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The Word
(Paperback)
Yvonne Blackwood
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R495
R419
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Plain tells the story of Mary Alice Hostetter's journey to define
an authentic self amid a rigid religious upbringing in a Mennonite
farm family. Although endowed with a personality "prone toward
questioning and challenging," the young Mary Alice at first wants
nothing more than to be a good girl, to do her share, and-alongside
her eleven siblings-to work her family's Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, farm. She feels fortunate to have been born into a
religion where, as the familiar hymn states, she is "safe in the
arms of Jesus." As an adolescent, that keen desire for belonging
becomes focused on her worldly peers, even though she knows that
Mennonites consider themselves a people apart. Eventually she
leaves behind the fields and fences of her youth, thinking she will
finally be able to grow beyond the prohibitions of her church.
Discovering and accepting her sexuality, she once again finds
herself apart, on the outside of family, community, and societal
norms. This quietly powerful memoir of longing and acceptance casts
a humanizing eye on a little-understood American religious
tradition and a woman's striving to grow within and beyond it.
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Try Faith
(Paperback)
Irene Horn-Brown
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R391
R326
Discovery Miles 3 260
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