Böcker av David J Cohen

'Painfully accurate and hilariously hopeless - a definitive 80's Stand-up comedy period drama - pain is funny and so is this ...' Helen Lederer1981: it's the early days of alternative comedy and Barry is right in the thick of it with Harriet, the love of his life.In the hilarious follow-up to Stand Up, Barry Goldman, Barry still wants to be a comedian but comedy has other ideas - which is how he ends up as a trainee journalist on the Rotherham Times.Comedy careers forward without him, soon he is further from his dream of stand-up stardom than ever.He throws himself into the world of journalism and the arms of fellow trainee Sharon but continues to be lured by the glamour of fame and fortune. What's it to be? Fighter for the truth or the glory of the love of the crowd?Sooner or later he'll have to choose.Stand Up, Barry Goldman**** Chortle"Funny and fascinating, a lovely tale." Jo Brand"Powerfully funny, often moving. Dave has created the Jewish Adrian Mole of alternative comedy." David Quantick

This book provides an understanding of lament psalms and how they can assist people to engage with their experiences of distress in prayer.

This exceptional book explores our understanding of the Psalter as a book of prayer in the Judeo-Christian tradition. It focuses in original and helpful ways on the genre of Lament as a text medium through which personal distress can be engaged with and processed in the action of prayer, and explores some of the psychodynamic shifts which can occur for people praying in this way, providing some actual case examples of the process at work. The author provides a thorough examination of the lament genre found in the Psalter from a theological perspective and also offers a practical working model which could be incorporated into work with people who are suffering from distress in a variety of forms.