Mark Barrett's concern when writing Crossing was to offer a way for those who do not live in monasteries to access something of what is a daily experience among supposed religious specialists. He hoped that the reader would find that monastics - so often the shadowy medieval figures of media-gothic - are in reality fellow-seekers, apprentices training among the tools of a spiritual workshop. Monastic practices are not a panacea for the ills of modern society, and it would be naive to suggest they can be. The point is rather that Christian monastic practices came into being at least in part as a responce to the tidal currents of our hearts, set swirling by our busy lives, whichever century we live in.

Crossing

Religion & Spirituality

Barrett, Mark

Christian Books & Bibles

Darton, Longman, and Todd

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The Art of Bartending

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Beverages & Wine

BERKLEY

In this enchantingly written book, a Benedictine monk describes how the offices of the monastic day can provide each of us with markers to draw a map for our own individual spiritual journeys. Mark Barrett shows us that the things of the spirit are not confined to the monastery, but are under our noses every day, in all the familiar rythms and routines of ordinary life. 
In Crossing, Mark Barrett focuses on five of the monastic hours, illuminating the spiritual journey we must take and the choices we must make: 
Vigils reflects on the edges of the day, and our own difficulty in choosing to begin the journey. 
Lauds (morning prayer) speaks of that moment when we glimpse our path and launch forth in excitement. 
Midday Prayer is the time between the innocence of morning and the experience of afternoon, the crossroads of our spiritual journey. 
Vespers invites us to look backward, and review our life. 
Compline, or night prayer, is the time for letting go, a time for remembering the reality of death, least we forget to live in the first place. 
Full of humor and eloquently written, Crossing points to a way for us to bring faith and human experience together again.

Crossing: Reclaiming the Landscape of Our Lives

Morehouse Publishing

Illuminates the spiritual journey we all take and the choices we all take and the choices we make by focusing on five of the monastic hours, from Vigils which reflect on the edges of the day and our own difficulty in choosing to begin the journey, through Compline or night prayer, the time for letting go and remembering the reality of death. Full of humor and eloquently written, Crossing shows Christians how to bring faith and human experience together.

Crossing 2nd Edition: Reclaiming the Landscape of Our Lives

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What It Takes to Operate and Maintain Principal Pipelines: Costs and Other Resources

Gates, Susan M.

Wang, Yan

Kaufman, Julia H.

Harvey, Melody

Business

RAND Corporation

This report reviews recent evidence on U.S.-based social and emotional learning (SEL) interventions for K–12 students to better inform the use of these interventions under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The authors discuss the opportunities for supporting SEL under ESSA, the standards of evidence under ESSA, and SEL interventions that meet the standards of evidence and might be eligible for federal funds through ESSA.

Social and Emotional Learning Interventions Under the Every Student Succeeds Act: Evidence Review

Education & Teaching

Hamilton, Laura S.

Baker, Garrett

Wrabel, Stephani L.

Unlu, Fatih

Ramos, Alyssa

Leschitz, Jennifer T.

Grant, Sean

Whitaker, Anamarie

Gomez, Celia J.

Chavez-Herrerias, Emilio R.

Mark Harris Mark Harris

Schools & Teaching

The 2020 Lent Book from Bloomsbury is based around an analysis of the imagery of the Psalms. The Book of Psalms has always formed the substance of the daily prayer of Christian monks and nuns. InThe Wind, The Fountain and the Fire, a Benedictine monk offers a path for all of us through the five weeks of Lent, by opening the Psalms as a gateway to scriptural prayer. Powerful imagery abounds in these ancient poems of prayer. The book finds in these images keys which can unlock both our understanding of scripture and knowledge of our own hearts. The chapter themes are: The Desert, the Mountain, the Well, the Pool and the Tomb. The Psalter is seem to be both the gateway to and the summation of all the other books of the Bible. The psalms put into words the messy complexity of how we actually experience our relationship with God and one another as well as all the swamps and wild places of our private emotions.

The Wind, the Fountain and the Fire: Scripture and the Renewal of the Christian Imagination: The 2020 Lent Book

Bloomsbury Continuum

Rebuilding Surface, Maritime, and Air Transportation in Puerto Rico After Hurricanes Irma and Maria: Supporting Documentation for the Puerto Rico Recovery Plan

Business & Money

Cooper, Eric.

Ecola, Liisa

Davenport, Aaron C.

Kuhn, Kenneth

Rothenberg, Alexander D.

Atkin, Thomas F.

Kendall, Jeffrey

Industries

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