He gets run over by a train and lives to tell about it he kisses his first girl, and survives that too. As the newlyweds' chaperone, conspirator, and confidant, Will is privy to his one-armed, renegade grandfather's second adolescence meanwhile, he does some growing up of his own. Boggled by the sheer audacity of it all, and not a little jealous of his grandpa's new wife, Will nevertheless approves of this May-December match and follows its progress with just a smidgen of youthful prurience. And young Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a major scandal. ![]() Rucker Blakeslee announces one July morning in 1906 that he's aiming to marry the young and freckledy milliner, Miss Love Simpson - a bare three weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone to her reward - the news is served up all over town with that afternoon's dinner. The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around - fast. ![]() ![]() Throughout the novel, Faith is thwarted by limits placed on her gender. Despite possessing a highly intelligent and inquisitive mind, the reverend’s daughter is never permitted to be anything but dutiful and demure unlike her six-year-old brother, Howard, who ignites his father’s pride simply by being a boy. After catching a glimpse of one of her father’s private letters, she understands that he, Reverend Erasmus Sunderly, a renowned naturalist, has been accused of faking his most famous fossil discovery.įaith meets this news with incredulity: “His bleak and terrible honesty were the plague and pride of the family.” She bears a fierce love for her stern and distant father, which is underpinned by an unrequited yearning for his affection and approval. It isn’t long before she learns that their exodus from Kent has less to do with an ongoing excavation on Vale than it does with escaping scandal. As 14-year-old Faith Sunderly and her family arrive at their new home, many questions swirl in the girl’s head. ![]() ![]() Is it wicked? Perhaps, but it is quickly evident in Hardinge’s newest tale-following her acclaimed Cuckoo Song(2015)-that things are not what they seem, and the answers to such questions are rarely black and white. On the small island of Vale, something unnatural this way comes. ![]() |