If Walls Could Talk
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If the Walls Could Talk
Author: Jane O'Connor
language: en
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Release Date: 2004-09-01
In case you've ever wondered, the walls at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue have eyes and ears -- and, what's more, they don't miss a thing. Now, listen up because the walls have a thing or two to tell you! During President John Tyler's presidency, the White House was such a mess that it was called the "Public Shabby House." President William Howard Taft was so large that he had to have a jumbo-size bathtub installed -- one big enough for four people. President Andrew Jackson's "open door" policy at the White House resulted in 20,000 people showing up for his inauguration party. (The new president escaped to the quiet of a nearby hotel!) President Abraham Lincoln didn't mind at all that his younger sons, Tad and Willie, kept pet goats in their White House bedrooms. Children all across the country sent in their own money to build an indoor swimming pool for wheelchair-bound President Franklin D. Roosevelt so that he could exercise. President Harry S. Truman knew it was time to renovate the White House after a leg on his daughter's piano broke right through the floor. Hear these funny, surprising stories and more about the most famous home in America and the extraordinary families who have lived in it.
If These Walls Could Talk
Author: Maureen H. O'Connell
language: en
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Release Date: 2012-06-01
Philadelphia's community muralism movement is transforming the City of Brotherly Love into the Mural Capital of the World. This remarkable groundswell of public art includes some 3,500 wall-sized canvases: On warehouses and on schools, on mosques and in jails, in courthouses and along overpasses. In If These Walls Could Talk, Maureen O'Connell explores the theological and social significance of the movement. She calls attention to some of the most startling and powerful works it has produced and describes the narratives behind them. In doing so, O'Connell illustrates the ways that the arts can help us think about and work through the seemingly inescapable problems of urban poverty and arrive at responses that are both creative and effective. This is a book on American religion. It incorporates ethnography to explore faith communities that have used larger-than-life religious imagery to proclaim in unprecedented public ways their self-understandings, memories of the past, and visions of the future. It also examines the way this art functions in larger public discourse about problems facing every city in America. But If These Walls Could Talk is also theological text. It considers the theological implications of this most democratic expression of public art, mindful of the three components of every mural: the pieces themselves, those who create them, and those who interpret them. It illuminates a kind of beauty that seeks after social change or, in other words, the largely unexplored relationship between theological aesthetics and ethics.
If Walls Could Talk
For Leah, growing up in Metro Detroit meant safety, security and family. Convinced to marry a man she does not love, Leah struggles to find the true meaning of God's love, loyalty toward family and the value of self-worth.If Walls Could Talk recounts the story of Leah - a young Chaldean woman torn between friendship with a Muslim man and the familial expectations of marrying someone who shares the same faith. Once she says "I do," Leah finds herself trapped within an emotionally and physically abusive relationship she can't leave.When divorce doesn't seem to be an option and help is limited, Leah must find a means of escaping or risk living a life of misery and suffering.