religious life

Womanspirit challenges the churches to examine their treatment of women. And it calls upon women to reclaim the wealth of their heritage, the fullness of their talents and gifts, so that the spirit of women, filled with the grace and the light of the Holy Spirit, may offer faith, hope and love to a world always on the way of becoming a new creation.

Contains ten essays in which various educators discuss their experiences trying to nurture their students' emotional and social needs, as well as their intellectual development.

Fourteen-year-old Jess' beliefs falter when her evangelical father packs up the family, including her secretly pregnant older sister and her long-suffering mother, to travel across the country and save souls ahead of the anticipated end of the world.

Examines the annual Amish ritual known as Rumspringa, where sixteen-year-old Amish youths are permitted to venture out beyond the bounds of their faith and experiment with things that are otherwise forbidden before they make a final decision whether or not to remain within the Amish culture.

Tells the story of the American Army chaplain sent to save the souls of the Nazis incarcerated at Nuremberg.

Provides testimonies from students in fifty college campuses across the nation who maintain that it is possible to keep their faith against the pressures of college life, and addresses such issues as dorm life and peer pressure, race relations, and dating.