Nevertheless, Hold onto Hope! This lovely devotional collection is designed to help you grow deeper in your faith and connect to the heavenly Father's heart. Dozens of practical and hope-filled devotions inspired by Psalm 25:5 (Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long) will help you celebrate the beautiful gift of hope and strengthen your heart-connection to the Master Creator. You'll discover a deeper understanding and love for the One who holds the whole world in His hands.

Grow deeper in your faith as you grow ever closer to the heavenly Father, who loves you unconditionally. Dozens of practical and encouraging devotions inspired by Jeremiah 29:11 will draw you closer to His heart.

Grow deeper in your faith as you grow ever closer to the heavenly Father, who loves you unconditionally. Dozens of practical and encouraging devotions inspired by Deuteronomy 31:6 will draw you closer to His heart.

It is no secret that the technical world is a male-dominated space. From the cultural belief that Computer Science is a “subject for boys”, to the assumptions and discrimination women experience in the field, it can be challenging for women at every stage to thrive in tech careers. Nevertheless, some high-performing women persist and succeed as leaders in tech despite the gender biases pitted against them. Pratima Rao Gluckman—a female leader in tech herself—embarked on a project to collect stories of the leadership journeys of such women. She wanted to know the details of these women’s stories, and how they accomplished their achievements. What influenced them during their childhoods? Who were their mentors? What successes and failures did they experience? What magical ingredients helped them thrive in a male‐dominated industry? These questions and more inspired Gluckman to interview nineteen women leaders in several levels of technology industry, including VPs, CEOs and directors, all of which are collected in this groundbreaking book, Nevertheless, She Persisted. Whether you are a young woman thinking of a career in software, a middle-career or executive woman, a parent, or a man curious about the role gender plays in tech, this book reveals the secrets, successes, and hidden struggles that women have endured to become both highly accomplished in their technical skills and effective senior leaders in their organizations. Their stories are illuminating, intended to inspire generations of women and help free our society from the limiting belief that ability is somehow linked to gender.

The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, war, political polarization, economic upheaval, and the dying back of nature together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions. This revised, tenth anniversary edition of Active Hope shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face these crises so that we can respond with unexpected resilience and creative power. Drawing on decades of teaching an empowerment approach known as the Work That Reconnects, the authors guide us through a transformational process informed by mythic journeys, modern psychology, spirituality, and holistic science. This process equips us with tools to face the mess we’re in and play our role in the collective transition, or Great Turning, to a life-sustaining society.

In the 1930s and 1940s, a loose alliance of blacks and whites, individuals and organizations, came together to offer a radical alternative to southern conservative politics. In Days of Hope, Patricia Sullivan traces the rise and fall of this movement. Using oral interviews with participants in this movement as well as documentary sources, she demonstrates that the New Deal era inspired a coalition of liberals, black activists, labor organizers, and Communist Party workers who sought to secure the New Deal's social and economic reforms by broadening the base of political participation in the South. From its origins in a nationwide campaign to abolish the poll tax, the initiative to expand democracy in the South developed into a regional drive to register voters and elect liberals to Congress. The NAACP, the CIO Political Action Committee, and the Southern Conference for Human Welfare coordinated this effort, which combined local activism with national strategic planning. Although it dramatically increased black voter registration and led to some electoral successes, the movement ultimately faltered, according to Sullivan, because the anti-Communist fervor of the Cold War and a militant backlash from segregationists fractured the coalition and marginalized southern radicals. Nevertheless, the story of this campaign invites a fuller consideration of the possibilities and constraints that have shaped the struggle for racial democracy in America since the 1930s.

When Mona Adkisson realizes her son, Bradley, has suffered a terrible accident in the church nursery, she turns to God for answers. Unfortunately, he remains mysteriously silent. Thankfully, with the support of friends and loved ones, Mona and her family find the strength to move on and trust God. Then, when tragedy strikes again, threatening to derail Mona's faith once and for all, she begins to question what God wants her family to learn. Can they ever hope to overcome their intense grief and loss? Find the answers to these and other tough questions in Mona Adkisson's emotional memoir, Nevertheless, I Live, Hope for a Hurting Heart. 'With transparency, Mona Adkisson beautifully shares her family's walk through tragedy with both the deepest of grief and the assurance of faith in a God who loves and meets their needs. Nevertheless, I Live inspires us all to live our lives with eternal perspective and reach out with sensitivity and love to those around us.' Shaunti Feldhahn, Bestselling author: For Women Only: What You Need to Know About the Inner Lives of Men and For Men Only. Nevertheless, I Live is an absolutely true, unembellished, firsthand account of what happens when a family who loves God goes through horrible tragedies. Mona's testimony will help you understand the Apostle Paul's words when he wrote, '...nevertheless, I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me...' Douglas O. Melton Pastor of Southern Hills Baptist Church President, Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma