Caregiving practices in churches often center around listening and giving counsel, making referrals, and creating support groups for specific needs. In Caring Liturgies, Susan Marie Smith proposes that Christian ritual is both a method and a means for helping people through liminal times of transition and uncertainty, even vulnerability and fear. It teaches readers to recognize the ritual needs of fellow Christians and thus create post-baptismal rites...

Paul took one more look at the door, shrugged, then closed it and walked away. Jessica let out a huge sigh of relief. She had never been so scared in her life. She knew if Paul had found her, it would be all over for her. Her legs felt weak. She slowly slid down the wall and sat on the floor. She was shaking so badly she had to take a couple of deep breaths before she could even move to push herself back to a standing position.

Arnold and Gerald are invited to a school dance by Connie and Maria; a pair of 6th grade "older women" who are trying to make their boyfriends jealous. The jilted boyfriends confront Arnold and Gerald at the dance. / Arnold and Gerald manage to scrape up enough money for cheap seats at the last baseball game of Mickey Kaline - Arnold's idol.

Helga has been secretly building a shrine in her closet to Arnold. She has been collecting his combs, old school photos, used band-aids and chewing gum, but only one thing will make the shrine complete: Arnold's hat. / Arnold has to retrieve the football from the lair of the legendary Stoop Kid -- a bully who, according to neighborhood legend, pounds anyone who sets foot upon his domain.

Helga tries to hide her disappointment at not being invited to Rhonda's makeover party. / Arnold gets caught between his loyalty to Grandma and a promise to help his pal Ernie demolish his 500th building when the demolition of an old theater brings Grandma and Ernie into conflict with one another.

Arnold and Gerald are cast as a banana and a strawberry in their school play, which is written and directed by Helga. / Arnold wrecks Eugene's brand new bike.

The boarders are all suspicious of the mysterious Mr. Smith who lives behind door 16. He has a private bathroom and takes all his meals alone. / Oscar Kokoshka moves in with Arnold when his wife, Susie, throws him out of their apartment following another fight. Arnold resolves to get the two back together again after his new "roomie" starts to drive him crazy!

Arnold has trouble with the basketball coach and his favored son until he teaches them both a lesson in Zen and the Art of Free-throw Shooting as well as the real meaning of teamwork. / Arnold becomes friends with "cool" Frankie G., but his new friend only succeeds in getting him into trouble.

We are here on planet Earth with a job to do... The most important job in the history of this planet. This is the message from Archangel Metatron, said to be God's scribe and the 'king' of the angels. In this book, Archangel Metatron acknowledges the desecration of planet Earth and people's strife, sorrow, fear and unease. Through more than eighty channelled messages, he gives reasons for how this has arisen and explains how we can all -...