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Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times

Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times

Soong-Chan Rah

Soong-Chan Rah's prophetic exposition of the book of Lamentations provides a biblical and theological lens for examining the church's relationship with a suffering world.
Incorporating Children in Worship: Mark of the Kingdom

Incorporating Children in Worship: Mark of the Kingdom

Michelle A. Clifton-Soderstrom

Rah, Soong-Chan. Many Colors: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church. Chicago: Moody, 2010. ———. “Soong-Chan Rah: Freeing the Captive Church.” Faith and Leadership. September 2011.
The Next Evangelicalism: Releasing the Church from Western ...

The Next Evangelicalism: Releasing the Church from Western ...

Soong-Chan Rah

Soong-Chan Rah calls on the North American church to escape its captivity to Western cultural trappings and to embrace a new evangelicalism that is diverse and multiethnic.
Return to Justice: Six Movements That Reignited Our ...

Return to Justice: Six Movements That Reignited Our ...

Soong-Chan Rah

Edward Gilbreath, “A Prophet out of Harlem,” Christianity Today, September 16, 1996, http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/1996/september16/6ta036.html; Carl Ellis, interview by SoongChan Rah, June 27, 2010. 2. William Pannell, interview by ...
Western Christians in Global Mission: What's the Role of the ...

Western Christians in Global Mission: What's the Role of the ...

Paul Borthwick

Soong-Chan rah exhorts the North American majority (white) church to repent from our individualism, our power paradigms, our racism and our consumerism. read his book The Next Evangelism, and if you (like me) are someone who has ...
Many Colors: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church

Many Colors: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church

Soong-Chan Rah

Without guilt trips or browbeating, the book will spur individuals, churches, and parachurch ministries toward more effectively bearing witness to the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Good News for people of every racial and cultural background.
CCDA Theological Journal, 2014 Edition

CCDA Theological Journal, 2014 Edition

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Chris Jehle, Soong-Chan Rah, Brandon Wrencher. Our journal once again incorporates articles that focus on CCDA work in our host state of North Carolina. Chas Edens, the Executive Director at Anathoth Community Farm and Garden in  ...
Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times

Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times

Soong-Chan Rah

Foreword. by Brenda Salter McNeil. The. church has lost its ability to lament!” This heartfelt cry came from a seminary student ... unrest and the rising civil rights movement emerging after the shooting death of Foreword by Brenda Salter McNeil.
Kill Me If You Can, You SOB

Kill Me If You Can, You SOB

Bob Miller

While it's illuminating, it's by no means a rah-rah account of the war. This work is a tour de force whose humor and candor is audacious.
Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity

Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity

Emily Matchar

Grace Dobush, though she has written a book on how to succeed in the crafting business, also has some deep skepticism about what she calls the “rah rah” culture of Etsy. “The thing about Etsy is that they've really propagated the concept of ...
The Power of Patriarchs: Qisong and Lineage in Chinese Buddhism

The Power of Patriarchs: Qisong and Lineage in Chinese Buddhism

Elizabeth A. Morrison

A study of the Northern Song Chan monk Qisong and his writings on Chan lineage, this book offers new arguments about Buddhist patriarchs, challenges assumptions about Chan masters, and provides insight into the interactions of Buddhists and ...
Attaining the Way: A Guide to the Practice of Chan Buddhism

Attaining the Way: A Guide to the Practice of Chan Buddhism

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This landmark guide to the practice of Chan Buddhism includes texts from the great living Chan master Sheng Yen, as well as material by three key ancestors of his lineage, going back to medieval times: Yuanyun Jiexian, Boshan Yuanlai, and ...
Poker

Poker

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Johnny Chan Johnny Chan Johnny Chan at the 2006 World Series of Poker Nickname(s) Orient(al) Express Hometown Las Vegas, Nevada World Series of Poker Bracelet(s) 10 Money finishes 42 Highest ITM Main Event finish Winner, 1987, ...
Play Poker Like Johnny Chan: Book One: Casino Poker

Play Poker Like Johnny Chan: Book One: Casino Poker

Johnny Chan

Whether you are a beginning or intermediate player, this book will help you on your road to expert status. Concise and easy to understand, Play Poker Like Johnny Chan covers all the popular casino poker games.
The Ghost of Neil Diamond

The Ghost of Neil Diamond

David Milnes

Neil tried to recall in which of Chan's smart clubs Iannis was working but he couldn't remember. What else was in that expression, that puckered frown? With the shadow from the hat it was impossible to say. “How is he? Ole channy Chan?
Fundamentals of Probability and Statistics for Engineers

Fundamentals of Probability and Statistics for Engineers

T. T. Soong

This title has been prepared very much with students and their needs in mind.
Million Dollar Hold'em: Limit Cash Games

Million Dollar Hold'em: Limit Cash Games

Johnny Chan

Chan, who regularly plays against and defeats the best players in the world, shows how to win money consistently at poker's most popular game-limit hold'em.
Charlie Chan's Words of Wisdom

Charlie Chan's Words of Wisdom

Howard M. Berlin

A selection of 600 quotes from the Charlie Chan movies, based on the character created by Earl Derr Biggers. Includes a 12-page databank of publicity photos, lobby cards, and other scenes from the movies.
Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record: ...

Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record: ...

Steven Heine

See Morten Schlütter, How Zen Became Zen: The Dispute Over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2009). T48:292c22–293a14. See Robert E. Buswell Jr., “The Transformation of Doubt ...
The Moneymaker Effect: The Inside Story of the Tournament ...

The Moneymaker Effect: The Inside Story of the Tournament ...

Eric Raskin

This was our ESPN debut broadcast, so we wanted—and ESPN wanted—to have a Johnny Chan or a Doyle or a Hellmuth. So when Johnny Chan was eliminated, there was certainly some disappointment in that. Maranz: Our coverage, we ...
Shattering the Great Doubt: The Chan Practice of Huatou

Shattering the Great Doubt: The Chan Practice of Huatou

Shengyan

A Chan Master who has co-led retreats with the Dalai Lama presents the Chinese Zen meditational practice of asking an answerless question, called huatou, a traditional method for breaking through the trap of habitual thinking and finding a ...
Out of the Shadow of 1997?: The 2000 Legislative Council ...

Out of the Shadow of 1997?: The 2000 Legislative Council ...

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Some of the Young Turk members in these branches spent time campaigning for Albert Chan, instead of campaigning in their own districts, as they saw Chan as the only hopeful Young Turk candidate. However, this did not violate any party ...
Attaining the Way: A Guide to the Practice of Chan Buddhism

Attaining the Way: A Guide to the Practice of Chan Buddhism

Master Sheng-Yen

He finally settled down on Mount Bo (Boshan) to teach for the rest of his life. In the Chan custom of referring to eminent masters by their place of settlement, he then became known as Master Boshan. The two tracts of Boshan's translated here ...
WSOP Official Guidebook

WSOP Official Guidebook

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Johnny Chan 198788 Main Event Champion Member of Poker Hall of Fame The 1988 championship event isa classic in WorldSeries ofPoker history,inpart because Johnny Chan won it for the second consecutive year, but primarily because ...
Patriarchs on Paper: A Critical History of Medieval Chan ...

Patriarchs on Paper: A Critical History of Medieval Chan ...

Alan Cole

Patriarchs on Paper charts the emergence of this kind of “fantasy Buddhism” and details how it interacted with more traditional forms of Chinese Buddhism in order to show how Chan’s illustrious ancestors were created in literature in ...
Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record: ...

Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record: ...

Steven Heine

See Miriam Levering, “Dahui Zonggao and Zhang Shangying: The Importance of a Scholar in the Education of a Song Chan Master,” Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 30 (2000), 115–139; Robert M. Gimello, “Chang Shang-ying on Wu-t'ai Shan,” ...
52 Greatest Moments World Series of Poker

52 Greatest Moments World Series of Poker

Mark Rogers

THE MOMENT If Johnny Chan wanted to be the king of the World Series of Poker he first would have to defeat the court jester. The final match was postponed in order for ESPN to provide adequate television coverage for Chan's historical ...

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