Coker: 115 books

Are you suffering from one or any of the following negative thoughts in your mind? Depression, worry, anxiety, fear, confusion, anger, and feelings of condemnation, I want you to know that having negative thoughts can only bring you pain, something that I've experienced many times throughout my life...

Wars throughout history have been fought in the name of ideology, religion and the pursuit of peace. Our thinking about war – when it is justified, how it should be fought and how it is perceived – has changed dramatically over time. Whereas in the past war has been seen as a battle of wills,...

The trucker who’d hit a Wrong Way sign lay hunched over the wheels of his semi—with his brains blown to bits, a revolver in his hand. Leo Jurczewsky had long talked of killing himself. So when Sheriff Karen Mehaffey and Detective Marek Okerlund are called to the Reunion, South Dakota, exit ramp...

Nature's red in tooth and claw... After an election recount, Karen Mehaffey's triumphant return as the sheriff of Eda County, South Dakota, is marred by the murder of her opponent, Bob "Baby" Bunting. His desecrated body is found in a local park where tensions simmer between park...

Are you a woman? And you are unhappy in your marriage And you are frustrated by your husband behavior And you feel you just want to be alone in your marriage And there are things you don’t understand about your man that drives a wedge between the two of you? And you always snore when...

God be merciful to us and bless us, and cause your face to shine upon us, that your way may be known on earth, and your salvation among all nations. Let the peoples praise You, O God; Let all the peoples praise you. Oh, let the nations be glad and sing for joy! For you shall judge the people righteously,...

James confronts the exploitive wealthy; it also opposes Pauline hybridity. K. Jason Coker argues that postcolonial perspectives allow us to understand how these themes converge in the letter. James opposes the exploitation of the Roman Empire and a peculiar Pauline form of hybridity that compromises...

Spirit of delayed and detained blessings is a terrible spirit. Anyone afflicted will not be able to achieve anything in life. They are always on the last line to achieving anything, the last to get married, and the last to be promoted, the last to gain admission to universities or college, the last...

It's not just the sun's rays beaming down... After losing a brutal election, Sheriff Karen Mehaffey and her uncle, Detective Marek Okerlund, are headed from South Dakota to New Mexico for a long delayed vacation and job hunt. Marek hopes to reunite with his old homicide partner in...

The ties that bind—can kill. All’s quiet in Reunion, South Dakota, until word comes via horse and buggy: a killer is loose in the peaceful German Anabaptist community of Eder. Outsiders call them the Mock Brethren, who only wish to be left alone. Sheriff Karen Mehaffey wants to...

If it bleeds, it leads. Poised to win her first contested election in Eda County, South Dakota, Sheriff Karen Mehaffey is broadsided by bad news. Not only does a hooligan deface a turbine in the county’s new wind farm, but Alyson Linderman, daughter of a Twin Cities media mogul,...

This isn't your mother's Little House on the Prairie... Detective Marek Okerlund unknowingly passes by a dying man in a Dakota blizzard—and gets what he changed jobs to avoid: a homicide. Acting Sheriff Karen Mehaffey asks for a part-time detective to teach her the ropes and loses what she...

It all comes to a head... In a quiet roadside ditch in Eda County, South Dakota, prairie roses have sprung up along with constructions cones—and a fractured old skull. Settling into her first year as elected sheriff, Karen Okerlund Mehaffey wants nothing more than a quiet little murder...

Refuge—Inner, Outer and Innermost. Refuge is necessary at times and it is rare that we experience it alone. We often share refuge with seen and sometimes unseen companions. The following stories touch this theme directly and indirectly. They are an amalgam of experience and observations—mine and...