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Born a Native American but brought up Amish, Hester Zug, at age 20, flees her Amish home. Her father's too-tender care of her has made her stepmother wildly jealous, and so Hester sets off, knowing only that she can't stay. Hester's natural instincts for navigating the forests in colonial Pennsylvania, along with the book of medicines and remedies given to her by an aged Native American woman, allow her to survive until she gets sick from drinking river water.

Fleeing a turbulent Guatemala with her missionary parents, Penny returns to America and is forced to deal with a fresh kind of trauma: summer Bible camp for Mennonite teens. Along with her outspoken and rebellious friend, Gina, Penny struggles to deal with her past, the camp's fierce regulations, and the sexual energy that electrifies the air between the campers, counselors, and even visitors. This coming-of-age story offers an intimate look into a young girl’s attempt to find her place and start figuring out which rules are worth breaking.

This superb memoir of a gay working-class boy from Manchester exploring how to reconcile his sexuality with his Catholicism is all the more powerful because of his deep knowledge of and commitment to his faith. Spanning the late 1960s to the present day, Mark Dowd's Queer and Catholic chronicles a changing attitude to same-sex attraction over more than half a century and is packed with stories in turn funny, deeply moving and spiritually insightful.

Nonostante il crescente pluralismo culturale e religioso, la Chiesa cattolica resta una presenza profondamente radicata nel tessuto sociale del paese e ben visibile anche sulla scena pubblica. Nel dibattito sui valori è spesso terreno di scontro, ma anche punto di riferimento non solo per i credenti. Come si spiega tutto questo? E come sono cambiate, dal dopoguerra a oggi, la Chiesa e la società italiane?

Apenas somos conscientes de cómo la reforma protestante ha influido en nuestras vidas. Tras el atormentado antihéroe de las películas americanas, la autoimposición de la felicidad como un deber absoluto, la necesidad imperiosa de un triunfo profesional o las angustias de la soledad y el individualismo que nos abaten, podemos descubrir los ecos de una nueva antropología que trajo la Reforma protestante. La eclosión espiritual que implicó, llevó a innumerables grupos y congregaciones a buscar la pureza espiritual pero reflejada una moral y control público que hoy nos asustaría.

¿Puede una paloma marcar el destino del próximo líder espiritual de mil millones de personas? ¿Qué reunión arranca con el golpe de un martillo de plata sobre la cabeza de un cadáver ilustre? ¿En qué elección mundial reina el silencio absoluto... mientras muchos sospechan que el Espíritu Santo ya ha elegido? Eso no estaba en mi libro de historia de los cónclaves se adentra en el engranaje más cerrado, simbólico y desconcertante de la Iglesia católica: la elección del papa de Roma.