Fresh out of the military and with a private investigator's license in hand, John Kirsh returns home to solve his very first case. People say Canyon Creek is quiet, peaceful, ordinary...they're dead wrong. Along the cul-de-sac streets and manicured lawns, something festers. When Private Investigator John Kirsh takes on the Donnelly case, it does not just open old wounds; it tears them wide. What starts as a need for closure spirals to a series of murders of the most bizarre. The deeper Joh...

The drama continues in the second book in the series as Private Investigator John Kirsh is hired to find a missing woman caught up in a yoga cult. As the search intensifies, John realizes that beyond the meditative chanting, ancient magick from the past draws down the moon.

Philosophers say the eyes are the windows of the soul...what if you don't have one? Private Investigator John Kirsh is back again for the fourth time, attempting to solve Canyon Creek's most bizarre case. Antonia "Toni" Vazquez-Smith is afraid of her coworker Tsundue Kunzang after filing a sexual harassment claim against him. She elicits the help of her cousin Josephina Flores and a group of tias to rid her of Tsundue's unnatural attachment. Little do John, or the aunts realize how deep th...

Third time's the charm for Private Investigator John Kirsh as he delves into the disappearance of Margaret D'Angelo, a former devotee of Abigail Wickham.The case takes a mysterious turn as multiple residents go missing without a trace in the county. Will a local tarot card reader shine a light on the dark underbelly of Canyon Creek's hidden history, or will it all go up in smoke?

Remembering the woman known as Pocahontas and the myths surrounding her down to the present dayThis collection of essays is the first of its kind to focus exclusively on the woman known as Pocahontas. Contributions from established leaders in the field offer innovative perspectives on the life of Matoaka/Pocahontas, especially on the creation and perpetuation of her cultural image in the seventeenth century and beyond—and on how new archival research, interdiscipli...

How should one make sense of the Christian confession that God has instilled a 'sense of divinity' in every person? While other approaches have identified the sense with a perceptual or cognitive faculty or with the empirical reports of theistic belief, this Element advances an affective model of general revelation, which draws from the writings of the neo-Calvinist branch of the Reformed tradition. The author argues that the sense of divinity refers to an implanted 'feeling of divinity', ...

Neo-Calvinism critically advances Reformed orthodoxy for the sake of modern life. Birthed in the Netherlands at the turn to the twentieth century, initiated by Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) and Herman Bavinck (1854-1921), it argued that a life before God entailed the leavening of faith over all human existence. While the movement originated in the Netherlands, the tradition now has a global reach, with practitioners and thinkers applying its insights in diverse ways and in their own contexts....

This is the first book to apply Bavinck's theological anthropology to contemporary theological issues. Sutanto provides a sustained close reading of Herman Bavinck's contributions to theological anthropology and positions him in conversation with current and historical dialogues on embodiment, revelation, affect theory, phenomenology, the cognitive science of religion, ethics, race, covenant, and the beatific vision. Sutanto explores the holistic character of Bavinck's vis...

This Companion to Theologian Herman Bavinck's Christian Worldview Explores Christianity's Contributions to Higher EducationAfter writing his well-known book Christian Worldview, Dutch Calvinist theologian and scholar Herman Bavinck focused his attention on how the Christian faith benefits higher learning, particularly religious studies, natural sciences, and the humanities.Christian Scholarship explores the pros and cons of Christ...

A baffling murder in the small town of Dobsman has the townsfolk running scared. When the inspector assigned to the case goes missing, rookie detective Rhea Greenwood and her partner, Morgan Holder, are sent to investigate as the case begins to spiral out of control.

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 ...

Nathaniel Gray Sutanto offers a fresh reading of Herman Bavinck's theological epistemology, and argues that his Trinitarian and organic worldview utilizes an extensive range of sources. Sutanto unfolds Bavinck's understanding of what he considered to be the two most important aspects of epistemology: the character of the sciences and the correspondence between subjects and objects. Writing at the heels of the European debates in the 19th and 20th century concerning theology's place in the ...