Love Matters: Inspiration for New Couples and People Who Need a New PerspectiveLove is often portrayed as effortless-something that either "works" or doesn't. But anyone who has lived inside a committed relationship knows the truth: love is learned. It is shaped over time through communication, patience, forgiveness, and the daily choice to stay engaged with another imperfect human being.Love Matters is a thoughtful, honest, and deeply practical ...

"The Word became flesh and moved into the neighborhood." - John 1:14What does it really mean for God to become human?In Love Made Flesh, Mark David Albertson takes readers beyond the nativity scene to explore the radical reality of divine love-love that risks, waits, weeps, and stays. Blending theology, storytelling, and gentle humor, Albertson reveals a God who trades glory for grit and holiness for humanity.Through deeply relatable storie...

"It's not a job ... it's an adventure!" is the recruiting slogan of the US Navy in the mid-1970's, at the end of Vietnam.Americans have been told the war in Southeast Asia is over. Seaman Matthew Bertram, expecting a Navy enlistment of travel and adventure discovers that the war is not yet over. When he finds himself brought up on charges for diving into Subic Bay to save his Chief's dentures, he discovers that the life of Navy adventure will take a sudden and catastrophic turn as ...

Urban Myths of Los AlamosStories the Atomic City Told ItselfLos Alamos is where the twentieth century learned how to end the world.It is also where people learned how to live with that knowledge.Urban Myths of Los Alamos is a haunting, darkly funny, and deeply human collection of folklore born in one of the most secretive places in American history. From the earliest days of the Manhattan Project through the Cold ...

When two sailors are murdered trying to sell classified materials to the Soviet Union, the Naval Investigative Service determines there might be a massive leak of intelligence from one navy ship. They decide the only way to investigate the possible hemorrhage of information is to place someone into the radio shack of the flagship of the Seventh Fleet Commander, the USS Oklahoma City. Because of his unique training and recent combat experience in Cambodia, the choice is clear for t...