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This book will appeal to Christian leaders as it responds to the business world's complaint to do more with less.

Youve probably read the childrens classic The Three Little Pigs. Or maybe you have had it read to you before you learned to read. Now there is a new take on this beloved story. In her book, Straw, Sticks, or Bricks? Three Pigs Choose, author Sara S. Odom uses rhythm and rhyme to capture the imaginations of young, old, and beginning readers. When their mother tells pigs Tig, Lig, and Zig to build their own homes, they each go out on a quest to find the building material that best suits their desires. Children will enjoy the personalities of Tig, Lig, and Zig Pig as they try to escape the paws of Zany Wolf, the hideous and frightful wolf. Fairy tales always have lessons to teach, and Straw, Sticks, or Bricks? Three Pigs Choose is no exception. Ultimately, Tig and Lig learn the importance of hard work and doing what is right.

A comprehensive history of African-Americans in Texas

"Straw for the Bricks" explores theological reflection as a tool for ministerial training and development. The book offers a new resource for theological conversation at the beginning of the 21st century: it breaks new ground in exploring how a model of conversation can be used to lay a foundation for learning which provides a new architecture for both academic curriculum and personal formation. The book offers a practical guide to good practice supported by the lived experience of educators from All Saints Centre for Mission and Ministry working across several disciplines. No other such detailed practical guide is currently in print. The book will thus become an important resource for those within theological education institutions, adult theological educators; those with responsibility for continuing ministerial development, mentoring and discipleship; and any lay person who seeks to live a life of faith in conversation with culture and the Judaeo-Christian tradition.