Barbara Franklin: 10 books

Through Another Lens helps readers see prayers and reflections on the Sunday Gospels for liturgical Cycle C through the unique prism of spiritual poetry. Utilizing an innovative way to view sacred Scripture, Through Another Lens draws from classic poems by Denise Levertov, Thomas Merton, John Donne,...

In October of 1968, an eighteen-year-old girl was on her way to work in Watts, California, when she was struck by a Southern Pacific train as she crossed an intersection. After the train dragged her body thirty feet, amputated her right leg, and severed her left thumb, the teenager called out for...

Nine historical romances revive the brief era of the Pony Express. Join the race from Missouri, across the plains and mountains to California and back again as brave Pony Express riders and their supporters along the route work to get mail across country in just ten days. It is an outstanding...

Poetry has both literal and abstract aspects. It has the power to shed new light on old experiences. Through poetry you can enter a prayerful space, a space that renews and empowers. Through Another Lens Year B analyzes and reflects on the Sunday Gospels through spiritual poetry. Barbara Franklin challenges...

In The Mangle of Practice (1995), the renowned sociologist of science Andrew Pickering argued for a reconceptualization of research practice as a “mangle,” an open-ended, evolutionary, and performative interplay of human and non-human agency. While Pickering’s ideas originated in science and...

A collection of twenty-five short stories just in time for Halloween. Enjoy thrills, chills, and mysteries. Meet ghosts, demons, vampires, and monsters everywhere from dark city streets to the English countryside. Scares lurk in the most unexpected places and, when the lights go out, no where is safe and no one will be spared.

A moving portrait of how black Americans have spoken out against injustice—with speeches by Thurgood Marshall, Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, and more. In “full-throated public oratory, the kind that can stir the soul”, this unique anthology collects the transcribed speeches of the...

As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...

Poetry has a power all its own. It casts a potent light that enables you to view the world, and your experiences in it, anew. Through poetry you can enter a sacred space, one of prayer and introspection.

Poetry has a power all its own. It casts a potent light that enables you to view the world, and your experiences in it, anew. Through poetry you can enter a sacred space, one of prayer and introspection. This innovative book offers a collection of reflections on the Year A Sunday Gospels as seen through...