Author: Timothy Larsen
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830872965
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 235
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Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Marilynne Robinson is one of the most eminent public intellectuals in America today, and her writing offers probing meditations on the Christian faith. Based on the 2018 Wheaton Theology Conference, this volume brings together the thoughts of leading theologians, historians, literary scholars, and church leaders who engaged in theological dialogue with Robinson's work—and with the author herself.
Author: Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Publisher: Penguin Mass Market
ISBN: 9780140249675
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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"Combining the passion of a family member with the skepticism of a social sicentist, Lightfoot raises the standard of authenticity in African American biography."-Washington Post Book World. Winner of the Christopher Award.
Author: Mazs M. Yebbus
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1480956643
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311
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Going for Balm in Gilead By: Masz M. Yebbus Samuel was born in an African village, where the ancestors used to depend on natural indicators to predict the start of seasonal rains. Lately, the indicators had become unreliable, and when the community failed to predict the onset of rains, crops failed, and the threat of famine loomed large on the horizon. Samuel was blamed because he had passed on information about the rains, which turned out to be wrong. Assisted by an enigmatic village pastor, Samuel escaped to the city before society could exact its retribution. Enticed by the prospects of better income abroad, Samuel crossed the Mediterranean Sea illegally, to settle in Gilead in Europe. Unfortunately, life in Gilead did not turn out as he had envisaged. This book chronicles Samuel’s struggle to achieve success. It tells the story of how he had to straddle two parallel worlds of existence, and the ultimate discovery that because he had become exotic in both worlds, ‘home’ was nowhere. This is Samuel’s story of how he ultimately discovers that the secret of success lay in self-reconciliation, and that at the heart of this, was the definition of ‘home.’
Author: Lanford Wilson
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822216278
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Length: 2 acts.
Author: John Lovelle Withers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781684716432
Category : African American soldiers
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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In May 1945, as World War II ended, an all-black U.S. Army truck company, including Lieutenant John L. Withers of Greensboro, North Carolina, rushed emergency supplies to an unknown German town. Long victims of harsh racial abuse, the soldiers were nonetheless shocked at the horrors they witnessed when the "town" turned out to be the Dachau concentration camp. They were further shocked, days later, when two destitute young Jews, former Dachau inmates, appeared at their encampment and pleaded for help. Housing non-military personnel was strictly forbidden, but the soldiers, with their Lieutenant's endorsement, sheltered the boys nevertheless. After the war, as he raised a family and launched a career in government, Withers always remembered the Jewish boys and told of the year they hid out in his unit, working alongside and forging close friendships with his soldiers. He himself became their surrogate parent, guiding them towards understanding that, however horrid the past, the future yet held hope. When he went home in 1947, the boys--fondly nicknamed Pee Wee and Salomon by the troops--were ready to start life anew. Although they eventually lost touch, Withers' memory of his friends never faded. What, he wondered, had become of them? Would he ever see them again? Balm in Gilead traces the author's prolonged search for the roots of his father's story--a search that one day, miraculously, ended with the old friends finding each other again--back cover.
Author: Raechel Myers
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 1433688980
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Born out of the experiences of hundreds of thousands of women who Raechel and Amanda have walked alongside as they walk with the Lord, She Reads Truth is the message that will help you understand the place of God's Word in your life.
Author: John Wesley Work
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Author: Lewis V. Baldwin
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 9781451412987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Examines King's roots in Black popular culture and their role as the source of his power and vision
Author: Lanford Wilson
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Thomas H. Holmes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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