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![]() ![]() Please join the Abide Project Mailing list to get access to this lecture. Rebecca has one husband, three kids, and enough close friends to sustain her ENFP heart! Vocable is a speech-focused, data-driven communications firm dedicated to helping leaders deliver messages that change minds. Rebecca McLaughlin (PhD, Cambridge University) is the author of Confronting Christianity, named Christianity Today’s 2020 Beautiful Orthodoxy Book of the Year.Her subsequent works include 10 Questions Every Teen Should Ask (and Answer) about Christianity The Secular Creed and Jesus through the Eyes of Women. In September 2017, Rebecca co-founded Vocable Communications. In 2008, she moved to America and spent 9 years with The Veritas Forum, where she served as VP of Content and had the privilege of identifying and equipping Christian professors to speak about their faith in relation to their work. in English literature from Cambridge and a theology degree from Oak Hill College in London. It was featured on the TED summer reading list and named "Book of the Year" by Christianity Today. Her first book, Confronting Christianity: 12 hard questions for the world's largest religion, was published by Crossway and The Gospel Coalition in 2019. ![]() She loves exploring the message of Jesus with broken people (everyone), and she longs to be part of the rediscovery of the Christian faith as an intellectual movement. ![]() Two things have always fascinated Rebecca: the power of words and the message of the gospel. We are excited to welcome Rebecca Mclaughlin. The Abide Project Lecture Series continues. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature-tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking-which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. ![]() ![]() ![]() But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. Instead, follow the data: In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. By the author of the new book, Rationality. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR "My new favorite book of all time." -Bill Gates If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the world of Waugh’s own youth, but it is also a story about religious and secular love, about the notions of sin and judgment, guilt and punishment and how, almost unaccountably, they can give shape to one’s life.īy turns romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, Brideshead Revisited transcends Waugh’s familiar satiric exploration of English society and mores, revealing an elegiac, lyrical writer of the most lucid and profound feeling. The novel Waugh thought of as his magnum opus, it is the story of the intense entanglement of a young, middle-class Englishman, Charles Ryder, with a wealthy, eccentric Anglo-Catholic family, the Marchmains: in particular, with Sebastian, the flamboyant young man Charles meets at Oxford in the 1920s and Sebastian’s sister Julia, who will become the great and unrequited love of Charles’s life. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles RyderĮvelyn Waugh’s most celebrated novel is a memory drama of extraordinary richness and depth. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was not one of the largest cities in Persia, let alone the rest of the empire, but appears to have been a grand ceremonial complex that was only occupied seasonally it is still not entirely clear where the king's private quarters actually were. The function of Persepolis remains unclear. ![]() The complex is raised high on a walled platform, with five "palaces" or halls of varying size, and grand entrances. UNESCO declared the ruins of Persepolis a World Heritage Site in 1979. It exemplifies the Achaemenid style of architecture. The earliest remains of Persepolis date back to 515 BC. Modern day Shiraz is situated 60 km (37 mi) southwest of the ruins of Persepolis. It is situated in the plains of Marvdasht, encircled by southern Zagros mountains of the Iranian plateau. Persepolis ( / p ər ˈ s ɛ p ə l ɪ s/ Old Persian: □□□□, romanized: Pārsa New Persian: تخت جمشید, romanized: Takht-e Jamshīd, lit.'Throne of Jamshid') was the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire ( c. ![]() ![]() ![]() This charmingly designed guide is sure to have pastry lovers everywhere whipping up these colorful confections at home, using ordinary baking equipment and simple ingredients to create myriad flavors of perfection. But the secrets of making perfect macarons have long eluded home bakers- until now! In I Love Macarons, renowned Japanese pastrymaker Hisako Ogita brings her extensive experience to the art of baking macarons with fully illustrated foolproof step-by-step instructions. ![]() Cute-as-can-be, buttery macarons capture the whimsy and elegance of Paris, where they're traditionally served with tea or wrapped up in ribbon to give as a gift. ![]() ![]() ![]() An acceptable book request includes at least one of the following: Low-effort book requests will be removed. ![]() Book requests must be specific and request something that cannot be found with a simple search of the sub. ![]()
![]() ![]() Unfortunately for Daniel, finding Cinderella doesn’t guarantee their happily ever after…it only further threatens it. ![]() Especially when the two loves of his life end up being one in the same. Daniel soon realizes the way he pretended to feel about Cinderella and the way he really feels about Six may not be so different after all. One year and one bad relationship later, his disbelief in insta-love is stripped away the day he meets Six: a girl with a strange name and an even stranger personality. Moments like that with girls like her don’t happen outside of fairytales. When their hour is up and the girl rushes off like Cinderella, Daniel tries to convince himself that what happened between them only seemed perfect because they were pretending it was perfect. But this love comes with conditions: they agree it will only last one hour and it will only be make-believe. A chance encounter in the dark leads eighteen-year-old Daniel and the girl who stumbles across him to profess their love for each other. ![]() ![]() ![]() The voiceover narration lends the film an afterschool-special quality it could've done without, and interesting turns in the plot - like Juli's first meeting with her disabled uncle - are approached like talking points on what seems to be a "poignant, character-building moments" memo. But Anthony Edwards, as Bryce's dad, seems woefully modern despite his period-appropriate wear, and ultimately Flipped lacks momentum. ![]() That sensibility ups the movie's appeal - as do the lead actors, who are fantastic, and Reiner's usual warmth and empathy. We think: Perhaps life has become entirely too jaded in this uber-wired world. Then again, it's set in the past - a simpler time, or so it seems, that Reiner looks on fondly. How lovely to observe the progression of young love without the complications of sexting and Facebook. It's a coming-of-age movie stripped of its edges and dark corners - hard to do considering that we're talking about tweens and teens here. There's something sweetly endearing about a movie like Flipped, which is unabashedly nostalgic. ![]() ![]() ![]() I first came to Sarah Moss’s writing with Bodies of Light, a novel I bought while away on holidays a few years ago. ![]() ![]() Haunting Silvie’s narrative is the story of a bog girl, a young woman sacrificed by those closest to her, and the landscape both keeps and reveals the secrets of past violence and ritual as the summer builds to its harrowing climax. Her father is a difficult man, obsessed with imagining and enacting the harshness of Iron Age life. Teenage Silvie and her parents are living in a hut in Northumberland as an exercise in experimental archaeology. ‘This book ratcheted the breath out of me so skilfully, that as soon as I’d finished, the only thing I wanted was to read it again.’ – Jessie Burton A masterclass in the art of the short, unnerving novel a story of forbidden borders, haunted landscapes and bodies in danger. ![]() |