Evangelicals and john wayne5/29/2023 3).īut Trump’s election alone doesn’t explain the book’s popularity. Many evangelicals were asking exactly the same question: “How could evangelicals who’d turned ‘WWJD’ (‘What Would Jesus Do?’) into a national phenomenon justify their support for a man who seemed the very antithesis of the savior they claimed to emulate” (p. In the aftermath of the 2016 election, sociologists and political scientists tried to understand how Trump became president with overwhelming evangelical support. The relevance of the book is perhaps best understood by working backwards chronologically. Because this review will be net negative, I’d like to begin with the positive aspects of the book, those which make it so compelling to so many people, including a large swath of conservative evangelicals. Her conclusion is that “evangelical support for Trump the culmination of evangelicals’ embrace of militant masculinity, an ideology that enshrines patriarchal authority and condones the callous display of power, at home and abroad” (p. 4) among evangelicals in the 20th and early 21st centuries. As a historian, Du Mez charts the rise of “militant white masculinity” (p. It was featured on NPR’s Morning Edition and received social media recommendations from Beth Moore, Jemar Tisby, Karen Swallow Prior, and Duke Kwon. Kristin Du Mez’s Jesus and John Waynehas struck a chord with both Christians and non-Christians.
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Samuel jackson the piano lesson5/28/2023 “Boy Willie sees selling the piano as a way of converting the pain of the past into a vehicle of wealth-making that can form the bedrock of an independent and self-sustaining future.” (In the original 1987 production, Jackson himself played Boy Willie.) There is quite the opposite of A-list-Hollywood-star-on-Broadway grandstanding from Jackson, but rather a sensitive portrait of a father not only trying to keep his niece and nephew from all-out war, but also making sense of his family’s past and present, and trying to have a quiet few minutes with his newspaper. Brooks’ Berniece has a regal watchfulness, a perfect scene partner to his quiet warmth and generosity. Boy Willie wants to sell the piano, while Berniece fiercely wants it to stay where it is, even if she cannot bear to play it.īrooks’ fierce strength is contrasted with Jackson’s gravelly, kind paterfamilias. And there, stage left, is a piano carved in great detail with the outlines of faces and bodies-the cause, in both past and present, of the fractured rafters. Doaker’s niece Berniece ( Danielle Brooks) lives in the house with her uncle and her 11-year-old daughter Maretha (Jurnee Swan), their peace shattered by the arrival of her brother Boy Willie (John David Washington) and his friend Lymon (the excellent Ray Fisher), who are in town to sell watermelons. Stories from your life and others5/28/2023 ‘United by a humane intelligence that speaks very directly to the reader, and makes us experience each story with immediacy and Chiang’s calm passion. Add more hits of instant joy (in moderation). The science fiction novella 'Story of Your Life' is the basis for the Academy Award nominated film Arrival. Just start by taking these core actions from Seligman’s theory. the freedom to act and react, to like or dislike, other people based on judgments. To start exploring the answers to these questions, look no further than your own kitchen. In a fairly compact space, you get an exploration of linguistics, the free will/determinism debate, and the nature of time. With Stories of Your Life and Others, his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably diverse stories, all told in his trademark precise and evocative prose.įrom a soaring Babylonian tower that connects a flat Earth with the firmament above, to a world where angelic visitations are a wondrous and terrifying part of everyday life from a neural modification that eliminates the appeal of physical beauty, to an alien language that challenges our very perception of time and reality, Chiang’s rigorously imagined fantasias invite us to question our understanding of the universe and our place in it. The narrator of Story of Your Life deciphers an alien orthography. 'Story of Your Life' is just a brilliant case of an author taking a scientific premise, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and exploring its implications, both scientific and personal. Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks5/28/2023 A Hole-in-the-heart person craves company and kindness, not no book. You offer a person with a Hole in the head some knowledge and they gonna be in yr pocket cause you done gived him the opportunity to taste what he craves, but if a person's got a Hole in they heart and you offer them knowledge, you won't be able to sway them none. A man could have a Hole just about anywheres: in the head, in the wallet (which means he burns his money), in the pocket (which means he don't got no money to burn but would like some), in the pants, in the guts, in the stomach, in the heart. Not just the lack, now, but the craving too. It means they got a lack and a craving for knowledge. Now, you may think "Hole in the head" is just another way of saying stupid, but "Hole in the head" means more than that. Everybody's got one, just don't everybody got one in the same place. To get the best of a situation you gotta know a man's Hole. When I say Hole you know what I'm talking about, dontcha? Soft spot, sweet spot, opening, blind spot, Itch, Gap, call it what you want but I call it a Hole. Parks offers a story of two brothers to explore the racial and racializing logics of modern America, thinking smartly about the relation between the past and. Topdog/underdog Suzan-Lori Parks Dramatists Play Service Inc, 2002 - Brothers - 117 pages 2 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its. Ain't nobody ever lived who don't got a Hole in them somewheres. Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like When was Topdog Underdog written, playwright, What was Suzan-Lori Parks experimentation and more. 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We reserve the right to remove discussion that does not fulfill the mission of /r/Fantasy. We welcome respectful dialogue related to speculative fiction in literature, games, film, and the wider world. r/Fantasy is the internet’s largest discussion forum for the greater Speculative Fiction genre. For updated information regarding ongoing community features, please visit 'new' Reddit. Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. Keeper Of The Heart by Johanna Lindsey5/28/2023 As of 2006 more than fifty-eight million copies of her books had been sold worldwide, and her work has been translated into twelve languages. The book was a success, as have been the forty-nine novels that followed. Lindsey wrote her first book, Captive Bride, in 1977 "on a whim". After her husband's death, Lindsey moved to Maine and did not remarry. The marriage continued, the couple residing in Hawaii and producing three children Alfred, Joseph and Garret, who have made her a grandmother. In 1970, when she was still in school, she married Ralph Bruce Lindsey, becoming a young housewife. That year, her family moved to Hawaii, likely to honor his wish. Her father always dreamed of retiring to Hawaii, but he died in 1964. The Howard family moved about a great deal when she was young due to her father's military career. Army, stationed in West Germany, where she was born. Her father was Edwin Dennis Howard, a soldier in the U.S. Her mother was Wanda Donaldson Howard, a personnel management specialist. Johanna Helen Howard was born on March 10, 1952, in Frankfurt, West Germany. All of her books reached the New York Times bestseller list, many reaching No. 1. Johanna Helen Lindsey (née Howard, Ma– October 27, 2019) was an American writer of historical romance novels. Jodi picoult home5/28/2023 When Zoe allows herself to start thinking of having a family, again, she remembers that there are still frozen embryos that were never used by herself and Max. When Vanessa – a guidance counselor - asks her to work with a suicidal teen, their relationship moves from business to friendship and then, to Zoe’s surprise, blossoms into love. In the aftermath, she throws herself into her career as a music therapist – using music clinically to soothe burn victims in a hospital to help Alzheimer’s patients connect with the present to provide solace for hospice patients. But a terrible turn of events leads to a nightmare – one that takes away the baby she has already fallen for and breaks apart her marriage to Max. Zoe Baxter has spent ten years trying to get pregnant, and after multiple miscarriages and infertility issues, it looks like her dream is about to come true – she is seven months pregnant. How does your book relate to your spiritual practice or other life path? Believe it was a way to deal with my extreme shyness and family situation. Even as a small child I wrote poetry and songs. In this instance, I suppose I didn’t quite balance them but included them.Įver since I learned the English language. Why did you choose to write in your particular field or genre? If you write more than one, how do you balance them?Ĭaught me off guard with this one as my latest book, The Turn of the Karmic Wheel, is a mixed genre containing suspense, spirituality, horror and the paranormal with a touch of romance. In fact, most who know me call me the “Cat Whisperer’. From my earliest memory, I was able to tame the proverbial ferret cat without getting my eyes scratched out of my face. I hope you enjoy their responses as much as I have.ĭefinitely, a cat person. What do they think about? Why should I care about what they have written? What insights can they give me about their process, characters, and reasons for even putting their words on paper and sharing with others? Here are some questions I have asked some of my favorite authors. When I read a book, or when I’m thinking of reading a book, I find that I would love to know more about the author. SOME THINGS THAT MATTER, AUTHOR Monica M. Not a drop to drink book5/28/2023 The third-person, past-tense narration gives the story a gritty tone, and the only break from the realism comes in the form of characters who can successfully dowse for water. Despite her mother’s hard-nosed teachings, Lynn finds herself with growing compassion for them. After a tragedy forces her to team up with her neighbor, Lynn learns that the other group is just a trio of refugees who have no idea how to survive in the wilderness and will surely die without help. Two bands of strangers appear near their land one group, armed, encroaches on Lynn’s land, so she must be ready to protect her beloved home and water source from attacks that could come at any time, providing urgency and tension. Besides her mother and a single neighbor, visible only at a distance, Lynn has more experience with the coyotes than with other people. While defending her resources in a lawless world where water is a rare commodity, Lynn learns about life and humanity.Įver since Lynn was a small child, she’s known the hard truths of the world-chiefly that anyone who approaches her mother’s pond leaves thirsty or dies, by Lynn’s gun if necessary. Amy daws sweeper5/27/2023 Once they start to get to know one another, everything comes out, including the dark secrets they kept from each other. She didn't think she would run into Santino as often as she does. Now that he's back in London on Bethnal Green and expecting his first child with his wife Freya, Tilly offered to move in to help with the baby. Tilly Logan is the younger sister of Bethnal Green player Maclay "Mac" Logan, a hot-tempered, red-headed Scottish spitfire who requested a short term transfer to the Glasgow Rangers when his father was sick as a dying request. They both have demons from their past the other doesn't know about. There is one woman he wants, but they parted on bad terms. Santino Rossi is known by the Bethnal Green team as the "two month chump", because of his inability to maintain a relationship for longer than two months. Managed by former legendary Manchester United player Vaughn Harris, this whole team is his life. Santino Rossi is a British-Italian lawyer for Bethnal Green FC. |