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Armas, Kat Bluhm, Tiffany Finch, Jamie Lee Fischer, Jean Klein, Linda Kay Mazzoni, CristinaKlein, Linda Kay
Summary: From a woman who has been there and back, the first inside look at the devastating effects evangelical Christianity's purity culture has had on a generation of young women--in a potent combination of journalism, cultural commentary, and memoir. In the 1990s, a "purity industry" emerged out of the white evangelical Christian culture. Purity rings, purity pledges, and purity balls came with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.8 KLEFinch, Jamie Lee
Summary: "Rooted in her experiences growing up in an Evangelical Christian family, Jamie Lee Finch's "You Are Your Own" offers an overview of Evangelicalism and the painful confusion and anxiety experienced under its demands. Finch explores the mechanisms of trauma and how fundamentalist denominations match the patterns connected with PTSD. She elaborates on the doubt, guilt, fear, and grief that haunt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Jamie Lee Finch] 2019
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Summary: "Drawing from her ministry experience in an unhealthy church, Tiffany Bluhm explores the dynamics of power and lack of accountability that occur within many church and ministry contexts and encourages women and men to speak out in the face of unjust systems"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 250.82 BLUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 250.82 BLUMazzoni, Cristina
Contents: Learning to cook, eat, and read with Christian holy women -- How to bake wonder dough into miracle bread : Byzantine saints and Catherine of Genoa -- How to make cheese and how to eat love : Hildegard of Bingen with Hadewijch -- How to taste sugar and spice : the flavors of Elisabeth of Schönau -- How to bite with grace into forbidden fruits : apples, sweets, and Margaret Ebner -- How to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Continuum 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 270.082 MAZFischer, Jean
Summary: This collection of 100 extraordinary stories of women of faith--from the Bible, history, and today--will empower them to know and understand how women have made a difference in the world and how much smaller our faith (and the biblical record) would be without them. Featuring full-page, colorful illustrations alongside the true stories of amazing women like Lydia, Naomi, Rahab, Rebekah, Jane...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shiloh Kidz, an imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc. 2018
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Summary: "Combining personal storytelling with biblical reflection, a Cuban American writer tells the story of unnamed and overlooked theologians-mothers, grandmothers, sisters, and daughters-whose survival, resistance, and persistence teach us the true power of faith and love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2021