The Renewal of Generosity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Renewal of Generosity write by Arthur W. Frank. This book was released on 2009-11-19. The Renewal of Generosity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contemporary health care often lacks generosity of spirit, even when treatment is most efficient. Too many patients are left unhappy with how they are treated, and too many medical professionals feel estranged from the calling that drew them to medicine. Arthur W. Frank tells the stories of ill people, doctors, and nurses who are restoring generosity to medicine—generosity toward others and to themselves. The Renewal of Generosity evokes medicine as the face-to-face encounter that comes before and after diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, and surgeries. Frank calls upon the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin to reflect on stories of ill people, doctors, and nurses who transform demoralized medicine into caring relationships. He presents their stories as a source of consolation for both ill and professional alike and as an impetus to changing medical systems. Frank shows how generosity is being renewed through dialogue that is more than the exchange of information. Dialogue is an ethic and an ideal for people on both sides of the medical encounter who want to offer more to those they meet and who want their own lives enriched in the process. The Renewal of Generosity views illness and medical work with grace and compassion, making an invaluable contribution to expanding our vision of suffering and healing.
A Journey to Generosity
A Journey to Generosity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Journey to Generosity write by Michael Stickler. This book was released on 2013-11. A Journey to Generosity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is a Generous Life? A Generous Life celebrates generosity lived in the name of Christ. From the everyday generosity that helps make someone's bad day livable to the extraordinary generosity that changes lives forever, this little book seeks to enable everyone, from philanthropists to everyday people, to live generously, the way God desires. About the author: Mike Stickler is an author, consultant, philanthropist, pastor and founder of the worldwide organization Generous Life. Generous Life offers Christian ministries - and those who support them - a Christian perspective for living generously, while coaching leaders through some of their most challenging successes. Mike is the author of over forty books and training videos and through these has made a difference through thousands of ministries as they serve the world. With this book, I want to take you on a journey. This journey will change your life, the life of your family, your church, and your community. Spend the next 41 days with me, and others all around the world along with you, as we make a difference in others' lives.
Rethinking Generosity
Rethinking Generosity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking Generosity write by Romand Coles. This book was released on 1997. Rethinking Generosity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Should generosity and ethical behavior call for receptivity and reciprocity forward? Political scientist Romand Coles explores how, through understanding, we might practice and inspire generosity with responsibility. Drawing from readings of Kant, Nietzsche, and others, Coles considers practical political implications, particularly for relations in civil society and among progressive social movements.
Creating Congregations of Generous People
Creating Congregations of Generous People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creating Congregations of Generous People write by Michael Durall. This book was released on 1999-12-01. Creating Congregations of Generous People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Asking parishioners for money is very different from creating congregations of generous people. In this provocative book, stewardship consultant Michael Durall argues convincingly that annual pledge drives inadvertently perpetuate low-level and same-level giving in congregations. Written with the voice of experience, this book will help clergy and lay leaders initiate and sustain effective stewardship programs. Durall believes that asking for money eventually becomes routine, even tedious-but creating a congregation of generous people becomes ever more meaningful with passing time.
Just Generosity
Just Generosity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Just Generosity write by Ronald J. Sider. This book was released on 2007-04-01. Just Generosity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Just Generosity calls Christians to examine their priorities and their pocketbooks in the face of a scandalous tendency to overlook those among us who suffer while we live in practical opulence. This holistic approach to helping the poor goes far beyond donating clothes or money, envisioning a world in which faith-based groups work with businesses, the media, and the government to help end poverty in the world's richest nation. This updated edition includes current statistics, policy recommendations, and discussions covering everything from welfare reform, changes to Medicade, and the Social Security debate. "Sider's most important book since Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger."--Jim Wallis, author, God's Politics "Sider knows how to lift up people in need.... [An] important and challenging book."--John Ashcroft, former Attorney General of the United States
