When Sarah Cunningham was in her twenties, she was ready to change the world, full of energy, passionate about her work, and really, unstoppable. Or so she thought. But in trying to change the world, we all encounter opposition—people who don’t understand our cause, problems that we can’t solve, frustration we don’t know how to handle.Eventually, the passion we once had starts to burn out. And so do we.Sarah, still trying to change the world in her thirties, has encountered...

Dear Church is a series of letters from a twenty-something to the global church she’s not always sure she wants to be a part of. The author’s story awakens the voice of a younger generation whose attendance in the church is dropping, yet she encourages the church that their Christian faith is still alive and well. In the end, Dear Church tells a story that will be familiar to every age group: the story of overcoming disillusionment and staying the course.

Four remarkable women. Four unforgettable stories of hope, courage, faith and love.Australia, 1912Minnie Wyndam loves her beautiful island home, her fabulous clothes and her childhood friend Eric. But while Minnie is busy preparing for her first season, Eric uncovers a dark secret from his father’s past that sends him running from the life of privilege he and Minnie share. Faced with losing the man she loves, Minnie must decide. St...

Abortion Care as Moral Work brings together the voices of abortion providers, abortion counselors, clinic owners, neonatologists, bioethicists, and historians to discuss how and why providing abortion care is moral work. The collection offers voices not usually heard as clinicians talk about their work and their thoughts about life and death. In four subsections--Providers, Clinics, Conscience, and The Fetus--the contributions in this anthology explore the historical context and p...

What happens when idealism and reality crash into each other (and you)?If you have ever passionately invested yourself in living your faith, championing a cause, or representing some noble ideal, you've probably experienced a faceoff between idealism and reality.Society often recognizes its deficits-poverty, crime, divisiveness, anxiety, excess-yet it rarely celebrates the rise of people who want to change those shortcomings. Still, many o...

Here is the church, here is the steeple . . .This update to the classic children's rhyme is an introduction to church for a new era, a whirlwind tour through all the wonderful things church can be and do and mean. From megachurches to little chapels to underground meetings, from welcoming to helping to feeding the hungry, church can be and do a lot of things. But ultimately that old rhyme said it best: the church is the people!With gently rhyming text by Sa...

Image and Power is an important work of literary and cultural criticism. This collection of essays focuses on some of the major issues addressed by women's writing in the twentieth century, concerning genre, subjectivity and social and cultural expectations, issues which in the past have been regarded from an essentially male perspective. The text introduces women writers whose novels have been widely read and provides an important contribution to the debate about women in literat...

One Paris shop, four women, four decades of intrigue...Spring, 1909When Delphine Altrain purchases a date with Paris' most eligible bachelor, Gabriel LaPouge, she has one thing on her mind...hats. When her latest design becomes the talk of the Grand Prix, it seems everything she has dreamed of is within her reach, but when the past arrives to destroy her present, Delphine needs to decide if she stays and risks heartbreak, or run and always...

YOUR STORY IS FOR GOD’S GLORYGod tells us in Hebrews 13:5 that he will never leave us or forsake us. Angela Cunningham Simms has found this truth to be profoundly accurate throughout her 50+ years, especially in times of dire adversity. Through all her life’s challenges—drug addiction, abuse, prison, and homelessness with four children—God has remained at her side and consistently matched calamity with peace and healing. And now, she’s sharing her testimony for anyone who believes ...

Brought to you by Penguin.Girlboss. Wonder woman. Perfect mother. Feminist go-getter. If you thought misogynist marketing ended with #MeToo, think again.'It's high time we expose and remedy the pseudo-feminist marketing malarkey holding women back under the guise of empowerment' Amanda Montell, author of Wordslut________________Brands profit by telling women who they are and ...

In gentle rhyming text, Sarah Raymond Cunningham explores the curiosity and wonder of a child's life from the playroom to the playground, dinnertime to alone time, all with a recurring chorus: May God bless you and keep you... Perfect as a gift for baptisms, baby dedications, showers, First Communions or graduations, May God Bless You and Keep You will give encouragement and blessing to kids at any stage in the wondrous journey of growing up.

When disaster strikes, will you be prepared for the backlash?On September 13, 2018, a series of natural gas explosions on a Columbia Gas of Massachusetts (CMA) pipeline system devastated the Merrimack Valley, just north of Boston, Massachusetts. Twenty-one people were injured, and one person was killed. Thousands of residents in the towns of Andover and North Andover as well as the city of Lawrence were left without heat or hot water for months for months, causing ...