clergy

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clergy

Al Sharpton

2002
A biography of activist minister Al Sharpton, discussing his defense of victims of racial violence, his attack by a knife-wielding assailant, and his political ambitions.

Lucy

Daughters of the sea
2012
Lucy, languishing in stuffy New York society, travels with her family to a seaside community where she learns some hidden truths about herself and her family. Her social-climbing parents push her to marry someone within their own social standing but Lucy has met and fallen in love with a shipbuilder who shares her love of the sea. Her mother plots to keep them apart no matter what she has to do including murder and a web of lies.

The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

1978
A biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., focusing on his involvement in the civil rights movement. Discusses the investigations of his assassination.

The power and the glory

2003
In anticlerical Mexico after the revolution of 1910, the last priest left--the worldly "whiskey priest"--seeks to reconcile his dual nature as saint and sinner while running from the Communists.

Martin Luther King Jr.

marching for equality
2011
A brief overview of the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and his dedication to winning equal rights for African-Americans through organized, nonviolent protest.

The autobiography of Charles G. Finney

the life story of America's greatest evangelist--in his own words
2006
Presents a condensed version of the autobiography of nineteenth-century American evangelist, Charles G. Finney.

Shepherds abiding

a Mitford Christmas story
2003
Retired Episcopalian priest Father Tim, a man who has never really worked with his hands, receives a true Christmas blessing when he decides to purchase and restore an antique plaster creche as a surprise for his wife.

Daddy King

an autobiography
1980
An autobiography of the Reverend King describing his life and the lives of other members of his family.

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