JESUS CAST OUT DEMONS. YOUR CHURCH STOPPED TEACHING YOU HOW.Somewhere between the Book of Acts and your Sunday morning service, the church quietly dropped a quarter of what Jesus actually did. He taught, He preached, He healed, and He delivered. Somewhere along the way, that last part got labeled "extreme," reserved for "those" churches, while the rest of us kept praying the same prayer over the same stuck place in our lives and calling the lack of change normal.

"Novanglus" and "Massachusettensis" are a series of essays written during the American Revolutionary period, primarily authored by John Adams and Daniel Leonard, respectively. These writings represent a significant ideological clash between the American patriots and loyalists. Adams, under the pseudonym Novanglus, argued for independence and the rights of the colonies, emphasizing the principles of liberty and self-governance. In contrast, Leonard, writing as Massachusettensis, defended th...

When justice fails, one man becomes something darker than the evil he hunts.Lieutenant James Barnes is a seasoned homicide detective, a man who has seen the worst humanity has to offer. But nothing prepares him for the brutal reality of a child killer who keeps slipping through the system-protected by powerful forces hiding in the shadows.As the body count rises and the system betrays him, Barnes is pushed beyond the limits of law and morality. What begins as a pursuit of j...

A Critical Companion to David Lynch builds on the vast debate of one of the most discussed and researched directors of the present era, with commercial and critical success across multiple mediums and genres. This edited volume provides a wide-ranging exploration of Lynch’s films, practices, and collaborations, with nineteen original chapters examining themes including narrativity, aesthetics, artistry, sound, experimentation, metafiction, and patriarchy from the disciplinary pers...

This anthology focuses on the ethical issues surrounding information control in the broadest sense. Anglo-American institutions of intellectual property protect and restrict access to vast amounts of information. Ideas and expressions captured in music, movies, paintings, processes of manufacture, human genetic information, and the like are protected domestically and globally.The ethical issues and tensions surrounding free speech and information control intersect in at least two i...

A Critical Companion to Steven Spielberg offers a comprehensive, detailed study of the works of Steven Spielberg. Spielberg's early productions stand as landmarks in contemporary cinema, and his involvement with film spans all cinematic genres. Today, Spielberg enjoys an immense and enduring popularity around the globe, and his productions have attracted (and continue to attract) both public and critical attention. This book investigates several distinct areas of Spielberg's works and addr...

Divided between two military alliances, Europe has maintained stability based on political status quo and military power balance. However, European states—including neutral and nonaligned countries—have felt a need for a common policy to guarantee their security, and the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) was convened to address this concern. Ten years later, the authors of this study find that the outlines of a European security regime are indeed discernible. The conf...

From the dust of the Montana plains to the farthest reaches of the cosmos, Terrence Malick’s films have enchanted audiences with transcendent images of nature, humanity, and grace for nearly fifty years. The contributors in this volume explore the profound implications of Malick’s stories, images, processes, and convictions as they offer comprehensive studies of the ten completed films of Terrence Malick. Each chapter takes a reflective and retrospective approach, considering new interpret...

Poland and Russia have a long relationship that encompasses centuries of mutual antagonism, war, and conquest. The twentieth century has been particularly intense, including world wars, revolution, massacres, national independence, and decades of communist rule—for both countries. Since the collapse of communism, historians in both countries have struggled to come to grips with this difficult legacy.This pioneering study, prepared by the semi-official Polish-Russian Group on Diffic...

Is there a cycle in your personal or family life that no matter what you do, it continues to follow you? How about whenever you take one step forward, something comes and knocks you three steps back? Oftentimes what we fail to realize is that the keys to living our best life is found in the word of God. With every problem, God provides a solution because he desires his children to live a supernatural life. A supernatural life is one that experiences first-hand the power of God intervening ...

A brooding fugitive hides out in a crumbling hotel that was once filled with celebrities enjoying the successes of postwar America. He is a racist with a criminal past, an anti-hero who reflects on the ruins of the South and simultaneously on the life of a German performance artist called “Jupp”. The fictional Jupp is a thinly-veiled cipher for the late real-life German artist, Joseph Beuys, and the photos in the novel are photos of the performances by the controversial Beuys. At once echo...