From a cotton plantation in south Alabama, to a seat on the Federal Bench in Tennessee, Ruth The Life of Ruth McDowell Kinnard: Rememberances of Her Family and Friends McDowell Kinnard was at the forefront of her generation of women, setting standards in her professional life that are still hard to achieve. But she was even better known as a woman of grace and beauty whose spiritual journey, fueled by her deep compassion, touched all around her. Like the jeweled shards of glass fit together by the artist's hand into windows of Saints in her beloved church, this book brings together voices of love and admiration to create a mosaic of an extraordinary life. It can provide a pathway to a life well lived and loved.
In Milwaukee in the 1930s, Ruthie's carefree life of memorizing Bible verses, visits with cousins, and playing with friends is transformed when the war in Europe moves to center stage and the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor.
Ellens witness has aided and abetted Anne in a life of change. The mousey, easily intimidated Anne has become a beauty with firm convictions. She no longer allows her ex-husband, Andrew, to walk all over her. In fact, her firmness has made Andrew believe there might be something to being a Christian after all, but hes still checking it out. Bitty struggled through her first husbands illness and death and vowed she would never remarry, but the chief of police broke her resolve. Chester Mayfield is in the throes of an illness no one saw coming. It is a life or death situation and no one knows who will win. Then theres Harriet and her daughter, Marigold, learning to accept each other. It isnt easy. Harriet may have appeared to be a recluse for many years, but now that she has rejoined society, the group of friends realize Harriet is a woman of substance and retains authority. Everyone needs a friend like Harriet! But Harriets reach does not faze Marigold, whose personality is as strong as her mothers. A few tangles lead to an understanding, and the two learn to operate together. Marigold takes on Haley, a girl from prison, and each woman deals with the man in her life. It happens that Marigold and Ellen have what some might call, the cream of the crop. Maybe Matt and Dan can show Andrew the way. But who will show the way to the new girl, Haley, who is fresh out of prison? Andrew says it takes a con to know one, and he is studying this girl with the rebellious nature. Only time will tell if Haley Marie Gipson lasts on the outside. The judge is looking over Andrews shoulder, and U.S. Marshall Bodie is keeping tabs on Haley and her parents, Dorothy and Harper Gipson. Remember, too, little Ruthie has a gift God will use in their lives, when evil seems to run rampant, God shines through this small childs love and eases the hurt in Haley.
Ruthie Hammond had a dream. After high school she was moving to a big city...anywhere but Brewster. Surely God had a plan for her, and it wasn't in this small, nowhere town. Twenty years later she's back in Brewster working at a failing radio station with her boyfriend Jack. She's given up on God and if she wants to get out of town, she'll have to do it solo. But when her first love, Paul, moves back, Ruthie wonders if happiness really does lie beyond this podunk town. In this second novel in the Coming Home to Brewster series, Roxanne Henke offers another wonderful story about relationships, choices, and spiritual growth.
A real life adventure along historic Route 66 in a 40-year-old convertible helps us see that 'road trip' is a metaphor for life's 'dash.' It does matter what we believe. We cannot mesh in worldly values with Christ's purity. Our relationship with God is reflected through our relationship with others while on this life's journey. Our travelers' goal of making it home seemed implausible, but our God makes all things possible. Our final destination is certain when we walk with Him. They said it couldn't be done, but sometimes it doesn't work out that way. Casey Stengel Dr. R.M. Shuffett's interest in travel and adventure dates back to childhood dreams of becoming an Indy Car driver while pushing the lawn mower around 'laps'- or the 'Lone Ranger' while riding his Shetland pony, mentally transported to cowboy and Indian 'badlands.' He was inspired by a locomotive ride. And a road trip vacation to Washington, D.C. forged an excitement to seek out more of the unfamiliar road ahead Dr. Shuffett is a Christian veterinarian (DVM, Auburn 1980), faithful husband to wife Ruthie, and dad to Hilary, Jessica, Brian, and John. He is a member and trustee of the Greensburg, Kentucky Church of the Nazarene. He considers himself fortunate to be able to travel scenic rural central Kentucky roads daily seeing God's creation and his myriad animal patients!
Ruthie loves tiny things and when she finds a tiny camera on the playground she is very happy, but after she lies and says the camera belongs to her, nothing seems to go right. 25,000 first printing.
Winner of the 2021 High Plains Book Award in Fiction and the 2021 Montana Innovation Award In this haunting parable of the American West, a young woman faces the violent past of her remote Montana valley. As a child in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley, Ruthie Fear sees an apparition: a strange, headless creature near a canyon creek. Its presence haunts her throughout her youth. Raised in a trailer by her stubborn, bowhunting father, Ruthie develops a powerful connection with the natural world but struggles to find her place in a society shaped by men. Development, gun violence, and her father’s vendettas threaten her mountain home. As she comes of age, her small community begins to fracture in the face of class tension and encroaching natural disaster, and the creature she saw long ago reappears as a portent of the valley’s final reckoning. An entirely new kind of western and the first novel from one of this generation’s most wildly imaginative writers, Ruthie Fear captures the destruction and rebirth of the modern American West with warmth, urgency, and grandeur. The Technicolor bursts of action that test Ruthie’s commitment to the valley and its people invite us to look closer at our nation’s complicated legacy of manifest destiny, mass shootings, and environmental destruction. Anchored by its unforgettable heroine, Ruthie Fear presents the rural West as a place balanced on a knife-edge, at war with itself, but still unbearably beautiful and full of love.
The Little Way of Ruthie Leming follows Rod Dreher, a Philadelphia journalist, back to his hometown of St. Francisville, Louisiana (pop. 1,700) in the wake of his younger sister Ruthie's death. When she was diagnosed at age 40 with a virulent form of cancer in 2010, Dreher was moved by the way the community he had left behind rallied around his dying sister, a schoolteacher. He was also struck by the grace and courage with which his sister dealt with the disease that eventually took her life. In Louisiana for Ruthie's funeral in the fall of 2011, Dreher began to wonder whether the ordinary life Ruthie led in their country town was in fact a path of hidden grandeur, even spiritual greatness, concealed within the modest life of a mother and teacher. In order to explore this revelation, Dreher and his wife decided to leave Philadelphia, move home to help with family responsibilities and have their three children grow up amidst the rituals that had defined his family for five generations-Mardi Gras, L.S.U. football games, and deer hunting. As David Brooks poignantly described Dreher's journey homeward in a recent New York Times column, Dreher and his wife Julie "decided to accept the limitations of small-town life in exchange for the privilege of being part of a community."
When Wes Russell divorced Molly for another woman, the question on her mind was, what was Gods plan for her future? The question on Paul Perkinss mind was, would Molly ever let him be part of it? As the sequel to Out of the Blue, Into the Light shows Gods handprint as Molly and Paul struggle to be used by him in their dealings with a Down syndrome baby and a runaway brother. Theyre used in situations from salvation to asserting authority in Jesuss name. Theyre an ordinary family living life by the grace of God.
Humor and nonsense, flights of fantasy into other realms, fright, disgust and disappointment, silliness and wonderment, and the sadness of reality and heartache. It's all here, and more, in stories that may leave you a little Off Center in the Attic. Acting in a Coffin - A director plays a prank that backfires on a movie set. The Wallflower - A woman compares herself to one who is the life of the party. Pupule - A neighborhood gets a lesson in humility from a crazy old Hawaiian man. To Soar - What a bird drops. Out of Body - A man is shot and his brain goes through a metamorphosis. Looking for Life - Never the right one. Most Wanted - The killer of young boys remains at large. Grandpappy's Cows - Antics of backward backwoods relatives. Boy at the Crossroad - The making of a monster. Cafeteria Science - How to lose your lunch. Indoctrination - A daring woman wants to experience something different and gets her wish. Explosive Day - No escape. The Smell of Death - A clue to the dying. Legacy - A woman in mourning changes her life to follow in her mother's footsteps. An Urgent Message - A plea to a writer. Rituals - Neurosis as a way of life. Watched - Being watched can kill. The Swimmer - A man losing his sanity. Thanatos - The urge to die. Alien Footprints - An invisible perpetrator. Vibratory Rates - Visitations from heaven and hell. The Voodoo Kit - A Jamaican hex follows a woman home. Pekoe - A newborn kitten abandoned in a portable toilet. Great Lady of Wisdom - A holy goat. The Last Thing I Do - The end of making memories. Future Winner - A little-known artist gets a break. Innocence - A high school girl on the verge of betrayal by her innocence. Sister Fly - Karma Homeless, Not Heartless - A man and his dog. Roots - What you may find when tracing your family tree.
