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A poet writes stories based on mythic themes with fantasy elements.

MEASURE FOR MEASURE

For those who are struggling with their faith, this book features stories of Christians in other countries who died for Jesus.

With "Living the Life God Has Planned", Thrasher delivers a basic guide to the purpose and process of seeking God first, and then discerning His will for believers' lives. His balance of real-life illustrations, coupled with clearly articulated theology, makes this book accessible and interesting to a broad range of readers.

Explains how to delay, prevent, and treat virtually every complication of aging, including cancer, heart disease, impotence, eyesight problems, osteoarthritis, deafness, stroke, prostate enlargement, and Alzheimer's. Reprint.

Deals with love in its many forms, such as romantic, family, community and church, and God.

In praise of diversity, Jessie Grearson and Lauren Smith offer Love in a Global Village: A Celebration of Intercultural Families in the Midwest, an account of the triumphs of fifteen intercultural families and the perseverance of their relationships in midwestern America.Love in a Global Village presents love stories in which couples recount their courtships, their adventures and difficulties, and their individual choices to build lives togeth...

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This volume offers a new perspective on communication between generations, and is appropriate for scholars and students in communication, family studies, developmental psychology, and related disciplines.

This long-standing series provides the guild of religion scholars a venue for publishing aimed primarily at colleagues. It includes scholarly monographs, revised dissertations, Festschriften, conference papers, and translations of ancient and medieval documents. Works cover the sub-disciplines of biblical studies, history of Christianity, history of religion, theology, and ethics. Festschriften for Karl Barth, Donald W. Dayton, James Luther Ma...

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William Barclay devotes two chapters to each of the seven churches addressed in the book of Revelation. One chapter characterizes the ancient city and the other comments on John's message to the members of that community. This reissue of an older Westminster Press title makes a welcome addition to the highly popular William Barclay Library series.The William Barclay Library is a collection of books addressing the great issues of the Christian ...

Who was Jesus? What did he do during his lifetime? What effect has he had on history - on literature, music and art? What do people nowadays think about Jesus? The answers to questions like these are provided in this compendium of facts, articles, stories and more. It is not merely a work of reference but can be read from beginning to end, providing the reader with information about Jesus Christ and his legacy without being preachy or dogmatic.

James Martin started his career the same way a lot of aspiring painters do -- by imitating other artists. During the 1950s and 60s, he nabbed imagery and mannerisms from Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, van Gogh, Picasso, Chagall, and Calder. But the real source of Martin's mature style isn't buried in the mysticism of the Northwest School or the avant garde trends of European Modernism: it traces back to his days at Ballard High School during the 1...

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This collection of essays, which originally appeared as a book in 1962, is virtually the complete works of an editor of "Commentary" magazine who died, at age 37, in 1955. Long before the rise of Cultural Studies as an academic pursuit, in the pages of the best literary magazines of the day, Robert Warshow wrote analyses of the folklore of modern life that were as sensitive and penetrating as the writings of James Agee, George Orwell, and Walt...

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Richard Cecil's classic biography of Newton is considered to be his 'authorized' biography as he both knew Newton well and allowed him to see most of the manuscript before publication. Marylynn Rouse has used the intervening years, and the wealth of information since made public, well by adding many other details and contemporary happenings to Newton's life story. Some aspects of Newton's life are well-known: his involvement in the slave trade...

Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, schooner trade was a well-developed system of maritime transport for commodities such as grain, lumber, and iron. The schooner trade was as critical to the development of the Great Lakes region as covered wagons were to the Far West and paddle wheel steamers were to the South. Schooners sailed the Great Lakes in large numbers and played a formative role in the shaping of pioneer life thr...