Grab your giggle box! Here comes Barbara Johnson with another helping heap of joy for women of all ages, aches, and "architecture."Author Barbara Johnson's encouraging book about a woman's adventures in aging, Living Somewhere Between Estrogen and Death, became the number-one best-selling paperback in the Christian market for the year in which it was published. Soon hordes of happy readers were flooding Barbara's mailbox with their own favorite jokes, touching stories, and...

Countering impressions of Moses reinforced by Sigmund Freud in his epoch-making Moses and Monotheism, this concise, engaging work begins with the perception that the story of Moses is at once the most nationalist and the most multicultural of all foundation narratives. Weaving together various texts—biblical passages, philosophy, poems, novels, opera, and movies—Barbara Johnson explores how the story of Moses has been appropriated, reimagined, and transmitted across cultures and h...

In 1980, deconstructive and psychoanalytic literary theorist Barbara Johnson wrote an essay on Mary Shelley for a colloquium on the writings of Jacques Derrida. The essay marked the beginning of Johnson's lifelong interest in Shelley as well as her first foray into the field of "women's studies," one of whose commitments was the rediscovery and analysis of works by women writers previously excluded from the academic canon. Indeed, the last book Johnson completed before her death was Ma...

Barbara Abbott was eighteen when her father threatened to kill her if she went to school against his will. A sharecropper since he lost his farm in 1956, he needed her on the farm to help plant their annual tobacco crop. Barbara would often sneak away to school, but her mother would retrieve her before her second class started and return her to the fields. Then, after the workday was over, she studied unassigned chapters hoping that she would not get behind in her class assignments due to ...

A charming look at the Depression Era through the eyes of a young girl growing up in northern Minnesota. Barbara was born in 1931 when economic times were hard but life was simple. She lived with her parents and siblings in five houses by the time she was twelve, and takes the listener along as describes the houses and shares her stories of saving for a bike, paying for piano lessons with porcupine meatballs, enjoying five-cent ice cream cones, and learning the basics of journalism work at...

Hair grows everywhere on the human being pores and skin except on the hands of our hands and the bottoms of our ft, but many hairs are so fine they're practically invisible. Hair comprises of a proteins called keratin that is stated in hair roots in the external layer of epidermis. As follicles produce new curly hair cells, old cellular material are being forced out through the top of skin at the pace around six ins a 12 months. The hair you can see is truly a string of lifeless keratin ce...

It is unfortunate yet very true fact that anxiety and stress in children is certainly a universal problem in the current fast-paced, high-tech, activity-packed society. In the event that your son or daughter can be experiencing anxiety and stress, try these types of simple yet effective methods to help her manage her fear, get worried, and annoyed.

Think of Aging as "whatever happens to your bodies as time passes." This description encompasses all the aging the body goes through, instead of the indicators of Aging that happen later in life, like grey hair and lines and wrinkles.Some aging is caused by your body. Growing kids and teens going right through puberty. Other Aging accumulates as time passes, like skin surface damage triggered by sun exposure. Because of this, Aging is a mixture of physical changes and the impact of...

What do you get when you mix courage, faith, humor, and a few spunky women? You get OverJoyed!, a brand new devotional by some irrepressible ladies who know how to squeeze the maximum amount of gladness out of life. These sparkling devotions combine fun, candor, and biblically based wisdom that can help you trade gloom for glory even in the midst of great adversity. With the same trademark humor and insight that characterize their conferences across the country, the Women of Faith team wil...

Women of Faith equals joy! Triumphant joy, exuberant joy . . . outrageous joy! And no wonder, because as this sparkling, love-and-laughter-filled tape reveals, we serve an outrageously joyful God. With infectious good humor, authors and Women of Faith conference speakers Patsy Clairmont, Barbara Johnson, Marilyn Meberg, Luci Swindoll, Sheila Walsh, and Thelma Wells offer irresistible reasons for rejoicing in every circumstance of life. Using the metaphor of a circus, they encourage us to r...

Women of Faith points you to the bedrock of joy: grace. Grace describes things beyond your ability to earn or attain, gifts you can only gratefully receive from a God who lavishes them on you freely. With the same wit and insight that have characterized their previous devotionals such as Joy Breaks and Overjoyed! Patsy Clairmont, Barbara Johnson, Marilyn Meberg, Luci Swindoll, Sheila Walsh, and Thelma Wells shine a spotlight for you on grace. Grace that cleanses your sin. Grace that guides...

Reluctant debutante Keziah Montgomery lives beneath the weighty expectations of her staunch Confederatefamily, forced to keep her epilepsy secret for fear of a scandal. As the tensions of the Civil War arrive on their doorstepin Savannah, Keziah sees little cause for balls and courting. Despite her discomfort, she cannot imagine an escape fromher familial confines—until her old schoolmate Micah shows her a life-changing truth that sets her feet on a new path… as...