An urgent and practical book that helps parents and their boys navigate important topics like sex, drugs, bullying, power, consent, and more in a way that helps them grow their emotional intelligence, while also building connection and a closeness that can last a lifetime.Talk to your Boys is a practical guide to communicating with your tween and teen boy with the goal of raising young men who care about themselves and others. The book focuses on 16 essent...

We live in an era of cultural war and combativeness. But we all have a responsibility to care for culture, to nurture it in ways that help people thrive. In this second edition of Culture Care, internationally recognized artist Makoto Fujimura issues a call to cultural stewardship in which we become generative and feed our culture's soul with beauty, creativity, and generosity, serving others as cultural custodians of the future.This is a book for anyone with a calling to ...

What if the pursuit of justice requires more than activism? What if it also demands beauty? In a world marked by division and suffering, beauty has the power to heal, and justice becomes most compelling when it is truly beautiful.In Beauty and Justice, justice advocate Haejin Shim Fujimura and internationally renowned artist Makoto Fujimura explore how beauty and justice are two sides of the same gospel calling. Through stories from their global work in the arts, advocacy,...

During the global Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in January 2024, Australian entrepreneur Philip Ryall and his wife Jennie invited more than sixty church leaders from various Christian backgrounds and denominations into their home for what they hope will be the first of many Unity Meals around the world.Like yeast leavening a loaf of bread, out of that meal grew the impetus for the book Dear Unity, a collection of thoughts from over thirty prominent Christian leaders a...

Mobilizing the Power to Stop Harm, Cultivating the Love to HealWe are living in a world where the depths of division, violence, and destruction can no longer be ignored. From political polarization leading to the erosion of the democratic process to the climate crisis continuing to perpetuate racial inequity, we need changes that heal harms at the personal and systemic levels.Escalated forms of harm require an equally escalated response. Yet social movement...

Cages with prisoners that have been transformed into weapons. Illusions that hide the faces of monsters. Slave traders, who were already an object of contempt in Mikhail's past life. This is all just the prologue to a new struggle, where blood flows in rivers and death lurks around every corner.In the sixth book of the series, our hero must confront his demons: can he remain a human being while fighting those who have long since lost their humanity? Or will he become a monster whos...

I am the Archmage Mikhael. In my life, I have seen many beautiful women and many senseless battles. At some point, I found that the battles outnumbered the beautiful women. This loss of balance prompted me to put an end to all wars. I conducted scientific experiments and even studied the DNA of mages. I was one step away from understanding what makes us go to war when I died . . .However, life gave me a second chance. I came to in the body of an infant and discovered I was blessed ...

The empire is crumbling, cities are on fire, and against this backdrop of bloody events appears a hero who can quell the chaos. Mikhail continues along his path of evolution, where each new dominant is a step toward power, but also a step closer to the abyss of insanity.In this book, our hero's past catches up with him: his enemies are stronger, his allies are unpredictable, and his experiments with dominants lead to terrifying mutations. Some see Mikhail as a monster, others as th...

A hospital bed isn't somewhere Mikhail plans on spending much time. In a world where every day could be his last, weakness isn't an option. Once his body is restored and his mind is sharp as ever, a new path lies before him. This path leads not only to power, but also to more terrible secrets, conspirators, and monsters, for whom human life is nothing more than a resource.An army of enemies, voices whispering in the shadows, and anomalies that devour all living things—to fight agai...

Mikhail was once an archmage, but now he's just a young kid who has to start everything from scratch. The Academy, where he's viewed as a weakling, becomes the arena for a fierce battle for survival. But someone who once conquered dragons and destroyed empires has an advantage—cold intelligence and strength that nobody expects from a rookie.Awaiting listeners in this volume are Mikhail's first major encounters with a world where weakness is punishable by death. Not only does he fin...

I'm Cory, and my older sister is a Youtube influencer with a lifestyle vlog and a fanbase that loves to hate me. Her first viral video hit just before I entered ninth grade when she 'accidentally' outed me while fretting to the internet how her poor, gay brother was going to be treated in high school. Up until that point, no one even knew my name, let alone anything so personal. I don't want to be famous in that way. If anything, I want to be behind the camera, as the writer and producer o...

Only the strongest survive in this world, and Mikhael has known that since his earliest childhood. Finding himself at a boarding school where brutality reigns, he is forced to fight for his place in the sun. Using his cunning, strength, and unusual abilities, he battles his way to the top, taking on both his peers and the adults that control the system. But can he hold on to power and remain true to himself when every day is a new test?In the second book, Mikhael continues his adve...