He was a disrupter and a peacemaker, a rebel and a rabbi. His friends were the riffraff, and his enemies the religious elite. He was the wounded man who healed the sick, the homeless man who fed the hungry, the convicted criminal who released the captives, and the dead man who conquered the grave. The stories he told were scandalous, and the stories he lived changed the world. To reflect on the Jesus of the Gospels is to reflect on paradox, mystery, wonder, and messiness. It is to find God...

2025 Nautilus Book Awards Gold Winner in "Religion / Spirituality of Western Thought" CategoryWhen your faith begins to feel too small, too confining, you could choose to leave it. But what if the faith we inhabit is roomier than we'd thought? What if our collapsing faith is just a closet in a much larger dwelling?Disillusioned by narrow theologies, church dysfunction, and constricted readings of Scripture, people are leaving Christianity i...

Disillusioned by narrow theologies, church dysfunction, and constricted readings of Scripture, people are leaving Christianity in droves. But Jesus describes the reign of God as a house with many rooms, writes Debie Thomas, one of the most auspicious voices in religious writing today. In this work of sprawling spiritual and literary imagination, Thomas claims that wherever God dwells, there is expansiveness and belonging.Thomas knows what a cramped faith feels like, what it's like ...

Debi Thomas has a revelation. "I was never meant to win the gold," the championship skater told author, Carol Denise Mitchell. This book emcompasses two-years of in person interviews the award winning writer held with America's skating champ. Debi talks about being the victim of Domestic Violence, and how she came to live in a trailer with bed bugs and rats. The author interviews her fiance' Jamie Looney and lots more!

In the throes of a convention full of geeks, Frog Jones told a story.That story is found in this book's foreword, but the key line from that story became the title of this anthology. The authors seized upon that line, much like an out-of-control bovine seizing its own halter, and stampeded into the volume you see before you.This is not just a comedy anthology. Nor is it horror, or romance, or literary, or…well, any one thing. Rather, it is all those things. Each story starts ...

In "Debi Thomas What Really Happened," Mitchell uncovers the truth about Debi's big losses in the 1988 Olympics up to how her medical career ended up failing in 2014. The author is stunned to learn that Debi Thomas felt she was not meant to win the gold in the 1988 Olympics in Calgary. Moreover, Mitchell uncovers extensive research on why Debi, who openly dared to "Question Authority" seemingly at her own peril, incurred many of her losses and how. Mitchell, described as one of the best wr...

No one can push your buttons quite like your mother can. After all, she's the one who installed them. - AnonymousIn sixteen "she said / she said" hilarious tales of overwhelmed mothers and their daughters, every day relational situations provide not only a humor break, but a ton of insight into how to be a better mom.Sections include: She's So Bossy, She's So Stubborn, She's So Picky, She's So Clueless, and She's So Dramatic. Tidbits of lighthearted yet pra...

As four friends jogged their regular morning route, along the sleepy suburban streets of Fish Hoek, nothing could have warned them of what was to come. Trying to take a short cut and win favour with his taxi boss, a young driver Tshepo Dlamini crashes into one of the runners. As Claire's lifeless body lies crumpled on the ground, Tshepo finds himself trapped in a metal carcass. What's left of his life is turned upside down. Watching the accident happen, Maureen stands on her balcony and is...