Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the United States wonder why they are being forced to bracket their beliefs in order to participate in public life. This situation is not new, says Steven D. Smith: Christians two thousand years ago faced very similar challenges.Picking up poet T. S. Eliot’s World War II–era thesis that the future of the West would be determined by a contest between Christianity and “modern paganism,” Smith ar...

Joe Daily, a lifelong Vanderbilt fan, wants nothing more than his team to win the National Championship. He meets Allistair Appel who promises to make him the best player to ever play the game. But he may have to sell his soul to seal the deal. The Devil and Joe Daily was written in 2015 and takes you on a journey through the four team playoff and the national championship game to find out if Joe Daily, now Joey Goodman, can outwit the devil.

Leopold Harvey is a quirky college student in 1984 coerced into playing the most popular game on campus: The Assassin Game. When Leo's victims begin actually dying, the list of suspects is long. Leo is at the top of that list.

When world class runner Scott Teller find himself mysteriously in 1936, he realizes if he can qualify for the Olympics and win a gold medal, he may have a chance to avert the Holocaust. After meeting fellow Olympian Anna Marie Rogers, he must choose whether to lose his life and Anna Marie or save millions of lives and change the course of history.

In a world torn by hatred, hope becomes the greatest act of defiance as the lives of three men are forever connected through a series of unforeseen events. Hungry, rejected, and weighed down by responsibility, a young missionary, Elder Gordon, vows to trust God’s hand in the foreign streets of Germany a year before the start of World War I. Violin shop owner, Joseph treasures his family’s Munich shop, but Kristallnacht shatters more than glass. As tension erupts in the streets, Joseph batt...

For decades, conventional medicine has pigeonholed uric acid as the singular culprit behind gout-a simple waste product of high living and purine overload. The Great Uric Acid Debacle shatters this outdated paradigm. Written not from the detached perspective of a clinical textbook, but from the deeply personal trenches of lived experience, this book explores the hidden reality of systemic metabolic crises.Despite never being diagnosed with gout, Rev. C. D. Smith's body tol...

“A real page turner: a must read for devotees of America’s struggle for Liberty, and for scholars and students of the Military Art of Leadership. Joining history and modern management thought in one volume—illuminating great men in the crucible of crisis and combat: from the strategic to the tactical, from the political to the logistical. Here is a compelling, expert-telling of the Revolutionary War in its critical human dimension: Leadership. Steven Smith and Kevin Dougherty’s col...

Across the ancient world, priests and poets tell of a cosmic mountain—the place from which creation is born and where humans encounter the gods. In the Bible, Mount Zion is the abode of the god of Israel. But this mount also sits at the center of modern-day Jerusalem. People live and work across Mount Zion. You can pick up a nice scarf or some great falafel there. Such is the paradox of the cosmic mountain: it is at once sacred and mundane, terrestrial and divine. The cosmic mountain is th...

In Taught by God, theologian Brandon D. Smith invites modern Christians to rediscover the early church’s approach to biblical interpretation, not just as an historical relic but as a vibrant means of understanding the Bible today. Smith introduces three “sensibilities” that Christians throughout church history have shared: a concern for Scripture’s very words, its theological and Christological unity, and its importance for the church. Through biblical and historical examples,

A study of how Francis Marion delivered the leadership and strategy to defeat the British in the South Carolina Lowcountry campaigns."Dougherty and Smith have produced an excellent study of Marion as a commander for history enthusiasts, their work deserves to garner equal attention from those in the business community, business schools, public sector management, and the military."— Journal of the American Revolution

What is hope? A feeling? Something you do? A belief or a cluster of beliefs? A way of perceiving the world? Is hope the same as wishful thinking? Hope is complicated. Nevertheless, hope can make our lives better. In Understanding Hope, Philip Smith combines theology, psychology, philosophy, and his own experience of personal loss to help readers understand and practice hope. Understanding Hope is short, but it requires hard thinking. It's worth the effort.

Figuring the Contemporary in US Popular Cinema, 1967-2022: Genre, History, Event explores how popular film offers us frameworks through which to historicize the present and to imagine alternative futures in the opacity of the contemporary moment.This book offers an original way to interpret the contemporary as form, presenting the idea of contemporaneity as historical concept and not simply as "period" in the temporal sense. It explores how we might histor...