Author: Michael Barrington
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1483432254
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
In this spellbinding and riveting memoir, Barrington provides a brutally honest and gripping portrayal of his life as a young missionary priest. A racist alcoholic pastor nurses him through his first bout of malaria fever. Stood up to be shot by a group of drunken soldiers, a whiskey-drinking "John Wayne type" priest then shows real caring. Devastated by the death of a twelve years old school girl he was mentoring, he then has to bury her. Set during a pivotal period in the history of the Catholic church and bloody civil war in Nigeria, The Bishop Wears No Drawers is a true-to-life "survivor" tale replete with adrenaline-pumping adventures, daunting challenges and the added dimension of one priest's profound religious struggle to find his true self. Combined with warm humor, moving insights and personal testament Barrington offers an unfettered glimpse into the rarely entered domain and closed doors of the highest level of church management.
The Bishop Wears No Drawers: A Former Catholic Missionary Priest Remembers Africa
Author: Michael Barrington
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1483432254
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
In this spellbinding and riveting memoir, Barrington provides a brutally honest and gripping portrayal of his life as a young missionary priest. A racist alcoholic pastor nurses him through his first bout of malaria fever. Stood up to be shot by a group of drunken soldiers, a whiskey-drinking "John Wayne type" priest then shows real caring. Devastated by the death of a twelve years old school girl he was mentoring, he then has to bury her. Set during a pivotal period in the history of the Catholic church and bloody civil war in Nigeria, The Bishop Wears No Drawers is a true-to-life "survivor" tale replete with adrenaline-pumping adventures, daunting challenges and the added dimension of one priest's profound religious struggle to find his true self. Combined with warm humor, moving insights and personal testament Barrington offers an unfettered glimpse into the rarely entered domain and closed doors of the highest level of church management.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1483432254
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
In this spellbinding and riveting memoir, Barrington provides a brutally honest and gripping portrayal of his life as a young missionary priest. A racist alcoholic pastor nurses him through his first bout of malaria fever. Stood up to be shot by a group of drunken soldiers, a whiskey-drinking "John Wayne type" priest then shows real caring. Devastated by the death of a twelve years old school girl he was mentoring, he then has to bury her. Set during a pivotal period in the history of the Catholic church and bloody civil war in Nigeria, The Bishop Wears No Drawers is a true-to-life "survivor" tale replete with adrenaline-pumping adventures, daunting challenges and the added dimension of one priest's profound religious struggle to find his true self. Combined with warm humor, moving insights and personal testament Barrington offers an unfettered glimpse into the rarely entered domain and closed doors of the highest level of church management.
Priest and Bishop
Author: Raymond E. Brown
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725206129
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
"With the whole Christian world looking on, we Catholics have entered a sometimes acrimonious debate with ourselves as to what should be expected of those who are in the special ministry of the Church, i.e., the priesthood--What manner of life should our priests live and what work should they do? Also under review is the role of the bishop, said traditionally to possess the fullness of the priesthood. We are asking whether the authority structure on all levels should be more collegial or democratic and what such a change would mean in light of the traditional theology of the episcopate. Ecumenically we are pondering our relationships to other churches in which there is no episcopate in apostolic succession." --from the Preface
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725206129
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
"With the whole Christian world looking on, we Catholics have entered a sometimes acrimonious debate with ourselves as to what should be expected of those who are in the special ministry of the Church, i.e., the priesthood--What manner of life should our priests live and what work should they do? Also under review is the role of the bishop, said traditionally to possess the fullness of the priesthood. We are asking whether the authority structure on all levels should be more collegial or democratic and what such a change would mean in light of the traditional theology of the episcopate. Ecumenically we are pondering our relationships to other churches in which there is no episcopate in apostolic succession." --from the Preface
Miracle in the Mirror
Author: Mark Buntain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780871233523
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Dramatic true story of a beautiful Asian girl, Nita Edwards, and her miraculous healing from total paralysis.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780871233523
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Dramatic true story of a beautiful Asian girl, Nita Edwards, and her miraculous healing from total paralysis.
Beyond the Forestline
Author: Marja-Liisa Swantz
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
ISBN: 9780852445600
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
ISBN: 9780852445600
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
One Hundred Years of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Author: James Walker Hood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American Methodists
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American Methodists
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
The Negro
Author: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Let the Peacock Sing
Author: Michael Barrington
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781631321108
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
A captivating and unrequited love story is set against the action-packed background of the French Resistance in 1942, where a sophisticated, fashion-conscious Countess, Henriette, owner of a Chateau winery in South West France, is also the head of several Resistance Groups. She falls in love with Pere Louis, the Abbot of a local monastery, also a doctor, who leads a double life as a Resistance leader. A beautiful young female English radio operator and explosives expert, with a killer instinct, parachutes in to help plan the destruction of factories producing weapons and aircraft parts, dynamiting railways, and the ambush of a German armored column. Gripping, and masterfully written, the daring and adrenaline pumping exploits create a breathless suspense, taking the reader on an emotional roller coaster as people struggle to outwit the Gestapo. Let the Peacock Sing, is an engrossing story of survival and Resistance, filled with raw emotions of loss and love, even as underground preparations are being made to support the Allied landings on D-Day, June 6th.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781631321108
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
A captivating and unrequited love story is set against the action-packed background of the French Resistance in 1942, where a sophisticated, fashion-conscious Countess, Henriette, owner of a Chateau winery in South West France, is also the head of several Resistance Groups. She falls in love with Pere Louis, the Abbot of a local monastery, also a doctor, who leads a double life as a Resistance leader. A beautiful young female English radio operator and explosives expert, with a killer instinct, parachutes in to help plan the destruction of factories producing weapons and aircraft parts, dynamiting railways, and the ambush of a German armored column. Gripping, and masterfully written, the daring and adrenaline pumping exploits create a breathless suspense, taking the reader on an emotional roller coaster as people struggle to outwit the Gestapo. Let the Peacock Sing, is an engrossing story of survival and Resistance, filled with raw emotions of loss and love, even as underground preparations are being made to support the Allied landings on D-Day, June 6th.
Parish Priests and Their People in the Middle Ages in England
Author: Edward Lewes Cutts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
The Cross & the Crescent
Author: Jerald Dirks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity and other religion
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Drawing on his seminary education and thirty years of interaction with Muslims in America and overseas, the author digs deep into the roots of Christianity to bring out obscure information that highlights what was once common between Christianity and Islam.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity and other religion
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Drawing on his seminary education and thirty years of interaction with Muslims in America and overseas, the author digs deep into the roots of Christianity to bring out obscure information that highlights what was once common between Christianity and Islam.
Sophie's World
Author: Jostein Gaarder
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466804270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466804270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.