Jennifer Smith

How we vary our speech is fundamental in signalling who we are, where we're from and where we're going. How and when does such variation arise? Here, leading experts Jennifer Smith and Mercedes Durham address this question through a sociolinguistic analysis of the speech of preschool children in interaction with their primary caregivers. Bringing together two fields of linguistic research - variationist sociolinguistics and first language acquisition - the study focusses both qualitative and quantitative analysis of a range of variables to show when and how variation is acquired by young children, and the effect the caregiver's interaction has on this process. In doing so, they tackle a fundamental question in language research: when and how do children acquire the highly complex patterns of variation widely attested in adult speech?

Nothing changes your child's life like prayer. Be equipped with the tools to cover your children in prayer each day.

Landon is a young man with many abilities, but he only wants to focus on his basketball skills. He feels that making the school basketball team will be the start of a wonderful basketball career, fulfilling his deepest desire. But through an encounter with a relative at a family reunion, he comes to realize his true worth.

Landon is a young man with many abilities, but he only wants to focus on his basketball skills. He feels that making the school basketball team will be the start of a wonderful basketball career, fulfilling his deepest desire. But through an encounter with a relative at a family reunion, he comes to realize his true worth.

Grab a cup of coffee and sit down with three long-time friends, who are willing to share their hearts. This inspirational book was written especially for women who value connectivity and growth. Coveted Conversations starts with down-to-earth stories depicting women in various authentic situations. Readers will see themselves over and over as the authors bear witness to the joys, challenges, and sorrows of life. The stories are followed by an uplifting devotional, practical guidance, and thought-provoking questions that encourage reflection and intentional Christian living. Read, journal, laugh, cry, and be changed through Coveted Conversations.

Grab a cup of coffee and sit down with three long-time friends, who are willing to share their hearts. This inspirational book was written especially for women who value connectivity and growth. Coveted Conversations starts with down-to-earth stories depicting women in various authentic situations. Readers will see themselves over and over as the authors bear witness to the joys, challenges, and sorrows of life. The stories are followed by an uplifting devotional, practical guidance, and thought-provoking questions that encourage reflection and intentional Christian living. Read, journal, laugh, cry, and be changed through Coveted Conversations.

This book is about my personal journey through several years of my life as I travel through the wilderness. It is about the love of God and the betrayal of friends while facing heartache and loss. This is my journey of the dying of myself only to emerge from ashes to rediscover who I am and why I am here. The underlying purpose of my being.

As a young bride, Jennifer Smith couldn't wait to build her life with the man she adored. She dreamed of closeness, of being fully known and loved by her husband. But the first years of marriage were nothing like she'd imagined. Instead, they were marked by disappointment and pain. Trapped by fear and insecurity, and feeling totally alone, Jennifer cried out to God: What am I doing wrong? Why is this happening to us? It was as if a veil had descended between her and her husband, and between her and God--one that kept her from experiencing the fullness of love. How did Jennifer and her husband survive the painful times? What did they do when they were tempted to call it quits? How did God miraculously step in during the darkest hour to rescue and redeem them, tearing down the veil once and for all? The Unveiled Wife is a real-life love story; one couple's refreshingly raw, transparent journey touching the deep places in a marriage that only God can reach. If you are feeling disappointment or even despair about your marriage, the heart-cry of this book is: You are not alone. Discover through Jennifer's story how God can bring you through it all to a place of transformation.

Mary Magdalene was the principle witness of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus as told in the Christian gospels: the grief-stricken scarlet woman at the foot of the cross, clutching her jar of ointment, her hair loose like that of the maenads. Yet by the sixth century, Mary, once called the Tower, had fallen into disrepute as a sinner and prostitute. Mary was never a martyr, but tradition has her exiled to a solitary cave, where she was not a threat to the established church until she emerged after the rediscovery of the heretical Gnostic texts. In these, Mary Magdalene is the beloved companion of Jesus, the disciple who "knew the all." As with her predecessor Eve, she bears the sin of desiring knowledge and is condemned for it. The question of whether Mary Magdalene can be identified with Mary of Bethany has become merely another means of reducing her authority. In the gospels, Jesus said that his anointer should be remembered for all generations, yet she remains maligned and undefended-until now.