The old gods vanished from their temples. But did everything they represented disappear with them?Across Europe, Christianity transformed the religious landscape. Temples were abandoned, sacred groves were cut down, ancient ceremonies faded, and gods once worshipped openly survived only in fragments of story and memory.Yet some things proved remarkably difficult to erase.Sacred wells continued to draw visitors. Fires were still lit at ancient tu...

Jason Murdock was caught up in a life of crime, attempting high-profile heists. But when a job goes fatally wrong, he’s given a choice: rot in prison or work for the company he was trying to rob. Feeling he has no other choice, Jason agrees to help test a revolutionary piece of technology—a high-tech body suit that renders its wearer immune to bullets, blunt force, and electric shocks.Now working on the right side of the law but for a company he doesn’t fully trust, Jason uses the ...

Startup Marketing is a fundamental guide for any entrepreneur looking to launch and market their startup small business. Unlike other texts that focus on specific marketing techniques, Startup Marketing teaches how to create a success formula for your startup small business regardless of the specific techniques you chose to use. Full of real world examples, taken from experience of working with hundreds of startup small businesses, this book is a must read for any entrepreneur looking to s...

Eleven spellbinding tales of transformation, survival, and grit from the creators of the New York Times bestselling original audiobook MeatEater's Campfire Stories: Close Calls.In MeatEater’s Campfire Stories: Discoveries, Revelations & Near Misses, a collection of outdoorsmen share remarkable tales of life-altering moments. From a macabre discovery in the Idaho mountains that closed the book on a mystery spanning more than 50 years to an...

PARENTING is not an easy task. No matter the challenges that a parent or their child faces, it can be hard to know the ‘right’ thing to do. It is no wonder that oftentimes the parent of an adult child with mental illness and addiction feels alone and may not know which way to turn. Knowing how and where to find help for their son or daughter is just the beginning. After caring for their loved one, a parent must turn their attention to themselves as well.CO-OCCURRING mental illness ...

PARENTING is not an easy task. No matter the challenges that a parent or their child faces, it can be hard to know the ‘right’ thing to do. It is no wonder that oftentimes the parent of an adult child with mental illness and addiction feels alone and may not know which way to turn. Knowing how and where to find help for their son or daughter is just the beginning. After caring for their loved one, a parent must turn their attention to themselves as well.CO-OCCURRING mental illness ...

'Entertaining, affectionate and righteous' Guardian'Says so much about being a woman' Cosey Fanni TuttiIn 1983, backstage at the Lyceum in London, Tracey Thorn and Lindy Morrison first met. Tracey’s music career was just beginning, while Lindy, drummer for The Go-Betweens, was ten years her senior. They became confidantes, comrades and best friends, a relationship cemented by gossip and feminism, books and gigs and rock ’n’ roll lov...

Author duo Natalie Murray and Jenny Fyfe are back with another sweet and steamy small-town romance.Dylan:Life couldn’t get much sweeter. I love my job and the city where I live. Women come and go with no strings attached—just the way I like it.But all that changes when I get some devastating news, and I’m forced to return to the small town I grew up in.The only spark of light in these dark days is getting to reconnect with Jade Quinn. She and my baby sister Ha...

Receptive Ecumenism asks not what other churches can learn from us, but 'what can we learn and receive with integrity from our ecclesial others?' Since the publication of Receptive Ecumenism and the Call to Catholic Learning: Exploring a Way for Contemporary Ecumenism (OUP, 2008), this fresh ecumenical strategy has been adopted, critiqued, and developed in different Christian traditions, and in local, national, and international settings, including the most recent bilateral dialog...

Examining the Doctrine of Human Depravity in Scripture and throughout Church HistoryFor centuries, theologians have debated the doctrine of total depravity—the belief that people are wholly and naturally corrupt due to original sin. Reformed theology upholds this truth, acknowledging it to be essential for understanding the gospel and humanity's need for a Savior.Ruined Sinners to Reclaim persuasively reaffirms the doctrine of total depravity from ...

The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited.The stories, poems, and essays that comprise this staff-edited issue of Ploughshares are diverse and timely. Visit a South African laundromat in Laurie Baker’s short story, Here I Am, Laughing with Boers;...

A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERIn a 1970s commuter town, Tracey Thorn’s teenage life was forged from what failed to happen. Her diaries were packed with entries about not buying things, not going to the disco, the school coach not arriving.Before she became an acclaimed musician and writer, Tracey Thorn was a typical teenager: bored and cynical, despairing of her aspirational parents. Her only comfort came from house parties, Meaningful Conversat...