Mark Spencer: 25 books

Though biblical scholars have searched for centuries, little is known about the childhood of Jesus. Fortunately, this incomplete picture gives Spencer Smith and Mark Penta ample room for their entertaining and highly imaginative cartoon book Young Jesus Chronicles.With a tongue-in-cheek premise...

Mark Spencer explores the nature of consciousness and spirituality from the point of view of an ocean diver who experiences both the silent realms of the ocean in diving and the silent realms of his own awareness through the practice of meditation.  Ocean and diving themes provide metaphors...

Investigations of skeletal remains from key archaeological sites reveal new data and offer insights on prehistoric life and health in the Southeast. The shift from foraging to farming had important health consequences for prehistoric peoples, but variations in health existed within communities...

“Enlightening, thought provoking and honest, a bit like the North itself” — Kate Bottley (the “Gogglebox Vicar”) Foreword by John Sentamu, Archbishop of York A must-have book for anyone seeking to understand the challenges of proclaiming the Gospel in the North of England. From...

In 1978, Mark and Karen sat on a sunny hillside in Humboldt County, California dreaming of all the wondrous places in the world they wanted to see. This story tells of their travels, travails, adventures and misadventures over the course of the 18 months that they wandered the world and lived those dreams.

This volume provides a new and nuanced appreciation of David Hume as a historian. Gone for good are the days when one can offhandedly assert, as R. G. Collingwood once did, that Hume “deserted philosophical studies in favour of historical” ones. History and philosophy are commensurate in Hume’s...

Maclay School's Journal of Creative Writing On our title: We take the title of this journal from a novella of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The novella is an existential piece, written before Dostoyevsky's greatest works and before Existentialism had really taken root in literature....

Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. William F. Tate IV, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts &...

Rock climbing can be a difficult, dangerous sport. But it doesn’t have to be. Enter Knack Rock Climbing. An ideal primer for anyone who wants to climb—whether in a gym or outside, on the rocks—it presents the essentials as never before. Full-color, step-by-step photos and succinct instructions...

Surely God Will Do Me Good will offer you a new paradigm into the goodness and blessing of the LORD. The goodness of Gods character has yet to be plumbed and we have only begun to scratch the surface of that Goodness. Surely God Will Do Me Good is a collection of articles written with the intention...

A Portrait of Intercession is a collection of articles, often prophetic in nature dealing with various aspects of intercession. Each chapter will at once challenge the believer to go not only the first mile with Jesus, but willingly and joyfully press on in true and vital fashion, overcoming faith...