Burning it all down won’t save us.The system is collapsing under the weight of greed, corruption, and elite capture. But if ordinary people stand outside, torch in hand, the only ones left inside are the same insiders who rigged the game.This book is a manifesto for a different path: kick down the front door and claim the house.Learn how citizens can turn frustration into real power. Discover the tactics to dismantle backroom monopolies, expose political fraud, and f...

A selection of homilies and sermons preached in "Ordinary Time" that focus on the texts of the lectionary and the demands of Christian life. Some are short talks delivered in the context of the monastery, some are sermons delivered to students of theology, some are presentations to congregations scattered across the US, and some are sermons preached at ritual moments of transition.

Is discipleship about personal sanctification or social reform?Believers are divided on a question central to Christian identity: what does it mean to follow Jesus? For centuries, imitating Christ meant the pursuit of holiness, conforming the self to Jesus through self-sacrifice in order to join him in eternal life. But some Christians today consider this model to be self-centered. Instead, they say, true disciples ought to imitate Jesus in confronting corrupt soci...

For thirty years, they told us globalization would lift all boats. It didn’t.From Canada’s vanishing middle class to Korea’s two-tier workforce, from Germany’s low-wage “export miracle” to France’s fiery resistance, one pattern repeats: wages suppressed, costs rising, futures stolen.The Wage Trap: The Real New World Order uncovers how Bush Sr.’s famous 1991 “New World Order” speech wasn’t just geopolitical theatre — it was the opening act of a global wage-suppression projec...

Run, Don’t Vote: The People’s Jackpot is a satirical manifesto for every citizen who’s sick of waiting for rainbows, pensions, and promises that never pay out.Canadian politics isn’t a democracy — it’s a casino, and you’re not the player. You’re the jackpot. Every ballot you cast props up the same insiders, the same machine, the same scam.This book, written in a voice equal parts George Carlin rant and streetwise handbook, rips through:Bill C-5 and the velvet hammer...

Tired of being told your only power is a ballot every four years? Run, Don’t Vote flips the script. This sharp, unflinching manifesto shows how ordinary citizens can stop playing rigged political games and start taking real control.Forget waiting for career politicians to save you. The jackpot isn’t in their hands — it’s in yours. With stories, strategies, and a punchy call to action, this book challenges you to step forward, claim power, and rewrite the rules before they finish wr...

A bold reexamination of a landmark study in biblical ethicsThirty years ago, Richard Hays's The Moral Vision of the New Testament transformed how scholars, pastors, and students approached biblical ethics. Now a distinguished group of biblical scholars returns to this foundational work with new questions and contemporary urgency.This volume brings together senior and emerging New Testament scholars for a robust scholarly conversation with real-worl...

A selection of sermons or homilies preached over a fifty-year period explicitly linked to the church's liturgical year--thus, In Season. The sermons exemplify how engagement with lectionary texts, the church's cycle of worship, and the circumstances of contemporary believers, can all be brought into lively conversation.

First published by Franciscan press in 2000, Dr. Timothy J Johnson’s The Soul in Ascent: Bonaventure on Poverty, Prayer and Union with God has offered a thorough textual study of the importance of prayer in Bonaventure’s theology and life. This new edition is updated to include Johnson’s most recent work on Bonaventure’s Sunday Sermons sourced from his work, The Sunday Sermons of St. Bonaventure—Bonaventure Texts in Translation Series. This new edition is a must-read book for anyone intere...

What if gravity wasn't a force to be studied—…but a weapon already used?In a near-future Earth run by tech conglomerates and silence, physicist Cassian Voss makes a breakthrough in gravitational manipulation—only to vanish from time for exactly 1.4 seconds. When they return, the data is erased, the experiment shut down, and they’re no longer on record as ever existing.Reality itself begins to fracture.Shadow figures walk in reverse. Cities rewrite themselves...

First of a two-volume work providing a framework for understanding the life and thought of the apostle PaulIn this methodological tour de force, Luke Timothy Johnson offers an articulate, clear, and thought-provoking portrait of the life and thought of the apostle Paul.Drawing upon recent developments in the study of Paul, Johnson offers readers an invitation to the Apostle Paul. Rather than focusing on a few of Paul's letters, Johnson lays out the materials necessary to en...

"For me, Paul has always been the most difficult and therefore also most delightful advocate and interpreter of the Lord Jesus Christ and of the human experience of God's transforming power through Christ. In Paul's letters above all I have found the quality of mind and the depth of conviction that could arouse in me both excitement and passion. And it is Paul's letters, above all, that show how important and difficult is life together in the church."— from the preface