christian life

In the summer of 1986, eleven-year-old April Grace, who lives on a rural Arkansas farm with her family, across a field from her grandmother, has her sense of Christian charity tested when a snooty couple from San Francisco moves into a dilapidated house down the road and her grandmother takes up with a loud, obnoxious, and suspicious-acting Texan.

When Rosalie can't find her hen Blanca in time for the annual blessing of the animals on the Feast of St. Francis, she finds a way around the problem and receives a surprise besides.

Simple questions and answers examine the origins of Christianity, and the beliefs, customs, and practices of the faith.

After joining her new friends in the religious group called Fishers of Men, Dorry finds herself immersed in a cult from which she must struggle to extricate herself.

While Hollywood teenager Divine Matthews-Hardison is staying in Georgia with her devoutly Christian uncle and his family, she faces difficult choices about keeping secrets that might be harmful to others, and how--or whether--to accept her mother's boyfriend into her life.

After moving from Hollywood to live with her Aunt Phoebe and Uncle Reed in Georgia, Divine starts using the Internet to boost her social life, and meets a sixteen-year-old boy who seems too good to be true.

In Scotland in 1679, Angus McKethe and his family consider leaving their homeland because of the religious persecution they and others have had to endure at the hands of King Charles II.

After her mother unexpectedly leaves her with her uncle's family, members of a fanatical Christian cult, Kirby tries to learn what has become of her mother and struggles to cope with the repressiveness of her new surroundings and to maintain her own identity.

Provides insight into behaving as a child of God, knowing that He loves each person's true self, not the "poser" who pretends all is well even when life is spinning out of control.

Last-minute guests for a Thanksgiving meal multiply as preparations progress, but Grandma assures her young grandson that God will provide as much as they need to feed everyone.