Download or read book Church Girl Memoirs written by Heather LorRyn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's nothing worse than spending your entire existence surrounded by the same people, in the same place only to find out those people can't be trusted; only to discover most of those people never really had your best interests at heart. Correction... there is one thing worse. It's that those people you're surrounded by call themselves Christians and all this craziness happens in a church. When enough is enough, do you leave, pray that it gets better, realize that it won't and if you do leave, how do you do that without being crucified by the powers that be? One churchgirl shares her eventful experience dealing with the worst of churchy folk and all the madness that ensues prior to "Let the church say amen".
Download or read book Let Go Let Joy written by Paula Bobb and published by Guardian Books. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Church Girl Is a Gay written by Ginger Hendrix and published by Stephen F. Austin University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ginger Hendrix's finely crafted memoir, Church Girl is a Gay, recounts her life in unflinching detail. In a state centered in the Bible Belt, in the center of a proudly Christian city, Hendrix tells her story with white-hot honesty as she writes, ". . . off every road I'd ever traveled was littered with the footprints of youth group leaders leading games out of my garage. And it wasn't until my heart broke so badly that I couldn't stand up under the pain that my feet went looking for the soft, sandy ground of places where people weren't sure of most anything. I was married with three kids, a leader in an evangelical non-profit. I was 48, and I knew my insides felt built to love a woman. But I still didn't know I was gay--because I'd never asked the question. There was no question available to ask."
Download or read book The Book of Mormon Girl written by Joanna Brooks and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From her days of feeling like “a root beer among the Cokes”—Coca-Cola being a forbidden fruit for Mormon girls like her—Joanna Brooks always understood that being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints set her apart from others. But, in her eyes, that made her special; the devout LDS home she grew up in was filled with love, spirituality, and an emphasis on service. With Marie Osmond as her celebrity role model and plenty of Sunday School teachers to fill in the rest of the details, Joanna felt warmly embraced by the community that was such an integral part of her family. But as she grew older, Joanna began to wrestle with some tenets of her religion, including the Church’s stance on women’s rights and homosexuality. In 1993, when the Church excommunicated a group of feminists for speaking out about an LDS controversy, Joanna found herself searching for a way to live by the leadings of her heart and the faith she loved. The Book of Mormon Girl is a story about leaving behind the innocence of childhood belief and embracing the complications and heartbreaks that come to every adult life of faith. Joanna’s journey through her faith explores a side of the religion that is rarely put on display: its humanity, its tenderness, its humor, its internal struggles. In Joanna’s hands, the everyday experience of being a Mormon—without polygamy, without fundamentalism—unfolds in fascinating detail. With its revelations about a faith so often misunderstood and characterized by secrecy, The Book of Mormon Girl is a welcome advocate and necessary guide.
Download or read book Memoirs of a Church Girl s Single Life written by Nigisti HiSmith and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prolific account of a single woman's quest to finding love in the church.
Download or read book Church Girl Is a Gay written by Ginger Hendrix and published by American Rookie Books. This book was released on 2022-04-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Church Girl is a Gay begins with an epiphany: "I was married with three kids, 48 years old, and I knew my insides felt built to love a woman. But I still didn't know I was gay-because I'd never asked the question. There was no question available to ask. "Packed with stories about growing up in the church of the 1970s, plus lots of cigarette smoking, it is a tender story of a marriage transitioning into something new entirely. A story of grief, relief and new-found clarity. She must be willing to lose so much-her marriage, her community, most of the trappings of her life inside the evangelical church-in order to gain her truest faith in a God who hears, requires nothing, gives all.
Download or read book Post Traumatic Church Syndrome written by Reba Riley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simultaneously published in St. Louis, Missouri by Chalice Press, 2015.
Download or read book Holy Ghost Girl written by Donna M. Johnson and published by Avery. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the author's childhood as an organist's daughter for tent revivalist David Terrell, describing her witness to his mass "miracles" and his morally corrupt activities behind the scenes.
Download or read book Country Girl written by Edna O'Brien and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life."-National Public Radio When Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was undeterred and has since created a body of work that bears comparison with the best writing of the twentieth century. Country Girl brings us face-to-face with a life of high drama and contemplation. Starting with O'Brien's birth in a grand but deteriorating house in Ireland, her story moves through convent school to elopement, divorce, single-motherhood, the wild parties of the '60s in London, and encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars, and literary titans. There is love and unrequited love, and the glamour of trips to America as a celebrated writer and the guest of Jackie Onassis and Hillary Clinton. Country Girl is a rich and heady accounting of the events, people, emotions, and landscape that have imprinted upon and enhanced one lifetime.
Download or read book Church Girl Daddy s Oldest Memoir written by Michelle Boyce and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was about a little African American girl named Michelle who grew up in the Christian Church as a PK (Preacher's Kid) with many unanswered questions. She was a Daddy's Girl and the oldest of all siblings. She was trying to understand God with questions and challenges that existed in the home from the rules and Doctrines of the Christian Church. Michelle shared experiences with her father and family, the Pastor of the church, and the trauma endured within the Christian Church and others in the communities with name-calling. This book was written to inspire others to know that God is real and that your life matters. Even though Michelle felt that she missed out on many things growing up, she finally realized that having a personal relationship with God herself was when she was set free from all the uncertainties and opinions within the Church and trauma secrets. This book was written to inspire others to share their stories because it could bless others who may have endured similar issues to motivate and bring success.
Download or read book On My Way to Church written by Laura Tate Inc and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of authors life, from child to adulthood. Growing up in a very religious home, describing the heaven and hell of it all.
Download or read book Unfollow written by Megan Phelps-Roper and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The activist and TED speaker Megan Phelps-Roper reveals her life growing up in the most hated family in America At the age of five, Megan Phelps-Roper began protesting homosexuality and other alleged vices alongside fellow members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. Founded by her grandfather and consisting almost entirely of her extended family, the tiny group would gain worldwide notoriety for its pickets at military funerals and celebrations of death and tragedy. As Phelps-Roper grew up, she saw that church members were close companions and accomplished debaters, applying the logic of predestination and the language of the King James Bible to everyday life with aplomb—which, as the church’s Twitter spokeswoman, she learned to do with great skill. Soon, however, dialogue on Twitter caused her to begin doubting the church’s leaders and message: If humans were sinful and fallible, how could the church itself be so confident about its beliefs? As she digitally jousted with critics, she started to wonder if sometimes they had a point—and then she began exchanging messages with a man who would help change her life. A gripping memoir of escaping extremism and falling in love, Unfollow relates Phelps-Roper’s moral awakening, her departure from the church, and how she exchanged the absolutes she grew up with for new forms of warmth and community. Rich with suspense and thoughtful reflection, Phelps-Roper’s life story exposes the dangers of black-and-white thinking and the need for true humility in a time of angry polarization.
Download or read book A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church written by Rembert Weakland and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many people, the name of Archbishop Rembert Weakland brings to mind only connotations of scandal the titillating tale of a prominent priest disgraced. But that whiff of dishonor barely begins to tell the whole story. / In these pages Archbishop Weakland recounts his life from his childhood in rural Pennsylvania to his retirement from the archbishopric in 2002 at the age of 75, all in the context of the Church that he long served. Weakland takes readers with him to Rome, where he discovered the splendor of a whole new intellectual world, and then to New York for his extensive musical study at Julliard and Columbia University. From his early days in the priesthood to his struggles with pontiffs, Weakland details how he learned to become a leader and minister to his people and how his famously liberal beliefs affected his ministry. While he presents an honest account of the scandal he is so often recognized for, the complete picture beyond rumor and accusation may come as a surprise to many readers. / Throughout his memoir Weakland describes with poignant honesty his psychological, spiritual, and sexual growth. Candid and engaging, A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church offers a fascinating inside look at both Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II even as it tells the story of a life fully lived.
Download or read book The Diary of a Church Girl written by Shamequa Parks-Graham and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-04-26 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal diaries often carry deep secrets that the writer never intends for others to discover.Shamequa chooses to transition from a writer to an author, disclosing the hidden struggles of her bout with mental anguish and physical disability. The book holds twenty-six diary entries that offer a poetic journey, moving you from the valley to the mountaintop. While she writes to her peers, male and female of all ages benefit from her transparency and uncanny wisdom.
Download or read book Loves God Likes Girls written by Sally Gary and published by Leafwood Publishers & Acu Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many Christians who experience same-sex attraction, wrestling with these feelings in light of faith is a lonely and painful journey. Sally Gary's touching memoir is one woman's recollection of her own journey. Rather than providing cookie-cutter answers as to why someone experiences same-sex attraction and how to "make it go away," Loves God, Likes Girls gives one woman's perspective on the experiences over a lifetime that impacted the development of her sexuality. Her story emphasizes that those who experience same-sex attraction are longing for safe places to explore questions, to find community, and to grow deeper in relationship with God. Book jacket.
Download or read book The Bishop s Daughter written by Honor Moore and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Moore's vocation as an Episcopal priest took him from prominence as an activist to two decades as the bishop of New York. This work is his daughter's story of the complex, visionary man. 22 photographs.
Download or read book Words Inspired By Memoir of A Church Girl written by Sheila Edwards-Howard and published by Just Sheila. This book was released on 2009-09-07 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspirational book contains stories about some of the author's most memorable songs and poems, as well as her personal testimony and the lessons she has learned.
