Pie Comics began as a college comic strip way back in the mid ’00s, when flip phones roamed the earth. But after a shoulder injury forced cartoonist John McNamee to simplify his drawing style and improvise comics, Pie Comics evolved into the beloved strip it is today! This third collection from The Onion and the New Yorker contributor features his most absurdly relatable comics on our futile attempts to look “normal,” and why that’s hilarious.

Studying theology at Belgiums Louvain University, then working as a priest in Oklahoma in the 1960s profoundly changed the views of one who grew up Catholic in rural Ireland. Interaction with students from Asian and African cultures while pursuing doctoral studies at Germanys Tubingen University created uncertainty, then a growing realization that Catholicism has no more claim on truth than any world religion, culture, or society. Resigning as a priest exposed the ugly side of the Catholic Ch...

Pie Comics began as a college comic strip way back in the mid '00s, when flip phones roamed the earth. But it wasn't until a shoulder injury forced John to simplify his drawing style and improvise the comics instead of actually sitting down and writing them that Pie Comics became the beloved strip it is today! This collection showcases some of the funniest and most trenchant of Onion writer John McNamee’s online comic strips, found at piecomic.tumblr.com.

Through the lives of a young married couple this volume portrays life in a rural Irish community during the Great Depression and World War II. Despite their poverty people there lived fulfilling lives, sharing the little they had. They believed strongly that wealth was more a hindrance than a help in getting to heaven---ultimately the only thing that mattered to them. In an idyllic setting of rolling hills and thatched cottages they built a life together, though sharing their farm home with a...

The diary of a man trying to live within his religious faith while dealing with the harsh realities of urban America.

This book honors the life and work of the late W. Barnett Pearce, a leading theorist in the communication field. The book is divided into four sections. The first section will lead with an essay by Barnett Pearce. This will be followed by sections on (1) practical theory, (2) dialogue, and (3) social transformation. In the broadest sense, these are probably the three general themes found in the work of Pearce and his colleagues. In another sense, these categories also identify three import...

A collection of poems by an inner-city priest reflecting time spent in Ireland.

The six spheres to pronounce judgment, the six spheres to wield its power, the six spheres to resurrect the demon, and in death . . . rule in darkness... In the fires of the Dark Lands in the midst of war, a prophecy will be born entrusted with an immense task. He must fulfil the prophecy of the gods and become who he was born to be, the one who will bring an end to evil. Deep within the pit of evil a shadow is unleashed from its shackles, and plots to wreck total chaos on Middle Earth, an...

Republished fifty years later to coincide with the release of the Academy Award–nominated film of the same title written and directed by Aaron Sorkin with an all-star cast, this is the classic account of perhaps the most infamous, and definitely the most entertaining, trial in recent American history.In the fall of 1969 eight prominent anti-Vietnam War activists were put on trial for conspiring to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. One of t...