Sundays are for Sauce is an Italian-American home cook's reflection on a time when food was more than something placed on the table. It was family, culture, memory, pride, and love.For generations, Sunday dinner was a sacred and mandatory gathering. The table was where stories were told, traditions were carried forward, and the roots of a family were honored one meal at a time. It was where children learned to respect their elders, understand their family's journey to Amer...

What does the Bible say about alcohol?Evangelical Christianity has a complicated relationship with alcohol. For years, many believers have welcomed it as a gift from God, while others have rejected it as a definite, Spirit-quenching sin. But what does the Bible actually say about alcohol and its use?Alcohol is a pervasive theme throughout the Bible. In The Mountains Shall Drip Sweet Wine: Audio Lectures, John Anthony Dunne offers an exhaustive exploration of the re...

John Anthony West's revolutionary reinterpretation of the civilization of Egypt challenges all that has been accepted as dogma concerning Ancient Egypt. In this pioneering study West documents that: Hieroglyphs carry hermetic messages that convey the subtler realities of the Sacred Science of the Pharaohs. Egyptian science, medicine, mathematics, and astronomy were more sophisticated than most modern Egyptologists acknowledge. Egyptian knowledge of the universe was a legacy from a highly s...

A collection of three historical novels by John Anthony Miller, now available in one volume!All That Glitters: In 1940 Belgium, Camille Bonnet takes on the impossible task of stealing valuable industrial diamonds from an Antwerp bank before the Germans can obtain them. Her escape sets off a thrilling chase involving allies, enemies, and a complex cast of characters. As she navigates through dangerous territory, Camille must deliver the diamonds to Paris to aid the ...

The early Christian monks of Egypt, Syria, and Palestine were the spiritual heroes of their age—fleeing the security of civilization for the desert, where they sought God in lives of prayer, contemplation, and radical simplicity. This book is a portable collection of their teachings, and those of their contemplative contemporaries, ranging from the fourth through the eleventh centuries. It is arranged to the traditional model of three ascending "books": Praktikos (practice), T...

An insider’s account of the Eastern Orthodox Church, from its beginning in the era of Jesus and the Apostles to the modern ageIn this short, accessible account of the Eastern Orthodox Church, John McGuckin begins by tackling the question “What is the Church?” His answer is a clear, historically and theologically rooted portrait of what the Church is for Orthodox Christianity and how it differs from Western Christians’ expectations.McGuckin explores the live...

An insider's account of the Eastern Orthodox Church, from its beginning in the era of Jesus and the Apostles to the modern ageIn this short, accessible account of the Eastern Orthodox Church, John McGuckin begins by tackling the question "What is the Church?" His answer is a clear, historically and theologically rooted portrait of what the Church is for Orthodox Christianity and how it differs from Western Christians' expectations.McGuckin explores the live...

Among the most significant subcultures in modern U.S. history, the hippies had a far-reaching impact. Their influence essentially defined the 1960s--hippie antifashion, divergent music, dropout politics and "make love not war" philosophy extended to virtually every corner of the world and remains influential.The political and cultural institutions that the hippies challenged, or abandoned, mainly prevailed. Yet the nonviolent, egalitarian hippie principles led an era of civic prote...

This important work offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of the Orthodox Church available, providing a detailed account of its historical development, as well as exploring Orthodox theology and cultureWritten by one of the leading Orthodox historians and theologians in the English-speaking worldOffers an in-depth engagement with the issues surrounding Orthodoxy's relationship to the modern world, including political, cultural and ethical debates

Bar Harbor, Maine: summer of 1967When Billie Cooper receives a startling medical diagnosis just before a summer-long vacation, she decides to keep it secret. Her husband Derek is a Defense Department official immersed in the Vietnam war effort. Her two sons are backpacking through Europe. She can’t burden them. She has to face the issue alone.She settles into a beautiful house on a hundred-foot-high cliff just south of Bar Harbor. With her husband often in Washington, D.C.,...

Origen of Alexandria is the most influential thinker and writer of the Christian church after John the Evangelist and Paul the Apostle. This book charts his momentous impact on the structures, mindset, and doctrines of Christianity, from the third century when he wrote to the twenty-first century when his work has been enthusiastically revisited. It has been a long and enduring influence that has seen his star rise and wane many times over past centuries, but at each critical juncture of C...

Scientific and mythological evidence that Antarctica was once Atlantis• Reveals how the earth’s crust shifted in 9600 BCE, dragging Atlantis into the polar zone beneath miles of Antarctic ice• Examines ancient yet highly accurate maps, including the Piri Reis map of 1513, which reveals a pre-glacial Antarctica• Shows how myths of floods and disaster from around the world all point to a common sourceIn this completely revised and expanded edition of When ...