The most famous story of Jesus retold Prodigals digs deeply into each line from Jesus's famous parable about the prodigal son, inviting all readers―those down on their luck or high on their horse―to identify as prodigals. A prodigal is anyone who accepts they have a sinful human nature and turns toward the love of home, the place where we find a deeper relationship with God. Rather than divide the world into prodigals and nonprodigals, Taylor invites readers to fi...

The Year the World Stood Still is positive and light-hearted story about the coronavirus outbreak. It reassures children that what is of true value cannot be taken by a pandemic. It is written to entertain young children while dealing with societal and international events that have deeply impacted all families’ lives. It delicately outlines the events as they began and highlights the beauty that can emerge from a difficult situation. As the world has slowed down, families have had time to...

The Big Sad is heartfelt story about Bentley Bunny’s growing struggle with anxiety and childhood depression, which he refers to as “the Big Sad.” It addresses the very real emotional and social impacts of anxiety and depression and offers reassurance through the lessons taught by those closest to Bentley. This book is based on my son, who has had a real journey with the Big Sad, and the impact it has on his daily life. As a mother, this is my gift to other mums living with stressed-out, an...

Laudato Si’ insists on a revolutionary human response to the public challenges of our time concerning the ecological crisis. The volume takes up the revolutionary spirit of Pope Francis and speaks to the economic, technological, political, educational, and religious changes needed to overcome the fragile relationships between humans and Earth. This volume identifies various systemic factors that have produced the anthropogenic ecological crisis that threatens the planet and uses the ethica...

Music does not make itself. It is made by people: professionals and amateurs, singers and instrumentalists, composers and publishers, performers and audiences, entrepreneurs and consumers. In turn, making music shapes those who make it—spiritually, emotionally, physically, mentally, socially, politically, economically—for good or ill, harming and healing. This volume considers the social practice of music from a Christian point of view. Using a variety of methodological perspectives, the e...

DOES GOD’S WORD TO MOSES STILL MATTER?God called Israel out of Egyptian slavery. The book of Leviticus tells the amazing story of what happens next. God speaks to Moses and Israel learns how to be God’s people. But would they honor Him as their God? What if God called you? What would you do? Does God’s word to Moses still matter to us today?Greg Taylor takes you back in time to 1400 B.C. and the world of Leviticus. The original title of the book in Hebrew means, "He Called....

Over nearly fifty years, Eleanor Ross Taylor has established herself as one of the foremost southern poets of her generation. Captive Voices gathers selections from Taylor's five previous books along with a generous helping of new poems. Scintillating, unusual, passionate, and profound, the poems range from contemporary pieces about a bag lady on a bus, to historical pieces about settlers held hostage and a wartime nurse caring for British wounded, to intensely personal poems about her dis...

The drama of the Lancashire countryside combined with some of the most powerful diesel and electric locomotives to be found anywhere in Britain. Ross Taylor’s photographs cover every aspect of diesel and electric traction in Lancashire, hauling both passenger and goods trains. The types, classes of locomotives and the operating companies represented are as varied as the landscape which ranges from the drama of the Pennines to the windswept coastline of Morecambe Bay and the commuter belt o...

This book sets out to illustrate locomotive-hauled passenger stock in the twenty-first century. Whilst the vast majority of regular timetabled services are now in the hands of multiple units, there is a surprising variety of hauled workings still to be seen; in fact loco haulage has seen a small renaissance in recent years with the Chiltern Railways services between London and Birmingham and the Arriva Trains Wales services, amongst others. Longer established services include the Sleeper t...

Today, most British Rail diesel locomotive types are represented in preservation, though some classes are much more prolific than others (in particular the more recently withdrawn). Sadly, several early types were lost completely as they were withdrawn around the same time as steam traction finished on British Railways, a time when most enthusiasts had no interest in saving diesels. As a result, no North British locos survive, and of several other types there is just one survivor, for exam...

Over the past generation the Class 66 has been one of Britain’s most successful and reliable diesel locomotives. After being introduced in the late 1990s, the Class has been involved in various new contracts and has taken over from the older generation classes such as the Class 56. Now operated by five rival companies, the Class keeps on growing with more success. The Class was first introduced to freight company EWS and the first member to arrive into England was No. 66001 in June 1998. T...

After being built in and around 1989, the Class 60 diesel locomotives were built for heavy goods trains mainly used on Class 6 or 7 workings. Nicknamed ‘Tugs’ by rail enthusiasts, there were 100 of the class made, and these were split down into sectors such as coal, petroleum, metals and construction, but by the time the class entered service, the decals often didn’t match the operating department. Now run by two companies – DB Schenker and Colas Rail Freight – less than fifty are active a...