As court jester of the Kingdom of Opulentos, you, Stultus Insanis Rusticus (or “Stulty,” as you are known throughout the kingdom), have lived your life for one purpose: to entertain the royal family. The happiness you have brought the kingdom has made you the most popular fool in the realm.That is, until now . . .After a minor misunderstanding, you are punished with a seemingly impossible quest: to obtain the fabled Ruby of Power. Armed with nothing but your wit and a few b...

Practical and theoretical instruction for mainline church planting.The Episcopal Church has recognized that planting new churches is a high priority through the Mission Enterprise Zones initiative, which provides grant funding for new worshiping communities, in partnership with dioceses. While there is significant literature and training available for church planters in evangelical contexts, very little is available for planters in the Episcopal/mainline context.

In Book II of the Remy Delemme Series, Remy finds himself detained in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, arrested for crimes against the Glamerican government. To earn his freedom and avoid incarceration, a confused yet cooperative Remy is forced to work as a shadow agent for the government. Unfortunately for them, Remy isn’t the criminal genius they pegged him for (nor is he even a regular kind of genius), and he inadvertently sets off a series of events that could spell doom for the entire wor...

A mysterious creature is stealing all the cookies at the Snookie-Cookie Bakery. Join the Snookie-Cookie Crew as they collect clues and rely on their imaginations and problem solving skills to solve the mystery of the Cranberry Cookie Cruncher!

Seven Pillars of Servant Leadership (Rev.) offers concrete, functional skills necessary to practice servant leadership—to lead by serving first.

From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization.Elected to the papacy at the age of 76, Pope John XXIII was to have a brief but important reign. Although he had a doctorate in theology, his gifts were pastoral—reaching out to the people of the Church. After his doctorate, he spent nine years working for the socially-minded bishop of Bergamo, acquiring a broad understanding of the problems of the working class. This sympathy for ordinary people was brought o...

I declare to you, I am your leader, if you will accept me. I declare to you that I will stand up until death takes me away, if it pleases Allah.God has made me your leader. God is my guide and God is my protection, Who came in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, to Whom praises is due forever, Who has the power to protect you and me and deliver us from the hands of this open enemy, as the Holy Qur'an teaches us. It has come to the point where we must decide one way or another....

What happens when idealism and reality crash into each other (and you)?If you have ever passionately invested yourself in living your faith, championing a cause, or representing some noble ideal, you've probably experienced a faceoff between idealism and reality.Society often recognizes its deficits-poverty, crime, divisiveness, anxiety, excess-yet it rarely celebrates the rise of people who want to change those shortcomings. Still, many o...

A comprehensive introduction to the particular challenges and opportunities of congregational ministry in urban settings.Urban ministry has long been a part of seminary curricula, but a basic and definitive understanding of what students should know as they prepare for congregational ministry in the city has remained elusive. Too often it is assumed that the theological resources developed for ministry in other settings are adequate for urban ministry, but these resources fail to account f...

You Can Help Bring Heaven to EarthGod so loved the world, and he still does. He values his creation too much to destroy it. If you know where to look, you can see that the coming of a new heaven and a new earth already has begun.Life on earth is renewed every time you live out Jesus’s prayer that God’s ways will be followed on earth. The work of God’s Kingdom involves restoring what has been broken. This includes people, unjust systems, relationships, anythi...

While books and articles on leadership abound, most of them are written by "successful" men who look at the world through the lens of a Western business model. The standard for success is based on the bottom line--financial growth in both the personal and corporate realms. This perspective has infected Christian leadership literature as well. In Leadership Reconsidered, Ruth A. Tucker calls for a revised definition--one that abandons the love of power and success for the eternal v...

“Certainly, I just conveyed what I have been ordered to convey as an argument against everyone, be him present or absent, a direct witness or not, and already born or not yet born. Hence, everyone who is present should convey (this sermon) to those who are absent, every parent should convey it to his/her children, (and they should continue to do so) until the Day of Judgement.” — A part of Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH&HF) la...