In Langston Hughes" essay "Salvation," Langston talks about the first time he is going to be saved from sin. Langston is a young boy around the age of thirteen. ... He says, "A great many old people came and knelt around us and prayed, old women with jet-black faces and braided hair, old men with work-gnarled hands" (219). ... Like most children his age, he does not understand the facts about religion. ... The conflict in this essay is that Langston is fighting his feelings about not seeing Jesus. ...

• Word Count: 1434
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Bethany in fact is having doubts about her own faith. ... In the end, God appears as a woman who runs around and plays in the grass like a ten-year-old boy. ... God is a flower child, the 13th apostle is black and complains the white authors left him out from the New Testament, and then you have Metronome, the powerless voice of God. ... "Dogma" is a movie likely to inspire people to think about religion and how people let it effect their lives. ...

• Word Count: 567
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

This idea reiterates Blake's anxieties about the current deteriorating condition of London. ... When talking about songs of innocence as title implies, the views offered in these songs about religion are very innocent and naive. ... An angel is releasing the soot-covered boys from their "coffins of black," and they are dancing away as they are released. The sky above them is blue, not black, and healthy, green vegetation, grows around the text. ...

• Word Count: 2556
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

A better understanding of this passage will allow us to see how Jesus taught his disciples and the Pharisees about the love and grace of God. ... And so the boy starts out for the far country. ... Because of the famine this boy does not know what to do. ... And so, on the black background of this boy's sin "down in the pigpen, out of fellowship with his father, having left home on a bad note, our Lord begins to brighten things up. ... When this boy was living at home with the father and was in fellowship with him, he was a son, and there was never any question about that. ...

• Word Count: 3350
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

He grew up in the early 19th century and as a young teenage boy who claimed to have a series of visitations, revelations from God and visitations from angelic messengers, while he was praying in a grove of trees. ...

• Word Count: 3593
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Joseph Smith, then a fourteen-year-old boy, had a vision telling him that the true church was not in this world. ... Girls may go on a mission if they would like to but are unable to go until they are twenty-one and they go for about a year. ... "The group uses techniques that numb the mind to suppress doubts about the group and its leaders. ...

• Word Count: 2529
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School