Bay State Road is a collection of sermons offered during the twenty years of Robert Allan Hill's deanship at Boston University's Marsh Chapel. Some sermons reflect on milestones, such as the first time Hill preached at Marsh Chapel as its dean, his 2023 university baccalaureate address, and a remembrance of the grief following the 2013 bombing of the Boston Marathon. But most were preached on "regular" Sundays, whose very ordinariness is the canvas on which the extraordinary is made visibl...

Many of our current, lasting controversies in American Christianity are due, in part, to the willingness of liberals to champion reason and experience while leaving Scripture and tradition to conservatives, and vice versa. The liberal biblical theological voice, once quite strong, has fallen silent. Grounded in a solid knowledge of biblical study, Partnership in the Gospel presents a series of exercises, or angles of perspective, intended to support the rigorous consideration of biblical t...

Salt City Prayers is a collection of Sunday morning prayers offered between 1985 and 1995 at Erwin United Methodist Church in Syracuse, New York. The prayers include themes such as comfort, deliverance, faith, grace, growth, meaning, presence, and restoration.

You may have asked yourself whether there is some effective method that can make you speak English fluently, efficiently and with confidence.Well, there is such a method!Advanced English Conversations will first and foremost help you gain mastery and command of those tricky idioms and phrases that are so common in English. In this book you are going to be acquainted with 100 active dialogues that present the language functionally. ...

Your God is too small--way too small! What if God is not a human-like personal being but the God Beyond God of the Christian mystical traditions? What if God is the ultimate reality beyond all beings, including beyond all divine beings, indeed beyond all Being? It's a mind-bending idea. Speaking of God as a human-like personal being is much easier but people who care about the deepest mystical understandings of God within our traditions need to make the effort to speak about the God Beyond...

The three cycles of sermons included here provide a spiritual geography, an announcement of the gospel set in New York State. The sermons were given life in the vibrant life of Asbury First United Methodist Church, Rochester, New York, over several years beginning in 2000. The collection is meant to exemplify a thematic form of preaching that addresses and creates a collective consciousness in the life a community. One series is set on "A Village Green." Another invites those along the Fin...

Our churches and our country long for an expression of common hope. Over the last century, venerable voices in affirmation of a common faith and a common ground have been lifted and heard in Boston, such as those of John Dewey and Howard Thurman. The Dean of Marsh Chapel, Robert Allan Hill, has preached on themes related to a common hope since 2006. Hill has lifted the theology of hope, of a common hope, at the marrow of the gospel. We cherish our forebears, who taught about a common faith...

The Courageous Gospel is intended for use alongside a commentary (Ashton, Brown, Bultmann, Barrett, other) in a class introducing the Fourth Gospel. The book has four parts: -A succinct summary of key matters of introduction; -A collection of sermons on the Gospel's core chapters, with reflective reminiscence and remembrance of what Raymond Brown said in lecture about the Gospel thirty years ago; -A series of background lectures that attempt, on the one hand, to honor the key insights of t...

Winnipeg, 1940. The river is frozen solid. The truth is buried deeper.In the tradition of James Patterson, Robert Ludlum, and Greg Iles, Young delivers a relentless thriller where the only thing more lethal than the prairie winter is a secret hiding in plain sight.New Year's Eve, 1939. As a wind shrieks down Portage Avenue, the city's elite celebrate the end of a decade inside the warm, gilded mansions of Armstrong Point. But outside, on the frozen ice of t...

Fanatikal follows comic book artist Miles Redding, a superstar in the industry, and his devoted wife Luna Longoria, a nanny in New York City. After a career slowdown, Miles lands a mysterious new opportunity with a rising comic company led by Frank Riley, who harbors dark secrets. As Miles becomes entangled with ambitious Goths pushing a violent, vampiric comic series, Luna senses danger and warns him. But the stakes rise as a manipulative fanboy and former ally, Neal Mosh...

Nominated as an outstanding thesis by the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of New Mexico, this thesis seeks to identify the gamma-ray burst (GRB) progenitor. GRBs are extragalactic explosions that briefly outshine entire galaxies, but the mechanism that can release that much energy over a

This progressive volume takes a nuanced approach to understanding systemic therapies with diverse client populations, leading to culturally responsive therapy. Synthesizing diverse streams of psychology, philosophy, and social theory, chapters focus on cutting-edge issues in couple and family therapy including social justice, power, and privilege in therapy, the role of evidence-based practices, and integrative approaches to couple and family therapy. Each contributor is either a recent im...