Sentences with phrase «book than a battle»

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During the debate over «biblical inerrancy» that raged among evangelicalism for several years in the late 1970s, I remember someone observing that Harold Lindsell's 1976 book, The Battle for the Bible, which pretty much got that debate going, was more a theory of institutional change than it was about theology as such.

I remembered Brennan Manning — the man who has translated the love of God in a way that I could receive it more than probably any other writer — was addicted to alcohol and I re-read up one of his last books before he died: «All is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir» where he vulnerably writes about what this battle has cost him, even as he experienced the unending and unconditional love of God in the midst of it, how he experienced regret and pain and loss alongside of the love and tenderness of God in this dependency.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Watching a World War Two battle re-enactment of soldiers running across muddy wasteland and tanks firing in to the night sky, paints a much clearer picture than anything you can read from an exercise book.

If you read the book maybe you could get some ideas to share with your daughter so you become part of the adventure with them, rather than battling against them.

Short books they put the battle into a wider context than military history and examine how they have been interpreted and re-interpreted through history.

This year's 19th annual Battle of the Books trivia event featured more than 150 local teen and preteen readers representing 14 Buffalo & Erie County Public Libraries.

Local teens and pre-teens are gearing up for the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library's Battle of the Books, an exciting annual reading trivia competition featuring more than 150 contestants on 23 teams representing 14 area libraries.

Battle of the Books, in its 16th year, had more than 200 local participants, entering grades six — nine.

Coming out in the wake of a flurry of fact - inspired (if not fact - based) World War II novels, including Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny, James Jones's From Here to Eternity, and Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, Battle Cry was highly praised by critics and was a huge seller, possibly helped by the fact that it was a much more unquestioningly patriotic work than many of those other books, most of which took a more cynical, jaundiced, and complex look at the motivations behind the men fighting the war.

Fans of Suzanne Collins» hugely successfully series of books have been on the defensive since this adaptation is being referred to as «Twilight meets The Running Man `, whereas those previously unaware of the tween - lit hits are seeing this movie as little more than «Battle Royale with all the violence taken out, and replaced with a love story.»

Summary Capsule: Shot back through time, The Chin battles female wiles, the evil dead, and three naughty books, with nothing more than a shotgun full of quips.

When one of the kids unleashes a demonic creature by reciting passages from a cursed ancient book (the Necronomicon), the group finds themselves battling something much more sinister and demonic than Mia's addiction.

Part of the reason was simply because Tolkien did not have very many battles in the first part of his book, which thankfully forced Jackson to focus on creating a believable world rather than a believable hack - n - slash action movie.

Rather than articulating a broad, theoretical case for reforms that have been embraced by policymakers, the books of the «aughts» were more likely to engage in debates over evidence, articulate a strategy that had not been adopted, or do battle against the strategies that policymakers did adopt.

Writing a book that readers will enjoy or derive value from is less than half the battle.

* About the Don Camillo books: Starting in 1946, Giovannino Guareschi wrote more than 300 stories about the hot - headed parish priest Don Camillo, and his battles with the communist major Peppone, all set in the Po Valley of Northern Italy - if you're not familiar with these stories I do suggest you look them up, all appear to be out of print now but you can find plentiful used copies at Addall.com and Amazon, and probably in your local library).

More important than price - cuts and as important as new features is the battle to keep the definition of eReaders pure and focused on reading books.

You need to crunch your numbers, including the fact that traditionally published books sell very well in places other than Amazon and in formats other than ebooks, while self - published genre fiction still faces the same (or worse) uphill battle that it always did.

Amazon's launch of the iPad - optimized Web service is the latest blow in a battle that has been brewing since February, when Apple announced it would take a 30 percent cut of sales made through in - app purchases of books, periodicals, music, and movies — and that sellers couldn't use their websites to offer better deals than available through the apps.

My last point was that I doubt the average consumer cares about all of this however, because if Amazon can bring the prices down, the consumer will jump on it, and frankly, I'm sure the average person is more interested in books from the big sellers (ie, better known authors that can charge 14.99) than unknown works at 6.99, which makes Amazon's battle a win for them.

I have been reading a book written by a former Navy Seal, and in it, he comments that «it is better to sweat in training than to bleed in battle».