John Lewis

After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence -- but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the Deep South, they will be tested like never before. Faced with beatings, police brutality, imprisonment, arson, and even murder, the young activists of the movement struggle with internal conflicts as well. But their courage will attract...

This book is highly practical. It gives application to Biblical principles in the area of handling offences, hurts and tragedies. We all go through difficult times that we didn't ask for or even imagine would ever happen to us. Our choice is either to be a victim or an over-comer. Combining Biblical truth, life experience and personal research, the author outlines a necessary process of moving through those negative experiences to a place of freedom...

An intimate account of legendary U.S. Representative John Lewis' life, legacy and more than 60 years of extraordinary activism - from the bold teenager on the front lines of the Civil Rights movement to the legislative powerhouse.

"John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is a visionary and a man of faith. Using intimate interviews with Lewis and his family and deep research into the history of the civil rights movement, Meacham writes of how the activist and leader was inspired by the Bible, his mother's unbreakable spirit, his sharecropper father's tireless ambition, and his teachers in nonviolence, Reverend James Lawson...

The narrow path that leads from bondage in the kingdom of darkness to freedom in the light of God's glorious Son is illuminated in Dynamic Salvation and The Tragedy of Lost Believers. The Holy Spirit is leading the way, but many believers are deceived. Complacent and self-assured, they are not following, placing themselves in danger of a tragic outcome. Standing and walking in the faith that expresses itself through divine love is the only safe path,...

Un recueil de flash fiction et de poèmes écrit par un auteur talentueux. Entremêlant les récits d'une dizaine de personnages et exécutant avec habileté les formes de la prose et de la poésie, ces nouvelles sans lien apparent entre elles forment un tout cohérent. Existentiel, captivant et toujours provocateur, chaque chapitre bondit sur le lecteur et s'implante dans son esprit. Ce livre force les lecteurs à réfléchir et invite à la ré-investigation....

I AM: A Journey in Jewish Faith is a spiritual/theological meditation on the Shema, the biblical statement of God's oneness that rests in the heart of the Jewish people. Through poetry and prose, Rabbi Eron uses the words of the Shema--"Listen carefully all you people of Israel, the Eternal is our God, the Eternal alone!"--and the three biblical passages that follow it in the Jewish worship service to explore and express a contemporary understanding...

"To John Lewis, the civil rights movement came to an end with the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. But that was after more than five years as one of the preeminent figures of the movement, leading sit-in protests and fighting segregation on interstate busways as an original Freedom Rider. It was after becoming chairman of SNCC (the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) and being the youngest speaker at the March on Washington. It was...

Despite more than forty arrests, physical attacks, and serious injuries at protests, Congressman John Lewis, a close confidant to Martin Luther King Jr., has remained a devoted advocate of the discipline and philosophy of nonviolence. Now, in an era in which the protest culture he helped forge has resurfaced as a force for change, Lewis' insights have never been more relevant. In this heartfelt book, Lewis explores the contributions that each generation...