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Title: All grown up: 'The Dark Knight'.(Screen)(Movie review)
Author: Richard Alleva
Publication: Commonweal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 12, 2008
Publisher: Commonweal Foundation
Volume: 135Issue: 15Page: 25(2)

Article Type: Movie review

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on September 5, 2008. The length of the article is 398 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: El Western reinventado.(El tren de las 3:10, pelîcula)
Author: Belên Ester Casas
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 5, 2008
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
Issue: 1210Page: 77(1)

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To make amends for his troubled past, Joel Hunter goes back to the Herrera family farm in Nevada. The Herreras believed in him, supported him, and he let them down. Especially Mari, the beautiful girl he grew up with--and secretly loved. A changed man, Joel can now help save their farm and support Mari's mother and two young siblings. The one thing he can't do? Explain to Mari where he's been the past nine years. How can he expect her to understand--or want him around? Until Joel discovers that the road to forgiveness is paved with love.

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A great read
Despite the mistakes he's made, the Herrera family always believed in Joel Hunter and supported him.They showed God's love in how they lived and in everything they did for him -- and he let them down. He's back to make amends, especially to Mari the girl he's always secretly loved. Joel's a changed man now, and he wants to work on the farm and help support the family.But will Mari let him? Her family embraces him with open arms, but Mari can't figure out why he's back and feels in her heart he'll just leave again.

How can he convince her to understand or want him around when he can't share his biggest secret with her? He wants Herrera Farms to be home and he wants to be home for good. But will Mari destroy his dream of staying when she finds out where he's been the last nine years? Will Mari be able to forgive the past in order to see God' plan for her future?

This is a beautiful story of how God works through people to share His mercy, grace, and forgiveness.This story was very entertaining, but filled with examples and lessons of how God's love and Christ's sacrifice on the cross can redeem us and change our lives. Through the lives of the Herrera family, Leigh shows how we never know how things we do or say can affect others.Things aren't always as they appear to be, but God always has a plan for us.This is a wonderful read.I highly recommend this book.You will not be disappointed, but blessed as you read about Joel Hunter and Mari Herrera, their family, and their journey on the road to forgiveness.
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Seeking a fresh start, widow Rachel Walker headed west. She never expected a freak Nevada storm--or the rugged Sam Thorne to rescue her. With a broken arm and a young son to care for, Rachel is depending on the kindness of the handsome stranger. The gruff small-town vet isn't thrilled Rachel and Danny have invaded his well-ordered life. But with Rachel's strong spirit and gentle faith, the walls around Sam's barren heart soon come tumbling down. Can they both put their painful pasts behind them and join together as a forever family?

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Sweet, Ready-Made Family Romance
This was a sweet romance and I loved the characters,but I couldn't give it the full five stars,because I didn't feel any chemistry between the hero and heroine or think the romance was developed enough,nor was there even a kiss but one very slight whisper of a kiss,that is not enough to make a believable romance. ... Read more

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First Communion is generally understood as a rite of passage in which seven- and eight-year-old Catholic children transform from baptized participants in the Church to members of the body of Christ, the universal Catholic Church. This official Church account, however, ignores what the rite actually may mean to its participants. In When I Was a Child, Susan Ridgely Bales demonstrates that the accepted understanding of a religious ritual can shift dramatically when one considers the often neglected perspective of child participants.

Bales followed Faith Formation classes and interviewed communicants, parents, and priests in an African American parish and in a parish containing both white and Latino congregations. By letting the children speak for themselves through their words, drawings, and actions, When I Was a Child stresses the importance of rehearsal, the centrality of sensory experiences, and the impact of expectations in the communicants' interpretations of the Eucharist. In the first sustained ethnographic study of how children interpret and help shape their own faith, Bales finds that children's perspectives give new contours to the traditional understanding of a common religious ritual. Ultimately, she argues that scholars of religion should consider age as distinct a factor as race, class, and gender in their analyses. ... Read more

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Beautifully written and insightful
Susan Bales has written a wonderfully insightful book on the experiences of Catholic children as they prepare for, and participate in, First Communion.This is a must read for Catholic educators of children and their parents.The book is also a treasure trove for scholars of Religion American - filled with rich research and analysis.A gem! ... Read more

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If over the centuries Christians have become used to sermons being a string of assertions, explanations, or exhortations -- with a sprinkling of stories as illustrations -- the sermons have not been preached in a manner consistent with how the Bible communicates reality. Most of the Bible is stories. Story sermons do today what Jesus did in his stories -- they sneak up on people. Listeners can ward off moral exhortations, and they become resistant to three points, a poem, and a prayer. Intellectually they can parry with information doled out in a series of reasoned arguments. But stories win us over before we understand what is going on. Stories quietly tip the scale of our minds toward agreeing with God's graciousness. (from the Introduction)

In these fine story-sermons believable things happen to believable people, and faith grows -- both theirs and ours.
David L. Bartlett
Lantz Professor of Christian Communication
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Yale University Divinity School

David O. Bales has been a Presbyterian pastor for 24 years. Currently the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Klamath Falls, Oregon, he is also a freelance writer and editor for Stephen Ministries, St. Louis, Missouri. Bales has published sermons in Pulpit Digest, Preaching, and Lectionary Homiletics, and has taught college courses in World Religions and Ethics.

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Wonderful
This book is wonderfully written and moving.It is broken up into several short stories that make the reader examine his or her own spiritual experiences.Gospel Subplots can help ease a person's way into the faithby modeling Christianity in everyday life.If it is hard for a person toopen up and read a bible, it might be easier to open up Bales' book ofshort stories.His stories sparked an interest in me to open up the bibleand examine my faith. ... Read more

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Jesuswas a master storyteller. He could weave timeless, eternal truths into theseemingly simplest of stories. His tales not only disarmed his listeners, butthey also imparted powerful insights into the nature of God in familiar terms.Inthis same spirit, Scenes of Glory is a collection of story sermons that communicatethe truth of God's word through familiar images like a vacation drive, twofriends sitting under an apple tree, or football season. While each of thestories may take the reader into familiar territory, they may also offer a viewof the gospel in a rather unfamiliar and thought-provoking way.Completewith study questions at the end of each chapter, this resource is great forpersonal Bible study and devotion as well as group studies. It is also valuablefor pastors needing either sermon inspiration or simply an alternate view of aparticular biblical text.Ourlife is a series of stories. Scenes of Glory is an enriching additionto anyone's personal story.David O. Bales was a Presbyterian minister for 33 years. Recently retired as the pastorof Bethany Presbyterian Church in Ontario, Oregon, he is also a freelancewriter and editor for Stephen Ministries and Tebunah Ministries. His sermonsand articles have appeared in Lectionary Homiletics, Preaching GreatTexts, and Interpretation, and he is the author of GospelSubplots: Story Sermons of God's Grace (CSS). He is also a regularcontributor to the online service StoryShare (www.sermonsuite.com).Bales is a graduate of the University of Portland and San Francisco TheologicalSeminary. ... Read more

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St Edmund, king and martyr, supposedly killed by Danes (or `Vikings') in 869, was one of the pre-eminent saints of the middle ages; his cult was favoured and patronised by several English kings and spawned a rich array of visual, literary, musical and political artefacts. Celebrated throughout England, especially at the abbey of Bury St Edmunds, it also inspired separate cults in France, Iceland and Italy. The essays in this collection offer a range of readings from a variety of disciplines - literature, history, music, art history - and of sources - chronicles, poems, theological material - providing an overview of the multi-faceted nature of St Edmund's cult, from the ninth century to the early modern period. They demonstrate the openness and dynamism of a medieval saint's cult, showing how the saint's image could be used in many and changing contexts: Edmund's image was bent to various political and propagandistic ends, often articulating conflicting messages and ideals, negotiating identity, politics and belief. CONTRIBUTORS: ANTHONY BALE, CARL PHELPSTEAD, ALISON FINLAY, PAUL ANTONY HAYWARD, LISA COLTON, REBECCA PINNER, A. S. G. EDWARDS, ALEXANDRA GILLESPIE ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Béla Sárosi, Jenő Vincze, Fernand Jaccard, Christian Gross, Max Breunig, Claude Andrey, Ernst Künnecke, Rudi Strittich, René Bader, Thorsten Fink, Anton Schall, Ernst Hufschmid. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Béla Sárosi (né le 15 août 1919 à Budapest en Hongrie et mort le 15 juin 1993 à Saragosse en Espagne) fut un footballeur international et un entraîneur hongrois, qui jouait au milieu de terrain. Il débute sa carrière en club dans l'équipe junior du Műegyetemi AFC entre 1933 et 1937. Il commence à jouer en professionnel dans le club du championnat hongrois du Ferencváros TC, chez qui il reste 9 saisons (64 buts en 237 matchs). Il s'exile ensuite en Italie à la fin de la guerre et joue tout d'abord au FC Bologne jusqu'en 1949, avant de rejoindre l'AS Bari où il reste jusqu'en 1950. Il part ensuite de l'autre côté de l'Atlantique pour jouer dans le club colombien de l'Atlético Junior où il reste une saison. Il retourne ensuite en Europe pour jouer au FC Porto. En 1952, il signe au Real Saragosse pour un an, et va finir sa carrière en Suisse en tant qu'entraîneur-joueur au FC Lugano. Il prend sa retraite en 1956. En sélection nationale, il joue en tout 25 matchs et inscrit trois buts entre 1939 et 1945 avec l'équipe de Hongrie. Il participe à la coupe du monde 1938 en France, où les Hongrois parviennent jusqu'en finale. Après sa première expérience d'entraîneur-joueur à Lugano, il prend ensuite les rênes du FC Bâle entre 1956 et 1958, avant d'aller en Allemagne pour s'occuper de Jahn Regensburg de 1958 à 1959. Il va après chez l'Alemannia Aachen jusqu'en 1961. Il entraîne également par la suite le club belge de Beerschot entre 1961 et 1962. Il termine ensuite en étant entraîneur assistant au...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more