Just Traveling celebrates overcoming distance and seeking difference as defining human traits. Following the scriptural witness of God as the Earthroamer, the book explores the liminal qualities of traveling through six movements: anticipating, leaving, surrendering, meeting, caring, and returning. To travel is to move at the speed of being present to one's experiences, bridging distance and difference through acts of care. Drawing on personal experience...

EXODUS: WHY I BECAME A REPUBLICAN DETAILS THE CONFLICT OF A AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE, WHO DECIDES AFTER RUNNING FOR POLITICAL OFFICE, THAT THE DEMOCRATS ARE, INCOMPETENT AND HAVE, NO IDEA OF HOW TO TRULY GOVERN. HE ALSO REALIZES, THAT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS NOT DONE ANYTHING OF SIGNIFICANCE, FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS, SINCE THE SIGNING OF THE VOTER RIGHTS BILL OVER FORTY YEARS AGO. HE ALSO DETAILS, HOW BLACKS ARE NOT ANY BETTER OFF WITH BARACK IN THE WHITEHOUSE...

Cloaked in promises of freedom and empowerment, a war has threatened the lives of millions of people of all ages, but especially the young. This is the body image war. Hollywood, the music industry, and large corporations promise happiness, pleasure, popularity, and power if we would just buy what they are selling. But their tactics are smoke and mirrors, and their promises are hollow. From photoshop to misleading advertising to the use of paid celebrities,...

Our thought lives have incredible power over our mental, emotional, and even physical well-being. In fact, our thoughts can either limit us to what we believe we can do or release us to experience abilities well beyond our expectations. When we choose a mindset that extends our abilities rather than placing limits on ourselves, we will experience greater intellectual satisfaction, emotional control, and physical health. The only question is . . ....

The wilderness of the heart may be untamed, but you don't need to go there alone. In The Wild Land Within, spiritual companion and podcast host Lisa Colón DeLay offers a map to our often, bewildering inner terrain, inviting us to deepen and expand our encounters with God. Through specific spiritual practices from early desert monastics, as well as Latinx, Black, and Indigenous contemplatives, she guides us in cultivating lives of devotion. In opening...

What can we learn from contemporary writers about keeping public conversation compassionate, vigorous, faithful, and life-giving? Those who want to avoid simplistic partisan rhetoric and use words in a challenging, spirited way need practical strategies. This book offers a range of them. Drawing upon the work of exemplary contemporary writers, Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict shows how to speak and write clearly and generously. For example,...

Les secrets de Satan a pour objet de montrer comment tout homme peut passer du royaume de Satan au royaume de Dieu, des ténèbres à la lumière, de la pauvreté à la richesse pour vivre dans le bonheur. Il apprend également comment profiter pleinement de la vie et parvenir à la félicité tout en étant protégé des malheurs. D'autre part, cet ouvrage est un guide sur les manipulations sournoises des êtres humains par Satan au moyen de fausses...

Study the life of Padre Junipero Serra and his missions to America. Understand why the Spanish government decided to send missionaries to the southwestern part of the US, especially in Texas and California. What the life of a mission like during those times? How did they reach out to the Native Americans? Read all about it in this book for third graders.

As a boy, Melchior is fascinated by stars but has rigid obligations to apprentice with his rug-making father. When his life is radically changed, he is propelled onto a new path full of danger and glory in pursuit of a special star. The journey leads Melchior to reflect on life and death, dreams and duty, and to find unusual reconciliation within his family and with the God he never knew he sought. Destined to become a classic, “Seeker of Stars”...

When one of his friends is kidnapped and another gravely injured, Scott finds himself alone and dangerously close to losing everything important to him. The stakes rise as Scott and SATURN seek to rescue his parents before the dangerous information they're protecting is compromised. Their efforts are complicated as Snake's obsession with McCullys turns his full attention to Scott. When an icy accident nearly ends Scott's life and puts his security...