Ergebnis für "Crazy" in Religion

By the time he was 19, Frank Schaeffer’s parents had achieved global fame as best-selling evangelical authors and speakers, and Frank had joined his father on the evangelical circuit. He would go on to speak before thousands and publish his own best seller. But while coming of age as a rising evangelical star, Schaeffer felt increasingly alienated, and as a result, he experienced a crisis of faith that would ultimately lead to his journey out of the fold - even if it meant losing everything.

Socially inept, sixteen-year-old Katie Wolfe doesn’t fit in at her new school. Even her teachers point out her abnormal behavior, which dampens her spirit more. Soon she finds herself in the psychiatric ward, suffering from depression, mania, and psychosis. Stunned by the grimness of her new reality, she struggles to reconcile her insanity with her faith.

This gripping memoir describes Bethany’s journey with God as she struggles to find her own identity after abuse, toxic relationships, therapy abuse, and church hurts. When the people and institutions she trusted betray her trust, even calling her crazy, God gives her the grit to keep going and find peace and well-being.

Crazy God Stuff is a fun filled, irreverent ride through the author’s life that delights listeners with funny, awkward, painful and magical experiences everyone can relate to. Crazy God Stuff mixes the ordinary with the divine in a way that invites the listener to explore and and embrace the influence of the spiritual on their own material lives.

Alternating between laugh-out-loud scenes from his childhood and acidic ruminations on the present state of an America he and his famous fundamentalist parents helped create, best-selling author Frank Schaeffer asks what the Glenn Becks and the Rush Limbaughs and the paranoid fantasies of the “right-wing echo chamber” are really all about. Here’s a hint: sex.

An unforgettable story, in the tradition of Hillbilly Elegy and Educated, that reveals how a careful look at a broken past can open a path to profound healing and a satisfying future. Terry Wardle grew up in the Appalachian coalfields of southwestern Pennsylvania, part of a hardscrabble...

The Third Shift is a compelling, inspirational self-help memoir, a timely and touching addition to the class. It tells the story of Scooty, as she journeys to reconcile her life's purpose and comes to terms with her identity in the face of the extreme adversity delivered to her. Despite being molested as a child and impregnated as a teenager, Scooty discovers the beauty of the world as a mother in Pennsylvania and grows to lead a life full of love, hope, and courage, as she was destined to. An honorable relationship with God is the most important relationship.