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Created For God's Mission, is a prophetic call for the church to return to the mission going constitution of Christianity. Local churches must re-image faith and ministry in order to reach an age vastly different than the world of our forebears in the faith. The times have changed, but the Great Commission remains the same. The weakened condition among many local churches stems from a failure to understand and incarnate its basic God-given mis...

Created For God's Mission, is a prophetic call for the church to return to the mission going constitution of Christianity. Local churches must re-image faith and ministry in order to reach an age vastly different than the world of our forebears in the faith. The times have changed, but the Great Commission remains the same. The weakened condition among many local churches stems from a failure to understand and incarnate its basic God-given mis...

The Broken Mask is a novel of time and torment, from the Great Depression to the computer revolution. An epic drama that illustrates the agony that each life depicted must endure and how each does, or does not, overcome their personal successes and tragedies. The scope of the saga sweeps across the country allowing the reader an opportunity to vividly imagine the beautiful grandeur. The Broken Mask tells about families and relationships-about ...

The Broken Mask is a novel of time and torment, from the Great Depression to the computer revolution. An epic drama that illustrates the agony that each life depicted must endure and how each does, or does not, overcome their personal successes and tragedies. The scope of the saga sweeps across the country allowing the reader an opportunity to vividly imagine the beautiful grandeur. The Broken Mask tells about families and relationships-about ...

Writing about the past helps to explain why I am discontent and continuously angry. I am reminded that America is a society dominated by religious fundamentalism and racism. After a time, I rejected the White American world and went to Asia, seeking another basis for my identity. My identity is still in question. I cannot become an Asian and although I was born in this country, I am not accepted as an American citizen. As my birth certificate ...

Luise M. Prechtel was born in Bayreuth, Germany, on March 13, 1930. Her biography Luise from Bayreuth relates her memories-from growing up in Nazi Germany and meeting an American soldier, to family life in Waltham, Massachusetts, and her epic struggle against a progressive form of multiple sclerosis. Luise's adolescent years were filled with vivid recollections of life in Germany, including treasured moments from a traditional German Christmas...

Archibald Sinclair Cholmondeley (pronounced Chumley) is an ill educated, but picaresque, street-wise youth, who sees himself as a composite character of his boyhood heroes-Robin Hood and The Saint. Archie is an opportunist, who never passes up a chance to supplement his income. But despite his dubious schemes to provide the few pleasures available to a financially deprived young person, living through years of war and austerity, he lives by a ...

A retired U.S. Navy captain becomes an inadvertent witness to the hasty hiding of a cache of drug cartel money by felons being pursued by the police in Los Angeles. The captain is a recent widower who has just lost his retirement job with a defense contractor and is, at the moment, without purpose and motivation. As a consequence, he makes an impulsive decision to keep the money, and goes on the run. The drug cartel is searching for him and ar...

Although Steve 'Monk" Williams has lived through the best and worst of times, his unbreakable spirit and quick wit have touched everyone who has known him. He traveled around the world and met numerous friends as a skier and coach for the U.S. Ski Team. In the process he earned two Ivy League diplomas. Then came hardships and tragedy, one piled on top of another. He was fired as coach. Soon after, Monk was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, an...

Parent To Child-The Guide offers parents a unique opportunity to share what they want and need their children to know in case they are unable to do so for a variety of reasons including separation, terminal illness, natural disaster, divorce, and/or catastrophic events. Every parent knows the importance of providing an economic safety net for their children in the event of the parent's untimely passing. Unfortunately, few parents consider prov...

Breath of God is an invaluable resource for anyone who has suffered a bereavement, especially of a spouse or a life partner. Author, Gillian Leggat, is a prolific writer of children's books and has been published by a range of educational publishers. In Breath of God, she takes the reader on a painful, but nevertheless inspiring journey. By means of anecdotes, diary entries and biblical and hymnal quotations, she guides the reader through the ...

Underground Voices is a collection of thirty-three short stories fueled by noir, grit, alcoholism, mental illnesses, psychiatric sessions, torments, journals, confessions, and purging.

Kristy Petersen's transition from compassionate nurse to mercy killer is insidious. She suffers burn-out as a critical care nurse. What finally pushes her over the top isn't one individual thing, but a compilation of family, romantic and work stressors. Add to the mix her growing concern for the habits of modern medicine in keeping alive elderly people and others with terminal illnesses. When a patient dies accidentally through omitting medica...

The Man-with-the-Ass-Hand. A mysterious phone call from a Capote-like Milquetoast about a toe trapped in a bath tub. An encounter between future President John Adams and the discoverer of Uranus - or so he thought. Rampaging Cossacks wreaking havoc in Toledo, Ohio. An intimate eye-witness report of O. Henry's honeymoon night. The Mafia and the magic mozzarella mystique. Death and dying in the hospital: An homage to Alfred Hitchcock. These are ...

This collection of reviews, selected from Rollyson's New York Sun column, is as much about the romance of biography as it is about the American lives. Certain concerns resonate throughout the book: the American left's failure to reckon with Communist subversion, McCarthyism, and Stalinism, the problematic nature of authorized biography, the history of American biography, definitive biographies, literary biography, the differences between autob...

Here's how to open your own genealogy, family history journalism, or personal history business. This includes a genealogy course template and instruction on how to start and operate a home-based business working with personal and oral histories, genealogy, family history, and life story writing. You also learn how to interview people, what questions to ask, and how to put together a business and/or a course or book on any aspect of genealogy a...

Writing about the past helps to explain why I am discontent and continuously angry. I am reminded that America is a society dominated by religious fundamentalism and racism. After a time, I rejected the White American world and went to Asia, seeking another basis for my identity. My identity is still in question. I cannot become an Asian and although I was born in this country, I am not accepted as an American citizen. As my birth certificate ...

Can The Planet Earth Be Saved From Catastrophic Flooding? Antarctic Collapse In early 2027 the nightmare scenario is looming-the imminent collapse of the polar ice caps. Mother Earth is in peril. Human habitation, along all the coastlines of all the continents, is threatened with total submersion by the sea. Mass extinctions are beginning and a vast climatological shift will devastate global food production. The United Nations assembles a team...

Lucifer, a benevolent devil if ever there was one, wishes to save an increasingly despoiled Earth. But how will he deal with the planet's most rapacious vermin-namely human(un)kind-who are beginning to encroach upon the sacred precincts of Hell? Lucifer assigns his son Loki, the quintessential trickster, to a top secret mission: to live among the Americans, observe their ways, infiltrate their culture, and get to know them more thoroughly than...

The Great American Scapegoat is the first book-length collection of poems from Bloomington-based performance poet Tony Brewer. In it, he lays out his singular poetic vision of growing up, growing apart, and growing older amid the landscape - both real and intangible - of these United States. A sharp, eclectic, personal reflection, The Great American Scapegoat evokes the desire to hold on to innocence while learning to live with hard realities.