Welcome to Doxieville! Meet Deuce and Diesel as they lead the dachshund pack on adventures. Deuce is reckless, but fun-loving. Diesel is very responsible, and the biggest and strongest dog in Doxieville. Together, the doxies learn that handicaps should never hold them back in life, and they should pursue their dreams. They also learn how to count, make friends, and deal with bullies. All of the dogs in Doxieville are based on real dogs owned by the book's creators, Darrin and Trudi Martin.
Meet Moose, the biggest dog in the world. Moose lives in a traveling circus. One day he tells his closest friend, a cat named Big Yellow Face, he is tired of moving from town to town. Moose wants a house that is a real home. Deuce and Diesel meet Moose at the circus and take him home to try and fit him into their small world. Miss Dixie explains to Moose that it's not a house that makes a home. What truly makes a home is being with the ones who care about you, your family, and the memories you make with them. Moose comes to realize that he's had a home all along with his friends in the circus who care about him.
The old adage, "never discuss religion and politics," is roundly rejected in this incisive exploration of presidential history and religious faith. This newly updated 2016 edition of The Presidents & Their Faith is a fascinating and informative look at how all U.S. presidents exercised their personal faith, exerted presidential power, and led a religiously diverse nation. Has there ever been a stranger prayer than Truman's, offered upon America's successful development of the atom bomb: "We pray that He may guide us to use it in His ways and for His purposes"? At the nation's founding, Northeast Presbyterians demanded explicit mention of Jesus in the Constitution. George Washington refuted them, saying that religious piety "was a matter best left between an individual and his God; religious instruction was the responsibility of religious societies, not the civil state." What drove Washington to make that argument, and what if he had lost? Who wouldn't feel like the exasperated FDR when he said, "I can do almost everything in the 'Goldfish Bowl' of the President's life, but I'll be hanged if I can say my prayers in it. It bothers me to feel like something in the zoo being looked at by all the tourists in Washington when I go to church...No privacy in that kind of going to church, and by the time I have gotten into that pew and settled down with everybody looking at me, I don't feel like saying my prayers at all." But even more importantly, what's real, what's a show, and why does it matter when it comes to faith and politics? These questions and more are unpacked and examined, leading to a whole new understanding of how religion and politics interfaced through America's history, and how they will play out in our future. In this climate of religious and political tensions, The Presidents & Their Faith casts a civil, entertaining and insightful spotlight on the unique mix (and frequent mix-ups) of politics and religion in America.
Founded by Mormons and settled by immigrants, Price, Utah, is a city of contradictions. Settled in the late 1870s, it was not until the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad discovered coal in the surrounding mountains that the town bloomed. Nearly overnight, trainloads of coal and other merchandise made Price into the commercial center of eastern Utah. As one of the safe havens for Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, it was their outlaw gold that funded the city's continued growth. With one of the most outspoken mayors the city ever had, Price fought the State of Utah for the right to maintain its saloons, gambling halls, and bawdy houses.
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