Wesley Marshall
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Heavy Burdens
- Seven Ways LGBTQ Christians Experience Harm in the Church
- De: Bridget Eileen Rivera
- Narrado por: Lisa Larsen
- Duración: 6 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 49
Many LGBTQ people face overwhelming challenges in navigating faith, gender, and sexuality. Christian communities that uphold the traditional sexual ethic often unwittingly make the path more difficult through unexamined attitudes and practices. Drawing on her sociological training and her leadership in the Side B/Revoice conversation, Bridget Eileen Rivera, who founded the popular website Meditations of a Traveling Nun, speaks to the pain of LGBTQ Christians and helps churches develop a better pastoral approach.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Succinct and Essential Insight
- De Wesley Marshall en 11-09-21
- Heavy Burdens
- Seven Ways LGBTQ Christians Experience Harm in the Church
- De: Bridget Eileen Rivera
- Narrado por: Lisa Larsen
Succinct and Essential Insight
Revisado: 11-09-21
A much needed discussion of the destructive effect the church has long had on those in the LGBTQ community—not only physically, mentally, and emotionally, but spiritually as well. Rivera dauntlessly tackles a number of key issues and how they’re often only discussed as problems by those outside the church, while those same issues are allowed to perpetuate harmful teachings and ideas inside the church.
Her research brings insight into the way many of those ideas (despite how they’re taught) are not based on Scripture but are based on a number of historical and modern movements of thought which are often morally indefensible on closer inspection. Each step of the way, the research provided is careful and thoughtful towards both sides of each issue, and shows Rivera’s ability to discuss the topics succinctly while offering a depth of other resources as well.
This book, along with similar ones it references, are vitally important for the church today if we are to further our understanding of the creation of God and the way His image is manifested in us as human creatures with all of our God-given facets of complexity.
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Contempt
- A Memoir of the Clinton Investigation
- De: Ken Starr
- Narrado por: Ken Starr
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 359
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 322
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 321
Twenty years after the Starr Report and the Clinton impeachment, former special prosecutor Ken Starr finally shares his definitive account of this period in American history. Now Starr finally shares his unique perspective on the investigation that began with the Whitewater land deal and spread to a wide range of President Clinton's actions, including accusations of sexual harassment and perjury in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Starr's narrative includes behind-the-scenes details that have never before emerged as well as a new analysis from the perspective of history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thought provoking and honest!
- De Sarah en 09-13-18
Not worth anyone’s time
Revisado: 09-29-18
While long and arduously specific in its details, the story has an overpowering taste of self righteous innocence that marks it as not only biased but out of touch with reality. The portrayal of the political climate as one dominated by complicit democrats opposed to the honest, truth seeking republicans misses by a wide mark the actuality of the landscape in Washington at that time. There aren’t many who could tell the story of the author’s independent counsel, but as a lawyer and judge who reflexively repeats his sole intention of seeking truth over and over, it is disappointing to see that moral ideal so completely marred by his political loyalty rather than upheld by what should be a moral loyalty. The misconduct of the both President and Hillary Clinton are laid out clearly, but used not to provide clarity of the events but as a contrast to all those that the author deems good — people that somehow are always GOP politicians and constituents, republican judges, and most of all the author himself and his political affiliates.
This book was a phenomenal opportunity that could have been used to tell a compelling piece of United States history, but disappointingly it was worth neither the author’s time to write nor any reader’s time to absorb.
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