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Incantation

by Alice Hoffman

Estrella is a Marrano: During the time of the Spanish Inquisition, she is one of a community of Spanish Jews living double lives as Catholics. And she is living in a house of secrets, raised by a family who practices underground the ancient and mysterious way of wisdom known as kabbalah. When Estrella discovers her family's true identity--and her family's secrets are made public--she confronts a world she's never imagined, where new love burns and where friendship ends in flame and ash, where trust is all but vanquished and betrayal has tragic and bitter consequences. Infused with the rich context of history and faith, in her most profoundly moving work to date, Alice Hoffman's first historical novel is a transcendent journey of discovery and loss, rebirth and remembrance

Incantations Embodied: Rituals For Empowerment, Reclamation, And Resistance

by Kimberly Rodriguez

Kimberly Rodriguez, a first-generation Xicana Indigena artist, poet, and activist, invites readers on a transformative journey of self-discovery and empowerment through her book, Incantations Embodied: Rituals for empowerment, reclamation, and resistance, serving as a catalyst for reclaiming our stories, truth, and power.In Incantations Embodied: Rituals for Empowerment, Reclamation, and Resistance, author Kimberly Rodriuguez takes readers on a profound and transformative journey towards self-discovery and empowerment. Within its pages lies a poignant exploration of the human experience, interwoven with elements of spirituality, healing, and personal growth. At its core, Incantations Embodied serves as a triumphant homecoming—a return to the essence of one's being. It invites readers to embark on a sacred journey, emboldening them to embrace their true selves with unwavering honesty and compassion. Through Rodriguez's captivating stories, enlightening prose, and enchanting rituals, this book becomes a powerful catalyst for reclaiming our stories, our bodies, our identities, our voices, and ultimately, our power. In a world where societal norms and expectations often stifle individuality and self-expression, Incantations Embodied stands as a resounding call to break free from these chains. It seeks to dismantle the oppressive narrative that has been ingrained in our collective consciousness, urging us to question and challenge the colonized structures that have kept us disconnected from our own truth. The book serves as a powerful guide for self-realization, urging individuals to transcend their limitations and embrace their innate potential. With each turn of the page, a profound shift occurs—a blossoming of self-awareness, strength, and resilience. "Incantations are our liberation. With the power of words, we become conjurers, bringing our wildest dreams to life." - Kimberly Rodriguez

Incantations For Rest: Poems, Meditations, and Other Magic

by Atena O. Danner

A call to anyone who thought they were alone on the journey, Incantations for Rest is for kindred spirits: neurodivergent folks, parents up late past bedtime nursing resentment, Black people in predominantly white spaces—anyone who has found themselves at the edges of Beloved Community.Incantations for Rest is an invitation to slow down and explore every kind of rest, providing sacred space for those exhausted by the demands of a racist, ableist society. his stunning collection of poems, meditations, and magic by poet-activist Atena O. Danner is an examination of spiritual spaces, a love letter to Black well-being, and medicine for BIPOC people. Within these pages you are invited to savor connection, question assumptions, admit to complicated feelings, and still make room for joy. It is a beacon of affirmation and a vital tool for ritual and reflection.

Incantesimi Per Principianti: Guida ai Migliori 30 Incantesimi Wicca per Principianti

by The Blokehead

Voglio ringraziarti e congratularmi con te per aver dato un'occhiata a “Incantesimi Per Principianti, Guida ai Migliori 30 Incantesimi Wicca per Principianti”. Questo libro contiene passi collaudati e strategie su come far uso di diversi incantesimi Wicca, per aiutarti a migliorare lo stato attuale della tua vita, dall’incrementare la tua fortuna finanziaria al renderti più attraente quando si tratta d’amore, ci sono molti modi diversi nei quali questi incantesimi possono essere utilizzati. Infatti, nella loro creazione, la tua intenzione gioca un ruolo fondamentale.

Incarnate Leadership: 5 Leadership Lessons from the Life of Jesus

by Bill Robinson

Whitworth University president Bill Robinson highlights five qualities that characterized the leadership style of Jesus. Conversational in tone and seasoned with real-life stories from his own successes and failures as a leader, Robinson helps Christian leaders understand how to emulate the strong yet humble approach to leadership that Jesus used to establish his church.

Incarnate Earth: Deep Incarnation and the Face of Christ (Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies)

by Matthew Eaton

Incarnate Earth reimagines the doctrine of Incarnation by extending the unity between Creator and creation beyond Jesus to the entire world. In dialogue with contemporary theologies of deep incarnation and the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, the author argues that the face of Christ is encountered in the cruciform demand for justice embodied in the creaturely finitude and vulnerability that grounds ethics. Central to this vision is a recognition that the religious role-functions at the heart of Jesus’ life—the revelation of God and the redemption of the world—are performed throughout the physical world, irreducible to humanity or one heroic representative of the species. Thus, the human encounters the divine Christ in and as the face of any vulnerable thing—animal, vegetal, elemental, or otherwise—not as a transcendent being mediated through humanity. The radical nature of this reimagination necessitates renewed discussions of ecological and animal ethics, calling for compassionate care for all vulnerable bodies insofar as this is possible. It will be of interest to scholars of Christian theology and the philosophy of religion, particularly those focused on ecotheology, religious naturalism, and environmental ethics.

Incarnate: The Body of Christ in an Age of Disengagement (Forge Partnership Books)

by Michael Frost

Outreach2014 Best Book of Missional Theology, from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstoreexcarnate.

Incarnating Grace: A Theology of Healing from Sexual Trauma

by Julia Feder

WINNER, COLLEGE THEOLOGY SOCIETY BOOK AWARDPrioritizes survivors of abuse by reexamining Christian ideals about suffering and salvation More than half of women and almost one in three of men in the United States have experienced sexual violence at some time in their lives. Yet our Christian tradition has failed survivors of sexual violence, who have been taught to believe that traumatic suffering brings us closer to God. Incarnat­ing Grace attempts to save our broken ways of talking about God’s grace by unearthing liberating resources buried in the Christian tradition.Christian ideas about salvation have historically contributed to sexual violence in our commu­nities by reinforcing the idea that suffering is salvific. But a God worth worshiping does not want human beings to suffer. Drawing on the sixteenth-century Spanish mystic Teresa of Avila as well as contemporary political and feminist theologians, philosophers, and legal scholars, author and Associ­ate Professor of theology Julia Feder offers an account of Christian salvation as mystical-political.Feder begins by describing the breadth of traumatic wounding and the shape of traumatic recovery, as articulated by psychologists. Since the fullness of post-traumatic healing requires reserves deeper than those which can be articulated by the secular field of psychology alone, the book then introduces the Spanish Carmelite Saint Teresa of Avila and her theological insights, which are most helpful for constructing a post-traumatic theology of healing. Arguing that God stands against violence and suffering, the book also examines the notion of “senseless suffering,” a technical term that comes from Edward Schillebeeckx, a Catholic twentieth-century Flemish priest and theologian. The suffering of sexual violence serves no higher purpose or greater human value and pushes against all ways of making sense of the world as good and orderly. In the following chapters, Feder turns to two Christian virtues that animate post-traumatic recovery, courage and hope, and explores how Christian hope can provide a language to empower courageous activity undertaken toward healing.Incarnating Grace opens a new dialogue about salvation and violence that does not allow evil to have the last word.

Incarnation Leader Guide: Rediscovering the Significance of Christmas (Incarnation)

by Adam Hamilton

His parents gave him the name Jesus. But the prophets, the shepherds, the wise men, and angels addressed him by other names. They called him Lord, Messiah, Savior, Emmanuel, Light of the World, and Word Made Flesh.In Incarnation, best-selling author Adam Hamilton explores the meaning of these titles and what they tell us about the child whose birth we celebrate at Christmas. Join him and reflect upon the significance of the Christ-child for our lives and world today!Chapter topics include: The Royal Titles: Lord and Messiah The Deliverer’s Title: Savior The Incarnate Title: Emmanuel The Light of the World Epilogue: The Word Made FleshThe Leader Guide contains everything needed to guide a group through the four-week study including session plans, activities, and discussion questions, as well as multiple format options.

Incarnation Youth Study Book: Rediscovering the Significance of Christmas (Incarnation)

by Rev Adam Hamilton

His parents gave him the name Jesus. But the prophets, the shepherds, the wise men, and angels addressed him by other names. They called him Lord, Messiah, Savior, Emmanuel, Light of the World, and Word Made Flesh.In Incarnation, best-selling author Adam Hamilton explores the meaning of these titles and what they tell us about the child whose birth we celebrate at Christmas. Join him and reflect upon the significance of the Christ-child for our lives and world today!Chapter topics include: The Royal Titles: Lord and Messiah The Deliverer’s Title: Savior The Incarnate Title: Emmanuel The Light of the World Epilogue: The Word Made Flesh This Youth Study Book takes the ideas presented in Adam Hamilton’s book and interprets them for young people grades 6-12.

Incarnation: Rediscovering the Significance of Christmas (Incarnation)

by Adam Hamilton

Be Transformed this Advent Season!His parents gave him the name Jesus. But the prophets, the shepherds, the wise men, and the angels addressed him by other names. They called him Lord, Messiah, Savior, Emmanuel, Light of the World, and Word Made Flesh.In Incarnation: Rediscovering the Significance of Christmas, best-selling author Adam Hamilton examines the names of Christ used by the gospel writers, exploring the historical and personal significance of his birth.This Advent season church families will come together to remember what’s important. In the face of uncertainty and conflict, Christians reclaim the Christ Child who brings us together, heals our hearts, and calls us to bring light into the darkness.Now more than ever, we invite you to reflect upon the significance of the Christ-child for our lives and world today!Incarnation is a standalone book, but works beautifully as a four-week Bible study experience perfect for all age groups during the Advent season. Additional components include a comprehensive Leader Guide, a DVD with short teaching videos featuring Adam Hamilton, as well as resources for children and youth.

Incarnation: The History and Mysticism of the Tulku Tradition of Tibet

by Tulku Thondup

A tulku is a fully enlightened one (buddha) or highly accomplished adept (siddha) who chooses to be reborn again and again for the benefit of all beings. Most tulkus, though, are the rebirths of well-trained masters who are engaged in spiritual training and serving others. Tibetan Buddhists have, for well over a millennium, been meticulously following the tradition of finding, recognizing, enthroning, training, and venerating these revered figures who provide teachings of liberation for both monks and laypeople. This guide to the tulku tradition covers its long history, separating fact from fiction, giving an overview of how the system works, and providing short biographies of some of the great tulkus of the past and present. Included are accounts of the magical occurrences that are associated with these remarkable beings, and advice for how anyone can set out on the tulku path.

Incarnation: The Surprising Overlap of Heaven & Earth

by William H. Willimon

Jesus defies simplistic, effortless, undemanding explications. To be sure, Jesus often communicated his truth in simple, homely, direct ways, but his truth was anything but apparent and undemanding in the living. Common people heard Jesus gladly, not all, but enough to keep the government nervous, only to find that the simple truth Jesus taught, the life he lived, and the death he died complicated their settled and secure ideas about reality. The gospels are full of folk who confidently knew what was what--until they met Jesus. Jesus provoked an intellectual crisis in just about everybody. Their response was not, "Wow, I've just seen the Son of God," but rather, "Who is this?"--from the IntroductionThe church uses the concept of "Incarnation," (from the Latin word for "in the flesh") to help us understand that Jesus Christ is both divine and human. The Incarnation is the grand crescendo of our reflection upon the mystery that Christ is the full revelation of God; not only one who talks about God but the one who speaks for and acts as God, one who is God.

Incarnational Ministry: Being with the Church

by Samuel Wells

With may be the most important word in the Christian faith. In the Trinity, as Samuel Wells points out, we see the eternal persons of the Godhead being with each other. In the Gospels we see Jesus being with the people he encounters, mediating God's grace to them with his own incarnational presence. Those in ministry are likewise called to the task of being with—with God, with the church, and with the created world and those who dwell in it. In Incarnational Ministry Wells elaborates on the concept of being with in eight dimensions: presence, attention, mystery, delight, participation, partnership, enjoyment, and glory. His vivid narratives and wise reflections will challenge readers to deeper discipleship and more vital ministry as they explore what it means to be with the troubled, the hurt, the afflicted, the challenged, the dying—and all who are embraced by the church's incarnational ministry.

Incarnational Mission: Being with the World

by Samuel Wells

A bold new way of thinking about Christian mission&“With,&” says Samuel Wells, &“is the most important word in the Christian faith.&”In this compelling follow-up to Incarnational Ministry: Being with the Church, Wells explores what it means for mission-minded Christians and churches to be with the world.Drawing on the Gospels, Acts, and personal insights gleaned from his more than two decades in ministry, Wells elaborates on the concept of being with in eight dimensions: presence, atten-tion, mystery, delight, participation, partnership, enjoyment, and glory. His vivid narratives and wise reflections will help Christian readers better understand how to be with all kinds of people outside the church, both individually and collectively.CONTENTSPrologue: Not of This FoldIntroduction: The Mission of Being With1. Being with the Lapsed2. Being with Seekers3. Being with Those of No Professed Faith4. Being with Those of Other Faiths5. Being with the Hostile6. Being with Neighbors7. Being with Organizations8. Being with Institutions9. Being with Government10. Being with the ExcludedEpilogue: Are You Hungry?

Incarnational Mission: Being with the World

by Samuel Wells

A bold new way of thinking about Christian mission&“With,&” says Samuel Wells, &“is the most important word in the Christian faith.&”In this compelling follow-up to Incarnational Ministry: Being with the Church, Wells explores what it means for mission-minded Christians and churches to be with the world.Drawing on the Gospels, Acts, and personal insights gleaned from his more than two decades in ministry, Wells elaborates on the concept of being with in eight dimensions: presence, atten-tion, mystery, delight, participation, partnership, enjoyment, and glory. His vivid narratives and wise reflections will help Christian readers better understand how to be with all kinds of people outside the church, both individually and collectively.CONTENTSPrologue: Not of This FoldIntroduction: The Mission of Being With1. Being with the Lapsed2. Being with Seekers3. Being with Those of No Professed Faith4. Being with Those of Other Faiths5. Being with the Hostile6. Being with Neighbors7. Being with Organizations8. Being with Institutions9. Being with Government10. Being with the ExcludedEpilogue: Are You Hungry?

Incendiario: 40 días para consumir tu apatía y vivir intensamente

by Itiel Arroyo

Galardonado por los Premios SEPA (Asociación de Editoriales Evangélicas) por el libro más vendido del año 2023 en la categoría Vida Cristiana y Mejor libro original en español 2023.Acompaña al predicador, autor, y mentor Itiel Arroyo en un viaje interactivo de 40 días para caminar intrépidamente en un mundo de apatía. Incendiario te desafía a buscar y encontrar la pasión que falta en tu vida y encender la llama del entusiasmo en tu corazón para vivir ardientemente para él y sus propósitos.La generación de hoy está rodeada de elementos que absorben sus pasiones y apagan la llama del entusiasmo en sus corazones. ¿Pero sabías que Dios quiere que vivamos vidas apasionadas? Nos creó a cada uno de nosotros con un propósito único y desea que vivamos con sentido e intención. Es más, ¡quiere que nos sintamos entusiasmados con nuestras vidas!Este diario interactivo contiene:Cuarenta capítulos cortos de alto impactoPropuestas interactivas a realizar en el diarioEspacios creativos para dibujar, pintar y hacer collagesDesafíos emocionantes para llevar a cabo en tu entornoPreciosas ilustraciones, anotaciones en letteringDiseño innovador para embellecer la lecturaIncendiario es una guía que te ayudará reenfocarte en lo eterno, para que tu apatía se consuma mientras sumerges tu corazón en el fuego de la pasión por Dios. Este diario te inspirará a ver a tu Creador, a las personas que te rodean, el dolor que sufren y el amor que comparten de una forma renovada y emocionante. Al final de los 40 días, estarás transformado y equipado para vivir con pasión, propósito y sin límites.Todo gran incendio comienza con una pequeña chispa. Este diario puede ser la chispa que ponga tu alma en llamas. Para siempre.IncendiaryJoin preacher, author, and mentor Itiel Arroyo on a 40-day interactive journey to walk fearlessly in a world of apathy. Incendiary challenges you to seek and find the passion that is missing in your life and ignite the flame of enthusiasm in your heart to live ardently for Him and His purposes.Today's generation is surrounded by elements that absorb their passions and extinguish the flame of enthusiasm in their hearts. But did you know that God wants us to live passionate lives? He created each of us for a unique purpose and wants us to live with meaning and intention. What's more, he wants us to feel excited about our lives!This interactive journal contains:Forty short, high-impact chaptersInteractive journaling promptsCreative spaces for drawing, painting, and collagingExciting challenges to carry out in your environmentBeautiful illustrations and lettering annotationsInnovative design to embellish the readingIncendiary is a guide that will help you refocus on the eternal, so that your apathy is consumed while you immerse your heart in the fire of passion for God. This journal will inspire you to see your Creator, the people around you, the pain they suffer and the love they share in a renewed and exciting way. By the end of the 40 days, you will be transformed and equipped to live with passion, purpose and without limits.

Incitement: Anwar al-Awlaki’s Western Jihad

by Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens

The definitive account of the career and legacy of the most influential Western exponent of violent jihad. Anwar al-Awlaki was, according to one of his followers, “the main man who translated jihad into English.” By the time he was killed by an American drone strike in 2011, he had become a spiritual leader for thousands of extremists, especially in the United States and Britain, where he aimed to make violent Islamism “as American as apple pie and as British as afternoon tea.” Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens draws on extensive research among al-Awlaki’s former colleagues, friends, and followers, including interviews with convicted terrorists, to explain how he established his network and why his message resonated with disaffected Muslims in the West. A native of New Mexico, al-Awlaki rose to prominence in 2001 as the imam of a Virginia mosque attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers. After leaving for Britain in 2002, he began delivering popular lectures and sermons that were increasingly radical and anti-Western. In 2004 he moved to Yemen, where he eventually joined al-Qaeda and oversaw numerous major international terrorist plots. Through live video broadcasts to Western mosques and universities, YouTube, magazines, and other media, he soon became the world’s foremost English-speaking recruiter for violent Islamism. One measure of his success is that he has been linked to about a quarter of Islamists convicted of terrorism-related offenses in the United States since 2007. Despite the extreme nature of these activities, Meleagrou-Hitchens argues that al-Awlaki’s strategy and tactics are best understood through traditional social-movement theory. With clarity and verve, he shows how violent fundamentalists are born.

Included in Christ: Living A New Story from Ephesians (A Bible Study)

by Heather Holleman

A new kind of Bible study…After the success of her first two books, Heather Holleman received many requests to write a Bible study. And as a college English instructor, she wanted to make sure it really taught and didn&’t simply inform. So she surveyed several women about what their dream study would look like, then got to work. The result is Included in Christ, a narrative-driven study where you can bring your life before Scripture in the context of community. Together women will discern their personal shadow narratives—ways they are living outside of their identity in Christ—and then rewrite those narratives according to biblical truth.This in-depth, 8-week study in Ephesians willequip women with six &“signature stories&” of God&’s work in their lives—helping them combat exclusion, loneliness, weakness, decay, emptiness, and silence. Designed to facilitate honest sharing and help you internalize biblical truth, Included in Christ will provide community and connectedness as well as spiritual nourishment. It will also guide you in how to share your story and the hope of Christ with someone who doesn&’t yet know Him.

Included in Christ: Living A New Story from Ephesians (A Bible Study)

by Heather Holleman

A new kind of Bible study…After the success of her first two books, Heather Holleman received many requests to write a Bible study. And as a college English instructor, she wanted to make sure it really taught and didn&’t simply inform. So she surveyed several women about what their dream study would look like, then got to work. The result is Included in Christ, a narrative-driven study where you can bring your life before Scripture in the context of community. Together women will discern their personal shadow narratives—ways they are living outside of their identity in Christ—and then rewrite those narratives according to biblical truth.This in-depth, 8-week study in Ephesians willequip women with six &“signature stories&” of God&’s work in their lives—helping them combat exclusion, loneliness, weakness, decay, emptiness, and silence. Designed to facilitate honest sharing and help you internalize biblical truth, Included in Christ will provide community and connectedness as well as spiritual nourishment. It will also guide you in how to share your story and the hope of Christ with someone who doesn&’t yet know Him.

Including People With Disabilities in Faith Communities: A Guide for Service Providers, Families, and Congregations

by Erik W. Carter

A congregational community is an ideal place to share and strengthen faith, form lasting relationships, and develop special gifts and talents. Too often, though, people with developmental and other disabilities lack the opportunities and supports to fully participate in the life of their faith community. That's why families and service providers need to read this groundbreaking guidebook--and share a copy with congregations that want to become places of welcome and belonging for people with disabilities. Bringing his practical ideas to life with anecdotes, quotes, and examples of successful strategies, Erik Carter helps readers reflect on how welcoming their congregation is--and could be--for people with disabilities and their families articulate and pursue a bold vision of inclusion throughout their congregation, community, city, or state take steps to break down attitudinal, architectural, programmatic, and other barriers to inclusion design appropriate, inclusive religious education programs for children, youth, and adults learn how service providers can actively support the spiritual preferences, strengths, and needs of people with disabilities To make inclusion work in any faith community, this how-to book gives readers workable strategies and photocopiable forms for identifying indicators of welcome; encouraging community outreach, and gathering important information about the support needs of people with disabilities and their families.

Including the Earth in Our Prayers: A Global Dimension to Spiritual Practice

by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Including the Earth in Our Prayers tells a story of love and prayer, how spiritual practice is not just for ourselves, our own journey, but for life itself. It steps back to reclaim the wisdom of our ancestors, including the "Original Instructions" of Indigenous peoples—how we need to "get along" with all of creation—and relates these teachings to the need of our present time. With our ecosystem in crisis and our culture increasingly divisive, it suggests ways in which the energy and transformative potential of our spiritual nature can be applied to these critical issues, and reconnects us with a spiritual understanding of the living Earth. The simple premise of this book is that there is a vital need to shift our collective culture from a story of separation and exploitation into a new story of living oneness, and that spiritual practice, and the love and light it generates, have an essential part to play in this shift.

Including the Stranger: Foreigners in the Former Prophets (New Studies in Biblical Theology #Volume 50)

by David G. Firth

The Old Testament, particularly the Former Prophets (Joshua, Judges, 1-2 Samuel, and 1-2 Kings), has frequently been regarded as having a negative attitude towards foreigners. This has meant that these texts are often employed by those opposed to the Christian faith to attack the Bible—and such views can be echoed by Christians. While the story of David and Goliath is cherished, other episodes are seen to involve "ethnic cleansing" or "massacre" and are avoided. David Firth's contention is that this approach emerges from an established interpretation of the text, but not the text itself. In this New Studies in Biblical Theology volume, he argues that the Former Prophets subvert the exclusivist approach in order to show that the people of God are not defined by ethnicity but rather by their willingness to commit themselves to the purposes of Yahweh. God's purposes are always wider than Israel alone, and Israel must therefore understand themselves as a people who welcome and include the foreigner. Firth addresses contemporary concerns about the ongoing significance of the Old Testament for Christians, and shows how opponents of Christianity have misunderstood the Bible. His reading of the Former Prophets also has significant ethical implications for Christians today as they wrestle with the issues of migration and what it means to be the people of God. Addressing key issues in biblical theology, the works comprising New Studies in Biblical Theology are creative attempts to help Christians better understand their Bibles. The NSBT series is edited by D. A. Carson, aiming to simultaneously instruct and to edify, to interact with current scholarship and to point the way ahead.

Inclusion or Exclusion in the Sacred Texts and Human Contexts

by Muhammad Shafiq Thomas Donlin-Smith

This work delves into the fundamental issue of Otherness, from both sacred texts and communal experiences. While the title adopts the dyad of “inclusion” or “exclusion”, these analyses broadly reflect nuanced critical considerations. Filled with profound psychological, theological, sociological, anthropological, and ethical dimensions, experiencing the Other is richly expressed within religious traditions. This book is a must for scholars interested in a multi-disciplinary approach to inclusivity and religion.

Inclusion: Making Room For Grace

by Eric H. F. Law

In this resource for ministers and church leaders, Law provides models, theories, and strategies that are both practical and theologically sound for moving faith communities toward greater inclusion.

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