A close-up on one of American history's most splendid events, JFK's inaugural week, and the creation of the speech that inspired a generation and brought hope to a nation"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." On the January morning when John F. Kennedy assumed the presidency and stood to speak those words, America was divided. Citizens around the world were torn by fears of war. Kennedy's speech—called the finest since Linc...

It is now thirty years since the “Baptist Church Directory,“ prepared by the writer, was first published. That work was designed to be somewhat of a consensus of the opinions of those best able to judge in matters of Baptist church polity and usage, especially as to what concerns administration and discipline. It might thus prove a help to both pastors and members, particularly in perplexing cases liable to arise. Thus it was hoped it might help to rectify the order and customs of our chur...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This book proposes a fundamentally new tax system and how we fund the government: by replacing the entire federal tax code with a single, one-percent General Transaction Tax collected automatically at settlement across modern payment systems.By taxing money in motion rather than income after it is earned, the system harnesses the immense scale of today’s transaction volumes to fund government without fi...

The word “church” is, in common language, used with large latitude of meaning. It is applied to a building used for Christian worship, to a congregation of Christian worshipers, to a religious establishment, to a given form of ecclesiastical order, to the aggregate of all Christian believers, and to a local company of Christian disciples associated in covenant for religious purposes. The latter is its common use in the New Testament. The Greek word ekklesia, rendered “church,” is derived f...

Before the hotels, before the highways, before the world discovered its shores, Hawaii was something else entirely. It was a place of raw volcanic grandeur, of ancient customs carried on the wind, of a people whose connection to their land ran deeper than any modern visitor could imagine. Sereno Edwards Bishop lived that vanishing world firsthand, and in these pages he reaches back across the decades to resurrect it with startling clarity. Born to missionary parents in the islands during a...