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A podcast for those who are wondering and wandering, seeking spiritual connection within themselves and in the world we live in. Jean Jytoka Skeels offers heartfelt inquiries, personal experience, and prayers and meditations from her own wandering and often stumbling path toward faith. Jean was raised Catholic and has been immersed in the spiritual lineage of Kripalu Yoga for over two decades. Bring your questions, your hopes and doubts, and your open heart as you join Jean in this quest for the sacred heart in each of us.

Sam Adams loved to walk around his hometown Boston, but finally gets on a horse for the good of his country.

In her inimitable style, Jean Fritz tells us the story about the unique history of Plymouth Rock and the First Comers, or Pilgrims who first came ashore in 1620.

Noël 1558, le jeune Ned Willard rentre à Kingsbridge : le monde qu'il connaissait va changer à tout jamais... Les pierres patinées de la cathédrale dominent une ville déchirée par la haine religieuse et Ned se retrouve dans le camp adverse de celle qu'il voulait épouser, Margery Fitzgerald. L'accession d'Élisabeth Ire au trône met le feu à toute l'Europe.

Par ce seul livre posthume, John Kennedy Toole gagna une place à part, et une des premières, dans la littérature américaine contemporaine : il reçut le prix Pulitzer en 1981 pour ce roman tumultueux - gargantuesque tragicomédie située dans l'ambiance grouillante des bas quartiers de La Nouvelle-Orléans.

Afin de relancer les recherches autour de la planète Solaris, Kris Kelvin, docteur spécialiste de son environnement, rejoint la station spatiale gravitant autour de l’astre aux deux soleils. En arrivant, il apprend que son ami Gibarian, l’un de ses confrères habitant la station, s’est donné la mort, et que des visiteurs, venus des méandres du passé, peuplent également les lieux.

France eagerly awaits the day the young king, Louis XV, comes of age and breaks free from the rule of his ministers. The country hopes Louis will bring back glory and prosperity to France. However, he is too preoccupied with the thrills of hunting and gambling to notice the power struggle going on in his own court. Soon the king is introduced to the pleasures of mistresses, and a succession of lovers follows.

The death of the King’s son aboard the doomed White Ship, left the ageing Henry I again without an heir. Henry’s daughter, the Empress Matilda, could not succeed her father while her own German husband still lived – but she could hope. Henry’s nephew, the affable, charming Stephen was also looking towards the English throne.

Albert is dead and the queen is preparing to spend the rest of her life in mourning. Yet the last years of her reign are to be momentous ones. Palmerston, then Gladstone and Disraeli, govern her empire through the high noon of its heyday. However, the court at Windsor, Balmoral, Osborne at Buckingham Palace is perpetually shocked by the actions of the queen’s son, the Prince of Wales. Forever in pursuit of horses, women and scandal, this is the heady harbinger of Edwardian years to come.

Fifteenth-century Spain is rent with intrigue and threatened by civil war. Here, the young Isabella becomes the pawn of her half-crazed mother and a virtual prisoner at the licentious court of her half-brother, Henry IV. At just sixteen years old, is she already fated to be the victim of the Queen's revenge, the Archbishop's ambition and the lust of lecherous Don Pedro Girón?

In each generation, a competition is held to find the next empress of Honoku. The rules are simple. Survive the palace's enchanted seasonal rooms. Conquer Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall, and you can marry the prince. All are eligible to compete - all except yokai, supernatural monsters and spirits whom the human Emperor is determined to enslave and destroy. Mari has spent a lifetime training to become Empress. Winning should be easy. And it would be, if she weren't hiding a dangerous secret.

Chaos. Fureur. Destruction. Certains disent que pour changer le monde, il faut d'abord l'incendier. Une théorie en passe d'être vérifiée dans le creuset de la révolution : les Casseurs et les Incendiaires ont pris les leviers du pouvoir et la fumée des émeutes remplace celle des cheminées. Désormais, tout sera soumis à la sagesse des foules. N'ayant plus rien à perdre, le Citoyen Brock veut devenir le héros d'un nouvel âge. La Citadine Savine, elle, doit se reconvertir, passant de la quête du profit à celle de la survie, avant de, peut-être, se frayer un chemin jusqu'à la rédemption.

Goetz, un bâtard d'une famille noble, a participé à la rébellion de Worms, puis l'a trahi et a tué son frère qui la dirigeait. Désobéissant aux ordres de l'archevêque, il décide de raser la ville par simple envie de faire le Mal et de défier Dieu.

Hard-hitting veteran reporter Deuce Mora is awakened in the pre-dawn hours and called to the scene of a gruesome hanging to identify the body of a dear friend, an FBI agent on the verge of taking down one of Chicago’s biggest Mob operations. Deuce knows it’s murder, but the authorities have no choice but to call it a suicide—the scene was triple-locked from the inside. The ill wind sweeping the Windy City has also whipped up two more unexplainable deaths—of perfectly healthy, able-bodied young mobsters, key witnesses about to flip on the leaders of the Mob operation.

Are you getting a true picture of your company’s performance? The disturbing answer, for most senior managers and CFOs today, is no. The culprit? Current management accounting practices produce financial statements that are unnecessarily complex and confusing. As a result, most companies are run by executives who do not fully understand their own financial information. This explosive issue and its implications are fully explored in Real Numbers.

While globalization gives North American Christians unprecedented opportunities to influence the world, we need to take care not to slip into a type of postmodern colonialism in which we make ourselves the experts or the "hero come to save the day". Jesus commanded us to make disciples of all nations, not to spread Western cultural Christianity or solve the world with American dollars.

Everyone faces illness. Whether it's a personal health crisis or the sickness a loved one is experiencing, none of us is immune to illness or death. While we can try to ignore the reality, Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen suggests we do the exact opposite: face it. Dr. Bolen shares how illness gives us purpose, guiding us towards finding the truth. By practicing self-compassion, empathy, listening, and learning, we set ourselves on a path to finding hope.

Miracles and healings are for today and for every Christian! Some think that operating in the miraculous is difficult, challenging, or reserved for a select elite group of Christians. That is not Biblical. Miracles and healings are the inheritance of every believer in Jesus—both to receive them and operate in them!

Bienvenue sur Commun Campus, un podcast de l'Université Jean Moulin. Chaque mois, des épisodes inédits pour comprendre le monde grâce au regard des enseignants, des chercheurs et des étudiants de l’Université Jean Moulin. Disponible sur toutes les plateformes de streaming.Abonnez-vous pour ne pas manquer les prochains épisodes. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

The SEEK Safely podcast is the official voice of the nonprofit organization SEEK Safely Inc, which advocates for ethics and accountability in the self-help industry, and empowers seekers to have safe and effective self-improvement journeys. Jean Brown and Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle peel back the layers of the largely unregulated, multi-billion dollar self-help industry, discussing the patterns of exploitation and deception that pervade the industry and allow self-help gurus to thrive at the expense of their customers and followers. Along the way we’ll have discussions with people who care as ...