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288 tulosta hakusanalla Bekah Ferguson; Rachel Xu
A moving and magical picture book about the love between a young girl and the moon
The Truth About Sex and Waiting … UncoveredPurity. Sex. Boys. Waiting. There’s something about those words that makes everything complex in a heartbeat, and raises more questions than answers. Is there something wrong with me if I don’t kiss a boy after a date? Or am I doomed if I DID? What if waiting is just a one-way trip to life as a crazy cat woman? And what if I tend to, um, think about a certain boy in a certain way? It seems that the lady at church and your friends have two very different opinions on the subject. And “Your Budding Womanhood: Staying a Beautiful Flower for Jesus” just isn’t cutting it.Bekah Hamrick Martin knows the waiting game isn’t easy or straight-forward. In The Bare Naked Truth, she lays everything on the table—including some embarrassing moments—as she explores the honest, naked truth behind what God means by purity. With additional entries from popular authors, you’ll see the bare naked approach to waiting isn’t always easy, but it’s worth the risk.
Diane Georgia and Joanne are three modern women living very different lives. Unbeknownst to them they are all pining after the same young man Trevor: sexy stoned oblivious; a surfer on a rad rad philosophical journey.
Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 33rd Series
Bekah Brunstetter; Sheila Callaghan; Thomas C. Dunn
Samuel French, Inc
2009
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One of Manhattan's most established play festivals, the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival fosters the work of young writers, giving them the exposure of publication and representation. The festival resulting in this collection was held July 15th-20th, 2008 at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre on 42nd Street in New York City. From the initial submission pool, approximately 50 plays were chosen to be performed over a period of one week. A panel of judges comprised of New York area theater professionals, critics, and educators nominated one or more of each evening's plays as finalists. The final round was then held on the last day of the Festival. Out of these plays, six winners listed below were chosen by Samuel French, Inc. to receive publication and licensing contracts. Contents: F*cking Art Ayravana Flies or A Pretty Dish The Thread Men The Dying Breed The Grave Juniper; Jubilee
Dramatic Comedy / Characters: 4m, 3f / Interior Set Bekah Brunstetter makes her Off Broadway debut in September 2009 at the Atlantic Theatre Company! Ron is back from his third and final tour in Iraq, and his wife Sara is excited to restart their life together in their new home. When a young marine visits the family, life is turned upside down. Sara's sister is swept off her feet; her daughter Lacey trades her dresses for combat boots, and Ron gets hungry for real military action. In this disarmingly funny and candid drama, Bekah Brunstetter raises challenging questions about what it means when the military is woven into the fabric of a family, and service is far more than just a job. "The young scribe's talent and potential are obvious in this Southern-basted dramatic comedy about the war mystique as it plays out on the American home front..." - Variety "...Poignancy and terrific humor in both the writing and performances..." - Theatremania.com "If there's anything that stands out about Oohrah! at the Atlantic Theater Company's Stage II, it's the off-Broadway introduction of playwright Bekah Brunstetter, whose play is a fascinating, original take on something we've come to see rather often nowadays: the war play. ..Let's hope we hear her voice uptown again real soon." - nytheatre.com "The play skillfully depicts how the demands of military service affect an individual family and society as a whole. Brunstetter's people are real and funny. She never condescends to them or treats them as symbols to put a point across...A big hurrah for Oohrah! - Back Stage "There have been plenty of plays about the Iraq War on New York stages in the past several years but few that deal as directly with the viewpoints of military families as Oohrah!...Bekah Brunstetter makes an impressively smart debut (no one could argue that she doesn't have dramatic chops)" - MusicOMH
Characters: 2 male, 2 female Interior Young wife Melody has never been to a funeral - until her husband dies in a plane crash. Expected to instantly assume proper widowhood, Melody is left to wonder, what's the right way to grieve? Fortunately, her mother-in-law is a professional. Widow, that is. Under her guidance, Melody must try her best to be a good little widow. A sad comedy about loss and longing. "Delicately satisfying...[Ms. Brunstetter] writes fresh, unfussy dialogue and characters who earn their laughs and emotional moments by honest means." -The New York Times "Bekah Brunstetter's powerful new play marries the humor and sadness of grief. Brunstetter's words pierce the soul, and she makes the depths of the human experience profoundly relatable...Her multidimensional characters' pain radiated through my veins, and at the end, I just wanted to feel it all over again. Critic's Pick." - Backstage
Is there a heaven? Joe says no; it's all a bunch of hokum. His wife Roberta has always claimed to agree. But lately she's beginning to wonder especially when they find themselves in church a lot having reached the age when funerals are more frequent than weddings. Their granddaughter Ellie doesn't have time in her own busy life to ponder the afterlife. But when mortality confronts them her grandmother's claim to have gone to heaven and back doesn't sound s
Della makes cakes not judgment calls those she leaves to her husband Tim. But when the girl she helped raise comes back home to North Carolina to get married and the fiance is actually a fiancee Della's life gets turned upside down. She can't really make a cake for such a wedding can she? For the first time in her life Della has to think for herself.
Jane's trapped in her middle school computer lab playing "The Oregon Trail" for what feels like hours. The game becomes life and rips us back to the trail, 1848, where we travel in a covered wagon with Jane's great-great-grandmother. As Game moves us, back, forward, and back again, Now-Jane and Then-Jane's sadnesses are delicately juxtaposed in this play-meets-video-game about depression, Then and Now.
Bringing Up Kids When Church Lets You Down
Bekah McNeel
WILLIAM B EERDMANS PUBLISHING CO
2022
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"This book is about the various places and ways that uncertainty shows up for parents who, having left or altered the faith they once knew, now must decide what to give their kids. It's about church attendance, Bible memorization, school choices, and sex talks. It's about forging new paths in racial justice and creation care while the intractable voices in your head call you a pagan Marxist for doing so."After the spectacular implosion of her ministry career, Bekah McNeel was left disillusioned and without the foundation of certainty she had built her life on. But rather than leaving the Christian faith altogether, she hung out around the edges, began questioning oversimplified categories of black and white that she had been taught were sacred, and became comfortable living in gray areas while starting a new career in journalism.Then she had kids.From the moment someone asked if she was going to have her first child baptized, Bekah began to wonder if the conservative evangelical Christianity she grew up with was really something she wanted to give her children. That question only became more complicated when she had her second child months before White evangelicals carried Donald Trump to victory in the 2016 presidential election. Soon, Bekah found that other parents were asking similar questions as they broke with their fundamentalist religious upbringing and took on new values: Could they raise their kids to live with both the security of faith and the freedom of open-mindedness? To value both Scripture and social justice? To learn morality without shame?In Bringing Up Kids When Church Lets You Down, Bekah gathers voices from history, scholarship, and her own community to guide others who, like her, are on a quest to shed the false certainty and toxic perfectionism of their past to become better, healthier parents--while still providing strong spiritual foundations for their children. She writes with humor and empathy, providing wise reflections (but not glib answers ) on difficult parenting topics while reminding us that we are not alone, even when we break away from the crowd.
"If you see me at a party and I'm speaking, you need to come rescue the person I'm talking to, because they are not having a good time. Or better yet, I would like to invite you, the reader, into the corner with me to talk about the story I write over and over again: People are suffering." In her career as a journalist, Bekah McNeel has encountered (and written about) a lot of suffering. After all, the most polarizing topics in US politics all revolve around suffering. But when confronted with these stories of suffering, many people respond not with action, but by offering counterstories that justify their lack of compassion. This set Bekah wondering: Whose suffering do we try to alleviate? Whose do we ignore? And how should our faith guide how we approach these debates? In This Is Going to Hurt, Bekah analyzes the narratives surrounding six hot-button issues--immigration, COVID, abortion, critical race theory, gun violence, and climate change. For each topic, she exposes how "us versus them" thinking leads us to turn a blind eye to injustice. She also offers an alternative perspective on each issue, based on a sensitive reading of the gospel. Amid culture wars that goad us to take up arms, Bekah reminds us that Christ calls us to take up our cross. Humorous and insightful, This Is Going to Hurt offers a breath of fresh air for readers seeking a nuanced and authentically Christian mode of political engagement.
