Church Fathers

how I manage through intimate relationships. It has also impacted the manner in which I parent my children. Around age 4, I witnessed domestic violence between my parents. These disputes included physical and verbal abuse between my biological father and mother. Theses instances inscribed the notion that I would never marry. I vividly remembering riding my bike in front of my home saying, “I will never get married after.” It was my held belief that all marriages involved negative and…

years old when Ultima came to stay. Ulitma is staying with the Marez family because she is very sick. Antonio’s mother, Maria, feels that she must care for Ultima because she was living all alone in Las Pasturas and after some convincing Antonio’s father believes so too. They believe it’s an honor to aid Ultima seeing she has helped them and so many others in life. It’s known that Ultima will spend her last days of life with the family. The settling of the novel begins with the family living…

life you see my family had taken a trip to Birmingham just before my old man had died. We had been in Birmingham when the Sixteenth Street Baptists Church bombing had happened and it scared my whole family (except for Joey) half to death. My momma and dad practically had one foot out the door the second we heard the loud “BOOM!” and rushed to the church to make sure that Joey was Ok, we were gone before sunrise the next morning we didn’t even stop for gas until we saw the sign that said “Welcome…

“Woman Hollering Creek” centers on a young married woman, named Cleófilas and she is the story’s the protagonist. Cleófilas is a Mexican woman goes from living a limited sheltered life in Mexico, to someone who is trapped in her new life in Texas, due to her role as a woman and because of her marriage. In the story "Woman Hollering Creek", it shows the life of a married woman through a character named Cleófilas, the issues of wanting to live in a fantasy. Instead Cleófilas is a character who is…

spending. I grew up in a Christian home where we consider family as one of the important ways of making life very simple,that is being religious especially a member of the church congregation. One of the Men(Pastor) of God that came into my life when I was growing up is called Dr.Mensah Otabil of International Central Gospel Church. This is a Pastor whose focus was all on…

How Misinterpretation of the Bible Helped the Justification of the Crusades. The Crusades were a series of expeditions undertaken by Christian holy men in the hopes of delivering holy places from Islamic tyranny (Douglas J. Potter). The popes felt that Europe should be under Christian unity, and the pressure that they felt from the Byzantine Empire threatened said unity, so they decided to send troops of men to free the land of the Byzantine Empire once again for the Christians. One would think…

you to know that I have always been a more shut-in on the ideas of sharing a lot of things about myself. So I feel that I should give you some idea of what it was like when I was growing up. Me and my father were soft-spoken towards each other so there are still things that I want to know about my father, therefore I feel that I may be the same way. I want to tell you about what it was like for me to grow up from the ages of about 1 to 18. In the past, I had a life that was a comparison to the…

Purgatory a Ridiculous Belief Purgatory is one of the most misinterpret Catholic Doctrines today, according to the Catechism of the catholic Church purgatory is a “final purification, to attain the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven” which is experienced by those “who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified” (CCC1030). And also according to Dante’s Arrangement purgatory is a place of systematic discipline,it is only to be expected that it should be more…

Soon after my parent's divorce my father was remarried to my step-mother. I do not affiliate myself with her or her children which can make some situations awkward or tender. There have been multiple instances where I had to stay calm and keep my emotions in check for the sake of my mother…

Reporter: Justin, Brain, and Emma was spanked on last night (2/7/2018) by their father (Charles). The children were told not to move off the couch in the living room. Emma got up to used the bathroom and was spanked by Charles. Justin and Brain were playing and was whipped by Charles with a belt. Justin has a bruise on the back if his right leg above his knee. Justin stated to the reporter that: "He hit his knee on a table at church last night.' Brian has a bruise on his right upper arms and…