How did the church come to recognize the books of Scripture, and why does the shape of the canon still matter today? The Shape of the Canon invites readers into the story of how Christians learned to hear the voice of Christ in these particular writings and not in others. Rather than treating the canon as a puzzle of lost councils or political maneuvering, this book shows how Scripture emerged from the worship, memory, and discernment of the early church. At the heart of the story are the ...

Many people inherit a faith long before they understand it. They grow up within a world of rituals, rhythms, and expectations that shape them quietly and completely. Yet somewhere along the way, a question begins to rise: Is the gospel as complex as the system received, or is it simpler than ever imagined? This book follows the journey of an unnamed pilgrim whose life unfolds inside a sincere and structured religious tradition. Through Scripture, education, relationships, and loss, the pil...

Your thoughts are not your own.Following the death of her parents—operatives of a Top Secret government psychic espionage program—Archer Wilson receives an urgent warning from beyond the grave. Your life is in danger. Leave home now or die.Running for her life and unsure of who she can trust, Archer finds herself caught up in a bizarre world built upon madness and paranoia. Her life, her family, everything she thought she knew is swept away, and no...

It follows the life of Pedro, a young boy born in poverty in a small town in Nicaragua. His father is killed the day he is born allowing for his life to progress without the influence of the 'macho' culture of his father. He lives a happy life with his mother, oldest sister, and his two brothers. He establishes a close relationship to the Village Catholic Priest. His mother is introduced to a friend of the priest, an electrical engineer with severe depression. They become a family. A few y...

A journey traveled by two women born on the same day and live parallel lives. One born in Nicaragua and the other born in Texas. They are both touched by Pedro and Pancho. Although Pancho has become a very strict moralist, he understands the real life of people, their sins, their troubles, their challenges. These women come to know each other through Peter, now the Pope. Their journey is just as hard, even if in different ways. It explores the reality of living life, having faith and the r...

It follows the life of Franklin, a boy brought up in an orphanage in Congo. He is raise by deeply religious and loving nuns, both American and African. They motivate him to a religious life. He is beaten and tortured as a young boy and as a young priest that leads the heads of the religious order to take him out of Africa and put him in Rome. There he meets Pedro, Pancho and the Rodriguez family and is assimilated into the family fully. When Pedro dies, Franklin is elected as Pope. But eve...

Our Savior Uncomplicated, His Church United invites readers into a clear, generous, and deeply biblical vision of the Christian faith, one that honors the church's long story while cutting through centuries of confusion, division, and inherited misunderstandings. With pastoral warmth and historical precision, David Michael Bouterie guides believers through the central doctrines that shape Christian identity, showing how Scripture, the early church, and the great teachers of the faith conve...

This collection arose out of a 2019 conference to commemorate the completion of the fourteen- volume Correspondence of James K. Polk. Its scholarship—which pays tribute to the Polk Project itself, as well as to the controversial nature of the Polk legacy—will result in a significant reinterpretation of the eleventh US president.Contributors include John F. Polk, who examines the ways history has mischaracterized almost the entire Polk family tree, and Kelly Houston Jones, who inves...

What if you could create a financial foundation so strong that no setback, crisis, or unexpected expense could shake it?Raised by parents who were bank managers, Michael Santonato learned the essential principles of personal finance for success at an early age. But knowledge alone isn't enough—real mastery comes from experience. From building wealth to facing financial failures as an entrepreneur, every lesson his parents taught was tested, re-learned, and refined. Now, as a financ...

In the early days of World War II, an American family living in Davao City is thrust into chaos when the conflict reaches the Philippine Islands. Overnight, safety vanishes.Separated by war and forced into hiding, a mother and child face relentless uncertainty as occupation forces tighten their grip. With limited resources and no clear path forward, they rely on instinct, resilience, and the quiet bravery of Filipino civilians willing to risk their own lives for strangers.A...

The American Songbook from Vaudeville to Hollywood celebrates the cultural expressions contained in the unforgettable jazz-inflected songs of the twentieth century. Charting the development of songwriting in the context of American culture, David Michael Hertz treats words and music as of equal importance, exploring the mystery of how they work together in the phrase structures of songs. With a carefully drawn historical chronology, his narrative recounts a story of the evolution ...

Set in the heart of the exotic Ottoman Empire during the first years of its chaotic decline, Michael David Lukas' elegantly crafted, utterly enchanting debut novel follows a gifted young girl who dares to charm a sultan—and change the course of history, for the empire and the world. An enthralling literary adventure, perfect for readers entranced by the mixture of historical fiction and magical realism in Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass, Orhan Pamuk's My Name is Red, ...