An Untold Story is author Charles Smith's personal account of his inspiring life of ministry, family, and transforming the world with the love of Christ. From an insatiable desire to leave a record of his life's work for future generations, Smith shares the true story of a child from an African American family achieving great heights in spite of the challenges of segregation. As a minister from a rich legacy of Christian leaders, Smith documents his decision to follow God's call to serve the least among His people in America's urban neighborhoods suffering from miseducation, unemployment, and social injustice, as well as the amazing miracles experienced along the way. Smith reveals his relationship to the elderly, the diseased, and youth at risk, and the transformation he witnessed within the lives of these individuals. Smith's autobiography will touch your heart with the possibilities of faith-based unity in a nation crippled by division. An Untold Story serves to build a bridge between people of different races, backgrounds, and ages to forge powerful connections between the beautifully diverse body of Christ. Charles Smith has a Master of Divinity from Samuel De Witt Proctor School of Religion, His son in the ministry Dr. John W. Kinney who recently retired after 27 years as Dean of the School of Theology has written the Forward vividly depicting the man Charles Smith and his result-oriented ministry.
Although Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was one of the most famous scientists in the world at the time of his death at the age of ninety, today he is known to many as a kind of “almost-Darwin,” a secondary figure relegated to the footnotes of Darwin’s prodigious insights. But this diminution could hardly be less justified. Research into the life of this brilliant naturalist and social critic continues to produce new insights into his significance to history and his role in helping to shape modern thought. Wallace declared his eight years of exploration in southeast Asia to be “the central and controlling incident” of his life. As 2019 marks one hundred and fifty years since the publication of The Malay Archipelago, Wallace’s canonical work chronicling his epic voyage, this collaborative book gathers an interdisciplinary array of writers to celebrate Wallace’s remarkable life and diverse scholarly accomplishments. Wallace left school at the age of fourteen and was largely self-taught, a voracious curiosity and appetite for learning sustaining him throughout his long life. After years as a surveyor and builder, in 1848 he left Britain to become a professional natural history collector in the Amazon, where he spent four years. Then, in 1854, he departed for the Malay Archipelago. It was on this voyage that he constructed a theory of natural selection similar to the one Charles Darwin was developing, and the two copublished papers on the subject in 1858, some sixteen months before the release of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. But as the contributors to the Companion show, this much-discussed parallel evolution in thought was only one epoch in an extraordinary intellectual life. When Wallace returned to Britain in 1862, he commenced a career of writing on a huge range of subjects extending from evolutionary studies and biogeography to spiritualism and socialism. An Alfred Russel Wallace Companion provides something of a necessary reexamination of the full breadth of Wallace’s thought—an attempt to describe not only the history and present state of our understanding of his work, but also its implications for the future.
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