Bøger af Teresa Meyerhoeffer Christensen

Faith Didn't Die: A Modern-Day Parable Faith Hope lost both her first and middle names in a terrible fire, leaving her in physical and emotional pain. An angel of mercy disguised as a caregiver helps her recover them both. Faith Didn't Die is a simple allegorical tale about finding one's faith in hard times.

Poppy Paisley hails from a long matriarchal line who are all named for flowers. Since she has a permanent address at Greener Pastures (her Grandma Daisy's dementia care center) she does not really consider herself homeless. Even though she keeps her belongings in Sunny-mobile (her car) and sleeps at a different location each night. None of the people in her life are aware of her housing situation, except perhaps a park-dweller named Chet who has become her father-figure and is the wisest person she knows. Poppy is studying online to become a librarian and works at the public library with her best friend Russell and a butterfly aficionado named Misty. When a dashing library board member invites Poppy to help on a project in which she has vested interest, she is able to confront her homelessness firsthand. Poppy rescues others along her journey, as she wrestles with the dilemmas of what really makes a home and how does a person interpret their reality?

Seth's show Seth Row has made his name a household word with his weekly radio, internet and TV specials interviewing inmates on Death Row before their executions. Seth is often the last person to really speak with the inmates before they exit this world and the women in his life articulate that hanging out near the abyss of death rubs off on him and ghosts of his interviewees may follow him home. Could be possible he supposed. Seth doesn't focus on the heinous acts that placed these corrupted humans on death row, but their backstories. The man behind the crime...their life, loves, interests, regrets, beliefs about life after death. He humanizes the villains. Not in an attempt to exonerate or give them fame, but to pull back the outer layer and see what makes them tick. His favorite stories were always those where each character is multifaceted...the heroes not always all good and the antagonists not all bad. Mankind is constantly battling the natural-man inside themselves and Seth believes there is good and bad in every person. It just depends on the wolf they decide to feed. He is the consummate professional interviewer, until he meets the most unlikely death row inmate and things become a bit more personal for him. Each chapter opens with interesting, true facts about death row (but no political stance is taken).The story is filled with colorful inmates, varied love interests, a long lost father who turns out to be an actual Father and a young philosophical death row inmate that ends up connected to Seth on another level. Seth ultimately has to decide if he can host the live execution of someone he cares about and believes is innocent.