clergy

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clergy

Amazing grace

the story of the hymn
1997
Describes the events of the life of John Newton as a captain aboard a slave trade vessel and later as a clergyman that led to his writing the well-loved hymn, "Amazing Grace.".

La muerte llama al arzobispo

2000
The story of a French priest who goes to New Mexico and, with another priest, wins the southwest for the Catholic Church. After forty years, he dies--the archbishop of Santa Fe.

Martin Luther King Jr.

"we shall overcome"
2005
Presents a short biography of Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and chronicles his early childhood and experiences with racism in the South, his involvement in the fight for equality, his assassination, and the legacy he left behind.

Henry More

and the scientific revolution
1996
Biography of Henry More, an English metaphysical theologian who lived in England during the seventeenth century and is credited with helping form some of Isaac Newton's ideas.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

civil rights leader
2009
An illustrated introduction to the life of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. Includes a time line and a glossary.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

a biography for young children
1990
Focuses on the childhood of the African-American civil rights leader.

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.

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.

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