The Prostitute in the Pulpit

The Prostitute in the Pulpit
Author: Mark Copeland
Publisher: Xulon Press
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2002-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1591602025

The author claims that the world and the modern church "have rejected the message of Jesus Christ and have perverted the biblical blueprint God has set forth for the family." In particular he believes that "when a woman works outside of her home under the authority of someone other than her husband, she is spiritually and physically placing herself under the authority of someone else," which violates the biblical teaching on the proper roles of husbands and wives.

Pimps, Pastors, Pulpits and Prostitutes

Pimps, Pastors, Pulpits and Prostitutes
Author: Bishop Woodrow H. Dawkins Jr
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 49
Release: 2012-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1466929596

"This book speaks about leaders pimping and prostituting the Body of Christ, leaving faithful givers and supporters hopeless, broke, spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and sometimes physically. God has given Bishop WH Dawkins, Jr. a mandate to expose many of the schemes and tricks the enemy has used to bamboozle the people of God and minister a word of healing, deliverance, and wholeness."--Page 4 of cover.

Prostitutes and Polygamists

Prostitutes and Polygamists
Author: David T. Lamb
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310518482

Jacob and Solomon were polygamists. Tamar and Rahab were prostitutes. What are polygamists and prostitutes doing on the pages of Holy Scripture? And God told the prophet Hosea to marry a prostitute. What about Cain—did he really marry his sister? Abraham did, and he was also a polygamist. Lot offered his daughters up for rape, David committed adultery (or rape?) and the Bible calls both men righteous. Love, Old Testament style, was bizarre. As readers of the Old Testament encounter these weird, confusing, and horrific “love” stories they ask, “What’s up with sex in the Old Testament?” The church often ignores the R-rated bits of the Bible, so it’s hard for people to find answers to their disturbing questions about sex in Scripture, which can lead people to give up on God and God’s word. However, these stories were included in the Bible for a reason, to reveal an even more shocking “love” story. When humans behave badly, God behaves graciously. God not only forgives people with sexual baggage, but also redeems their lives and includes them in his mission. God’s word records their story to benefit us. Just as sex was not often ideal in the Old Testament, it’s often not ideal today. Instead of ignoring these stories, Prostitutes and Polygamists engages, discusses, and learns from them.

Behind the Mormon Curtain

Behind the Mormon Curtain
Author: Steve Cuno
Publisher: Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA)
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2021-11-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 163431218X

“I MAKE A LOT OF MONEY AS A CALL GIRL” wasn't the answer author Steve Cuno expected when he asked a new acquaintance how she planned to capitalize her start-up business.Wait, hold on, he thought. In Salt Lake City? Home to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Mormon Church, where all it takes to become the object of steamy gossip is for a neighbor to see you take a sip of coffee? In a religion where nonmarital sex is second in seriousness to murder?“You've no idea the people I could get in trouble,” she told him. She'd entertained politicians, police officers, judges, defense lawyers, prosecutors, doctors—all of them married, almost all of them practicing Mormons. Many were highly visible, highly regarded leaders in the faith.So began Cuno's behind-the-scenes investigation into Salt Lake City's prostitution industry. Over the course of three years, he interviewed prostitutes, johns, police officers, social workers, and massage-parlor owners—and uncovered a surprising underside to the Mormon Church's carefully cultivated image of wholesomeness and family values. He found that Salt Lake's prostitutes—“sex workers” or “providers,” as they prefer to be known—don't live in the illusory experience they create for their clients. Many are multilingual and hold college degrees. They fix meals, drive kids to school, help with homework, handle household chores, socialize with others in the community, have love lives of their own—and, yes, go to church, sometimes with the very people who sneak out to meet them.With wit and sensitivity, Behind the Mormon Curtain takes a deep dive into the quintessential American religion and the world's oldest profession, as Cuno tells the story of what he discovered, how he discovered it, and what it reveals not just about Mormons, but about us all.

The Prostitute Church

The Prostitute Church
Author: Joses Hizkiah
Publisher:
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2014-06-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781500284695

Webster dictionary describes prostitution as “To give up to any vile or infamous purpose; to devote to anything base; to sell to wickedness; as, to prostitute talents to the propagation of infidel principles, to prostitute the press to the publication of blasphemy. It is to offer or expose upon vile terms or to unworthy persons”. It is the unworthy or corrupt use of one's talents or gifts for personal or financial gain hereby negating God's ordained use of it. The body of Christ became business ventures and stumbled from the path of righteousness looking for unjust gain, power, substitute god, promotion of self and denominationalism; and building personal empires. They swerved into prostitution. The Church does not love God genuinely as before and God has now become a means to an end. We are selling over our precious souls to the devil because of the morsel of earthly gratifications. “Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain? Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt? And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination. The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit. Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead. For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing. Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD. For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water” – Jer. 2:5-13 The Bible was written to people who will understand the concepts of knowledge, belief, and faith apart from experience but the present day Church experiment and walk in spiritual matters based on natural knowledge and world belief system. They believe that the Church should be considered successful based on accumulation of wealth, outward piousness, gigantic edifice, accumulation of hectares of land, being like the “Jones” [other churches genuinely called by God to do what we have copycatted] who have Universities, having a large congregational size, and television ministry.

The Preacher and the Prostitute

The Preacher and the Prostitute
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2012
Genre:
ISBN: 9789769528772

Maribel struggled to forget her past, when she used to dabble in prostitution, made porn videos and was a nude poster girl. She became a Christian and turned her life around and made a decision to use her singing talent to give glory to God. However, she quickly realized that a young, single, attractive, talented girl was never going to remain unnoticed at church.First, she captures the attention of a jealous church sister who is determined to dig into her mysterious past and then the new pastor who seemed to reciprocate her affection. After falling in love with him, her past rears its ugly head and Maribel realizes that she has to tell her new-found love the truth about her history before she can accept his marriage proposal. Can a preacher and an ex- prostitute ever be happy together?

Alice

Alice
Author: Ivy Anderson
Publisher: Heyday.ORIM
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1597143766

The collected memoirs of a 1913 San Francisco sex worker, their effect on society at the time, and where they fit in today’s world. In 1913 the San Francisco Bulletin published a serialized, ghostwritten memoir of a prostitute who went by Alice Smith. “A Voice from the Underworld” detailed Alice's humble Midwestern upbringing and her struggle to find aboveboard work, and candidly related the harrowing events she endured after entering “the life.” While prostitute narratives had been published before, never had they been as frank in their discussion of the underworld, including topics such as abortion, police corruption, and the unwritten laws of the brothel. Throughout the series, Alice strongly criticized the society that failed her and so many other women, but, just as acutely, she longed to be welcomed back from the margins. The response to Alice's story was unprecedented: four thousand letters poured into the Bulletin, many of which were written by other prostitutes ready to share their own stories; and it inspired what may have been the first sex worker rights protest in modern history. An introduction contextualizes “A Voice from the Underworld” amid Progressive Era sensationalistic journalism and shifting ideas of gender roles, and reveals themes in Alice's story that extend to issues facing sex workers today. Winner of the California Historical Society Book Award “Essential reading for anyone interested in the rich history of sexual commerce in the United States.”—Gretchen Soderlund, author of Sex Trafficking, Scandal, and the Transformation of Journalism, 1885-1917 “Not only for Bay Area history buffs, Alice will enlighten all readers to early shifts in gender roles and societal correlations today.”—Cassie Duggan, Literary Hub

From a Nobody to a Somebody

From a Nobody to a Somebody
Author: Angela Lay
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781436364829

"From a Nobody to a Somebody"-From Prostitute to Pulpit, is a true story of a young woman who was raised in a good single parent home.The author (Angela Lay) gave birth to an handicapped child at the age of 16 then shortly began to strip at the age of 17,this led into prostitution,weed,cocaine,pills,and homosexuality,4 abortions.But a change came when the author found herself being raped in the front seat of a car(Jan 2000) shortly after this tragic moment of her wild life she turned to God for the first time and repented and asked God to change her forever and that´s exactly what the Lord did for Lay so from that point on she made a vowel to always tell the true power of Deliverance, Mercy & Grace wherever she may go, to win souls for the Kingdom of God.Evangelist.Angela Lay is now an ordained minister that preaches the real living word of God to heal the brokenhearted and to snatch them that are bound and blinded from the clinches of HELL.If God did it for Lay, he will do it for you!