Drawing on her own experience of befriending a person suffering from a long-term mental health challenge, Priscilla Oh reflects on the meaning of care and friendship theologically. Using autoethnography, she goes beyond the personal experience and examines various issues surrounding mental health. Hospitable Witnessing candidly takes readers into the everyday life of being with a mentally ill person. There are emotional challenges and contingencies in sustaining friendship and caring for a person with a long-term mental health problem. Oh points out that those who care for a loved one during a long-term illness inevitably experience “burnout” resulting from the constant care requirements. Under such an enormous disruption, we need to be compassionate toward another’s suffering and be willing to be present and available for them. This book suggests our need of one another and identifies three important Christian practices: caring as we are being made in the image of God, compassion as being present with the sufferer, and lament as to revitalize our faith and hope.

World Christianity: An Introduction provides an accessible introduction to the discipline, methodology, and field of world Christianity. In this book, Graham Joseph Hill engages with more than one hundred high-profile Majority World and First Nations Christian leaders to learn what they can teach the West about mission, leadership, hospitality, creation care, education, worship, and more. Hill challenges the Western church to move away from a Eurocentric and Americentric view of church and mission, and he calls for the church to engage with crucial paradigm shifts in world Christianity. The future of the global church--including the churches in the West--exists in these global exchanges. World Christianity is an indispensable guide for the church as it navigates the unique global experiences of the twenty-first century.

As the reception of a hotel, he actually met an ex-boyfriend that he abandoned in the past to get a room with? Embarrassment! "He was immediately transferred to a private secretary, he wants to die!" "Can't you let me go?" Let you go? "Su Shengxia, for the rest of your life, you won't be able to escape from my grasp!" In his lifetime, they were destined to meet on a narrow path!

Re-envisioning multiculturalism in Canada In 1971, Canada became the first nation in the world to officially declare its bilingual and multicultural policies. Reconstructions of Canadian Identity examines what has changed over the past fifty years, highlighting the lived experiences of marginalized Canadians and offering insights into the critical work that lies ahead. Editors Vander Tavares and Maria João Maciel Jorge bring together a wide range of disciplines and perspectives to investigate inclusion and exclusion within the processes, discourses, and practices that forge and frame Canadian identity. Chapters analyze ways current multicultural policies continue to benefit the dominant groups and (further) harm minoritized ones. Exposing the pitfalls of established notions of Canadian identity, this volume moves traditionally othered identities—immigrant, racialized, hybridized, Indigenous, and women—to the forefront. In doing so, it reveals how these identities negotiate and claim legitimacy, arguing for a reconceptualization from the margins that truly fosters diversity and inclusion. Illustrating both the shortcomings of and possibilities for a more inclusive multiculturalism in Canada, Reconstructions of Canadian Identity invites readers to reflect on what it means to be Canadian in the twenty-first century.

This book focuses on the traumatic experiences within and through music that individuals and collectives face, while considering ways in which they (re)engage with their traumas in educational settings. The chapters delve into the physical, psychological, philosophical, sociological, and political aspects, as they relate to the reciprocal influences of trauma on musical practices and education. Readers are immersed in topics related to societal violence, physical injuries, grief, separation, loss, death, and ways of working through these in educational and artistic situations. In the introductory chapter, the co-editors draw attention to theoretical matters related to trauma through narrative inquiry in music education. The first section of the book, Separation Revisited, brings together notions of separation, focusing on how loss is emotionally and physically manifested when death, grief, and bodily injury are experienced. In the second section, (Re)Engaging with Lost and Found, readers are encouraged to imagine new possibilities considering trauma and loss in educational and musical spaces. These pieces offer deliberate ruminations moving the discourse toward (re)engagement in and through music education and artistic contexts. The co-editors conclude the book by drawing attention to narrative inquiry’s double-edged nature in stories of trauma and how the retelling of lost and found narratives offers a way to imagine lives otherwise—lives not smothered by grief and horror—through the conceivable reliving of unfathomable stories of experience. This book emerges from the 7th International Conference on Narrative Inquiry in Music Education (NIME7), October 2020, co-hosted by Brock University, Faculty of Education and the University of Toronto, Faculty of Music, Ontario, Canada.

Too many of us are burdened with the question, What am I supposed to be doing? Weve tried doing what Jesus did (WWJD), but weve found walking on water and feeding the multitudes a little beyond our capabilities. So weve settled for watching other Christians and imitating them. Or worse, we have taken the first job anyone offered us and stayed at it in frustration for years and years. Theres a better answer. You are supposed to be doing what God has equipped you to do. Knowing the gifts you have received lets you know what God expects you to do.

This exhaustive theology of missions focuses on theory and biblical mandates for missions as a vital part of theology. George Peters, a foremost missions authority, considers both liberal and conservative views, although his own stance is solidly evangelical.

This classic introduction to Burmese cultures includes the following short chapters: I. First Years II. School Days III. Buddhist Baptism IV. Life in the Monastery V. Tattooing VI. Ear-Boring VII. Marriage VIII. Domestic Life IX. The House and Its Belongings X. The Earth and Its Beginning XI. The Ladder of Existence XII. The Noble Order of the Yellow Robe XIII. The Monasteries XIV. Schismatics XV. Pagodas XVI. The Legend of the Rangoon Pagoda XVII. Images XVIII. Bells XIX. A Pagoda Feast XX. Duty Days XXI. The End of Lent XXII. Nats and Spirit-Worship XXIII. Rice Cultivation XXIV. A Gracious Ploughing XXV. A Harvest Feast XXVI. Silk-Growing XXVII. Lacquer Ware XXVIII. Nga-Pee XXIX. Plays XXX. Dancing XXXI. Music and Songs XXXII. The Tawadehntha Feast XXXIII. A Sohn-Daw-Gyee Feast XXXIV. A Work of Merit XXXV. The New Year’S Feast XXXVI. A Boat-Race XXXVII. Chess XXXVIII. Games XXXIX. Lucky and Unlucky Days XL. The Butterfly Spirit XLI. Cholera Specifics XLII. Making Gold XLIII. Sumptuary Laws and Etiquette XLIV. Wizards, Doctors, and Wise Men XLV. Slaves and Outcasts XLVI. Forming the National Character XLVII. The Lord of the Celestial Elephant and of Many White Elephants XLVIII. King Theebaw XLIX. King Theebaw L. King Theebaw LI. The Palace LII. The Lord White Elephant LIII. Ministers of State LIV. The Burmese Army LV. Judicial Administration LVI. Revenue System LVII. Land Tenure LVIII. Mandalay and Rangoon LIX. Eras, Computation of Time, Weight, Etc. LX. The Language LXI. Selections From the Literature LXII. Stray Notes LXIII. A Pohn-Gyee Byan LXIV. Death and Burial