A fun collection of short stories with a Native American theme, A Feather Blown on the Breath of God is a series of stories from that ancient time when it was common to speak with animals, plants, clouds, fire, and the very rocks themselves. The concept all my relatives respects the spirit in all aspects of Creation and teaches that humanity is created to be a responsible part of a truly extended family. You will meet a young Native American from a time so ancient that he is on hand to see the birth of the Moon itself. Watch him as he grows, earns his adult name, and becomes chief. Discover the wisdom of the Great Spirit in his many adventures as he is blown, as we all are, by the breath of God through life. His stories are great resources for parents, pastors, youth leaders, and church educators; yet, they are mainly designed to be read and colored by a child. As each character discovers their part in Gods web of life, they enable us to explore the miracle of Gods love and a plan of salvation that includes us all.

A fun collection of short stories with a Native American theme, A Feather Blown on the Breath of God is a series of stories from that ancient time when it was common to speak with animals, plants, clouds, fire, and the very rocks themselves. The concept "all my relatives" respects the spirit in all aspects of Creation and teaches that humanity is created to be a responsible part of a truly extended family. You will meet a young Native American from a time so ancient that he is on hand to see the birth of the Moon itself. Watch him as he grows, earns his adult name, and becomes chief. Discover the wisdom of the Great Spirit in his many adventures as he is blown, as we all are, by the breath of God through life. His stories are great resources for parents, pastors, youth leaders, and church educators; yet, they are mainly designed to be read and colored by a child. As each character discovers their part in God's web of life, they enable us to explore the miracle of God's love and a plan of salvation that includes us all.

From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, comes A Feather on the Breath of God: a mesmerizing story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother. Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, she escapes into dreams inspired both by her parents' stories and by her own reading and, for a time, into the otherworldly life of ballet. A yearning, homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet--these are the elements that shape the young woman's imagination and her sexuality.

Are you struggling to connect with your church community? Do you find yourself questioning the core beliefs that you once held dear? Searching for Sunday, from New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans is a heartfelt ode to the past and a hopeful gaze into the future of what it means to be a part of the modern church. Like millions of her millennial peers, Rachel Held Evans didn't want to go to church anymore. The hypocrisy, the politics, the gargantuan building budgets, the scandals--to her, it was beginning to feel like church culture was too far removed from Jesus. Yet, despite her cynicism and misgivings, something kept drawing Evans back to church. Evans found herself wanting to better understand the church and find her place within it, so she set out on a new adventure. Within the pages of Searching for Sunday, Evans catalogs her journey as she loves, leaves, and finds the church once again. Evans tells the story of her faith through the lens of seven sacraments of the Catholic church--baptism, confession, holy orders, communion, confirmation, the anointing of the sick, and marriage--to teach us the essential truths about what she's learned along the way, including: Faith isn't just meant to be believed, it's meant to be lived and shared in community Christianity isn't a kingdom for the worthy--it's a kingdom for the hungry, the broken, and the imperfect The countless and beautiful ways that God shows up in the ordinary parts of our daily lives Searching for Sunday will help you unpack the messiness of community, teaching us that by overcoming our cynicism, we can all find hope, grace, love, and, somewhere in between, church.