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by Daniel Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Jon Mote--grad school dropout and serial failure--has been hired to investigate the murder of his erstwhile mentor, Richard Pratt, a star in the firmament of literary theory. Feeling unJon Mote--grad school dropout and serial failure--has been hired to investigate the murder of his erstwhile mentor,...
Post-Christendom
Church and Mission in a Strange New World. Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Western societies are experiencing a series of disorientating culture shifts. Uncertain where we are heading, observers use "post" words to signal that familiar landmarks are disappearing, but we cannot yet discern the shape of what is emerging. One of the most significant shifts, "post-Christendom,"...
by John W. de Gruchy
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
"If my life and experience is of some interest, it is chiefly so because I have lived through interesting times, in an interesting country, traveled to many interesting places, and been accompanied along the way by interesting folk." John de Gruchy is a renowned South African theologian...
by Richard Stoll Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Dick Armstrong was thoroughly committed to his promising future as a major league baseball front-office executive until something happened that completely changed his life and steered him in a totally new direction. In A Sense of Being Called, Armstrong tells the story of what he calls his Damascus...
by David Craig
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Though we are all sorry sinners, not worthy to sing God's praises, we must. The trick is to not let concerns for "Christian stealth" transform us into poets who end up serving a second master. "Platform" has its draw, but we can't let a wide concern for Catholic culture become...
The Negro Church
With an Introduction by Alton B. Pollard III
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
W. E. B. Du Bois was editor and principal author of The Negro Church, first published in 1903. A groundbreaking study, this volume is the first in-depth treatment of African-American religious life. It is the first sociological book on religion in the United States. It is the first empirical study...
America Moved
Booth Tarkington’s Memoirs of Time and Place, 1869–1928
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
America Moved: Booth Tarkington's Memoirs of Time and Place, 1869-1928 brings together for the first time all of the autobiographical writings of Booth Tarkington, one of the most successful and best-loved writers in American history. These are the memoirs of one of America's greatest literary figures--and...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
The connections between religion and violence are complex and multifaceted. From the conflicts in Middle East and the Balkans to those in Southeast Asia and beyond, religion frames and legitimates political violence. Moreover, in international relations since 9/11, religious language and metaphors...
When I Go
Selected French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Rilke's French poetry appears here for the first time in readable, musical versions. Largely unknown and rarely collected, these poems were written during the euphoria Rilke felt after having completed his greatest German works, the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus. At the same time, Rilke...
by Walter Wangerin
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
The Absolute, Relatively Inaccessible is a volume of poems divided into three parts. The three parts are bound together by a brace of persistent and developing themes, as well as by the repetition (and the development) of language, metaphor, and imagery. Part 1 presents various characters (mostly...
Less is More
A Collection of Ten-Minute Plays
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Less is More is a collection of eight ten-minute plays. These tiny dramas speak to the necessity to say what is essential in a small number of words. As Shakespeare said, "Brevity is the soul of wit." The first play, "The Dissolution Mask," is by the well-known playwright Nancy...
No Word for the Sea
A Professor and His Wife Face Alzheimer’s
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
No Word for the Sea is built on several layers of questioning: What is language? What is memory? Where does the mind go when the circuits shut down? The novel covers seven years in the lives of Solome and Stephen Savard in St. Paul, Minnesota. Stephen is provost at Cobson College, and Solome has raised...
Mary Queen of Bees
Mary [Molly] Wesley Whitelamb [1696–1734] Sister of John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, Epworth, England
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Crippled in childhood, Mary Wesley, sister of John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, speaks of the Wesley household in first-person narrative built on the facts of her life. Mary lived in a strict Christian family, one of 19 children, 10 of whom survived. Her mother, Susanna Wesley, imposed...
The Collector of Bodies
Concern for Syria and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
A 1994 trip to Syria and Jordan as an Arts America Speaker for the United States Information Agency began the group of poems for The Collector of Bodies. The manuscript stayed in a file until the Civil War began in Syria, March 18, 2011, the author's 70th birthday. The poems were retrieved, and the...