To a certain extent, our intellectual lives resemble Jonah’s experience in the belly of a great fish. We find ourselves in a kind of intellectual darkness as we are unable to discern the true character of ourselves and our world. People around us tend to oversimplify complex matters and rush to surface level characterizations of social and political issues, Christian scripture, and natural phenomena. Fortunately, we can effectively resist the pull of this human tendency. We can adopt the f...

In a sunlit meadow where the grass swayed like a sea of green, there lived a very special lamb named Billy. Unlike the others, Billy’s wool was as dark as the midnight sky but shimmered with a beauty all its own. Yet, being different left Billy feeling lonely and out of place, his heart weighed down by the longing to belong.One day, a magical wind swept through the meadow, carrying whispers of change and a lesson Billy would never forget: the power of embracing who you truly are. T...

The Future of Religious Minorities in the Middle East addresses the domestic and international politics that have created conditions for contemporary religious cleansing in the Middle East. It provides a platform for a host of distinguished scholars, journalists, human rights activists, and political practitioners. The contributors come from diverse political, cultural, and religious backgrounds; each one drawing on a deep wellspring of scholarship, experience, sobriety, and passion. Colle...

When a young Codie Williams 3 stepped out on affluent his high school sweetheart while working to pursue his dreams of college for a troubled teen mom Justine Slaughter he could have never guessed how terrible things could get. Justine is a daughter of a dope fend mother who subjected her to unthinkable things in the downtown streets of Sacramento California. She was already a single mom who didn’t want her first child, but has now become pregnant With Codie’s son. Codie was excited to hav...

First published in 1999. This concludes work on a series Current Issues in Criminal Justice. Criminology. The book represents another milestone in a criminologist’s journey to uncover some “truths” about the discipline and to reflectcritically on how that field has evolved. This journey, some of youmay remember, began in The Sociology of Criminological Theory:Paradigm or Fad and continued in The Demise of the CriminologicalImagination. To date, this latest work h...