The term Ubuntu articulates an African understanding of our need to connect to one another in order to be complete. Likewise, A Common Mission offers a description of churches that connect with one another through the growing phenomenon of mission partnerships. The word "common" indicates something shared among equals. The word "common" also suggests something present in all parts of an organism, production, or narrative, such as a common thread. These two aspects of commonality provide an...

An unstable homeowner exacting revenge on his mortgage lender, an alcoholic clown coming back from the dead to haunt a family, a roulette addicted oil mogul meeting a mysterious woman during the destructive peak hours of Hurricane Sandy. The honest, emotionally damaged characters in David Wesley's short story collection, pursue pleasure through self-destructive addictions to mask their pain. Prone to anger and violence, they are pushed to a psychological breaking point as they struggle to ...

The title story of David Wesley's forthcoming short story collection. Set at the New Jersey Shore, a gambling oil mogul meets a mysterious woman during the peak hours of Hurricane Sandy.

Enough is enough! Contemporary culture has become so antagonistic to Christian beliefs and values that it has put many Christians on the defensive. This isn't good, it isn't necessary, and it isn't right. Christianity is good news, enduring in its truths and applicable to all persons in all places at all times. We Christians never need to feel defensive about what we believe. Christ is God's unique revelation in history, and the Christian message is life-giving. God has given us so many gr...

I wasn’t looking for a vision quest. I had done that in 1990 with the Bear Tribe. Some would say twenty-five years was long enough to warrant another quest, but in many traditions a vision quest is intended for life. I simply wanted to reconnect directly with the folk music, singer-songwriter community of Kerrville, Texas, with which I had become acquainted in 2001 and 2002. That didn’t happen on the trip here described. I did, however, through seeming happenstance, reconnect with a high s...

Early in the American Pentecostal outpouring an early Pioneer of American Pentecostalism coined the term ‘latter rain’ to refer to what was happening in Los Angeles at Azusa Street. In 1910 David Wesley Myland wrote this book “The Latter Rain Covenant” in which he attempted to compare the physical rainfall in Israel with the manifestations of the Holy Spirit at Azusa and in Pentecostal churches. The material of this book was initially published by Wm. Hamner Piper, pastor of the famous ‘St...

Mississippi Delta artist Ivy Coldwater sets out from her hometown of Prophet in an old Cadillac she has painted black with white road stripes, searching for meaning in a world that seems to be slowly fading. Part road novel, part spiritual quest, The Coldwater Girl follows Ivy across a landscape where the ordinary and the miraculous exist side by side. Along the way she encounters would-be outlaws, a Confederate soldier who refuses to stay dead, flirtatious ghosts, blues musicians, rival p...

of "8 Weeks to a Lifetime of Tennis" David Archer's heart for junior tennis is clearly seen in his passion for teaching incredible basics to junior tennis players from ages two years and up. Although working with High Performance youth and adults for years, his main teaching systems have finally blossomed in the form of this book titled "8 Weeks to a Lifetime of Tennis". From the "tennis love story" in the introduction through chapter 1, to the more detailed chapters that outline the "7 st...

The industrial era organizations used dualistic leadership theory, which regarded followers as objects of leaders' influence to socialize them into passive followership irrespective of context and outcome. Consequently, organizations focused on leadership and condemned active followership as a toxic behavior that sabotages organizational processes and outcomes. However, the emergence of relational leadership theory in the information era flattened organizational structure, which created a ...

Although the Israeli state subscribes to the principles of administrative fairness and equality for Jews and Arabs before the law, the reality looks very different. Focusing on Arab land loss inside Israel proper and the struggle over development resources, this study explores the interaction between Arab local authorities, their Jewish neighbors, and the agencies of the national government in regard to developing local and regional industrial areas. The author avoids reduction to simple m...

Happy and Sad is a journey through one little elephant boys emotions. It addresses the first feelings of sadness and happiness we feel in our youth. Based upon some real-life experiences of my son and I when I was raising him as a single parent, Happy and Sad represents the relationship of any parent, guardian, and child and their ability to handle lifes ups and downs together.

Enlightenment attempts to save the Old TestamentPastors and scholars today lament the Old Testament's neglect in the West. But this is nothing new. In the eighteenth century, natural philosopher John Hutchinson witnessed the Old Testament becoming devalued as Scripture. And in his mind, the blame lay with Isaac Newton.In The Quest to Save the Old Testament, David Ney traces the battle over Scripture during the Enlightenment period. For Hut...