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Charity (name)
Charity is an English feminine given name derived from the English word '' charity''. It was used by the Puritans as a virtue name. An earlier form of the name, Caritas, was an early Christian name in use by Romans. Charity is also the usual English form of the name of Saint Charity, an early Christian child martyr, who was tortured to death with her sisters Faith and Hope. She is known as Agape in Biblical Greek and as Caritas in Church Latin and her name is translated differently in other languages. Faith, Hope and Charity, the three theological virtues, are names traditionally given to triplet girls, just as Faith and Hope remain common names for twin girls. One example were the American triplets Faith, Hope and Charity Cardwell, who were born in 1899 in Texas and were recognized in 1994 by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's longest lived triplets. Charity has never been as popular a name in the United States as Faith Faith is confidence or trust in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charity (virtue)
In Christian theology, charity (Latin: ) is considered one of the seven virtues and was understood by Thomas Aquinas as "the friendship of man for God", which "unites us to God". He holds it as "the most excellent of the cardinal virtue, virtues". Aquinas further holds that "the habit of charity extends not only to the love of God, but also to the love of our neighbor". The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines "charity" as "the theological virtue by which we love God above all things for His own sake, and our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God". : the altruistic love The phrase from 1 John 4:8 ()—or () in the original Greek is translated in the King James Version as: "God is love", and in the Douay-Rheims bible as: "God is charity" (). Thomas Aquinas does not simply equate charity with "Love (religious views)#Christian, love", which he holds as a passion, not a virtue. The King James Version uses both the words ''charity'' and ''love'' to translate the idea of / ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hope (given Name)
Hope is a given name derived from the Middle English ''hope'', ultimately from the Old English word ''hopian'' referring to a positive expectation or to the theological virtue of hope. It was used as a virtue name by the Puritans. Puritans also used Hope as an element in phrase names, such as Hope-for, Hopeful, and Hope-still. The name is also the usual English translation of the Greek name of Saint Hope, an early Christian child martyr who was tortured to death along with her sisters Faith and Charity. She is known as Elpis in Greek and Spes in Church Latin and her name is translated differently in other languages. Faith, Hope and Charity, the three theological virtues, are names traditionally given to triplet girls, just as Faith and Hope remain common names for twin girls. There were 40 sets of twins named Faith and Hope born in the United States in 2009, the second most common name combination for twin girls. One example were the American triplets Faith, Hope and Charity C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charity Elliott
Charity Dawn Elliott (née Shira; born November 11, 1969) is an American basketball coach currently serving as the head women's basketball coach at Point Loma Nazarene University. She was the women's basketball team head coach at Loyola Marymount University from 2012 to 2021. She has previously been the women's head basketball coach at Portland State, UC San Diego, and California Baptist. Playing career After attending Fair Grove High School in Fair Grove, Missouri, Elliott began playing college basketball as a guard at Rice University. As a freshman (1987–88), Elliott averaged 7.1 points and 4.3 rebounds. The following season, she averaged 16.8 points and 5.7 rebounds. In 1989, Elliott transferred to Southwest Missouri State University (now Missouri State). After redshirting a year per NCAA transfer rules, Elliott averaged 7.1 points and 2.5 rebounds in the 1990–91 season. In her senior season in 1991–92, Elliott averaged 8.4 points and 2.3 rebounds and helped Southw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charity Ekezie
Charity Ekezie is a Nigerian TikToker and journalist. Early life and education Ekezie grew up in Douala, Cameroon, where she spent her childhood and completed her primary education. She moved to Nigeria in 2001, at the age of 10. She earned a degree in mass communication from Nnamdi Azikiwe University. Career Ekezie worked at a radio station for three and a half years. She also had a few online businesses, which have been inactive since 2020. She joined TikTok in 2020 due to boredom caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Her first video to go viral involved her wearing traditional outfits from several African countries. When she began receiving ignorant comments on the video, she decided to respond to them sarcastically. Since then, Ekezie's content has largely focused on sarcastically correcting misconceptions of Africa. One video has Ekezie telling viewers that Africans drink saliva due to lack of water, while holding a bottle of water; another video has her telling viewers t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charity Daw
Charity Daw is a Cuban-American singer and songwriter based in Los Angeles. She has written RIAA certified songs for Disney's chart-topping Descendants Franchise that includes a No. 1 on Billboard 200, as well as Dove Cameron, Jordin Sparks, Ally Brooke (Fifth Harmony), LOL Surprise, Mattel's American Girl, Jordan Fisher, Bella Thorne, We The Kings, Porsha Williams & Melissa Gorga of The Real Housewives franchise, and Andrew Dice Clay's Showtime Series DICE. Songs she has written have been performed on The Grand Ole Opry, Dancing with the Stars, Dancing with the Stars: Juniors, Good Morning America, The Today Show and The Radio Disney Music Awards As a performer she has appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Today Show, NBC's ''Christmas in Rockefeller Center'', Good Day L.A., and Hallmark's Home and Family. Charity also contributed the song 'La Rubia' to the Ubisoft video game, Far Cry 6 Soundtrack. Early life Charity studied fine art and music at Miami, Florida's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charity Rusk Craig
Charity may refer to: Common meanings * Charitable organization or charity, a non-profit organization whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being of persons * Charity (practice), the practice of being benevolent, giving and sharing * Charity (Christian virtue), the Christian religious concept of unlimited love and kindness Places * Charity, Guyana, a small township * Charity, Missouri, a community in the United States * Mount Charity, Antarctica * Charity Glacier, Livingston Island, Antarctica * Charity Island (Tasmania), Australia * Charity Creek, Sydney, Australia * Charity Lake, British Columbia, Canada * Charity Island (Michigan), United States Arts and entertainment * ''Charity'' (play), an 1874 play by W. S. Gilbert * ''Charity'' (novel), third in the ''Faith, Hope, Charity'' espionage trilogy of novels by Len Deighton * "Charity" (song), a 1995 single by Skunk Anansie * "Charity" (Courtney Barnett song) * "Charity", a 1912 Cole Porter song - see ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charity Wright Cook
Charity Wright Cook (1745–1822) was an American Quaker minister. Cook was born in Prince George's County, Maryland, but moved with her family to the area of Cane Creek, North Carolina, at the age of three; they moved again, probably in 1760, to Bush River, Newberry County, South Carolina. There she met Isaac Cook, a Quaker, whom she would go on to marry. In 1760 an accusation of sexual impropriety was levied against her, and as a result she was estranged from the Quaker community for eight years. Even so, in 1762 she married Isaac Cook, with whom she would go on to have 11 children. By 1772, the controversy having abated, the Bush River Quaker Meeting commissioned her as a preacher. During the American Revolutionary War Cook traveled around the Southern United States preaching adherence to pacifism. In 1797 she traveled to Europe to tour Quaker meetings there; she returned to the United States in 1802, whereupon she and Isaac established new meetings in Ohio and Indiana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charity Clark
Charity Rae Clark (born July 15, 1975) is an American lawyer and politician from Vermont. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, she has served as Vermont Attorney General since January 2023. Early life and career Charity Rae Clark was born in Springfield, Vermont on July 15, 1975. She was raised in Manchester, Vermont and resides in Williston, Vermont. She is a descendant of Thomas Chittenden, the first governor of Vermont. Her father, Marshall Clark, owned a supermarket in Londonderry, Vermont. Her mother, Melody MacGinnis Reed, was executive director of the non-profit arts organization Gallery at the VAULT in Springfield, Vermont, Springfield. Clark graduated from Burr and Burton Academy, Burr and Burton Seminary in 1993. Her siblings include a twin sister, Chelsea. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Vermont in 1997 and served as a policy analyst in the administration of Governor Howard Dean. She then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charity Kathambi Chepkwony
Charity Kathambi Chepkwony is a Kenyan politician. She is the member of parliament for Njoro Constituency. Early years and education Chepkwony was born and brought up in Kangeta village of Meru county. She had her primary education at Kaongo ka Mau Primary School and her secondary education at Mukinduri Girls High School. She furthered at Jomo Kenyata University of Agriculture and Technology where she graduated with a certificate in County Governance. In 2004, she completed the University of Nairobi The University of Nairobi (uonbi or UoN; ) is a college, collegiate research university based in Nairobi and is the largest List of universities and colleges in Kenya, university in Kenya. Although its history as an educational institution dat ... with a diploma in Sales and Marketing. She also attended Kenya Methodist University and Mt Kenya University where she acquired a bachelor's degree in Business Administration and a master's degree in Development Studies respectiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charity Bryant
Charity Bryant (May 22, 1777 – October 6, 1851) was an American business owner and writer. She was a diarist and wrote acrostic poetry. Because there is extensive documentation for the shared lives of Bryant and her partner Sylvia Drake, their diaries, letters and business papers have become an important part of the archive in documenting the history of same-sex couples. Biography Charity Bryant was born on May 22, 1777, in North Bridgewater, Massachusetts to Silence (née Howard) and Phillip Bryant. Her mother died of consumption shortly after her birth. Charity did not know much about her mother, though she wrote many intimate poems of their relationship. The first poem she wrote about her mother, she used words like “tender”, used from her sister’s own point of view. An excerpt from this poem is as follows: ... And say, was I wrong for to dream That fortune upon me would shine? When friends to me smiling did seem And the tend'rest of Mothers was mine...She was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charity Brown
Charity Brown (born Phyllis Boltz in Kitchener, Ontario) is a Canadian film actress, singer, and voice artist for television animation shorts. She is one of Eastwood Collegiate Institute's notable alumni. Biography Charity Brown began singing with local bands while still in high school in Kitchener, Ontario in the late 1960s. She performed and recorded under the name Phyllis Brown until 1973. Around 1970 she became the lead vocalist for Rain, a popular Kitchener-based rock band. Rain scored a #22 hit in Canada in 1971 with "Out of My Mind", written by Greg Hambleton and released on Axe Records. She left Rain in 1973 to focus on her solo career. Her Motown-flavoured brand of white soul was produced by Harry Hinde and was strong enough to secure her a contract with A&M Records. It was at this time she changed her stage name to Charity Brown. Her two original studio albums with A&M produced four top ten hits in Canada, including the #5 hit " Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me a Little ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charity Bick
Charity Anne Bick (19 December 1924 – 22 April 2002) was a British civilian dispatch rider during the Second World War, and the youngest ever recipient of the George Medal, the United Kingdom's second-highest award for civilian bravery. She later served in the Women's Royal Air Force. Biography Charity Anne Bick was born on 19 December 1924 and educated at Lyng Primary School in Horton Street, Lyng, West Bromwich. At the age of 14, while living in Maud Road, West Bromwich she lied about her age, claiming to be 16, to join the Air Raid Precautions (ARP) service in that town. She volunteered at the office of a brick works near her home, delivering messages between ARP depots, by bicycle. Her father was an ARP post warden. During a 1940 air raid on West Bromwich, she helped her father to put out an incendiary bomb that had lodged in the roof of a shop. When the roof gave way, she fell through and suffered minor injuries. Nonetheless, she then used a borrowed bicycle and mad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
