What’s new about this third edition of the long respected and often used Church Administration Handbook? In addition to time and technological-sensitive updates to the basic organizational details, editor Bruce Powers writes:“The needs of people and churches have continued to change, with questions now being raised about the quality of congregational life, nature of leadership, and responsibility for ministry among all believers . . . As we have prepared t...

Higher education was one of the more vital battlegrounds that emerged from the religious conflict of the sixteenth century. On the one hand, education was seen as central in spreading the ideas of the Reformers. On the other hand, the success of the Catholic Reformation emanated from the foundation of seminaries on the Continent. This work explores the denominational division in education with Trinity College Dublin as a case study and with the French Revolution as a backdrop. Because the ...

When Keeley Thomson started at a new school, she didn't think that her problems would involve more than going to a football game she didn't care about, or trying to get better grades. Then she met Darla and the gang. They're pretty, popular and have all the right moves. Only something is very wrong with Darla Gibson.A thing so dark that Keeley might not be the same when she get's through with her.

A Special Mortality among Infants at Loughton, in the Epping Rural Sanitary District is a detailed public health report authored by William H. Power and published in 1889. The book investigates an alarming increase in infant mortality in the village of Loughton, located within the Epping Rural Sanitary District in Essex, England. Drawing on meticulous data collection, Power examines the patterns and causes of infant deaths over a specific period, comparing them to mortality rates in neighb...

Moral theologians, defense analysts, conflict scholars, and nuclear experts imagine a world free from nuclear weaponsAt a 2017 Vatican conference, Pope Francis condemned nuclear weapons. This volume, issued after the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, presents essays from moral theologians, defense analysts, conflict transformation scholars, and nuclear arms control experts, with testimonies from witnesses. It is a companion volume to A World Free fr...

Liam wasn't born. He was made. By a woman who called herself his mother. Mary Frankenstein...Now he's being held by the FBI, his mother, the only person he's ever known, arrested and taken away from him.To get her back, he's going to have to learn who and what, he really is.

The anthology, *Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore*, stands as a remarkable document in the tapestry of hagiographical literature. The collection offers an intricate mosaic of narratives exploring the spiritual lives and enduring legacies of two pivotal figures within Irish Christianity. Amidst its pages, readers will traverse a spectrum of literary styles'Äîfrom the lyrical to the didactic'Äîthat conjure the deeper ethos of early medieval spirituality. The vo...

Tommy didn't step thought the looking glass...He failed to step off the bridge. It saved his life.Maybe.That was due to the flying man, who suggested that, instead of dying that night, he might try coming to see his band play at a club, instead. That one, rather strange, event, starts a chain reaction that Tom would have never figured could happen, much less would.Ending up in a place that both does, and doesn't, exist. Embroiled in intrigue that even he isn...

P. Power'Äôs "The Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore" offers an intricate exploration of the life and legacy of one of Ireland's most revered saints. Power employs a lyrical narrative style reminiscent of hagiographical traditions, intertwining historical detail with spiritual insight. The book is rich with contextual references to early medieval Ireland, capturing the socio-religious landscape in which St. Mochuda thrived. Through meticulously analyzed sources and a compelling storytelling ap...

National BestsellerNational Book Critics Circle Award NomineeFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Playground and The Overstory, a magnificent double love story of two young couples separated by a distance of twenty-five years."The most lavishly ambitious American novel since Gravity's Rainbow . . . An outright marvel." — Washington PostStuart Ressler,...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!"The perfect kind of story for our current era."—Hypable**Featured in Vulture’s "11 Books to Read If You Already Miss Yellowjackets"!From the author of Burn Our Bodies Down, a feminist Lord of the Flies about three best friends living in quarantine at their island boarding school, and the lengths they go to uncover the truth o...

USA Today best-selling authorOn a sunny day in July, Clare Prentice arrives in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Although she is on assignment to interview the town's notoriously reclusive novelist Nate Hanssen, Clare is really in search of a different story-her story.Just months before, Clare was a bride-to-be, living in Chicago, and looking to the future.until the day she learned her entire life had been a lie.Not only was Clare adopted, but there is no record th...