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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
If you're looking for a book to comfort a grieving parent or if you yourself are grieving, I highly recommend this book. I have four babies in Heaven(3 miscarriages and 1 fullterm stillbirth), and it seems as if I've received nearly every book published on pregnancy loss. None of the other books are as theologically sound and as gently written as MacArthur's text. As I read this book, I'm thrilled to know that God cares very deeply about my grief and that reassures me through His Word.
You won't be disappointed in this book. It's hopeful, coherent, and grounded.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
In Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres, Gerald Hauser hopes to rethink the discrepancy between what the political and media elite abstract as the "public sphere" and what ordinary people consider it to be. Hauser surveys political and rhetorical scholarship in an attempt to theorize a more rhetorical politics, rather than an idealistic one. By mapping the trajectory of the discourse around such cases as the Polish Solidarity movement, the Meese Commission on Pornography, and Jimmy Carter's framing of the Iranian Hostage Crisis, Hauser crafts a "vernacular rhetorical model" in which partisanship is assumed and embraced rather than bracketed out. Hauser… Read more
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Brascher's Godly Women is an empathetic, inductive, and scholarly look at religious women who use their faith as a source of empowerment. Focusing on women's talk within two fundamentalist churches, Brascher's ethnography questions the assumptions that religion-especially fundamentalism-is merely male-dominated or misogynistic. Her subjects find many nuanced and creative ways to influence their culture. What I continued to hear in Brascher's ethnography was my own mother's voice. She continues to attribute her empowerment to her faith. "Before I was a Christian, I didn't want to say or do anything. When I got saved, I had something important to say. I wanted to get involved." It… Read more
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