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Jackson Mason has never lost a fight he was prepared for. He isn't prepared for this one.As Fleet Admiral of the Republic of New Terra, Mason navigates a galaxy still raw from manufactured war. Earth Core — stripped of its fleet, its credibility, and its political reach — still schemes from the shadows.Beyond the borders of the Galactic Trade and Commerce Guild, something ancient and ravenous has taken notice of this bright new alliance of former enemies. T...

In a galaxy torn apart by a war built on lies, Gunnery Sergeant Jackson Mason has fought, bled, and lost everything to Earth's war of lies. But Mason carries something no battlefield could take from him — the truth, a truth that makes him dangerous.From the blood-soaked moon where it all began to the galactic halls of a fragile new peace. The Quest for Freedom follows one man's unbreakable code of duty, honor, and fierce loyalty to those who earn his trust...

The war is won. Earth is free. The Galactic Alliance stands stronger than at any point in its young history. Jackson Mason readies to take the next step with the High Empress of Wrathia. Mason should be entering the quietest chapter of his life.He isn't.The galaxy Mason helped build is threatened not by an outside enemy but by something far older and more corrosive—envy and hatred. The kind driven by a lust for power, striking barg...

This chilling true crime history reveals the story of a young woman in nineteenth century rural Ohio who poisoned her family for love.It was a cold and rainy day in Ohio's Pleasant Valley in the spring of 1896, one that began like any other for the Rose family. What they didn't know was that young Ceely Rose was brooding. She'd been told to forget her obsession with handsome Guy Berry. She'd been told about the danger of Rough-on-Rats poison. She'd heard about murd...

Meet one of Richland County's most colorful citizens. There are those who thought Phebe Wise was a witch. More thought that the cranky old lady was "tetched," meaning crazy. And she was crazy--like a fox. An eccentric who outwitted violent robbers, a mad stalker, and a society that expected her to marry and raise children, Phebe alternated between dressing up in men's clothes and strutting to town in an antique ball gown, the trail dragging behind her in the dirt. If anyone had the gall to...

At most church weddings, the person presiding over the ritual is not a priest or a pastor, but the wedding planner, followed by the photographer, the florist, and the caterer. And in this day and age, more wedding theology is supplied by Modern Bride magazine or reality television than by any of the Christian treatises on holy matrimony. Indeed, church weddings have strayed long and far from distinctly Christian aspirations. The costumes and gestures might still be right, but the ...

By using religion to get at the core concepts of Michel Foucault's thinking, this book offers a strong alternative to the way that the philosopher's work is read across the humanities. Foucault was famously interested in Christianity as both the rival to ancient ethics and the parent of modern discipline and was always alert to the hypocrisy and the violence in churches. Yet many readers have ignored how central religion is to his thought, particularly with regard to human bodies and how t...

Is the reform we have seen in the wake of the pedophilia scandals in the Catholic Church meaningful? Have our conversations about the causes of these scandals delved as deeply as they need to? For those questioning the relations between hierarchical power, secrecy, and sexuality in institutional religion, Mark D. Jordan's eloquent meditations on what truths about sexuality need to be told in church-and the difficulty of telling any truths-will be a balm and a revelation.

The people of mid-Ohio's Pleasant Valley went on with their normal lives that cold and rainy spring of 1896, not knowing that young Ceely Rose was brooding. She'd been told to forget her obsession with handsome Guy Berry. She'd been told about the danger of Rough-on-Rats poison. She'd heard about murdering those who stand in the way of love. By the time she was done, her family would be dead and others threatened. Later, the place where these crimes took place became Malabar Farm, the esta...

In Teaching Bodies, leading scholar of Christian thought Mark D. Jordan offers an original reading of the Summa of Theology of Thomas Aquinas. Reading backward, Jordan interprets the main parts of the Summa, starting from the conclusion, to reveal how Thomas teaches morals by directing attention to the way God teaches morals, namely through embodied scenes: the incarnation, the gospels, and the sacraments. It is Thomas’s confidence in bodily scenes of instruction that explains the often ov...

"We don't need books about teaching so much as books that teach ."Considering Jesus himself taught in a variety of ways—parable, discussion, miracle performance, ritual observance—it seems that there can be no single, definitive, Christian method of teaching. How then should Christian teaching happen, especially in this time of significant change to theological education as an institution?Mark Jordan addresses this question by first allowing vario...