One Hundred Readings for AssemblyDavid Self Heinemann, 1993 - 301 páginas With daily collective worship now compulsory in schools, this book is a source of short readings for today's assemblies. Many of the readings are in the form of anecdotes or thoughts for the day with either a moral or an obvious discussion point. To help in assembly planning, each passage comes with a succinct introduction outlining its purpose. |
Índice
Christmas Mastermind | 18 |
Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday | 24 |
Holi | 30 |
Good Friday | 41 |
Fathers Day the third Sunday in June | 52 |
To Everything There Is a Season | 60 |
King Midas | 67 |
Axe Porridge | 69 |
An Old Jamaican Woman Thinks about the Hereafter | 181 |
Thoughts for a | 182 |
Bloody This and Bloody That | 183 |
Ten or Eleven Commandments | 185 |
When Youre Told to Swim a Length | 188 |
The Hindu Way of Life | 191 |
Who Am I? | 194 |
For Gods Sake | 196 |
The Dreamer and the Treasure | 71 |
The Most Precious Merchandise | 74 |
Chopsticks | 77 |
The Serpent King | 79 |
Saints and Sinners | 82 |
Faith Hope and Charity The Good Samaritan | 85 |
The Wealthy Man | 88 |
Footprints | 90 |
The Night Journey | 91 |
Murder in the Cathedral | 94 |
The Three Rings | 97 |
The Best Book That Ever Was | 100 |
Serious Illness | 104 |
Priscilla and the Wimps | 107 |
A Change of Heart | 111 |
Minisagas | 116 |
The Last Flower | 118 |
The Great the Good and the Holy | 121 |
Ibrahim | 122 |
The Reluctant Leader | 125 |
Alien Corn | 128 |
Mephibosheth | 131 |
Esther the Good and Haman the Wicked | 136 |
The Boyhood of Jesus 148 | 140 |
Jesus the Carpenter | 143 |
So Who Was Jesus? | 145 |
Dives and Lazarus | 148 |
The Prophet Muhammad | 151 |
The Medieval Hitchhiker | 155 |
Mary Slessor Missionary | 159 |
Edith Cavell Nurse | 162 |
Jean Goss and the Sadist | 166 |
What I Have Lived For | 168 |
The Cat With Three Lives | 170 |
The Escape of the Dalai Lama | 173 |
Whatever You Do | 177 |
The Stranger | 179 |
Sixes and Sevens | 198 |
At the Name of Jesus | 202 |
Splintered Messiah | 205 |
The Long Silence | 207 |
Meditation | 210 |
Havent Time | 212 |
Go Placidly | 215 |
No Man Is an Island | 217 |
By All Thats Wonderful | 219 |
Ley Lines | 222 |
Gods Handwriting | 225 |
Miracles | 227 |
My Dear Wormwood | 229 |
Heaven A Tourists Guide | 232 |
The Typical Teenager | 236 |
Eating People Is Wrong | 239 |
Universal Declaration of Human Rights | 242 |
It Isnt Right | 245 |
Crime and Punishment | 247 |
Obituary for a Housewife | 250 |
Well Well Well | 252 |
Plagues and Pandemics | 255 |
Accidents Will Happen | 260 |
On the Streets | 263 |
Police Friend or Foe? | 267 |
Soburas Story | 270 |
Leprosy | 274 |
Whats Your Poison? | 278 |
Water of Life | 281 |
ORT Oral Rehydration Therapy | 284 |
Greenpeace | 286 |
Hope to Die Before Youre Old? | 288 |
Trinity Hospice | 291 |
Whats It Like to Die? | 296 |
Calendar | 299 |
Charities whose work is described in this anthology | 301 |
Términos y frases comunes
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