Stories that tickle your funny bone—and touch your heart.For the past twenty years, Walker Moore's popular Rite of Passage column in the Oklahoma Baptist Messenger has delighted thousands of readers every week. This endearing collection pulls together some of his best. From unexpected lessons on the international mission field to fond (and funny) childhood memories, the homespun humor and wisdom of Chicken Lips, Snake Legs, & Jesus will leave you laughing—and longing for more.

Stories that tickle your funny bone—and touch your heart.Following the wild success of Chicken Lips, Snake Legs, & Jesus, Walker Moore has pulled together a second heaping helping of laughter and hope. Inside Out & Backwards draws on Walker's adventures across the globe, spiced with his unique blend of homespun humor and wisdom. His stories of mishaps in the gym to vacations "somewhere" in America will leave you with a smile and a prayer.

It's no secret: something has happened to America's families. Dramatic shifts in our culture mean that what was once an acceptable way to produce mature, capable adults has now all but disappeared. In Rite of Passage Parenting, family expert Walker Moore explains how that happened. And after concisely assessing the problem, Moore teaches you how to build into your children''s lives the essential experiences every child needs: (1) an authentic Rite of Passage, (2) Significant Tasks...

Things get dicey with Dumuzi. Letty lets off some steam. Sam makes an enemy. Matt relives his nightmare. Penny's first stop.

Matt comes home; Penny and Azazel take a step forward; Jackie meets an old friend; Sam gets more than she bargained for.

This month, Letty sees more than she believes, Matt gets curious, Amber gets hitched-up, and Sam goes for a ride.

Letty makes a choice. Azazel reveals a secret. Matt makes a friend? Sam gets in trouble.

Zombies in the Academy taps into the current popular fascination with zombies and brings together scholars from a range of fields, including cultural and communications studies, sociology, film studies and education, to give a critical account of the political, cultural and pedagogical state of the university through the metaphor of zombiedom. The contributions to this volume argue that the increasing corporatization of the academy – an environment emphasizing publication, narrow ...

The problem isn’t sex. God designed sex; and sex is good. Sex is a powerful union that brings men and women together. But when sex is distorted by sin, the misuse of our sexuality can alienate us from one another, causing immense harm and pain. Enter pornography—the most prevalent distortion of sexual sin in America. Pornography is not only a problem in terms of personal morality, but a social epidemic that is making the possibility of sexually-fulfilled marriages harder to achieve. It is ...

Christian’s should be known by what they are for, not simply what they are against.The Bible is unambiguously clear about marriage’s definition and purpose. So, Christians are for marriage. The Bible’s witness on marriage doesn’t allow for same-sex marriage, not because the Bible gives attention to same-sex marriage, but because the biblical narrative on marriage doesn’t conceive of same-sex marriage as within the realm of possibility. Yet, many Christians live among neighbors and under la...

You are not what you do. So often, in America, we define who we are by what we do. We introduce ourselves by our job titles. We ask, “What do you do?” to be polite in small talk. We define others by their occupation. But there are good reasons to connect what you do with your time, whether that is 9-to-5 work, or managing a household full of children. God created us to work, not as judgment, but in cooperation with a mandate given to humanity long before the fall. Your work isn’t who you a...

Every Christian isn’t called to adopt, but everyone is called to care for orphans. The evangelical adoption movement is but one strand in a long cord of Christian care for orphans. While adoption trends have fluctuated over time in different contexts, the Bible has not changed its position. The gospel is decidedly pro-adoption and on the side of the orphan. Yet many obstacles stand in the way of the Christian’s mission to provide care to the least of these. So, what now? Editors Russell Mo...