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Oh God! A Black Woman's Guide to Sex and Spirituality
by Susan NewmanFar too many African American women struggle with a deep division between the two fundamental pillars of their identity--spirituality and sexuality. The church tells them that to live "holy and sanctified" lives they must give up sexual activity outside the institution of marriage, and yet their bodies and souls cry out for a way to express and fulfill their natural passions. In this groundbreaking book, the Reverend Dr. Susan Newman, a nationally recognized minister and speaker, finally shows all women of faith how to find a healthy balance between their spiritual selves and their sexual needs.Dr. Newman opens with a simple but startling premise: You can love God and love sex at the same time. Though it may sound irreverent, this premise is actually the basis for an essential journey to self-knowledge and reconciliation. As Dr. Newman shows, this journey has been denied to women for centuries because of church traditions and doctrines going back to the Old Testament and to the teachings of Saint Paul. For African American women, the spiritual-sexual divide was compounded by slavery.But women of faith do not have to live divided lives. Writing with passion, candor, and welcome humor, Dr. Newman opens new paths to healing and reconciliation. Here are frank, direct discussions about sex both inside and outside marriage; about being honest about your spiritual and erotic needs; about making personal choices; and about acknowledging the holiness of your body.The goal, as Dr. Newman explains, is not to suppress or channel your sexuality, but to embrace sex as a wonderful gift from God. As a woman of faith-and as a woman-you deserve a healthy, satisfying life, a life open to passion and truly free of guilt and shame. The first book of its kind, Oh God! is a landmark achievement that will be welcomed by black women who want to live in wholeness of spirit and body.
Oh God, Please: Help Me With My Doubt
by Leighann McCoyReaders of these books will learn to approach God in honesty through prayer, how to hear His voice through scripture, and be encouraged by examples from the Bible so that she can deal with her own "voices".
Oh God, Please: Teach Me to Pray
by Leighann McCoyReaders of these books will learn to approach God in honesty through prayer, how to hear His voice through scripture, and be encouraged by examples from the Bible so that she can deal with her own "voices".
Oh My Dog!
by Iva-Marie PalmerTwelve-year-old Caroline Kline doesn’t believe in miracles. Not after her mom died, and certainly not after her family lost everything in Hurricane Emma. All Caroline wants to do is fit in at school, make some friends, and, above all else, just be normal.But when Caroline takes a job walking Denver, her neighbor’s dog, her plans quickly get turned completely upside down. As it turns out, Denver is no ordinary dog: Not only can he talk—and not like bark-bark but in actual English—but worse than that, Denver tells Caroline that he’s been sent from the heavens with a message just for her. It’s up to Caroline to find a way to bring belief back to the world.From acclaimed children’s author Iva-Marie Palmer comes a hilarious and heartwarming new tale about miracles, faith of all types, and the good that connects us all.
Oh My Nosh!: A First Book of Jewish Food
by The MacaroonsA book that introduces the youngest of readers to favorite Jewish foods — such as blintzes, kugel, and gefilte fish — brought to you by the musical band The Macaroons!What shapes do YOU see when you nosh?Dig in with The Macaroons as they rhyme their way through the shapes of your favorite Jewish foods, like triangular hamantaschen, circular bagels, square matzah, and more! Bright illustrations on each page celebrate favorite cultural traditions, in warm family scenes full of food and fun. It&’s the yummiest way to introduce Jewish culture to babies and toddlers. And it's a great gift for Jewish holidays!
Oh, Baby!
by Judy BaerI, Molly MacKenna, am a pregnant woman's dream--and one man's nightmare!From the moment we met, obstetrician Clay Reynolds scorned my profession as a birthing coach. His scathing remarks left me crying on the shoulder of my potbellied pig, Gertie! It seems only the handsome doc's eight-year-old son, who thinks I hung the moon, can make Clay be civil to me.Clay is a great doctor and loving father. And we're finding a lot in common as we volunteer together at a free clinic. But he's still frowning at me in the delivery room.So how can I convince him God gave me skills that complement his own? Maybe with a little help from above I can change Clay's attitude toward doulas in general... and me in particular.
Oh, God!: A Novel
by Avery CormanFor a God whom philosophers have proclaimed dead, it&’s time for a little PR in this novel from the New York Times–bestselling author of Kramer vs. Kramer. &“God grants you an interview. Go to 600 Madison Ave., room 3700, Monday, at 11 a.m.&” When a struggling writer receives this typed note in the mail one morning, curiosity wins out and he finds himself keeping this mysterious appointment. Soon he&’s in an ordinary conference room with an intercom on the floor, furiously scribbling shorthand notes as he interviews God, a deity who badly wants to improve His public profile. Sometimes God speaks through the intercom, other times He communicates as a hot dog vendor on the corner. But however God appears, He&’s giving this anointed journalist the story of a lifetime—and all he has to do is sell the story to the public. Adapted as the classic film starring George Burns, Oh, God! is a warm and witty satire about life, the Lord, the media, and the need for some good publicity. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Avery Corman, including rare images from the author&’s personal collection.
Oh, God, oh, God, OH, GOD!: young adults talk about sexuality and embodiment in Christian spirituality
by Lara Blackwood Pickrel Heather GodseyOh God! Oh God! Oh God! addresses issues of love, sex(uality) and embodiment from the perspectives of young adults who work for or are involved with the church. Discussions about sex, sexuality, and theology are taboo in many churches. What about the tensions felt between the commitments of love, dating, marriage, or parenthood and living lives of faith and integrity? The essays in this book address multiple perspectives on love, dating, marriage, parenthood, sex, and sexuality, as well as looking at the history of the church's struggle with human sexuality from a fresh perspective.
Oh, How He Loves You
by Corrie Ten BoomCorrie ten Boom addresses sickness and affliction, offering biblical wisdom to soothe and strengthen the soul. She also delivers a powerful message on the freedom and forgiveness found in God's love.
Ohnmächtige Weltmacht China: Modernisierung ohne Harmonie (essentials)
by Gerhard Preyer Reuß-Markus KraußeGerhard Preyer und Reuß-Markus Krauße geben einen Einblick in die chinesische Modernisierung und ihren selbstreferenziellen kulturellen Hintergrund seit den 1990er Jahren. Ihr essential skizziert einen Ausblick auf die Probleme ihrer anstehenden Fortführung. Gegenüber verbreiteten Einschätzungen der Rolle Chinas als einer zukünftigen Weltmacht wird dahin gehend argumentiert, dass China aufgrund seiner veränderten Sozialstruktur eine ohnmächtige Weltmacht sein wird. Das führt zu der grundlegenden Fragestellung, welche nicht-westlichen Problemlösungen nach dem chinesischen Wirtschaftswunder zu erwarten sind. Das betrifft auch ihre Auswirkung auf die chinesische Außenpolitik. Das essential gibt eine Hilfestellung für die Einschätzung der Folgeprobleme der weiteren Modernisierung der chinesischen Gesellschaft und für ihre Beobachtung.
Ojibwe, Activist, Priest: The Life of Father Philip Bergin Gordon, Tibishkogijik
by Tadeusz Lewandowski
Okayest Mom: When God's Plan of Adoption Doubled My Family
by Natalie Gwyn Ryan HallNATALIE GWYN uses humor to brilliantly capture how God led and helped this mother of two to adopt four children from Ethiopia and successfully bond her blended family.A happy, working wife, already birth mother of two healthy young children -- a boy and a girl -- doubled the size of her family by adopting four Ethiopian children. Why?Her answer: "God."Popular blogger NATALIE GWYN has been cited widely for her candid, insightful, often humorous writing on cross-cultural adoptive Christian families (which number more than 4 million). HuffPo has linked to her controversial posts and celebrities like Kathie Lee Gifford have quoted and pictured her on social media. Here Natalie tells her whole mom story, including the only-God-could-do-this backstory.Her lighthearted narrative begins with the nudge of God toward the uncomfortable. She and her husband are almost certain they have misunderstood what the Almighty is asking of them, and with self-deprecating humor Natalie allows readers a glimpse into the process by which this already imperfect mom agreed to transnational, transracial adoption of more children than she already has.Natalie then takes the reader on her family's adventure to Ethiopia to legally adopt the three siblings God has chosen to add to their family. With the skill of a detective novelist, she reveals their discovery of a fourth sibling, their critical decision not to leave this child behind, and their harrowing quest to find, woo and legally adopt her, too.Similar to the laugh-out-loud humor of books on blended step-families, Natalie shares the bedroom, bathroom and kitchen scenes of this adoptive family's huge adjustments. She brilliantly captures each child's and each parent's perspective and, in doing so, reveals God in their midst.
Okinawa: A People and Their Gods
by James C. RobinsonOkinawa is a fascinating account of the most unusual religious practices of the Okinawan people.Subject throughout their long history to many foreign influences, the Okinawan people still retain to a remarkable degree a strong reverence for their prehistoric animistic beliefs. nevertheless, in accommodating themselves to the infiltration of Buddhist, Confucian, Shinto, and Christian influences they have been most receptive, with the result that what might seem confusing, illogical, and inconsistent to others, is quite compatible to them.This brief but authoritative account not only correlates present-day practices with their historical development, but also takes notice of current trends and likely future developments in Okinawa.The text is enhanced with sixteen significant photographs and with nine full-page maps to guide sightseers to Okinawa's most culturally significant places.
Oklahoma Reunion (Home on the Ranch #12)
by Tina RadcliffeSingle mother Kait Field is back home in the small Oklahoma town she left eight years ago. It's time to empty the family home, close the door on the past and introduce her daughter, Jenna, to her daddy. Ryan Jones hasn't quite forgiven his teenage sweetheart, who left him with unanswered questions and a broken heart. But Kait was never accepted by his controlling family, and they don't seem any more welcoming this time around. Yet now Ryan and Kait are resolved that nothing will come between renewed promises of faith, forever-and the second chance that neither expected.
Oklahoma's Haunted Route 66 (Haunted America)
by Tanya McCoyTrace the haunted heritage of America's Mother Road across Oklahoma.Route 66 may seem like a quieter thoroughfare than it was in its heyday, but the ghosts of Oklahoma's past bustle along unabated. When the sun sets on the Road of Dreams, the shadows of its roadside attractions take on a nightmarish cast. British airmen disappear into the mist above Miami. Phantoms stir in the Dust Bowl's shallow grave. A westbound Frisco train hops the rails outside Kellyville. Author Tanya McCoy expertly weaves amongst the spirits still traveling along Oklahoma's historic Route 66
Oksana (Heirs of Anton #4)
by Susan May Warren Susan K. DownsThe fate of generations of Anton Klassen's heirs for years to come rests in the decisions he makes amidst revolutionary battles to love and protect one woman. But not even his promise to love can make Oksana feel safe with the secrets she harbors--secrets that could alter the course of Russian's future.
Olas de Avivamiento: Espera lo Inesperado
by Bill VincentOlas de Avivamiento por Bill Vincent Espera lo Inesperado El avivamiento parece ser el tema principal que está en boca de todos. Tenemos mucho que aprender de todos aquellos que participaron en la historia de avivamientos pasados. Dios ha estado preparando a un remanente de personas para las próximas olas de avivamiento. Verás cómo Bill Vincent revela los avivamientos actuales y los relaciona con los avivamientos del pasado. Olas de Avivamiento también revela los avivamientos por venir en los próximos años. En todo el mundo, Dios está reuniendo a un pueblo que esté verdadera y totalmente comprometido con el avivamiento. Hay muchas personas que dicen las palabras correctas y dicen que están comprometidas, pero cuando las cosas se ponen al rojo vivo, ¿dónde están? Dios está hablando de un avivamiento de sanidad venidero que es muy diferente a lo que este mundo ha visto. ¿Estás listo? Es hora de preparar tu corazón para las olas de avivamiento. Aquí es donde nunca sabes qué esperar en cuanto a lo siguiente que ha de venir. El primer capítulo, El Espíritu de Avivamiento, te despertará ansiando más de Dios. Bill compartirá cómo su hambre voraz por Jesucristo lo llevó a una búsqueda apasionada de la presencia de Dios y luego la asombrosa manera en que Dios respondió. Primero, él explica por qué es vital recordar la mano de Dios interviniendo en tu vida y cómo recordarlo activa varias claves importantes; claves que te impulsarán más y en mayor profundidad en los propósitos de Dios. Al final, Bill comparte, a partir de su experiencia personal, el secreto que aprendió en cuanto a cultivar y mantener la intimidad con Dios. También descubrirás cómo tu desesperación por tener comunión con Dios te impulsará al espíritu de avivamiento. Bill también revela, a través de la percepción profética, el Avivamiento de Sanidad que comparte acerca de cómo estar en la posición correcta para ser parte de este avivamiento de sa
Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection, Part Two: School Letters, Model Contracts, and Related Texts (CUSAS)
by A. R. George Gabriella SpadaIn ancient Mesopotamia, men training to be scribes copied model letters in order to practice writing and familiarize themselves with epistolary forms and expressions. Similarly, model contracts were used to teach them how to draw up agreements for the transactions typical of everyday economic life. This volume makes available a trove of previously unknown tablets and fragments, now housed in the Shøyen Collection, that were produced in the training of scribes in Old Babylonian schools.Following on Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection, Part One: Selected Letters, this volume publishes the contents of sixty-five tablets bearing Akkadian letters used to train scribes and twenty-six prisms and tablets carrying Sumerian legal texts copied in the same context. Each text is presented in transliterated form and in translation, with appropriate commentary and annotations and, at the end of the book, photographs of the cuneiform. The material is made easily navigable by a catalogue, bibliography, and indexes.This collection of previously unknown documents expands the extant corpus of educational texts, making an essential contribution to the study of the ancient world.
Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection, Part Two: School Letters, Model Contracts, and Related Texts (CUSAS: Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology #43)
by A. R. George Gabriella SpadaIn ancient Mesopotamia, men training to be scribes copied model letters in order to practice writing and familiarize themselves with epistolary forms and expressions. Similarly, model contracts were used to teach them how to draw up agreements for the transactions typical of everyday economic life. This volume makes available a trove of previously unknown tablets and fragments, now housed in the Shøyen Collection, that were produced in the training of scribes in Old Babylonian schools.Following on Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection, Part One: Selected Letters, this volume publishes the contents of sixty-five tablets bearing Akkadian letters used to train scribes and twenty-six prisms and tablets carrying Sumerian legal texts copied in the same context. Each text is presented in transliterated form and in translation, with appropriate commentary and annotations and, at the end of the book, photographs of the cuneiform. The material is made easily navigable by a catalogue, bibliography, and indexes.This collection of previously unknown documents expands the extant corpus of educational texts, making an essential contribution to the study of the ancient world.
Old Believers in a Changing World
by Robert CrummeyThis important collection of essays by a pioneer in the field focuses on the history and culture of a conservative religious tradition whose adherents have fought to preserve their beliefs and practices from the 17th century through today. Old Belief had its origins in a protest against liturgical reforms in the Russian Orthodox Church in the mid-1600s and quickly grew into a complex torrent of opposition to the Russian state, the official church, and the social hierarchy. For Old Believers, periods of full religious freedom have been very brief—from 1905 to 1917 and since the fall of the Soviet Union.Crummey examines the ways in which Old Believers defend their core beliefs and practices and adjust their polemical strategies and way of life in response to the changing world. Opening chapters survey the historiography of Old Belief, examine the methodological problems in studying the movement as a Russian example of \u201cpopular religion,\u201d and outline the first decades of the history. Particular themes of Old Believer history are the focus of the rest of the book, beginning with two sets of case studies of spirituality, culture, and intellectual life. Subsequent chapters analyze the diverse structures of Old Believer communities and their fate in times of persecution. A final essay examines publications of contemporary scholars in Novosibirsk whose work provides glimpses of the life of traditional believers in the Soviet period.Old Believers in a Changing World will appeal to scholars and students of Russian history, to those interested in Eastern Orthodoxy, and to those with an interest in the comparative history of religious movements.
Old Canaan in a New World: Native Americans and the Lost Tribes of Israel (North American Religions)
by Elizabeth FentonWere indigenous Americans descendants of the lost tribes of Israel?From the moment Europeans realized Columbus had landed in a place unknown to them in 1492, they began speculating about how the Americas and their inhabitants fit into the Bible. For many, the most compelling explanation was the Hebraic Indian theory, which proposed that indigenous Americans were the descendants of the ten lost tribes of Israel. For its proponents, the theory neatly explained why this giant land and its inhabitants were not mentioned in the Biblical record. In Old Canaan in a New World, Elizabeth Fenton shows that though the Hebraic Indian theory may seem far-fetched today, it had a great deal of currency and significant influence over a very long period of American history. Indeed, at different times the idea that indigenous Americans were descended from the lost tribes of Israel was taken up to support political and religious positions on diverse issues including Christian millennialism, national expansion, trade policies, Jewish rights, sovereignty in the Americas, and scientific exploration. Through analysis of a wide collection of writings—from religious texts to novels—Fenton sheds light on a rarely explored but important part of religious discourse in early America. As the Hebraic Indian theory evolved over the course of two centuries, it revealed how religious belief and national interest intersected in early American history.
Old Earth or Evolutionary Creation?: Discussing Origins with Reasons to Believe and BioLogos (BioLogos Books on Science and Christianity)
by J. B. Stump Kenneth Keathley Joe AguirrehowOld Earth or Evolutionary Creation?
Old English Literature and the Old Testament
by Manish Sharma Michael FoxIt would be difficult to overestimate the importance of the Bible in the medieval world. For the Anglo-Saxons, literary culture emerged from sustained and intensive biblical study. Further, at least to judge from the Old English texts which survive, the Old Testament was the primary influence, both in terms of content and modes of interpretation. Though the Old Testament was only partially translated into Old English, recent studies have shown how completely interconnected Anglo-Latin and Old English literary traditions are.Old English Literature and the Old Testament considers the importance of the Old Testament from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, from comparative to intertextual and historical. Though the essays focus on individual works, authors, or trends, including the Interrogationes Sigewulfi, Genesis A, and Daniel, each ultimately speaks to the vernacular corpus as a whole, suggesting approaches and methodologies for further study.
Old English Medical Remedies: Mandrake, Wormwood and Raven's Eye
by Sinéad SpearingHow pagan women blended magic and medicine—and why their medieval recipes may help cure modern-day illnesses. In ninth-century England, Bishop lfheah the Bald is dabbling with magic. By collecting folk remedies from pagan women, he risks his reputation. Yet posterity has been kind, as from the pages of Bald&’s book a remedy has been found that cures the superbug MRSA where modern antibiotics have failed. Within a few months of this discovery, a whole new area of medical research called Ancientbiotics has been created to discover further applications for these remedies. Yet, what will science make of the elves, hags and nightwalkers which also stalk the pages of Bald&’s book and its companion piece Lacnunga, urging prescriptions of a very different, unsettling nature? In these works, cures for the &“moon mad&” and hysteria are interspersed with directives to drink sheep&’s dung and jump across dead men&’s graves. Old English Medical Remedies explores the herbal efficacy of these ancient remedies while evaluating the supernatural, magical elements, and suggests these provide a powerful psychological narrative revealing an approach to healthcare far more sophisticated than hitherto believed. All the while, the voices of the wise women who created and used these remedies are brought to life, after centuries of suppression by the Church, in this fascinating read.
Old Enough to Know - updated edition
by Michael W. Smith Fritz RidenourThis best-selling book from Michael W. Smith has sold over 150,000 copies. As relevant today as when Michasel first wrote it, Old Enough to Know gives straight, Biblical answers to the struggles of growing up: sex, drugs, alcohol, peer pressure, parental conflict, friendship, goals, responsibilities and materialism. Calling it "a book for my friends," the author assures teens that he knows they are old enough to know the difference between the phony and the genuine, and attempts to show how he - and other adults! - have genuinely "been there" and can help.