My Turning Point is a quiet, honest walk through the darkest month I’ve ever known, beginning the day Charlie Kirk was killed. This story isn’t about his brand or beliefs; it's about the echo of how we treat each other.The aftershock, the responses on social media, shook my belief in human decency to the core… and became the fire that forced me to repair and heal.My Turning Point is one man’s month-long dive into and out of the abyss. What emerged isn’t ju...

Working with clay, paint, crayons, or pencils, artists have long known that the act of creating art can help people explore the deepest recesses of their hearts - and bring about real change in their lives. Michael Sullivan discovered the power of art for himself in the midst of grieving the loss of a young parishioner. Ever since, he has been using simple art projects as a form of prayer and a way of helping others explore what God may be saying to them.Windows into the Soul

In Building Bridges, the author invites readers into a journey across continents, moral boundaries, and cultural divides. This is more than a memoir—it's a deeply personal exploration of empathy, connection, and the courage to face our own biases.Through raw and honest stories, the author shares his experiences from the underworld of human trafficking in Southeast Asia to the rigid hierarchies of military life, and from the intimacy of cross-cultural friendships to his own...

Focuses on the journey from darkness to light inherent in Lent.By using an easily accessible liturgical format, the book provides a pathway for those who walk from Ash Wednesday to the empty tomb of Easter. Chapters begin with a prayer or poetic excerpt, followed by scripture for the day or week. A narrative then expands on the themes introduced by the prayer and scripture. Exercises following the narratives are simple—mostly collage exercises using differing techn...

Matty's Place" captures a 1970s hippie haven where Matty, mentored by drug dealers Richard and Daniel, is quietly helped by Roger. After a bust, they seek each other in London. "Don Ogden, called Dong" follows a discharged soldier recovering in Dinkytown, gaining followers with his insights. In "Lenny," friends navigate troubled pasts and new beginnings in 1970s San Francisco. "Bordertown" depicts a revival in a small hamlet, led by a tavern's new ownership and a local philosopher's call f...

Considers a range of approaches to social policy provision and applies these to developments in the British welfare state. The author works from the basis that the theory and practice of social policy would benefit from a broader understanding of social, political and economic contexts.

This is a book filled with the events of a hardworking American man that was enlisted in the armed services, and was mentally wounded in war. His life events and success with music after his discharge.

"Eddies Along the River" is a fanciful memoir of growing up in St. Paul, Minnesota during the turbulent 1950's, 60's and 70's. The mighty Mississippi is the river of the title, and its flow stands for the advance of time. Near its source, the river has many moods and faces. As it makes its way through St. Paul, its burdens are carried south to its destination. Similarly, the protagonists of the stories must bend and struggle in their many guises, but the collective thrust of the stories' n...

Stanley brings in a variety of exotic pets for show-and-tell and thinks his snail will be safe and boring. But then it picks up a marker and shows that it knows how to write!

This is a book of inspirational and heartfelt true stories expressed through lyrics and poetry from a lifelong songwriter and veteran.

Originally published in 1987, Sociology and Social Welfare looks at the relationship between state and welfare in the context of a wider sociological analysis of state and society in post-war Britain. The book looks at two main concerns, the first suggests the ways in which the theory and practice of welfare might be made more reflective and self-conscious if located in sociological understandings of state, society, and welfare. The second suggests that the sociological study of s...

THE FUTURE IS COMING...FOR SOME SOONER THAN OTHERS Ellis Rogers is an ordinary man who is about to embark on an extraordinary journey. All his life he has played it safe and done the right thing. But when he is faced with a terminal illness, Ellis is willing to take an insane gamble. He's built a time machine in his garage, and if it works, he'll face a world that challenges his understanding of what it means to be human, what it takes to love, and the cost of paradise. Ellis could find mo...