Bøger af Christopher Cunningham

Leads readers through the process of crafting their own lashed-frame, fabric-covered, custom-fitted Greenland kayak, using common woodworking tools. This manual includes: primers in lumber milling, fastening, rib bending, and measuring; and instructions for making a Greenland paddle, paddling clothing, float bags, skegs, and more.

During your full-time mission, you knew your purpose. It was laid out for you on page one of Preach My Gospel. You also had a sacred mission call signed by a prophet of God giving you a powerful commission to fulfill a specific mission with a specific set of people in a specific place. This specific calling fueled you through the hardest days of your mission. Even when the most intense storms hit, you kept walking forward because a prophet commissioned you. Now that you are home, you have no returned-missionary mission call and no manual to guide you and tell you a specific assignment that God wants you to accomplish. So when the intense storm hits after the mission and you don't have a letter from a prophet to tell you that God called you to this, where do you find strength to push through? How do you discover what your unique life mission is now? What is your personal mission in life after the mission ends? How do you find it? That is what Live Your Mission is all about. Every single returned missionary has a unique mission to accomplish after their full-time mission. You have a unique life mission. Something that only you can accomplish. Something that only you can create. Something that never existed before. Until you find it, you will be living with uncertainty about why you do what you do everyday. However, once you do find it, everything changes and the world is a better place because you exist. In the last five years around 230,000 young people have come home from a full-time mission (as of October 2015 General Conference). I asked hundreds of these returned missionaries from nearly every mission in the world what they needed most after the mission. What did they say? To discover their life mission. That is why I wrote this book. Twenty-one powerful principles to help you discover and live your unique life mission after your full-time mission.

While many books on Film Criticism and Film Theory do a great job explaining important concepts, they often leave film students searching for ways to apply those theories and concepts to the real world of making meaning of the films studied. Miracles and the Supernatural in Popular Secular Films takes the study of film theory and criticism one step further by providing a case study of analysis of three different types of films. It helps the film student to see how the concepts and definitions are applied to the films in a systematic way. Many Americans believe in miracles and the supernatural as have been attested to by various surveys; and the American film and television industries capitalizing on this has had its fair share of miraculous and supernatural and motif films, especially in recent times. This book closely examines three such films, The Green Mile, Bruce Almighty and Phenomenon; movies which did well both in terms of box office returns and critical acclaim. These films represent three different types of films about miracles and the supernatural, films with God as man, man as God and man with the unexplained supernatural powers, respectively. Using a Neoformalist approach, the book sets out to discover the dominant of each movie and then to compare and contrast the use of the dominant in each to see if there is some commonality in approach which works well in depicting miracles and the supernatural in film. It is argued that by discovering how filmmakers of popular films use the dominant in portraying miracles and the supernatural, one is able to gain deeper insights into how a film goes about helping the audience to make meaning of the film, thus fostering belief. The uses of the dominant in these films are then examined within the wider context of fantasy genre in order to see how the findings may be adapted in the creation of new films which depict miracles and the supernatural. Finally, the book helps to bring some clarity to the question of the criteria by which films should be included in the fantasy genre.

Includes 29 stories that illustrate what can happen when safety is left on shore. To renew the cautious attitude of seasoned paddlers and to instill safe practices in kayaking newbies, this book presents more stories of kayaking trials, rescues, and tragedy.