Il lavoro di Chris Rice approfondisce i regni interconnessi di pace, giustizia e vita e missione cristiana. I suoi acclamati scritti esplorano temi profondi di riconciliazione, guarigione razziale e l'applicazione pratica della fede in un mondo diviso. Con una vasta esperienza nella guida di iniziative di riconciliazione e nel lavoro all'interno di comunità urbane, Rice offre una prospettiva unica per comprendere e affrontare le divisioni sociali. Il suo continuo impegno nelle questioni globali sottolinea la sua dedizione nel promuovere la completezza e la comprensione in diversi contesti.
Jean Valjean is free at last after nineteen years in prison. Cold and hungry, he is rejected by everyone he meets. But Jean's life is changed forever when he discovers love. He spends the rest of his life helping people, like himself, who have been victims of poverty and social injustice - 'les misérables'.
Clay Carter lavora da tempo come avvocato della pubblica difesa. Un giorno gli viene affidato il caso di un giovane accusato di omicidio senza movente. Scavando nel passato del suo cliente, Clay scopre una cospirazione tanto incredibile da non sembrare vera e si ritrova senza volerlo al centro di un complesso caso contro una delle case farmaceutiche più importanti del mondo. Da un giorno all'altro Clay potrebbe diventare il più famoso "re dei torti".
Christianity Today Book Award winner Our world is broken and cries out for reconciliation. But mere conflict resolution and peacemaking are not enough. What makes real reconciliation possible? How is it that some people are able to forgive the most horrendous of evils? And what role does God play in these stories? Does reconciliation make any sense apart from the biblical story of redemption? Secular models of peacemaking are insufficient. And the church has not always fulfilled its call to be agents of reconciliation in the world. In Reconciling All Things Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice, codirectors of the Center for Reconciliation at Duke Divinity School, cast a comprehensive vision for reconciliation that is biblical, transformative, holistic and global. They draw on the resources of the Christian story, including their own individual experiences in Uganda and Mississippi, to bring solid, theological reflection to bear on the work of reconciling individuals, groups and societies. They recover distinctively Christian practices that will help the church be both a sign and an agent of God's reconciling love in the fragmented world of the twenty-first century. This powerful, concise book lays the philosophical foundations for reconciliation and explores what it means to pursue hope in areas of brokenness in theory and practice.
Per poter corteggiare degnamente Porzia il nobile Bassanio deve chiedere un prestito al mercante di Venezia Antonio. Antonio deve a sua volta farsi prestare il denaro dall'usuraio ebreo Shylock che, come pegno per la restituzione pone la possibilità di prelevare una libbra di carne sul corpo di Antonio, se il denaro non gli sarà reso il giorno fissato. Bassanio sposa Porzia, ma le navi di Antonio hanno fatto naufragio e Shylock pretende la libbra di carne. Porzia, travestita da avvocato, perora la causa di Antonio davanti al doge che grazia Shylock, ne confisca i beni e li divide tra Antonio e lo stato veneziano. Antonio rinuncia alla sua parte purché Shylock si faccia cristiano. Intanto alcune navi di Antonio compaiono salve in porto.
Original / American English Audrey Hepburn was a beautiful and great actress. When there were unhappy times for her, Audrey always showed a warm, friendly face to the world. The world loved her, and people love her now
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, mega-bestselling author who wore his celebrity with extraordinary grace comes a magnificently appealing book about teaching and about how one great storyteller found his voice. Nearly a decade ago Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of sixty-six, he burst onto the literary scene with Angela's Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir of his childhood in Limerick, Ireland. Then came 'Tis, his glorious account of his early years in New York. Now, here at last is McCourt's long-awaited book about how his thirty-year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer. Teacher Man is also an urgent tribute to teachers everywhere. In bold and spirited prose featuring his irreverent wit and compelling honesty, McCourt records the trials, triumphs and surprises he faced in the classroom. Teacher Man shows McCourt developing his unparalleled ability to tell a great story as, five days a week, five periods per day, he worked to gain the attention and respect of unruly, hormonally charged or indifferent adolescents. For McCourt, storytelling itself is the source of salvation, and in Teacher Man the journey to redemption -- and literary fame -- is an exhilarating adventure.
The Life And Death of a Man of Character
The moving, humane tragedy of a deeply flawed and self-destructive man, The Mayor of Casterbridge is the story of Michael Henchard, who sells his wife and baby daughter at a country fair in a fit of drunken anger.