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Scorned Justice
by Margaret DaleyTexas Ranger Brody Calhoun is with his parents in west Texas when an unexpected attack injures the brother of Rebecca Morgan, Brody's high school sweetheart. The local sheriff, a good friend, asks for Brody's help. At first, it seems like an open-and-shut case. As Brody digs deeper, he realizes the attack may be related to an organized crime trial Rebecca will be overseeing. With Rebecca's help, he compiles evidence involving cattle rustling, bribery, and dirty payoffs that shatter the entire community and put Rebecca directly in the line of fire. Brody expects to protect her. What he never expects is to fall for Rebecca all over again, or for a murder to throw the case wide open. Is Brody's faith strong enough to withstand not only deep-rooted corruption and cattle rustling, but also love?
Scorned Justice
by Margaret DaleyTexas Ranger Brody Calhoun is with his parents in west Texas when an unexpected attack injures the brother of Rebecca Morgan, Brody's high school sweetheart. The local sheriff, a good friend, asks for Brody's help. At first, it seems like an open-and-shut case. As Brody digs deeper, he realizes the attack may be related to an organized crime trial Rebecca will be overseeing. With Rebecca's help, he compiles evidence involving cattle rustling, bribery, and dirty payoffs that shatter the entire community and put Rebecca directly in the line of fire. Brody expects to protect her. What he never expects is to fall for Rebecca all over again, or for a murder to throw the case wide open. Is Brody's faith strong enough to withstand not only deep-rooted corruption and cattle rustling, but also love?
Scorpio Witch: Unlock the Magic of Your Sun Sign (The Witch's Sun Sign Series)
by Zoë Howe Ivo Dominguez Jr.Become more passionate and confident in everything you do using the magical energy of your Sun sign. Sharing numerous spells, exercises, and stories, Ivo Dominguez, Jr. and Zoë Howe help you enhance your witchcraft and everyday activities. You'll explore Scorpio correspondences, divination techniques, self-care routines, and much more.This book deepens your relationship to yourself, providing many ways to channel your natural intensity into stronger witchcraft. Explore your Moon and rising sign traits, perform a ritual to meet the spirit of your sign, and overcome challenges that Scorpios often face. Featuring spells from Scorpio contributors, cleansing and shielding methods, and advice on magical timing, this book in the Witch's Sun Sign Series helps you achieve your goals and be your magnetic self.
Scott Hahn's Study Guide for The Lamb's Supper
by Scott HahnA companion to Hahn's bestseller "The Lamb's Supper," this guide is ideal for individual or group use and serves as an important resource for those looking to deepen their faith and their understanding of the Catholic Mass.
Scottish Presbyterianism and Settler Colonial Politics
by Valerie WallaceThis book offers a new interpretation of political reform in the settler colonies of Britain's empire in the early nineteenth century. It examines the influence of Scottish Presbyterian dissenting churches and their political values. It re-evaluates five notorious Scottish reformers and unpacks the Presbyterian foundation to their political ideas: Thomas Pringle (1789-1834), a poet in Cape Town; Thomas McCulloch (1776-1843), an educator in Pictou; John Dunmore Lang (1799-1878), a church minister in Sydney; William Lyon Mackenzie (1795-1861), a rebel in Toronto; and Samuel McDonald Martin (1805?-1848), a journalist in Auckland. The book weaves the five migrants' stories together for the first time and demonstrates how the campaigns they led came to be intertwined. The book will appeal to historians of Scotland, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the British Empire and the Scottish diaspora.
Scottish Psalter and Paraphrases
by AnonymousThis contains the Scottish Psalter and Scripture Paraphrases, the primary hymnal of the Church of Scotland up through the 19th century. The Church of Scotland is a Presbyterian church, decisively shaped by the Scottish Reformation.
Scottish Witchcraft: A Complete Guide to Authentic Folklore, Spells, and Magickal Tools
by Barbara Meiklejohn-Free“Deeply personal and immersed in myth and folklore, [this] book draws from the old and the new in a manner that will resonate with the modern Witch today.” —Christopher Penczak, author of The Temple of Witchcraft and The Feast of the MorrighanHear the Call of the Highlands for Powerful Magick, Healing, and DivinationTake a journey through the magickal folk traditions of Scotland. Barbara Meiklejohn-Free, a Scottish hereditary witch, shares her own spiritual awakening into the craft and shows you how to integrate these practices into your own life. Discover the secrets of divination, scrying, faery magick, and communication with ancestors. Explore herb and plant lore and specific rituals to address what you most desire. Filled with inspiring anecdotes, craft history, and step-by-step instructions, this book will help you begin a new chapter of spiritual discovery.“Barbara masterfully and authentically weaves together the traditions of Scottish Witch-lore, along with her personal story of growing up in the Highlands as a genuine Scottish Witch.” —Flavia Kate Peters, author of Witches Wisdom and the Dark Goddess Oracle Deck“A joyous, yet deeply personal, discovery of the strength and power of Scottish Witchcraft.” —Kate West, author of The Real Witches' Craft
Scourge: Confronting the Global Issue of Addiction
by Bradford SmithChemical addiction wreaks havoc across a broadening swath of society leading those who suffer toward certain destruction. Never before has humanity been so afflicted. Scourge takes a heart-wrenching, unexpected first-hand look at the spiritual aspect of this deadly assault upon the very souls of mankind. Of those who struggle, some find devastation and death while others find redemption and life.
Scouting the Divine: My Search for God in Wine, Wool, and Wild Honey
by Margaret FeinbergA Bible full of ancient truths. A woman living a modern life. Join critically acclaimed author Margaret Feinberg as she invites readers on the spiritual adventure of a lifetime. In her quest to better understand what God wants to communicate through the Bible, Feinberg explores the symbols and metaphors within its stories. To discover these deeper meanings, she spends time with a shepherdess in Oregon, walks the fields with a farmer in Nebraska, explores a vineyard of California, and talks with a veteran beekeeper in Colorado. Along the way, she gains deeper insight about how Scripture applies to life today and discovers answers to puzzling questions. Do sheep really know their shepherd’s voice? How often does a grapevine need to be pruned? What does it mean when a land is described as overflowing with honey? Feinberg, a popular author and speaker, was named one of the “Thirty Emerging Voices” of Christian leaders under forty who will lead the church in the next decade, and one of the “Forty under Forty” who will shape Christian publishing.
Scrap Everything: A Novel
by Leslie GouldElise didn't want to be in the town at all-and certainly not in the scrapbooking shop...A month after Elise Shelton and her family arrive in Forest Falls, Oregon, she wanders into Rebekah Graham's scrapbooking store. Elise deems Rebekah too perky and judges scrapbooking to be another never-gets-done chore, but she's also drawn to the community of women who gather to crop their photos, lay out pages, and share their lives.The women rally around Elise when her husband is called back into the army and her family is thrown into turmoil. When Rebekah's daughter faces a medical crisis, challenging Rebekah's desire to control her life as tightly as she plans her scrapbook pages, the women must support each other.As both women battle to overcome their fears and to grow in faith, they discover unexpected gifts-and an unlikely friendship that will change their lives.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Scrapping Plans: A Sisters, Ink Novel (Sisters, Ink. #3)
by Rebeca SeitzShe's Type A. Could she even handle plan B? Joy is a control freak. And proud of it. But when her life's carefully designed plan hits obstacles even she can't overcome, Joy isn't sure what to do. Turn to her sisters for help, of course. But she's always let Kendra, Meg, and Tandy have the spotlight. Which has left her ill-prepared to seek out their support when she needs it most. Besides, the sisters are too busy to even notice Joy's in trouble! Between Kendra's approaching wedding, Daddy's blossoming romance, and another sister seeing the pink line on her pregnancy test--life's SO unfair!--Joy is left feeling like what she's always been: the sister in the background. Will a trip to China, her native land, help her understand why her birth mother abandoned her? Will she realize her dreams of motherhood by adopting a child from her homeland? And will her sisters ever notice she needs their help to understand the greatest truth of all: that God's plan is far more important--and perfect--than Joy's could ever be?
Scraps of Evidence
by Barbara CameronTess has taken some ribbing from her fellow officer, Logan, for her quilting hobby. He finds it hard to align the brisk professional officer he patrols with during the day with the one who quilts in her off-time. Besides, he's been trying to get to know her better and he'd like to be seeing her during those few nights a week she spends with her quilting guild. Then one afternoon Tess and Logan visit her aunt in the nursing home, and the woman acts agitated when Tess covers her with the story quilt. Aunt Susan is attempting to communicate a message to them about Tess's uncle. There's a story behind this quilt, they realize, one that may lead them to a serial killer. Will they have a chance to have a future together, or will the killer choose Tess for his next victim before they find him?
Scraps of Evidence
by Barbara CameronTess has taken some ribbing from her fellow officer, Logan, for her quilting hobby. He finds it hard to align the brisk professional officer he patrols with during the day with the one who quilts in her off-time. Besides, he's been trying to get to know her better and he'd like to be seeing her during those few nights a week she spends with her quilting guild. Then one afternoon Tess and Logan visit her aunt in the nursing home, and the woman acts agitated when Tess covers her with the story quilt. Aunt Susan is attempting to communicate a message to them about Tess's uncle. There's a story behind this quilt, they realize, one that may lead them to a serial killer. Will they have a chance to have a future together, or will the killer choose Tess for his next victim before they find him?
Scream Queen: A memoir
by Yvette FieldingSeances, Ouija boards, table tipping, knocking phenomena - all in a day's work for the First Lady of the Paranormal. Yvette Fielding has nerves of steel when facing down her tormentors in the spirit world. Her living-world personal story also reveals a woman of courage and determination, who built success from nothing, following her passion and lifelong curiosity in search of answers to the unexplained.Yvette was always fascinated with the afterlife, and Buddhist meditation practice opened her up to any spirit who wanted to contact her. This manifested in her first family home. Their TV would switch itself on, and kitchen cupboards would open and close all by themselves. When alone there, Yvette would arm herself with a Samurai sword to confront her unseen visitors.But it was a harrowing investigation of eerie 800 year-old Michelham Priory where Yvette’s life-changing Most Haunted adventure began, and still continues many terrifying quests and over twenty years later.Here you’ll walk with Yvette where others fear to tread through chills of the supernatural kind, and she also talks with candid honesty of occasional cold spots she’s encountered in human form. But through all the drops in temperature, the nation’s most celebrated ghost hunter radiates warmth and humour and it’s a joy to accompany her on her incredible journey from child TV star to Most Haunted icon.Beware sceptics: the Scream Queen's story could change your world view for ever.
Scream: A Novel
by Mike DellossoWhile talking to his friend on the phone, Mark Stone is startled by a cacophony of otherworldly screams. Seconds later, a tragic accident claims his friend’s life. When this happens several more times--screams followed by an untimely death--he is compelled to act. Battling his failure as a husband and struggling with his own damaged faith, Mark embarks on a mission to find the meaning behind the screams and hopefully stop death from calling on its next victim. When his estranged wife is kidnapped and he again hears the screams as she calls from her cell phone, his search becomes much more personal and much more urgent.
Screams in the Night (Sugar Creek Gang Original Series #12)
by Paul HutchensThe tales and travels of the Sugar Creek Gang have passed the test of time, delighting young readers for more than fifty years. Great mysteries with a message, The Sugar Creek Gang series chronicles the faith-building adventures of a group of fun-loving, courageous Christian boys. Your kids will be thrilled, chilled, and inspired to grow as they follow the legendary escapades of Bill Collins, Dragonfly, and the rest of the gang and see how they struggle with the application of their Christian faith to the adventure of life. Travel to Pass Lake, Minnesota, with the Sugar Creek Gang. When the gang arrives, they find themselves in the middle of a mystery. Newspaper reports tell of a kidnapped girl who has not been returned even though the ransom was paid. Will they find the girl and help catch the kidnapper? Join the Sugar Creek Gang on their action-packed trip to Minnesota's lake country and learn about becoming fishers of men.
Screams in the Night (Sugar Creek Gang Original Series #12)
by Paul HutchensThe tales and travels of the Sugar Creek Gang have passed the test of time, delighting young readers for more than fifty years. Great mysteries with a message, The Sugar Creek Gang series chronicles the faith-building adventures of a group of fun-loving, courageous Christian boys. Your kids will be thrilled, chilled, and inspired to grow as they follow the legendary escapades of Bill Collins, Dragonfly, and the rest of the gang and see how they struggle with the application of their Christian faith to the adventure of life. Travel to Pass Lake, Minnesota, with the Sugar Creek Gang. When the gang arrives, they find themselves in the middle of a mystery. Newspaper reports tell of a kidnapped girl who has not been returned even though the ransom was paid. Will they find the girl and help catch the kidnapper? Join the Sugar Creek Gang on their action-packed trip to Minnesota's lake country and learn about becoming fishers of men.
Screen Kids: 5 Relational Skills Every Child Needs in a Tech-Driven World
by Gary Chapman Arlene PellicaneHas Technology Taken Over Your Home?In this digital age, children spend more time interacting with screens and less time playing outside, reading a book, or interacting with family. Though technology has its benefits, it also has its harms. In Screen Kids Gary Chapman and Arlene Pellicane will empower you with the tools you need to make positive changes. Through stories, science, and wisdom, you&’ll discover how to take back your home from an overdependence on screens. Plus, you&’ll learn to teach the five A+ skills that every child needs to master: affection, appreciation, anger management, apology, and attention. Learn how to: Protect and nurture your child&’s growing brain Establish simple boundaries that make a huge difference Recognize the warning signs of gaming too much Raise a child who won&’t gauge success through social media Teach your child to be safe onlineThis newly revised edition features the latest research and interactive assessments, so you can best confront the issues technology create in your home. Now is the time to equip your child with a healthy relationship with screens and an even healthier relationship with others.
Screen Kids: 5 Relational Skills Every Child Needs in a Tech-Driven World
by Gary Chapman Arlene PellicaneHas Technology Taken Over Your Home?In this digital age, children spend more time interacting with screens and less time playing outside, reading a book, or interacting with family. Though technology has its benefits, it also has its harms. In Screen Kids Gary Chapman and Arlene Pellicane will empower you with the tools you need to make positive changes. Through stories, science, and wisdom, you&’ll discover how to take back your home from an overdependence on screens. Plus, you&’ll learn to teach the five A+ skills that every child needs to master: affection, appreciation, anger management, apology, and attention. Learn how to: Protect and nurture your child&’s growing brain Establish simple boundaries that make a huge difference Recognize the warning signs of gaming too much Raise a child who won&’t gauge success through social media Teach your child to be safe onlineThis newly revised edition features the latest research and interactive assessments, so you can best confront the issues technology create in your home. Now is the time to equip your child with a healthy relationship with screens and an even healthier relationship with others.
Screen Play
by Chris CoppernollSometimes the person farthest away from you is the one closest to your heart...At thirty, Harper fears her chances for a thriving career and true love are both fading fast. But when Harper is offered an unexpected role in a Broadway play--as understudy to New York's biggest diva--she wonders if everything is about to change.Hoping to find love in NYC, Harper reluctantly signs up for an online dating site but the only match Harper is even remotely interested in lives thousands of miles away. An actress who doesn't act, searching for love with someone she's never seen, Harper longs for God to show her He's still listening.
Screen Society
by Ellis Cashmore Jamie Cleland Kevin DixonScreens have been with us since the eighteenth century, though we became accustomed to staring at them only after the appearance of film and television in the twentieth century. But there was nothing in film or TV that prepared us for the revolution wrought by the combination of screens and the internet. Society has been transformed and this book asks how and with what consequences?Screen Society’s conclusions are based on an original research project conducted by scholars in the UK and Australia. The researchers designed their own research platform and elicited the thoughts and opinions of nearly 2000 participants, to draw together insights of today’s society as seen by users of smartphones, tablets and computers – what the authors call Screenagers. The book issues challenges to accepted wisdom on many of the so-called problems associated with our persistent use of screen devices, including screen addiction, trolling, gaming and gambling.
Screening The Sacred
by Joel Martin Conrad E. Ostwalt Jr.Twelve essays examine popular film in terms of theological, mythological, and ideological criticism. Topics include Christian allegorical structure, angels, and apocalyptic themes in particular films; myths of space aliens and of the "New Frontier"; and how popular films encourage racism, encode class, and construct gender. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc. , Portland, Or.
Screening The Sacred
by Joel Martin Conrad E. Ostwalt Jr.What are the religious impulses in the 1976 film Rocky, and how can they work to shape one's social identity? Do the films Alien and Aliens signify the reemergence of the earth goddess as a vital cultural power? What female archetypes, borne out of male desire, inform the experience of women in Nine and a Half Weeks?These are among the several compelling questions the authors of this volume consider as they explore the way popular American film relates to religion. Oddly, religion and film-two pervasive elements of American culture-have seldom been studied in connection with each other. In this first systematic exploration, the authors look beyond surface religious themes and imagery in film, discovering a deeper, implicit presence of religion. They employ theological, mythological, and social and political criticism to analyze the influence of religion, in all its rich variety and diversity, on popular film. Perhaps more importantly, they consider how the medium of film has helped influence and shape American religious culture, secular or otherwise.More than a random collection of essays, this volume brings to the study of religion and film a carefully constructed analytic framework that advances our understanding of both. Screening the Sacred provides fresh and welcome insight to film criticism; it also holds far-reaching relevance for the study of religion. Progressive in its approach, instructive in its analyses, this book is written for students, scholars, and other readers interested in religion, popular film, and the impact of each on American culture.
Screening The Sacred
by Joel Martin Conrad E. Ostwalt Jr.What are the religious impulses in the 1976 film Rocky, and how can they work to shape one's social identity? Do the films Alien and Aliens signify the reemergence of the earth goddess as a vital cultural power? What female archetypes, borne out of male desire, inform the experience of women in Nine and a Half Weeks?These are among the several compelling questions the authors of this volume consider as they explore the way popular American film relates to religion. Oddly, religion and film-two pervasive elements of American culture-have seldom been studied in connection with each other. In this first systematic exploration, the authors look beyond surface religious themes and imagery in film, discovering a deeper, implicit presence of religion. They employ theological, mythological, and social and political criticism to analyze the influence of religion, in all its rich variety and diversity, on popular film. Perhaps more importantly, they consider how the medium of film has helped influence and shape American religious culture, secular or otherwise.More than a random collection of essays, this volume brings to the study of religion and film a carefully constructed analytic framework that advances our understanding of both. Screening the Sacred provides fresh and welcome insight to film criticism; it also holds far-reaching relevance for the study of religion. Progressive in its approach, instructive in its analyses, this book is written for students, scholars, and other readers interested in religion, popular film, and the impact of each on American culture.
Screening the Afterlife: Theology, Eschatology, and Film
by Christopher DeacyScreening the Afterlife is a unique and fascinating exploration of the ‘last things’ as envisaged by modern filmmakers. Drawing on a range of films from Flatliners and What Dreams May Come to Working Girl and The Shawshank Redemption, it offers the first comprehensive examination of death and the afterlife within the growing field of religion and film. Topics addressed include: the survival of personhood after death the language of resurrection and immortality Near-Death Experiences and Mind-Dependent Worlds the portrayal of ‘heaven’ and ‘hell’. Students taking courses on eschatology will find this a stimulating and thought provoking resource, while scholars will relish Deacy’s theological insight and understanding.