There I was, buried underneath the hard rocks of life, gasping for air while my choices shoved me deeper into the earth. I was the diamond stuck so deep in the debris of decisions that I needed God's love to loosen the ground that covered me. I needed His patience and power to apply pressure and extract the value I thought I lost. I needed his faithful love to chastise me. I was guilty of abusing myself by allowing others to mistreat me. Isn't it sarcastically funny how we tend to misuse v...

Analyzing the extensive data gathered by the Public Influences of African American Churches project, which surveyed nearly two thousand churches across the country, Long March Ahead assesses the public policy activism of black churches since the civil rights movement. Social scientists and clergy consider the churches’ work on a range of policy matters over the past four decades: affirmative action, welfare reform, health care, women’s rights, education, and anti-apartheid activis...

Highlights presents Fox and His Halloween Tail by Barbara Owen: Fox's costume dilemma is finally solved.

Influenced by Robert and Clara Schumann and Joseph Joachim, Johannes Brahms not only learned to play the organ at the beginning of his career, but also wrote significant compositions for the instrument as a result of his early counterpoint study. He composed for the organ only sporadically or as part of larger choral and instrumental works in his subsequent career. During the final year of his life, however, he returned to pure organ composition with a set of chorale preludes--though many ...

Fox's fear is relieved when he finds that Bear is helping the birds not hurting them.

Highlights presents Fox Strings the Beans written by Barbara Owen. Fox's way of doing the chores cheers up Bear.

Fox has to change his plans as he prepares a surprise lunch and gift for Bear.

It's Fox's first sleepover. Why did he and Bear tell those ghost stories?

In Search of Safety takes a close look at the sources of gendered violence and conflict in women’s prisons. The authors examine how intersectional inequalities and cumulative disadvantages are at the root of prison conflict and violence and mirror the women’s pathways to prison. Women must negotiate these inequities by developing forms of prison capital—social, human, cultural, emotional, and economic—to ensure their safety while inside. The authors also analyze how conflict and s...

More than a century passed after Johann Sebastian Bach's death in 1750 before his music found an audience in the United States. Volume Five in the Bach Perspectives series tracks the composer's reputation in America from obscure artist to a cultural mainstay whose music has spread to all parts of the country.Barbara Owen surveys Bach's early reception in America. Matthew Dirst focuses on John Sullivan Dwight's role in advocating Bach's work. Michael Broyles considers Bach'...

Do you ever wish you could switch your brain off… even just for a minute?Does your mind feel like it’s stuck in a cycle of constantly analyzing and replaying conversations or second-guessing every decision?Overthinking is exhausting. It drains your energy, hijacks your focus, and convinces you that every decision—yes, even what to eat for lunch—is a life-or-death situation!But no, you’re not “too sensitive” or “too much in your head.” It's entirely ...

A rhyming, vibrant story based on the folk song of seven soldiers.Barbara Emberley’s jaunty adaptation of the cumulative folk song about soldiers who build a magnificent cannon and Drummer Hoff, who fires it off.