Böcker av Jessica Martin

Die eigene Familie kann man sich nicht aussuchen. Das wissen die Nachbarn Thaddäus und Christopher nur zu gut. Während Christophers Eltern nach seinem Coming-out nichts mehr von ihm wissen wollen, ist Teddys Familie liebenswert schrullig, aber auch viel zu neugierig. Um den ständigen Fragen nach seinem nichtexistenten Liebesleben zu entkommen, behauptet Teddy, einen festen Freund zu haben. Dabei fällt ihm auf die Schnelle nur der Name seines attraktiven Nachbarn ein. Was als Notlüge beginnt, bringt ihn jedoch schnell in Schwierigkeiten, als die Familie seinen Freund endlich kennenlernen will. Zu allem Überfluss ist sein Ex zurück in der Stadt. Christopher mag seinen tierlieben Nachbarn, obwohl der introvertierte Künstler unglaublich verpeilt ist. Leider scheint Teddy ihm aus dem Weg zu gehen, dabei sehnt Christopher sich nach einem festen Partner. Als das Schicksal sie in Form eines flatternden Besuchers zusammenführt, kommt Teddys Lüge ans Licht und Christopher stimmt zu, seinen Freund zu spielen. Leider fällt es Thaddäus schwer, sich darüber zu freuen, denn er ist sich sicher, dass ihre Fake-Beziehung nicht zum Happy End führen kann. Oder etwa doch?

From the creators of PepToc, the virally popular telephone hotline featuring pre-recorded life advice from children, comes a heartwarming collection of 50 handmade motivational posters created by kids from around the world. This warm hug of a book harnesses the love and inspiration we all need to navigate our increasingly complex and difficult world. Following the immense success of their hotline, Peptoc creators Jessica Martin and Asherah Weiss invited youth from around the globe to make posters with messages of encouragement, hang them up in their communities, and submit photos of their work to share. The result is this collection of disarmingly earnest, often hilarious advice that only children could give. Whether it's the California kindergartener who advises his neighbors to "be grateful for yourself" or the 8-year-old from Alaska who suggests, "If you're frustrated, go get your wallet and buy ice cream and shoes"--one of these wise youngsters will prompt even the jaded reader to pause, reflect, and see things in a new light. A tangible reminder of our human capacity for hope amidst hardship, this colorful collection makes a thoughtful, uplifting gift for anyone who could use a pep talk.

The Eucharist is common Sunday fare in most Anglican churches, and the point in ritual where God and humanity most closely meet. It nourishes the soul, deepens and extends community, reaches deeper than any other Christian practice. But collective worship has been in steep decline and Eucharistic practice has been further disrupted by the pandemic.In The Eucharist in Four Dimensions, Jessica Martin considers the place of the Eucharist today using four approaches:· The Point of the Eucharist - its essence, story and what it is for in contemporary culture; the divine value it gives to the weak and the broken;· Flat Eucharist - the meaning of the Eucharist in a world of written liturgy and screened worship;· The Eucharist as event - the role of physical gathering and communal eating in the Eucharistic drama of communal feast; how this works when we are physically absent;· The Eucharist in time - how memory brings together Jesus's past physical present with the meetings and partings of our own lives.This is an essential guide to the Eucharist for all ministering in a world of streamed services and remote worship.

How can we understand intensifying gender inequalities against the backdrop of the rising visibility of popular mediated feminism? Can domestic cultures provide a space for a feminist response and resistance to austerity? This book seeks to address these questions, exploring how the revival of domestic, traditionally feminine activities, such as crafting, baking and sewing, have gone hand-in-hand with the re-politicisation of domestic culture during an era of austerity. Jessica Martin provides an in-depth analysis of key public figures who forged their public personas by co-opting the harsh conditions of austerity, turning them into a 'popular' brand of neoliberal feminism. Drawing on several case studies - including self-identifying feminists, domesticity experts and mothers such as Kirstie Allsopp, Justine Roberts, and Jen Gale, as well as the blogger, cook and anti-austerity activist Jack Munroe - Martin conceptualises the 'austerity celebrity' and explores how these figures have each developed their own style of domesticity activism and politicised domesticity. She also argues that these celebrity responses span the political spectrum, be it Allsopp's active championing of the 'Big Society', individualism and conservatism or Roberts' mobilisation of mothers into a political pressure group active in UK parliamentary politics. Finally, Martin explains how the turn towards a nostalgic domesticity within austerity culture in the UK has intensified during the COVID-19 crisis, paving the way for discourse that accepts escalating inequalities under the guise of a particular notion of white nostalgic femininity, as well as the British blitz spirit, invoking a form of patriotic stoicism and nationalistic sentiment.

What if the problem with desire is not that we want what we can't have, but that we don't want it enough? What if desire itself - the gap between wanting and having - is the key to living well? Holiness and Desire explores these questions, considering what a distinctive holiness might look like in our highly sexualized modern culture.