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Childrens author whos written a wonderful new book. This is your fourth Childrens Book. My fifth actually. This is called bitter and sweet. Why dont we jump in and tell us what bitter and sweet is. Thank you. Im delighted to be here with you. Bitter and sweet is a childrens picture book about a little girl named hannah whos family moves to a new town. At first, hannah can only see the bitter in this move. She feels the loss of her friends and her home which she loved and all the Little Things about that life that a child would notice. She eventually does learn to find the sweet in her new situation. The point of the story for me is about more than just a move. Its about change. I think its really important for us as adults to help kids learn recivil resilientcy. We live in a world even if you stay in the same place, San Franci ....
Minute. I am the interim director at Baylor University press. We are a small academic Publishing House attached to the largest Baptist University in the world in waco, texas. At baylor press, were very focused editorially. Almost all of the 40 books that we publish each year are focused on academic conversations surrounding religion. Melissas book is a natural fort for our list, and were proud to be the publisher of it. I suspect that for many of you Melissa Rogers needs no introduction at all. Shes served as special assistant to president barack obama and executive director of the White House Office of faithbased and neighborhood partnerships. She holds a law degree from the university of pennsylv ....
Catholics. Just to put this in the context of what weve been looking at the past couple of weeks, what weve been looking at is this struggle for American Catholics to kind of find their place in american culture. Despite persistent and clear expressions of loyalty and patriotism and despite the real and human sacrifice of life in the civil war, after the civil war catholics remained a people viewed by most americans with suspicion and fear. A people apart, a people to be feared. A variety of reasons for this. They were members of what was perceived to be a Foreign Church based in rome. They were, as weve seen, participants in a separate School System. Even just by the virtue of their status as members of the working class at a time when the working classes are coming to be seen as the dangerous classes, catholics appea ....
Todays lecture is called tamany catholics. Just to put this in the context of what weve been looking at the past couple of weeks, what weve been looking at is this struggle for American Catholics to kind of find their place in american culture. Despite persistent and clear expressions of loyalty and patriotism and despite the real and human sacrifice of life in the civil war, after the civil war catholics remained a people viewed by most americans with suspicion and fear. A people apart, a people to be feared. A variety of reasons for this. They were members of what was perceived to be a Foreign Church based in rome. They were, as weve seen, participants in a separate School System. Even just by the virtue of their status as members of the working class at a time when the working classes are coming to be seen as the da ....