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STONE OF THE HEART.('The Stone Virgins')(Book Review)
In 1929, Virginia Woolf delivered a passionate polemic about the odds facing a woman born with a great gift for writing. She suggested that in the preceding centuries such a person would have become crazed, shot herself, or been stigmatized as a witch. She imagined the case of Shakespeare's hypothetical sister, in whom genius lay dormant and mute, who died young, and was buried ingloriously at a crossroads near the Elephant and Castle, where omnibuses trundled past. If Woolf were speaking to us now, she would surely voice indignation at the fate of Amina Lawal, the adulterous Nigerian woman whom an Islamic court has ordered to be executed once she ceases to breast-feed her ...
- The Stone Virgins.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Sister Namibia June 1, 2005 700+ words
The Stone Virgins is a novel in which the action moves...betrayal? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Stone Virgins is a haunting, disturbing, passionate...catastrophic depths of unspoken wars. The Stone Virgins is an extraordinary and beautiful...
- An extract from The Stone Virgins.(ZIMBABWE)(Excerpt)
- Magazine article from: Sister Namibia Vera, Yvonne June 1, 2005 700+ words
They stay in their camouflage and pull out cigarettes and smoke while standing under the marula tree. They hold their faces up and seem amused either by the sky or by passers-by: their mothers. They walk leisurely to Thandabantu Store; slowly, as though they have a lifetime, to place one foot after
- Inaccurate deception?(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books Matter, E. Ann October 1, 2000 700+ words
...piety (rather than more archaic topics, like the glories of stone Virgins on Gothic churches) been studied in any concerted way. These...the Virgin Mary"--who stands for creation in relation to God, and so corresponds to nature in relation to humanity...
- God's refining love.(BIBLE STUDY)
- Magazine article from: Sojourners Magazine Berry, Malinda Elizabeth September 1, 2007 700+ words
...the earth laid bare, healing balm, and land to which God holds the deed. Jeremiah was at work from 628 to 586 B...of Jeremiah ... depicts the alienation of people from God, God's unceasing attempts to bring them back to [Godself...
- God, A Biography.
- Newspaper article from: Free Inquiry Davis, Robert Gorham June 22, 1996 700+ words
...influence of neighboring gods on Israelite conceptions...influences are conflicts within God himself. For his biography...Thou Shalt Not Kill." God chooses the Israelite...armies worshiping different gods to destroy them. This...not until Isaiah does God show any love for humans...
- God and Gods
- Reference information from: -Ologies and -Isms January 1, 1986 700+ words
183. God and Gods See also 59. BUDDHISM ; 69. CATHOLICISM...absolute denial of the existence of God or any other gods. —atheist, n. —...adj. misotheism Rare. a hatred of gods or God. Mithraism an oriental mystery cult...
- God's blessings in the flesh.(Cover Story)
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century Goetz, Ronald January 29, 1997 700+ words
...creation in self-imposed humility? God's self-limitation, God's "self-humiliation," as...that willingness and capacity of God which lights all the predicates...of the true Godhead. "False gods are all reflections of a false...
- God 101: back to school with Julian of Norwich.
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century Bondi, Roberta August 28, 2002 700+ words
...us. She would tell us first of all that what we need is God. God? That may seem a vague and simple-minded answer. But...what to do with those resources in order to seek and find God. Julian would assure us that these resources are ones we...