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| Author | : Angela Benson |
| Publisher | : Walk Worthy Press |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2007-11-19 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0446501158 |
After witnessing the suicide of a churchgoing young woman, Minister Francine Amen blames herself: After this young woman had accused their pastor of sexual abuse, Francine rejected her as a friend. Francine's guilty feelings land her in a mental hospital, and after her release she vows to restore her ministry by making amends to every person she's ever hurt, especially her sister Dawn Amen. Dawn's husband Sly-- formerly Francine's boyfriend--is spending too much time with Francine during her recovery, when he should be making his own amends to Dawn.
| Author | : Jesmi (Sist̲ar) |
| Publisher | : Penguin Books India |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0143067087 |
On 31 August 2008, Sister Jesme left the Congregation of Mother of Carmel. The authorities repeated attempts to have her declared insane, she says, left her no other option. This book, a first of its kind in India, is an outpouring of her experiences as a nun for thirty-three years. Spirited and fun-loving, from a good family, deeply-rooted in Catholicism, Jesme was drawn to religious life at seventeen after a Retreat at junior college. As a nun, seven years later, she felt distressed at the many ills growing inside the convent and being forced to remain silent about them. There was corruption, by way of donations for college seats; sexual relations between some priests and nuns, and between nuns; class distinctions whereby the cheduthies, or poorer and less-educated sisters, did menial jobs; and a wide gap between comforts and facilities enjoyed by the priests and nuns. Jesme was permitted to complete her doctorate in English Literature, to pursue her passion for literature, cinema and teaching college students. She exposed them to classic films, believing that aesthetics enhances spirituality. But these joys were clouded by the troubles she faced. Searing, sincere, and sensitive, Amen is a plea for a reformation of the Church and comes at a time of its growing concern about nuns and priests. It affirms Jesmeâ¬"s unbroken spirit and faith in Jesus and the Church, living like a nun, but outside the Four Walls of the convent.
| Author | : Linda Hunt |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2024-05-21 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781960104472 |
| Author | : James Baldwin |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 115 |
| Release | : 2013-09-17 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 0804149690 |
From one of the most brilliant writers of the twentieth century—a masterpiece of the modern American theater: a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons. "[Baldwin] uses words as the sea uses waves." —Langston Hughes In his first work for the theater, James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his childhood along with an unwavering awareness of the price those churches exacted from their worshipers. For years Sister Margaret Alexander has moved her Harlem congregation with a mixture of personal charisma and ferocious piety. But when Margaret's estranged husband, a scapegrace jazz musician, comes home to die, she is in danger of losing both her standing in the church and the son she has tried to keep on the godly path.
| Author | : Sandra Eley |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 131 |
| Release | : 2013-01-28 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1479730505 |
Nat and Danielle Turner was a god-fearing loving couple who planned everything, even her conception. The only thing about plans, life has a way of changing them. The story takes you on a rollercoaster of emotions. In life you have to weather the storms that suddenly rise out of nowhere. This book has a warning. You can plan your future but do not let it change your destiny. Tomorrow is not promised. Is heaven a real place? Does hell exist? Don’t find out like Nat from a dark eternal crypt where there is no return, crying out, “It’s Your Choice.”
| Author | : James Baldwin |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2013-09-17 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0804149755 |
A major collection of short stories by one of America’s most important writers—informed by the knowledge the wounds racism leaves in both its victims and its perpetrators. • “If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one.” —Michael Ondaatje, Booker Prize-winner of The English Patient In this modern classic, "there's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water. It may be the heroin that a down-and-out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of pouring his life into an inanimate instrument. It may be the brittle piety of a father who can never forgive his son for his illegitimacy. Or it may be the screen of bigotry that a redneck deputy has raised to blunt the awful childhood memory of the day his parents took him to watch a black man being murdered by a gleeful mob. By turns haunting, heartbreaking, and horrifying, Going to Meet the Man is a major work by one of our most important writers.
| Author | : Sylvia Brown-Roberts |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 170 |
| Release | : 2013-01-18 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1475968728 |
Forty-year-old Nikolis McQuaigecalled NikkiMacis a teacher in Trenton, New Jersey, and is smart, quick, and loyal to her friends. Shes also single and struggles to be a good Christian. She thinks of herself as a work in progress, and God has been helping her make improvements in various areas of her lifesuch as in her choice of men. But men arent the only thing on NikkiMacs mind. Theres her best friend, Jacee, and a new friend, Anna Maria. Theres her friend Cletus, whos trying hard to stay on the wagon and do right by the twins he finds out are his biological children. And then theres Sister Chloe, a new member of the church, who is coolalmost downright rudeto NikkiMac for reasons NikkiMac cant fathom. She even finds time to think of the new, eligible assistant preacher named Adam Greene. By turns humorous and poignant, Beyond Church Doors invites us into NikkiMacs world of urban grittiness and sass, where being a Christian means asking forgiveness when her anger at another woman leads to near tragedy. It means not giving up on asking friends to church. It means being willing to don a bright orange lifeguard outfit and whistle to stand by the baptistery so that a churchgoer, terrified of drowning, can let herself be baptized. NikkiMac doesnt practice Sunday-morning-only Christianity, but lives her faith in the community 24-7 with a refreshing candor. Author Sylvia Brown-Roberts reunites us with her vivid characters as they seek to translate their faith into Godly behavior. An inspirational novel. Dr. Michael A. Brown, author of In Search of the Narrow Way
| Author | : Aristide Oconostota Marshall |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2011-06-25 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1462891861 |
The Author is introduced to his ancestors by his old Aunt Lois. His ancestors are from different ethnic groups, but share a bond of love and faith. The story is told as the author struggles with being an epidemiologist in the face of racism and classism. His aunt helps him celebrate each ancestors weaknesses, strengths, moral failures, and victories.
| Author | : Sylvia Brown-Roberts |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 227 |
| Release | : 2024-04-30 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1663261008 |
More Grace is the fifth novel in the Church Doors series of Author Sylvia Brown-Roberts. It continues the story of NikkiMac, a teacher in an urban school district. She’s a faithful member of a local church congregation, and is happily married to the assistant minister. She and her best friends Jacee and Anna Maria face the challenges and rewards of walking in faith. They deal with child protection, romance, compassion, childbirth, cultural differences, evangelism, loyalty, verbal assaults, jealousy, depression, and joy. They and the other church members may fall, but they won’t quit the faith.
| Author | : Daniel A Helminiak |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1136570756 |
A down-to-earth look at the spiritual power of sex Sex and the Sacred examines the spiritual dimension of human sexuality in a way that is free of religious affiliation but still open to traditional religion and belief in God. Dr. Daniel Helminiak, author of the best-selling What the Bible Really Says about Homosexuality, looks at the relationship between sexuality and spirituality, first, from a humanistic perspective and, then, a more familiar Christian point of view. In particular, he encourages LGBTI people to reclaim their spiritual heritage without apology. This unique book emphasizes spiritual commitment as an essential facet of LGBTI/queer consciousness and addresses such burning themes as coming out, the importance of self-acceptance, gay marriage, gay bashing, and the ethics of gay sex. Sex and the Sacred combines a psychological approach to spirituality with common sense and compassion, inspiring a break from moralistic religion and an understanding of what true spirituality means. The book applies this understanding to Christian topics such as the Bible, Fundamentalism, and the future of Christianity, and shows how coming out was an issue for Jesus, how homosexual experience relates to the Christian Trinity, and how Western Civilization became so sex-negative. Sex and the Sacred presents in the end a radical vision of Christianity open to all people. Religious leaders of all denominations, educators, counselors, members of the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender community, non-religious spiritual seekers, and anyone interested in the relationship between spirituality and sexuality will find this book enlightening and uplifting. Sex and the Sacred examines: the spiritual drive that is built into human sexuality the standard religious arguments against gay marriage a sustained argument that Biblical Fundamentalism is not Christian spiritual lessons from the AIDS epidemic the right and wrong of sex—queer and otherwise homosexuality in Catholic teaching and practice sexual ethics without religion a vision for a renewed Christianity within a global community
