Broken Mary

Broken Mary PDF

Author: Kevin Matthews

Publisher: Beacon Publishing

Published: 2016-07-25

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9781942611684

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In 2008, Kevin Matthews, a well-known ABC and CBS radio personality in Chicago, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. As the drive-time radio host for seventeen years and also the voice of his sports commentator, Jim Shorts, and other characters, Matthews entertained ten million listeners weekly, sold out every appearance in the Midwest, and performed in front of 65,000 fans at Grant Park. He traveled around the world, met the famous, had babies named after him, and helped countless charities. He entertained hundreds of thousands of people inside prisons, army bases, and backyards. His promotions included comedy jams, a band, barbeque throw downs, and golf outings. Broken Mary is Matthews' story of his early years in radio and stand-up comedy, his successful career, his struggle with MS, his awakening to the dignity of women, and, importantly, his chance encounter with a broken statue of Mary left next to a dumpster and all that happened as a result. Told with Matthews' signature good humor, this confession of the brokenness of mankind is touchingly honest, personally inspiring, and full of hope.

Broken Body, Healing Spirit

Broken Body, Healing Spirit PDF

Author: Mary C. Earle

Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2003-07

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 0819219282

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Using the Benedictine practice of lectio divina, or holy reading, as a way of reading an illness, as a way to relate better to one's body and soul.

Dirt

Dirt PDF

Author: Mary Marantz

Publisher: Revell

Published: 2020-09-15

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1493426702

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Dirt is a story about the places where we start. From a single-wide trailer in the mountains of rural West Virginia to the halls of Yale Law School, Mary Marantz's story is one of remembering our roots while turning our faces to the sky. From growing up in that trailer, where it rained just as hard inside as out and the smell of mildew hung thick in the air, Mary has known what it is to feel broken and disqualified because of the muddy scars leaving smudged fingerprints across our lives. Generations of her family lived and logged in those hauntingly treacherous woods, risking life and limb just to barely scrape by. And yet that very struggle became the redemption song God used to write a life she never dreamed of. Mixed with warmth, wit, and the bittersweet, sometimes achingly heartbreaking places we go when we dig in instead of give up, Dirt is a story of healing. With gut-wrenching honesty and hard-won wisdom, Mary shares her story for anyone who has ever walked into the world and felt like their scars were still on display, showing that you are braver, better, and more empathetic for what you have survived. Because God does his best work in the muddy, messy, and broken--if we'll only learn to dig in.

At the Broken Places

At the Broken Places PDF

Author: Mary Collins

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2017-04-25

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0807088358

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In this collaborative memoir, a parent and a transgender son recount wrestling with their differences as Donald Collins undertook medical-treatment options to better align his body with his gender identity. As a parent, Mary Collins didn’t agree with her trans son’s decision to physically alter his body, although she supported his right to realize himself as a person. Raw and uncensored, each explains her or his emotional mindset at the time: Mary felt she had lost a daughter; Donald activated his “authentic self.” Both battled to assert their rights. A powerful memoir and resource, At the Broken Places offers a road map for families in transition.

Broken Bodies

Broken Bodies PDF

Author: Karen O'Donnell

Publisher: SCM Press

Published: 2019-01-01

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0334056241

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The Body of Christ is a traumatised body because it is constituted of traumatised bodies. This monograph explores the nature of that trauma and examines the implications of identifying the trauma of this body. Constructing new ways of thinking about the narratives at the heart of the Christian faith, 'Broken Bodies' offers a fresh perspective on Christian theology, in particular the Eucharist, and presents a call to love the body in all its guises. It offers new pathways for considering what it means to ‘be Christian’ and explores the impact that the experience of trauma has on Christian doctrine.

Mary and the Trail of Tears

Mary and the Trail of Tears PDF

Author: Andrea L. Rogers

Publisher: Stone Arch Books

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 1496587146

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It is June first and twelve-year-old Mary does not really understand what is happening: she does not understand the hatred and greed of the white men who are forcing her Cherokee family out of their home in New Echota, Georgia, capital of the Cherokee Nation, and trying to steal what few things they are allowed to take with them, she does not understand why a soldier killed her grandfather--and she certainly does not understand how she, her sister, and her mother, are going to survive the 1000 mile trip to the lands west of the Mississippi.

The Hell with Love

The Hell with Love PDF

Author: Mary D. Esselman

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2010-01-23

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780759527034

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This heart-wrenching collection of poems expresses the anger, hurt, depression of loss - asking why, analysing rifts and striving for explanation.

The Bowl Is Already Broken

The Bowl Is Already Broken PDF

Author: Mary Kay Zuravleff

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2006-03-21

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 9780312424985

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In this big, rewarding novel about art, politics, family, terrorism, courage, and happiness, Promise Whittaker, the diminutive but decisive acting director of the National Museum of Asian Art, is pregnant again--and that's just the beginning of her difficulties.

The Broken Wing

The Broken Wing PDF

Author: Mary Burchell

Publisher: Dales Large Print

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9781842620083

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Although Tessa had the voice of an angel it was her twin sister Tania who always seemed to be in the limelight. And now it looked as though beautiful, bewitching Tania would even rob shy Tessa of the man she loved -- Quentin Otway.