Background
She grew up in Summit, New Jersey and now lives on the Upper West Side with her husband Gregorio Orellano of Manhattan, and has two children, Ana and Hans.
She grew up in Summit, New Jersey and now lives on the Upper West Side with her husband Gregorio Orellano of Manhattan, and has two children, Ana and Hans.
Review Neumark received her undergraduate degree from Brown University and completed her Master of Divinity at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia.
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From Publishers Weekly
A 1976 Housing and Urban Development policy called "planned shrinkage" had radically reduced city services, including hospitals and schools, and only people too poor to move elsewhere remained in this area of sewage treatment plants and torched apartment buildings. People like Burnice, who initially came to church to pick up Christmas gifts, intending to trade them for drugs and then kill herself with an overdose. But who kept coming back, got her General Educational Development, found a job and is now a leader in church and community.
"Some future pillars of the church arrive in ruins," Neumark wryly notes.
With its hard-nosed realism and passion for God, this memoir should appeal to people of faith across the political spectrum. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Incorporated"
Neumark often lectures at colleges around the United States and writes weekly sermons for her congregation.
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