Mediated Images of the South: The Portrayal of Dixie in Popular Culture, edited by Alison F. Slade, Dedria Givens-Carroll and Amber J. Narro, is an anthology that explores the impact of the image of the Southerner within mass communication and popular culture. The contributors offer a contemporary analysis of the Southerner in the media. In most cases, previous literature situates these media images in the past, most notably through historic analyses of the Southerner during the Civil Righ...

"To be human is to be lonely." When his seventy-something spiritual director Friar Ugo spoke these words in a voice cracking with age, Jason Gaboury felt a deep sense of their truth.To the observer, Jason, a campus minister, active church member, and father with a young family, might not have seemed lonely. But it's how he felt. He has wrestled with loneliness ever since he can remember, perhaps before he can remember . . . through childhood, college, and into adulthood.

There is always something special for you at the Table of the Lord. Jesus takes special effort and attention to prepare and provide what is absolutely best for us at all times. No detail has been overlooked. Nothing is missing, lacking, undone, or unfinished. No one could ever imagine the blessings, privileges, and benefits that await the child of God at... the Table.

A celebration of waiting throughout history, and of its importance for connection, understanding, and intimacy in human communicationWe have always been conscious of the wait for life-changing messages, whether it be the time it takes to receive a text message from your love, for a soldier’s family to learn news from the front, or for a space probe to deliver data from the far reaches of the solar system. In this book in praise of wait times, award-winning author J...

Love yourself and take back your life. In a playful response to the book, "He's Just Not That Into You," the authors demonstrate how to stop searching for love from impossible sources and find it within yourself. They tell a tale based on a true story of two traumatized friends attempting to get past the abuses they suffered as children. Mason and Andrada aim to guide the reader using story and tools, through their own breakthrough from tragedy to health, happiness, wellbeing and freedom. ...

With the target date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) behind us, this book asks did they work? And what happens next? Arguing that to effectively look forward, we must first look back, the editors of this insightful book gather leading scholars and practitioners from a range of backgrounds and regions to provide an in-depth exploration of the MDG project and its impact.Contributors use region-specific case studies to explore the effectiveness of the MDGs in addressing th...

We have always been conscious of the wait for life-changing messages, whether it be the time it takes to receive a text message from your love, for a soldier's family to learn news from the front, or for a space probe to deliver data from the far reaches of the solar system. In this book in praise of wait times, award-winning author Jason Farman passionately argues that the delay between call and answer has always been an important part of the message.Traveling backward from our cu...

"To be human is to be lonely." When his seventy-something spiritual director Friar Ugo spoke these words in a voice cracking with age, Jason Gaboury felt a deep sense of their truth. To the observer, Jason, a campus minister, active church member, and father with a young family, might not have seemed lonely. But it's how he felt. He has wrestled with loneliness ever since he can remember, perhaps before he can remember . . . through childhood, college, and into adulthood.W...

This is the short version testimony of a simple man that was chosen long ago to be adopted as a son of God. The testimony is meant to give credibility to the author who desires to share some rich revealed truth from the Word concerning life and 'end times' matters. It is from more of a life experience point of view than a scholarly one. It is kept brief with the hope that more may be interested in giving it a little of their valuable time.

Why We Can’t Wait (1964) is arguably the most vital book by one of the most important men in US history. Martin Luther King Jr. sets out the ideas that fuelled a large part of the 1960s civil rights movement. Having adopted Mahatma Gandhi’s strategy of encouraging nonviolent civil disobedience, King used Why We Can’t Wait to launch an impassioned call to African Americans, urging them to use the tactic to force the American government to abolish segregation and give black people equal righ...

This book is a unique resource that speaks to the average person in the pew rather than to the Pastor Search Committee. What a needed resource! Having observed Lowe in his varied ministry roles for several years now, I can assure you that he writes as one who is investing his life in seeing the church healthy and flourishing. This resource is an invaluable and lasting contribution to that end.Paul Chitwood, President, International Mission BoardOccasionally...

After finding a mysterious painting in the basement of an art academy, a struggling painter is haunted by nightmares. A man in black chases him through his dreams, night after night. When he finds the man in black is alive and real in the waking world, the painter desperately seeks to discover the true nature of his pursuer, and the hidden power of the painting that haunts his dreams.