Humanity is deeply committed to living along the world’s shores, but a catastrophic storm like Sandy—which took hundreds of lives and caused many billions of dollars in damages—shines a bright light at how costly and vulnerable life on a shoreline can be. Taking Chances offers a wide-ranging exploration of the diverse challenges of Sandy and asks if this massive event will really change how coastal living and development is managed.Bringing together leading researchers—inc...

Living Our Story explores how good narrative work—the retrieval, construction, and performance of valued stories—takes place in ministry. Authors Larry A. Golemon, Lee Ramsey, N. Graham Standish, Tim Shapiro, Carol Johnson, Mike Mather, Niles Elliot Goldstein, and Diana Butler Bass examine this question from a variety of perspectives, including the role of the pastor or rabbi as narrative leader, the sacred and mundane stories that shape congregational life and identity, storytelling as a ...

Out of the rain and fog of the teeming Pacific Northwest he comes - the tough, methodical, incorruptible private eye Harry Nile. He's the foe of corruption, enemy of gangland, and the best friend you'll ever have when you're up against the wall.Harry gives as good as he gets in this collection of powerful radio adventures, produced, written, and directed by Jim French. Larry Albert takes over the role of Nile from the late Phil Harper, with Pat French back as the detective's assistant Murp...

Out of a rainy Seattle night comes crime, mystery, adventure… and Harry Nile! Here is Jim French's legendary private eye, investigating the dark corners of the 1940s northwest.Larry Albert stars in this collection of twenty radio adventures - which include the first four episodes of the ongoing WWII storyline "War Comes To Harry Nile"! It's new-time radio drama in the old-time tradition!Episodes Include: Paid In Full 11-19-2006; Harry's Luck 01-07-2007; Evidence 02-11-2007; The Prisoner On...

Imagine radio noir in the grand tradition -- the mystery, excitement, and adventure of the medium's Golden Age. Now imagine that this has been combined with all of the technical polish that twenty-first-century audio theatre techniques have to offer. That's The Adventures of Harry Nile.Produced by modern-radio legend Jim French, this collection features cases set in the 1940s. A hard-boiled but gentle-souled private investigator takes to the rain-swept streets of the Pacific Northwest. Exp...