“‘Soft Rock,’ they call it; low-key stuff with wide appeal.” So stated a 1971 Chicago Tribune article on the Carpenters. Over time, Soft Rock became the butt of jokes, yet during its heyday, it fit America’s changing mood, blending rebellion with conservatism. Easy explains how Soft Rock and associated genres emerged in the late 1960s and achieved broad recognition in the 1970s. Tracking hundreds of songs, Timothy Gray supplies Billboard’s chart rankings to show ...

At the end of its life, the Sun has grown in size, slowly creeping up to Earth’s ravaged door. Only a month until it scorches the planet's floor and Earth's citizens have yet to escape...Humanity loftily waits. Some surviving on desire, others on a wage. Until the final day, their carriage awaits. Unless you’re [redacted], you’re land locked, stuck without grace.Meet Aaron, the President's son who can't seem to shake the ghost of his mother. With the support of the Starborn ...

Roots rock, Americana, alt country: what are they and why do they matter? Americans have been trying to answer these questions for as long as the music bearing these labels has existed. Music can function as an escape from the outside world or as an explanation of that world. Listeners who identify with the music’s message may shape their social understandings accordingly. Rock critics like Greil Marcus and Peter Guralnick, the titans of rock criticism, tap this fluid dichotomy, considerin...

Stress, short tempers, impatience, and greed-these are elements that have their origin in what is having an effect on all of us. That thing is discontentment. Matthew 6:33 addresses this condition and provides us with the answer to discontentment by looking through the lens of God's perspective. It is sure to enlighten, challenge, and encourage the reader.

Detective John OMeara again uses his sick sense to investigate supernatural crimes. This time he is intangled in the New Orleans drug trade. Where a Voodoo. preist,Papa G, is moving in on the Tandino Family buisiness. Papa Gs minions will do anything to keep from dieing again and John needs to try and keep the violence from spilling into the streets.

Read the entire story of the Bible in one captivating and inspirational book... The Bible plays a vital role in the life of the Catholic Church. In fact, we are called to immerse ourselves daily in the Scriptures. But many of us get lost when we actually dive into the Bible, and our time spent can be more frustrating than fruitful. We are reading a collection of writings drafted by an ancient people, in an ancient culture. But Scripture is nothing less than the Liv...

The Catholic Biblical Theology of the Sacraments series provides readers with a deeper appreciation of God's gifts and call in the sacraments through a renewed encounter with God's Word. In this addition to the series, Michael Barber offers a biblical approach to anointing of the sick, drawing from both the Old and New Testaments.This book unpacks the riches of the Scriptures to explain what true healing in Christ involves. In addition, Barber demonstrates how an exegetical approac...

A Leading Catholic Teacher Offers a Biblical Theology of MarriageThe Catholic Biblical Theology of the Sacraments series provides readers with a deeper appreciation of God's gifts and call in the sacraments through a renewed encounter with God's Word.In The Bible and Marriage, leading Catholic teacher and popular speaker John Bergsma offers a biblical theology of marriage rooted in the Old and New Testaments that will be interesting and informative...

A Leading Catholic Scholar Offers a Biblical Theology of the PriesthoodThis series on the seven Sacraments provides readers with a deeper appreciation of God's gifts and call in the Sacraments through a renewed encounter with God's Word.In this volume, a leading Catholic scholar offers a biblical theology of the priesthood rooted in the Old and New Testaments. Half a millennium after the Protestant Reformation and in the midst of an ongoing clerical crisis ...

Explore the Catholic Church's teaching on confession, absolution, and penance in the BibleThis addition to the Catholic Biblical Theology of the Sacraments series provides readers with a deeper appreciation of God's gifts and call in the sacraments through a renewed encounter with God's Word.James Prothro offers a biblical theology of the sacrament of reconciliation--the restoration of the sinner through forgiveness and repentance. Prothro fleshes out the p...

A Top Catholic New Testament Scholar on the Rite of BaptismThis addition to the Catholic Biblical Theology of the Sacraments series provides readers with a deeper appreciation of God's gifts and call in the Sacraments through a renewed encounter with God's Word.New Testament scholar Isaac Morales, OP, offers a biblical theology of the initiatory rite of baptism that will be interesting and informative to the church catholic. Morales provides a synthetic bib...

The 50th anniversary edition of this BC classic will make a timeless keepsake.This is a biography and astonishing adventure story of a woman who, left a widow in 1927, packed her five children onto a 25-foot boat and cruised the coastal waters of British Columbia, summer after summer.Muriel Wylie Blanchet acted single-handedly as skipper, navigator, engineer and, of course, mum, as she saw her crew through encounters with tides, fog, storms, rapids, cougars and bears. She s...