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While the defense of public image in political, corporate, and celebrity rhetoric has been widely studied, religious image repair has been largely ignored. Divine Apology considers the unique circumstances facing religious figures in need of restoring their reputations by examining a blend of historical and contemporary defenses offered by various figures and groups. The author covers apologia as advanced by the Apostle Paul, Justin Martyr, Martin Luther, Jimmy Swaggart, evangelical opponents of the Jesus Seminar, and conservative leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention. He concludes that strategies used for religious image repair often differ significantly from those employed by politicians, corporations, and other public figures.In this unique volume, Miller demonstrates that religious groups and individuals are as motivated as anyone else to purify their public images. The issues prompting defenses, however, are more likely to focus on epistemological conflicts and clashes of worldviews than on inappropriate behaviors. As a consequence, religious apologists are more likely to associate attacks against their beliefs as assaults against their characters. This causes religious image restoration discourse to manifest itself as more transcendent than defenses in traditional situations involving laypeople. Miller posits that the presence of God and religious antecedents as salient audiences, as well as other factors concerning audience and context, work to shape a form of apology that is characteristically religious.

In Beginner Guitar: No Wimps I've distilled close to 20 years of experience teaching players of all ages, styles, and ability levels how to play guitar. If you're a newbie on the guitar, there are a special set of problems and hurdles that you face. No Wimps is the beginner guitar book that tackles them all, head on. With this method book, you are finally taken seriously as a beginning guitar player. Beginner Guitar is organized into 21 Sessions. Each is carefully designed to give you exactly what you need, in exactly the right order. You'll take as long as you like to master each Session - it's the results that matter, not the time table. Each Session is further organized into two areas: Physical and Mental. It's this distinction, and the cumulative skill-building that results, that makes No Wimps such a powerful and effective book. Here are just some of the topics and skills you'll dive into, right away: Physical Holding and using the pick - the right way, for maximum speed and powerDetails of left-hand placement, for the most efficient movementThe most useful chords for playing songs right away - and how to master them anywhere on the neckSecrets of clean, crisp, and chunky Power Chords - a staple of Rock & MetalFundamentals of awesome soloing, like legato, alternate picking, tremolo, bending, sequencing, and phrasing Mental How to understand, build, and use chords anywhereFundamentals of reading rhythm, and how to mix rhythm with TABMaster the notes on the guitar neck, like a real musicianUnderstand how scales relate to chords, and how guitarists use them to write great riffs, songs, and solosHow to take what most guitarists only think of as "patterns", and actually make music with them - confidently, and all over the neck All that - and a lot, lot more No Wimps is as detailed and comprehensive as it gets, while remaining clearly written and easy to understand throughout, with tons of playing examples, exercises, and photos.

It's A Beautiful Day To Save Lives is a powerful memoir of a combat medic's journey through life as he recognizes his destiny from very early in his young childhood. This life-long journey proves to be very courageous and challenging in the face of adversity. From life-saving situations on a plane to life-saving situations in the military, the author inevitably is placed right where he needs to be as if it was planned by the universe until the roller coaster of emotions and life's pressure puts his own life in jeopardy. This is the story of how one young boy driven by honor and duty for the sake of humanity saves many lives and consequently is forced to save his own life. From the ups and downs of suicide, alcoholism, and depression comes the transformation of passion into purpose, saving one life at a time with an ending that takes the author on a full carousel ride validating his universal destiny. It's A Beautiful Day To Save Lives is a refreshing and inspirational reminder that we all have a gift and we should share it for a better community and a better planet.

It's A Beautiful Day To Save Lives is a powerful memoir of a combat medic's journey through life as he recognizes his destiny from very early in his young childhood. This life-long journey proves to be very courageous and challenging in the face of adversity. From life-saving situations on a plane to life-saving situations in the military, the author inevitably is placed right where he needs to be as if it was planned by the universe until the roller coaster of emotions and life's pressure puts his own life in jeopardy. This is the story of how one young boy driven by honor and duty for the sake of humanity saves many lives and consequently is forced to save his own life. From the ups and downs of suicide, alcoholism, and depression comes the transformation of passion into purpose, saving one life at a time with an ending that takes the author on a full carousel ride validating his universal destiny. It's A Beautiful Day To Save Lives is a refreshing and inspirational reminder that we all have a gift and we should share it for a better community and a better planet.