Working the Angles
Title | Working the Angles PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene Peterson |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | 204 |
Release | 1989-05-12 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1467419184 |
American pastors, says Eugene Peterson, are abandoning their posts at an alarming rate. They are not leaving their churches and getting other jobs. Instead, they have become "a company of shopkeepers, and the shops they keep are churches." Pastors and the communities they serve have become preoccupied with image and standing, with administration, measurable success, sociological impact, and economic viability. In Working the Angles, Peterson calls the attention of his fellow pastors to three basic acts--which he sees as the three angles of a triangle--that are so critical to the pastoral ministry that they determine the shape of everything else. The acts--prayer, reading Scripture, and giving spiritual direction--are acts of attention to God in three different contexts: oneself, the community of faith, and another person. Only by being attentive to these three critical acts, says Peterson, can pastors fulfill their prime responsibility of keeping the religious community attentive to God. Written out of the author's own experience as pastor of a "single pastor church," this well-written, provocative book will be stimulating reading for lay Christians and pastors alike.
Working the Angles
Title | Working the Angles PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene H. Peterson |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | 204 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780802802651 |
Eugene Peterson issues a provocative call for pastors to abandon their preoccupation with image and standing, administration, success, and economic viability, and to return to the three basic acts critical to the pastoral ministry: praying, reading Scripture, and giving spiritual direction.
Working the Angles
Title | Working the Angles PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene H. Peterson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Pastoral theology |
ISBN |
Angle of Repose
Title | Angle of Repose PDF eBook |
Author | Wallace Stegner |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 674 |
Release | 2014-11-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101872764 |
An American masterpiece and iconic novel of the West by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner—a deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of our national past. Lyman Ward is a retired professor of history, recently confined to a wheelchair by a crippling bone disease and dependant on others for his every need. Amid the chaos of 1970s counterculture he retreats to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, to write the biography of his grandmother: an elegant and headstrong artist and pioneer who, together with her engineer husband, made her own journey through the hardscrabble West nearly a hundred years before. In discovering her story he excavates his own, probing the shadows of his experience and the America that has come of age around him.
Angels with Angles
Title | Angels with Angles PDF eBook |
Author | Loring Leifer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 2016-04-22 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780997250800 |
Angels with Angles is the true story of two nuns who started an inner-city daycare in 1969 against the wishes of the Catholic Church. Then Sister Berta Sailer and Sister Corita Bussanmas proceeded to break rules and sometimes laws to grow Operation Breakthrough into one of the largest and most respected of its kind in the country. These two colorful crusaders fearlessly and sometimes foolishly, took on a bishop, the Catholic diocese, a few politicians, landlords, and even the Internal Revenue Service to sustain their mission to keep Operation Breakthrough. To aid in their fight, they enlisted a memorable cast of draft dodgers, hippies, Black Panthers, activists, and socialites. Operation Breakthrough has now grown into an $8 million early learning center that serves about 400 children and their families every day. Angels with Angles reveals how these sisters of the hood have given thousands of children born into crushing poverty the chance for brighter tomorrows.
Money Angles
Title | Money Angles PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew P. Tobias |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
Angles on a Kingdom
Title | Angles on a Kingdom PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Grossi |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | 400 |
Release | 2021-07-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1487505736 |
Angles on a Kingdom analyses changing attitudes towards East Anglia within early medieval England as revealed in several important literary texts.