Jesus

Dismas, a near-contemporary of Jesus Christ , is a ruthless, conscienceless robber; but a touching prologue presents him as an abused child, hungering for love and beaten by his ruthless, conscienceless robber father if he...

The narrative is told in the first person to you, LC 's interlocutor Jeanne Megnen , and divided into five journal or diary entries dated 23-27 August 1943. Across those entries LC recounts her...

The poems in pastoral form include religious meditations, hymns for Christmas, Easter, and other Christian festivals, love complaints, and addresses to abstracts such as Pride and Sincerity. Despair is a dramatic mini-narrative, beginning Moments on...

Cope makes free with the category Tumps (typically useless male poets), yet her poems to or about men are typically loving in tone: for her father, her husband, George Herbert (who is Dear George although...

The Yoga of Christ, or the Science of the Soul claims to illuminate, at least in part, the Truth, divine and living of Jesus 's words. These, it says, had for centuries lain hidden beneath...

In it Jesus comforts a mill-girl who is injured and dying after the terrible industrial accident.

It takes on anti-semitic prejudice, making the point that Jesus Christ was a Jewish boy, even while Dinah Mulock also asserts that the days of religious persecution are over. She argues by way of...

In another story for the same periodical, How June Found Massa Linkum, a slave child who has never heard of Christianity dies and is welcomed to heaven by both Jesus and President Lincoln (contradicting...

In a preface to a later edition of Anna Lombard, VC wrote: I endeavoured to draw in Gerald Ethridge a character whose actions should be in accordance with the principles laid down by Christ

Quoting several of the street ballads at length, AG argues that they are a means of recovering the suppressed history of Ireland, which having been forbidden in the national schools, has lifted up its...

Several stories in this collection focus on women's spiritual experience. The broken mirror in Phelps's The Lady of Shalott is that of a bedridden teenager whose drunken mother disabled her by throwing her downstairs. Jesus

The first and longest story, also titled Sweetly Sings the Donkey, from the title of a children's song, takes place in a convalescent home run by nuns. Many of the characters are invalids, one...

This book is narrated after her death by a woman named Mary who spent her life following the teachings of Christ in ministering to the sick, the miserable, and the poor, as a schoolteacher...

LLH approaches her subject with reverence and urgency. The Holy Mass is the most sublime action that the Church militant can offer to God. It holds out to believers the daily opportunity to enrich ourselves...

The first story in the volume, Wladislaw's Advent, explores decadent themes familiar to its original publication venue. It depicts an impoverished Polish artist living in the west end of Paris, and his encounter...