A Storyteller's Anthology: 26 Inspiring Character Portraits For Our Time, by Doug Feavel
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A captivating combination of epic tales, heroic character profiles, and timeless parables, this inspiring anthology is filled with unforgettable people who challenged and changed their world in remarkable and admirable ways. You’ll be introduced to personalities who are living and historical, familiar and unknown, domestic and foreign. Prepare to meet pilots, farmers, missionaries, engineers, martyrs, businessmen, pioneers, presidents, soldiers, writers, and scientists – whose shared motivations become a part of us and our heritage. Together they answer the pertinent questions of our time: What makes a genuine hero? Why is a hero’s life worth understanding? How does a hero personify favorable character? Each story will find its special place in head and heart – dwelling there to influence the critical choices ahead of us. From Preface to Epilogue, each page advocates making a positive impact on others and mastering the days we are given. Readers depart with an abiding conviction of the real difference one committed life will make. No matter our past or where we find ourselves today, we will be inspired to finish well. Good lives make a good book and Douglas Feavel knows it. These are the tales he tells with zest; these are the tales you will long treasure. Search, but you’ll not find another like this one. Enjoy the dynamic portraits; then share them in family, church, workplace, ministry and educational settings, because that’s how they began, and that’s why they were written.
A Storyteller's Anthology: 26 Inspiring Character Portraits For Our Time, by Doug Feavel - Amazon Sales Rank: #2833837 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .76" w x 6.00" l, .99 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 336 pages
A Storyteller's Anthology: 26 Inspiring Character Portraits For Our Time, by Doug Feavel About the Author Douglas Feavel retired after thirty-seven years in technology marketing and management positions. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and a master’s degree in Christian education from Bethany Divinity College. He and his wife, Barbara, have been married for nearly fifty years. Appleton, Wisconsin is their hometown, but Vincennes, Indiana is their current base. They volunteer at non-profits in teaching, outreach, and ministry roles domestically and abroad when not with their children and grandchildren. Speaking engagements may be arranged through contact@dougfeavel.com, and bulk purchase discounts are available through www.anekopress.com/contact-us.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A Worthy Anthology By Nathan Albright [Note: This book has been provided free of charge by Aneko Press in exchange for an honest review.]In the lengthy introductory material to this collection of sometimes familiar tales, the author states that in the contemporary climate of political correctness, which the author bends to at least slightly in many of these stories by writing in a secular fashion, even if the overall book makes it clear that the author is strongly conservative and self-avowedly Christian in his approach, the author states that it is common for those of the leftist persuasion to label conservative thinkers as provincial and curmudgeonly. No one giving this book a fair read would have any reason to think of the author as provincial in any fashion, as the stories are quite broad in their approach, but at the same time the author does appear rather curmudgeonly in many of the stories, sounding like a cranky old man telling youngsters to get off his lawn while he loads his shotgun. The fact that the author speaks in rather provocative and politically coded language about givers and takers and shows considerable hostility to intellect and book knowledge, despite having engaged in the intellectual task of writing a book of stories with the express goal of moral education signifies that sometimes the author’s rhetoric is at odds with practical concerns of recognizing his own intellectual aspirations as well as understanding the need to avoid making unnecessary enemies, a quality he praises in able politicians like Lincoln and Reagan. The materials of this book suggest that the author is a deep student of character and has a firm command of his storytelling abilities, but that sometimes he misses the mark in showing a grasp of the street smarts in avoiding unnecessary offense that he supports.In terms of its contents, the book consists of two parts. The first part, containing almost 60 pages in the introduction and an epilogue of about 20 more pages, consists of the author’s lamentation about the decline of character, the removal of stories about divine providence from common currency, and the failure of contemporary schools to educate America’s youth in the business of making sound moral choices, and setting the criteria that the author uses for determining if a story is worth sharing: moral character, nonfictional nature, ability to be shared to a wide age audience, appropriateness for oral retelling, clear moral lesson or “sticky points,” presence of a clear hero in the story. These criteria are admittedly subjective, but they make for worthwhile tales that provide a somewhat vicarious mentoring for readers. The other 250 pages or so of the book consists of 26 stories, some of them parables but most of them biographical sketches, of a wide mixture of worthy and heroic people. Some of the mare particularly famous: Jesus Christ, George Washington, and Ronald Reagan. Some of them are not as obscure as the author seems to think: Joseph Carey Merrick, better known as the Elephant Man, Phoebe Ann Mosey, better known as Annie Oakley, noted missionary Russell Stendal, and Rose Villand, best known for her work in preserving Europe’s artistic legacy which has appeared in films like Monuments Men. Many of the stories, whether of well-known people or more obscure ones, show resilient people who have a strong faith in God, a willingness to forgive others of their debts and try to pay their own, a dislike of too much attention, and the courage and tenacity to overcome crippling deficits as a result of illness, deformity, injury, poverty, and abuse, without acting as if the world owed them anything regardless of how they had suffered. The author’s political points are a bit heavy-handed, but the stories hardly need such an approach, as subtlety would have served just as well without causing offense to readers bothered by the author’s often strident tone.That said, despite the fact that the author has a strident tone, and is likely to be misinterpreted by more unfriendly readers, his comments when taken as a whole show him to be far broader in his conception of morality and character than is often appreciated. Often, conservative writers are accused of the tendency of praising personal morality while ignoring social morality, but Feavel pointedly condemns the racism of Nazi Germany, the Antebellum and unreconstructed American South, and contemporary Islam, all suitable targets for a writer concerned with social injustice and immorality on a massive and ugly scale. In casting a great deal of well-placed blame on figures like Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson for supporting an evil regime while claiming to be Christian gentlemen, the author points out that the moral character of a leader is not limited to personal morality, but also the justice of one’s causes and the regimes one supports with one’s talents and abilities. Clearly Lee and Jackson, and many others, chose wrongly, and this view of morality on the societal scale demonstrates that the author is sensitive to the larger political implications of our decisions, and has a robust if sometimes too dualistic viewpoint of good and evil on both the personal and the wider scale. This is a worthwhile book full of interesting stories, and the author is unstinting in giving credit where it is due in terms of where he encountered these stories, which will give the reader many more books to read to gather details that the author did not include in order to keep this book at a reasonable size. The author deserves considerable praise for his desire to write about those who have often been unjustly ignored, and the stories, even if sometimes a bit heavy-handed in his storytelling approach, will merit reading and retelling for a hopefully wide and appreciative audience.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. What A Collection Of Stories! By Blessings N' Bloggings If you love history and you the telling of history, you will really enjoy The Storyteller's Anthology by Douglas Feavel. If you are a Christian and love to hear stories with upstanding characters, good moral values and stories that you yourself can learn and pass on then you will love this book. I was not sure at first if I was going to enjoy the book because there is a large introduction chapter written by Douglas that explains the 6 main criteria for his selections of the 26 characters he chose to tell you about.As much as I was tempted to just scan the introduction I am glad I read it, knowing why and the full process of his story selection made the stories that much more enjoyable. I found that I knew of many of the stories but did not actually know the names of these upstanding and many times heroic people, for example Irena Sendler, I had seen a movie depicting her but I did not initially recognize the name. I found new stories and people that I had never heard of for example "The Priest Who Adopted a Town." I had never heard of Pasquale de Nisco but the way he built an entire community should be an example to all of us.What I really liked about this book is knowing that Douglas Feavel uses these stories to educate the public, including children in the public school system about our Christian roots without needing to be preachy. He uses stories to let children know that there is good and bad and a moral ground they can stand on and that heroes are never found on a movie screen with special effects exploding around them. They are in fact found in everyday people that do the right thing because it is the right thing to do and that our moral code giver, Jesus Christ, loves us.I was given this book by the publisher, Aneko Press, for my honest opinion.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. love, and hope illustrated in these stories to be ... By Amazon Customer "Occupying an antiquated position in the digital age, storytelling is rarely employed today, but when offered in the right setting, it is still appreciated." - Douglas FeavelThere is a certain je ne sais quoi (the word "magical" seemed too cliche) about the way that storytelling instills ideas, emotions, and truths in the mind and soul. Douglas Feavel takes "26 Inspiring Character Portraits for our Time" and arranges them in a way that answer some of the most important questions of our time, and leaves us with critical choices to make in light of these stories.In the book's introduction, Feavel outlines the six criteria that each story in his collection meets - character, nonfiction, age, oral presentation, sticky-points, and heroes. As a regular "nonfiction (in the sense of practical application, 'textbook-type' books, not the 'non-fiction' that Feavel categorizes) books" reader, the criterion that stood out most to me was the first - Character. Feavel writes of character as, "demonstrating unselfish virtue and moral integrity in difficult circumstances." My MBA textbooks and professional self-development books talk about such Character in terms of theory and application, but Feavel brings new life to the term in this collection of stories.I found "A Storyteller's Anthology" compelling, and the lessons and examples of faith, love, and hope illustrated in these stories to be timeless, inspiring, and memorable. I appreciate Feavel for holding onto Storytelling, and for helping his readers to remember this "antiquated" art form.Aneko Press, the publisher of A Storyteller's Anthology, provided me with a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
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