A bishop comes to visit a congregation for many reasons—a parish celebration, baptism, confirmation, or a pastoral visit. With black and white illustrations, this interactive book for children and families describes the ministry of a bishop, including symbols and apparel, in preparation for the visit and worship. Confirmands will find this book particularly helpful as it walks them through the liturgy of Confirmation. During the actual Confirmation rite, children will have a guide to follo...

How Black musicians and composers used their craft to define and influence public discourse.This groundbreaking work examines how Black music functions as rhetoric, considering its subject not merely reflective of but central to African American public discourse. Author, musician, and scholar Earl H. Brooks argues that there would have been no Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Movement, or Black Arts Movement as we know these phenomena without Black music. Through r...

Attention: If You're Among the Millions Suffering From Gallbladder Issues......then shove those toxic pharmaceuticals back into your medicine cabinet, because what you're about to discover could be your long-awaited deliverance from gallstones, inflammation, and gallbladder hell.You see, just as medical profiteers seek to blind you from natural cancer cures and healing revelations, they've been equally oppressive with gallbladder wisdom. Pills, procedures, surgeries - they'...

Conjugal Rites explores the legal shape of marriage as it has been determined by countless decisions concerning entry and exit into the ancient rite. Heather Brook examines the countless rules and protocols governing marriage that make it valid in the eyes of the law. She argues that the various sexual performatives associated with marriage can establish, reinforce, or rupture conjugal unity while exploring the historical and politcal regulations and prohibitions marriage has faced. Brook ...

Rolesta H. Brooks talks straight about the various types of friends she has encountered. From involuntarily losing friends to intentionally reconstructing her inner circle, she now lives free of people pleasing. Through short stories, practical advice, quotes, and bible verses she hopes to provoke a shift in mindset and perspective. Hopefully, through her experiences you can stop trying to figure out why and instead discover how: HOW TO identify and end toxic friendships HOW TO find, keep,...

Among the political ideologies generally considered to be of continuing significance, anarchism alone has never been implemented. Perhaps its rigors are too strong and its advocates are too weak. That it is still considered worth studying is testimony to its intellectual credibility, particularly its single-minded emphasis on individual liberty. Obsession with liberty and skepticism of government are as alive today as they were in the nineteenth century. This book offers a comprehensive in...

The Serenity Group is one of the most sought-after teams in the world - at times dedicated to their corporate and personal clients' security interests - but when beckoned by various agencies and foreign governments, they slip seamlessly into the world of black ops. Lucrative, yes; but in one form or another, there's always a price to be levied. Are the spoils worth the cost? You be the judge.

The 11th Hour Audio Anthology is a collection of eleven macabre tales created by masters of modern audio drama to haunt and terrify you.Intensive Care by James ComtoisAlex Ericson is checked into a New England Hospital after a major car accident. The more he wakes up, the more Alex realizes his condition is more critical than he could ever believe.Heavenly Deception by Steve SchneiderWhen Prudence reunites with her older sister Zara after 18 month...

"An extremely well-researched, intellectual approach to the problem of relativism and its effect on education, public policy, and our everyday lives." --Youthworker

Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young believe that this reveals a shift in the United States and Canada to a worldview based on ideological feminism, which presents all issues from the point of view of women and, in the process, explicitly or implicitly attacks men as a class. They argue that ideological feminism is silently reshaping law, public policy, education, and journalism.

A fascinating collection of Einstein’s observations about life, religion, nationalism, and a host of personal topics that engaged the genius’s intellectIn the aftermath of the First World War, Einstein writes about his hopes for the League of Nations, his feelings as a German citizen about the growing anti-Semitism and nationalism of his country, and his myriad opinions about the current affairs of his day. In addition to these political perspectives, The World...

There's no denying that men's involvement and interest in feminism is key to its continuing relevance and importance. Addressing the question of why men should care about feminism in the first place, Men and Feminism lays the foundation for a larger discussion about feminism as a human issue, not simply a women's issue. Men are crucial to the movement—as fathers, brothers, husbands, boyfriends, and friends.From "why" to "how" to "what can men do", Men and Feminism...