![]() ![]() Since being elected moderator of the 500,000-member denomination, the media have focused on how Paterson, 63, has openly been in a 30-year marriage with Vancouver City Councillor Tim Stevenson, also a United Church clergyman. Andrew’s-Wesley has for years offered a Sunday Jazz Vespers event movie nights with spiritual reflection classes based on Christian and Buddhist contemplation practices and an interfaith dialogue series. Paterson’s liberal Christian congregation now welcomes roughly 450 people (about four times the size it was when Paterson arrived) to its two services on any given Sunday. The approach is having some success on the highly secular West Coast. With the United Church struggling with declining membership, Paterson is convinced a metaphorical method of interpretation is key to reaching the growing cohort of Canadians who insist they are “ spiritual, but not religious.” The next issue of West Coast Table will soon be in your inbox. ![]() If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. Manage Print Subscription / Tax ReceiptĪ welcome email is on its way.Westcoast Homes & Design Previous Issues.Vancouver Sun Run: Sign up & event info. ![]()
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And in Wayra, she made a friend for life. Wide-eyed, inexperienced, and comically terrified, Laura made the scrappy, make-do camp her home. ![]() ![]() Fate landed her at a wildlife sanctuary on the edge of the Amazon jungle where she was assigned to a beautiful and complex puma named Wayra. Laura was in her early twenties and directionless when she quit her job to backpack in Bolivia. In this rapturous memoir, writer and activist Laura Coleman shares the story of her liberating journey in the Amazon jungle, where she fell in love with a magnificent cat who changed her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mistaken identities, puns, and wordplay abound as the recalcitrance of Bez’s boss, “Lord Higginshoggins of Hogginshiggins, Director General of the World Federation of Monarchists,” lands the warring women on a two-week ocean voyage to Ibarania and requires them to play newlyweds for free passage. ![]() But with an overdue debt threatening the future of her family’s B&B, Makeda can’t refuse the bounty Bez offers in exchange for her traveling to the multicultural Mediterranean island nation of Ibarania as a potential heir to the throne. So when quirky, scene-stealing investigator Beznaria “Bez” Chetchevaliere shows up hoping to discuss Makeda’s long-disputed royal roots-the stuff of Hicks family legend-the usually compliant Makeda finally flashes her claws. ![]() When Makeda Hicks loses her job and her girlfriend in one day, it sends the insecure people pleaser into an emotional tailspin. Leaving behind the angstier drama of How to Catch a Queen, Cole juggles the conventions of romantic comedy, fairy tale, and social satire in her heartwarming second Runaway Royals romance. ![]() ![]() This anniversary edition includes fifteen pages of original material describing the quilt’s journey and its home at the Mazza Museum in Findley, Ohio.Īs a young Russian Jewish girl in the early 1900s, Anna and her family lived in fear of the Czar’s soldiers. In strongly moving pictures that are as heartwarming as they are real, Patricia Polacco tells the story of her own family and the quilt’s further story that remains a symbol of their enduring love and faith. For four generations the quilt is a Sabbath tablecloth, a wedding canopy, and a blanket that welcomes babies warmly into the world. From a basket of old clothes, Anna’s babushka, Uncle Vladimir’s shirt, Aunt Havalah’s nightdress, and an apron of Aunt Natasha’s become The Keeping Quilt, passed along from mother to daughter for almost a century. “It will be like having the family in backhome Russia dance around us at night.”Īnd so it was. “We will make a quilt to help us always remember home,” Anna’s mother said. ![]() Two beloved and bestselling classics from Patricia Polacco, now available in one eBook set. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The best way we currently have to make sense of quantum phenomena - always subject to change if new data come in, of course - is the Many-Worlds formulation, put forward by Hugh Everett in the 1950's. Something Deeply Hidden aims to demystify quantum mechanics, insisting that it's just as sensible and intelligible as any other physical theory. Instead, for many decades we have refused to take the problem seriously, choosing instead to "Shut up and calculate!" Calculating is always good, but it's time to speak up and do some hard thinking. Physicists should be outraged by our lack of understanding, and devote extraordinary resources and brainpower to figuring out what quantum mechanics really is and what it implies about the world. Yes, in the famous words of Richard Feynman, "I think I can safely say that nobody really understands quantum mechanics." Quantum mechanics is the most successful and fundamental physical theory ever devised by human beings. in theoretical physics to be afraid of quantum mechanics. ![]() ![]() In 1984, black feminist theorist bell hooks introduced her own book, From Margin to Center, with a searing indictment of The Feminine Mystique: Though Friedan's book had spawned what came to be known as the second-wave feminist movement, it focused on what wasn't a universal female problem but rather a problem endured only by white, upper- and middle-class mothers and wives. According to the aforementioned thinkers and philosophers, Betty Friedan's 1963 book is a courageous text with a noble goal, but. So, lest we get too rosy remembering the achievements of The Feminine Mystique, let's review in further detail some of those bubble-bursting, parade-raining criticisms. Like any beloved, much-studied text, secular or sacred, The Feminine Mystique deserves to be read critically in order to be understood fully. 'Anger Boiled Up, and Betty Friedan Was There': 'Feminine Mystique' at 50 ![]() ![]() When the women of his home town start turning into monstrously sexy lesbian zombies, Ace Johnson teams with an unlikely friend to escape town and stop the apocalypse. It has the Lesbians, it has the Zombies and oh yes, they’re from Outer Space. Really, what did you expect? It’s called Lesbian Zombies from Outer Space. For comic book-reading, Zom-com lovers, Lesbian Zombies from Outer Space is a limited-series where arch male sexual fantasies become nightmares. Perhaps the best example of the offshoots remains the comedy, an already established horror subdivision which has as many fans as more serious fare. ![]() ![]() There are TV shows, documentaries, video games, and even music centered on these flesh eating former members of the human race. For a while, only George Romero and various members of his creative posse were excused for continuing the zombie stomp. Over the last few years, our fascination with the living dead has developed into a kind of obsession. ![]() ![]() ![]() Man After Man es el tercer trabajo de Dixon sobre la evolución especulativa, después de After Man (Después del hombre) (1981), que exploró los animales de un mundo hipotético de 50 millones de años en el futuro, donde la humanidad se había extinguido, y The New Dinosaurs (Los nuevos dinosaurios) (1988), que exploró los animales de un mundo donde el evento de extinción del Cretácico-Paleógeno nunca ocurrió. Man After Man explora un camino futuro hipotético de la evolución de los desendientes del Homo sapiens establecido desde 200 años en el futuro hasta 5 millones de años en el futuro, con varias especies humanas futuras evolucionando a través de la ingeniería genética y medios naturales a lo largo del libro. El libro también cuenta con un prólogo de Brian Aldiss. Man After Man: An Anthropology of the future (1990), (en español, El hombre después del hombre: una antropología del futuro) es un libro de ciencia ficción y de 1990 escrito por el geólogo y paleontólogo escocés Dougal Dixon e ilustrado por Philip Hood. ![]() |