The Soul of the Stranger - 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 Soul of the Stranger write by Joy Ladin. This book was released on 2019. The Soul of the Stranger available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Evocative readings of the Torah through the lens of transgender experience, exploring the ways trans perspectives can enrich our understanding of religious texts, traditions, and God
The Soul Is a Stranger in This World
The Soul Is a Stranger in This World - 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 Soul Is a Stranger in This World write by Micah Mattix. This book was released on 2020-01-07. The Soul Is a Stranger in This World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Soul Is a Stranger in This World is a timely examination of some of the best modern and contemporary poets and a trenchant defense of poetry as a narrative, musical, and theological art. While it is common today to view the poet as a revolutionary, who breaks old forms in the name of aesthetic and political freedom, this volume begins with the classical view of the poet "as a man speaking to men," as Wordsworth put it. Poetry may challenge and shock, but it also consoles, probing the contours of the human soul in a broken world. Collected from essays and reviews first published in The Wall Street Journal, The New Criterion, Books and Culture, First Things, and other outlets, the volume traces these concerns in the work of modern masters such as Rilke and Eliot, avant-garde exemplars like Andre du Bouchet and Basil Bunting, and contemporary writers such as Dana Gioia and Franz Wright.
Praying for Strangers
Praying for Strangers - 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 Praying for Strangers write by River Jordan. This book was released on 2012-03-07. Praying for Strangers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What if there was something you could do-something simple, yet so powerful-that could positively influence others and change your life in the process? Critically acclaimed author River Jordan discovered that very thing... As 2009 approached, both of River Jordan's sons were about to go off to war-one to Iraq and the other to Afghanistan-and she was planning a family reunion to see them off. All River could do was pray for her sons' safety and hope to maintain her strength, until she unexpectedly came upon the perfect New Year's resolution-one that focused on others instead of herself. She would pray for a complete stranger every single day of the year. In Praying for Strangers, Jordan tells that the discovery that she made along the journey was not simply that her prayers touched the lives of these strangers (in often astounding ways), but that the unexpected connections she made with other people would be a profound experience that would change her life forever.
Through the Door of Life
Through the Door of Life - 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 Through the Door of Life write by Joy Ladin. This book was released on 2012-03-15. Through the Door of Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Professor Jay Ladin made headlines around the world when, after years of teaching literature at Yeshiva University, he returned to the Orthodox Jewish campus as a woman—Joy Ladin. In Through the Door of Life, Joy Ladin takes readers inside her transition as she changed genders and, in the process, created a new self. With unsparing honesty and surprising humor, Ladin wrestles with both the practical problems of gender transition and the larger moral, spiritual, and philosophical questions that arise. Ladin recounts her struggle to reconcile the pain of her experience living as the “wrong” gender with the pain of her children in losing the father they love. We eavesdrop on her lifelong conversations with the God whom she sees both as the source of her agony and as her hope for transcending it. We look over her shoulder as she learns to walk and talk as a woman after forty-plus years of walking and talking as a man. We stare with her into the mirror as she asks herself how the new self she is creating will ever become real. Ladin’s poignant memoir takes us from the death of living as the man she knew she wasn’t, to the shattering of family and career that accompanied her transition, to the new self, relationships, and love she finds when she opens the door of life. 2012 Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award for Biography, Autobiography, or Memoir “Wrenching—and liberating. . . .[it] opens up new ways of looking at gender and the place of LGBT Jews in community.”—Greater Phoenix Jewish News “Given her high-profile academic position, Ladin’s transition was a major news story in Israel and even internationally. But behind the public story was a private struggle and learning experience, and Ladin pulls no punches in telling that story. She offers a peek into how daunting it was to learn, with little support from others, how to dress as a middle-aged woman, to mu on make-up, to walk and talk like a female. She provides a front-row seat for observing how one person confronted a seemingly impossible situation and how she triumphed, however shakingly, over the many adversities, both societal and psychological, that stood in the way.”—The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide
Thespirit: that Stranger Inside Us
Thespirit: that Stranger Inside Us - 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 Thespirit: that Stranger Inside Us write by Jean Emile Charon. This book was released on 2004. Thespirit: that Stranger Inside Us available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Are we immortal? A brilliant nuclear physicist presents solid scientific evidence that we are. In simple terms non-scientists can understand, Jean Charon offers us positive proof that our bodies may die, but our Spirits live on forever.
