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![]() Any donation, large or small, is appreciated and will be passed along to the Fund for Leaders.Ī Registration and Processing Fee will be added to your credit card transaction. In lieu of a registration fee, a one-time donation of $25 (or more) to the ELCA Fund for Leaders is suggested. Author of "The Virtual Body of Christ in a Suffering World". Marty Regents Chair in Religion and the Academy at St. Thompson - Director of the Lutheran Center for Faith, Values and Community and Martin E. Jeff Reed - Director of Digital Church Planting, Stadia Church Planting.Expect a lively Q & A conversation as we engage the merits of this new reality. The presenters recruited for this important webinar bring a wealth of experience and perspective. This is not a replacement of community, but rather the birth of a legitimate new kind of community. Church renewal leaders maintain that vital congregations must continue their online presence going forward and offer a hybrid blend of community (phygital) that is both physical and digital. ![]() ![]() Most congregations were thrust into unknown territory 8 months ago when worship went virtual / online instead of in person. ![]()
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Monster novel by walter dean myers6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Anyabwile’s black-and-white illustrations do more than simply interpret the original’s camera directions and descriptions. Myers’ admirers will be pleased to see much of the original dialogue and narration preserved, though neatly edited in places to keep the pace brisk. ![]() Fortunately Sims and Anyabwile are smart enough not to mess with a good thing, and they stick closely to the original to tell the story of New York teenager Steve Harmon’s trial for felony murder. ![]() Written in a screenplay format interspersed with first-person journal entries, it practically adapts itself into a visual presentation. If ever a novel lent itself to a graphic adaptation, it is Monster (1999). A faithfully adapted graphic-novel retelling of the first Printz Award winner. ![]()
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![]() She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and the Kentucky Arts Council. She was an Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock for four years until she gave up her beloved position there to write full time. She worked at Sarabande Books for ten years. Nickole received her MFA from the Vermont College, studied literature at Oxford University, and was the editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. The audio book of that collection became available in 2017. Her second book, a biography-in-poems called Fanny Says, came out from BOA Editions in 2015 and won the Weatherford Award for Appalachian Poetry. ![]() Nickole Brown's first collection of poetry, Sister, a novel-in-poems, was first published in 2007 by Red Hen Press and a new edition will be reissued by Sibling Rivalry Press in 2018. ![]()
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Subterranean rollins6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() More like Fraggle Rock than a serious adventure book But that said, the evolution aspects were intriguing, and it left me wondering what happened to the new life that was located in the caves below the least unknown continent? so things felt lighter than usual from other books. There was definitely an evil character, and we learned which one it was fairly early on, but (s)he wasn't really working for someone else who was part of the story. ![]() What this lacked was the evil force trying to stop the teams from discovering history. ![]() What lurks below Antarctica? How does the animal and plant life compare with the evolution happening all over the rest of the world? Which nasty creatures will try to kill a newcomers? So many suspenseful moments, especially as the focus shifts chapter by chapter to different groups of explorers and scientists. Always enjoyed them, and this one had a strong plot to it. I recall many of his books being on airport bookstore shelves, and I grabbed a few before flights. After reading his Sigma Force series (finished the 2022 release during the summer), I wanted to explore more. Subterranean is a thriller novel written by James Rollins. ![]()
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Halting state by charles stross6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Maybe if you play Everquest enough to think it is funny to call it "Evercrack" (do people still play EverQuest?), then this book is a hilarious romp of in-jokes and references. I did not like this book, perhaps because it is about the online gaming community, by which I mean obsessives who spend way too much time playing World of Warcraft, and my idea of a video game binge still tends more toward playing through all of Super Mario World in one night. Then I realized that it is obnoxious to force readers to suffer an affected writing style or stylistic quirk unless you have a really good reason, and "because it's cute and mildly thematically relevant" is not a good enough reason, are you listening, Charles Stross? Then I thought maybe I would do the whole thing in code like a l33t haXor, which would have been appropriate since this book finds it the height of amusement to throw around with-it language like "n00b" and "pwned." I briefly toyed with doing the same for my review, but then I remembered that I already did that, and it wasn't that amusing. ![]() Charles Stross decided it would be a good idea to write Halting State entirely in second person. ![]()
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Book er nurses6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() and this is the first time I’ve sat down again at my computer to chart. Mondays are the busiest-whether it’s because no one wants to come in on the weekend or because people generally are sicker, we’ll never know. It’s a Monday in the emergency room (ER), a day notorious for its patient volume. I have four rooms today, ER 5-8.ħ:15: I’ve done a quick assessment of my rooms and what shape they’re in-I’ll need to stock linens and supplies before the day gets too crazy. She is in a patient’s room, so I spend some time reviewing the charts of the patients who are already in the zone I’m assigned. ![]() I walk over to get report from the night shift nurse. I get coffee before the shower, because I stayed up too late watching a certain show’s season finale.Ħ:55: Clock in. Ever wondered what it’s like to work in an emergency room? Read below as I make a diary of what it’s like to work a day in the life of an ER nurse.ĥ:20: Up and at ’em. ![]()
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Ito junji frankenstein6/25/2023 ![]() Junji Ito’s Frankenstein is a comic chasing a feeling, a vibe, one great impression gleaned from Mary Shelley’s novel and essentially nothing else. Has black and white hatching ever looked so brown? No space could contain his painfully large body, and the rooms he inhabits are dank and cramped. He’s afraid, he’s screaming, he’s mocking you, but whatever he is, it’s hard to look at him without getting the feeling he’s howling, or moaning constantly. His eyes stare out a face that seems to lack skin. Bits of human bodies strewn on the floor, hacked apart with clumsy implements and sewn together with dirty needles. ![]()
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Finding My Pack by Lane Whitt6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() I’m also going to give up on my mini-book buying ban because it seems like every single month I end up buying 10+ books from Book Outlet and there’s no point in me calling this a mini-book ban when I’m buying more books then I did last year *deep sigh*. I’d say that the average ratings of the books are about a 4-4.25 there were some really great books while others were *cough, cough* basic. ![]() This month I also did a good bit of blogging done, but don’t get to used to this because my summer class that I have to go and listen to lectures starts soon. My heart pounds harder at the thought, and my need to please my alpha mate has me taking a cautious step forward. One of the biggest things that helped me read so many books was the semester ending during the first week of May. Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. ![]() Kitten is quickly losing herself and her sanity under the hands of a man claiming to be her uncle. She debuted as a novelist in 2015 with the novel Finding My Pack. Lane Whitt made her debut as an author in 2012 with the poetry collection Fractured Thought. ISBN 10: 1530739470 / ISBN 13: 9781530739479. Keeping My Pack (Audio CD / Audio, Library Edition). Lane lives in Ohio, where she spends the summers outdoors and the winters indoors. ![]() Can you believe I read 12 books in the month of May? Nope, neither can I. View Larger Image Finding My Pack Whitt, Lane. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She faces the threat of prison while also discovering a forbidden love. Yet as Annie struggles to improve the future of her town, her husband becomes increasingly frustrated with her growing independence. So, when Annie decides to stand up for the entire town of Calumet, nearly everyone believes she may have taken on more than she is prepared to handle. ![]() The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their husbands and sons deep underground each day, dreading the fateful call of the company man telling them their loved ones aren’t coming home. She’s spent her whole life in the mining town of Calumet, Michigan, where men risk their lives for meager salaries-and have barely enough to put food on the table for their families. ![]() In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements has seen enough of the world to know that it’s unfair. From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Sparrow comes “historical fiction that feels uncomfortably relevant today” ( Kirkus Reviews) about “America’s Joan of Arc”-the courageous woman who started a rebellion by leading a strike against the largest copper mining company in the world. ![]()
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Left wing melancholia6/24/2023 ![]() … What emerges is a Left that operates without either a deep and radical critique of the status quo or a compelling alternative to the existing order of things. ![]() We come to love our left passions and reasons, our analyses and convictions, more than we love the existing world that we presumably seek to alter with these terms or the future that would be aligned with them. I follows that a real return to the question of organisation can only take place if we escape this melancholic mechanism I propose that the very idea of organisation might offer us theoretical resources with which to do so. My argument identifies not one but two left-wing melancholias, the specular relation between which precludes the work of mourning and deprives us of the conditions for thinking organisation concretely. This paper weaves together two recurring themes in philosophical and political debates of recent years: the idea, loosely inspired by Walter Benjamin, that describes melancholia as a dominant structure of feeling and desire among the left and the suggestion that we are currently witnessing a revival of debates on the question of organisation. ![]() |