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...

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....

"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...

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...

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...

The men who served with in the 1st Infantry Division with F company, 52nd Infantry, (LRP) later redesignated as Company I, 75th Infantry (Ranger) --engaged in some of the fiercest, bloodiest fighting during the Vietnam War, suffering a greater relative aggregate of casualties that any other LRRP/LRP/ Ranger company. Their base was Lai Khe, within hailing distance of the Vietcong central headquarters, a mile inside Cambodia, with its vast stockpiles of weapons and thousands of transient VC ...

Merlin R. Carothers is well-known throughout the Christian community. His books have sold over 19 million copies. His unique concept of "praise in all things" brings results that can only be termed miraculous. Merlin may be the only author to have served as a combat paratrooper in World War II, as a guard of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and later as a Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Army Chaplaincy in Korea, the Dominican Republic conflict, and in Vietnam. During these conflicts Merlin Carothers ...

Regardless of how positive you try to be, there are always people who want to make you miserable. Whether it is on purpose or unintentional, these individuals seem to have no other purpose in life but to ruin your self-esteem. This short guide contains quick and simple advice to help you overcome these people and situations and achieve the happiness you deserve.How to Be Happy When Other People are Making You Miserable: A Quick Guide is very helpful in overcoming the miser...