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48 matches found, viewing page 2 of 3, goto page < 1 2 3 > next page Search Again| Just Generosity: A New Vision for Overcoming Poverty Sider, Ronald 1999 272 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 080106015X | 
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- Sider spells out s program--based on scriptures--to reduce poverty dramatically. His prescriptions do not fall neatly into the platforms of the political right or left, but draw from data from various views. .
| Keeping the Sabbath Wholly: Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, Feasting. Dawn, Marva J. 1989 217 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 0802804578 |
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- A wholistic perspective that embodies the biblical vision of shalom, this book is dedicated to people who need the Sabbath: "the busiest, who need to work from a cohesive, unfragmented self; the social activists, who need a cycle of worship and action; those who chase after fulfillment; those who have lost their ability to play..."
| Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Got Wrong Loewen, James 2000 480 p. Ages: 14-Adult ISBN: 0684870673 |
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- In these entertaining pages, Loewen takes a region-by-region tour of the United States, pointing out historical oddments as he travels. For example, a massacre of white pioneers by Indians commemorated in Almo, Idaho, never took place, Loewen continues; neither did many other such events. Indeed, he insists, "throughout the entire West between 1842 and 1859, of more than 400,000 pioneers crossing the plains, fewer than 400, or less than .1 percent, were killed by American Indians." And if you were to visit Helen Keller's Georgia birthplace, over which a Confederate flag flies, you would get the impression that Keller had been an unreconstructed daughter of the Old South, whereas she was in fact an early supporter of the NAACP. And so on.
| Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong Loewen, James 1996 384 p. Ages: 14-Adult ISBN: 0684818868 |
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- After surveying twelve leading high school American history texts, Loewen concluded that not one does a decent job of making history interesting or memorable. Marred by an embarrassing combination of blind patriotism, mindless optimism, sheer misinformation, and outright lies, these books omit almost all the ambiguity, passion, conflict, and drama from our past. Loewen reveals that:
-The United States dropped three times as many tons of explosives in Vietman as it dropped in all theaters of World War II, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
-Ponce de Leon went to Florida mainly to capture Native Americans as slaves for Hispaniola, not to find the mythical fountain of youth.
-Woodrow Wilson, known as a progressive leader, was in fact a white supremacist who personally vetoed a clause on racial equality in the Covenant of the League of Nations .
-The first colony to legalize slavery was not Virginia but Massachusetts.
From the truth about Columbus's historic voyages to an honest evaluation of our national leaders, Loewen revives our history, restoring to it the vitality and relevance it truly possesses. Winner of the 1996 American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship
| Living More with Less Longacre, Doris 1980 294 p. Ages: 16-Adult ISBN: 0836119304 |
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- "A book for people who know something is wrong with the way North Americans live and are ready to talk about change..." Still a classic, this book challenges us to do justice, learn from the world community, nurture people, cherish the natural order, and nonconform freely. It has ideas and testimonies on money, clothes, transportation, celebrations, and more. .
| Living Simply: Studies in Learning to Live as Jesus Did. Sheard, Murray. Auckland: World Vision of New Zealand, 1999 42 p. ISBN: 0908966164 |
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- (Avail. from Alternatives for Simple Living.)
| Ogbo: Sharing Life in an African Village Onyefulu Ifeyoma 1996 32 p. Ages: 6-11 ISBN: 1577484118 |
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- Photo-essay describing daily life in eastern Nigeria by focusing on social relationships. A child explains that everyone born within a five-year period belongs to an ogbo, or age group, and the members have a lifelong responsibility for each other and for working together in the community. Some stay active, and some leave (like author Onyefulu, who visits from her home in London), but they remain part of their ogbo throughout their lives. Bright, framed color photos show the child's father with his ogbo building a nursery school and voting on how to provide electricity for the village. Her mother's ogbo is working on people's farms and performing at special events. Her uncle works in the city and brings home new ideas..... in general, this is an unforced way of talking about work, play, customs, art, and beliefs in a contemporary community. (Hazel Rochman, Booklist)
| Parent Trek: Nurturing Creativity and Care in Our Children. Jantzi, Jeanne Zimmerly. 2001 188 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 0836191935 |
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- Chapters on sharing faith, connecting with others, spending time, caring for creation, managing money, shopping, television, toys, celebrations.
| Parenting for Peace and Justice / Ser Padres para la Paz y la Justicia McGinnis, Kathleen and James 1990 162 p. Ages: 20-Adult |
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- Addresses family conflict resolution, racial attitudes, consumerism, violence, sex-role stereotyping, family social action and family prayer. From the Institute for Peace and Justice. English revision is: Parenting for Peace and Justice: Ten Years Later.
| Peace DVD Mennonite Media 2005 Ages: 13-18 | 
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- Designed for 6 sessions, this DVD has 24 segments that look at peace with God; in the community, nation, earth, relationships; the role of service; peace between cultures; where to draw the line on conscience; and related public policies. The website and study guide supply study questions, activities, and way to put beliefs into actions. In one segment, Calling for Peace, two women with vastly different opinions and on different sides of the Iraq war conflict begin to see each other as friends even though they don't agree. Youth are challenged to brainstorm solutions for conflicts they've experienced. Website: www.PeaceDVD.com
| Peace is....women imagine a peaceful world deGroot, Jennifer 2001 62 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 0968838510 |
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- This volume includes words and images gathered in India, Chad, Niger, Senegal, South AFrica, Lesotho, and Uganda between Jan. and July 2000. Colorful photos set off quotes from the women. Notes at the end give more personal information about the women included.
| The Peaceful Parenting Handbook Berlowe, Burt, et al. 2001 146 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 0893905135 |
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- This book includes a lot of ideas for dealing with various types of behaviors that often lead to conflicts. These ideas can complement your own and suit a variety of child and parent personality styles. Topics include: getting up, getting dressed, mealtimes, sibling problems, public behavior, aggression and fighting, compliance in general, responsibility, bad habits (lying, swearing, temper tantrums, spitting), fears and phobias, sleep disturbance, and school-related problems.
| A People's History of the United States: 1492-present Zinn, Howard 2003 752 p. Ages: 14-Adult ISBN: 0060528370 |
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- This revised and updated edition turns traditional textbook history on its head. Howard Zinn infuses the often-submerged voices of blacks, women, American Indians, war resisters, and poor laborers of all nationalities into this thorough narrative that spans American history from Christopher Columbus's arrival to an afterword on the Clinton presidency. Addressing his trademark reversals of perspective, Zinn--a teacher, historian, and social activist for more than 20 years--explains, "My point is not that we must, in telling history, accuse, judge, condemn Columbus in absentia. It is too late for that; it would be a useless scholarly exercise in morality. But the easy acceptance of atrocities as a deplorable but necessary price to pay for progress (Hiroshima and Vietnam, to save Western civilization; Kronstadt and Hungary, to save socialism; nuclear proliferation, to save us all)--that is still with us. One reason these atrocities are still with us is that we have learned to bury them in a mass of other facts, as radioactive wastes are buried in containers in the earth."
| Praying with Our Feet Weaver, Lisa D. 2005 Ages: 4-8 ISBN:0836193067 |
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- Praying with Our Feet is a story told from the point of view of a young girl who takes part in a walk for peace, along with her parents and members of her church. Includes a score of song "Praying with Our Feet."
The walkers wear shoes of all sizes, colors and shapes. They're praying with their feet, walkign with the God of Peace.
"My Mom and Dad. My aunt and my baby cousin. My minister. My 150-year-old neighbor. And me. Walking for peace, wiggling our toes, standing in the light of God."
| Princesses are Not Quitters! Lum, Kate and Hellard, Susan 2003 32 p. Ages: 5-8 ISBN: 158234762X |
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- Bored just sitting around their garden over breakfast, three princesses decide to swap "jobs" with their servants. The housekeeper gives them a long list of chores to keep them busy for the day: sweeping, dusting, polishing, tending to the gardens, and many other tedious tasks. The next morning, when the princesses find themselves appreciating the fruits of their own labors they decide that a proclamation is in order: "Rest when you are tired. Eat when you are hungry..." and many other necessary and wonderful rules. Subtle reminders to young girls who only see one side of the life of a princess, or to any of us getting used to having more than we need when others don't have enough…
| The Quiltmaker's Gift Brumbeau, Jeff 2000 48 p. Ages: 5-10 ISBN: 0439309107 |
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- This charming fable for our times celebrates the joy of giving. A generous quiltmaker sews the most beautiful quilts in the world, then gives them away. A greedy king, his storehouse stuffed with treasures, yearns for something that will make him happy….and wants a quilt. The quiltmaker agrees, but only under certain conditions. Lavishly colorful illustrations include a quilt block pattern on each double page spread that ties in to the story. The publisher, author, and illustrator have dedicated one percent of the sales to "projects that implement the spirit of generosity portrayed by the quiltmaker." The theme is continued on the website: www.QuiltmakersGift.com .
| Raising Peaceful Children in a Violent World Cecil, Nancy Lee with Patricia L. Roberts. 1995 251 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 188091316X |
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- This book looks at communication, conflict resolution, diversity, sex roles, media and toys, and global issues--with many specific family activities, information about family meetings, discipline strategies, and a chapter on literature with annotated book lists.
| Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson 2002 ISBN: 0942961285 |
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- "Everything is connected" came to these writers as they first sought to create curriculum around issues of "sweatshops" and "child labor." The book includes background readings, lesson plans, teaching articles, role plays and simulations, student handouts, interviews, poems, cartoons, annotated resource lists, and teaching ideas. Articles and activities are geared for upper elementary students through high-school aged and older. Some can be adapted. Chapters are titled: Legacy of Inequality: Colonial Roots; The Global Economy: Colonialism Without Colonies; Global Sweatshops; Kids for Sale: Child Labor in the Global Economy; Just Food; and Culture, Consumption, and the Environment. We used an activity from here for a Bible School workshop on housing--working with the idea of many starting with less and some starting with more, and where does it lead? (Where might it lead?)
| Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity. Sider, Ronald J. 1997 300 p. Ages: 18-Adult |
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- Conservatives blame sinful individual choices and laziness. Liberals condemn economic and social structures. Who is right? Who is wrong? Both. Sider explains complex causes of poverty, and then he presents practical, workable proposes for change, proposals that should be taken up by those seeking to follow Jesus today.
| Sabbath: Restoring the Sacred Rhythm of Rest. Muller, Wayne 1999 239 p. Ages: 18-Adult ISBN: 0553106724 |
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- Busyness represents a war on our natural rhythms that demand quiet and renewal in order to be emotionally, spiritually, and creatively fertile. Each chapter is provocative and fluid, with topics such as "Fear of Rest," "Dormancy," and "The Way of Enough."
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