Unfettered Imaginations

"Smith's sage advice will aid Christians in recognizing the simple joys of practicing their faith."--Publishers Weekly Western culture is in a tailspin, and Christian faith is entangled in it: we do kingdom things in empire ways. Western approaches to faith leave us feeling depressed, doubting, anxious, and burned out. We know something is wrong with the way we do faith and church in the West, but we're so steeped in it that we don't know where to begin to break old habits. Popular pastor and speaker Mandy Smith invites us to be unfettered from the deeply ingrained habits of Western culture so we can do kingdom things in kingdom ways again. She explores how we can be transformed by new postures and habits that help us see God already at work in and around us. The way forward isn't more ideas, programs, and problem-solving but in Jesus's surprising invitation to the kingdom through childlikeness. Ultimately, rediscovering childlike habits is a way for us to remember how to be human. Unfettered helps us reimagine how to follow God with our whole selves again and join with God's mission in the world. Foreword by Walter Brueggemann.

'My Understanding Of This Ferocious, Restless, Relentless Metropolis Is That Each Of Us Who Lives In This City Carries A Unique, If Virtual, Delhi Inside Our Heads.' Independence, Four Million Refugees From Pakistan And The Overwhelming Presence Of Visible And Invisible Power That Flows From New Delhi Being The Capital Have Transformed It From The Unruffled Imperial Town It Once Was To The Fearsome Metropolis It Is Today. And Yet, Says Ranjana Sengupta, This Largely Unloved City Deserves To Be Loved. Delhi Is Home To The Most Diverse Population Of Any City In The Country. The Unceasing Influx Of Migrants Has Unleashed New Urban Architectures Of Opulence And Deprivation. Different Groups Have Set Up Their Own, Different Universes, And These Manage To Coexist, Not Unhappily. And Somewhere Between The Futurist Gurgaon Skyline And The Proliferating Slums, Alongside The March Of The Metro And The Refurbishment Of Khan Market, Lie Delhi'S Unsung Sagas The Memories, The Passions And The Unspoken Expectation That The City Will Change Lives. Sengupta Illustrates How Delhi Is Essentially The Creation Of Refugees Of All Kinds, From Those Fleeing Plundered Homes Within And Across The Border To The Adventurers Who Have Flocked To The City For The Greater Opportunities Of Employment Or Simply To Be Close To The Hub Of Political Power. The Newer Delhi, She Says, In Its Turn Gained From The Accumulated And Diverse Talent And Capital It Acquired From These People, Although Haphazard Development Poses A Great Danger To It. Delhi Metropolitan Tracks The Changes From The Time 'Going To Cp' Was Almost The Only Leisure Activity For The Middle Class, Looks At The Subtle Reinventions Of Government Colonies And The Shining New Suburbs, And Inspects The Footprints Of 'Punjabification'. Have All These Actually Managed To Colonize This Extravagant, Indefinable And Unlikely City? In A Work Of Immense Detail, At Once Informed And Entertaining, Ranjana Sengupta Proffers An Answer.

Garnering awards from Choice, Christianity Today, Books & Culture, and the Conference on Christianity and Literature when first published in 1998, Roger Lundin's Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief has been widely recognized as one of the finest biographies of the great American poet Emily Dickinson. Paying special attention to her experience of faith, Lundin skillfully relates Dickinson's life -- as it can be charted through her poems and letters -- to nineteenth-century American political, social, religious, and intellectual history. This second edition of Lundin's superb work includes a standard bibliography, expanded notes, and a more extensive discussion of Dickinson's poetry than the first edition contained. Besides examining Dickinson's singular life and work in greater depth, Lundin has also keyed all poem citations to the recently updated standard edition of Dickinson's poetry. Already outstanding, Lundin's biography of Emily Dickinson is now even better than before.

Southern slaveholders proudly pronounced themselves orthodox Christians, who accepted responsibility for the welfare of the people who worked for them. They proclaimed that their slaves enjoyed a better and more secure life than any laboring class in the world. Now, did it not follow that the lives of laborers of all races across the world would be immeasurably improved by their enslavement? In the Old South but in no other slave society a doctrine emerged among leading clergymen, politicians, and intellectuals - 'Slavery in the Abstract', which declared enslavement the best possible condition for all labor regardless of race. They joined the Socialists, whom they studied, in believing that the free-labor system, wracked by worsening class warfare, was collapsing. A vital question: to what extent did the people of the several social classes of the South accept so extreme a doctrine? That question lies at the heart of this book.

In Avant-Garde Canadian Literature, Gregory Betts draws attention to the fact that the avant-garde has had a presence in Canada long before the country's literary histories have recognized, and that the radicalism of avant-garde art has been sabotaged by pedestrian terms of engagement by the Canadian media, the public, and the literary critics. This book presents a rich body of evidence to illustrate the extent to which Canadians have been producing avant-garde art since the start of the twentieth century. Betts explores the radical literary ambitions and achievements of three different nodes of avant-garde literary activity: mystical revolutionaries from the 1910s to the 1930s; Surrealists/Automatists from the 1920s to the 1960s; and Canadian Vorticists from the 1920s to the 1970s. Avant-Garde Canadian Literature offers an entrance into the vocabulary of the ongoing and primarily international debate surrounding the idea of avant-gardism, providing readers with a functional vocabulary for discussing some of the most hermetic and yet energetic literature ever produced in this country.