Navigating the stormy seas of the 1960s wasn't easy, especially if Vietnam was on your horizon. Ignoring his 2-S selective service deferment, Conor Patrick McKall volunteers for the draft, and Uncle Sam promptly deposits him in the Big Green Machine. Six months later McKall is walking point in jungles, rice paddies, and rubber plantations. In nine short months, he's made an infantry squad leader responsible for a dozen other grunts. In the "boonies," life is lived one day at a time. Joinin...

Experience gripping wartime stories and honest prayers by this Camp David chaplain now serving in Iraq.When words mean less and less, but money talks more and more; when blasphemy is a best seller, and eternal war has replaced hopeful diplomacy; in times like these is prayer even possible? Patrick J. McLaughlin thinks so. McLaughlin is an active duty Navy Chaplain who has ministered to heads of state and to soldiers living and dying in the heat of Iraq....

Professional surf photographer Shawn Pérez, on assignment for Deep Surf Apparel to a remote Pacific island, encounters an isolated tribe. When he naturally snaps a photo of their spiritual leader, their reaction is life-threatening and gives Shawn something to think about after his guide tells him, “Shawn, they think your pictures steal men’s souls.” Years later, Dr. Sally Evans, Shawn’s ex-girlfriend and a research scientist at Photon Corporation, develops the Sentient camera for the Defe...

"Dr. McLaughlin is a gifted communicator with the unique ability to share ideas that will add value to anyone's journey in both business and life." -Kevin Brown, The HERO EffectWhen an unexpected coastal snowstorm shut down life in North Carolina, Dr. Patrick McLaughlin found himself with something rare: uninterrupted time. Fresh from a joyful weekend with his brother and son, yet still healing from heartbreaking personal losses, he realized that this pause was more than weather-it...

Are you lucky enough to be born between 1965 and 1980? You know who you are. The MTV Generation, The Free-Range Generation, The Forgotten Generation. The last generation to have lived without an email address, a cell phone or a script.Welcome Generation X!We were the last generation of undocumented fun. We remember it very well. How? The scars remind us. GenX learned about life early and usually the hard way. GenX is resilient, brilliant, broken, and beautiful. We're also s...

A Dock.A Dog.A Doctor.A Destiny.A Divine Calling.Dr. Patrick McLaughlin's life was moving fast, with his dreams and goals on track. Married, raising four kids, serving patients, growing fifty side businesses, and trying to keep up with a full and sometimes chaotic life.Then one day, on his coastal North Carolina dock, his world was upended.With his life suddenly turned upside down, it took his favorite dog, Bear, to remind him of what...

Preservation and Protest proposes a novel taxonomy of four paradigms of nonhuman theological ethics by exploring the intersection of tensions between value terms and teleological terms. These tensions arise out of the theological loci of cosmology, anthropology, and eschatology. The individual paradigms of the taxonomy are critically elucidated through the work of Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Berry, Dumitru Stăniloae, and Jürgen Moltmann and Andrew Linzey. McLaughlin systematically develops the ...

Navigating the stormy seas of the 1960s wasn't easy, especially if Vietnam was on your horizon.Ignoring his 2-S selective service deferment, Conor Patrick McKall volunteers for the draft, and Uncle Sam promptly deposits him in the Big Green Machine.Six months later McKall is walking point in jungles, rice paddies, and rubber plantations. In nine short months, he's made an infantry squad leader responsible for a dozen other grunts. In the "boonies," life is lived one day at ...

A Dock.A Dog.A Doctor.A Destiny.A Divine Calling.Dr. Patrick McLaughlin's life was moving fast, with his dreams and goals on track. Married, raising four kids, serving patients, growing fifty side businesses, and trying to keep up with a full and sometimes chaotic life.Then one day, on his coastal North Carolina dock, his world was upended.With his life suddenly turned upside down, it took his favorite dog, Bear, to remind him of what...

One bomb hit the Japanese carrier Akagi amidships, ripping through the hangar deck and exploding amidst the stored torpedoes, carelessly stowed bombs and refuelling tanks, setting off secondary explosions. A second set the planes on the flight deck ablaze. The stern was shattered, the rudder useless and, as the huge ship lurched drunkenly around, Japanese officers begged the stunned admiral to abandon the blazing hulk...Read about the dramatic Battle of Midway in the Pacific Ocean ...

“This book is ridiculously hilarious, and makes my father look like a normal member of society.” —Chelsea HandlerTuesdays with Morrie meets F My Life in this hilarious book about a son’s relationship with his foul-mouthed father by the comedy writer who created the massively popular Twitter feed of the same name.A few months ago, comedy writer Justin Halpern, 29, found himself living at home with his 73-year-old father aft...

Merlin R. Carothers is well-known throughout the Christian community. His books have sold over 19 million copies. His unique concept of "praise in all things" brings results that can only be termed miraculous. Merlin may be the only author to have served as a combat paratrooper in World War II, as a guard of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and later as a Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Army Chaplaincy in Korea, the Dominican Republic conflict, and in Vietnam. During these conflicts Merlin Carothers ...