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A History of epidemics in Britain
Charles Creighton
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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Historical Lectures and Addresses
Mandell Creighton
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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DeepLight: A Memoir of the Soul is a rich narrative of a contemporary woman's spiritual quest. Within the context of her extensive study of religious and mystical traditions, and her experiences as a woman, a monastic, and an Episcopal priest, Susan Creighton weaves a spiral tapestry of memories, journal entries, and poetry. Her search for an authentic practice of contemplative prayer led across cultural, historical, and religious boundaries, but is most significantly shaped and enriched by the teachings of mystics like St. John of the Cross and the ancient tradition of Orthodox ascetical theology and spiritual practice. Now living under vows as an anchorite, her memoir shares with the reader ways in which the Jesus Prayer and other spiritual practices lead to deeper contemplative prayer as well as helping us develop greater discrimination and compassion for ourselves and others. ""Creighton's fascinating memoir, which reminds me of Thomas Merton's Seven-Storey Mountain, explores how a brain disorder can affect--and even intensify--a person's spirituality."" --Eve LaPlante, author of Seized ""If anyone can speak truly about a personal pilgrimage into an 'anchorhold' of profound faith, it is Susan Creighton. . . . Her story will speak to any seeking soul as it has to mine."" --Luci Shaw, author of Thumbprint in the Clay ""To write about the soul, you have to know it, yours, and in some deeper ways, the souls of others. When I visited Susan's anchorhold, and sat there with her, I knew I was with someone who did."" --Gregory H. Rickel, VIII Bishop of Olympia (in Washington) ""This is not a book to be read hastily. It should be savored, wrestled with, and confronted, as the reader walks with Creighton] the spiral labyrinth to the heart of all being."" --Linda Maloney, OblSB ""DeepLight is . . . an uncommon invitation to observe a long, rich, and difficult Christian spiritual life. Seldom is such a life uncovered with such brutal honesty, courage, and love."" --Kathryn Rickert, School of Theology and Ministry, Seattle University ""DeepLight testifies about a lifelong intensive search for the 'essence' of faith in deep prayer and union with God. . . . Reading the book . . . may open up a deep inner response, allowing the gentle voice of one's own soul to be heard in the midst of a hurrying, noisy and violent world."" --Ingrid Schirmer, University of Hamburg Susan Creighton is an anchorite in the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia. Ordained a priest in 1981, she has served in monastic, parish, and campus settings. She now fulfills her vocation under vows of silence, solitude, and simplicity, focusing her prayer and study around the ascetical and mystical teachings of the Prayer of the Heart. Her blog may be found at www.holydwelling.com, and she lives in Bellingham, Washington.
Other Voices in Old Testament Interpretation
W Creighton Marlowe; Edward M Curtis
Wipf Stock Publishers
2019
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Other Voices in Old Testament Interpretation
W Creighton Marlowe; Edward M Curtis
Wipf Stock Publishers
2019
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The Empress of Ireland’s last voyage ended on May 29, 1914, when she was rammed by a Norwegian coal-carrier in a fog patch on the St. Lawrence River near Rimouski. For David Creighton, her voyage still continues. In Losing the Empress, Creighton delves into the lives of his grandparents - Salvation Army officers who were lost on the Empress - and the lives of their five orphaned children who would soon be plunged into World War I. His discoveries reveal amazing details about the Empress, which sank in fourteen minutes with a greater loss of life than the Titanic disaster. Shipwreck nostalgia, last voyage dinners, Salvationists, the British Empire and the world wars fought to preserve it; everything comes into focus when the author joins Titanic discoverer Robert Ballard on a film shoot at the sunken liner’s site. Losing the Empress lyrically traces a personal journey into the past and into the future.
Bluenose Magic, first published in 1968, is considered a classic of Maritime literature, and its author, Dr. Helen Creighton, is one of Canada's best-loved and most respected folklorists. This fascinating and engaging companion to the author's best-selling Bluenose Ghosts welcomes readers into a world of forerunners, enchantment, dreams, divination, buried treasure, guardian ghosts, home remedies, and mystical occurrences. These unique tales have been passed on from generation to generation of Nova Scotia's families.
Ghosts guarding buried treasure, phantom ships, haunted houses and supernatural warnings of death--these are just some of the strange and mysterious phenomena that you will encounter in Bluenose Ghosts. These unexplained mysteries are all the more chilling because they are based on personal experiences of ordinary people, told to Helen Creighton, one of Canada's most respected and renowned folklorists, over a period of thirty years. So when the moon is full and the wind is howling, be prepared to be spooked by apparitions and things that go bump in the night. Bluenose Ghosts was an instant hit when it was first published in 1957.This new edition of Bluenose Ghosts features a new foreword from Nova Scotia writer Clary Croft that explores Creighton's enduring influence on the province's folklore.
Grand Hotel
Basil Creighton; Margot Bettauer Dembo; Noah Isenberg; Vicki Baum
NYRB Classics
2016
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A grand hotel in the center of 1920s Berlin serves as a microcosm of the modern world in Vicki Baum's celebrated novel, a Weimar-era best seller that retains all its verve and luster today. Among the guests of the hotel is Doctor Otternschlag, a World War I veteran whose face has been sliced in half by a shell. Day after day he emerges to read the paper in the lobby, discreetly inquiring at the desk if the letter he's been awaiting for years has arrived. Then there is Grusinskaya, a great ballerina now fighting a losing battle not so much against age as against her fear of it, who may or may not be made for Gaigern, a sleek professional thief. Herr Preysing also checks in, the director of a family firm that isn't as flourishing as it appears, who would never imagine that Kringelein, his underling, a timorous petty clerk he's bullied for years, has also come to Berlin, determined to live at last now that he's received a medical death sentence. All these characters and more, with all their secrets and aspirations, come together and come alive in the pages of Baum's delicious and disturbing masterpiece.
Reveals the extraordinary purpose of the newly discovered “Big Void” within the Great Pyramid of Giza• Analyzes ancient Coptic-Egyptian texts and evidence from astronomy and archaeology to show how the Big Void may be a grand “Hall of Ancestors” • Explores the controversy surrounding the discovery of the Big Void and debunks many of the theories regarding the purpose of this massive new “chamber” • Reveals how the Great Pyramid was built by Khufu as an indestructible “recovery vault” to help Egyptian civilization rebuild after an anticipated cataclysm In November 2017, an international team of more than 30 scientists published the results of their two-year-long Great Pyramid research project in the journal Nature. Using an advanced imaging technique known as muon radiography, three groups working independently from each other discovered a massive, previously unknown space within the Great Pyramid of Giza. Mainstream Egyptologists suggest that the “Big Void” is simply a stress-relieving device for the Grand Gallery. But, as Scott Creighton reveals, ancient Coptic-Egyptian texts describe exactly what the Big Void is. Exploring the controversy surrounding the Big Void, Creighton artfully debunks many of the theories about the purpose of this massive chamber as well as other long-held Egyptology beliefs. Analyzing the Coptic-Egyptian texts and evidence from astronomy, archaeology, and other sources, the author reveals how the Great Pyramid was built by Khufu as an indestructible recovery vault to help Egyptian civilization rebuild after a cataclysmic natural disaster--a rapid pole shift and subsequent deluge--predicted by his astronomer-priests. And the key component of the recovery vault would have been the Hall of the Ancestors, a sealed safe haven containing the mummified remains of the Osiris Kings, deceased pharaohs who would seek the benevolence of the gods to ensure Egypt’s recovery from the disaster.
Despite millennia of fame, the origins of the Great Pyramid of Giza are shrouded in mystery. Believed to be the tomb of an Egyptian king, even though no remains have ever been found, its construction date of roughly 2550 BCE is tied to only one piece of evidence: the crudely painted marks within the pyramid’s hidden chambers that refer to the 4th Dynasty king Khufu, discovered in 1837 by Colonel Howard Vyse and his team.Using evidence from the time of the discovery of these “quarry marks” - including surveys, facsimile drawings and Vyse’s private field notes - along with high definition photos of the actual marks, Scott Creighton reveals how and why the marks were faked. Analyzing Vyse’s private diary, he reveals Vyse’s forgery instructions to his two assistants, Raven and Hill, and what the anachronistic sign should have been. He examines recent chemical analysis of the marks along with the eye-witness testimony of Humphries Brewer, who worked with Vyse at Giza in 1837 and saw forgery take place. Exploring Vyse’s background, including his electoral fraud to become a member of the British Parliament, he explains why he was driven to perpetrate a fraud inside the Great Pyramid. Creighton’s study strikes down one of the most fundamental assertions of orthodox Egyptologists and reopens long-standing questions about the Great Pyramid’s true age, who really built it, and why.
Helping Teens Stop Violence, Build Community, and Stand for Justice
Allan Creighton; Paul Kivel
Hunter House Publishers
2011
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Helping Teens Stop Violence, Build Community, and Stand for Justice is a guide for adults who work with young people ages ten and up on issues related to youth leadership and social justice. It is also a training manual for adults who want to become effective allies to young people and develop the skills needed so that they can facilitate community building among youth. Adults are encouraged to see young people not as a problem but the key to the solution. The authors have decades of experience in youth education and social justice activism and provide a clear theoretical framework for their approach to social justice education. On the practical level, workshop guidelines and outlines are included for facilitating discussion and sharing around sensitive topics of oppression, the "isms" -- racism, sexism, adultism -- as well as gender issues, immigration, religion, ability and access. This program presents a positive framework that draws out the experience, strength, and idealism of young people while speaking to the issues they care about today.
Morteza, a young physician, makes his escape from a country like Iraq, finds asylum in one like Australia. Each year, he travels to his native land to treat the victims of terrorist explosions. Meanwhile, his new country turns fearful, mean-spirited, eager to shut its doors. On the armature of this story Neil Creighton weaves a work at once epic and lyric. A gifted poet with something urgent to say possesses a powerful voice, especially when his indignation is disciplined and his imagination fired by empathy. Morteza offers memorable and vividly particular imagery; yet no reader will fail to feel its universality.Robert Wexelblatt, author of Hsi-wei TalesThis powerful collection follows the lives of three characters: Morteza, a surgeon and refugee; his wife Rosa; and Atefeh, an amputee Morteza helps when he returns to his country of origin. Morteza explores dark themes like greed, lust for power, tyranny, cruelty, and disregard for the value of human life, yet throughout this often heartrending journey, images of war contrast with a sense of cosmic oneness-the clear night sky rising above a toxic fog. And although empires crumble, for the three protagonists, it is Love that endures. As Atefeh says, What is there but doing good, / loving mercy and believing / that love can triumph and reign / in this small heart of mine. May it be so Penny Harter, author of Still-Water Days"For all refugees and victims of war" is the dedication for this incredible story, a tale of the width and breadth of suffering that war causes. Fiction, yes, but also truth. And in the cloak of verse, this truth becomes a warning, a call for compassion, a plea for everyone to stop and consider our place in the process of wars and refugees and victims. Creighton invites me and you to walk along with him as Morteza, to learn to care. That is where we find the antidote to the ragged face of war. Powerfully written, painfully accurate, Morteza is worth more than a single reading.James E Lewis, author of leave a light on
A saga that sings In this new poem cycle-reminiscent at times of the best work of Homer, Jean Rhys and Hemingway-a father, Colquhoun, embarks on a perilous sea journey to rescue his daughter but finds himself on a challenging inner voyage as well. Meanwhile, his daughter's own path is no less difficult. Many surprises await them both. Having already loved Neil Creighton's earlier book, Rock Dreaming, I came to his Colquhoun Chronicles with high expectations. Happily, this new book-steeped in love, loss, hazard and human evolution-met and to some degree even exceeded them.-John Burroughs, U.S. Beat Poet Laureate. 2022-2023I compare the lyrical saga, The Colquhoun Chronicles, to the Odyssey and feel it is destined to become a classic. This hero's journey is not in mighty deeds of self-glorification but in learning how to be affected by stories not his own. Colquhoun learns compassion and understanding from historic women, from his surroundings and from creatures of the sea and sky. Part of its genius is that Miriam, Colquhoun's oppressed daughter, also experiences transformation, her "rescue" coming through her own growth in understanding rather than a "hero" coming to swoop her away. Deep wisdom and love are sprinkled throughout this five-star book and Creighton's words belong in everyone's heart.-Joan Leotta, author of Feathers on Stone Here is an adventure of the soul, a journey of self-discovery, and a history lesson about ourselves and our times. Though it might be difficult to imagine such breadth in one short book, The Colquhoun Chronicles taps into the zeitgeist. Colquhoun is a man who is forced by the circumstances of his life to confront himself. His new understanding is painfully wrung; this is an awakening both agonizing and revelatory. In Creighton's work you'll hear echoes of Coleridge and a touch of Keats. The poet has the spirit of the Romantic about him-you'll find beautiful verse within-but always tempered by a contemporary realism that is startling. Read and be prepared, like Colquhoun, to be changed.-Alan Walowitz, author of The Story of the Milkman and Other Poems
