Globalization. Homelessness. Ecological and economic crisis. Conflicts over sexuality. Violence. These crisis-level issues may seem unique to our times, but Paul's Letter to the Romans has something to say to all of them.Following their successful Colossians Remixed,Sylvia Keesmaat and Brian Walsh unpack the meaning of Romans for its original context and for today. The authors demonstrate how Romans disarms the political, economic, and cultural power of the Roman Empire an...

For forty years, singer and songwriter Bruce Cockburn has been writing beautifully evocative music. Bestselling author and respected theologian Brian Walsh has followed Cockburn's work for years and has written and spoken often on his art. In this creative theological and cultural engagement, Walsh reveals the imaginative depth and uncompromising honesty of the artist's Christian spirituality. Cockburn offers hope in the midst of doubt, struggle, failure, and anger; indeed, the sentiment o...

What if the newly elected, first North American Pope had a dark secret that could bring him down? Ben Clancy is determined to do just that in this suspense novel about clergy abuse, Vatican sovereignty, and one man's determination to seek justice.WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:"... compelling thriller you will find hard to put down until you reach the final resolution in the last pages. It is written with great passion, as one of the two authors was himself a victim of a sexually p...

Twenty-something Brian arrives in Frankfurt, Germany, in March of 1976, ready for adventure. The native South African decided years before that he wanted to explore the world, emulating the characters in James Michener’s novel, The Drifters. Tales of adventure shared by his friends served as further inspiration, so after a year of saving cash, he reaches Europe.Since this is Brian’s first time away from home, his travel technique is naïve at best—reckless at worst—but in order to t...

If you've never used Clickbank before and don't know where to begin, it can be very time-consuming and overwhelming to figure out how to get started.Inside this book, you will find step-by-step instructions showing you how to make money online as a Clickbank affiliate and turn it into an income stream that you can rely on.The main purpose of this Clickbank Affiliate Marketing Guide is to show you how you can earn your first commission even as a complete beginner.You...

WARNING: This Book Will Not Teach You to Flip-Flop with Real Estate, but it will show you how to buy and hold for generations to come...Did you ever daydream about investing in commercial real estate and didn't even know where to begin? How come that topic was never taught in school despite the fact that real estate investing has created more millionaires than any other investment strategy. Is this a mere coincidence or is this a closely guarded investment secret of the selected fe...

Selected contributions to the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, which took place in July 2011 in Prague, represent the contemporary state of Shakespeare studies in thirty-eight countries worldwide. Apart from readings of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, more than forty chapters map Renaissance contexts of his art in politics, theater, law, or material culture and discuss numerous cases of the impact of his works in global culture from the Americas to the Far East, including stage productions...

Unsettled Toleration: Religious Difference on the Shakespearean Stage historicizes and scrutinizes the unstable concept of toleration as it emerges in drama performed on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stages. Brian Walsh examines plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries that represent intra-Christian conflict between mainstream believers and various minorities, analyzing the sometimes explicit, sometimes indirect, occasionally smooth, but more often halting and equivocal forms of...

The Revenger's Tragedy is one of the most vital, important, and enduring tragedies of the Jacobean era, one of the few non-Shakespearean plays of that period that is still regularly revived on stage and taught in classrooms. The play is notable for its piercing insight into human depravity, its savage humour, and its florid theatricality. This collection of new essays offers students an invaluable overview of the play's critical and performance history as well as four critical ess...

The Elizabethan history play was one of the most prevalent dramatic genres of the 1590s, and so was a major contribution to Elizabethan historical culture. The genre has been well served by critical studies that emphasize politics and ideology; however, there has been less interest in the way history is interrogated as an idea in these plays. Drawing in period-sensitive ways on the field of contemporary performance theory, this book looks at the Shakespearean history play from a fresh angl...

A woman is found dead in a ditch. As the list of suspects grows, a town’s dirty secrets are revealed.It’s a cold winter evening and rain is sweeping in from the Atlantic when a young woman, having braved the weather to visit her sick mother in a remote part of Ireland, comes across an obstacle in the road. She clears the highway of stones from a damaged bridge only to see the body of a woman in a ditch. With no phone reception, she travels to the nearest police station to report wh...

A fierce, honest, elegant and often hilarious debunking of the great fallacies that drive modern medicine.Seamus O'Mahony writes about the illusion of progress, the notion that more and more diseases can be 'conquered' ad infinitum. He punctures the idiocy of consumerism, the idea that healthcare can be endlessly adapted to the wishes of individuals. He excoriates the claims of Big Science, the spending of vast sums on research follies like the Human Genome Project. And he highlight...