Download or read book The Professor and the Parson written by Adam Sisman and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “amusing and elegantly written” romp takes readers on a wild ride through the life of Robert Parkin Peters (The New York Times Book Review)—a liar, bigamist, and fraudulent priest who tricked some of the brightest minds of his generation. One day in November 1958, the celebrated historian Hugh Trevor–Roper received a curious letter. It was an appeal for help, written on behalf of a student at Magdalen College, with the unlikely claim that he was being persecuted by the Bishop of Oxford. Curiosity piqued, Trevor–Roper agreed to a meeting. It was to be his first encounter with Robert Parkin Peters: plagiarist, bigamist, fraudulent priest, and imposter extraordinaire. The Professor and the Parson is a witty and charming portrait of eccentricity, extraordinary narcissism, and a life as wild and unlikely as any in fiction. Motivated not by money but by a desire for prestige, Peters lied, stole, and cheated his way to academic positions and religious posts from Cambridge to New York. Frequently deported, and even more frequently discovered, he left a trail of destruction including seven marriages (three of which were bigamous) and an investigation by the FBI. "I was captivated from start to finish by this utterly mad, and wholly delightful story of chicanery and fantasy, and which involves a man who relentlessly duped our most cherished institutions of godly pursuit and higher learning. Plus I learned how to defrock a priest, always good to have on hand in these troubling times." —Simon Winchester, author of The Perfectionists

Download or read book The Country Parson The Temple written by George Herbert and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Herbert (1593-1633) was an Anglican priest, poet and essayist--truly one of the most profound spiritual masters in the English tradition. His spirituality was a synthesis of Evangelical and Catholic piety.

Download or read book Parson to Person written by James W. McCormack and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2023-02-20 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These letters reflect a pastor’s heart for his church family as well as his thoughts as he leads that church through times of great change. Jim McCormack wrote monthly as part of the church newsletter from April 1992 to June 2009. The newly formed church had relocated. Some people had left. New ones were arriving. There was concern over the best use of funds and the best ways to worship. And there were mission trips, both globally and locally. Jim shares the joys and tragedies of the congregation—baptisms, illnesses, deaths, even a murder. And as his retirement approaches, he reflects on his own life—the death of parents, children leaving the nest, the births of grandchildren. These letters paint a picture of what was going on in the 90s and early 2000s in the world, the country, the mission field and the church as well as in the day-to-day lives of Jim and his church members. You will find in this book a steadfast commitment—to love the people of God, to bring new people to Christ and to bring salt and light to a world in need of God. – Pam O’Brien, former parishioner, Church of the Cross

Download or read book Person to Parson written by Warren W. Wiersbe and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Professor and the Parson written by Adam Sisman and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “amusing and elegantly written” romp takes readers on a wild ride through the life of Robert Parkin Peters (The New York Times Book Review)—a liar, bigamist, and fraudulent priest who tricked some of the brightest minds of his generation. One day in November 1958, the celebrated historian Hugh Trevor–Roper received a curious letter. It was an appeal for help, written on behalf of a student at Magdalen College, with the unlikely claim that he was being persecuted by the Bishop of Oxford. Curiosity piqued, Trevor–Roper agreed to a meeting. It was to be his first encounter with Robert Parkin Peters: plagiarist, bigamist, fraudulent priest, and imposter extraordinaire. The Professor and the Parson is a witty and charming portrait of eccentricity, extraordinary narcissism, and a life as wild and unlikely as any in fiction. Motivated not by money but by a desire for prestige, Peters lied, stole, and cheated his way to academic positions and religious posts from Cambridge to New York. Frequently deported, and even more frequently discovered, he left a trail of destruction including seven marriages (three of which were bigamous) and an investigation by the FBI. "I was captivated from start to finish by this utterly mad, and wholly delightful story of chicanery and fantasy, and which involves a man who relentlessly duped our most cherished institutions of godly pursuit and higher learning. Plus I learned how to defrock a priest, always good to have on hand in these troubling times." —Simon Winchester, author of The Perfectionists

Download or read book The Parson s Daughter written by Theodore Edward Hook and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How High the Moon written by Karyn Parsons and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Kill a Mockingbird meets One Crazy Summer in this powerful, bittersweet debut about one girl's journey to reconnect with her mother and learn the truth about her father in the tumultuous times of the Jim Crow South. "Timely, captivating, and lovely. So glad this book is in the world." --Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming In the small town of Alcolu, South Carolina, in 1944, 12-year-old Ella spends her days fishing and running around with her best friend Henry and cousin Myrna. But life is not always so sunny for Ella, who gets bullied for her light skin tone and whose mother is away pursuing a jazz singer dream in Boston. So Ella is ecstatic when her mother invites her to visit for Christmas. Little does she expect the truths she will discover about her mother, the father she never knew and her family's most unlikely history. And after a life-changing month, she returns South and is shocked by the news that her schoolmate George has been arrested for the murder of two local white girls. Bittersweet and eye-opening, How High the Moon is a timeless novel about a girl finding herself in a world all but determined to hold her down.

Download or read book My Favorite Bride written by Christina Dodd and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Miss Samantha Prendregast arrives at Devil's Fell to take charge of six rebellious girls, the vibrant, outspoken governess is not quite prepared to deal with the tall, dark and dashing master of the grand estate. The children she can manage with intelligence, guile . . . and a little bribery. Their widowed father, Colonel William Gregory, is not so easily charmed -- and far too easy to fall in love with, which she dares not do. William always cherished the orderliness of his life, until this captivating troublemaker began flouting his authority and distracting him with her witty defiance and breathtaking beauty. Despite the fact that they clash at every meeting, William finds himself inexplicablydrawn to Samantha's fire. And now he's even contemplating marriage, which would be sweet madness indeed. But before he can successfully woo her, William must discover what it is that Samantha is hiding from him. But the secret the lady is preciously guarding is far too shocking and dangerous to ever reveal . . .

Download or read book The Parson s Counsellor written by Sir Simon Degge and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Parson s Counsellor with the Law of Tythes Or Tything The Fifth Edition Corrected and Much Enlarged Etc written by Sir Simon DEGGE and published by . This book was released on 1695 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Parson s Pleasure written by Patricia Wynn and published by Belgrave House. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Claire Oliver returned from an unrewarding London season to her family’s country home, she discovered that the new parish rector, Christopher Bennett, had all the virtues the London beaus lacked. But it was her cousin Lydia who was pushed toward the penniless parson, and she was aimed toward the deplorable Lord Babcock. Regency Romance by Patricia Wynn; originally published by Harlequin Regency

Download or read book Parson to Person written by Fred Thomas Laughon and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Parson s handbook written by Percy Dearmer and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1909 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: containing practical directions both for parsons and others as to the management of the parish church and its services according to the English use, as set forth in the Book of Common Prayer, with an introductory essay on conformity to the Church of England.

Download or read book The Works of William Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The parson s daughter by the author of Sayings and doings By T Hook written by Theodore Edward Hook and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Parson s Daughter written by Theodore Hook and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-02-12 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

Download or read book The Parson s Handbook 12th Edition written by Percy Dearmer and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-23 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Parson's Handbook, first published in 1899, is Dearmer's brotherly advice to fellow churchmen about the correct way to conduct proper and fitting English worship, concerned with general principles of ritual and ceremonial, but the emphasis is squarely on the side of art and beauty in worship. He was the author of books and pamphlets on church art and history and editor of the hymnbook Songs of Praise in 1931. The Parson's Handbook ran into many editions and he devised The English Hymnal to which composers Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst contributed. In The Parson's Handbook, Dearmer states in the introduction that his goal is to help in "remedying the lamentable confusion, lawlessness, and vulgarity which are conspicuous in the Church at this time". What follows is an exhaustive delineation, sparing no detail, of the young priest's ideas on how liturgy can be conducted in a proper Catholic and English manner.