The Preacher's Daughter

by Lyn Cote
The Preacher's Daughter
Author: Lyn Cote
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2011-05-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459210530
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Pastor Tanner Bond needed to break down the barriers between his congregation and the Mexican-Americans who had recently moved to Pleasant Prairie. But he didn't expect God to send him Lucie Hansen.... Lucie was bold, brash and bilingual. She was determined to help Tanner understand the new Hispanic residents, but she was also his complete opposite-impulsive and confident, while he pondered and prayed before acting. Growing up as a "preacher's kid," Lucie had resented the restrictions put on her. She didn't want to have feelings for Tanner...even though she did. Would her rush to bring harmony do more harm than good? And would the preacher's daughter realize she'd make a perfect pastor's wife?

The Pact

by Chris Iwegbu
The Pact
Author: Chris Iwegbu
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2016-03-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1514477777
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Obinna Kelechi graduated, first class, from the university but was unable to find a job. His financial circumstances were of the very worst kind and couldnt possibly be worse. Luck seemed to smile at him at last when he met Joshua Babatunde, a very wealthy and charming personality who later became his closest friend. For some time, everything went well, and Obinna Kelechi finally seemed to have gotten the break he has been seeking through his new friend, Joshua Babatunde, who provided him with all he needed to lead a far-better life. However, all that glitters is not gold as there was a very big price to pay. In addition, some very disturbing facts later emerged about Joshua Babatunde. Obinna Kelechi suddenly finds himself trapped and needed to break free. The story culminated in a final showdown between the forces of light and darkness.

Karla

by Stephen Williams
Karla
Author: Stephen Williams
Publisher: Seal Books
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2010-05-14
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0385673477
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"People want me in max so my life will be hard but it really isn't. There are absolutely no responsibilities here. Everything is provided. We can spend the day sleeping, sun-tanning or doing whatever we want all day every day." --Karla Homolka in a letter to author Stephen Williams "Well, they say 'Never say never' and they're right," Karla wrote in her startling first letter to Stephen Williams. "Never in a million years did I think I would ever write a letter to someone from the media, let alone you who has condemned me so harshly." Thus began one of the most controversial correspondences in Canadian history. Karla picks up where Williams's first book on the case, Invisible Darkness, left her, painting her nails in her cell in solitary confinement in the gothic tower of Kingston's Prison for Women. After testifying against her ex-husband in 1995, Karla's life in prison was soon going to take a very different, dramatic turn. With a thriller's pace, Karla: A Pact with the Devil charts the inner life of the world's most notorious female prisoner. In Karla, Williams lets Karla and the other key players speak for themselves. And what they have to say will surprise, horrify and enlighten.

The Preacher's Demons

by Franco Mormando
The Preacher's Demons
Author: Franco Mormando
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 1999-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226538540
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"When the city was filled with these bonfires, he then combed the city, and whenever he received notice of some public sodomite, he had him immediately seized and thrown into the nearest bonfire at hand and had him burned immediately." This story, of an anonymous individual who sought to cleanse medieval Paris, was part of a sermon delivered in Siena, Italy, in 1427. The speaker, the friar Bernardino (1380-1444), was one of the most important public figures of the time, and he spent forty years combing the towns of Italy, instructing, admonishing, and entertaining the crowds that gathered in prodigious numbers to hear his sermons. His story of the Parisian vigilante was a recommendation. Sexual deviants were the objects of relentless, unconditional persecution in Bernardino's sermons. Other targets of the preacher's venom were witches, Jews, and heretics. Mormando takes us into the social underworld of early Renaissance Italy to discover how one enormously influential figure helped to dramatically increase fear, hatred, and intolerance for those on society's margins. This book is the first on Bernardino to appear in thirty-five years, and the first ever to consider the preacher's inflammatory role in Renaissance social issues.

Waiting for the Call

by Jacqueline Taylor
Waiting for the Call
Author: Jacqueline Taylor
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2023-06-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0472904272
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“Well-written, absorbing, and a great pleasure to read . . . will appeal to Christians struggling to square their traditional beliefs with acceptance of homosexuality as well as to all those interested in adoption, lesbian marriage, and the changing shape of America’s families.” —Elizabeth C. Fine, Virginia Tech University Waiting for the Call takes readers from the foothills of the Appalachians—where Jacqueline Taylor was brought up in a strict evangelical household—to contemporary Chicago, where she and her lesbian partner are raising a family. In a voice by turns comic and loving, Taylor recounts the amazing journey that took her in profoundly different directions from those she or her parents could have ever envisioned. Taylor’s father was a Southern Baptist preacher, and she struggled to deal with his strictures as well as her mother’s manic-depressive episodes. After leaving for college, Taylor finds herself questioning her faith and identity, questions that continue to mount when—after two divorces, a doctoral degree, and her first kiss with a woman—she discovers her own lesbianism and begins a most untraditional family that grows to include two adopted children from Peru. Even as she celebrates and cherishes this new family, Taylor insists on the possibility of maintaining a loving connection to her religious roots. While she and her partner search for the best way to explain adoption to their children and answer the inevitable question, “Which one is your mom?” they also seek out a church that will unite their love of family and their faith. Told in the great storytelling tradition of the American South, full of deep feeling and wry humor, Waiting for the Call engagingly demonstrates how one woman bridged the gulf between faith and sexual identity without abandoning her principles.

Things the Preachers Don't Tell You

by Delores Glass
Things the Preachers Don't Tell You
Author: Delores Glass
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2022-08-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1641916028
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______________________________________________________________ There are literally thousands of religions practiced in the world today, including astounding 47,000 denominations within Christianity alone. They all claim to have the truth according their individual practices, beliefs, doctrines, and rituals - but are they all acceptable to the CREATOR, the Almighty GOD of the universe? The initial question of course is: Does GOD really exist? And if HE does exist, are all forms of worship acceptable to HIM? "THINGS THE PREACHERS DON'T TELL YOU" directs attention to the Judeo/Christian Bible for the answers, and in its pages the creation of the universe, and the miracle of life on earth testifies to the existence of GOD (Romans 1:20). So, the first part of the question is answered from both biblical and scientific perspectives. GOD authored the first 5 of the 39 Old Testament books of the Judeo/Christian Bible and gave them to us as the roadmap back to the precious gift of everlasting life that our forefather, Adam, forfeited at the very beginning of the world. Acceptable worship is made clear through the writings of men inspired by HIM throughout the entire Bible. Within the first 39 books of the Bible's 66 books GOD tells us 6,823 times that HIS name is YHWH (YAHWEH) and explains what HE expects of those who hope to gain everlasting life. Unfortunately, religionists have obscured HIS message by teaching that the Bible's mandates do not apply today, especially those contained in the first 5 books. Preachers dismiss the Bible's warnings and notoriously teach their own watered-down dogma as biblical fact. Many religious leaders have become motivational speakers who make people 'feel good,' by teaching that GOD is an all loving "Big Daddy in the sky" who will easily overlook their error. These preachers completely dismiss the majesty of YAHWEH and the seriousness of HIS mandates, also often using religion for personal financial gain. For those who are taught that the Bible, especially the Old Testament, does not apply today, GOD reminds us that "HE does not change (Numbers 23:19 / James 1:17) regardless the "political corrections" that modern day preachers have given to HIM and HIS word. 'THINGS THE PREACHERS DON'T TELL YOU' points to what the Bible says about: Free Will; Repentance; Revenge; Forgiveness; Justice; Yahweh and Yashua-who are they; The First Mandate; and What happened after Christ. It explains the parallel between the Old and New Testaments showing Christ's role in the Old Testament prophecies, and how those prophecies will be completely fulfilled at world's end. It shows how Satan figures into the picture, and you may be surprised to learn how Satan has used organized religion i.e., the preachers, to lead mankind away from Yahweh. You will also learn how the death penalty will be done away with for those who love YAHWEH. Take the time to consider what you believe and why. The scripture advises us to: "Make sure of all things and hold fast to what is fine (1. Thessalonians 5:21 NWT)" because, "This means everlasting life: their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ. (John 17:3 NWT)"

When the Crickets Stopped Singing

by Marilyn Donahue
When the Crickets Stopped Singing
Author: Marilyn Donahue
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2018-03-20
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1684371376
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Set in the summer of 1939, this historical novel for readers aged 10-14 tells the story of a young girl who finds the strength to defy the social norms of her community when a dangerous man poses a threat to a friend. Twelve-year-old Angie Wallace and her friends embark on a quest to "love thy neighbor," which includes newcomer Jefferson Clement. But soon the girls begin to suspect that he's a dangerous man, even if the adults refuse to see it. Like Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird, the characters in this book must explore the nature of truth and justice as Angie struggles to stand up for what she knows is right. It's the calm before the storm of World War II in 1939 in small-town Messina, California. Angie Wallace and her friends have set out on a mission to "love thy neighbor"--even if that means inviting weird Dodie Crumper to join in their summer plans. But as they move through their neighborly to-do list, the girls can't help but notice that there's something strange about the sudden return of Jefferson Clement. He might be well-dressed and respected, yet with each interaction they become more aware of his dark intentions, especially when it comes to young girls. The adults in town either don't notice or ignore the danger he poses, but when Angie is the only witness to a terrible accident, she must make a choice that calls into question everything she understands about truth and justice. With a setting that blossoms to life from the first page, When the Crickets Stopped Singing is the story of a transformative summer in a young girl's life, when the idylls of childhood collide with the perils of the world beyond.

His Christmas Gift & Decadent Holiday Pleasures

by Janice Sims
His Christmas Gift & Decadent Holiday Pleasures
Author: Janice Sims
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2019-10-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488034478
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HIS CHRISTMAS GIFT Two years ago, Alia Youngblood’s husband was taken prisoner on a top secret military mission. Now Adam Braithwaite is back and nothing like the confident physicist she married. This Adam is guarded, mistrustful…and still evokes a passion Alia can’t deny. She vowed for better or for worse and she won’t give up now. But when Alia’s new business assignment exposes Adam’s emotional scars, will holiday magic reignite love’s fires and make them whole again? DECADENT HOLIDAY PLEASURES Executive chef Elise Jennings is eager to prove herself at her new job. But when Giovanni Castillo, sexy heir to the Hamptons polo club, saunters into her kitchen, she’s tempted to taste forbidden fruit. An affair with her boss’s son could ruin her professional credibility. But Giovanni’s seductive caresses are impossible to resist! When their secret fling leads to not-so-secret gossip, will Elise get the man and career for Christmas…or be left outside in the cold?