Navigating relationships can be challenging, but She Knows: Relationship Wisdoms is here to guide you. This empowering book offers practical advice and heartfelt wisdom tailored for modern women seeking to build stronger, healthier connections with themselves and others. Whether you're looking to improve romantic relationships, friendships, or family bonds, this book provides tools to understand emotions, set boundaries, and communicate effectively. Through relatable examples and real-life scenarios, She Knows: Relationship Wisdoms dives into topics like self-love, trust, respect, and emotional well-being. Learn how to manage conflicts gracefully, boost your self-esteem, and nurture fulfilling relationships that bring out the best in you. With an encouraging and relatable tone, this book is your go-to companion for developing lasting connections in every aspect of life. Perfect for women searching for relationship advice, self-help guidance, and emotional healing, She Knows: Relationship Wisdoms will inspire you to embrace love, kindness, and growth in all your relationships.

A Jesus Creed 2017 Old Testament Book of the Year Wisdom plays an important role in the Old Testament, particularly in Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes. Now in paperback, this major work from renowned scholar Tremper Longman III examines wisdom in the Old Testament and explores its theological influence on the intertestamental books, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and especially the New Testament. Longman notes that wisdom is a practical category (the skill of living), an ethical category (a wise person is a virtuous person), and most foundationally a theological category (the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom). The author discusses Israelite wisdom in the context of the broader ancient Near East, examines the connection between wisdom in the New Testament and in the Old Testament, and deals with a number of contested issues, such as the relationship of wisdom to prophecy, history, and law.

Wisdom and Initiation in Gabon: A Philosophical Analysis of Fang Tales, Myths, and Legends is a study of the philosophical significance of Fang mythology and the rituals of Initiation that lead to Wisdom. Bonaventure Mvé Ondo argues that Fang tales, myths, and legends are components of the foundation of a worldview that sustains and protects a unique, historical Fang identity. For Mvé Ondo, the contemporary challenges to the existence and identity of the Fang require, perhaps more than ever, recognition of the central role of mythology. At an historical moment when Africans are faced with the challenges of westernization, the metaphysics of the Fang, illustrated and preserved by tales, myths, and legends, is a critical element of Fang survival. Mythology is far more than a collection of amusing or awe inspiring stories, they are profoundly important moral lessons for the Fang in their continuing encounters with such contemporary challenges as materialism and, as the “stories” in this book illustrate, the constant struggle to live lives of purpose and meaning. For Mvé Ondo, the critical, central issue for the Fang is to focus on the distinction at the heart of his analysis, i.e., the crucial distinction between “to have” and to “to be.” The lessons transmitted from generation to generation by these marvelous stories are, Mvé Ondo argues, central to living lives that reflect and perpetuate the eternal truths of the Fang experience.

Is Taylor Swift a philosopher? What can her songs tell us about ethics and society? What is the nature of friendship? Should you forgive someone for breaking your heart? Taylor Swift is a “Mastermind” when it comes to relationships, songwriting, and performing sold-out stadium tours. But did you know that Taylor is also a philosophical mastermind? Taylor Swift and Philosophy is the first book to explore the philosophical topics that arise from Taylor Swift’s life and music. Edited and authored by Swifties who also happen to be philosophers and scholars, this fun and engaging book is written with general readers in mind—you don’t have to be a devoted fan or a specialist in philosophy to explore the themes, concepts, and questions expressed in Taylor’s songs. Presenting top-tier research and new perspectives on important contemporary issues, twenty-seven chapters discuss the philosophical contexts of Taylor’s work, such as the ethics of reputational damage, the impacts of first impressions, the moral obligation to speak out against injustice, and much more. Taylor Swift and Philosophy is a must-read for Swifties who want to deepen their appreciation and understanding of Taylor’s work, as well as for philosophy students and scholars with an interest in popular culture and media studies.

Not only is the physiologic womb a woman's feminine core; it is the gateway from where we all come from, and to which we all return. The author reveals that the womb from which Lillimae was born was not just an outlet; but an entry into a place of creative potential and well-being. On July 9, 1960 she married Gerald, her teenage soul virgin, and delayed celebrating God's design for their marriage bed for a short while. Over time they gave birth to special projects, personal healing and relating to each other in their collective womb. It was not until a diabolical influence in her life, followed by a supernatural encounter with the Un-Moveable Mover did she appreciate just how wonderfully and marvelous she is made, and the power of the Giver of life. Her delivery did not require the assistance of human hands to prevent a premature birth into a different kind of womb-an eternal one. Lillimae submitting herself to a greater power than she had ever known allows her to embrace and trust her feminine creativity, balance and deepest relationships. As she matures in her positive family dynamics, workplace and church affiliations she receives and advances a fuller understanding of the beautiful and abundant life God has woven into the fibers of her and Gerald's rules for living in their womb. Womb of Wisdom brings to you the reader an awareness that the Un-moveable Mover who came into the world through a virgin womb, and will come again the second time, not as a baby to rescue His human creation by visible and invisible means.

The ABC Path toward True Wisdom is a guide inviting you on an inner journey to connect with Divine Wisdom, a feminine source of intuitive knowing that comes to your aid when you seek answers. Through improved research on the biological design of womens bodies, minds, and emotions, science has revealed you have this divine intuitive and instinctual gift to seek and know the truth. This innate wisdom plays an important role in your spiritual experience as a woman. When you are wrestling with life changing decisions, how do you gain insight into who you are and what is best for your personal journey? When you experience tragedy, sorrow, and loss, how does Divine Wisdom lead you toward hope? The answers surface when you follow three simple steps to reveal what is in your heart. Each chapter in The ABC Path toward True Wisdom is a pathway to trusting your heart to guide you to becoming your true self and filling your life with joy. For example: Discover your embodied wisdom in: Body Bonus Sacred Sexuality Timeless Treasures Embrace your emotional wisdom in: Evoking Emotion Facing Fear Gutsy Grieving Tap your mystical wisdom in: Divining Direction Integrated Intuition Mystical Moments Reclaim your womens wisdom in: Kindred Kindness Remembered Rhythms Valiant Vision The ABC Path takes you on a journey that engages your body, mind, and emotions to listen for the voice of Divine Wisdom to show you the way to trust what you know in your heart is true.

For twenty years, clinical pastoral educators, congregational caregivers, chaplains, pastoral psychotherapists, and pastoral theologians have turned to Pamela Cooper-White's Shared Wisdom to ground their teaching, training, and understandings of countertransference and how the use of the caregiver's self, in turn, impacts the relational dynamic between caregivers and care seekers. Now, Cooper-White updates her groundbreaking book to present new insights on how understanding one's own emotional reactions remains a core competency for ministry. With precision and depth, Cooper-White continues to innovate the theory and practice of spiritual care, counseling, and spiritual psychotherapy. This revised and expanded 20th anniversary edition explores current research on countertransference and intersubjectivity; mutual influence and unconscious relationships; and intercultural and interreligious dynamics in caring relationships. Cooper-White examines how the relational paradigm for pastoral assessment and theological reflection that she pioneered now has important implications for evolving types of care relationships. As she does so, she addresses emerging topics such as postcolonial theory, spiritual and religious fluidity, and gender diversity. CPE supervisors, pastoral care and counseling educators and practitioners, pastoral theology scholars, and psychotherapists looking for an in-depth understanding of relationality and intersubjectivity will find the 20th anniversary edition of Shared Wisdoma must-have resource to build and expand upon a core competency.

Edited by David Platt, Daniel L. Akin, and Tony Merida, this new commentary series, projected to be 48 volumes, takes a Christ- centered approach to expositing each book of the Bible. Rather than a verse-by-verse approach, the authors have crafted chapters that explain and apply key passages in their assigned Bible books. Readers will learn to see Christ in all aspects of Scripture, and they will be encouraged by the devotional nature of each exposition. Projected contributors to the series include notable authors such as Russell D. Moore, Al Mohler, Matt Chandler, Francis Chan, Mark Dever, and others.

Sixteen-hundred years ago, Augustine begged his African congregants to think rationally, pay attention to evidence, and listen to their neighbors. He knew this would not be easy. He knew that human error is more common than human knowledge. He himself had been a member of an elitist cult for nearly ten years and then had spent several years as a skeptic resigned to seeking wealth and honors rather than hoping for truth or goodness. He would not be surprised by the rise of white supremacist cults or the nihilistic apathy that have arisen in the "post truth" era. He had seen nativism, elitism, fear, and doubt rise in response to a crisis of hope that truth could be found, a crisis that led to the use of physical force rather than educated disputation, a crisis that ended in the fall of both Rome and Carthage to Vandals and Visigoths. Augustine's response was to preach publically the hope that encouraged him in his own personal quest for a happy life. This book examines that hope in Augustine's context until the current moment.

Buried for more than a thousand years in the sands of Egypt, the Secret Revelation of John has stayed a secret far longer than it should have. Even now, more than seventy-five years after its discovery in 1945, it eludes easy understanding even as it shines with the message of God's loving presence amid suffering and violence. Illuminating the Secret Revelation of John is the first study written for the curious public, as well as for scholars who have not yet plumbed its depths. The ancient Secret Revelation of John unearths three gems of healing wisdom that have been encrusted in a millennium of doubt and theological limitation. This new work explores the many facets of these gems with a historical setting and background, a contemporary paraphrase, and a study section that invites pondering of and conversation about new questions to explore.