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King, Stephen
Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Pollock, a vacuum cleaner salesman, sailor and philanderer (King has a half-sister in Brazil), went through a number of aliases before he changed his surname to King. When Stephen was two years old, his father went out to buy cigarettes and never came back. Stephen grew up in poor circumstances with his mother Ruth and his...
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Nilsson, Johanna
Johanna Nilsson was born in Uppsala and moved with her family to Borlänge when she was six years old. Her parents were members of the Mission Covenant Church of Sweden, and this background that has come to inform her life and work. She is no longer "fundamental", but she often prays and holds conversations with God. To her, the Christian faith is about people looking after each other and caring ...
