For many, the idea of interfaith engagement is one to be treated with scepticism. Whilst there is fierce discussion around interfaith issues at a scholarly level, this fails to make an impact on the practice of the church. And yet, an increasing number of those training for church leadership will find themselves in churches which are at the heart of diverse, and often divided, communities.� In Hospitality, Service, Proclamation, Tom Wilson seeks to demystify the interfaith project. Written for ordinands and those preparing to minister in neighbourhoods where interfaith and intercultural dialogue are essential, Wilson argues that rather than a threat to churches, interfaith dialogue is an important tool for discipleship.

Hospitality, Service, Proclamation: Interfaith engagement as Christian discipleship

Religion & Spirituality

Wilson, Tom

Christian Books & Bibles

SCM Press

"I'm scared and scarred but I’ve survived" Tom Wilson was raised in the rough-and-tumble world of Hamilton—Steeltown— in the company of World War II vets, factory workers, fall-guy wrestlers and the deeply guarded secrets kept by his parents, Bunny and George. For decades Tom carved out a life for himself in shadows. He built an international music career and became a father, he battled demons and addiction, and he waited, hoping for the lies to cease and the truth to emerge. It would. And when it did, it would sweep up the St. Lawrence River to the Mohawk reserves of Quebec, on to the heights of the Manhattan skyline. With a rare gift for storytelling and an astonishing story to tell, Tom writes with unflinching honesty and extraordinary compassion about his search for the truth. It's a story about scars, about the ones that hurt us, and the ones that make us who we are. From Beautiful Scars: Even as a kid my existence as the son of Bunny and George Wilson seemed far-fetched to me. When I went over it in my head, none of it added up. The other kids on East 36th Street in Hamilton used to tell me stories of their mothers being pregnant and their newborn siblings coming home from the hospital. Nobody ever talked about Bunny's and my return from the hospital. In my mind my birth was like the nativity, only with gnarly dogs and dirty snow and a chipped picket fence and old blind people with short tempers and dim lights, ashtrays full of Export Plain cigarette butts and bottles of rum. Once, when I was about four, I asked Bunny, "How come I don't look anything like you and George? How come you are old and the other moms are young?" "There are secrets I know about you that I’ll take to my grave," she responded. And that pretty well finished that. Bunny built up a wall to protect her secrets, and as a result I built a wall to protect myself.

Beautiful Scars: Steeltown Secrets, Mohawk Skywalkers and the Road Home

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Doubleday, Canada

Community & Culture

Anchor Canada

The story of a mother and son forcibly removed from each other, but whose bond was too strong to break. When Tom Wilson was fifty-three years old, he learned he was not who he thought he was. He discovered he'd been a victim of Canada's "sixties scoop"--a tragic period in Canadian history when Indigenous children were snatched from their parents and placed into foster care--and that the couple who'd raised him, who'd claimed him as their son and who he loved dearly, had spent their lives hiding this past from him. And yet, the biggest revelation was still to come. Her name was Janie, a Mohawk woman who had popped in and out of Tom's life since he could remember and who he'd always felt an uncanny attachment to. He had known her only as "Cousin Janie," but she was, in fact, his birth mother. Blood Memory is Tom's story of reconnecting with Janie, learning about her life and discovering his Mohawk roots. It's a story of reclaiming a messy past, of grappling with a newfound identity, of confronting the horrors of colonization. But most of all, it's a son's ode to his mother--to her sacrifices, her love, her pain--and a powerful testament to how the bond between a mother and child can endure a world set against them.

Blood Memory

It's a Ziggy World

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Signet

Ziggys of the World Unite

Plants Are Some of My Favorite People

Pets Are Friends You Like Who Like You Right Back

Life Is Just a Bunch of Ziggys ...

Never Get Too Personal

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