Darlene Deibler Rose

Katharine once said, “Christ wishes the Christian Community to be a body that is perfect because we work together towards a single end, and the higher the motive which actuates this collaboration the higher, no doubt, will be the union. Now the end in question is supremely exalted: the continuous sanctification of the Body for the glory of God and the Lamb that was slain.” (A-Z Quotes). This quote describes Katharine’s way of working towards creating her orphanages and schools with her order. Despite overcoming many difficulties in her earlier life, Saint Katharine Drexel created her own religious order, donated generously to charities, and established schools to teach the faith the others; consequently, she is one of the most dynamic missionary saints from America.

In Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë the character Bertha Mason plays a major role in the development of several characters such as Jane Eyre, Edward Rochester, and St. John Rivers. Even though she is rarely seen by anyone she heavily affects other characters choices and where they end up by the end of the novel. Bertha and her background presence also adds to the novel's Gothic genre. she is the driving force for the relationship of jane and Rochester.

Belinda Mason was a short-story writer, a reporter for a Kentucky newspaper, and a well-known journalist in her small home town of Eastern Kentucky. Mason was also a daughter, sister, wife and mother of two beautiful children. Unfortunately, Mason died at an early age from complications of AIDS. Mason’s life and death had a substantial impact on the state of Kentucky.

impossible. Although Linda Brent was not able to get her children away from Dr. Flint and his mistreatment, she did not abandon her family to save herself. Instead, she decided to hide in her grandmother, Aunt Martha’s, attic. Several times during Linda’s life she was faced with the choice of fulfilling her desires of being a free woman or putting her family first. She believed that once Dr. Flint noticed that she had escaped to the North, he would be fearful of her children escaping and would sell them. When Mr. Flint sold Benny and Ellen to someone working for Mr. Sands she was told by Mr. Sands, also the father of her children, that he would free their children soon to live with Aunt Martha.

Dorie Miller Post 1406, located at 2908 East 11th Street in Dallas, Texas, is named in honor of a Texas seaman from Waco, Texas.

Leymah Gbowee, a mother of five and women’s rights activist, grew up amongst the struggles of the Liberian Civil War. As a young teen, Gbowee had a strong belief in God, but as the death and destruction progressed, and the war felt never ending, that faith dwindled. The anger that Gbowee felt caused a rebellious streak which produced an abusive relationship between Gbowee and boyfriend, Daniel. The abuse and trapped feelings she felt during these hard times caused her to turn back to God for guidance. Although Gbowee had a strong belief in God when she was a young teenager, that belief in God was halted due to a feeling of being trapped inside war, then was regained after the abuse she experienced.

For the longest time in her life, she reasoned with the final judger, and her redemption all add up to the spiritual plight that we all must take in life. Everyone may not all be Christians, but the journey of spirituality applies to everyone. We all must travel it at some point. We all know it, and that makes this story common to us all.

Corrie ten Boom grew up in a strong, Christian home. Religion played a huge role in her life. Her family was always assisting anyone who needed help. Whether it was taking in foster kids, giving money to those who needed it or offering food and shelter to Jews during World War II, her family was always offering to help people in need. The ten Boom family took in over eight hundred Jews, attempting to save them from the Gestapo. The ten Boom’s were very brave and stood up for what they believed in, even if it meant getting caught and taken to concentration camps.

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At age 17, her father took her to a Pentecostal evangelistic meeting led by Robert Semple. Immediately she believed that God called her to save lost souls, and she regularly attended many Pentecostal meetings. She wasn’t sure how she would be able to fulfill God’s request, but in 1908 she married Semple. He believed he was called to the mission field in China, and Aimee believed this would fulfill the call. They started with raising money and also started a small church in Canada. Two years later they went to Ireland to visit Semple’s parents. They also stopped in England where Cecil

Our newest missionaryJulie Burnette Halecki is our daughter. We had been praying for many years that God would send missionaries to train under us and "take up the mantle" but we never thought it would be our daughter Julie. She had been enjoying a successful career, a new house and a job she loved... Little did we realize that God was calling her to

A year later she was able to move to the U.S. Just before her and her family were about to leave her grandfather tells her “America is a Christian country. People will expect you to become a Christian. Your mother and I want you to know that, if you decide to become a Christian, you will still be our daughter and we will still love you.” While in the U.S. she began to attend Sunday school and was learning about Jesus. Soon after she met a girl named Joy Clark and became close friends with her.

Dorothy Day is a strong woman who knows what she wants to accomplish. Her beliefs changed throughout her life but she ended up converting to Catholicism. Dorothy Day was actively involved with worldly issues and problems. To help get attention to these issues Dorothy created the Catholic Worker movement. On August 6, 1976 she was asked to speak at the World Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia (Ellsberg). Her speach was addressing the Feast of Transfiguration and the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. Evidently the Congress scheduled a mass for appreciating the armed forces, how ironic. This threefold event called for a protest. It is said that Dorothy did not like public speaking because it gave her anxiety, this caused her a great amount of stress (Ellsberg). She began her speech by her story of the Catholic Worker and her conversion. She started giving service to the poor and then decided to convert after. She continued to say that the Church taught her the necessity of Penance. She concluded by giving attention to

Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton faced challenges in their respective research as a result of religious and cultural beliefs of the time influencing their work, but there is another individual who faced different issues that influenced their research. It is fairly well known that James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA, but it is not as commonly known that an individual by the name of Rosalind Franklin also played a key role in this research. Rosalind Franklin had been trying to uncover the secrets of DNA during the same time as Watson and Crick and she actually quite close to figuring it out. At the time she didn’t quite realize what she had and if she did than it would have most certainly been her who would have been credited with the research. It wasn’t until Watson and Crick were shown Franklin’s research that they were able to pull ahead and fully figure out the structure of DNA. It was said that “while Rosalind’s work was fundamental to the discovery, she had not been consulted on its use”, meaning that she did a large part of the work and someone else was given the credit (Maddox). Showing them the progress made by Franklin was done without their permission. Franklin contributed a large part to the research done on the structure of DNA and it wasn’t until much later she was given credit for it. Why Rosalind Franklin was not given credit for the amount of work she contributed in the research of DNA is not completely clear, but it may have been caused by cultural issues she faced

Linda Ward is a great example of someone who has the ability to balance a family and a career within the media industry. Starting at a position that was mainly behind the scenes, Linda took the action of applying for a reporter job in Charlotte Town.