Throughout her life, Melissa Williams has hoped for a relationship with someone who can appreciate her for who she is and for the love that she is ready to give. When a friend from her hometown asks for her hand in marriage, she’s ready to take this next step with him until she realizes that her heart is yearning for someone else. Little does she know, thousands of miles away in West Africa, Orpheus Frank follows his mother’s advice to leave Liberia to find his Queen in America. In this Fi...

Music does not make itself. It is made by people: professionals and amateurs, singers and instrumentalists, composers and publishers, performers and audiences, entrepreneurs and consumers. In turn, making music shapes those who make it—spiritually, emotionally, physically, mentally, socially, politically, economically—for good or ill, harming and healing. This volume considers the social practice of music from a Christian point of view. Using a variety of methodological perspectives, the e...

Ella's bestselling work, The Torn Series, is a collection of books about the life of Melissa Williams. Throughout the series, you'll feel as if you're walking right alongside Melissa through her life's journey. You'll need to buckle up because the Torn Series takes you on an emotional roller coaster ride. Not only will you cry through her struggles, but you'll also celebrate in her triumphs. Throughout the Torn Series, you'll see Melissa make some good and not-so-good decisions in her life...

Torn 3: Surviving the Human Snake Pit is a continuation of the passion and pain that exists in the life of Melissa MeMe Thomas (Williams). Torn 2 ended with a nail-biter after Melissa received a message on her phone that will change everything, and in this book, youll finally see what was actually on that text message that tests Melissas faith in God all the more. Now that shes divorced and living the single life again, she finds nothing wrong with igniting old flames, but is there enough ...

This book examines how the writings of the thirteenth-century nun Gertrude the Great of Helfta articulate an innovative relationship between a person's eucharistic devotion and her body. It attends to her references to the biblical, monastic, and theological traditions, including attitudes and ideas about the spiritual and corporeal senses, in order to illuminate the affirmative role Gertrude assigns to the body in making spiritual progress. Ultimately the book demonstrates that Gertrude l...