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We are welcoming congregations. We say so on our church buildings, on our banners, in our sermons, and on our websites but does that message really ring true for visitors and newcomers to our faith and our worship services? Sometimes the building and the things and people inside that building can send a different message. What happens to a guest after they step inside is as important to the practice of hospitality as is the initial welcome. To...

Ten easy to produce and perform plays designed to be used as part of intergenerational worship services which bring to life important lessons about being together in community.

A collection of original prayers, chants, litanies, mantras, and affirmations that can be helpful and useful to people of any kind of personal or group spiritual practice.

Characters search for a conflict, upset audience members disrupt the show, a spy mission goes wrong, cowboys try but can't do a simple shootout correctly, and a considerate and mannerly thief asks permission before he robs people. These are some of the situations found in this collection of ten-minute plays. Here are delightful theatrical nuggets that range from the comical to the serious. Each one is designed to be produced with just a few ac...

Comedy is how we cope with the absurdity of life. The person who cannot step back and see how ludicrous are most of the things we encounter in life is the person who gets mired and engulfed in them. Comedy lets us step back and see the whole picture. It reminds us of what is really important which certainly includes laughing and laughing often.These four comedies each take on several situations but exaggerate them until they become enlarged an...

The important questions of life can haunt us-especially if we try to avoid them-but working to answer them provides richness and meaning in our lives. It is possible to live a life with purpose, a life aligned with nature and all living beings, a life that benefits ourselves and those we love, and it is possible to do all these things regardless of spiritual tradition or practice. Religion, relationships, information, and insights are all tool...

Turn off the virtual and return to the actual. In a world of virtual reality, virtual friends, and digital anonymity, there are still those who enjoy playing real games with real people. No matter how complex a video game may be there is no substitute for face-to-face interaction with friends around a table full of fun and playful game elements. And there is nothing more iconic to tabletop games than dice: plain dice, colorful dice, tiny dice ...

There are a lot of games that use a few dice but few games that use a lot of dice. Grabbing a big handful of dice and throwing them on a table, however, is a great deal of fun and the games in this book let you do just that. You can buy a set of forty dice at most game and toy stores and now you can use those forty brightly colored cubes to play a great many fun and engaging games together. This book and a few inexpensive items are all you nee...

Rounds and canons are imitative forms of music that are easy for singing groups to learn because there is mostly only one line of music to be learned. They are fun to perform and to hear because they form both melody and harmony with just a small amount of material. This book contains over fifty musical rounds and canons. Some have been adapted from public domain works of other composers while others are original works. All of the pieces have ...

What if the world was filled with ministers?people who cared about the well-being and wholeness of others? To minister is to attend to the needs of others and there are many great people who have committed their lives to that mission but not everyone is able to dedicate themselves to becoming a professional minister. Some choose to help others as a lay minister or non-professional caregiver. This text serves as a guide for training and support...

Stagehands argue about their relationship between acts, a mountain climber struggles to rise above the summit of public opinion, the man once sent to kill a princess finds her working at a diner, retired superheroes lament their new life, and a villain threatens to blow up the world if he can get the Henchman Union to end contract negotiations. These are some of the situations found in this second collection of ten-minute plays. Each one is de...

A Theory For All Music describes ways to more deeply understand the music of all cultures and traditions through the study and use of musical parameters. Book Four applies the tools developed in all three previous books and uses them to make a complete analysis of music from different historical periods as well as from contemporary music and music from other cultures.

A brilliant but erratic engineer is nearly torn to pieces by sabotaged drilling equipment. A simple act of defiance against the oppressive Conglomerate becomes a call to revolution. Families are torn apart and sent to prison work camps by a paranoid governmental leader. These are the challenges facing the people of the once idyllic but now devastated planet of Pa'Kevutu. The crew of the first explorer sunship, the Constantia, are sent on a con...

New ways to look at those old playing cards including symbolic representations, insights into tough problems, and even a few new games.

Erut s a simple farmer who finds himself forced into the military by the power-hungry Kevutians bent on controlling all the asteroids of a region known as the Milleran Cluster. Ony'a, grand-daughter of Zoe and a Myshkan with some connection to the Sifuti, uses her abilities to determine that Erut is telling the truth when he says the only thing of interest to him is going home to his farm. Together the two of them must learn to trust and help ...

A Theory For All Music describes ways to more deeply understand the music of all cultures and traditions through the study and use of musical parameters. Book Three develops an understanding of the parameters of music and how to use them in a detailed analysis of music.

A Theory For All Music describes ways to more deeply understand the music of all cultures and traditions through the study and use of musical parameters. Book Two expands upon the concepts learned in Book One leading to the creation of traditional four-part writing.

A Theory For All Music describes ways to more deeply understand the music of all cultures and traditions through the use of musical parameters. Book One covers the fundamentals of music notation.

Somewhere in your house tucked away in some dark dusty drawer you probably have a deck of standard playing cards. You may have used them to play Poker or Bridge and thought that was all they were good for but that is true no longer. In this book are the directions and rules for more than 52 new and original card games. Why spend loads of money on specially printed card sets that are designed for only one game when you can use those old cards t...

Awri was a well-respected investigator who lived and worked in the big city of Yakrutich until the day he disappeared. Now his former partner, Chief Detective Exi, is searching for him. In partnership with her former nemesis, Kim, the two detectives follow the trail of a man who transforms himself into the harbinger of a rebellious philosophy that will one day influence the lives of the people of all the worlds of the Milleran Cluster.