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The road from children’s simple religious training to adult practice is rarely straight. When confronted with contradictions, or complex issues, the religious adult is often faced with a bend in the road, a more nuanced response to a tenet of faith. Three prominent religious leaders share a time in their life when they were able to reconcile divisions among faiths.

"When I started to write The Looking Glass, I intended to create a story about the healing power of hope and love. But as this story developed, a message began to emerge that I had not foreseen, a message about the distorted mirror in which we view ourselves, binding ourselves with shackles of self-doubt and fear."

When technology started to be used in the classroom, the early adopters were middle and elementary schools. For years, educational software was almost never used in a classroom beyond the 8th grade. From pre-school to 8th grade, there was widespread use of specially-designed software to teach math, reading, grammar, and languages, but you would have been hard-pressed to find any of it in high school.

It seems we all love to hear revenge stories, the petty ones and the grand, even when they are painful or the recipient is blameless. And we seem to love to tell revenge stories about ourselves, even stories that make us look childish or venal. Revenge is sweet, the unspoken dark place where retribution lies. Here are stories of people who have planned revenge and those who have carried it out.

The Letter, the final book of the Christmas Box collection, is, most simply stated, the love story of David and MaryAnne Parkin. But it is also everyone's love story, for it is about the storms that all relationships must face when the blissful state of romance vanishes into one of real-life challenges and difficulties. We often forget that it is in the hard times that we truly see what is best in love as well as in life. Though love may be temporarily darkened, true love never gives in, or up, but holds tight to noble ideas, which transcend this earth and all time.

A dying film maker determined to turn his own death into his most celebrated work of art enlists one of his former actresses, Annie, to assist. But when he relinquishes the directors chair he also relinquishes his power, and Annie has her own plans for this most final of performances. A haunting tale of sci-fi horror in which the women abused by the ultimate bad media man take exquisite revenge.

The Letter, the final book of the Christmas Box collection is, most simply stated, the love story of David and MaryAnne Parkin. But it is also everyone's love story, for it is about the storms that all relationships must face when the blissful state of romance vanishes into one of real-life challenges and difficulties. We often forget that it is in the hard times that we truly see what is best in love as well as in life.

A couple of old queens from London chatting about daily life...you might like it! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Seit fast 20 Jahren war der Autor Jacob Churcher nicht mehr zu Hause – nicht seit seine psychisch kranke Mutter ihn mit 16 Jahren rausgeworfen hat. Als er ein paar Tage vor Weihnachten erfährt, dass seine Mutter gestorben ist und ihm das Haus überlassen hat, kehrt Jacob an den Ort seiner Kindheit zurück, um sich mit der Vergangenheit zu versöhnen. Dabei findet er ein Tagebuch, das eine junge Frau namens Noel hinterlassen hat, und erfährt, dass sie während ihrer Schwangerschaft bei seiner Familie gelebt hat.

When a veteran New York cop transfers to a new precinct—the Demeter City Police Department on the planet Altor—he discovers the hard way that a life of crime is not a purely human pursuit! Lieutenant Patrick Brogan, Rob Youngblood and Simone Bendix try their best to maintain law and order amongst the melting pot of different alien races. Lieutenant Patrick Brogan, a cop with the NYPD, needs a change.

A podcast about unlived dreams, unrealised ambitions and the not-so-gentle art of procrastination.Hosts Richard Brind and Paul Thomas look at this phenomena in a creative context (Music and Film respectively) but this show is likely to appeal to anyone who has ever dreamed of learning an instrument, attempted to learn another language, or indeed travel to far off places. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Bible is the most important book in the world. It not only takes us through the whole history of the universe from beginning to end, but it can also speak clearly to us about daily life: Why are we here?Is there really a God who has shown up in human history? How should we live? Book by Book explores the Bible's answers to the deepest questions.

We talk about human behaviour and decision-making with an investment slant. And tell terrible jokes. Join us as we dive into the trenches with industry innovators, academics and mavericks.