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Abby Stein was born as the first son in a dynastic rabbinical family, poised to become a leader of the next generation of Hasidic Jews. But Abby felt certain at a young age that she was a girl. She made a personal exodus from ultra-Orthodox manhood to mainstream femininity-a choice that forced her to leave her home, her family, her way of life.

En compagnie de saint Joseph et de Frère André, une méditation qui nous révèle les multiples facettes du visage de Dieu. Accueillant plus de trois millions de pèlerins par année, l'Oratoire Saint-Joseph symbolise la dévotion à saint Joseph, chère aux catholiques du Québec, que le saint Frère André n'a cessé de promouvoir jusqu'à s'engager de toutes ses forces pour que voie le jour ce monument incontournable de Montréal.

Comment dire « à dieu » à nos défunts ? La mort d'êtres qui nous sont chers est toujours une épreuve. Épreuve pour notre amour, épreuve pour notre foi. Surtout s'il s'agit de décès tragiques, de la mort de jeunes ou de longues et douloureuses agonies. Alors, les mots de la prière ne viennent pas facilement sur les lèvres. Ce recueil voudrait apporter une aide à ceux qui cherchent à prier en vérité.

« Je souhaite que la Parole de Dieu soit toujours davantage célébrée, connue et diffusée » (Misericordia et misera, 7). À la conclusion du Jubilé de la Miséricorde, le pape François invitait l'Église à placer au centre de sa vie et de son action pastorale l'Écriture Sainte. Car la Parole de Dieu possède ce « dynamisme... et ce potentiel que nous ne pouvons pas prévoir » (cf. Evangelii gaudium, 20.22) et qui touchent le cœur des humains et leur fait découvrir l'amour miséricordieux de Dieu (cf. Evangelii gaudium, 128).

Immigrants often face considerable challenges when it comes to preserving their cultural and religious teachings. D. Mitra Barua argues that the Sri Lankan Buddhist community in Toronto has maintained its coherence and integrity not despite but because of the need for cultural adaptations.

Si l'on en croit l'historien Denis Vaugeois, les gens inventent des histoires depuis soixante ans à propos du gouvernement de Maurice Duplessis. Dans le domaine de la politique, l'image généralement acceptée du Québec d'avant la Révolution tranquille est celle d'une société écrasée par une Église catholique omniprésente, avec la complicité d'un gouvernement de l'Union nationale corrompu.

A shrewd synthesizer, gifted popularizer, and inspiring founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance movement, A.B. Simpson (1843-1919) was enmeshed in the most crucial threads of evangelical Christianity at the turn of the twentieth century. Daryn Henry presents Simpson's life and ministry as a vivid, fascinating, and paradigmatic study in evangelical religious culture, during a time when the conservative wing of the movement has often been overlooked.

"What is the secret that allows L'Arche to exist? I'll tell you: pleasure!" explains Jean Vanier, founder of the international federation of L'Arche communities where people with and without intellectual disabilities share their lives. Vanier's spiritual vision and playful sense of humour shaped L'Arche, but the organization was also informed by its surprising history with the United Church of Canada.

From their everyday work in kitchens and gardens to the solemn work of laying out the dead, the Anglican women of mid-twentieth-century Conception Bay, Newfoundland, understood and expressed Christianity through their experience as labourers within the family economy. Women's work in the region included outdoor agricultural labour, housekeeping, childbirth, mortuary services, food preparation, caring for the sick, and textile production. Ordinary Saints explores how religious belief shaped the meaning of this work, and how women lived their Christian faith through the work they did.

In 1770, the priest Nicolas Vernier was accused of neglecting church services, inappropriate behaviour in the confessional, financial improprieties, and affairs with the village schoolmistresses. In a contentious church court case, parishioners described all of their priest's wrongdoings, and in turn, he detailed many of theirs. Ultimately, Vernier finished his career as a cathedral canon in another diocese. Scandal in the Parish recounts Vernier's story and many similar eighteenth-century cases.