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CatfishIt's the 1960's and early 70's in a small town in the Deep South where Susanna Burton, a white girl whose traumatic home life is hidden behind her father's power, finds a forbidden world of love and acceptance with a Negro family. She falls for Rodney Thibault, a colored boy who gives her the tenderness and warmth she's never known, when anti-miscegenation laws are still in effect. Even after the supreme court rules against these laws in 1967, the KKK, other white supremacists, and Susie's parents continue to enforce them. From teenagers to young adults, while the two are forced to go their separate ways, date people of their own race, and live apart, the one thing that keeps bringing them back together is the patriarch of the Negro family, Catfish, who becomes Susie's surrogate grandfather. How this unlikely pair navigates the white girl's physical and emotional abuse and the black boy's and his family's encounters with the KKK, forms the character and inner strength these two young people need to finally take charge of their own destinies.Today, 2017 Race in America seems to be growing more divisive even as mixed-race couples break barriers and bring more colorless children into the world. Why this divide exists is a thorn for Madelyn Edwards who was raised by a woman of color whom she still loves beyond measure.In her debut novel, Catfish, Madelyn subtly explores the chasm between black and white families that existed in the Deep South in the 1960's and '70's when Jim Crow and the Ku Klux Klan defied federal laws. She tells the story of an older Negro man named, Catfish, who befriends a young white girl and shows the child what a true, loving family is all about. Susie Burton finds her real self through her love for Catfish, his granddaughter, Marianne, and the Burton's help, Tootsie. Susie falls in love with a colored boy, Rodney Thibault, Marianne's cousin. The young couple's journey is fraught with violence and abuse as everyone from the Klan to Susie's dad try to keep them apart.If readers find themselves routing for Rodney and Susie at the end of the book, Madelyn feels she has accomplished her task of blending color lines and making prejudice a forgotten emotion with Catfish.
The Romance of a French Parsonage
M B Edwards; Matilda Barbara Betham Edwards
British Library, Historical Print Editions
2011
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What happens when you have nowhere to go from rock bottom, when hope is just another four-letter word? How does life's spiral turn into a place of victory? In A Brand-New Horizon, Cheryl B. Edwards will navigate you from high mountains of victory to deep caves of desperation. Her journey includes a seventeen-year career competing for Canada at international track-and-field events, culminating in a world-shattering nervous breakdown. That sudden mental collapse led her into a relentless twenty-year battle with mental illness. In this book, Cheryl writes openly about how God redeemed her from the bondage of fear and unspeakable depths of darkness to bring her into His marvellous light. Her desire in sharing her story is to give an account of her personal experience of hope in Jesus. This is a personal testament to the hope she has received through God's grace.
Most of us need to understand why we are and wish to remain Methodists or other Wesleyans. We have many personal reasons for this, but if we learn enough about John Wesley, we will see that one of the best reasons is that he got us off to a really good start. He showed us how to be sane, well informed, intellectually honest, scripturally informed, socially engaged, and deeply spiritual members of the living body of Christ. Our task now is to sustain and develop what he started. John Wesley was an incredible person both in what he did and what he thought. Viewed against the background of the Christian scholars of his day and those who went before him, his thinking was immensely creative, insightful, and at times downright radical. From this book you will learn more about what he thought than about what he did, but both will be explored. Most of us know a little bit about what he did, but we know almost nothing about what he thought.When you find out about them, you may be both astonished and very pleasantly surprised. So much of what he had to say is as fresh and relevant to us today as it was to so many others during his own lifetime.
This book brings together two philosophical perspectives-process philosophy and Hartmannian formal axiology-to argue for a more appealing and persuasive approach to process ethics. The implications for spiritual practice bring fresh meaning to Whitehead's call to live, live well, live better."Whitehead's vision changes the way we think of ethics and values, but it does not include an ethical system. One problem has been that it has focused attention sharply on individual occasions of experience. Joseph Bracken has shown the need to attend to the unity of persons and societies in a fuller way. Edwards builds on that insight and incorporates other contributions into a richly articulated and highly original post-Whiteheadian account of ethics and values." John B. Cobb, Jr., Professor Emeritus, Claremont School of Theology
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