religious life

In 1983, twenty-seven-year old Earl Smith walked through the menacing gates of San Quentin State Prison just as everyone thought he would. As a gang member and criminal from a young age, Smith expected to do some time. But when he walked in it was not as an inmate but as the Chaplain of Death Row. A year earlier six bullets were fired into his body in a botched drug deal. Those bullets saved his soul and changed his life path forever. Twenty-three years later, Smith had played chess with Charles Manson, negotiated truces between rival gangs, and bore witness to the final thoughts and prayers of dozens of Death Row inmates.

" ... a[n] ... approachable list of guidelines that will help young girls navigate a broken world and become the young women God made them to be"--Provided by publisher.

Professional surfer Bethany Hamilton shows girls how spiritual health is just as important as physical health.

Bethany Hamilton, a teenager from Hawaii who lost an arm in a shark attack while surfing in 2003, presents information on the attack, her Christian faith, her friends and family, her love of surfing, and other topics in question-and-answer format.

Collection of stories that describe encounters between children and angelic beings.