The Worldwide Anglican Communion had failed to keep its promise to its LGBT children to listen to their experiences. And so in Voices of Witness: Africa, Anglican men and women from across the continent tell their stories of intolerance and community, in secrecy and hope, of facing challenges and seeking dignity as people of faith who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.
Nikki Blue is a dancer at a strip club hidden along a back road in rural New England. Further down the road, Alice, a burnt-out, neurotic college grad with no particular ambitions, spends her days working at a roadside fossil and rock shop.
When she learns she's in danger of losing her visa status and being deported, overbearing book editor Margaret Tate forces her put-upon assistant, Andrew Paxton, to marry her.
Forks, Washington resident Bella Swan is reeling from the departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen, and finds comfort in her friendship with Jacob Black, a werewolf.
It's Boxing Day and already Karen is making New Year resolutions - chiefly for others - and the family have been burgled,though selectively,causing Sue to cheat on the insurance claim.
