Altman has picked up on things that a good portion of the population has not yet discovered The First Liberal is a timely book, and one I think will get more than a few people talking. It is the kind of talk that has been needed for a long time."-Reverend Fred C. Plumer, president, The Center for Progressive Christianity Dennis Altman frames a fascinating discussion for both conservatives and liberals. Using Jesus' teachings as logical arguments unadorned by religious overtones, Altman challenges established notions with eye-opening impact. Altman highlights how Jesus brought humanist values to the Roman world of cruelty and greed. He shows how Jesus was the first liberal voice among religious and political establishments, and the first major advocate for women's and minorities' rights. Altman examines Jesus' teachings in a modern context: our obligations to one another, the dangers of greed, the effective power of nonviolence, and the importance of liberal values in shaping the world for our children. Regardless of your political or religious orientation, this exciting book will open new doors for you.
Colton’s Adventures Back in Time is a collection of memories and Tall Tales from his Grandpa’s youth. These memories are triggered by sight or sound as they travel along mountain roads and through the ridges of an old man’s memories. Colton and his Pop use an old navy-blue Jeep as their time machine to travel eight decades back in time where a sight or sound triggers a memory from an ole man’s past. Step back in time as Pop, “The Story Man” shares the history of a time long gone. Listen to stories of adventures, experiences, and events from decades long ago as a grandpa shares them with his grandson. These stories are of a way of life that no longer exist, stories about home and family, stories that teach life lessons, stories that reveal the values and principles that are so desperately needed in the world today. These memories are of a time when life was simple, less hectic, and more enjoyable. Travel back in time with Colton and Pop, back to a time where friends and family looked after one another, back to a time full of hope and wonder.
We had a nice family, a nice new home, we were not wealthy. We did have good jobs, worked hard for what we did have. We were just a normal quiet family. We were not rich or famous, or anything noticeable that would warrant our nine year old to be kidnapped from our home, on a hot summer night back in 1993. So why did something so terrifying happen to us? What did we ever do to deserve it? This is part of my journals, that tell my story in my words. This story is how we coped, or not coped with something so horrifying that it changed our lives forever. This is my story good or bad, of what happened, the stress, the agony, the guilt of not being able to protect our children, of determination to set things right. We were a strong family that people said the odds were against us that we would survive. We did survive, and we came through it stronger than anyone expected. This story needed to be told to help other families know that there is help out there, where one never expected. That courage and all the positive things, someone never thought they had overcame all that was so very bad.
Dennis S Martin has been writing poetry for nearly half a century. In this (his fourteenth) collection he explores with amazement all of the subtleties of a life filled with and blessed by elegance and grace.
Rick Holden is a struggling writer. He has retreated to the seclusion of Avalon Estates to complete his latest novel, one based on magic and witchcraft. In returning to this Long Island manor after more than a dozen years he renews his acquaintance with the mysterious Jewel household. Ophelia, the lady of the manor, her weak-willed husband, Chester, her playboy stepson, Rad, the eccentric groundskeeper, the neurotic housekeeper, and the intoxicating niece, Phaedra. The Ancients say that life revolves in a great circle; no one ever really dies. Phaedra believed in the Ancient Mysteries. She had spent her entire life learning the ways of the Craft. Rick looks to Phaedra for instruction and inspiration. What he didn't expect to find was love. Phaedra is the story of a man and woman caught in an impossible situation that is out of their control. It is a story of faith that endures through the ages, of two people who continue to find each other, fight for each other and sacrifice all they have for love.
This book celebrates both the art of mindful thought and the lovely Japanese poetry form of haiku. Illustrated with simple line drawings to accompany each item, it is intended to make the readers stop and ponder the beauty of nature, the power of mindfulness and the essence of the universe.
Every waking moment of every day we all must sort through the slush pile of choices that stack up before us making decisions based on the facts and figures presented. How do we tell what is real or imagined, what is fake or genuine, true or fabricated? In this hodgepodge of stories, scenes, essays and poems the subject is explored, dissected and analyzed in a sincere effort to find, once and for all, THE TRUTH ABOUT TRUTH
A collection of patriotic poems written by a Vietnam Veteran.This volume is dedicated to all of those men and women who committed themselves to the service of their country so that others might enjoy the comforts of freedom and liberty.
The story behind the attack that shocked a nation and opened a new chapter in the history of American crime. On July 14th, 1966, Richard Franklin Speck swept through several student nurses’ townhouse like a summer tornado and changed the landscape of American crime. He broke in as his helpless victims slept, bound them one by one, and then stabbed, assaulted, and strangled all eight in a sadistic sexual frenzy. By morning, only one young nurse had miraculously survived. The killer was captured in seventy-two hours; he was successfully prosecuted in an error-free trial that stood up to appellate scrutiny; and the jury needed only forty-nine minutes to return a death verdict. Here is the story of Richard Speck by the prosecutor who put him in prison for life with a brand new introduction by Bill Kunkle, the prosecutor of the infamous John Wayne Gacy Jr. In The Crime of the Century, William J. Martin has teamed up with Dennis L. Breo to re-create the blood-soaked night that made American criminal history, offering fascinating behind-the-scenes descriptions of Speck, his innocent victims, the desperate manhunt and massive investigation, and the trial that led to Speck’s successful conviction.
This double collection of poems includes light-hearted, whimsical pieces (Don't Shoot the Cook) and a deeper, more penetrating collection (Cuts to the Bone) that is not always kind to the senses.
Are you one of the untold millions of people searching for a little happiness in each day despite its ups and downs? Celebrate another day of living with Dennis Martin's Celubrious Messages. These messages will provide that daily motivation and inspiration that will help you to learn from past and present experiences and recognize that every day can be the best day of your life. These simple, yet powerful, two-minute doses of inspiration convey the power of living, loving, and positive thinking.
Did you ever wonder what it is that sets us apart form all of GodÕs other creatures? It certainly has to do with the fact that we can think and reason in abstract respects. But I believe it is more than that. There are any number of various virtues that we either follow or disregard that determine how we view life and how others view the lives we lead. In this, my latest volume of poems, we can take a serious look at 101 of these valuable virtues. Quite often just looking at the list and considering what personal meaning each on has in our lives can make a significant difference in how we live, how we love and how we treat each other.
Heaven and hell have been battling since the dawn of time. There has always been angels and demons doing their bidding for their sides. Everything is about to change because of one free thinking demon With his newly formed demon recruits, the greatest battle of all is about to be waged, both in heaven and in hell. The very essence of life itself hangs in the balance. Only the unification of four brave demons and four exceptional angels can bring the wrath of heaven and hell tearing the cosmos in two to an end, and stopping the darkest days and the brightest nights ever coming to pass.
2022 Top Ten Book from Academy of Parish Clergy The teachings of the great twentieth-century Jewish thinker Martin Buber empower us to enter a spiritual dimension that often passes unnoticed in the daily routine. In A Year with Martin Buber, the first Torah commentary to focus on his life's work, we experience the fifty-four weekly Torah portions and eleven Jewish holidays through Buber's eyes. While best known for the spiritual concept of the I-Thou relationship between people, Buber graced us with other fundamentals, including Over Against, Afterglow, Will and Grace, Reification, Inclusion, and Imagine the Real. And his life itself--including his defiance of the Nazis, his call for Jewish-Arab reconciliation, and his protest of Adolf Eichmann's execution--modeled these teachings in action. Rabbi Dennis S. Ross demonstrates Buber's roots in Jewish thought and breaks new ground by explaining the broader scope of Buber's life and work in a clear, conversational voice. He quotes from the weekly Torah portion; draws lessons from Jewish commentators; and sets Buber's related words in context with Buber's remarkable life story, Hasidic tales, and writing. A wide variety of anecdotal illustrations from Buber as well as the author's life encourages each of us to "hallow the everyday" and seek out spirituality "hiding in plain sight.
Heaven and hell have been battling since the dawn of time. There has always been angels and demons doing their bidding for their sides. Everything is about to change because of one free thinking demon With his newly formed demon recruits, the greatest battle of all is about to be waged, both in heaven and in hell. The very essence of life itself hangs in the balance. Only the unification of four brave demons and four exceptional angels can bring the wrath of heaven and hell tearing the cosmos in two to an end, and stopping the darkest days and the brightest nights ever coming to pass.
In The Smart Family Pioneers, follow the sojourning Smart Families as they journey from one frontier wilderness to the next, settling the land, fighting for their country, and homesteading the west. The main focus in this beautifully illustrated work is a comprehensive account of the pioneering journeys of Joseph Smart Sr. and his descendants. Told through revealing personal sketches, nostalgic photographs, and historical documents, this edition contains an in-depth and sweeping study of the Smart families, beginning with the patriarch who followed the Great Wagon Road south from Pennsylvania in the 1760s and migrated to western North Carolina, a hinterland populated by Cherokee Indians, bears, and mountain lions. The authors detail the struggles and conditions that the early settlers to this primitive wilderness endured. They also shed light on the plight of the Confederate soldiers when duty called in the 1860s, and moreover, they tell of the anguish and many deaths that the Smart families suffered during the Civil War. In addition, the authors recount the tales of the western exodus and wanderlust of Joseph's children and grandchildren who traversed the southern Appalachians and settled in the coves of eastern Tennessee and intermarried with the Cherokees, while other family members forged north and west to Indiana and Missouri before moving on to the plains of Texas, crossing the dangerous Red River and surviving numerous Indian raids. The incredible sagas of hardship and sacrifice that these original pioneers survived, along with the heartbreaking details of gruesome accidental deaths and heinous tales of cruel hangings and cold-blooded murder, make this book a "must read" for both historians and genealogists alike. The Smart Family Pioneers is the eighth book of genealogy and history written by the brother and sister researchers, Dennis C. Martin and Cynthia Y. Whited. Their eight archives of past events and family histories offer a compelling study in to the lives and former times of many people from western North Carolina, and are sure to be the main source of reference for many years to come for those seeking information regarding their Carolina ancestors.
Black Lightning teams up with the DC Universe’s greatest heroes! Jefferson Pierce has been successfully battling evil with his power over electricity as Black Lightning, and his heroic exploits have caught the attention of the Justice League of America. Now the World’s Greatest Superheroes want Black Lightning to join their ranks, but will he accept their invitation? Collecting for the first time ever all of Black Lighting’s major appearances after the end of his original series, featuring work by creators Dennis O’Neil, Gerry Conway, Dick Dillin and Frank McLaughlin. Collects DC COMICS PRESENTS #16, DETECTIVE COMICS #490-491, #494-495, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #173-174 and WORLD’S FINEST COMICS #256-259, #261.
After an Earth-scarring apocalyptic battle, the meta-humans have turned back a massive invasion of super-science powered Nazi war machines. Now meta-hero organization Echo and sometime Russian ally CCCP must battle back. Task one: to hunt down the secret puppetmasters behind the Nazi robot invasion, the Thule Society. It's "go time" once again for the meta-heroes, including fire-bender John Murdock, hacker-witch Vikki Nagy, healer Belladona Blue, super-quick Mercurye¾and most of all for their ghostly ally, Seraphym, the spirit of the world who uses her secret influence to direct the fight against a Thulian-based tyranny of evil and slavery that is fast descending upon the entire universe! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
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