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When Suffering Persists
For clergy, counselors, parish study groups, general audiences. Sometimes pain passes quickly and small losses are easily absorbed But suffering often goes on and on, and for people of faith, the resulting crisis can be deeper and more destructive than the loss itself. We look for ways to comfort those who are hurting. But sometimes, in spite of our good intentions, the clichés and simplistic theology we offer only add to the pain and misery. In When Suffering Persists Frederick W. Schmidt presents a pastoral exploration of ways to understand suffering theologically, offering an approach that ministers to both mind and spirit. He questions the value of our usual comforting words and examines the pat explanations we give one another. He provides instead a theology that takes seriously the devastating character of suffering, allowing for real help to those who continue in pain. Excellent for parish study..
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Mother-Son Incest: The Unthinkable Broken Taboo Persists; An Updated and Revised Overview of Findings
This book is an updated and revised edition of Mother-Son Incest: The Unthinkable Broken Taboo, originally published in 1995 by the Safer Society Press. This revised edition was written for survivors of mother-son incest, their partners, perpetrators, and any interested individuals. The new edition has a chapter with personal stories of survivors, a chapter about recovery from mother-son incest, and an appendix of resources..
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Light Persists
Starting with “The Cormorant,” the book's opening poem, and reinforced by bird poems that begin each section of LIGHT PERSISTS, Jane Ellen Glasser steers toward the sun and lifts out spirits Through nature the poet is put in touch with her inner world in the stillness of a meditation that delights and awakens. Yet she does not shun life's difficulties. At the heart of this book, a transcendental sequel to her first collection, NAMING THE DARKNESS, are poems mourning her daughter Jessica, who died in a car accident at the age of twenty-two. Glasser courageously addresses loss and doubt as she leads us on an enlightening journey, wide enough to encompass gratitude and joy, blessed by images and language full of grace for eye and ear..
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Why Welfare States Persist: The Importance of Public Opinion in Democracies (Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion)
The world’s richer democracies all provide such public benefits as pensions and health care, but why are some far more generous than others? And why, in the face of globalization and fiscal pressures, has the welfare state not been replaced by another model? Reconsidering the myriad issues raised by such pressing questions, Clem Brooks and Jeff Manza contend here that public opinion has been an important, yet neglected, factor in shaping welfare states in recent decades.
Analyzing data on sixteen countries, Brooks and Manza find that the preferences of citizens profoundly influence the welfare policies of their governments and the behavior of politicians in office. Shaped by slow-moving forces such as social institutions and collective memories, these preferences have counteracted global pressures that many commentators assumed would lead to the welfare state’s demise. Moreover, Brooks and Manza show that cross-national differences in popular support help explain why Scandinavian social democracies offer so much more than liberal democracies such as the United States and the United Kingdom.
Significantly expanding our understanding of both public opinion and social policy in the world’s most developed countries, this landmark study will be essential reading for scholars of political economy, public opinion, and democratic theory. .
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How Things Persist
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Persist and Publish: Helpful Hints for Academic Writing and Publishing
Persist and Publish provides a clear, concise understanding of the requirements for successful academic writing Not aimed at any particular field, this book will be useful to faculty writing and publishing in all academic areas. The authors demystify the teaching-research-service paradigm and discuss the relationships among professional academic activities, the essential skills needed to write, research on how much time professionals spend on writing, the niceties of academic collaboration, and other pertinent topics..
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