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From the creative force behind the Cockeyed Caravan, the busy online resource for writers, comes a revolutionary and comprehensive writing guide for the 21st Century.

Lively, well-informed portrait of the complex figure who was the apostle Paul Though Paul is often lauded as the first great Christian theologian and a champion for Gentile inclusion in the church, in his own time he was universally regarded as a strange and controversial person. In this book Pauline scholar Michael Bird explains why. An Anomalous Jew presents the figure of Paul in all his complexity with his blend of common and controversial ...

Presents a history of world art from cave paintings to present day through seventy tales about artists and the way they created their work.

This book offers a novel, more efficient, and mutually beneficial approach to attracting, training, and working with short-term staff in ways that benefit all involved: the organization, the short-term staff, and library personnel in general.After recent cutbacks in funding, many libraries now suffer permanent gaps in their staffing¿gaps that have necessarily been filled by temporary staff and volunteers in order to complete essential work. Un...

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Michael F. Bird contends that the center, unity, and boundary of the evangelical faith is the evangel (= gospel), as opposed to doctrines like justification by faith or inerrancy. This text presents an authentically evangelical theology as the drama of gospelizing---performing and living out the gospel in the theatre of Christian life.

Argues that Jesus was attempting to achieve and enact the restoration of Israel, and in continuity with other strands of Jewish belief, Jesus conceived of the restoration of Israel as resulting in the salvation of the gentiles.

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This book shows that Jesus saw himself as the messiah anticipated in the Jewish scriptures and believed that the restoration of Israel hinged on the outcome of his ministry.

Michael F. Bird suggests that if the Paul we claim to know looks and sounds a lot like us, it's probably a sign that we don't know him as well as we think. In this book Bird offers an animated and penetrating survey of Paul's life and teaching, including the principal issues and themes in Paul's theology.

Bird demonstrates how music connects people with family and friends and the world of the spirit, comforts during times of loss, and strengthens and unites during times of protest.

Description: Michael Bird's commentary on Colossians and Philemon in the New Covenant Commentary Series pays close attention to the socio-historical context, the flow and dynamics of the text, their argumentative strategy, theological message, and the meaning of Colossians and Philemon for the contemporary church today. Bird situates Colossians in the context of Paul's Ephesian ministry and describes how Paul attempts to persuade a congregatio...

`Currant Bread`, a boyhood evacuee memoir. 1939. This is the story of a 7 year old boy, who was evacuated in 1939 to live with total strangers, in a small village in rural Staffordshire, England, near the small country town of Uttoxeter. Sadly, his lot was not to be a happy one. But it is told with an ironic sense of humour too. A sense of humour that was actually fashioned by his trials and tribulations of this traumatic experience. So travel...