Bøger af Lynn Keller

Second edition of The Good and Heavenly COUNSEL by Mrs. Grace Smith, published in 1712. The only recognized religious book by a Puritan woman in Colonial America. Original Edition transcribed by Reverend Samuel Treat, Graduate of 1669 Class of Harvard University. Reverend Treat paid a visit to his congregant, Mrs. Grace Smith, who was ninety-six. She had been his faithful congregant for almost forty years, yet he discovered she had an entirely different approach to the same verses he had taught. This book is a collection of the COUNSEL Grace Smith wanted to leave for her children. These are moral lessons with concern for their souls. She had written two poems, which still have merit, as well as twenty teachings with correlating biblical verses. Reverend Treat carefully chose his descriptive words for her. The Good and Heavenly COUNSEL Of that Eminent and Pious Matron, Mrs. GRACE SMITH Late Widow to Mr. RALPH SMITH Of Eastham in New England. He made his own dedication and commitment clear by his declaration: "Left as a perpetual Monitor to her Surviving Children; as it was taken from her own mouth a little before her death, by the Minister of that Town where she died." He then chose the biblical passage that sets the context for her teachings as the moral authority of a mother, as differentiated from that of a father. Prov 1.8 My Son, Hear the Instruction of thy Father and Forsake not the Law of thy Mother Reverend Treat understood the lessons of this aged, alert woman had a gentle, loving approach. This was quite different from the hell, fire and brimstone teachings that were customary from the ministers of the time. She was concerned about the souls of her children. She had the moral authority. Timothy Green was the preeminent publisher of his time. Thus The Good and Heavenly COUNSEL had the approval and dedication of Reverend Treat and Publisher Green, who were highly respected authorities. The careful transcription has been done by Lynn Keller, her tenth generation descendant. This is an important tome for American history, religion in America, women's studies, and Cape Cod lore. The teachings are as relevant today as they were three hundred years ago. Indeed, the authority of wise old women is often the missing voice in our society. A bright and alert 96 year old, Grace had the perspective of living through the entire first century of America. She was a respected member of the generation that forged our society. Having come to America in 1635, she knew the changes in her tightly knit community and through her own family. Many of her great-grandchildren were teenagers when she died in 1710. This book represents the religious viewpoint of the mothers who pass on their moral teachings from one generation to the next.

God Is a Verb! creates a radical paradigm shift. It is no longer possible to think of God as a big magician in the sky. Instead, we rethink everything as God being action and doing and making. God is not an "it," but rather the process itself. God is unbounded action and thought. Selah! Stop and think about it! This insightful book takes a new look at the Age of Taurus when God purposefully established Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden with a specific purpose. They had to make a free-will choice to leave in order to choose to live according to the Golden Rule, by doing kindness to others and being grateful to God. He gave them the Book of Knowledge, of all things.Centuries later He completed the set by giving Noah the Jubilee calendar we still use today. Noah had exhibited the purpose God had wanted: relatedness. Noah missed his friends and asked God never to destroy peoples again. God cannot establish human free-will choices and relationships. Nor can he demand humans reflect back to him. These first covenants created our current paradigm for relatedness. The salient point is that our egos are not connected to God. They are our free will. Our body is a noun, the house for our soul, which is created in the image of God. Our soul is a verb.Lynn Keller, a graduate of Cornell University, was vice president of a transformative project based on the tree of life for three decades. She left in 2011 to pursue development of her original concepts. As a preschooler, Lynn proudly listened to Pap-her grandfather, P. H. Smith-talking to their minister about his sermon every week. This book is written for Pap's descendants, in honor of his kindness, brilliance, and wisdom.

Analyses work written since the year 2000 by thirteen North American poets, all of whom push the bounds of literary convention as they seek forms and language adequate to complex environmental problems. These poets respond to environments transformed by people and take "nature" to be a far more inclusive and culturally imbricated category than conventional nature poetry does.

Re-making it New explores the impact of modernism's polarised tradition on contemporary American poets.