Author: Johann Christoph Blumhardt Christoph Friedrich B
Publisher: The Plough Publishing House
Keywords: heals, god, faith, sickness, thy
Number of Pages: 207
Published: 2011-02-18
ISBN-10: 087486867X
ISBN-13: 9780874868678

In a world where medical advances seem to promise cures for everything, it’s tempting to believe that we can live free of pain. But we know that even the best medicine cannot forestall death and decay, or solve the riddles of mental and emotional illness. All of us will get sick, and all of us will die. How, then, to respond to the inevitability of suffering? And how to help those who live in fear of disease; people who spend their waking hours worrying about what the doctor said, or asking God to remove real or perceived burdens?With childlike confidence in the possibility of miracles a

Authors: Leslie Swartz, Kerry Gibson, Tamara Gelman
Publisher: HSRC Press
Keywords: practice, reflective
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2002-01-02
ISBN-10: 0796919968
ISBN-13: 9780796919960

Author: Photographs by Angela BucklandText by Kathleen M
Publisher: HSRC Press
Keywords: zip, harts, brain
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2006-01-02
ISBN-10: 0796921598
ISBN-13: 9780796921598

Zip Zip My Brain Harts is the result of collaboration between Buckland (a photographer) and HSRC researchers concerned with disability issues. Angie Buckland’s remarkable photographs, interspersed with challenging text, are a unique expression of the fullness of human experience, with all its joy, pain and confusion. There is a tendency for disability to be a secret. The challenges that face families of people with disabilities are also often hidden away. Part of the reason is that disability is still largely seen as a shame, a disgrace, and a source of stigma. Angie Buckland, the mother of

Authors: Brian Watermeyer, Leslie Swartz, Theresa Lorenzo, Ma
Publisher: HSRC Press
Keywords: change, social, disability
Number of Pages: 452
Published: -01-02
ISBN-10: 0796921377
ISBN-13: 9780796921376

This powerful volume represents the broadest engagement with disability issues in South Africa yet. Themes include theoretical approaches to and representations of disability, governmental and civil society responses to disability, aspects of education as these pertain to the oppression / liberation of disabled people, social security for disabled people, the complex politics permeating service provision relationships, and consideration of disability in relation to human spaces - physical, economic and philosophical. Noteworthy is the inclusivity of its nearly fifty contributors, many of whom

Author: Shamil JeppieSouleymane Bachir Diagne
Publisher: HSRC Press
Keywords: timbuktu, meanings
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2008-11-12
ISBN-10: 0796922047
ISBN-13: 9780796922045

"Salt comes from the north, gold from the south, but the word of God and the treasures of wisdom are only to be found in Timbuktu." – 15th-century Malian proverb In a joint project between South Africa and Mali, a library to preserve more than 200 000 Arabic and West African manuscripts dating from the 13th to the 19th centuries is currently under construction. It is the first official cultural project of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad), the socio-economic development plan of the African Union, and when the library is built, the cultural role of Timbuktu will be re

Author: Wally Morrow
Publisher: HSRC Press
Keywords: africa, south, teach, learning
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2007-01-02
ISBN-10: 0796921865
ISBN-13: 9780796921864

Learning to Teach in South Africa is a collection of essays by one of South Africa’s most respected thinkers in education. The essays span the crucial years of democratic transition in South Africa and show the consitency of Morrow’s thinking over this period. He argues for the retrieval of the primacy of the practice of professional teaching in our thinking about the transformation of schooling and education in South Africa, reveals the emergence of his seminal distinction between formal and epistemological access, puts forward some definitive views about teacher education, and contin

Authors: Christopher F. Blumhardt, Johann C. Blumhardt,  V
Publisher: W Publishing Grou
Keywords: reader, blumhardt, come, kingdom, thy
Number of Pages: 199
Published: 1997-10-01
ISBN-10: 0802835449
ISBN-13: 9780802835444

Christians the world over pray "Thy kingdom come" daily, but do they know what they are asking for? These short selections will spark a burning expectation for this kingdom to break into this world, here and now. Meet Johann Christoph Blumhardt and Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt, two German pastors who experienced this kingdom as a daily reality, through this compilation of excerpts from their sermons and discussions. This book is not intended to be an analysis of the Blumhardts’ thought, rather an opportunity for the Blumhardts to introduce their thoughts for themselves. "If the