God's Way to Finding Contentment Based on Matthew 6:33
Discontentment, stemming from stress, impatience, and greed, affects everyone. The book explores this issue through the lens of Matthew 6:33, offering insights on finding contentment from a divine perspective. It aims to enlighten readers, challenging them to reflect on their lives while providing encouragement to overcome feelings of dissatisfaction.
Timothy Gray examines the early career of Gary Snyder, a pivotal figure in the San Francisco Renaissance, through unpublished journals and letters. He explores Snyder's influence on the cultural geography of the Pacific Rim, highlighting how this literary community embraced a regional identity to challenge Cold War ideologies. Gray delves into Snyder's migratory sensibility, literary translation, and environmental advocacy, while also capturing his role within the Beat and hippie movements. This interdisciplinary work appeals to scholars and general readers interested in the Beat movement and multicultural poetry influences.
Taking a personal approach to the subject matter, Timothy Gray reads criticism and listens to music as though rock 'n' roll not only explains American culture, but also shores up his life. In It's Just the Normal Noises, Gray examines a wide array of writing about roots music from the 1960s to the 2000s. In addition to chapters on the genre-defining work of Peter Guralnick and Greil Marcus, he explores the influential writings of Grant Alden and Peter Blackstock, the editors of No Depression magazine, and the writers who contributed to its pages, Bill Friskicks-Warren, Ed Ward, David Cantwell, and Allison Stewart among them. A host of memoirists and novelists, from Patti Smith and Ann Powers to Eleanor Henderson and Dana Spiotta, shed light on the social effects and personal attachments of the music's many manifestations, from punk to alt country to hardcore.
The book explores the pastoral and natural imagery in the works of Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, and their contemporaries, challenging the perception of them solely as urban poets. It presents a fresh perspective by examining their connection to nature and pastoral themes, while also including voices from the second generation of the New York School. This study aims to broaden the understanding of these poets' contributions beyond cosmopolitan culture, revealing their deeper engagement with the natural world.
Detective John O'Meara employs his unique abilities to navigate the dangerous intersection of the supernatural and the drug trade in New Orleans. As he confronts the Voodoo priest Papa G, who threatens the Tandino Family's operations, O'Meara faces a relentless underworld where Papa G's followers are determined to protect their lives at any cost. The investigation becomes a race against time to prevent escalating violence from overtaking the city.
In this addition to the Catholic Biblical Theology of the Sacraments series, a top Catholic New Testament scholar offers a biblical theology of the initiatory rite of baptism rooted in the Old and New Testaments.