REBECCA BRANSTETTER, Ph.D. is a school psychologist who has worked with public K–12 schools throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. She also works with children through her private practice, Grow Assessment and Counseling Services. Branstetter is the author of the popular blog “Notes from the School Psychologist” (www.studentsgrow.blogspot.com).
Joanna Godfrey Wood has been a Quaker all her life and she attended a Quaker school. She recently took the Equipping for Ministry course at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham, England, which gave her a chance to study the works of Margaret Fell. In her local Quaker meeting her particular ministry is facilitating study groups. She has also written Travelling in the Light: How Margaret Fell's Writings can Speak to Quakers Today. Joanna spent her working life as a
William R. Keylor is professor emeritus at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He has received the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Methodist Scholar-Teacher Award; has been a Fulbright scholar; and has been awarded fellowships by the Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, and the Earhart Foundation. He is an elected member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies
We all know the popular phrase, “The struggle is real.” I know it all too well. An addicted mother, a father that gives you up at every turn, to suffering from depression, and suicidal thoughts. Let the talkers tell it, I was not supposed to amount to anything other than what society defines as a statistic. God had a plan that carried me to the other side so that I could be here to tell my story. Jesus is inserted all up in here; but don’t expect it to be watered down. I was imperative
Part I: Reclaiming the Buddha from Buddhism
Chapter 1: The Legend of the Buddha: History, Myth, and Hagiography
Chapter 2: The Hermeneutical Buddha: What He Taught, What He Thought (Maybe)
Part II: The Buddha’s Pedagogical Project: The Ennobling Praxes (aka Four Noble Truths)
Chapter 3: The First E