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"An unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer to earn a divinity degree from Duke University-and then realizes she must confront her past to truly find her way home. "Home, it turns out, is where the war is. It's also where the healing begins." Born to drug-dealing parents in rural Indiana, Dana Trent is a preschooler the first time she uses a razor blade to cut up weed and fill dime bags for her schizophrenic...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Description
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A devoted Christian family woman recounts the wrenching loss of her first husband and her joyful years of raising a blended family before confronting fears surrounding her son's decision to enlist in the military.
7) Standing in the whirlwind: the riveting story of a priest and the congregations that tormented her
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Description
vii, 184 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
9) Raw faith
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An intimate and revealing documentary that follows two years in the private life of Marilyn Sewell, an outspoken and socially progressive Unitarian minister who has re-energized her Portland community. While serving a community that relies on her for wisdom and advice, Marilyn struggles quietly with decisions about her own future. As she seeks to reconcile the commitments of her profession with a longing for intimacy and love, childhood memories of...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Description
xviii, 206 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Bolz-Weber takes no prisoners as she reclaims the term 'pastrix' (pronounced 'pas-triks,' a term used by some Christians who refuse to recognize female pastors) in her messy, beautiful, prayer-and-profanity laden narrative about an unconventional life of faith"--Dust jacket flap.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Description
xiii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Profound essays on nurturing life while facing a terminal diagnosis, from the dedicated humanitarian and young mother whose writings The New York Times called "nothing less than a master class in how to be fully human". "I am holding both my hope and my grief together in the same hands. It is a loose hold, looser than I am accustomed to. My love is so much bigger than me." Nonprofit leader and minister Tallu Schuyler Quinn has spent her adult life...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Debbie Laramie is a preacher. Debbie and her son, Hayden, are sent from a big city church to the small town of Paradise, where Debbie finds a community in desperate need of direction and a town that has turned its back on its neediest neighbors. She tries to build a new vision for her congregation that embraces everyone, even the poor and outcast.
14) Daughters of light: Quaker women preaching and prophesying in the colonies and abroad, 1700-1775
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Description
x, 399 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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