Returning Home
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Returning Home
Author: Jerry M. Burger
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date: 2011-03-16
Each year millions of American adults visit a childhood home. Few can anticipate the effect it will have on them. Often serving several important psychological needs, these trips are not intended as visits with people from their past. Rather, those returning to their homes have a strong desire to visit the places that comprised the landscape of their childhood. Approximately one third of American adults over the age of thirty have visited a childhood home. This book describes some of their experiences and the psychology behind the journeys. Most people who visit a childhood home are motivated by a desire to connect with their past. Seeing the buildings, schools, parks, and playgrounds from their youth helps to establish the psychological and emotional link between the child in the black-and-white photographs and the person they are today. Many people use the trip to get in touch with the values and principles they were taught as children, often as a means to get their lives back on track. Others use that journey to strengthen emotional bonds between themselves and loved ones. Still others return to former homes to work through psychological issues left over from sad or traumatic childhoods. No matter the reason, there are few experiences in one's life that can move a person as deeply and unpredictably as returning home.
Returning Home
A journey to strength, a journey towards reconciliation, a journey to the land: from residential school to Dakelh Elder, Returning Home is Lillian Sam's life story. Born in the late 1930s near Fort St. James, British Columbia, Lillian attended Lejac Indian Residential School, where, like so many others, she endured harsh treatment, isolation, and attempts to take away her identity. Returning home to her community of Nak’azdli Whut’en, she embraced her keyoh (traditional territory/trapline) and the language and traditions of her people, the Carrier people. Lillian’s memoir is told through stories, poems, and photographs. It is an important record of a First Nations community, past and present, preserving memories for future generations so that they will never be forgotten. Beyond this, it tells of Lillian’s personal journey through marriage, motherhood, and intergenerational trauma—as well as the sustaining faith and love that have made her a force in her community. I am learning . . . see? My ancestors I am learning I grasp at new surroundings I learned to walk on new land See? I am learning I feel the changes from the time Of my youth I see between darkness and light
Returning Home
Author: William Webb
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date: 1993-06-01
The text of 2 Cor. 6.14-7.1, commonly called the 'fragment', has been the focus of much debate, due largely to its enigmatic presence within the context of 2.14-7.4. This work forges a new line of research on the problem of contextual disruption through an examination of the Old Testament traditions used within the fragment (their source, redactional focus and theology). Next, a similar traditions study is pursued in the current literary context of 2.14-7.4. A surprising degree of continuity between the fragment and its context is discovered in the use of Old Testament traditions, particularly those relating to new covenant and second exodus (exilic return) traditions. From this investigation a contextual hypothesis is proposed, along with a critique of competing contextual theories. The book concludes with two appendices which apply the contextual hypothesis to the crucial interpretative issue in 6.14a. Although the author's contextual hypothesis is not dependent upon any one interpretative solution in 6.14a, it nonetheless offers some fresh insight into the questions of who the 'unbelievers' are and what the 'unequal yoke' is.