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1) Medusa
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Portuguese
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Mari and her friends broadcast their spiritual devotion through pastel pinks and catchy evangelical songs about purity and perfection, but underneath it all they harbor a deep rage. By day they hide behind their manicured facade, and by night they form a masked, vigilante girl gang, prowling the streets in search of sinners who have deviated from the rightful path. After an attack goes wrong, leaving Mari scarred and unemployed, her view of community,...
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English
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"In this six-session, video-based study, Lysa TerKeurst admits that she, like most women, has experiences where others bump into her happy and she comes emotionally unglued. What do we do with these raw emotions? Filmed in Florence, Italy, and filled with personal examples and biblical teaching, Lysa shows how to process our emotions and resolve conflicts in ways that lead to a much more peaceful life."-- pkg. back cover.
6) Ali & Nino
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English
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Based on the famed love story, a Muslim and Christian couple defy their parents and marry, but their bond is soon put to the test by the arrival of WWI. Mandy Patinkin co-stars.
7) Church wives
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English
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"Church Wives is a fun, lighthearted comedy-drama that follows the friendship of four women who attend the same church: First Lady of the church Kenya, Head Deacon's wife Carla, newlywed and former model Julissa, and Teri, who is struggling in an abusive relationship. While all seems to be laughs and giggles, there are some serious secrets between these church wives. Kenya finds herself smack in the center of a feud between the ladies when she reveals...
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English
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In a tour-de-force performance, international mezzo soprano Linn Maxwell transports us back to medieval Europe to meet German writer, composer, healer and prophet Hildegard of Bingen in this captivating one-woman show dramatizing the life of this remarkable saint. Throughout her life of devotion, Hildegard experienced visions from God that called her to express herself through her many talents and assume a role of leadership inside the church - one...
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The enemy wants us to feel rejected ... left out, lonely, and less than. When we allow him to speak lies through our rejection, he pickpockets our purpose. Cripples our courage. Dismantles our dreams. And blinds us to the beauty of Christ's powerful love. In Uninvited, Lysa shares her own deeply personal experiences with rejection -- from the incredibly painful childhood abandonment by her father to the perceived judgment of the perfectly toned woman...
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English
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Back in high school, original mean girl Amanda Vaughn mercilessly tormented her less attractive classmates. Twenty years later, after her hubby is busted for a Ponzi scheme, and meets his maker in a particularly scandalous way, a disgraced Amanda is back to start life anew under her mother's palatial roof. But will the good women of her hometown welcome her with open arms or dole out some kick-ass karmic payback? Let's just say, hell hath no fury...
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"Shame is everywhere we look. It hides in the shadows, lies to us, and shackles us int he prison of our past. In this five-session video Bible study, [the author] shows that if we want to be free of shame and change our future, we have to believe God is bigger than our mistakes, our inadequcies, and our limitations."--Container.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th century Benedictine nun was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist, and ecological activist. Hildegard is determined to expand the responsibilities of women within the order, even as she fends off outrage from some in the Church over the visions she claims to receive from...
16) No more sheets
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English
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Ms. Bynum speaks on being single, stressing the lives of single women, and on the challenges and temptations met by single women. She emphasizes the need to evaluate one's life and to live as spiritual and as good a life as possible.
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English
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"A 7-foot-tall fundamentalist Baptist minister, Markie Wenzel made the decision at age 46 to come out as a transgender woman and start living as female. It was a decision that ended her 20-year marriage and estranged her from her three children. It also saw her dismissed from her church and exiled to the margins of her community. We meet Markie in 2008 as she is putting the pieces of her life back together, employed as a TSA agent and working toward...
18) The last appeal
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English
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The story of Sister Faustina, a peasant girl chosen to bring the message of Mercy to mankind in preparation for The Last Day, The Day of Judgment. The drama unfolds through the revelations and visions of God to Helen Kowalska. The story of Helen vividly brings to light the struggles she went through in the process of delivering the message through the humble life of a nun in a convent in Poland at the beginning of the 20th century.
19) Joan of Arc
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English
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She inspired her nation more than 500 years ago and her story continues to inspire the world today. Follow the French heroine from glory to martyrdom.