A Methodist minister, the Reverend Thornton Dixon Adams’ career has spanned sixty-five years. Like his grandfather before him, he has served many ministries in North Carolina. Mysterious Ways, by author Timothy Roach, shares the story of this man born on the eve of the Great Depression.This memoir chronicles how Adams knew painful personal loss as a child, struggled with family hardship in the difficult times of the thirties, and how after a brief time in college at Duke, he enlist...

U.S. Marine Captain Francis Xavier O'Rourke has a big problem: He is dying. Afghanistan, gunfire, and a helicopter crash have left him in pieces. Hospitalized and in critical condition, there appears a bright light at the end of a long tunnel…. When Francis visits the afterlife the concepts of heaven, hell, angels and demons initially seem confusing and at least fifteen degrees off of what he expected. Far from it being a beatific, peaceful, and dull plane of existence, he sees that life a...