There's a prayer that most of us haven't prayed yet. Not because we don't know the words-but because we're not sure we're ready for what God might say back.Jon Davis calls it Dangerous Prayer. It's the prayer of surrender, of open-handed willingness, of saying to God not just "Here is my request" but "Here is my life." These are the prayers that catalyze transformation. They are also the prayers that demand something of us.In this deeply personal and theolo...

In his seventh poetry collection, Jon Davis exhibits the range and mastery that is the result of fifty years of study, teaching, and practice. Above the Bejeweled City opens and closes with homages to Federico Garcia Lorca’s dream-struck ballad “Romance Sonámbulo.” In between, he inhabits what the philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty calls the “inexplicable existence” that marks our passage here on Earth.Part absurdist, part satirist, part tender corresponden...

In Death, Burial and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity, Jon Davies charts the significance of death to the emerging religious cults in the pre-Christian and early Christian world. He analyses the varied burial rituals and examines the different notions of the afterlife. Among the areas covered are:* Osiris and Isis: the life theology of Ancient Egypt* burying the Jewish dead* Roman religion and Roman funerals* Early Christian burial* the natu...

“Davis is as good as DeLillo at playing off our internal hunger for meaning against surface senselessness. And Davis catches the surface brilliantly.”—American Book ReviewPunctuated by subversive humor, verbal theatrics, and moments of strange, luminous beauty, Davis’ clear, unsentimental poems are meditations and mediations on contemporary existence and the unreliability of language, emotions, and the memory to gather it all in.Jon Davis, author o...

You love those peaceful, relaxing pontoon rides around the lake: the beautiful scenery, the smell of fresh air, the gentle breeze cooling you on a warm summer day. Make each memorable trip last even longer; bring along treats, drinks or even your next meal. Pontoon Food, by Jon and Erin Davis, is a collection of delicious, fun and family-tested recipes--with a focus on dishes that are easy to tote and even easier to serve. Find the basic ingredients at even the sm...

Jon Davies is the Assistant Curator of Public Programs at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto, and the guest curator of the major touring retrospective ?People Like Us: The Gossip of Colin Campbell.? His writing has been published in a variety of publications from C Magazine to GLQ, as well as in a few anthologies.

From Antioch to Babylon traces the spread of Christianity in its first two centuries between two major centers of the Jewish diaspora. Antioch of Syria has long been known as the city where non-Jewish adherents to Christianity first emerged in substantial numbers, but it was also the gateway between two empires--that of Rome and that of its eastern counterpart Parthia, located on terrain once occupied by the ancient Babylonian Kingdom that had exiled the Jewish people from their homeland c...

**Learn how to nurture green space in the city for you and your community through this radical, grass-roots approach to gardening and landscaping.With inspiring vignettes, case studies and practical how-to from the pioneering duo behind Wild City Studios, this is a much-needed call to action and source of inspiration.**Wild City is not your usual gardening book.Wild City is a radical, much needed call to action for modern urban dwellers who care ab...

INNOVATE is a new literary and artistic e-magazine, devoted to bringing original and thought-provoking features from established and up-and-coming authors, artists and performers, as well as to pioneer new frontiers with enhanced media.We are proud to keep up our tradition of author interviews with Brien Foerster, archaeologist, pre-historian and writer on Peru, S America and the Pacific. Introuding the Artist Interview, we have Tamala Baldwin, talented young American singer and pe...

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Drawing on empirical work and secondary analysis from the UK and Finnish construction industries, this book contributes a deep-rooted analysis of construction industry harms that originate from corporate-industrialstate processes.The UK context arguably represents a classic ‘neoliberal’ system categorised by privatisation of services and minimal regulation, whereas Finland broadly provides a ‘social democratic’ alternative with its relatively strong national regulation and public s...

The World Jesus Entered traces the roots of what would become the Christian religion during its first two centuries, from the time of Jesus to the second and third generations of Christian believers. Although Jesus was a Jew among Jews who focused his ministry within a Jewish milieu, the Jewish people were themselves part of a wider world that had heavily impacted their culture and society by the time of Jesus; that world would in turn eventually help shape what would become the religions ...