At the end of his first inaugural address, delivered to a nation deeply divided and on the brink of civil war, Abraham Lincoln concluded, “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies.” Lincoln’s words ring true today, especially for a new generation raised on political discourse that consists of vitriolic social media and the echo chambers of polarized news media.In We Must Not Be Enemies, Michael Austin combines American history, classical theories of democracy, and co...

This book examines dozens of books, articles, speeches, and radio broadcasts by such figures as Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, Larry Schweikart, and David Barton to expose the deep historical flaws in their use of America's founding history. In contrast to their misleading method of citing proof texts to serve a narrow agenda, Austin allows the Founding Fathers to speak for themselves, situating all quotations in the proper historical context. What emerges is a true historical pictu...

Job is perhaps the most difficult to understand of all books in the Bible. While a cursory reading of the text seems to relay a simple story of a righteous man whose love for God was tested through life's most difficult of challenges and rewarded for his faith through those trials, a closer reading of Job presents something far more complex and challenging. The majority of the text is a work of poetry that authors and artists through the centuries have recognized as being one of--if not th...

Life Planning for the 12 Areas of Life: The Ultimate Guide to Achieving Balance, Fulfillment, and SuccessAre you feeling overwhelmed, and struggling to balance work, relationships, personal growth, and well-being? Do you want to take control of your life but don't know where to start? Life Planning for the 12 Areas of Life is your step-by-step guide to achieving life balance, personal growth, financial stability, and long-term success.This powerful self-improvement book int...

Unlock Your Inner Strength: Transform Adversity into OpportunityImagine facing a setback that leaves you feeling lost—whether it's a job loss, a relationship breakdown, or an unexpected health challenge. In that moment of uncertainty, a spark of resilience can ignite a powerful transformation, empowering you to rise stronger than ever.In The Strength Within Unlocking the Secrets of Resilience: Mastering the Art of Bouncing Back and Moving Forward, ...

From Farm to Table: Building a Thriving Organic & Sustainable Food Business is the ultimate guide for entrepreneurs, farmers, and food enthusiasts looking to create a successful and ethical farm-to-table venture. With consumers increasingly demanding transparency, quality, and sustainability in their food choices, now is the perfect time to build a business that not only nourishes people but also supports the planet. This book walks you through every step of launching and growing an organi...

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, popular works of literature attracted—as they attract today—sequels, prequels, franchises, continuations, and parodies. Sequels of all kinds demonstrate the economic realities of the literary marketplace. This represents something fundamental about the way human beings process narrative information. We crave narrative closure, but we also resist its finality, making such closure both inevitable and inadequate in human narratives. Many cultures i...

Rescued from a local jail, a young man, Roshaun, finds himself suddenly thrust into a world wholely different than the life he once new. He discovers that he is part of a long line of protectors and a direct descendant of a hero of legend. With his newfound powers and companions, Roshaun is caught up in a threat that looms over the country that he and the others are called to fight against.Join Roshaun and the others as they travel toward the city of Lavir in an attempt to warn the...

Dime novels probably did more than any other kind of book to turn lower- and middle-class Americans into both book owners and book readers. They were so cheap that almost anyone could afford them, and so exciting that almost everybody wanted to read them. It’s hard to tell just how many of these dime novels featured Mormons, but the way Mormons were portrayed in dime novels was remarkably consistent over many decades and multiple genres. This consistency tells us that dime novelists were p...

The Purpose of Ethics describes an original moral theory similar in nature to Preference Utilitarianism. However, it is a major unifying theory, reconciling the apparently conflicting differences between moral theories that have been prevalent in the twentieth century: between consequentialist and motivist traditions for example; and between the Utilitarian, Kantian and Liberal Egalitarian approaches. Unlike previous theories, which are grounded on different, unexplained assumptions, the p...

Understanding the Book of Mormon on its own terms and through its two-way connection with the BibleLike the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible, the Book of Mormon uses narratives to develop ideas and present instruction. Michael Austin reveals how the Book of Mormon connects itself to narratives in the Christian Bible with many of the same tools that the New Testament used to connect itself to the Hebrew Bible to create the Christian Bible. As Austin shows, the c...

Raised by devout Mormon parents, Vardis Fisher drifted from the faith after college. Yet throughout his long career, his writing consistently reflected Mormon thought. Beginning in the early 1930s, the public turned to Fisher's novels like Children of God to understand the increasingly visible Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His striking works vaulted him into the same literary tier as William Faulkner while his commercial success opened the New York publishing world ...