For generations, passages in the Bible have been used by people in power to justify the harmful exploitation of the earth, the colonization of “discovered” lands, the displacement of Indigenous Peoples and the silencing of Indigenous voices. A careful examination of the Bible’s ancient languages, as they were understood by ancient scribes and teachers, serves to highlight how these passages have been misread and misused to rationalize conduct that the Bible explicitly condemns.Thro...

"Get it, read it, and pass it on."—Bill Moyers"Most Americans living today never heard Ed Murrow in a live broadcast. This book is for them I want them to know that broadcast journalism was established by someone with the highest standards. Tabloid crime stories, so much a part of the lust for ratings by today's news broadcasters, held no interest for Murrow. He did like Hollywood celebrities, but interviewed them for his entertainment programs; they had no ...

The iconic radio personality looks back on his life and career, from his first job at a smalltown Indiana station to his time at NPR and Sirius XM Radio.The host of The Bob Edwards Show and Bob Edwards Weekend on Sirius XM Radio, Bob Edwards became the first radio personality with a large national audience to take his chances in the new field of satellite radio. The programs' mix of long-form interviews and news documentaries has won many prestigio...

A sweeping, courageous, and deeply pastoral work, this article traces the unbroken theological thread running from Puritan colonial violence to modern nationalist rhetoric — revealing how Scripture has been repeatedly distorted to sanctify hierarchy, fear, and domination. Yet it refuses to focus only on critique. Instead, it reclaims the biblical narrative as a story of preservation, redemption, and radical inclusion.With rare clarity, it exposes the continuity between Puritan prov...

For generations, passages in the Bible have been used by people in power to justify the harmful exploitation of the earth, the colonization of “discovered” lands, the displacement of Indigenous Peoples and the silencing of Indigenous voices. A careful examination of the Bible’s ancient languages, as they were understood by ancient scribes and teachers, serves to highlight how these passages have been misread and misused to rationalize conduct that the Bible explicitly condemns. Throughout ...

Psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl said, "Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life." Yet some contemporary voices claim that increased knowledge of the material world must diminish our sense of meaning. Physicist Steven Weinberg said, "The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless." Many people hold the material and meaningful perspectives separate in their minds, in a state of uneasy truce.The Heart of the Mat...

Coalitions across Borders shows how social movements have cooperated and conflicted as they work to develop a transnational civil society in response to perceived threats of neoliberalism-free trade, privatization, structural adjustment, and unbridled corporate power. The authors explore the processes of transnational mobilization, discussing the motivations and methods of cross-border cooperation as well as the conflicts that have affected movement abilities to promote social cha...

Living Up in a Down World explores the experience of life, our attitudes and perspective from a Biblical viewpoint, and provides a basic outline for the path to achieving a lifetime of peace and fulfillment.Pastor and counselor Dr. Bob Edwards has observed the damaged emotions of others for over two decades and offers a step-by-step approach to overcoming the emptiness created by a culture permeated with negativity and relativism. Dr. Bob draws inspiration from Scripture a...

"Most Americans living today never heard Ed Murrow in a live broadcast. This book is for them. I want them to know that broadcast journalism was established by someone with the highest standards. Tabloid crime stories, so much a part of the lust for ratings by today's news broadcasters, held no interest for Murrow. He did like Hollywood celebrities, but interviewed them for his entertainment programs; they had no place on his news programs. My book is focused on this life in journalism. I ...

What do fast-talking, New York octogenarians, Abe and Mabel, do when their life-long grocery store, Pepperstein Produce, is driven out of business by Wonder Food? They embark on the ultimate road trip with a nineteen year-old stoner, Wisdom, to Los Angeles to become actors.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production, starring Edward Asner, Jonathan Banks, Ed Begley Jr., Emily Bergl, Dan Castellaneta, Derek Cecil, Bob Edwards, Clea Lewis, Anne Meara, Kendall Schmidt and Susan Stamber...

He sat across a kitchen table from me, Ouija board between us. He invited the spirit we had been channeling to take control of him. He then immediately leapt from his chair, across the table, landing on top of me. His right hand reached around behind my neck, grasping my chin, and he began to pull. As my head could twist no further without snapping my neck, he made noises in my ear that did not sound human.How did I get here?What could I do?This is the story of how ...

In the New American Standard version of the New Testament, the word “authority” is represented by the Greek noun exousia, or the related verbs exousiazo and katexousiazo, a total of 70 times.Though translated “exercise authority” in our earliest English versions of the Bible, the word “authentein” is found only once, strongly suggesting an alternate meaning.Authentein is used in 1 Timothy 2:12, in a letter that warns repeatedly against “false” teaching.In the first ...