"Shards" as Autoethnographic Performance explores the development, creation, and presentation of performed autoethnography. The author shares the impetus for the work’s creation and his method for writing and rehearsing performed autoethnography.This book is essentially an autoethnography about writing and performing an autoethnography and functions as a "play within a play." Through extensive discussions about the development, writing, and performance of "Shards," the aut...

What is a religion? That is the question that Richard Kent Evans attempts to answer in this book. He does so through the story of MOVE, a little-known group with a fascinating story. MOVE emerged in Philadelphia in the early 1970s. It was a small, mostly African American group devoted to the teachings of John Africa. In 1985, the Philadelphia Police Department -- working in concert with federal and state law enforcement -- attacked a home that "MOVE people" as they preferred to be known, s...

Jesus called God our "Father" more than 160 times. It's an important name, and if you carry that same title here on earth, you want to carry it well.Because every tool has its job, trying to get a project done without the right instrument can be more than frustrating. Troublesome. Challenging. Most of us have given up on a task because we didn't have the tools we needed.Fatherhood is a lifelong job. It's work. With all of its complicated challenges, there may have been time...