Thorns in the Flesh BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Decision-Making & Problem Solving prayer and silence

prayer and silence

despite its historical significance

and conquest

Award-winning scholars Renee Knake Jefferson and Hannah Brenner Johnson cleverly weave together long-forgotten materials from presidential libraries and private archives to reveal the professional and personal lives of these accomplished women

Thorns in the Flesh BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Decision-Making & Problem Solving prayer and silenceThe literature of late ancient Christianity is rich both in saints who lead lives of almost Edenic health and in saints who court and endure horrifying diseases. In such narratives, health and illness might signify the sanctity of the ascetic, or invite consideration of a broader theology of illness. In Thorns in the Flesh, Andrew Crislip draws on a wide range of texts from the fourth through sixth centuries that reflect persistent and contentious