by Tara Critchley ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 17, 2018
An accessible spiritual health care manual based on Christian interpretations of the Ten Commandments.
Critchley offers insights on health from a Christian perspective in this debut holistic medicine guide.
All health is interrelated: Spiritual health affects mental health; mental health influences physical health. Readers’ bodies are not simply a reflection of their behaviors and attitudes, argues Critchley. They are, in fact, a way for God to get people’s attention: “Sickness and disease are telltale signs that it is time for us to make changes in our lives…. Knowing that our ways and standards can be the cause of our own illnesses, we can begin to take a second look at our lives.” With this book, the author aims to place readers more in tune with their bodies’ physical and spiritual needs in order to better accept God’s love, behave according to His will, and achieve better health. Using the Bible as a guide, particularly the Ten Commandments, Critchley expounds on the relationship between bodily health and spirituality. Each Commandment relates to a different area of the body and is associated with specific behaviors that lead to good health. The Third Commandment, for example, “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain,” relates to the mouth, throat, and teeth, and is associated with the behaviors of good manners and speech. For each part of the body, the author deftly outlines the spiritual causes of relevant afflictions and antidotes. Critchley’s prose is lucid and professional, even if the claims she makes are not backed up by Western medicine: “Muscle problems reveal the inability to listen to God’s instruction and adapt to change. Extending our will too far and for too long can cause us to experience muscle problems.” Her reasoning seems primarily based on metaphoric and synecdochic associations, which imbue the ideas with a certain pre-modern quality. Like most promoters of holistic treatments, the author advises using mainstream medicine in addition to these spiritual teachings (though she makes her suspicions of the health care industry known). Christian spiritualists will likely be persuaded by her viewpoint; other readers perhaps less so.
An accessible spiritual health care manual based on Christian interpretations of the Ten Commandments.Pub Date: Jan. 17, 2018
ISBN: 978-1-973608-22-6
Page Count: 210
Publisher: Westbow Press
Review Posted Online: May 4, 2018
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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by Charlayne Hunter-Gault ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 1, 1992
From the national correspondent for PBS's MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour: a moving memoir of her youth in the Deep South and her role in desegregating the Univ. of Georgia. The eldest daughter of an army chaplain, Hunter-Gault was born in what she calls the ``first of many places that I would call `my place' ''—the small village of Due West, tucked away in a remote little corner of South Carolina. While her father served in Korea, Hunter-Gault and her mother moved first to Covington, Georgia, and then to Atlanta. In ``L.A.'' (lovely Atlanta), surrounded by her loving family and a close-knit black community, the author enjoyed a happy childhood participating in activities at church and at school, where her intellectual and leadership abilities soon were noticed by both faculty and peers. In high school, Hunter-Gault found herself studying the ``comic-strip character Brenda Starr as I might have studied a journalism textbook, had there been one.'' Determined to be a journalist, she applied to several colleges—all outside of Georgia, for ``to discourage the possibility that a black student would even think of applying to one of those white schools, the state provided money for black students'' to study out of state. Accepted at Michigan's Wayne State, the author was encouraged by local civil-rights leaders to apply, along with another classmate, to the Univ. of Georgia as well. Her application became a test of changing racial attitudes, as well as of the growing strength of the civil-rights movement in the South, and Gault became a national figure as she braved an onslaught of hostilities and harassment to become the first black woman to attend the university. A remarkably generous, fair-minded account of overcoming some of the biggest, and most intractable, obstacles ever deployed by southern racists. (Photographs—not seen.)
Pub Date: Nov. 1, 1992
ISBN: 0-374-17563-2
Page Count: 192
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1992
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by William Strunk & E.B. White ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 15, 1972
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
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