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Mentoring Leaders – Wisdom for Developing Character, Calling, and Competency
Carson Pue; George Barna
Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group
2005
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Over the next five to ten years, it's predicted that more than 50,000 strategic ministry leadership positions are going to be filled. Who will these leaders be? And more importantly, who will prepare them for these positions?Mentoring Leaders offers a unique angle on what it takes to prepare transformational leaders for today's church. While addressing the different phases of leadership development and mentoring, as well as the characteristics of a dynamic and effective leader, Carson Pue focuses on the element of spiritual development. The invaluable insights and wisdom found in this book will give emerging leaders new strength to follow their calling as it helps them sharpen their vision, shape their values, and share their leadership adventures.
Toronto Workshop Productions was Toronto's first 'alternative' theatre, and for thirty years, from 1959 until its closure in 1989, it introduced audiences to a radically new form of theatre. Neil Carson's in-depth history of TWP traces the fortunes of many of its actors, writers, designers, and technicians -- but the troupe's colourful artistic director, George Luscombe, is its central character. George Luscombe brought Toronto a new form of theatre based on the techniques and theories he developed during the four years he worked with Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop in London. Toronto Workshop Productions began its activities in a small theatre in the basement of a factory in 1959 with Luscombe as artistic director. He presided over a program of collective play creation that fostered cooperative collaboration among all the contributing artists. A series of original works and plays from the European repertoire in innovative productions won the company increasing critical acclaim. The company acquired its own building in 1967, establishing its reputation as the most exciting theatre in the city. By the early 1970s, however, a growing atmosphere of Canadian nationalism caused TWP to be overshadowed by a number of new alternative theatres. Luscombe's and TWP's vision of an ideologically committed, technically experimental theatre remained strong for a number of years, but in the end a combination of internal and external problems overwhelmed the company. TWP's productions provoked radically different responses among audiences, and Luscombe's particular style of drama - a combination of documentary, stylized movement, and music - remains controversial. As a pioneer and as a stimulating teacher, however, George Luscombe has provided inspiration for countless actors and directors. Carson's book is an invaluable addition to the history of Canadian theatre.
Those who avidly followed the on-court acrobatics and off-court celebrity of the “Dream Team” in Barcelona in 1992 would hardly recognize what passed as basketball fifty-six years earlier, when the United States first played the game in the 1936 Olympics. In those early days of men’s Olympic basketball, many teams lacked basic skills, games were played in the pouring rain, only seven players could suit up, and the rules allowed only two substitutions and no time-outs. How this slow, low-scoring sport became the breakneck game that enraptures millions worldwide is the story of American Hoops.In this fascinating history of Olympic basketball on the world stage and behind the scenes, Carson Cunningham presents a kaleidoscopic picture of the evolution into the twenty-first century of one of America’s most popular sports. From clashes between celebrated egos and thrilling action on the court to the intense rivalries of the Cold War and technological advances in everything from television to sports equipment off the court, American Hoops follows the fortunes of Olympic basketball, in the United States and internationally, as it developed and emerged as one of the most challenging and entertaining sports in the world.Cunningham traces how the modifications made by the International Olympic Committee and the International Basketball Federation have transformed the game of basketball over the years, from the Berlin to the Beijing Olympics. His book offers a remarkable view of the changing world through the prism of Olympic sport.
Those who avidly followed the on-court acrobatics and off-court celebrity of the "Dream Team" in Barcelona in 1992 would hardly recognize what passed as Olympic basketball fifty-six years earlier, when the United States first played the game in the 1936 Olympics. In those early days of men's Olympic basketball, many teams lacked basic skills, games were played in the pouring rain, only seven players could suit up, and the rules allowed only two substitutions and no time-outs. How this slow, low-scoring sport became the breakneck game that enraptures millions worldwide is the story of American Hoops.In this fascinating history of Olympic basketball on the world stage and behind the scenes, Carson Cunningham presents a kaleidoscopic picture of the evolution into the twenty-first century of one of America's most popular sports. From clashes between celebrated egos and thrilling action on the court to the intense rivalries of the cold war and technological advances in everything from television to off-court sports equipment, American Hoops follows the fortunes of Olympic basketball in the United States and internationally as it developed and emerged as one of the most challenging and entertaining sports in the world.Cunningham traces how the modifications made by the International Olympic Committee and the International Basketball Federation have transformed the game of basketball over the years, from the Berlin to the Beijing Olympics. His book offers a remarkable view of the changing world through the prism of Olympic sport.
Weaving together the stories and voices of residents, anglers, community leaders, and environmental workers and researchers, this ethnographic account details the lives and livelihoods impacted by a once-unrivaled Michigan salmon fishery. From the introduction of Chinook salmon to the Great Lakes in the late 1960s, a thriving recreational fishery industry arose in Northern Michigan, attracting thousands of anglers to small towns like Rogers City each week at its peak. By the early 2000s, a crisis loomed beneath the surface of Lake Huron as the population of a prey fish species called alewife unexpectedly collapsed, depleting the salmon's main source of food. By 2007, the salmon population had collapsed too, leaving local fisheries and their respective communities lacking a key commodity and a bid on fishery tourism. Author, angler, and ecologist Carson Prichard artfully incorporates fisheries science and local news media into an oral history that is entertaining, rich, and genuine. Complementing an ecological understanding of events, this narrative details the significance of the fishery and its loss as experienced by the townspeople whose lives it touched.
Set in the early 1850s, this is a gripping Santa Fe Trail story for young readers. Peter Bowen is a twelve-year-old St Louis boy whose mother has recently died and whose father has gone to Santa Fe to seek his fortune. A St Louis friend agrees to care for Peter. When his father's acquaintance Uncle Seth returns to St Louis, he checks on Peter. The lonely boy persuades his Uncle, a weather-beaten trapper, to take him to Santa Fe to be with his father. Uncle Seth leads their wagon train through an Indian attack, desertion by greenhorns, a buffalo stampede, a violent storm, and other hardships. When Peter finally reaches his destination, he finds that his father has left Santa Fe. He must go on another journey, one that almost proves fatal.
Reason, Revelation, and the Civic Order
Carson Holloway
Northern Illinois University Press
2014
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While the dominant approaches to the current study of political philosophy are various, with some friendlier to religious belief than others, almost all place constraints on the philosophic and political role of revelation. Mainstream secular political theorists do not entirely disregard religion. But to the extent that they pay attention, their treatment of religious belief is seen more as a political or philosophic problem to be addressed rather than as a positive body of thought from which we might derive important insights about the nature of politics and the truth of the human condition. In a one-of-a-kind collection, DeHart and Holloway bring together leading scholars from various fields, including political science, philosophy, and theology, to challenge the prevailing orthodoxy and to demonstrate the role that religion can and does play in political life. Contributing authors include such important thinkers as Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert C. Koons, J. Budziszewski, Francis J. Beckwith, and James Stoner.
A Deep Blue Abyss: The First Mill Meacham Story
Carson A. Pierce
Environmental Dispute Resolution USA
2011
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Having slipped from the grip of the shady scientist Dr. Knotts and his henchmen, Huck finds his way to St. Petersburg. There, deep in the forest, he takes up residence in his Pap's old hunting shack. Going by Mark, Huck aims to lay low. But then he meets Lucy Thoreau, who captivates him like none before. To win Lucy's hand, Huck signs up for the Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher contest, a signature event for the town featuring a series of competitions which culminates in the naming of a Tom and a Becky at the Tom Sawyer Days festival. The contest hurtles Huck smack dab into modern times. He develops friendships, like one with local boy Randy, who helps Huck navigate life in St. Petersburg, and another with Orion Halley, an eccentric, elderly scientist. But in going for Tom, Huck also quickly learns that he has rivals, parents and contestants alike.Meantime, Dr. Knotts closes in on his goal of outing Huck's true identity and turning his incredible story into a moneymaking machine. Can Huck maintain his freedom, get named Tom, and win Lucy's heart?
Huckleberry Finn is back in a big way in this modern take on an old favorite. After falling into an Artic ice hole and becoming frozen solid for well over a century-and-a-half, Huck is discovered, thawed out, and brought back to life, unleashing his unique personality upon the 21st century.On the run from the group of shady scientists that brought him back to life, Huck seeks refuge in a small Indiana town, making friends with the Musketeers-a group of boys led by Johnny MacShea, whose family treats Huck like one of its own. As Huck adapts to the modern age, he turns the Musketeers' local ragtag football team into a juggernaut. But he also begins to realize that a mystery facing the MacShea family could mean grave danger.Huck's new life is jeopardized when parents of players on an opposing football team question his eligibility, leading to unwanted attention from the Department of Child Services. Meanwhile, Huck tries to resolve the peculiar mystery facing the MacSheas. Can Huck win the football championship, solve the mystery, and maintain his freedom?
Somewhere On The Edge Of I'm Sorry is a brutally honest, healing, and emotional collection of prose by Canadian author Carson Patrick Bowie. The author dares you to judge a book by its cover while setting out with the intention to make you feel an entire range of emotions. At times both romantic and cynical, yet as heartfelt as it is heartbreaking.
Beatrice at Bay is the second Beatrice McIlvaine Adventure, a story that follows the soft-spoken and somewhat telekinetic Beatrice as she grows up in a world of increasingly sophisticated threats. The saga started with Beatrice and the Basilisk, a modern-day fairy tale that resonated unexpectedly with readers young and old. Beatrice was twelve then. She's fifteen now, and facing different challenges: a potential step-father; her own immense but unwelcome powers; the weird kids from the Academy; and-possibly most importantly-the end of the world as we know it. Can Beatrice channel her troubling destructive energies in the service of something greater than herself? Who can she trust at a beautiful school for gifted kids that isn't quite what it seems? And what's with this Lester White Bull kid creeping on her Instagram account, anyway? Clocking in at 25,000 words, a combination of "Stranger Things" and Pippi Longstocking, Beatrice at Bay is a fast, funny, exciting read for anyone with a hard head and a kind heart-kids, that is, between the ages of ten and seventy-four.
Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity
Carson Bay
Cambridge University Press
2022
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In this volume, Carson Bay focuses on an important but neglected work of Late Antiquity: Pseudo-Hegesippus' On the Destruction of Jerusalem (De Excidio Hierosolymitano), a Latin history of later Second Temple Judaism written during the fourth century CE. Bay explores the presence of so many Old Testament figures in a work that recounts the Roman-Jewish War (66–73 CE) and the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE. By applying the lens of Roman exemplarity to Pseudo-Hegesippus, he elucidates new facets of Biblical reception, history-writing, and anti-Judaism in a text from the formative first century of Christian Empire. The author also offers new insights into the Christian historiographical imagination and how Biblical heroes and Classical culture helped Christians to write anti-Jewish history. Revealing novel aspects of the influence of the Classical literary tradition on early Christian texts, this book also newly questions the age-old distinction between the Christian and the Classical (or 'pagan') in the ancient Mediterranean world.