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![]() ![]() ![]() Hope has to travel back to 12th-century England to save her mom, and she’s aided by new friends and a handsome Timeslipper boy who may or may not be playing her false. And it’s a doozy – there’s a time travelling portal in the basement and her family has visited many eras, all while fighting against an evil group called the Timeslippers who care nothing for the impact of their actions on history. ![]() What an adventure! Hope is still reeling from the news of her mother’s death when she is sent to her aunt’s Scottish manor and finds out that her mother has been keeping a great big family secret from her for her whole life. Along the way, her path collides with that of a mysterious boy who could be vital to her mission. Trapped in the twelfth century in the age of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Hope has seventy-two hours to rescue her mother and get back to their own time. Agreeing to spend the summer in Scotland, Hope discovers that her mother was more than a brilliant academic, but also a member of a secret society of time travelers. Summary: When fragile, sixteen-year-old Hope Walton loses her mom to an earthquake overseas, her secluded world crumbles. ![]() ![]() He is a throwback character to a better time and place. ![]() ![]() Copper Jack is a voice of reason among the irrational. Only one honorable Englishman manages to stand head and shoulders above the moral chaos all around him. Trouble finds them around every corner misadventure becomes their only companion. With nothing but money and time on their hands, they entertain themselves in one debauchery after another. The outbreak of the Falklands War revives their patriotism and self-respect briefly but, in the end, the war becomes a powerful metaphor for the decadent, less relevant empire that they have created. As transplanted expatriates living like kings and queens in an impoverished country, they feel perfectly entitled to drink away their days and lust away their nights, always pining away for the good old days of their youth, when the British Empire was still a power. ![]() They take over 'Millionaire Hill' and unleash the loose morals and naughty behavior which would have earned them nothing but scorn back home. "item_description" : "When a group of former British colonialists retire to a sleepy Portuguese village, all hell breaks loose. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, students differ in the lessons they learned from the book. ![]() Students generally agree that the things Ethan did were wrong and that Steinbeck did a good job in showing that happiness in life does not come from doing bad things to get ahead or merely from the acquisition of wealth. ![]() The class discussions of this book are always interesting. That’s a scary way to justify one’s behavior. “What are morals? … Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn’t seem to be,” says Ethan. Steinbeck takes us into the mind of Ethan as he rationalizes what he does. I like the book because it is one of the best novels showing the dilemma people face when tempted to do bad things and the heartache people inevitably feel because of their actions. By the end of the book Ethan has engaged in a number of morally corrupt activities in order to obtain wealth and status. At the beginning of the book Ethan is content and has a reputation for integrity. The story, which takes place in the early 1960s in a fictional East Coast town called New Baytown, is about the moral decline of a man named Ethan. For the past several years I have required students in my applied ethics course to read John Steinbeck’s book, The Winter of Our Discontent. ![]() ![]() ![]() How can this bring Him glory? How can this help one live in better relationship with others? In each chapter, the questions will lead the reader to consider both their vertical relationship with God as well as their horizontal relationship with others. These allow the reader to personally engage with the teaching and to consider one’s own limitations in light of God’s limitlessness. ![]() At the end of each chapter, she invites the reader to meditate on several Scripture verses related to that attribute and then she gives several questions for reflection. In every chapter, Jen notes first our own limitations, drawing the contrast between ourselves and our glorious God, to highlight each attribute, one per chapter. While Jen’s choice of Proverbs 31:30 as her introductory verse and her application of Psalm 139 to women at the end of the book demonstrates an intention to speak to a female audience, the main content of the book is germane to men and women alike. Jen Wilkin is a writer, Bible teacher for women, and speaker. She also explains why this is actually good for us. Jen Wilkin, in ten chapters, takes an easy-to-read and conversational approach to explain ten attributes of God’s character and shows how we do not possess these attributes. Our culture radically prizes the individual in the way we choose to define or redefine who we think we are. From the Resource Section: "None Like Him" ![]() |