Donations for his mission are being accepted at /mission. This June, OCF Treasurer Christopher McNulty will care for abandoned children suffering from cancers, birth defects, and other complications at two orph-anages in Ukraine. The trip’s full cost is being underwritten by OCF and generous donors. Demetrios Church in Wildwood before departing for home. Following a night of fellowship, the group will attend St. The group will depart Friday afternoon and spend Saturday participating in clothing and food drives for Sandy victims. The Penn State Orthodox Christian Fellowship will travel to the storm-ravaged New Jersey coast this March 22-24 for a weekend of service and prayer. To see more pictures, visit OCF’s Facebook page. The group contributed $5,824 of the record $12.37 million raised this year. OCF members stand in support of children afflicted with cancer at the 2013 Penn State Dance Marathon.
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Persephone keeps the human clans from turning on one another through her iron will and a compassionate heart while Nyphron, seeks to advance his own nefarious agenda. The alliance of humans and renegade Fhrey is fragile-and about to be tested as never before. The epic battle between Rhune and Fhrey ignites in all its fury. There, an ancient adversary waits-an enemy as surprising as it is deadly. And even if the clans can join forces, how will they defeat an enemy whose magical prowess makes the Fhrey indistinguishable from gods? The answer lies across the sea in a faraway land populated by a reclusive and dour race With time running out, Persephone leads a small band of misfits in a desperate search for aid-a quest that will take them into the darkest depths of Elan. Raithe, the God Killer, may have started the rebellion by killing a Fhrey, but long-standing enmities dividing the Rhune make it all but impossible to unite against a common foe. The gods have been proven mortal and new heroes will arise. He found the story inspiring and felt that it would also inspire young people, so he reached out to Kearney on Twitter and asked him if he'd like to collaborate on a children's picture book. In an email interview with the Bay Area Reporter, Rosswood revealed that he first discovered Kearney's story in an online article and was quite taken with him. The book poses a simple question for its readers: What makes you strong? In Kearney's case, his strength comes from not only his ability to lift heavy weights, but also from his ability to proudly be who he is. Each drawing comes with a short text that tells Kearney's story. Each page features a drawing by Nidhi Chanani. The book is short, simple, and to the point. Rosswood co-authored the book with Kearney. As the story progresses, Kearney learns with the help of his husband to fully embrace who he is without worrying about what other people think of him. In his new children's picture book "Strong," Rosswood tells the story of Rob Kearney, a gay strongman who trains himself to lift hundreds of pounds. Gay author Eric Rosswood wants LGBT kids to believe in themselves. Knowing his party needed to expand its base to win, he reached out to diverse ethnic groups, seeking the endorsement of Catholic leaders and advocating for black voting rights. McKinley, a Civil War hero, changed the arc of American history by running the first truly modern presidential campaign. With "a sure touch professional eye" ( The Washington Post), Rove tells the story of the 1896 election and shows why McKinley won, creating a governing majority that dominated American politics for the next thirty-six years. McKinley's winning presidential campaign addressed these challenges and reformed his party. The 1896 political environment resembles that of today: an electorate being transformed by a growing immigrant population, an uncertain economy disrupted by new technologies, growing income inequality, and basic political questions the two parties could not resolve. A fresh look at President William McKinley from New York Times bestselling author and political mastermind Karl Rove-"a rousing tale told by a master storyteller whose love of politics, campaigning, and combat shines through on every page" (Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Team of Rivals). Mary Ellen Kinsey-Rudee, one of the instructors at Snoopy’s Home Ice, was the skating model for Peppermint Patty. It happened that Woodstock had whistled songs in the strip, and Sparky and Lee Mendelson, the producer of the TV shows, talked about Woodstock whistling the music for Peppermint Patty during a skating competition. The second show, which we call, Good Skate, was one that Sparky went out on a limb for. The New Year’s show was first broadcast on New Year’s day, 1986, and Sparky declared it to be “just good, innocent entertainment.” It was the “double-bill” of Happy New Year, Charlie Brown and She’s a Good Skate, Charlie Brown. I had already thought of talking about the Peanuts hour which aired on ABC a few days earlier. The countdown begins as the numbers float up.Īt the count of 1, the balloons come down! The balloons are gathered up at the ceiling, ready to be dropped. When we do these events we are carrying out Sparky’s dictum that some things should be done just for the pure joy of doing it. Those who came enjoyed the pure pleasure of the event, as well as the exhibitions. The majority of the visitors came with children and grandchildren for the two “balloon drops,” but many others just happened upon us that day. More than 1100 guests and members visited the museum on Monday, December 31st, the last day of 2012. “I’m a devout Catholic, and I do this as meditation, as a form of prayer,” said López, who’s been a santero for five decades and whose family hails from this village perched on a ridge at 7,000 feet (2,100 meters).Ī few miles down the valley in Cordova, Jerry Sandoval – another santero and the mayordomo’s uncle - says a prayer to each saint before starting to sculpt their image out of pine, cottonwood or aspen. On a recent Sunday at Truchas’ 1760s Holy Rosary church, López pointed out the rich decorative details that centuries of smoke and grime had hidden until he meticulously removed them with the absorbent inside of sourdough bread. Their feeling is a lot deeper and that’s what keeps it going.” “It’s important for the community to have a connection. “Saints are the spiritual go-to they can be highly powerful,” said Victor Goler, a master santero who just completed conserving the altarpieces, or “reredos,” in Las Trampas’ mid-18th century church. Tracing the rise of a new feminist consciousness through online campaigns resembling #MeToo, and describing how the Communist regime has suppressed the history of its own feminist struggles, Betraying Big Brother is a story of how the movement against patriarchy could reconfigure China and the world. Through interviews with the Feminist Five and other leading Chinese activists, Hong Fincher illuminates both the challenges they face and their “joy of betraying Big Brother,” as Wei Tingting-one of the Feminist Five-wrote of the defiance she felt during her detention. In Betraying Big Brother, journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher argues that the popular, broad-based movement poses the greatest threat to China's authoritarian regime today. But the Feminist Five are only symbols of a much larger feminist movement of civil rights lawyers, labor activists, performance artists and online warriors that is prompting an unprecedented awakening among China's urban, educated women. The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf, and activists inundating social media with #FreetheFive messages. Academic and journalist Leta Hong-Fincher made an impressive debut some years ago with her first work, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China (Zed Books, 2014). On the eve of International Women's Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for 37 days. Leta Hong-Fincher, Betraying Big Brother: the Feminist Awakening in China, (Verso Books, 2018), 288pp. But before she became the illustrious figure we know today, there was a bookish young woman whose passion for learning, natural history, and, yes, dragons defied the stifling conventions of her day. She is the remarkable woman who brought the study of dragons out of the misty shadows of myth and misunderstanding into the clear light of modern science. Genre: fantasy historical fiction adventureĪll the world, from Scirland to the farthest reaches of Eriga, know Isabella, Lady Trent, to be the world’s preeminent dragon naturalist. Title: A Natural History of Dragons (2013) (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, Book One) You have to take a stand and say, ‘This is not right. 5,317 Ratings When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it.Gayle, the landmark case that struck down the segregation laws of Montgomery and swept away the legal underpinnings of the Jim Crow South.īased on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure, skillfully weaving her dramatic story into the fabric of the historic Montgomery bus boycott and court case that would change the course of American history.Ĭlaudette Colvin is the 2009 National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature and a 2010 Newbery Honor Book. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose 4.07 avg. Undaunted, a year later she dared to challenge segregation again as a key plaintiff in Browder v. Instead of being celebrated as Rosa Parks would be just nine months later, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin found herself shunned by her classmates and dismissed by community leaders. On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.'" – Claudette Colvin "When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. He’s everything Hope ever wished for in a father. The relationship between Hope and G.T., the man who owns the diner and who eventually marries her aunt is especially touching and sweetly portrayed. Despite having moved so often and having had such inadequate biological parents, Hope isn’t afraid to connect to people. She throws herself into her new life in the small town, working on the grassroots mayoral campaign of the diner’s owner, quickly acquiring a boyfriend and friends, and proving herself to be a stellar waitress (she’s been working in restaurants most of her life, after all, and one of the few things her mother has given her is a list of waitressing tips). Hope, whose mother abandoned her as an infant and who has never known her father, is pretty well-adjusted, all things considered. As the novel begins, Hope, 16, and her aunt Addie are about to move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, where Addie will manage and cook for a diner called the Welcome Stairways. Ivy Breedlove in Backwater (1999) is a historian, Jenna Boller in Rules of the Road (1998) is a talented salesperson, and Hope Yancey’s gift is for waitressing. Another entry in Bauer’s growing collection of books about likable and appealing female teenagers with a strong vocational calling. |