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Religion in the media: A look at recent books and magazines.
BOOKS
"Sailing My Shoe to Timbuktu," by Joyce Thompson (Harper SanFrancisco, 252 pages, $22.95)
Joyce Thompson's "Sailing My Shoe to Timbuktu" is an affirmation of the power and purity of the natural world and its ability to improve relationships for those in touch with its many wonders.
For Thompson, the child of an alcoholic father and a distant, career-driven mother, reverence for the earth is part of her life even as a child - a way to rise above her tumultuous family life.
At age 4, she says, she took off one of her brand-new blue Keds while playing along a creek with her uncle and spontaneously set it sailing in complete faith that it would get to the ends of the earth unscathed.
As she matures, this faith helps her through divorce and single parenting. It is further shaped when she meets and marries her soul mate, a man intent on becoming a priest of the earth-based religion Santeria.
The lessons she learns while searching for her ...
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- Magazine article from: International Midwifery Thompson, Joyce January 1, 2004 700+ words
As I look out at the clear, glistening snow covering my yard in Michigan, USA, I am reminded of the fresh, invigorating discussions that arose during the most recent ICM Board of Management meeting, held in January" 2004, in the headquarters office in The Hague. We warmly welcomed Kathy
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- Magazine article from: International Midwifery Thompson, Joyce March 1, 2005 700+ words
The March 2005 Board of Management meeting was held in The Hague with the city lying under a lovely blanket of white snow--at least at the beginning of the week. In the five years during which we have held Board meetings at ICM Headquarters in this location, it was the first time I personally
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- Magazine article from: International Midwifery Thompson, Joyce September 1, 2004 700+ words
Excitement--challenges--eager anticipation--risks--planning for success! These are just a few of the emotions and activities that filled ICM headquarters during our most recent meeting of the Board of Management, 30 September and 1-2 October 2004. Global connections The Board members gathered from
- Religion in the media: A look at recent magazines, books and Web sites.
- Newspaper article from: The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) February 21, 2003 700+ words
...s Shi'a Muslim inhabitants." _ Robert Plocheck ___ Hinduism Today (January/February...Bodhinatha Vehlanswami is fasting. _ Robert Plocheck ___ Commentary (February) The...reactionary development of "Islamism." _ Robert Plocheck ___ BOOKS "Separated Brethren...
