Author: Carrie A. Williams
Publisher: Life To Legacy LLC
ISBN: 1939654173
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
From a Hustler’s Woman to the Pastor’s Wife is the riveting biographical account of Carrie A. Williams, First Lady of the Labor of Love Apostolic Church, of Chicago Illinois. In a brutally honest fashion, Carrie tells the hard-hitting naked truth about the former life she once lived and loved. Being the companion of the most notorious hustlers and gangsters on Chicago’s Southside, she found herself in perilous circumstances, where she narrowly escaped prison and death. Unfulfilled and living a worldly life, Carrie soon discovered that God had a purpose and a divine destiny that would change her life forever. Now completely delivered by God’s amazing grace, First Lady Carrie Williams’ story is a great testimony of what God’s awesome power can do. As you read this phenomenal book, you too, will discover that only God can transform a hustler’s woman to a pastor’s wife.
From A Hustler's Woman, to the Pastor's Wife
Author: Carrie A. Williams
Publisher: Life To Legacy LLC
ISBN: 1939654173
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
From a Hustler’s Woman to the Pastor’s Wife is the riveting biographical account of Carrie A. Williams, First Lady of the Labor of Love Apostolic Church, of Chicago Illinois. In a brutally honest fashion, Carrie tells the hard-hitting naked truth about the former life she once lived and loved. Being the companion of the most notorious hustlers and gangsters on Chicago’s Southside, she found herself in perilous circumstances, where she narrowly escaped prison and death. Unfulfilled and living a worldly life, Carrie soon discovered that God had a purpose and a divine destiny that would change her life forever. Now completely delivered by God’s amazing grace, First Lady Carrie Williams’ story is a great testimony of what God’s awesome power can do. As you read this phenomenal book, you too, will discover that only God can transform a hustler’s woman to a pastor’s wife.
Publisher: Life To Legacy LLC
ISBN: 1939654173
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
From a Hustler’s Woman to the Pastor’s Wife is the riveting biographical account of Carrie A. Williams, First Lady of the Labor of Love Apostolic Church, of Chicago Illinois. In a brutally honest fashion, Carrie tells the hard-hitting naked truth about the former life she once lived and loved. Being the companion of the most notorious hustlers and gangsters on Chicago’s Southside, she found herself in perilous circumstances, where she narrowly escaped prison and death. Unfulfilled and living a worldly life, Carrie soon discovered that God had a purpose and a divine destiny that would change her life forever. Now completely delivered by God’s amazing grace, First Lady Carrie Williams’ story is a great testimony of what God’s awesome power can do. As you read this phenomenal book, you too, will discover that only God can transform a hustler’s woman to a pastor’s wife.
Believers and Hustlers
Author: Sylva Nze Ifedigbo
Publisher: Griots Lounge
ISBN: 9781777688486
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Lagos megachurch Pastor, Nicholas Adejuwon is a very ambitious man desperate to erase a past that has scarred his mind. His beautiful wife Nkechi has reasons to secretly snoop on him following a series of indiscretions that threaten their marriage and superstardom. When Nkechi uncovers some scandalous secretes, she turns to Ifenna, a young journalist turned blogger who has history with her husband, to make them public, changing her reality as she knew it in the process. Believers and Hustlers is an exposé into the underbelly of Nigeria's Pentecostal fervor and the lives of rich celebrity posterity preachers, their motivations, rivalries, pretenses and fears. This bold novel tells an important story about our times - the quest for power, the fears that trigger it, the hypocrisy that sustains it, and the ways in which religion can be weaponized to shroud it all in a mystery. At its core however, it's a story of life, of love, power, and the ironies that fate often deals us at the end of our desperate quests. "In this page turner, Sylva Nze Ifedigbo writes with so much mastery, lucidity and truth, it felt like he was holding up a mirror, daring the reader to look and see themselves. Believers and Hustlers, might be a bitter pill for some to swallow, but what is it they say about the truth?" - Michael Afenfia, author of Leave My Bones in Saskatoon "Sylva Nze Ifedigbo can stand on the same podium as masters like Gurcharan Das. What makes his writing plain and unique at the same time, is the elegance of his prose. He writes with such clarity, that one does not need to be told that he is one of the best storytellers of his generation." - Onyeka Nwelue, author of The Strangers of Braamfontein "Ifedigbo's engaging and deeply affecting novel undertakes a "forensic audit" of the church...he is a brutal writer who writes lines dripping with blood but devoid of bile. The quest for truth seems to be his main goal. He has captured a slice of life that many Africans are familiar with and also succeeds in giving us unforgettable characters in Pastor Nick and Nkechi." - Olukorede Yishau, author of Vaults of Secrets Sylva Nze Ifedigbo writes fiction, creative non-fiction and socio-political commentaries. He is the author of the acclaimed novel My Mind Is No Longer Here (2018), a collection of stories The Funeral Did Not End (2012) and a novella Whispering Aloud (2007). His short stories have appeared in various publications including Prick of the Spindle, African Writer, Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Saraba, Kalahari Review, Brittle Paper, AFREADA and Thrice Fiction Magazine. Sylva holds that stories matter and that our very existence is a collection of stories. Being able to tell them beautifully he believes is the most powerful way to impact the world. He lives in Lagos, Nigeria.
Publisher: Griots Lounge
ISBN: 9781777688486
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Lagos megachurch Pastor, Nicholas Adejuwon is a very ambitious man desperate to erase a past that has scarred his mind. His beautiful wife Nkechi has reasons to secretly snoop on him following a series of indiscretions that threaten their marriage and superstardom. When Nkechi uncovers some scandalous secretes, she turns to Ifenna, a young journalist turned blogger who has history with her husband, to make them public, changing her reality as she knew it in the process. Believers and Hustlers is an exposé into the underbelly of Nigeria's Pentecostal fervor and the lives of rich celebrity posterity preachers, their motivations, rivalries, pretenses and fears. This bold novel tells an important story about our times - the quest for power, the fears that trigger it, the hypocrisy that sustains it, and the ways in which religion can be weaponized to shroud it all in a mystery. At its core however, it's a story of life, of love, power, and the ironies that fate often deals us at the end of our desperate quests. "In this page turner, Sylva Nze Ifedigbo writes with so much mastery, lucidity and truth, it felt like he was holding up a mirror, daring the reader to look and see themselves. Believers and Hustlers, might be a bitter pill for some to swallow, but what is it they say about the truth?" - Michael Afenfia, author of Leave My Bones in Saskatoon "Sylva Nze Ifedigbo can stand on the same podium as masters like Gurcharan Das. What makes his writing plain and unique at the same time, is the elegance of his prose. He writes with such clarity, that one does not need to be told that he is one of the best storytellers of his generation." - Onyeka Nwelue, author of The Strangers of Braamfontein "Ifedigbo's engaging and deeply affecting novel undertakes a "forensic audit" of the church...he is a brutal writer who writes lines dripping with blood but devoid of bile. The quest for truth seems to be his main goal. He has captured a slice of life that many Africans are familiar with and also succeeds in giving us unforgettable characters in Pastor Nick and Nkechi." - Olukorede Yishau, author of Vaults of Secrets Sylva Nze Ifedigbo writes fiction, creative non-fiction and socio-political commentaries. He is the author of the acclaimed novel My Mind Is No Longer Here (2018), a collection of stories The Funeral Did Not End (2012) and a novella Whispering Aloud (2007). His short stories have appeared in various publications including Prick of the Spindle, African Writer, Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Saraba, Kalahari Review, Brittle Paper, AFREADA and Thrice Fiction Magazine. Sylva holds that stories matter and that our very existence is a collection of stories. Being able to tell them beautifully he believes is the most powerful way to impact the world. He lives in Lagos, Nigeria.
Going Public
Author: Michael Gecan
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807043486
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
A New York city neighborhood once called “the beginning of the end of civilization” is where Michael Gecan starts. Hired by residents to help them save their community, he and local leaders spend more than a decade wrestling New York politicians in an impassioned effort against all odds that brings in five thousand new homes. From bad behavior by Ed Koch to complicated negotiations with Rudy Giuliani, Gecan tells the inside story of how the city really works, and how any organized group of citizens can wield power in seemingly unmovable bureaucracies. Gecan’s unwavering vision of the value of public action has roots in a rough childhood in Chicago, where he witnessed extortion by the mob and a tragic fire in his Catholic grade school that left ninety-two children and three nuns dead. In his inspiring story of the will to claim the full benefits of citizenship, Gecan offers unforgettable lessons that every American should know: What is the best way to talk to politicians? What resources do all communities need to create change? What kinds of public actions really work?
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807043486
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
A New York city neighborhood once called “the beginning of the end of civilization” is where Michael Gecan starts. Hired by residents to help them save their community, he and local leaders spend more than a decade wrestling New York politicians in an impassioned effort against all odds that brings in five thousand new homes. From bad behavior by Ed Koch to complicated negotiations with Rudy Giuliani, Gecan tells the inside story of how the city really works, and how any organized group of citizens can wield power in seemingly unmovable bureaucracies. Gecan’s unwavering vision of the value of public action has roots in a rough childhood in Chicago, where he witnessed extortion by the mob and a tragic fire in his Catholic grade school that left ninety-two children and three nuns dead. In his inspiring story of the will to claim the full benefits of citizenship, Gecan offers unforgettable lessons that every American should know: What is the best way to talk to politicians? What resources do all communities need to create change? What kinds of public actions really work?
Western Christian Advocate
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
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Scam
Author: Jesse Lee Peterson
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN: 1418518697
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In this provocative book, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, the most outspoken critic of the civil-rights establishment in America today, lays bare its corrupt leadership, courageously taking aim at the bigest names?Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters, among others?claiming they are nothing more than scam artists profiting off the hatred and disorder they foster in the black community. Peterson insists it's time to throw off the oppression of the established black leadership and stand for the American ideals of freedom, personal responsibility, free enterprise, and moral principle.
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN: 1418518697
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In this provocative book, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, the most outspoken critic of the civil-rights establishment in America today, lays bare its corrupt leadership, courageously taking aim at the bigest names?Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters, among others?claiming they are nothing more than scam artists profiting off the hatred and disorder they foster in the black community. Peterson insists it's time to throw off the oppression of the established black leadership and stand for the American ideals of freedom, personal responsibility, free enterprise, and moral principle.
We're Not Going to Take it Anymore
Author: Gerald G. Jackson
Publisher: Beckham Publications Group, Inc.
ISBN: 0931761840
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Professor Gerald G. Jackson incorporates the perceptions, ideals, hesitancies and proclamations of hte Hip-Hop and post Hip-Hop generations into the Africana Studies field. He pulls evidence from a rich tapestry of history, classroom learning exercises, student reports, scholar and professional led lectures, discussions and educational tours to create a groundbreaking multicultural and pluralistic model for the application of Africentric helping to the educational sphere. While the mode varies, the greater number of compositions compiled here are biographies of ordinary and extraordinary African Americans. Culturally affriming, introspective and expansive, We're Not Going to Take it Anymore is a rarely seen educational innovation.
Publisher: Beckham Publications Group, Inc.
ISBN: 0931761840
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Professor Gerald G. Jackson incorporates the perceptions, ideals, hesitancies and proclamations of hte Hip-Hop and post Hip-Hop generations into the Africana Studies field. He pulls evidence from a rich tapestry of history, classroom learning exercises, student reports, scholar and professional led lectures, discussions and educational tours to create a groundbreaking multicultural and pluralistic model for the application of Africentric helping to the educational sphere. While the mode varies, the greater number of compositions compiled here are biographies of ordinary and extraordinary African Americans. Culturally affriming, introspective and expansive, We're Not Going to Take it Anymore is a rarely seen educational innovation.
Leave a Cheater, Gain a Life
Author: Tracy Schorn
Publisher: Running Press Adult
ISBN: 0762459050
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Leave a Cheater, Gain a Life is a no-nonsense self-help guide for anyone who has ever been cheated on. Here's advice not based on saving your relationship after infidelity -- but saving your sanity. When it comes to cheating, a lot of the attention is focused on cheaters -- their unmet needs or their challenges with monogamy. But Tracy Schorn (aka Chump Lady) lampoons such blameshifting and puts the focus squarely on the-cheated-upon (chumps) and their needs. Combining solid advice that champions self-respect, along with hilarious cartoons satirizing the pomposity of cheaters, Leave a Cheater, Gain a Life offers a fresh voice for chumps who want (and need) a new message about infidelity. This book will offer advice on Stupid sh*t cheaters say and how to respond, Rookie mistakes of the recently chumped and how to disarm your fears, Why chumps take the blame and how to protect yourself, and more. Full of snark, sass, and real wisdom about how to bounce back after the gut blow of betrayal, Schorn is the friend who guides you through this nightmare and gives you hope for a better life ahead.
Publisher: Running Press Adult
ISBN: 0762459050
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Leave a Cheater, Gain a Life is a no-nonsense self-help guide for anyone who has ever been cheated on. Here's advice not based on saving your relationship after infidelity -- but saving your sanity. When it comes to cheating, a lot of the attention is focused on cheaters -- their unmet needs or their challenges with monogamy. But Tracy Schorn (aka Chump Lady) lampoons such blameshifting and puts the focus squarely on the-cheated-upon (chumps) and their needs. Combining solid advice that champions self-respect, along with hilarious cartoons satirizing the pomposity of cheaters, Leave a Cheater, Gain a Life offers a fresh voice for chumps who want (and need) a new message about infidelity. This book will offer advice on Stupid sh*t cheaters say and how to respond, Rookie mistakes of the recently chumped and how to disarm your fears, Why chumps take the blame and how to protect yourself, and more. Full of snark, sass, and real wisdom about how to bounce back after the gut blow of betrayal, Schorn is the friend who guides you through this nightmare and gives you hope for a better life ahead.
When Helping Hurts
Author: Steve Corbett
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 0802487629
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
With more than 450,000 copies in print, When Helping Hurts is a paradigm-forming contemporary classic on the subject of poverty alleviation. Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it. When Helping Hurts shows how some alleviation efforts, failing to consider the complexities of poverty, have actually (and unintentionally) done more harm than good. But it looks ahead. It encourages us to see the dignity in everyone, to empower the materially poor, and to know that we are all uniquely needy—and that God in the gospel is reconciling all things to himself. Focusing on both North American and Majority World contexts, When Helping Hurts provides proven strategies for effective poverty alleviation, catalyzing the idea that sustainable change comes not from the outside in, but from the inside out.
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 0802487629
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
With more than 450,000 copies in print, When Helping Hurts is a paradigm-forming contemporary classic on the subject of poverty alleviation. Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it. When Helping Hurts shows how some alleviation efforts, failing to consider the complexities of poverty, have actually (and unintentionally) done more harm than good. But it looks ahead. It encourages us to see the dignity in everyone, to empower the materially poor, and to know that we are all uniquely needy—and that God in the gospel is reconciling all things to himself. Focusing on both North American and Majority World contexts, When Helping Hurts provides proven strategies for effective poverty alleviation, catalyzing the idea that sustainable change comes not from the outside in, but from the inside out.
The Epworth Herald
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Languages : en
Pages : 1378
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Pages : 1378
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The Warmth of Other Suns
Author: Isabel Wilkerson
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679763880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S FIVE BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY “A brilliant and stirring epic . . . Ms. Wilkerson does for the Great Migration what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his fiction masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath; she humanizes history, giving it emotional and psychological depth.”—John Stauffer, The Wall Street Journal “What she’s done with these oral histories is stow memory in amber.”—Lynell George, Los Angeles Times WINNER: The Mark Lynton History Prize • The Anisfield-Wolf Award for Nonfiction • The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize • The Hurston-Wright Award for Nonfiction • The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism • NAACP Image Award for Best Literary Debut • Stephen Ambrose Oral History Prize FINALIST: The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • Dayton Literary Peace Prize ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times • USA Today • Publishers Weekly • O: The Oprah Magazine • Salon • Newsday • The Daily Beast ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker • The Washington Post • The Economist •Boston Globe • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • Entertainment Weekly • Philadelphia Inquirer • The Guardian • The Seattle Times • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Christian Science Monitor In this beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson presents a definitive and dramatic account of one of the great untold stories of American history: the Great Migration of six million Black citizens who fled the South for the North and West in search of a better life, from World War I to 1970. Wilkerson tells this interwoven story through the lives of three unforgettable protagonists: Ida Mae Gladney, a sharecropper’s wife, who in 1937 fled Mississippi for Chicago; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, and Robert Foster, a surgeon who left Louisiana in 1953 in hopes of making it in California. Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous cross-country journeys by car and train and their new lives in colonies in the New World. The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an “unrecognized immigration” within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is a modern classic.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679763880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S FIVE BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY “A brilliant and stirring epic . . . Ms. Wilkerson does for the Great Migration what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his fiction masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath; she humanizes history, giving it emotional and psychological depth.”—John Stauffer, The Wall Street Journal “What she’s done with these oral histories is stow memory in amber.”—Lynell George, Los Angeles Times WINNER: The Mark Lynton History Prize • The Anisfield-Wolf Award for Nonfiction • The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize • The Hurston-Wright Award for Nonfiction • The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism • NAACP Image Award for Best Literary Debut • Stephen Ambrose Oral History Prize FINALIST: The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • Dayton Literary Peace Prize ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times • USA Today • Publishers Weekly • O: The Oprah Magazine • Salon • Newsday • The Daily Beast ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker • The Washington Post • The Economist •Boston Globe • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • Entertainment Weekly • Philadelphia Inquirer • The Guardian • The Seattle Times • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Christian Science Monitor In this beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson presents a definitive and dramatic account of one of the great untold stories of American history: the Great Migration of six million Black citizens who fled the South for the North and West in search of a better life, from World War I to 1970. Wilkerson tells this interwoven story through the lives of three unforgettable protagonists: Ida Mae Gladney, a sharecropper’s wife, who in 1937 fled Mississippi for Chicago; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, and Robert Foster, a surgeon who left Louisiana in 1953 in hopes of making it in California. Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous cross-country journeys by car and train and their new lives in colonies in the New World. The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an “unrecognized immigration” within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is a modern classic.