Kristin Smith – författare

This multidisciplinary book brings together a series of critical engagements regarding the notion of ethical practice. As a whole, the book explores the question of how the current neo-liberal, socio-political moment and its relationship to the historical legacies of colonialism, white settlement, and racism inform and shape our practices, pedagogies, and understanding of encounters in diverse settings. The contributors draw largely on the work of Sara Ahmed's Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality, each chapter taking up a particular encounter and unravelling the elements that created that meeting in its specific time and space. Sites of encounters included in this volume range from the classroom to social work practice and from literary to media interactions, both within Canada and internationally. Paramount to the discussions is a consideration of how relations of power and legacies of oppression shape the self and others, and draw boundaries between bodies within an encounter. From a social justice perspective, Unravelling Encounters exposes the political conditions that configure our meetings with one another and inquires into what it means to care, to respond, and to imagine oneself as an ethical subject.

The purpose of this book is twofold. The first is to glorify God by helping others who desire to find their voice through prayer. The second is to encourage others by sharing the prayers of my heart. Prayer is a lifestyle. It's not just something we do when we need something. The Bible says we are to pray without ceasing. This book of prayers was developed through my own desire to know God better and to have a personal relationship with him. God loves us so much and He desires to have a relationship with us! Amazing! But what is a relationship without communication?I've once heard it said that communication is like blood to the body or life to bones. Prayer is life out of souls! See yourself in a relationship with God, accept Him as Lord, and talk to Him every day throughout the day. It is my hope that these prayers will help you see God as your friend and ally, God who listens to our hearts and cares for our every need. If those words are difficult for you to find, I hope and pray these prayers will breathe life into your own.