From bestselling author Colleen Hoover comes a new novel about risking everything for love
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Confession The Healing of the Soul is not just about what is termed sacramental confession Its frame of reference is much wider &

Includes:: discussion of those celebrated writers who wrote confessions
- Augustine Kierkegaard Tolstoy Foucault Freud Jung John of the Cross & Wittgenstein This book will be of interest to all Christians of any denomination who engage in sacramental confession
- clergy but also pastoral workers & those millions who actually attend confession as part of their lives In the post-Freudian age confession of any kind has had a bad press but is now coming back into popularity as guilt & sin become helpful concepts Peter Tyler an author & practicing psychotherapist argues that rather than being something to consign to the rubbish heap of history confession offers unexplored potential for the healing of the postmodern soul The book addresses all those engaged in psychotherapeutic & healing practices & ministries The chapters are as follows Why Confession? The Confessing Animal The Birth of Confession Wittgenstein's Philosophical Confessions God's Laughter Confessions of Fire The Healing of the Soul



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The son of a pagan father & a Christian mother Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths & world views This autobiography details how he came to turn away from his youthful ideas & licentious lifestyle to become instead a staunch advocate of Christianity & one of its most influential thinkers ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Take a peak under the surface of any gay man & who knows what you ll find? CONFESSIONS an anthology of disclosures from the recesses of the gay male psyche goes some way to answer that very question Spanning themes that are dark sexy intense funny romantic & shocking CONFESSIONS turns a spotlight on characters you don t often get to see- but will not want to turn away from ...

Taking as his starting point the various stages of a conjuring trick he's performing in a crowded restaurant Derren's endlessly engaging narrative wanders through subjects from all points of the compass from the history of magic & the fundamentals of psychology to the joys of internet shopping & the proper use of Parmesan cheese 336 pages Brown Derren ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Now in high definition George Clooney makes his directorial debut with this frenetic visually dazzling black comedy Based on notorious television producer Chuck Barris& unauthorised autobiography Clooney&s film reinforces Barris& outlandish claim that he lived a secret life as a hitman for the CIA Sam Rockwell stars as Barris a fresh-faced dreamer who moves to New York to find success in television Pretty soon he&s written a hit song (" Palisades Park") has shacked up with the ultra-peppy Penny (Drew Barrymore) & has his first successful game show The Dating Game But as if that weren&t enough excitement he is soon recruited by CIA Special Agent Jim Byrd (Clooney) to become a hired killer for the federal government As Barris& subsequent shows (The Newlywed Game The Gong Show) take off the conflicted producer uses them as a front for his undercover job chaperoning winning couples all over the world while performing his deadly duties after hours Along the way he meets a shady cast of characters--including a sultry assassin (Julia Roberts)--who threatens to blow his cover & ruin his television career forever Adapted by the daring & mischievous Charlie Kaufman Clooney&s film features yet another electrifying performance from Rockwell (Moon Iron Man 2) Extras Audio commentary from director George Clooney & cinematographer Newton Thomas Sigal Deleted scenes Featurettes Sam Rockwell screen test & The Real Chuck Barris& featurette Gong Show Acts ...

' There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain'A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate He imagines his body punctured with arrows like the body of St Sebastian in the painting that obsesses him Over & over again each night in his private fantasies the objects of his lust are tortured killed & maimed But in the rigid world of imperial wartime Japan there is no place for such transgressive desires He must wear a false mask & hide his true nature whatever the cost 'A terrific & astringent work of beauty' The Times Literary Supplement' Mishima is lucid in the midst of emotional confusion funny in the midst of despair' Christopher Isherwood' Never has a "confession" been freer from self-pity' Sunday Times ...

The life of a congregational rabbi is often seen as an ivory-tower existence
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Paul Kingsnorth was once an activist an ardent environmentalist He fought against rampant development & the depredations of a corporate world that seemed hell-bent on ignoring a looming climate crisis in its relentless pursuit of profit But as the environmental movement began to focus on 'sustainability' rather than the defence of wild places for their own sake & as global conditions worsened he grew disenchanted with the movement that he once embraced He gave up what he saw as the false hope that residents of the First World would ever make the kind of sacrifices that might avert the severe consequences of climate change Full of grief & fury as well as passionate lyrical evocations of nature & the wild Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist gathers the wave-making essays that have charted the change in Kingsnorth's thinking In them he articulates a new vision that he calls 'dark ecology' which stands firmly in opposition to the belief that technology can save us & he argues for a renewed balance between the human & nonhuman worlds Provocative & urgent iconoclastic & fearless this ultimately hopeful book poses hard questions about how we have lived & should live ...