When a privileged New York socialite, Rosemary Fell, and a penniless young woman, Eleanor Smith, fall in love with the same man, they question whether the triangle of passions will destroy them or bring them closer. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Straight from the front line of urban America, the inspiring story of one fiercely determined teacher and her remarkable students.
As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School in Long beach, California, Erin Gruwell confronted a room of “unteachable, at-risk” students. One day she intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature, and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust—only to be met by uncomprehending looks. So she and her students, using the treasured books Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl and Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo as their guides, undertook a life-changing, eye-opening, spirit-raising odyssey against intolerance and misunderstanding. They learned to see the parallels in these books to their own lives, recording their thoughts and feelings in diaries and dubbing themselves the “Freedom Writers” in homage to the civil rights activists “The Freedom Riders.”
With funds raised by a “Read-a-thon for Tolerance,” they arranged for Miep Gies, the courageous Dutch woman who sheltered the Frank family, to visit them in California, where she declared that Erin Gruwell’s students were “the real heroes.” Their efforts have paid off spectacularly, both in terms of recognition—appearances on “Prime Time Live” and “All Things Considered,” coverage in People magazine, a meeting with U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley—and educationally. All 150 Freedom Writers have graduated from high school and are now attending college.
With powerful entries from the students’ own diaries and a narrative text by Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary is an uplifting, unforgettable example of how hard work, courage, and the spirit of determination changed the lives of a teacher and her students.
The authors’ proceeds from this book will be donated to The Tolerance Education Foundation, an organization set up to pay for the Freedom Writers’ college tuition. Erin Gruwell is now a visiting professor at California State University, Long Beach, where some of her students are Freedom Writers.
『구약을 어떻게 설교할 것인가』에서 크리스토퍼 라이트는 이러한 현실을 안타까워하며 구약성경에 대한 바른 이해와 해석이 어떤 것인지, 더 나아가 어떻게 본문의 메시지를 전달해야 하는지 제시한다.
1부에서는 어렵고 우리의 현실과 동떨어진 것 같은 구약성경을 왜 설교해야 하는지 밝히고...
케빈 드영은 『성경이 동성애에 답하다』를 통해 그리스도인이 이 질문에 답하도록 돕는다. 이 책은 성경이 결혼과 성에 대해 말하는 더 큰 맥락 가운데서 성경의 관점으로 동성애 문제에 대답한다. 1부는 구체적으로 동성애와 관련된 성경의 내용들을 검토하며 2부는 이러한 성경적 관점을 토대로 하여 실제로...