Thinking about Religion examines cutting-edge breakthroughs from across the sciences concluding that religion persists because the mind is primed for faith, ready to grasp and fiercely defend beliefs that make sense but defy logic.

Home is behind, the world ahead. - J.R.R. TolkienOld gods outwitted by heroes. Magical weapons that bring good and evil. Dragons winging over the city or walking upon the earth. A wizard witnessing endless battles. These stories and more explore the theme of Re-Quest.Leave home behind and wander magical worlds in these 16 fantasy tales from an international roster of authors. Featuring fiction from Robert E. Howard, Douglas Smith, James Dorr, Lillian Csernica, Gregory L. No...

Alyssia Gale is a daydreamer. A liar. An attention seeker. Everyone she's ever known has found a label to stick on her, but one thing's for sure: she can't be telling the truth. The flashes she sees of the dark and difficult lives of four other people, living in a world that's not her own … they can't be real. Alyssia understands that as well as anyone, even if she does keep catching herself thinking of the people she sees as friends.Then she's pulled into that other world by blood...

Gracelyn is a young girl who lives on a small ranch called Eagle Wings with her family and animal friends. She has to go to a hospital for a life-saving operation and will miss being at home for her twelfth birthday. While Gracelyn prepares to go to the hospital, the animals living at the ranch decide that Gracelyn should have a birthday gift. They work together to surprise her with the perfect present, but how will they get it to her? The clever animals choose a gift that hides its identi...

Autumn approaches, and with it comes a time of dark magic. In this issue we celebrate the fantastical, the foreign and the fatalistic. We have kallikantzaroi on a mission, banana Popsicle munching bombs, alien friends happy to lend more than a hand, a band that really puts themselves into their music and part one of Flashlight, Knife and Flowered Crown, an electrifying, modern fairy tale.Poetry, flash fiction and keen illustration add variety to the mix. An Spanish interview of Jac...

Rather than “anything goes” or “to each his own way,” what if we could identify, summarize, and share a set of basic decency norms that have produced good outcomes over time?The CORTHODOX Way is a memorable set of decency values people from varying cultures and walks of life can share. People need not foster division and have disdain for “others.” We can evaluate people and decision-making through the lens of one question: “Is this decent?”

Centurion Longinus was the soldier assigned to execute Jesus of Nazareth. Longinus had no idea that the task would catapult him into a whirlwind of events that would change the course of his life and history. As he struggles to forgive himself for executing Jesus, he must deal with his commanding officer's mysterious and deadly vendetta. Longinus also fears for those he loves, including Dulcibella, the daughter of his former commanding officer, Cornelius. He protects a unique blue pearl, t...

To see certain events begin to unfold across the land; across the world is very sobering. The Lord said "Watch and pray." The total demise of humanity brought on by Satan will unfold in the end of many a souls asking "WHO IS THIS MAN?" The Coming Storm... The combining of the business federation and the ecclesiastical system. An emergence of one, as Phillip Mauro expresses "a consolidation, a syndicate, or merger, a mammoth monopoly, a titanic trust," which shall absolutely control the mar...

The souls of desperation is a book filled with untold stories. Stories about things just by looking at an individual you will never have guessed. By the total leading of the Holy Spirit I was able to write what he wanted: giving insight to dying souls in desperation, burning inside for a change. This book will only be what your eyes are willing to see and whatever you allow your ears to hear.

A former R.A.F. pilot tells the true story of air-to-ground combat in World War II. Before his eighteenth birthday E.A.W. "Ted" Smith was in the British Royal Air Force where he served five years on over thirty RAF bases in South Africa, Southern Rhodesia, England, Scotland, France, Belgium, and Holland. Joining the RAF 127 Squadron after D-Day as a fighter and bomber pilot, he flew Spitfire aircraft on ninety missions, a third of which were bombing attacks while the land forces were beati...

Alyssia Gale has defeated the bad guy and returned to her old life – that's how stories are meant to end. Now she's faced with a far harder task: finding a way to be normal, despite her continued visions of a world she knows is real. She may be separated forever from her friends in Endarion, but at least she kept them safe.Or maybe not.Because fate isn't finished with any of them yet. An age-old pattern is at work, drawing them back together to finish what they started. And...

The story follows the adventures of Joe and Sylvia, a young boy and girl who stumble into the enchanting and whimsical land of the Snergs, a race of small, jolly, and industrious creatures. Together with their Snerg friend Gorbo, Joe and Sylvia embark on an adventure that involves castles, knights, witches, and giant ogres. J. R. R. Tolkien recorded his love for the novel which has led to speculation that the book was a major inspiration for the hobbits.