Janice Peck: 4 books

Over the last two decades Oprah Winfrey's journey has taken her from talk show queen to-as Time Magazine has asserted-"one of the most important figures in popular culture." Through her talk show, magazine, website, seminars, charity work, and public appearances, her influence in the social,...

Coverage of the Clinton-Lewinsky saga followed in a long trail of media exposures of the more personal details of the lives of public figures. Many commentators have seen stories like this, and TV shows like Jerry Springer's, as evidence of a decline in the standards of the mass media. This increasing...

When the reality of being a pastor’s wife settles in, Angela has taken on a burden of extra activities in addition to her career as a nursing assistant at the Community Care Home in Wilson Grove. Her plan to get a nursing license in the fall has been put aside because parish events need to be fit...

Angela was living in an apartment with two friends she’d met at a Christian weekend while taking extra courses at her alma mater. They’d become counselors for teens in trouble and their first case, a girl who had tried to commit suicide and a child of parents involved with drugs, needed a place...