"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."

"The point of the impact shouldn’t be far from here. Entire families, care home residents, barbers, lawyers and teenagers with no driving licensesdrove all the way there. Pitching a tent and getting stoned, strumming acoustic guitars. Waiting to be vaporised with the big explosion.This is like a war movie. Only this is for real and there’s just one single bullet the size of a planet."

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. 

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...

How can we connect the Gospels--the fundamental texts of Christian faith--to our own experience of inner and outer life? This is the question that animates Connecting to the Gospel. In it James Boyd White presents a series of Gospel passages, together with the sermons he gave on these passages as a lay preacher in the Episcopal Church, with brief commentaries and questions on each as well. The whole is designed as an aid to thought and reflection about the issues raised by the Gospel passa...

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...

The authors of this book share a concern for the state of law and democracy in our country, which to many seems to have deteriorated badly. Deep changes are visible in a wide array of phenomena: judicial opinions, the teaching of law, legal practice, international relations, legal scholarship, congressional deliberations, and the culture of contemporary politics. In each of these intersections between law, culture, and politics, traditional expectations have been transformed in ways that p...