Sean wanted to feel weightless. Lose the echo of his voice. Climbing up on my rooftop and stretching our hands out in the night trying to catch a beam of moonlight, it wasn’t enough anymore.

"Strangers opening their hearts on the phone makes me feel my life’s not all wasted.They tell me about their lives. Their broken marriages. They tell me about their parents kicking them out. Their own children they aren’t allowed to see. They tell me they went by the platform and they were a train whistle away from taking one more step. "

"Sometimes you miss a call for a new money-saving phone plan. A call about that tax return you forgot to send. You miss a call from your daughter. Those unread messages you don’t open anymore. Voicemails piling up you don’t listen to but you’re too afraid to delete."

How are we to read the Gospels and bring them into our lives? The idea of this book is that the Gospels are not merely rules for life, or stories illustrating moral lessons, or statements of theological doctrine, but invitations to thought and conversation. The Gospels are full of problems, uncertainties, and tensions; these difficulties call upon us to engage with the Gospels in a new way: to read them, to ask questions about them, to live with them, alone and together. The way we do that...

John Fraser lived with his mother and father in the backwoods of North Carolina.Squire Fraser, a strict but kind Scotsman, was determined that his son should have a gentleman’s education, and so he sent John to the coastal town of Edenton to be tutored by Dr. Clapton, an English clergyman.While there, John made many friends. Sir Nat Dukinfield, a young rake, Captain Tennant, the Collector of the Port at Edenton and Eve, his daughter.Captain Flood, a riverboat skippe...

Through fresh readings of texts ranging from Homer's Iliad, Swift's Tale of a Tub, and Austen's Emma through the United States Constitution and McCulloch v. Maryland, James Boyd White examines the relationship between an individual mind and its language and culture as well as the "textual community" established between writer and audience. These striking textual analyses develop a rhetoric—a "way of reading" that can be brought to any text but that, in b...

This book explores the large scale correction to balance the continuous removal of forests. This plan accomplishes for humanity a way to recoup lost fresh water to aquifer systems. All is needed is the desire to do what is right and cooperation to begin the work. This pathway satisfies future requirements that meet a balanced nature interactions on very large scales required to cause a balanced response from nature.

This book explores humanities struggles to find excellent forward paths which define realities for all generations to participate. For instance, energy of today we are calling for solar and wind to replace fossil fuels. This does not meet the requirements of future needs; however, water power plants can meet this in a much shorter time to construct, and less space required to generate huge amounts of energy for cities the size of New York. Imagine 1giggawatt in the size of a football field...

St. Augustine’s Confessions is heralded as a classic of Western culture. Yet when James Boyd White first tried to read it in translation, it seemed utterly dull. Its ideas struck him as platitudinous and its prose felt drab. It was only when he started to read the text in Latin that he began to see the originality and depth of Augustine’s work.In Let in the Light, White invites readers to join him in a close and engaged encounter with the Confessions in w...

St. Augustine’s Confessions is heralded as a classic of Western culture. Yet when James Boyd White first tried to read it in translation, it seemed utterly dull. Its ideas struck him as platitudinous and its prose felt drab. It was only when he started to read the text in Latin that he began to see the originality and depth of Augustine’s work.In Let in the Light, White invites readers to join him in a close and engaged encounter with the Confessions in w...

This is the first collection in book form of a number of Boyd’s short stories. These stories are as particularly southern as their subject, the small southern community. They emphasize dialogue rather than description and illustrate the economy of the skilled writer who discards false ornaments of style.Originally published in 1952.A UNC Press Enduring Edition — UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distingui...

Leonard James is on an extraordinary quest: to be a man of value. The outcast of a dysfunctional family, Leonard is perplexed and incensed by life's injustices, beginning with the untimely death of cousin Butch. Leonard vows to overcome the adversity in his life. However, he resorts to alcohol and becomes addicted after failing to free himself from his frustration and anxiety. Life events, some of which are of Leonard's own making, leave him a vagabond without direction. Disillusioned, Leo...