Angelica Skyler certainly wasn't a perfect mother to fourteen-year-old Thumbelina, but when she is found dead in the local duck pond, Thumbelina yearns to have her back. Six feet tall with thick glasses covering a face she doesn't even know is pretty, Thumbelina is now alone with a few Johnny Cash tapes, a guitar that belonged to the musician father she never knew, and a spirit almost as large as the odds against her.
Quickly placed with a foster family, Thumbelina bumps straight into Myrna, a feisty redhead half her size and with a baby in her stomach. Also fourteen years old and as...

Dieser Sonderband der Reihe Glaube und Denken beinhaltet die Vortrage von 26 Theologen und Theologinnen aus 10 verschiedenen Landern uberwiegend aus dem asiatischen Raum, die sich zu einer einwochigen International Summer School an der Universitat Regensburg und dem Missionskolleg in Neuendettelsau versammelten, um daruber nachzudenken, wie sich christliche Existenz unter neuen Bedingungen gestaltet. Eine zu beobachtende Zunahme an nationalistischen und fundamentalistischen Stromungen in vielen asiatischen Landern, wo die Christen weitgehend Minderheiten darstellen, aber auch...