Het werk van Chris Rice duikt in de onderling verbonden gebieden van vrede, rechtvaardigheid en christelijk leven en zending. Zijn veelgeprezen geschriften verkennen diepgaande thema's van verzoening, raciale heling en de praktische toepassing van geloof in een verdeelde wereld. Met uitgebreide ervaring in het leiden van verzoeningsinitiatieven en het werken binnen stedelijke gemeenschappen, biedt Rice een uniek perspectief op het begrijpen en aanpakken van sociale verdeeldheid. Zijn voortdurende betrokkenheid bij mondiale kwesties onderstreept zijn toewijding aan het bevorderen van heelheid en begrip in diverse contexten.
Jean Valjean is free at last after nineteen years in prison. Cold and hungry, he is rejected by everyone he meets. But Jean's life is changed forever when he discovers love. He spends the rest of his life helping people, like himself, who have been victims of poverty and social injustice - 'les misérables'.
Clay Carters vooruitzichten als advocaat zijn niet bepaald rooskleurig te noemen. Als pro-Deoadvocaat krijgt hij al vijf jaar lang de ene na de andere hopeloze zaak te verwerken en zijn kansen om ooit nog bij een gerenommeerd kantoor roem te vergaren, nemen met de dag af. Maar bij toeval krijgt Clay een zaak toegewezen die de situatie compleet op zijn kop zet. Het lijkt een schietpartij zoals zovele in Washington D.C. Op klaarlichte dag schiet de twintigjarige drugsverslaafde Tequila Watson in koelen bloede Ramón 'Pumpkin' Pumphrey dood. Dat zijn cliënt schuldig is staat vast voor Clay, alleen is niet duidelijk waarom hij het heeft gedaan. Helemaal vreemd aan de zaak is dat Tequila dankzij een nieuw geneesmiddel al ruim honderd dagen clean was. Dit geneesmiddel is echter nog niet officieel erkend, vanwege een nadelige bijwerking. Dan wordt Clay benaderd door de producent van het geneesmiddel, die een voorstel heeft. In plaats van Tequila, moet Clay de nabestaanden van Pumpkin vertegenwoordigen. Als Clay de zaak namens hen weet te schikken, zullen zowel voor hem als voor de nabestaanden enkele miljoenen dollars klaarliggen. Alleen moet dan wel Tequila worden geofferd..
A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and by her best friend. Unwittingly, all four find themselves in an enchanted forest where fairies and sprites soon take an interest in human affairs, dispensing magical love potions and casting mischievous spells. In this dazzling comedy, confusion ends in harmony, as love is transformed, misplaced, and - ultimately - restored.
Christianity Today Book Award winner Our world is broken and cries out for reconciliation. But mere conflict resolution and peacemaking are not enough. What makes real reconciliation possible? How is it that some people are able to forgive the most horrendous of evils? And what role does God play in these stories? Does reconciliation make any sense apart from the biblical story of redemption? Secular models of peacemaking are insufficient. And the church has not always fulfilled its call to be agents of reconciliation in the world. In Reconciling All Things Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice, codirectors of the Center for Reconciliation at Duke Divinity School, cast a comprehensive vision for reconciliation that is biblical, transformative, holistic and global. They draw on the resources of the Christian story, including their own individual experiences in Uganda and Mississippi, to bring solid, theological reflection to bear on the work of reconciling individuals, groups and societies. They recover distinctively Christian practices that will help the church be both a sign and an agent of God's reconciling love in the fragmented world of the twenty-first century. This powerful, concise book lays the philosophical foundations for reconciliation and explores what it means to pursue hope in areas of brokenness in theory and practice.
In The Merchant of Venice, the penniless but attractive Bassanio seeks, and finally wins, the hand of the fabulously wealthy Portia. But even as the play provokes laughter, it also provokes something disturbing, as Bassanio's courtship is actually financed by the magnificent villain Shylock the moneylender -- the focus of anti-Semitic sentiment, and one of the most controversial yet strangely sympathetic of Shakespeare's characters, whose actions and whose treatment in the play are still debated to this day.This simplified retelling of the Shakespearean comedy also includes activities related to the text.
Original / American English Audrey Hepburn was a beautiful and great actress. When there were unhappy times for her, Audrey always showed a warm, friendly face to the world. The world loved her, and people love her now
Tragedie van de Engelse schrijver (1564-1616) over een Deense prins die de moord op zijn vader wil wreken.
When Mario Puzo's blockbuster saga, The Godfather, was first published in 1969, critics hailed it as one of the greatest novels of our time, and "big, turbulent, highly entertaining." Since then, The Godfather has gone on to become a part of America's national culture, as well as a trilogy of landmark motion pictures. Now, in this newly-repackaged 30th Anniversary Edition, readers old and new can experience this timeless tale of crime for themselves.From the lavish opening scene where Don Corleone entertains guests and conducts business at his daughter's wedding...to his son, Michael, who takes his father's place to fight for his family...to the bloody climax where all family business is finished, The Godfather is an epic story of family, loyalty, and how "men of honor" live in their own world, and die by their own laws.
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, mega-bestselling author who wore his celebrity with extraordinary grace comes a magnificently appealing book about teaching and about how one great storyteller found his voice. Nearly a decade ago Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of sixty-six, he burst onto the literary scene with Angela's Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir of his childhood in Limerick, Ireland. Then came 'Tis, his glorious account of his early years in New York. Now, here at last is McCourt's long-awaited book about how his thirty-year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer. Teacher Man is also an urgent tribute to teachers everywhere. In bold and spirited prose featuring his irreverent wit and compelling honesty, McCourt records the trials, triumphs and surprises he faced in the classroom. Teacher Man shows McCourt developing his unparalleled ability to tell a great story as, five days a week, five periods per day, he worked to gain the attention and respect of unruly, hormonally charged or indifferent adolescents. For McCourt, storytelling itself is the source of salvation, and in Teacher Man the journey to redemption -- and literary fame -- is an exhilarating adventure.
The Life And Death of a Man of Character
The moving, humane tragedy of a deeply flawed and self-destructive man, The Mayor of Casterbridge is the story of Michael Henchard, who sells his wife and baby daughter at a country fair in a fit of drunken anger.