Father Divine (Black Americans of Achievement (Hardcover))
by Robert Weisbrot
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A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. [with Hardcover Book]
by David A Adler
Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr., a (1 Paperback/1 CD) (Picture Book Biographies)
by David A Adler
Saint Joan of Arc (Biography (Lerner Hardcover))
by Jeremy Roberts
A biography of the young French woman who, inspired by visions supposedly from God, led the French army against English invaders, was burned at the stake as a heretic, and eventually was declared a saint.
A collection of stories for children about the bravery and faith of Christian saints and martyrs. The saints and martyrs start with those that surround Christ himself, through those that were persecuted during the Roman Empire, to those that formed the religious orders and developed Christian thinking. Final sections in the book look at the continuing process of canonisation carried out by the Catholic church, as well as providing a calendar of the saints. Some of the saints and martyrs featured...
African-American Religious Leaders (A to Z of African Americans)
by Nathan Aaseng
Religion and spirituality have been key elements of African-American life since the earliest days of the slave trade, when they helped to keep alive the flame of human dignity of enslaved people living under the most oppressive conditions. For many decades, spiritual convictions were the driving force behind many successful African-American pioneers and were important forces holding families together against the disruptive forces of society. In more recent times, African-American religious leade...
Even at the age of nine, Golda Meir was a leader. As president of the American Young Sisters Society, she organizes her friends to raise money to buy textbooks for immigrant classmates. A glimpse at the early life of Israel s first female Prime Minister. Full-Color Illustrations, Full-Color Photographs, Famous People. Nine-year-old Golda Meir, who would become Israel's first woman prime minister, uses her leadership skills to organize her friends in the American Young Sisters Society to raise m...
Doctor in the Pygmy Forest (Flash Card Format 5095-Acs, #5095)
by Lois Headly Dick and Bible Visuals International
Sketchbook (Sketchbook Cat Unicorn, #2) (Sketchbook Sloth, #5)
by Adorable Notebooks
Pope Francis:: Spiritual Leader and Voice of the Poor (Essential Lives) (Essential Lives Set 8)
by Amanda Lanser
Pope John Paul II led the Catholic Church during a time of great upheaval. During his pontificate (1978-2005), the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall collapsed, and great strides were made for freedom worldwide. The first non-Italian pope in more than four centuries, the Polish John Paul was also the very first Slavic pope ever. As a young man, he experienced Nazi persecution and had to train for the priesthood in a seminary conducted ""underground"" - because Catholic religious training for vocat...
Follows the life of the Englishwoman whose intellectual curiosity led her to study theology, who married a minister who hoped to bring revival to the Anglican Church, and who lived to embrace the Methodism founded by her son John Wesley.