Spirited Sisters

Spirited Sisters captures six generations of family stories. These spirited women form a family heritage for the current generation's identity. Daunting tales of escape introduce Babka, a young Polish Jewess. Though she was spirited, Babka was challenged when her youngest daughter, Bernice, converted to Pentecostalism and joined the love of her life in South India. Next, additional Grandmom's lives add insights from the Western prairie and in the Oklahoma Territory. They share how the Scotts treasured their families as well as human rights. Amanda and her daughter Lenora provide a sequel to Ruth Byrd Barnett and Freddie Estelle, who are both from old English stock. Pentecostal fervor revivals prompted Estelle to work in Maharastra, India, while Ruth Barnett supported abolishment of racial bigotry and supported women's voting rights in the United States. The next generation brought Ruth Burgess and Helen Sullivan, Estelle's daughters, into lives intermingled with cultural diversity between western and eastern ways of living with diverse challenges. Spirited Sisters chronologies how these spirited women have diversely and often creatively dealt with change and continuity.

Burgess, Ruth Vassar

Biographies & Memoirs

Xlibris

Shantistan: Enabling a Land of Peace

SHANTISTAN: ENABLING A Land of Peace

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

WestBow Press

Shantistan is a cross-culture peacemaking workbook. Its purpose is to encourge the development and use of culture beares, who are dedicated to promoting peace. Both theoretical and practical applications are provided. Applications of thirteen personal cross-cultural narratives form the Shantistan peace building curriculum. Mediated learning experiences delivered through collaborative dialogues provide opportunities for self-regulated learners to use representational thinking. In order to encourage heritage sustainability, participants gather and replicate their life experience relating to the peace-making themes. (integrity, harmony, tolerance, devotion to one's beliefs, love, doing good, civility, human dignity, humanhood, faith and forgiveness, protection of ife, sacrifice and reconciliation) This flexibility in product and process provides intergeneration participation and facilitates the benefits of peace making.

Two Millennia of Memorable Christian Women: Showing Strength Without Power

History

Burgess, Stanley M.

World

For over 2,000 years, Christian women have struggled with inequities between the genders. This certainly has been true in matters religious. Christian women have shown ethical, moral and spiritual strength, while being deprived of leadership or power positions reserved for their male counterparts. In this tome, the authors celebrate a wide variety of such female heroines, drawn from early Christian, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Pentecostal and Charismatic groups, as well as a sprinkling of so-called "heretical" individuals. These women often have become saints, martyrs, visionaries, missionaries, and spiritual voices-models to all generations. At the same time, it must be remembered that many of them also carried and gave birth to children, raised them, and fulfilled the other functions required of them in their social contexts. The emphasis is on celebrating these memorable individuals.

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