![]() ![]() "A fresh approach to American environmental history. Merchant argues that past ways of relating to the land could become an inspiration for renewing resources and achieving sustainability in the future. In a preface to the second edition, Merchant introduces new ideas about narrating environmental change based on gender and the dialectics of transformation, while the revised epilogue situates New England in the context of twenty-first-century globalization and climate change. In Ecological Revolutions, Carolyn Merchant analyzes these two major transformations in the New England environment between 16. This colonial ecological revolution held sway until the nineteenth century, when New England's industrial production brought on a capitalist revolution that again remade the ecology, economy, and conceptions of nature in the region. With the arrival of European explorers and settlers during the seventeenth century, Native American ways of life and the environment itself underwent radical alterations as human relationships to the land and ways of thinking about nature all changed. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Meanwhile, words may be fun but conversation and speech isn’t. But ‘unfiltered’ direct light sort of ‘needles’ its way into autistic peoples’ eyeballs.” Like Mitchell’s son, Naoki flaps his fingers in front of his eyes because “light that reaches us like this feels soft and gentle, like moonlight. ![]() And his sense of the past is as fragments or individual pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, which will leap out and feel as fresh as the moment he experienced them - the shock of which can be extremely distressing. He can’t tell whether something just happened or whether it occurred days or weeks ago. He doesn’t experience life as a linear progression of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Naoki’s very sense of time and space differs from non-autistic people’s. “It’s like my limbs are a mermaid’s rubbery tail.” “I have no clear sensation of where my arms and legs are attached or how to make them do what I’m telling them to do,” he says. The connection between his brain and mouth is a constant source of upset, as is his sense of alienation from his body. ![]() ![]() Seuss Books Are Pulled, and a ‘Cancel Culture’ Controversy Erupts” says, “Children’s publishers and literary estates are trying to walk a delicate line by preserving an author’s legacy, while recognizing and rejecting aspects of a writer’s work that are out of step with current social and cultural values.” While we can still celebrate Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced that it would discontinue the publication of six books due to “insensitive and racist imagery.” This decision was the company’s effort in making his books inclusive and enjoyable for everyone who reads them. However, some of his famous works contain implicit biases that are problematic in creating a more loving and accepting world for people of all backgrounds. Seuss’s books are filled with lighthearted rhymes and whimsical illustrations that bring nothing but joy during story time with our little ones. ![]() Seuss’s racist works continues to traverse the internet, many differing opinions are also being voiced about their impact. ![]() It can be shocking to find racism in books we loved and revered as children. ![]() ![]() By Leigh Pendleton, Maggie Hamilton, Leila Mahdavi, and Ixchel Ramirez ![]() ![]() This is a comic that everybody’s talking about. Even if you think Archie is “stupid”, you should read this story. (And they mean that!) Written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and very creepily illustrated by Francesco Francavilla, this book collects the first five issues (a self-contained story) in a limited-print-run comic-shop exclusive printing before the probable mass-market edition. For reals.Īfterlife With Archie is the first Archie comic series ever published that wasn’t meant for kids. You should read it too! In the first issue, Jughead becomes a zombie. Afterlife With Archie Volume 1: Escape From RiverdaleĪfterlife With Archie Volume 1: Escape From Riverdale (Archie Comics): This doesn’t fit my usual criteria for this column (which covers either classic material from over 20 or more years ago or mega-books over 400 pages), but it’s here because it’s the most bizarre thing I’ve read in ages. ![]() ![]() They range from Augustine, through Scotus and Aquinas with bows to Luther and Calvin and the awe of Rudolph Otto on her way to Vatican II and Karl Rahner’s idea of transcendence, God’s total otherness that invites our self-transcendence through God’s gracious immanence. The theologians she reviews indicate the breadth of her enterprise and the sources of her own inspiration. ![]() Johnson grounds her thinking in the transcendence of God that cannot be captured in any one theology or by any one cultural group. ![]() The book provides an overview of theological highlights and contributions from major theologians. Johnson’s table of contents is a reliable outline of her book a real help for teachers or study groups who use The Quest for the Living God as I propose to do in an upper level undergraduate research seminar this fall. Distinguished, indeed! Written primarily for intelligent lay folk, the engaging style of this review of the last 50 years of Christian theology contains Johnson’s own insights couched in smooth, economic and yet elegant language with an occasional zinger that sums up a movement or an insight. Johnson, Distinguished Professor of Theology at Fordham University. This is another splendid book by Elizabeth A. ![]() Jill RAITT, Fontbonne University, 6800 Wydown Blvd, St. New York: The Continuum International Publishing Group Inc, 2007. Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the theology of God. ![]() ![]() ![]() When you are aware of all that has been given to you, in your lifetime and the past few days, it is hard not to be humbled, and pleased to give back. It means that you are willing to stop being such a jerk. It almost always make you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides. Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. Comment on Anne Lamott's belief in gratitude: Is this a religious book? A spiritual book? Does it clash with or conform to your beliefs?ĥ. ![]() Why does Lamott believe that powerlessness is a spiritual condition? Have you ever felt overwhelmed by a sense of powerlessness in your life?Ĥ. What is prayer and what is its purpose? What does Lamott suggest prayer is? What do you pray for?ģ. Do you consider Help, Thanks, Wow a helpful guide to prayer? Did you pray (at all? regularly?) before you read Lamott's book? Has the book changed your attitude toward prayer or altered your practice of prayer?Ģ. Read-Think-Talk (a guided reading chart)Īlso consider these LitLovers talking points to help get a discussion started for Help, Thanks, Wow:ġ. ![]()
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