Bradley Carlsons muscular dystrophy causes brutal leg cramps that leave him crumpled on the floor. He cant climb stairs and curbs, and sometimes he cant even move. But none of that stopped him from putting his best foot forward and walking through his home state of Wisconsin. He walked through 595 incorporated cities, trekking from Lake Michigan to the mighty Mississippi. During his journey, he experienced his share of falls and challenges, but he also met incredible people, enjoyed special moments, and witnessed the breathtaking beauty of his home state, including waterfalls, desert-like dunes along Lake Michigan, and picturesque mountaintops and forest views. Bradley didnt set out on this journey to raise money or hand out brochures. He simply did it to show himself and others that someone with muscular dystrophy can accomplish great things. Youll laugh, cry, meet new friends, and discover new places in this inspirational memoir about one mans refusal to give up while seeing Wisconsin 1 Step at a Time.
SEA CALLED FRUITFULNESS by Martha Carlson-Bradley is a collection of lyric poems responding to the 1651 lunar map that gave the Moon the "sea" names still in use today. As the narrator ponders the motivation and lives of the two seventeenth-century astronomers who created this map, she also explores terrains of achievement and failure, intimacy and solitude, celibacy and fertility, certainty and unknowing. " 'What interests me most about a work of art is the artist's quality of mind, ' said Henry James famously. Add heart and spirit and engaging intersecting stories and you get what interests me most about Martha Carlson-Bradley's SEA CALLED FRUITFULNESS. What she teases out of the lives and life's work of two seventeenth-century Jesuit astronomers creates the character of the writer of this book that is itself a kind of moon map in which we vividly see our own very human faces. This picture is also a wonder, because Martha Carlson-Bradley draws it so well."-Michael Ryan
Ripped from today's headlines, Iran is on the verge of achieving their nuclear ambitions. Diplomacy has failed. Sanctions have failed. Now, Israel learns that Iran will have a nuclear bomb in months--and they take a more aggressive stance. Iran's response surprises no one; no one realizes, though, that this is simply Iran's opening move.
Through a bold and historically rooted vision for the future of philosophy of religion, The Sacrality of the Secular maps new and compelling possibilities for a nonsecularist secularity. In recent decades, philosophers in the continental tradition have taken a notable interest in the return of religion, a departure from the supposed hegemony of the secular age that began with the Enlightenment. At the same time, anthropologists and sociologists have begun to reject the once-dominant secularization thesis, which both prescribed and described the demise of religion in modern societies. In The Sacrality of the Secular, Bradley B. Onishi reconsiders the role of religion at a time when secularity is more tenuous than it might seem. He demonstrates that philosophy’s entanglement with religion led, perhaps counterintuitively, to vibrant reconceptions of the secular well before the unraveling of the secularization thesis or the turn to religion. Through rich readings of Heidegger, Bataille, Weber, and others, Onishi rethinks what philosophy can contribute to our understanding of religion and the wider social and cultural world.
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