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In 1639, Marie migrated to the struggling French colony at Quebec to found the first Ursuline convent in the New World. Over the course of the next thirty-one years, the relationship between Marie and Claude would take shape by means of a trans-Atlantic correspondence in which mother and son shared advice and counsel, concerns and anxieties, and joys and...

This is a concise, fluently presented examination of the relation between William Penn's religious convictions and his political behavior, from his years as an active young convert to the Quaker cause to his later years as governor of Pennsylvania. Although not a full biographical treatment of William Penn, the study presents new insights into Penn's life because it is based on many ignored but important pamphlets that Penn wrote. The young William Penn took a leading role in the Quaker fight for the right of free assembly, the right of free speech, and freedom of conscience. However, when...

"Adventures in Ministry" is one couple's remarkable story of their thirty-five years working in the Catholic church.

In 1963, Cyril and Mary Jo Wuenschel loaded their six children-ranging from six years to ten months old-and most of their belongings into a Volkswagen Bus and left Pittsburgh for San Francisco. Cyril trained at The Institute of Lay Theology at the University of San Francisco with the hope that he would be assigned to a parish as a lay theologian and present a plan of adult education for the community.

They survived the trip West (barely) and found themselves in a...

This is a concise, fluently presented examination of the relation between William Penn's religious convictions and his political behavior, from his years as an active young convert to the Quaker cause to his later years as governor of Pennsylvania. Although not a full biographical treatment of William Penn, the study presents new insights into Penn's life because it is based on many ignored but important pamphlets that Penn wrote. The young William Penn took a leading role in the Quaker fight for the right of free assembly, the right of free speech, and freedom of conscience. However, when...