Most Popular Books by Barbara Brown

Engaging in Educational Research-Practice Partnerships guides academic researchers into forming mutually respectful, collaborative, and scalable partnerships with school practitioners. Despite robust theoretical and conceptual planning, research on learning is often removed from real settings and generates findings with limited practical relevance, yielding frustration for K-12 stakeholders. This book provides invaluable resources to researchers seeking to work with practitioners as they solve problems and improve outcomes while answering fundamental questions about who gets to generate knowledge, from where, to whom, and in what contexts. A range of illustrative case studies and strategies explores how to apply appropriate theories and methodologies, negotiate agendas that ensure mutually beneficial goals, determine the role of pracademics, establish institutional supports, policies, and procedures that amplify impact and sustainability, and much more.

In The Practice of Saying No, beloved author and preacher Barbara Brown Taylor reflects on the meaning of keeping the Sabbath: of saying no to work and doing, but instead celebrating stopping, resting on the porch, and taking the time to recognize our interconnectedness. The Practice of Saying No will appeal to anyone seeking more meaning and spirituality in their everyday lives. Barbara Brown Taylor, acclaimed author of Leaving Church and An Altar in the World (from which this eSelect is taken), writes with the honesty of Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) and the spiritual depth of Anne Lamott (Grace, Eventually) and reveals how to encounter the sacred as a natural part of everyday life.

Not just for the poetry-lover, VIEWPOINTS is a collection of a quarter century of Ms Brown''s work, which includes black and white illustrations of her oil paintings, drawings and photographs. The author welcomes the reader to participate in her journey. The book features an honest account of various moments and thoughts describing an arc from youth through marriage and widowhood to the present. Ms Brown treats life''s rewards as well as its trials, from the irksome to the outrageous, via such topics as childhood, marriage, home-owning, politics, art, nature, aging, illness and death. In Dark Musings: In the early lightness of night/It is not and is a challenge/To see that which you cannot... Back in the thinning thick/Where woodpeckers knock beak on bark/Of hollowing over-watered trees...

Perhaps the most significant event in twentieth-century American Protestant churches has been the entry of tens of thousands of women into the church''s ordained ministry. How are these women''s experiences as ministers different from those of their male counterparts? What are their callings and careers like? What are their prospects for employment, income, and satisfaction? Based on a wealth of statistical data as well as in-depth personal interviews, this book offers the most authoritative information ever about the real experiences of clergy women (and men), along with anecdotes that show what the life of American clergy today is really like.

Far and long away from here is where we meet Captain Crick Captain Crick was the one and only, the greatest and mightiest pirate of all time who traveled the seven seas and rivers everywhere with his mighty crew. They continue to fulfill their task of helping everyone, whenever and wherever they can. Aboard the SS Goody, the Captain gathers his men and tells them the details of their new mission and voyage: to catch as much fish, shrimp, lobster, and crab the ship can carry and deliver them to the people who live along the river. Meanwhile, people back ashore are waiting for the SS Goody to arrive, preparing their empty picnic baskets, barbeque equipment, sauces, dips, and more. Will the Captain accomplish his promise and save the day once more? Sending a message of helpfulness and friendship, The Adventures of Captain Crick, Super Hero is a vibrant book that is the perfect binding tool for parents and children.

Each year, the Holy Week and Easter double issue of the Church Times offers a wealth of seasonal reading and resources for worship and preaching. This volume, like its companion Christmas collection, draws together outstanding features from the past twenty years. It includes: * Meditations on the Stations of the Cross by the poet David Scott; * A short story set in Gethsemane by David Hart; * Timothy Radcliffe on the alternative to conflict symbolised by the Last Supper; * Sam Wells on Pilate and what he - and we - could do differently; * Richard Harries on the art of Good Friday; * Peter Stanford on Judas; * Michael Perham on why Easter celebrations should start in the dark; * Stephen Cleobury on the carols of Easter; * Mark Oakley on the poetry of the cross; * Paula Gooder on why the resurrection is central to faith; * Reflections on the season''s lectionary readings, and much besides.

Colonial and National Beginnings examines the Congregational and German Reformed traditions as they developed in Colonial America until the era of the Civil War. Edited by Elizabeth C. Nordbeck and Lowell H. Zuck. Series editor Barbara Brown Zikmund.

The United Church of Christ has developed its distinctive theological identity since 1957, having drawn upon the four mainstream traditions and various hidden histories that came together at its birth. It has been profoundly shaped by movements for racial and social justice, the organizational thrust of old-line Protestantism, the changing role of women, new patterns of immigration, and ongoing ecumenical efforts to embody the unity of the Christian church. This seventh volume showcases the theological work of the United Church of Christ from 1957 to 2000 and invites its leaders and members to become more theologically self-conscious.

The Congregational-Christian Union, the history of the Evangelical and Reformed Church, and the ecumenical passion of these traditions are developed in this sixth volume of the series.

The book shines light on the problem of judgment, particularly in the realm of architectural "technics" and the codes that regulate it. The struggle to define "sustainability," and thus judge architecture through such lenses, is but one dimension of the contemporary problem of judgment. By providing the reader with an inherently interdisciplinary study of a particular discipline--architecture, it brings to the topic lenses that challenge the too frequently unexamined assumptions of the discipline. By situating architecture within a broader cultural field and using case studies to dissect the issues discussed, the book emphasizes that it is not simply a matter of designing better, more efficient, or more stringent codes to guide place-making, but a matter of reconstructing the boundaries of the systems to be coded. The authors are winners of the EDRA Place-Research Award 2014 for their work on the Green Alley Demonstration Project used in the book.

Retells the Biblical account of the miracles of Jesus from the New Testament.

The Basic Bookshelf for Eyecare Professionals is a series that provides fundamental and advanced material with a clinical approach to clinicians and students. A special effort was made to include information needed for the certification exams in ophthalmic and optometric assisting, low vision, surgical assisting, opticianry, and contact lens examiners. The purpose of The Low Vision Handbook is to make each step in the low vision process clear for the assistant who is going to provide the most complete level of services for the client. Two main subjects are focused on in The Low Vision Handbook. First, an introduction to low vision as a medical and optical problem is presented. The second section covers rehabilitation concerns of low vision and blindness, including psychological responses to vision loss and how to understand patients in various stages of acceptance. The Low Vision Handbook is one of several books in our Basic Bookshelf for Eyecare Professionals series. The goal of the Basic Bookshelf is to provide basic and advanced material with a clinical approach to clinicians and students. Features In-depth discussion of various low vision problems and low vision aids including how to use the aids, where to get the aids, and how to train the patients. Patient diagnoses, treatment, and rehabilitation are well-described including the psychological impact of low vision problems. Case histories of actual patients. Carefully chosen art and photos are included to illustrate the effectiveness of low vision aids.

This book explores the different styles of Qi Gong and includes a directory of ruputable Qi Gong teachers.

Un testimonio que nos cuenta cómo la envidia puede convertirse en una virtud espiritual, transfigurando nuestro camino de formas inesperadas La historiadora y sacerdote episcopal Barbara Brown Taylor relata sus divertidos y conmovedores descubrimientos al encontrar lo sagrado en el lugar más inesperado: enseñando religiones del mundo a estudiantes universitarios de una pequeña Universidad de Georgia, EEUU, revelando así cómo Dios se deleita en confundir nuestras expectativas. A lo largo de Santa Envidia, la autora entreteje las anécdotas del aula, las excursiones a monasterios, templos y mezquitas, con las experiencias y reflexiones de los alumnos; contándonos la historia de cómo su camino espiritual se vio desafiado y enriquecido al conectar con personas de otras tradiciones, especialmente con aquellas cuyas verdades son diferentes a las suyas. Un testimonio sobre la riqueza y la sabiduría de las religiones, y de cómo la más elevada de las envidias puede transfigurar nuestro camino espiritual de formas inesperadas.

The authors present details of their new discoveries together with an up-to-date account of the known archaeology of the area in a comprehensive gazetteer of sites and locations. Paul Brown''s three-dimensional illustrations highlight the major panels of rock art in the key northern valleys of seven dales that span the three counties of North Yorkshire, Cumbria and Durham, including the charismatic dales of Swaledale and Wensleydale. Rock art, its situation within the prehistoric landscape and its relationship to other archaeological features, is clearly discussed. Paul and Barbara Brown have been researching and studying rock art in Britain over two decades and the landscape of the Northern Dales is familiar home territory. They have contributed a considerable number of important new sites to the archaeological record that are described in detail including Copt Howe in Great Langdale, Cumbria and the recent discovery of a spiral that had been incorporated within a rock art panel on a former North Yorkshire Moor. The presence of a spiral, the first in these stunning northern Pennine dales, highlights the significance of its rock art and reinforces a possible route-way from the dales into Cumbria and links with the Passage Grave Art of the west coast and beyond into Ireland.

I shared my life story to inspire people that know matter what challenges they face in life there is a higher power they can turn to. Life can take us through some ups and downs but we are not alone.