Gateway communities that neighbour parks and protected areas are impacted by tourism, while facing unique circumstances related to protected area management. Economic dependency remains a serious challenge for these communities, especially in a climate of neoliberalism, top-down policy environments, and park closures related to environmental degradation or government budgets. The collection of works in this edited book provide bottom-up, informed, and nuanced approaches to tourism manageme...

In the past few decades, the church has experienced rapid and distressing change. Hard-working pastors and leaders often know they need to embrace diversity, creatively engage younger generations, and equip their people to love their neighbors. But since they don't know how to make the changes needed, they feel stuck and wonder, "What do I do now? What steps can I take to lead our church purposefully and prayerfully into a more hopeful future?"For these dedicated yet drained church...

All churches grow old. Strategic churches grow young.Churches are losing both members and vitality as increasing numbers of young people disengage. Based on groundbreaking research with over 250 of the nation's leading congregations, Growing Young provides a strategy any church can use to involve and retain teenagers and young adults.This strategy includes six core commitments for growing young:● Unlock keychain leadership● Empathize...

To be human is to be biased, especially with today's technologies and politics reinforcing our unconscious reactions.Most people do not see themselves as biased towards people different from themselves, yet disparities and dangerous prejudices still run rampant. Why is that? And is there anything we can do about it?Building on the transformational lessons of the bestselling Everyday Bias, Howard J. Ross and Jake Ross reveal how bias is bui...

In the past few decades, the church has experienced rapid and distressing change. Hard-working pastors and leaders often know they need to embrace diversity, creatively engage younger generations, and equip their people to love their neighbors. But since they don't know how to make the changes needed, they feel stuck and wonder, "What do I do now? What steps can I take to lead our church purposefully and prayerfully into a more hopeful future?"For these dedicated yet drained church...

Yes, there is barbecue, but that’s just one course of the meal. With Vinegar and Char the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates twenty years of symposia by offering a collection of poems that are by turns as sophisticated and complex, as vivid and funny, and as buoyant and poignant as any SFA gathering.The roster of contributors includes Natasha Trethewey, Robert Morgan, Atsuro Riley, Adrienne Su, Richard Blanco, Ed Madden, Nikky Finney, Frank X Walker, Sheryl St. Germain,...

Unleashing the Passion of Young People in Your Church Is Possible! Churches are losing both members and vitality as increasing numbers of young people disengage. Based on groundbreaking research with over 250 of the nation's leading congregations, Growing Youngprovides a strategy any church can use to involve and retain teenagers and young adults. It profiles innovative churches that are engaging 15- to 29-year-olds and as a result are growing--spiritually, emotionally, missionally, and nu...

NOT ALL DETECTIVES CARRY BADGESWhen a scribe fixing a flawed letter in an old scroll stumbles upon a long-lost family fortune, the discovery could have changed his life.Instead, it ends it.After revealing what he found, the scribe is murdered—and his discovery vanishes without a trace.The police think it’s a suicide. Open and shut.The community isn’t so sure.They call Jake Cooper.Not a cop. Not licensed. But informall...

To be human is to be biased, especially with today’s technologies and politics reinforcing our unconscious reactions.Most people do not see themselves as biased towards people different from themselves, yet disparities and dangerous prejudices still run rampant. Why is that? And is there anything we can do about it?Building on the transformational lessons of the bestselling Everyday Bias, Howard J. Ross and Jake Ross reveal how bias is bui...

NOT ALL DETECTIVES CARRY BADGESBeneath the surface of tradition and respect lies a hidden structure of influence — a network that blends faith, money, and quiet intimidation. For years, it operated in whispers.Until now.When an insider begins to uncover evidence of an organized criminal enterprise hiding in plain sight, he finds himself trapped between two worlds: the life he’s always known and the truth that could destroy it.Every step forw...

NOT ALL DETECTIVES CARRY BADGESA kosher inspector doesn’t come home one night.By morning, his wife is certain something is wrong.The police aren’t convinced.He hasn’t been gone long enough. There’s no sign of violence. Officially, there’s nothing to investigate.That’s when his wife turns to Jake Cooper.Not a cop. Not licensed. But trained by a retired detective and trusted as the Jewish community’s internal investigator, Jake...