Resultados para "Girls" en Denominaciones cristianas

Award-winning author Maria Morera Johnson follows up her best-selling book My Badass Book of Saints with a unique and daring exploration of the cardinal virtues through the saints and heroines of science fiction, fantasy, and comic books. Johnson will reignite your passion for your faith as she demonstrates the heroic in the sometimes mundane quest for good and reminds us that Catholicism is filled with adventure.

In 1958, a six-pound, seven-ounce baby girl was born in Ogden, Utah. She was born "cursed" according to the teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) because she was Black. Only one-tenth of one percent of people living in Utah during this time were Black. Ninety-eight percent of Utahns were white, and most of them were Mormons. Not only were Mormons taught that Black people were cursed, but that they were "loathsome and filthy" compared to white people who were considered "white and delightsome.

"The narration by Wariner compliments the candid nature of her story...A captivating and emotional story delivered in a straightforward way without an ounce of self-pity." — Library Journal A riveting, deeply-affecting audiobook memoir of one girl's coming-of-age experiences in a polygamist...

The compelling autobiography of a remarkable Catholic woman, sainted by many, who championed the rights of the poor in America’s inner cities. When Dorothy Day died in 1980, the New York Times eulogized her as “a nonviolent social radical of luminous personality . . . founder of the Catholic...