Joseph Medicine Crow-High Bird était un historien et auteur, profondément lié à la Nation Crow. En tant que dernier chef de guerre de sa tribu, ses écrits se sont concentrés sur l'histoire des Amérindiens, avec un accent particulier sur la bataille de Little Bighorn. Son œuvre reflète une profonde compréhension des traditions et du patrimoine de son peuple, dans le but de préserver et de partager ces précieuses connaissances. Grâce à ses contributions littéraires, il a considérablement amélioré la compréhension des héritages culturels autochtones.
The words of the author, a revered Sun Dance chief of the Crow Indian tribe, are brought to life by the internationally known American Indian actor, Gordon Tootoosis. This book is illustrated with over 100 previously unpublished color and sepia photographs from as early as 1903 and traditional American Indian motifs.
Casey Gerald's story begins at the end of the world: on New Year's Eve 1999, Casey gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelical church to witness the rapture. The journey that follows is a beautiful and moving story of a young man learning to question the dreams of success and prosperity that are the foundation of modern America. Growing up gay in an ordinary black neighbourhood in Dallas, his parents struggling with mental health problems and addiction, Casey finds himself on a remarkable path to a prestigious Ivy League college, to the inner sanctums of power on Wall Street and in Washington DC. But even as he attains everything the American Dream promised him, Casey comes to see that salvation stories like his own are part of the plan to keep others from rising. Intense, incantatory, shot through with sly humour and quiet fury, There Will Be No Miracles Here is an extraordinary memoir that forces us to judge our society not on those who rise highest, but on those left behind along the way.
Once we translate the spiritual wisdom of the Lord's Prayer into the personal language of our experience, we shall be led to a unique encounter with the God who yearns for us more than we could ever yearn for him.
The author explores the insights of other faiths - Protestantism, Orthodoxy, Islam, and Judaism; and also the insights of the `other' within the Catholic tradition - the Eastern-rite Catholics who, despite their full communion with Rome, have a distinct approach to Mary based on their unique liturgical and spiritual tradition.
Wisdom at the Crossroads is an introduction to the life and thought of the gifted Jesuit priest, theologian, author and educator, Michael Paul Gallagher SJ (1939-2015).
Brings together a wealth of de Mello¿s wisdom and provides an excellent introduction to the man who taught so many that God is, as St. Augustine wrote, ¿nearer to me than I am to myself.¿ Read it, and find the freedom to meet God in a new, and perhaps surprising, way.
