The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
1997 book by Anne Fadiman that chronicles the struggles of a Hmong refugee family from Houaysouy, Sainyabuli Province, Laos, the Lees, and their interactions with the health care system in Merced, California
religion
The William Tyndale Old Testament
Before the King James Version of the Bible, there was William Tyndale’s ‘heretical’ text. It was the first direct translation of the Old Testament from Hebrew into English and was thus a great threat to church power when it was published in the early 16th Century. As much as it was a triumph of personal …