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In Weaving a Future for All Children, Olson and Friedrich use the image of weaving to bring together Biblical and theological imperatives for caring action (the loom); various tools and issues for child advocacy (the warp); and specific, productive ways that individuals and churches can advocate for children (the weft). Newcomers to advocacy will feel welcome and longtime activist will learn new takes on both advocacy and recruiting others to the work. The authors give a broad perspective of the problems children face worldwide and offer well-researched, thoughtfully structured faith responses to the issues. Olson and Friedrich provide an outstanding appendix, which alone is worth the price of the book. It directs readers t resources, outlines letter writing campaigns and guides advocates towards effective communication with elected officials. In addition, each chapter concludes with reflection questions and bold, specific action steps. The authors inspire readers to feel that they can not just should help make important changes in the lives of God's children. From "unofficial godparenting" to international activism, dozens of meaningful options are presented. Readers learn to "dream, pray and work" towards deeper discipleship through advocacy.
Contains fifteen weaving projects which children can complete in a single afternoon by using their hands, cardboard, or a simple loom which can be assembled from plumbing supplies.
The people of Taquile Island on the Peruvian side of beautiful Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the Americas, are renowned for the hand-woven textiles that they both wear and sell to outsiders. One thousand seven hundred Quechua-speaking peasant farmers, who depend on potatoes and the fish from the lake, host the forty thousand tourists who visit their island each year. Yet only twenty-five years ago, few tourists had even heard of Taquile. In Weaving a Future: Tourism, Cloth, and Culture on an Andean Island, Elayne Zorn documents the remarkable transformation of the isolated rock.
Craig Nessan's important new work retrieves biblical metaphors of the body of Christ and, following Dietrich Bonhoeffer, sees church today as "Christ existing as community." To theological probing Nessan then adds contextual analysis and describes the four chief imperatives that mark Christ's presence in the world today: peacemaking, justice-making, care for creation, and engagement with the other. He then unfolds the real-life implications of this paradigm of Christian community for the local church structure, strategies for partnering, public witness, and interreligious engagement.
Christianity regards teaching as one of the most foundational and critically sustaining ministries of the Church. As a result, Christian education remains one of the largest and oldest continuously functioning educational systems in the world, comprising both formal day schools and higher education institutions as well as informal church study groups and parachurch ministries in more than 140 countries. In The Encyclopedia of Christian Education, contributors explore the many facets of Christian education in terms of its impact on curriculum, literacy, teacher training, outcomes, and professional standards. This encyclopedia is the first reference work devoted exclusively to chronicling the unique history of Christian education across the globe, illustrating how Christian educators pioneered such educational institutions and reforms as universal literacy, home schooling, Sunday schools, women’s education, graded schools, compulsory education of the deaf and blind, and kindergarten. With an editorial advisory board of more than 30 distinguished scholars and five consulting editors, TheEncyclopedia of Christian Education contains more than 1,200 entries by 400 contributors from 75 countries. These volumes covers a vast range of topics from Christian education: History spanning from the church’s founding through the Middle Ages to the modern day Denominational and institutional profiles Intellectual traditions in Christian education Biblical and theological frameworks, curricula, missions, adolescent and higher education, theological training, and Christian pedagogy Biographies of distinguished Christian educators This work is ideal for scholars of both the history of Christianity and education, as well as researchers and students of contemporary Christianity and modern religious education.
A man, a woman, and their biological children, all of the same race, the mythical "nuclear family" has been the bedrock of American cultural, religious, social, and economic life since the Revolutionary War, and even with all the changes we have absorbed in the last sixty years, it essentially remains so. Current trends in adoption, however, have begun to shift the dominant paradigm of the family in ways never before imagined. Professional estimates show that in the United States today, seven million families have been formed by adoption, and 700,000 of them are interracial. These still-growing numbers have begun to radically change the face of the traditional American family. Barbara Katz Rothman, a noted sociologist who has explored motherhood in four previous books and has more recently explored the social implications of the human genome project, now turns her eye toward race and family. Weaving together the sociological, the historical, and the personal, Barbara Katz Rothman looks at the contemporary American family through the lens of race, race through the lens of adoption, and all-family, race, and adoption-within the context of the changing meanings of motherhood. She asks urgent and provocative questions about children as commodities, about "trophy" children, about the impact of genetics, and about how these adopted children will find their racial, ethnic, or cultural identities Drawing on her own experience as the white mother of a black child, on historical research on white people raising black children from slavery to contemporary times, and pulling together work on race, adoption, and consumption, Rothman offers us new insights for understanding the way that race and family are shaped in America today. This book is compelling reading, not only for those interested in family and society, but for anyone grappling with the myriad issues that surround raising a child of a different race.
This story of "Billy The Kid", starts with his "Pa" dying in Coffeyville, Kansas, and a Mother who never showed any love toward Billy. His early life in Pueblo, Colorado, and in Santa Fe, and Silver City, New Mexico, where at the age of twelve he killed his first man. Then his years of running before he came to Lincoln County, New Mexico, and was taken in by the Englishman Mr. Tunstall. One-fifth of the great State of New Mexico is called, " Billy The Kid Land." The entire southeastern part of The Land Of Enchantment' was once only one county ... but a section of land free of the blight of Spanish or Mexican Land Grants. A land ruled over by one thin stream of water called The Pecos ... up whose tributary streams... the Ruidosa (the noisy), the Bonito (the beautiful), the Hondo, the Peansco, and the Rio Feliz ...a great sea of belly-high grama grass provided food for thousands of head of cattle and provided the pot-of-gold at the end of the rainbow for wealth hungry, land hungry, greedy men who were willing, ready and capable, of sacrificing lives, honor, and even the Territory itself in order to possess it. On the night of July 13, 1881, Billy The Kid was shot to death in the bedroom of Pete Maxwell's home in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, by Pat Garrett, Sheriff of Lincoln County. The following is the Story of Billy's life leading up to that event and tells of the Santa Fe ring's' attempt to gain control of all of the Southeastern New Mexico, and how the ring's' efforts were thwarted, accidentally perhaps, but effectively by the guns of the West's most famous outlaw, William H. Bonney. These gigantic men with unlimited money behind them: with land armies in front of them and no scruples riding with them ... were kept out of the valley by the accurate firing guns of a seventeen year old slope-shouldered boy of no consequence: of no antecedent: of no future but possessed of one single burning urge ... a drive to kill all of those men responsible for the murder of his dearest friend ... a sturdy Englishman who believed in good government, administered by honest law officers. For three years he ruled the valley, unlawfully of course, but with an iron rod' until the valley was populated by settlers who knew nothing of the ideals of the old war'...but whose pressure of inate goodness crushed out the stigma of evil and the Pecos was no longer the Valley of Sin'. He was the bulwark; his was the struggle; his name is the one we remember today ... cursed by many, loved by many but understood by so few ... hardly understanding him self, he rode, and fought until they gunned him down in the end. On his gravestone are these words, "He killed a man for every year of his life"...21 men at 21 years. It is fictional, but is peopled in the main with characters of the struggle, and although fictional, is probably not far from the actual truth ... a reading between the lines of the historical facts ... this is one man's imaginative interpretation of those facts.
Imagine: evening, logs are smoldering in the fireplace, warming such a cozy living room with their warmth, candles are burning comfortably on the mantelpiece and table. Family and friends are gathered around the table, and a board game is laid out on the table. Everyone is passionate, laughing, arguing, rejoicing in victories and experiencing defeats. Time flies by. Board games are not just entertainment. This is a whole culture that unites people of different ages. By playing board games, we not only have fun with our beloved children, but also develop their skills, teach children to communicate and cooperate while developing socially. The game develops thinking. Many board games require players to use logical thinking, strategic planning, and decision-making skills. By playing such games, children develop their intelligence, learn to think outside the box, and also find non-standard solutions that are not practiced in everyday life for their development. The game teaches you to communicate with other children and adults. Board games are an incredible way to learn how to communicate with other people. By playing together, children learn to communicate with each other, negotiate, and find compromises. Children also learn to express their emotions and feelings during the game, game circumstances, winning and losing. The game strengthens family relationships. Board games are a great way to spend time with your family. By playing together, we strengthen family relationships, learn to trust each other and support each other. The game opens up new worlds conceived by the game. Many board games are based on different stories and worlds. By playing such games, children are immersed in these game worlds, learn new stories and other plot scenes, thanks to this, children expand their horizons. Before you start playing, you should always think about which board games to choose? When choosing board games for children, it is important to consider their age and interests. For younger children, simple games with bright illustrations and simple rules are suitable. For older children, you can choose more complex games that require players to think logically and strategically, but for children under four years old, starting with complex games is not recommended. The child should easily understand the rules of the game. Here are some tips for choosing board games for children: - Choose games with rules that children can understand. Here it is important to take into account the age and knowledge of the child. Even children under four years old can have different knowledge and levels of personal development. - Choose games that will interest children. After all, everyone has their own interests, some games may not be interesting for children, although for other children this game itself may be their favorite. - It is incredibly important to choose games that will support children's development, especially for younger children. And most importantly, board games are a great way to spend time with children, teach them something new and strengthen family relationships.