Patricia Owens

For Ron & Patricia Owens, The Journey is a drink offering of adoration poured out to Jesus-the Rose of Sharon. With grateful hearts, the Owens commend to you the poetry, songs, and truths Christ has written on their hearts. May you be encouraged on your journey and drawn closer to Jesus each day. We are on a worship journey that begins with our "new birth."It's a journey that continues every day we're here on earth.It's a journey that will climax when we enter heaven's gate, There with every tongue and nation we will join in perfect praise. Ron and Patricia Owens have traveled the world for almost fifty years, gratefully serving where the Lord provides open doors. In North America and internationally, they have ministered in conferences, churches, seminaries, and colleges. Their focus includes Ron's preaching and teaching on the subjects of worship and revival as well as their joint ministry through music, composition, and authoring books. Ron writes most of the poetry for their songs, while Patricia writes and arranges the music. In addition to writing songs together, Ron has authored several biographies with additional titles in process.

For Ron & Patricia Owens, The Journey is a drink offering of adoration poured out to Jesus-the Rose of Sharon. With grateful hearts, the Owens commend to you the poetry, songs, and truths Christ has written on their hearts. May you be encouraged on your journey and drawn closer to Jesus each day. We are on a worship journey that begins with our "new birth."It's a journey that continues every day we're here on earth.It's a journey that will climax when we enter heaven's gate, There with every tongue and nation we will join in perfect praise. Ron and Patricia Owens have traveled the world for almost fifty years, gratefully serving where the Lord provides open doors. In North America and internationally, they have ministered in conferences, churches, seminaries, and colleges. Their focus includes Ron's preaching and teaching on the subjects of worship and revival as well as their joint ministry through music, composition, and authoring books. Ron writes most of the poetry for their songs, while Patricia writes and arranges the music. In addition to writing songs together, Ron has authored several biographies with additional titles in process.

The Song We Sing is a story that came within hours of never being written, had not God intervened. Canadian-born Ron had returned to North America from Switzerland, where his family had moved in his early teens, to attend Bible College in Upstate NY. Mississippi-born Patricia was attending the nearby Eastman School of Music. Ron and Patricia would suddenly find themselves being carried along by a Provident Hand in ways that neither of them could have imagined. You are the song we sing, O Lord, fresh as the morning dew.A song of resurrection life made possible by You.You are the song we sing, O Lord, You are our everything.Without You, Lord, we'd have no song, You are the sing we sing.-----"Every once in a while, a book appears on the scene that encourages your faith and increases your understanding of God's 'greatness.' Ron and Patricia Owens have provided just such a book. This is an autobiography that will change your life."-Tom Elliff, Pastor, President Emeritus, International Mission Board, SBC " When] thinking of the Owens, words like faith, consistency, sacrifice, obedience, competency, worship, and revival all flood my mind. In a remarkable and unique way, these words are blended together in the lives of these servants of the Lord. Colossians 3:16 well describes who they are and what they do."-David L. Olford, President, Olford Ministries International

How a field built on the intellectual labor and expertise of women erased them The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men. And yet women played a prominent role in the creation of this new cross-disciplinary field. In Erased, Patricia Owens shows that, since its beginnings in the early twentieth century, international relations relied on the intellectual labour of women and their expertise on such subjects as empire and colonial administration, anticolonial organising, non-Western powers, and international organisations. Indeed, women were among the leading international thinkers of the era, shaping the development of the field as scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals—and as heterosexual spouses and intimate same-sex partners. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, and weaving together personal, institutional, and intellectual narratives, Owens documents key moments and locations in the effort to forge international relations as a separate academic discipline in Britain. She finds that women’s ideas and influence were first marginalised and later devalued, ignored, and erased. Examining the roles played by some of the most important women thinkers in the field, including Margery Perham, Merze Tate, Eileen Power, Margaret Cleeve, Coral Bell, and Susan Strange, Owens traces the intellectual and institutional legacies of misogyny and racism. She argues that the creation of international relations was a highly gendered and racialised project that failed to understand plurality on a worldwide scale. Acknowledging this intellectual failure, and recovering the history of women in the field, points to possible sources for its renewal.

How a field built on the intellectual labor and expertise of women erased them The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men. And yet women played a prominent role in the creation of this new cross-disciplinary field. In Erased, Patricia Owens shows that, since its beginnings in the early twentieth century, international relations relied on the intellectual labour of women and their expertise on such subjects as empire and colonial administration, anticolonial organising, non-Western powers, and international organisations. Indeed, women were among the leading international thinkers of the era, shaping the development of the field as scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals—and as heterosexual spouses and intimate same-sex partners.Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, and weaving together personal, institutional, and intellectual narratives, Owens documents key moments and locations in the effort to forge international relations as a separate academic discipline in Britain. She finds that women’s ideas and influence were first marginalised and later devalued, ignored, and erased. Examining the roles played by some of the most important women thinkers in the field, including Margery Perham, Merze Tate, Eileen Power, Margaret Cleeve, Coral Bell, and Susan Strange, Owens traces the intellectual and institutional legacies of misogyny and racism. She argues that the creation of international relations was a highly gendered and racialised project that failed to understand plurality on a worldwide scale. Acknowledging this intellectual failure, and recovering the history of women in the field, points to possible sources for its renewal.

A value pack compiled for University of Lincoln Politics students for their first year of study.

After a three hundred year sleep, Dane awakens on his family's starship to find that he is one of only four left alive on the ship. After a series of events, Dane finds himself growing up alone on his family's ship. He is the last of the Rando family with only androids for company. Dane wants a family but needs a woman to have children. He sends his androids to Earth to find him a wife. The androids return with Elaine, an old lady past menopause. How can he build a family with her? Is Dane destined to live the rest of his life, imprisoned in a ship that has been marooned on the moon? If he tries to go to earth, will he catch the disease that killed his relatives

Retrieving the older but surprisingly neglected language of household governance, Economy of Force offers a radical new account of the historical rise of the social realm and distinctly social theory as modern forms of oikonomikos - the art and science of household rule. The techniques and domestic ideologies of household administration are highly portable and play a remarkably central role in international and imperial relations. In two late-colonial British 'emergencies' in Malaya and Kenya, and US counterinsurgencies in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, armed social work was the continuation of oikonomia - not politics - by other means. This is a provocative new history of counterinsurgency with major implications for social, political and international theory. Historically rich and theoretically innovative, this book will interest scholars and students across the humanities and social sciences, especially politics and international relations, history of social and political thought, history of war, social theory and sociology.

Retrieving the older but surprisingly neglected language of household governance, Economy of Force offers a radical new account of the historical rise of the social realm and distinctly social theory as modern forms of oikonomikos - the art and science of household rule. The techniques and domestic ideologies of household administration are highly portable and play a remarkably central role in international and imperial relations. In two late-colonial British 'emergencies' in Malaya and Kenya, and US counterinsurgencies in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, armed social work was the continuation of oikonomia - not politics - by other means. This is a provocative new history of counterinsurgency with major implications for social, political and international theory. Historically rich and theoretically innovative, this book will interest scholars and students across the humanities and social sciences, especially politics and international relations, history of social and political thought, history of war, social theory and sociology.

War and Security: An Introduction offers a comprehensive account of the evolving relationship between war, politics and security. Particular focus is given to the history and theory of organized violence and the wider socio-political influences on security from the world wars to the present. Practices of security and insecurity are central to the history of political thought, community formation and how we have organised and understood the changing character of violent conflict. Drawing on a variety of theoretical approaches, this introductory book offers students a new framework for understanding the origins of different theories and practices of security/insecurity and what is stake for war, politics and society. Like war, security can be an instrument of political rule, but also constitutive of much broader political and social systems. To illustrate this, the book is usefully structured around a range of core themes: * political and intellectual contexts; * the ethics and laws of armed conflict; * the relationship between war, society and the insecurities of individuals; * genocide and ethnic cleansing; * insurgency and counter-insurgency; * war and human security; * global wars on/of terror; * non-war and forms of strategic non-violence. Each chapter highlights how war is the key social institution through which the quest for security and modern thinking about security is enacted. With international conflict and security issues at the height of public consciousness, this timely book will be an invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of international politics, security studies and related disciplines.

War and Security: An Introduction offers a comprehensive account of the evolving relationship between war, politics and security. Particular focus is given to the history and theory of organized violence and the wider socio-political influences on security from the world wars to the present. Practices of security and insecurity are central to the history of political thought, community formation and how we have organised and understood the changing character of violent conflict. Drawing on a variety of theoretical approaches, this introductory book offers students a new framework for understanding the origins of different theories and practices of security/insecurity and what is stake for war, politics and society. Like war, security can be an instrument of political rule, but also constitutive of much broader political and social systems. To illustrate this, the book is usefully structured around a range of core themes: * political and intellectual contexts; * the ethics and laws of armed conflict; * the relationship between war, society and the insecurities of individuals; * genocide and ethnic cleansing; * insurgency and counter-insurgency; * war and human security; * global wars on/of terror; * non-war and forms of strategic non-violence. Each chapter highlights how war is the key social institution through which the quest for security and modern thinking about security is enacted. With international conflict and security issues at the height of public consciousness, this timely book will be an invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of international politics, security studies and related disciplines.

This is the first book length study of war in the thought of one of the twentieth-century's most important and original political thinkers. Hannah Arendt's writing was fundamentally rooted in her understanding of war and its political significance. But this element of her work has surprisingly been neglected in international and political theory. This book fills an important gap by assessing the full range of Arendt's historical and conceptual writing on war and introduces to international theory the distinct language she used to talk about war and the political world. It builds on her re-thinking of old concepts such as power, violence, greatness, world, imperialism, evil, hypocrisy and humanity and introduces some that are new to international thought like plurality, action, agonism, natality and political immortality. The issues that Arendt dealt with throughout her life and work continue to shape the political world and her approach to political thinking remains a source of inspiration for those in search of guidance not in what to think but how to think about politics and war. Re-reading Arendt's writing, forged through firsthand experience of occupation and struggles for liberation, political founding and resistance in time of war, reveals a more serious engagement with war than her earlier readers have recognised. Arendt's political theory makes more sense when it is understood in the context of her thinking about war and we can think about the history and theory of warfare, and international politics, in new ways by thinking with Arendt.

This is the first book length study of war in the thought of one of the twentieth-century's most important and original political thinkers. Hannah Arendt's writing was fundamentally rooted in her understanding of war and its political significance. But this element of her work has surprisingly been neglected in international and political theory. This book fills an important gap by assessing the full range of Arendt's historical and conceptual writing on war and introduces to international theory the distinct language she used to talk about war and the political world. It builds on her re-thinking of old concepts such as power, violence, greatness, world, imperialism, evil, hypocrisy and humanity and introduces some that are new to international thought like plurality, action, agonism, natality and political immortality. The issues that Arendt dealt with throughout her life and work continue to shape the political world and her approach to political thinking remains a source of inspiration for those in search of guidance not in what to think but how to think about politics and war. Re-reading Arendt's writing, forged through firsthand experience of occupation and struggles for liberation, political founding and resistance in time of war, reveals a more serious engagement with war than her earlier readers have recognised. Arendt's political theory makes more sense when it is understood in the context of her thinking about war and we can think about the history and theory of warfare, and international politics, in new ways by thinking with Arendt. This book is a project of the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War.