Tony K. Burris was born May 30, 1929 in Blanchard, Oklahoma just in time for the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. The family lived as sharecroppers on farms they did not own, they were often hungry when drought or dust destroyed crops. In 1939, the family moved to a larger farm belonging to his Aunt Jenny Curry Apple and her husband but still had trouble making ends meet. The modest three-bedroom house did not have a phone, electricity, or running water. With help from the four oldest c...

From Spiritual Warfare to Vision: A Survivor's Journey is the unflinching testimony of Larry Wayne Bennett—a gay man, survivor of abuse, homelessness, prison, and systemic neglect—who transforms his pain into a blueprint for revolutionary healing.This is not just a memoir of survival. It is a manifesto for those who have been told they don't belong, a vision for a world where trauma recovery is not fragmented or transactional, but integrated, spiritual, creative, and c...

A voice from the margins. A rebellion written on park benches. A testament to the unbreakable human spirit.Our Voices in His Head is not a polished theory or a distant memoir. It is a living, breathing chronicle composed in homeless shelters, public libraries, and the stark silence of prison cells. Larry Bennett, a survivor of trauma, addiction, and systemic cruelty, offers a collection of speeches, poems, and profound reflections that dismantle the lies w...

God for Gays: A Yuma County RevelationIn 1970s Amarillo, Texas, there was nowhere for a questioning child to go with dangerous questions about sexuality and faith. Larry Bennett's raw, unflinching memoir chronicles a forty-year journey through domestic violence, addiction, incarceration, and family rejection—all while carrying a Jesus who never abandoned him, even when His supposed representatives did.From surviving twelve years of systematic abuse in a rel...

No one shapes our heritage or affects our legacy like our mother.Most people know Leonard Sweet, one of the world’s most influential evangelicals, as a sharp cultural critic who helps us see how to get in front of the future rather than be bowled over by it. One of his greatest influences was his mother, a groundbreaking (and sometimes controversial) minister who defied convention while honoring tradition. In this exceptionally personal work, Len Sweet opens his mother’s memory box...

Life was good for Jorge Newbery. A high school dropout and serial entrepreneur, he built a real estate empire of over 4,000 apartments across the USA. Taking risks and working tirelessly were the ingredients to his rise. But, he took one risk too many.An ice storm on Christmas Eve 2004 triggered his collapse. He was maligned, publicly shamed, and financially gutted—even arrested. He lost everything and ended up $26 million in debt.As he struggled to regain his footing, he s...

Faith Arising explores the process that helped me create context for my faith story. As you read, I hope you find parts of my journey to which you can relate. I don’t expect everything that has worked for me to be a solution for you, although you may find tools, ideas, and “aha moments” for your own faith story. I invite you to critically examine key moments in your life where you felt lost, heartbroken, inspired, challenged, courageous, overwhelmed, and at peace.I have had a life filled w...

Over the past decade, several American cities have been rocked by race riots. With each passing year, a new racial agenda emerges—from police defunding to education reform to reparations—inciting more and more division and radicalization along racial lines. What started all of this? The roots of this pathology run much deeper than the recent symptoms suggest. The civil rights revolution unleashed an assault on the US Constitution, and the sacralization of that revolution, marked by the can...

The military is often perceived by well-meaning Americans as the last stronghold against the progressive march through America’s institutions. But this is no longer simply the case. Our Armed Forces were once the envy of the world, in large part because we selected based on merit, and instilled in our fighting men an unshakeable military ethos. Both the ethos and the selection, however, have been in steady decline as the Department of Defense succumbs to a dangerous ideology: selection and...

There is a crisis facing America’s men. They have fallen behind women in school, they are often overlooked in career opportunities, and they are scolded for their unique educational needs. No solutions have been found because our reigning civil rights regime prevents us from even acknowledging the problem or from coming to grips with it. Instead, our laws keep insisting on “gender neutral” remedies like improving test scores or graduation rates—ignoring the natural differences between the ...

The Unseen War Is Real. But Your Victory Is Already Secured.You sense it, don't you? A force in the world actively working against your peace, your family, and your faith. The Bible calls this spiritual warfare, and while the reality of this unseen battle can sound intimidating, Dr. David Jeremiah wants to offer a liberating truth: You have nothing to fear in Christ.For too long, the topic of spiritual warfare has been shrouded in confusion or sensationalis...

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERCan the political be way too personal? What if most radical activists are trying to change their lives by changing the whole country?When Jesse Watters set out to interview a few dozen radical activists to find out where their wild ideas came from, he discovered two things that shocked him:First, he liked these people.Second, their political positions were not primarily from bo...