Download or read book Saints and Sinners written by Lawrence Wright and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower comes a fascinating book about religion in America, about the passions, triumphs, and failures of the life of faith, revealing stories of grace and despair, sexual scandal and attempted murder. • "Insightful...vivid...beautifully rendered stories." —Chicago Tribune Lawrence Wright's Saints and Sinners are Jimmy Swaggart, who preached a hellfire gospel with rock 'n' roll abandon before he was caught with a, prostitute in a seedy motel; Anton LaVey, the kitsch-loving, gleefully fraudulent founder of the First Church of Satan; Madalyn Murray O'Hair, whose litigious atheism sometimes resembled a brand of faith; Matthew Fox, the Dominican priest who has aroused the fury of the Vatican for dismissing the doctrine of original sin and denouncing the church as a dysfunctional family; Walker Railey, the rising star of Dallas's Methodist church, who, at the pinnacle of his success, was suspected of attempting to murder his wife; and Will Campbell, the eccentric liberal Southern Baptist preacher whose challenges to established ways of thinking have made him a legend in his own time.
Download or read book Saints and Sinners written by Edna O'Brien and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her inimitable gift for describing the workings of the heart and mind, Edna O'Brien introduces us to a vivid new cast of restless, searching people who-whether in the Irish countryside or London or New York-remind us of our own humanity. In Send My Roots Rain, Miss Gilhooley, a librarian, waits in the lobby of a posh Dublin hotel-expecting to meet a celebrated poet while reflecting on the great love who disappointed her. The Irish workers of "The Shovel Kings" have pipe dreams of becoming millionaires in London, but long for their quickly changing homeland-exiles in both places. "Green Georgette" is a searing anatomy of class, through the eyes of a little girl; "Old Wounds" illuminates the importance of family and memory in old age. In language that is always bold and vital, Edna O'Brien pays tribute to the universal forces that rule our lives.
Download or read book Saints for Sinners written by Alban Goodier and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Saints and Sinners in the Cristero War written by James Murphy and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative account of the persecution of the Catholic Church in Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s tells the stories of eight pivotal players. The saints are now honored as martyrs by the Catholic Church, and the sinners were political and military leaders who were accomplices in the persecution. The saintly standouts are Anacleto González Flores, whose non-violent demonstrations ended with his death after a day of brutal torture; Archbishop Francisco Orozco y Jiménez, who ran his vast archdiocese from hiding while on the run from the Mexican government; Fr. Toribio Romo González, who was shot in his bed one morning simply for being a Catholic priest; and Fr. Miguel Pro, the famous Jesuit who kept slipping through the hands of the military police in Mexico City despite being on the "most wanted" list for sixteen months. The four sinners are Melchor Ocampo, the powerful politician who believed that Catholicism was the cause of Mexico's problems; President Plutarco Elías Calles, the fanatical atheist who brutally persecuted the Church; José Reyes Vega, the priest who ignored the orders of his archbishop and became a general in the Cristero army; and Tomás Garrido Canabal, a farmer-turned-politician who became known as the "Scourge of Tabasco". This cast of characters is presented in a compelling narrative of the Cristero War that engages the reader like a gripping novel while it unfolds a largely unknown chapter in the history of America.
Download or read book Vintage Saints and Sinners written by Karen Wright Marsh and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outreach Resource of the Year Foreword INDIES Award Finalist Saints are people too. The word saint conjures up images of superstar Christians revered for their spectacular acts and otherworldly piety. But when we take a closer look at the lives of these spiritual heavyweights, we learn that they also experienced struggle, doubt, and heartache. In fact, we learn that in many ways they're not all that different from you and me. Narrating her own winding pilgrimage through faith, Karen Marsh reveals surprising lessons in everyday spirituality from these "saints"—folks who lived and breathed, and failed and followed God. Told with humor and vulnerability, Vintage Saints and Sinners introduces us afresh to twenty-five brothers and sisters who challenge and inspire us with their honest faith. Using the included conversation starters, you can join Karen on her journey with the likes of Augustine, Brother Lawrence, and Saint Francis, as well as Amanda Berry Smith, Søren Kierkegaard, Dorothy Day, Howard Thurman, Flannery O'Connor, and many more. Let their lives and their wisdom be an invitation to authentic life in Christ.
Download or read book Last Words of Saints and Sinners written by Herbert Lockyer and published by Kregel Publications. This book was released on with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 700 quotes includes the last words of commoners, atheists, poets, and politicians along with noted Christians and martyrs. Ready reference source for the pastor or public speaker.
Download or read book Saints Sufferers and Sinners written by Michael R. Emlet and published by New Growth Press. This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many complexities associated with ministering to another person. Where does a helper begin? What’s important to notice? Is there an overall ministry strategy that’s beneficial? Saints, Sufferers, and Sinners by author and counselor Michael R. Emlet outlines a model of one-another ministry based on how God sees and loves his people. Emlet helps readers use Scripture to find foundational categories for understanding and approaching one another, which serve as guideposts for wise care. Filled with everyday illustrations as well as counseling examples, Emlet demonstrates what it looks like to approach fellow believers simultaneously as saints, sufferers, and sinners. As part of CCEF's Helping the Helper series, this guide for ministry provides an overall framework for wisely helping any person, balancing all three aspects of our experience as Christians.
Download or read book Wicked Saint written by Veronica Eden and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GEMMAHe stole my first kiss?and now he thinks everything else is his.I said no to the one person no one at this school dares to refuse.Now I'm targeted by jealous girls, guys that compete to be the first to "break the prude", and by him. After one kiss, the king of the school hunts me down like I'm a conquest to win. He'll have to fight harder than that, because I'm no one's trophy.They all want a piece of me, but I will not bend or break for them.LUCASNo one refuses the king.One case of mistaken identity and a hasty kiss turned my world upside down.The new girl refused me. Not only that, she threw down the gauntlet. That won't stand. No one ever says no to me. This school is mine and she'll learn her place as a loyal follower or her life is going up in flames.I'll make her say yes. She'll be screaming it before I'm finished breaking her.
Download or read book Secrets of a Good Life as Told by Saints and Sinners written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sweets for Saints and Sinners written by Janice Feuer and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A note pastry chef shares recipes for desserts, some angelically nutritious, others devilishly rich.
Download or read book Seekers Saints and Sinners written by H. Stephen Shoemaker and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the critically acclaimed Godstories comes a new study for those who crave a life-changing experience with God. Over the course of 10 beautifully written chapters are the stories of 11 personal encounters between Jesus and another figure in the Gospel narratives. Each one was a chance meeting, a one-time interaction that Jesus had with someone he met along the way. Author and pastor Stephen Shoemaker builds on a foundation of solid scholarship to allow the reader to meet Jesus in the life of the biblical charactersƒ‚‚"ƒ‚‚€ƒ‚‚"as well as to bring that encounter home to meet the living Christ in our own lives today. Great for personal study or small-group discipleship.
Download or read book Vicious written by L. J. Shen and published by Bloom Books. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The man who comes to Emilia LeBlanc in her dreams also haunts her in her nightmares. Baron "Vicious" Spencer is a brilliant lawyer. A skilled criminal. A beautiful liar. A bully and a savior, a monster and a liar. And since her mom was the live-in caretaker for his family's estate in high school, there was no escaping his wrath--until she had no other choice. To Vicious, Emilia is completely off-limits. A starving artist. His best friend's ex-girlfriend. Pretty and evasive as a cherry blossom. When they were younger, she barged into his life unannounced and turned everything upside down. She discovered his darkest secret, and he made her pay the price. Drove her out of town. Hated and wanted her in equal measure. It should deter him from chasing her to New York a decade later, but it doesn't. So she still hates him--big deal. She'll have to get used to him. Because this time, he isn't going anywhere unless he's taking her with him."--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book All the Sinners Saints written by Ron Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young draftee named Victor Willard goes AWOL in Germany after an altercation with a commanding officer. Porgy is an African-American GI involved with the international Black Panthers and German radicals. Victor and a female radical named Ana fall in love. They move into Ana's room in a squatted building near the US base in Frankfurt. The international campaign to free Black revolutionary Angela Davis is coming to Frankfurt. Porgy and Ana are key organizers and Victor spends his days and nights selling and smoking hashish, while becoming addicted to heroin. Police and narcotics agents are keeping tabs on them all. Politics, love, and drugs. Truths, lies, and rock and roll. All the Sinners, Saints is a story of people seeking redemption in a world awash in sin. This is the third novel in the Seventies series by Jacobs, and is a prequel to Short Order Frame Up (ISBN- 9780977459094) and Co-Conspirator's Tale (ISBN- 9780983206309).
Download or read book Savage Wilder written by Veronica Eden and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MAISYThe boy I knew is gone.Rule follower. Straight laced. Goody-goody.I'm as well-behaved as they get, but then the worst thing ever happened to me?I caught the interest of the bad boy. Wilder isn't the same guy I idolized when we were kids. He made that clear the day he moved back to Ridgeview.He hunts me, stalks me, surrounds me from all sides. I'm his new favorite plaything. Again. Last year was bad enough, but as graduation looms his claws are in me once more and he refuses to let go.And worst of all? I think I like it.FOXThe Wilder name is a curse.Pristine. Perfect. Fake.Once upon a time we were friends. Then her family destroyed mine. In return, I'll destroy hers.I'm the resident black shadow this town fears. Whispers about. Everyone remembers that a Wilder means bad news. My sweet daisy should fear me because she's the key piece in my revenge plot against her crooked parents.I'm not her friend anymore.I'll take them all down, starting with her.
Download or read book Saints and Sinners of Calvary written by Rev. Fr. Christopher Rengers and published by TAN Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing connected with the Passion and Death of Christ was purely accidental. And although Our Saviour was unquestionably the central figure of Calvary, many other persons - by God's Providence - took part in the living drama of the first Good Friday. These persons too provide instruction for our own lives.
Download or read book Saints and Sinners written by Henry Arthur Jones and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Saints Sinners Angels written by Danny Unrau and published by Kindred Productions. This book was released on 1997 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
