From the pundits to the polls, nearly everyone seems to agree that US politics have rarely been more fractious, and calls for a return to “civil discourse” abound. Yet it is also true that the requirements of polite discourse effectively silence those who are not in power, gaming the system against the disenfranchised. What, then, should a democracy do?This book makes a case for understanding civility in a different light. Examining the history of the concept and its basis in commu...

This book, a critical study of the essays and novels of Richard Jefferies, an English writer of the latter part of the nineteenth century, is an attempt to define the nature of Jefferies' contribution to English literature, and to isolate the more important and effective qualities of his work. Although he was not a major figure in English letteres, Jefferies was highly regarded for his essays on nature and the English countryside, studies of rural conditions, and regional novels; his work ...

This book is a year long devotional. It is a compilation of seven years of weekly bulletins written by a Pentecostal Pastor to his church. It not only contains help for each day, but it will, in a subtle way, tell the story of the struggling church William was Pastoring until October of 2024.

The saga continues! Vol. I delved into the ancient origins of Noah's patriarchal pronouncement and its development into the Divine covenants with the Jewish people in the Old Testament. Much later, the unfulfilled hopes of the Jewish nation resulted in the Gentile Church divesting the Chosen People from their ancient Divine promises and misappropriating those blessings for themselves. This pernicious doctrine is called "replacement theology" and entrenched anti-Semitism in...

In the absence of material dealing especially with his last years in Edinburgh a complete Life of Hugh Miller will probably never be attempted. I am informed by his daughter, Mrs. Miller Mackay, F.C. Manse, Lochinver, that the letters and materials sent out to Australia to form the basis of a projected biography by his son-in-law and daughter disappeared, and have never been recovered. The recent deaths of his son and of others who knew Hugh Miller in Cromarty and in Edinburgh still more p...

Millions of people watch ABC's hit show Shark Tank, in which hopeful entrepreneur-contestants give their all to convince blue-blood billionaires and millionaires to invest in their dreams and turn them into reality.From producer Mark Burnett, a Christian known for his TV series The Bible and A.D., Shark Tank also includes compelling themes about life's nonmaterial attainments, such as grace and salvation, penalty and punishment.The Sh...

In the absence of material dealing especially with his last years in Edinburgh a complete Life of Hugh Miller will probably never be attempted. I am informed by his daughter, Mrs. Miller Mackay, F.C. Manse, Lochinver, that the letters and materials sent out to Australia to form the basis of a projected biography by his son-in-law and daughter disappeared, and have never been recovered. The recent deaths of his son and of others who knew Hugh Miller in Cromarty and in Edinburgh still more p...

Can an ancient patriarchal blessing be an important key to understanding the history of redemption? Can the hospitality analogy contained in that old man's utterance explain the unique role that a particular line of his descendants plays in God's plan of salvation throughout time and eternity? The author of The Tents of Shem contends that Noah's simple words are a profound foundational template from God Himself: "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem... and may he [Japheth] dwell in the ten...

Can an ancient patriarchal blessing be an important key to understanding the history of redemption? Can the hospitality analogy contained in that old man's utterance explain the unique role that a particular line of his descendants plays in God's plan of salvation throughout time and eternity? The author of The Tents of Shem contends that Noah's simple words are a profound foundational template from God Himself: "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem... and may he [Japheth] dwell in the ten...

Title:The Techno Shaman CodexSubtitle:Awakening the MassesDescription:This isn't a memoir. This is a remembering.A poetic transmission for the ones carrying codes.The Techno Shaman Codex is a soul memoir and spiritual transmission.It speaks to the ones who've felt the fracture - the ones who remember.

The conventional portrayal of George Augustus Selwyn, the first Anglican bishop of New Zealand, focuses upon his significance as a missionary bishop who pioneered synodical government in New Zealand and acted as a mediator between settlers and Maori. George Augustus Selwyn (1809-1878) focuses on Selwyn’s theological formation, which places him in the context of the world of traditional high churchmanship, rather than the Oxford Movement narrowly conceived. It argues that his distinctivenes...