In WINGS, Kathy Wright, shares her deeply personal story, from traveling the bubbling brooks, muddy mountains, and masterpieces of the world to her journey through ovarian cancer. She beautifully illustrates that our journey doesn’t end just because we come home. Instead, we can learn how to stand in the uncertainty of each day. It is a book that you can read from beginning to end or one that you can open randomly to a single chapter. This book will inspire readers of all ages to find thei...

**A powerful collection of personal essays from lesbian moms who fought for the right to raise children **For generations, lesbians across the United States were systematically denied opportunities to raise children and build families, opportunities that were readily available to straight people. Radical Family honors the history-making struggles and triumphs of lesbian families in Madison, Wisconsin, who raised children in the 1980s, ’90s, and early 2000s—a time when lesb...

Family foster care is supposed to provide temporary protection and nurturing for children experiencing maltreatment. Although it has long been a critical service for millions of children in the United States, the increased attention given to this service in the last two decades has focused more on its inability to achieve its intended outcomes than on its successes. However, as social and political trends and new legislation reshape child welfare, policymakers and service providers continu...

A collection of essays accompanied by beautiful black-and-white photography from a diverse group of women on the moment they realized they were ready to fight for themselves—including Gloria Steinem, Lena Waithe, Joanna Gaines, Brandi****Carlile, Beanie Feldstein, Cynthia Erivo**, and Billie Jean King, among others.**This powerful essay collection is a natural extension of the #MeToo movement, revealing the interior experience of women after they’v...

In recent years there has been a growth in both the practice and research of dark tourism; the phenomenon of visiting sites of tragedy or disaster. Expanding on this trend, this book examines dark tourism through the new lens of pilgrimage. It focuses on dark tourism sites as pilgrimage destinations, dark tourists as pilgrims, and pilgrimage as a form of dark tourism. Taking a broad definition of pilgrimage so as to consider aspects of both religious and non-religious travel that might be ...

Earthly Father/Heavenly Father. This book is about how a father can start with no real knowledge of fatherhood, and ultimately be the best possible father.This book will inspire you to be the best possible father regardless of your background, your upbringing or present status. The writer depicts how the earthly father provides, guides and protects. If you are looking for simple yet godly principles in leading your family, this book illuminates the way. You will see the father as b...

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Discover the new collection of original writings by Rachel Held Evans, whose reflections on faith and life continue to encourage, challenge, and influence, lovingly performed by Daniel Jonce Evans, Jeff Chu, Jamie Wright, Sarah Bessey, Nadia Bolz-Weber, Kristen Howerton, Kaitlin Curtice, Amanda Held Opelt, Rev. Neichelle R. Guidry, Ph.D., Candice Marie Benbow, Kathy Khang, the Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D., and Amena Brown.Rachel Held Evans is widely recognized for her th...

Stimulated by the signal contributions that New Testament scholar Richard B. Hays has made to Christology and Christian ethics, the essays collected here carry forward conversations involving close studies of particular passages in the Gospels and Epistles and wider-ranging forays into big questions in those fields. Some essays build on Hays’s work, pushing forward in new directions on questions of scriptural intertextuality, Christology, and participation in Christ. Others challenge his w...

As pastors' wives, the authors of this devotional personally have experienced or witnessed the issues with which women struggle: identity, marriage, children, work. Reading this devotional is like having a conversation with a trusted friend who knows what you are going through. Over 52 weeks, these authors share from their hearts using engaging Scriptures, real-life inspiration, and practical wisdom they have learned along the way. Each week focuses on one theme, and daily devotions includ...

Entangled with a Texan by Sara OrwigHow on earth had David Sorrenson been roped in to protecting a tiny baby girl? The ex-military man knew everything about danger, not infants! Luckily Marissa Wilder agreed to be a live-in nanny. But living with Marissa was tangling up his emotions…Locked up with a Lawman by Laura WrightClint Andover’s opinion of nurse Tara Roberts was that she was trouble with a capital T. Clin...

Home of the first settlement in the United States and known as Old Dominion and The Mother of Presidents, the state of Virginia’s artistic output proves among the most fecund in the nation, evidenced in this ninth volume of The Southern Poetry Anthology. This collection includes well-known, established, and celebrated poets such as Charles Wright, Claudia Emerson, Gregory Orr, Ellen Bryant Voigt, R. T. Smith, Forrest Gander, and Rita Dove, and the editors have dedicated equal focu...