Navigating the stormy seas of the 1960s wasn't easy, especially if Vietnam was on your horizon. Ignoring his 2-S selective service deferment, Conor Patrick McKall volunteers for the draft, and Uncle Sam promptly deposits him in the Big Green Machine. Six months later McKall is walking point in jungles, rice paddies, and rubber plantations. In nine short months, he's made an infantry squad leader responsible for a dozen other grunts. In the "boonies," life is lived one day at a time. Joinin...

Experience gripping wartime stories and honest prayers by this Camp David chaplain now serving in Iraq.When words mean less and less, but money talks more and more; when blasphemy is a best seller, and eternal war has replaced hopeful diplomacy; in times like these is prayer even possible? Patrick J. McLaughlin thinks so. McLaughlin is an active duty Navy Chaplain who has ministered to heads of state and to soldiers living and dying in the heat of Iraq....

Preservation and Protest proposes a novel taxonomy of four paradigms of nonhuman theological ethics by exploring the intersection of tensions between value terms and teleological terms. These tensions arise out of the theological loci of cosmology, anthropology, and eschatology. The individual paradigms of the taxonomy are critically elucidated through the work of Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Berry, Dumitru Stăniloae, and Jürgen Moltmann and Andrew Linzey. McLaughlin systematically develops the ...

Professional surf photographer Shawn Pérez, on assignment for Deep Surf Apparel to a remote Pacific island, encounters an isolated tribe. When he naturally snaps a photo of their spiritual leader, their reaction is life-threatening and gives Shawn something to think about after his guide tells him, “Shawn, they think your pictures steal men’s souls.” Years later, Dr. Sally Evans, Shawn’s ex-girlfriend and a research scientist at Photon Corporation, develops the Sentient camera for the Defe...

Are you lucky enough to be born between 1965 and 1980? You know who you are. The MTV Generation, The Free-Range Generation, The Forgotten Generation. The last generation to have lived without an email address, a cell phone or a script.Welcome Generation X!We were the last generation of undocumented fun. We remember it very well. How? The scars remind us. GenX learned about life early and usually the hard way. GenX is resilient, brilliant, broken, and beautiful. We're also s...

"Dr. McLaughlin is a gifted communicator with the unique ability to share ideas that will add value to anyone's journey in both business and life." -Kevin Brown, The HERO EffectWhen an unexpected coastal snowstorm shut down life in North Carolina, Dr. Patrick McLaughlin found himself with something rare: uninterrupted time. Fresh from a joyful weekend with his brother and son, yet still healing from heartbreaking personal losses, he realized that this pause was more than weather-it...

A Dock.A Dog.A Doctor.A Destiny.A Divine Calling.Dr. Patrick McLaughlin's life was moving fast, with his dreams and goals on track. Married, raising four kids, serving patients, growing fifty side businesses, and trying to keep up with a full and sometimes chaotic life.Then one day, on his coastal North Carolina dock, his world was upended.With his life suddenly turned upside down, it took his favorite dog, Bear, to remind him of what...

Navigating the stormy seas of the 1960s wasn't easy, especially if Vietnam was on your horizon.Ignoring his 2-S selective service deferment, Conor Patrick McKall volunteers for the draft, and Uncle Sam promptly deposits him in the Big Green Machine.Six months later McKall is walking point in jungles, rice paddies, and rubber plantations. In nine short months, he's made an infantry squad leader responsible for a dozen other grunts. In the "boonies," life is lived one day at ...

A Dock.A Dog.A Doctor.A Destiny.A Divine Calling.Dr. Patrick McLaughlin's life was moving fast, with his dreams and goals on track. Married, raising four kids, serving patients, growing fifty side businesses, and trying to keep up with a full and sometimes chaotic life.Then one day, on his coastal North Carolina dock, his world was upended.With his life suddenly turned upside down, it took his favorite dog, Bear, to remind him of what...

On a remote island assignment for the worlds leading surf brand, pro photographer Shawn Perez illicit's a tribes violent response when snapping a few pics of their children.Years later with access to Sentient, the Defense Intelligence Agencies DNA identity imaging device, Shawn knows this camera will elevate both he and Drake Edwards to prominence in world surfing. But the Sentient offers more than the highest resolution photos the world has ever seen.Shawn blends technolog...

Welcome to the first great space opera decalogy of the twenty-first century! Agents of ISIS is the 21st century re-envisioning of the Family d'Alembert series by its original author, an epic saga describing the fight to preserve humanity from the forces of chaos and destruction.With humanity scattered across the galaxy on hundreds of worlds, the Empire is the only force for order across the stars. Without it, interstellar conflicts would bring chaos and billions of deaths.B...

Huge corporations like Psi-Tech rarely have enemies not easily managed. Emily Winters is the exception. As a highly gifted precognitive and a prisoner of Psi-Tech, Emily is its greatest asset and also its greatest threat. That's why they plan to kill her very soon.Most of the world is blissfully unaware of an impending disaster that looms ever closer. Most of the survivors will emerge from the widespread devastation as psychics. Those who already possess special abilities like Emil...