Author: Christopher Hitchens
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
ISBN: 085789840X
Size: 11.67 MB
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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In this frank and damning expos of the Teresa cult, Hitchens details the nature and limits of one woman's mission to help the world's poor. He probes the source of the heroic status bestowed upon an Albanian nun whose only declared wish was to serve God. He asks whether Mother Teresa's good works answered any higher purpose than the need of the world's privileged to see someone, somewhere, doing something for the Third World. He unmasks pseudo-miracles, questions Mother Teresa's fitness to adjudicate on matters of sex and reproduction, and reports on a version of saintly ubiquity which affords genial relations with dictators, corrupt tycoons and convicted frauds. Is Mother Teresa merely an essential salve to the conscience of the rich West, or an expert PR machine for the Catholic Church? In its caustic iconoclasm and unsparing wit, The Missionary Position showcases the devastating effect of Hitchens' writing at its polemical best.

Author: R. E. Dinlocker
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 9781425996703
Size: 68.73 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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In the 1970's Angie Benedetto, a smart-mouthed Brooklyn girl whos neighborhood customs chafe her as much as her plaid-flannel Catholic school uniform, desperately wants to fly. Angie dreams of flying airplanes, traveling to exotic places and finding a guy who doesn't think high-roll collars and a duck's ass hairstyle mark the height of sophistication. After Angies mother allows her to fly for her Uncle Anthony as a missionary pilot, Angie reports the murder of Asmat natives. She becomes a tool for her Uncles plans to gain control of a gold mine and the quarry of mercenaries who protect the new owners possession of the same mine. Charles Abbott Aldridge is a proper New Englander who wants to study primitive tribes, help his father, and be left alone to live his life. Charles, lost and presumed dead for half-a-dozen years, is the only man who can help Angie. Smart-mouthed Angie needs proper New Englander Charles to escape from those people looking to kill her and Charles needs Angie to help his father. Angies Uncle Anthony must deal with Angies mother alone.

Author: Keith Reddin
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822226222
Size: 38.34 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 53
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THE STORY: Pragmatism and piety collide in this political comedy set during a Presidential primary season. The action takes place in a series of banal hotel rooms in various cities, where Roger, an operative of a Christian organization, does battle

Author: Tabish Khair
Publisher: Interlink Publishing
ISBN: 1623710464
Size: 63.83 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 175
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Funny and sad, satirical and humane, this novel tells the interlinked stories of three unforgettable men whose trajectories cross in Denmark: the flamboyant Ravi, the fundamentalist Karim, and the unnamed and pragmatic Pakistani narrator. As the unnamed narrator copes with his divorce, and Ravi—despite his exterior of skeptical flamboyance—falls deeply in love with a beautiful woman who is incapable of responding in kind, Karim, their landlord, goes on with his job as a taxi driver and his regular Friday Qur’an sessions. But is he going on with something else? Who is Karim? And why does he disappear suddenly at times or receive mysterious phone calls? When a “terrorist attack” takes place in town, all three men find themselves embroiled in doubt, suspicion, and, perhaps, danger. An acerbic commentary on the times, How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position is also a bitter-sweet, spell-binding novel about love and life today.

Author: Bruce Dickinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 30.80 MB
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Category : Evangelicalism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
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Author: Tad Browne
Publisher: Bookbaby
ISBN: 9781098326890
Size: 33.20 MB
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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True adventure with photographic journal and original cartoons giving a visual chronology of the colorful, criminal, and outrageous characters and perils in this American couple's often humorous, often dramatic four years in the newly opened, bawdy, crime-ridden seaport of post-Soviet Vladivostok, Russia. The escapades are further complicated by trying to raise seven children, the eighth due any day.

Author: Jay Elvey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 13.89 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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How I got a job preaching to Porn Stars; and learned to love it.

Author: Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 49.10 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Author: Rosa Linda Fregoso
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520937284
Size: 59.59 MB
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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meXicana Encounters charts the dynamic and contradictory representation of Mexicanas and Chicanas in culture. Rosa Linda Fregoso's deft analysis of the cultural practices and symbolic forms that shape social identities takes her across a wide and varied terrain. Among the subjects she considers are the recent murders and disappearances of women in Ciudad Juárez; transborder feminist texts that deal with private, domestic forms of violence; how films like John Sayles's Lone Star re-center white masculinity; and the significance of la familia to the identity of Chicanas/os and how it can subordinate gender and sexuality to masculinity and heterosexual roles. Fregoso's self-reflexive approach to cultural politics embraces the movement for social justice and offers new insights into the ways that racial and gender differences are inscribed in cultural practices.

Author: Mark T. B. Laing
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1621899268
Size: 78.61 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Lesslie Newbigin was one of the most significant missionary strategists and theologians of the twentieth century. With the breakdown of confidence in some of the central philosophical and theological paradigms that have been shaped and sustained by the culture of modernity, Newbigin's approach to a genuinely missionary theology offers fresh insights and approaches, providing something of a prophetic model for the global Christian community in new and challenging times. In this collection of essays, scholars and practitioners from around the world engage with aspects of Newbigin's continuing legacy. They explore Newbigin's approach to theological method, his theological and philosophical account of Western culture in the light of the gospel, and some of the implications of his thought for global mission in the third millennium. This collection is essential reading not just for Newbigin enthusiasts but also for all who are concerned to develop a genuinely missionary encounter with contemporary culture. Contributors: Ian Barns, John G. Flett, Michael W. Goheen, Kenneth D. Gordon, Eleanor Jackson, Veli-Matti Karkkainen, David J. Kettle, J. Andrew Kirk, Mark Laing, Murray Rae, Jurgen Schuster, Wilbert Shenk, Jenny Taylor, Geoffrey Wainwright, Ng Kam Weng, and Paul Weston.