Searching For Home

Searching for Home

• Author : M. Craig Barnes
• Publisher : Baker Books
• File Size : 17,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2006-03-01
• Genre: Religion
• Pages : 192
• ISBN 10 : 9781585585175

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Deep down it's easy to believe that the better job, the nicer house, or the more dynamic church will finally make us feel "at home." In Searching for Home, M. Craig Barnes challenges this belief. He reminds us that paradise is lost and we can't go home again. Our great comfort and hope, however, is that we are never lost to God. Seasoned by more than twenty years as a pastor, Barnes discusses the importance of confession, worship, and grace in our search for home. He offers advice about how we can move from being transient nomads "too frightened to be grateful" to pilgrims who are at home with God, guided by our pleasure in him. This book was written for both Christians and seekers who are still looking for a sense of belonging or "home." It will be a useful tool for pastors, adult Sunday school groups, and counselors of all kinds who are advising pilgrims along the way.

Searching for Home

• Author : Alice Frick Hagaman
• Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• File Size : 14,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2019-10-02
• Genre: Biography & Autobiography
• Pages : 144
• ISBN 10 : 9781644165935

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Inna Wolkovich Gardner Nichols' story is not a recount of the horrors of war - for those stories have already been written. Her story is a true personal recollection based on her memories as a young orphan girl caught up in the ravages and consequences of World War II as so many thousands endured. Her saga continues as she recounts the enormous challenges she faced as a Non-English speaking immigrant living in the United States. What is written by the author is primarily based on Inna's personal accounts. At this point in her life of eighty plus years, the events described in this story stand out very clearly in her mind. Inna's inspiring story is a testimony that the human spirit has the capacity to survive and receive God's grace, no matter what the difficulties and struggles in life might be.

Searching for Home

• Author : Simran Chawla
• Publisher : Hachette India
• File Size : 5,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2018-08-20
• Genre: Biography & Autobiography
• Pages : 224
• ISBN 10 : 9789351950752

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A compelling chronicle of what it means to be Indian in a foreign land. In an age when India is one of the strongest emerging markets and a developing superpower, tens of thousands of Indians leave the country each year to seek new lives on distant shores. What are they looking for and what do they really find? In a first-of-its-kind narrative, journalist and American expat Simran Chawla documents the contemporary Indian immigrant experience in various corners of the world ? from Alaska to the UK, Europe to Africa, the Americas to the Middle East. In this book, she tells the story of families like the Singhs who farm in the heartland of Italy just south of Verona; discovers the lucrative Indian wedding industry in the Gulf or United Arab Emirates; learns about the community of ?aunties? in Orlando who have found meaning in their lives once again by organizing sewing get-togethers; watches a cricket match between diamond traders in Antwerp; and explores the heartbreaking price of living illegally in London. In lucid, affecting prose, Searching for Home tells the stories of people who, though separated by thousands of kilometres, share experiences that continue to bind them to their homeland.

Searching for Home Abroad

• Author : Jeff Lesser
• Publisher : Duke University Press
• File Size : 10,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2003-09-15
• Genre: Political Science
• Pages : 236
• ISBN 10 : 0822331489

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During the first half of the twentieth century, Japanese immigrants entered Brazil by the tens of thousands. In more recent decades that flow has been reversed: more than 200,000 Japanese-Brazilians and their families have relocated to Japan. Examining these significant but rarely studied transnational movements and the experiences of Japanese-Brazilians, the essays in Searching for Home Abroad rethink complex issues of ethnicity and national identity. The contributors—who represent a number of nationalities and disciplines themselves—analyze how the original Japanese immigrants, their descendants in Brazil, and the Japanese-Brazilians in Japan sought to fit into the culture of each country while confronting both prejudice and discrimination. The concepts of home and diaspora are engaged and debated throughout the volume. Drawing on numerous sources—oral histories, interviews, private papers, films, myths, and music—the contributors highlight the role ethnic minorities have played in constructing Brazilian and Japanese national identities. The essayists consider the economic and emotional motivations for migration as well as a range of fascinating cultural outgrowths such as Japanese secret societies in Brazil. They explore intriguing paradoxes, including the feeling among many Japanese-Brazilians who have migrated to Japan that they are more "Brazilian" there than they were in Brazil. Searching for Home Abroad will be of great interest to scholars of immigration and ethnicity in the Americas and Asia. Contributors. Shuhei Hosokawa, Angelo Ishi, Jeffrey Lesser, Daniel T. Linger, Koichi Mori, Joshua Hotaka Roth, Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda, Keiko Yamanaka, Karen Tei Yamashita

Searching for Home

• Author : Megan Linden
• Publisher : Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
• File Size : 18,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2019-08-06
• Genre: Fiction
• Pages : 120
• ISBN 10 : 9781786518071

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Two men who don't quite fit in have a chance to find an anchor in an unusual place—each other. Patrick Donnelly was cast out from his pack after admitting to his father—his Alpha—that he is gay. Now he's trying to start over in Harrington Hills, but he is struggling, not only with the new power balance but also with his own demons. Ollie Tomilson had gotten used to being the odd one out—a kid in the system, a lone human in the werewolf pack and a man who is always just temporarily visiting in a town where people put down deep roots. While Patrick and Ollie seem different in many ways, what unites them is that neither fits into the Harrington Hills mold. But maybe—just maybe—they can find what they are searching for in each other. Reader advisory: This book is best read as part of a series but can be enjoyed as a standalone.

Searching for Home A Memoir of My Famous Friends Travels and Life as a Royal

• Author : Jenifer Field
• Publisher : Lulu.com
• File Size : 8,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2023-04-02
• Genre: Uncategoriezed
• Pages : 460
• ISBN 10 : 9780557008629

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Searching for Home

• Author : Jill Weatherholt
• Publisher : Harlequin
• File Size : 5,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2021-12-28
• Genre: Fiction
• Pages : 224
• ISBN 10 : 9780369715425

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Can three little matchmakers lasso a cowboy father? When injured professional bull rider Luke Beckett returns to his hometown to recover, he doesn’t expect his B and B host and physical therapist to be his first and only love, Meg Brennan. He’s also unprepared for Meg’s adorable triplets to steal his heart. Luke’s past has him doubting he’s good enough for Meg and the children, but they might be just what the doctor ordered to help him heal… From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope.

Pilgrims Searching for a Home

• Author : Carl E. Hansen
• Publisher : WestBow Press
• File Size : 13,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2022-09-07
• Genre: Biography & Autobiography
• Pages : 203
• ISBN 10 : 9781664271999

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In this biographical sketch, the author traces the extraordinary life pilgrimage of his grandparents. In the aftermath of the 1917 Revolution, Jacob and Justina Friesen started their family in Ischalka, Samara, Russia, enduring the turmoil and terror of the disastrous civil war and the famine that followed. This ordinary Christian family, leaving behind home, loved ones, culture, and all that was familiar, and, as pilgrims, fled from their motherland in search of a better home in western Canada. Adjusting as pioneers to their new life on the prairies was not easy either. Learning a new language and culture while moving from place to place, it took a few years to get settled. Then, just as they were settling, the Great Depression with its “dust bowl” years set in. Struggling and losing their farm twice while the family expanded to fourteen children was a test of faith like no other. This is a story of faith and hope amid disappointment and despair. They realized that in this life, we are but pilgrims passing through, seeking the permanent “city” that has everlasting foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Searching For Home

• Author : Simran Chawla
• Publisher : Hachette India
• File Size : 16,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2020-01-07
• Genre: Biography & Autobiography
• Pages : 0
• ISBN 10 : 9351950743

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A compelling chronicle of what it means to be Indian in a foreign land.In an age when India is one of the strongest emerging markets and a developing superpower, tens of thousands of Indians leave the country each year to seek new lives on distant shores. What are they looking for and what do they really find? In a first-of-its-kind narrative, journalist and American expat Simran Chawla documents the contemporary Indian immigrant experience in various corners of the world - from Alaska to the UK, Europe to Africa, the Americas to the Middle East. In this book, she tells the story of families like the Singhs who farm in the heartland of Italy just south of Verona; discovers the lucrative Indian wedding industry in the Gulf or United Arab Emirates; learns about the community of aunties' in Orlando who have found meaning in their lives once again by organizing sewing get-togethers; watches a cricket match between diamond traders in Antwerp; and explores the heartbreaking price of living illegally in London.In lucid, affecting prose, Searching for Home tells the stories of people who, though separated by thousands of kilometres, share experiences that continue to bind them to their homeland.

What the Oceans Remember

• Author : Sonja Boon
• Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
• File Size : 8,6 Mb
• Release Date : 2019-09-25
• Genre: Biography & Autobiography
• Pages : null
• ISBN 10 : 9781771124256

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Author Sonja Boon’s heritage is complicated. Although she has lived in Canada for more than thirty years, she was born in the UK to a Surinamese mother and a Dutch father. Boon’s family history spans five continents: Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, South America, and North America. Despite her complex and multi-layered background, she has often omitted her full heritage, replying “I’m Dutch-Canadian” to anyone who asks about her identity. An invitation to join a family tree project inspired a journey to the heart of the histories that have shaped her identity. It was an opportunity to answer the two questions that have dogged her over the years: Where does she belong? And who does she belong to? Boon’s archival research—in Suriname, the Netherlands, the UK, and Canada—brings her opportunities to reflect on the possibilities and limitations of the archives themselves, the tangliness of oceanic migration, histories, the meaning of legacy, music, love, freedom, memory, ruin, and imagination. Ultimately, she reflected on the relevance of our past to understanding our present. Deeply informed by archival research and current scholarship, but written as a reflective and intimate memoir, What the Oceans Remember addresses current issues in migration, identity, belonging, and history through an interrogation of race, ethnicity, gender, archives and memory. More importantly, it addresses the relevance of our past to understanding our present. It shows the multiplicity of identities and origins that can shape the way we understand our histories and our own selves.

Searching for Home

• Author : Joseph Gosler
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 9,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2020-05-05
• Genre: Uncategoriezed
• Pages : 276
• ISBN 10 : 9493056341

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"My name is Pietje Dijkstra not Josje Gosler!", he states tearfully when goaded by his cousin. The story of a child survivor, a Jewish boy who is hidden in the Netherlands during WWII. His porcelain psyche is damaged and his closest companion is fear. Ever wandering and struggling to find himself, we watch the young boy become a man.

Searching for the New Black Man

• Author : Ronda C. Henry Anthony
• Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
• File Size : 11,6 Mb
• Release Date : 2013-06-01
• Genre: Literary Criticism
• Pages : 205
• ISBN 10 : 9781626744448

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Using the slave narratives of Henry Bibb and Frederick Douglass, as well as the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Walter Mosley, and Barack Obama, Ronda C. Henry Anthony examines how women’s bodies are used in African American literature to fund the production of black masculine ideality and power. In tracing representations of ideal black masculinities and femininities, Henry Anthony shows how black men’s struggles for gendered agency are inextricably bound up with their complicated relation to white men and normative masculinity. The historical context in which Henry Anthony couches these struggles highlights the extent to which shifting socioeconomic circumstances dictate the ideological, cultural, and emotional terms upon which black men conceptualize identity. Yet, Henry Anthony quickly moves to texts that challenge traditional constructions of black masculinity. In these texts Henry Anthony traces how the emergence of collaboratively-gendered discourses, or a blending of black female/male feminist consciousnesses, are reshaping black masculinities, femininities, and intraracial relations for a new century.

Searching for Zion

• Author : Emily Raboteau
• Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
• File Size : 13,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2013-01-08
• Genre: Social Science
• Pages : 320
• ISBN 10 : 9780802193797

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A decade in the making, Emily Raboteau’s Searching for Zion takes readers around the world on an unexpected adventure of faith. Both one woman’s quest for a place to call “home” and an investigation into a people’s search for the Promised Land, this landmark work of creative nonfiction is a trenchant inquiry into contemporary and historical ethnic displacement. At the age of twenty-three, award-winning writer Emily Raboteau traveled to Israel to visit her childhood best friend. While her friend appeared to have found a place to belong, Raboteau could not yet say the same for herself. As a biracial woman from a country still divided along racial lines, she’d never felt at home in America. But as a reggae fan and the daughter of a historian of African-American religion, Raboteau knew of "Zion" as a place black people yearned to be. She’d heard about it on Bob Marley’s Exodus and in the speeches of Martin Luther King. She understood it as a metaphor for freedom, a spiritual realm rather than a geographical one. Now in Israel, the Jewish Zion, she was surprised to discover black Jews. More surprising was the story of how they got there. Inspired by their exodus, Raboteau sought out other black communities that left home in search of a Promised Land. Her question for them is same she asks herself: have you found the home you’re looking for? On her ten-year journey back in time and around the globe, through the Bush years and into the age of Obama, Raboteau wanders to Jamaica, Ethiopia, Ghana, and the American South to explore the complex and contradictory perspectives of Black Zionists. She talks to Rastafarians and African Hebrew Israelites, Evangelicals and Ethiopian Jews, and Katrina transplants from her own family—people that have risked everything in search of territory that is hard to define and harder to inhabit. Uniting memoir with historical and cultural investigation, Raboteau overturns our ideas of place and patriotism, displacement and dis

Searching for Home Abroad

• Author : Jeffrey Lesser
• Publisher : Duke University Press
• File Size : 17,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2003-08-25
• Genre: Political Science
• Pages : 232
• ISBN 10 : 9780822385134

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During the first half of the twentieth century, Japanese immigrants entered Brazil by the tens of thousands. In more recent decades that flow has been reversed: more than 200,000 Japanese-Brazilians and their families have relocated to Japan. Examining these significant but rarely studied transnational movements and the experiences of Japanese-Brazilians, the essays in Searching for Home Abroad rethink complex issues of ethnicity and national identity. The contributors—who represent a number of nationalities and disciplines themselves—analyze how the original Japanese immigrants, their descendants in Brazil, and the Japanese-Brazilians in Japan sought to fit into the culture of each country while confronting both prejudice and discrimination. The concepts of home and diaspora are engaged and debated throughout the volume. Drawing on numerous sources—oral histories, interviews, private papers, films, myths, and music—the contributors highlight the role ethnic minorities have played in constructing Brazilian and Japanese national identities. The essayists consider the economic and emotional motivations for migration as well as a range of fascinating cultural outgrowths such as Japanese secret societies in Brazil. They explore intriguing paradoxes, including the feeling among many Japanese-Brazilians who have migrated to Japan that they are more "Brazilian" there than they were in Brazil. Searching for Home Abroad will be of great interest to scholars of immigration and ethnicity in the Americas and Asia. Contributors. Shuhei Hosokawa, Angelo Ishi, Jeffrey Lesser, Daniel T. Linger, Koichi Mori, Joshua Hotaka Roth, Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda, Keiko Yamanaka, Karen Tei Yamashita

Searching for Home

• Author : Mary Stanley
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• File Size : 13,6 Mb
• Release Date : 2012-11-01
• Genre: Fiction
• Pages : 195
• ISBN 10 : 9781405521222

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Ireland, 1944. In a violent storm, a German plane heading for Britain is blown west, far off course. The pilot, completely disorientated, plunges down on to an Irish hillside, and shatters a young family. The children who survive that terrible night try to leave the past behind, but the past will not let them go. Rescued by their Aunt Lucy, Amelia and Mattie need to start afresh, but Lucy too has lost her way. And as all three search for a place to call home, they accidentally uncover the cruellest secrets of all . . . Mary Stanley's enthralling new novel moves from 1940s Ireland through post-war England to golden Malta. Her vibrant characters and beautifully perceptive writing bring to life a compelling tale of survival, self-discovery, and the desire to belong. Discover Piatkus Entice: temptation at your fingertips - www.piatkusentice.co.uk