Holy Blasphemies asks such questions as: Why is God so difficult to find? Why is there not a more effective way to reveal himself? Does God punish? Why do we need the Church? In answering these questions, the book explores the mysteries of creation, life, suffering, prayer, with brief chapters on the reign of God, the Passion, Easter, change, building bridges, and so on, drawing on popular culture, science, spirituality, and the Catholic tradition. Throughout the book there is an emphasis ...

This Is Our Faith offers a concise outline of the Catholic faith based on the Apostles’ Creed. This new edition provides more recent developments of the church as it has developed through the Second Vatican Council and the vision of subsequent popes. The book concludes with an important chapter on the challenges of living in a global society with multiple religions and cultures that the church must embrace to be significant throughout the twenty-first century.

The Israelites, emerging out of the polytheistic culture of the ancient Middle East, with their often-violent gods, developed their own understanding of the divine mystery. Their God, YHWH, was both transcendent and immanent, unknowable and accompanying his people, the creator and sustainer of the heavens and the earth, compassionate, a God whose characteristic was his hesed or loving kindness, a theme repeated endlessly in the psalms. This God was a God who saves, delivering his people fr...

Based on years of teaching, this book examines the faith of young adults in a broad context, not just of secular society or because of nonobservant parents, but a society which fails to grasp the nature of truth or the transcendent, a failure to grasp Catholicism’s deep conviction of the compatibility of faith and reason and how we encounter the mystery of the divine, and contemporary America’s truncated vision of salvation. While these young adults are not hostile and willing to listen, a...

Many people still think there is a magic pill, the perfect exercise program, the perfect diet, or some sort of supplement that is going to make them healthy and create a body they feel confident in. These are almost always detrimental shortcuts.But there is one way that has been working for anyone and everyone who tries it and has been documented and proven successful for over 2000 years. This book is a tribute to the mindset of what creates a master of any skill. You see, there is...

And Then Golf Happened ... Golfing Again - in Japan. The stories of a foreigner who rediscovers golf ... after 60 ... in Japan. As retirement was approaching, I needed a hobby. A friend suggested golf. As a long-term resident of northern Japan, I was able to handle most things in my adopted home. Golf was another matter. The contents include Japan's golf history and geography (but with humor), Japan's golf vocabulary and manner of play (with ample explanations of the language), em...

Gary Graver (1938-2006) had one of the most fascinating careers in the history of cinema. As a cameraman, he worked with respected filmmakers such as Orson Welles, Ron Howard, John Cassavetes, and Steven Spielberg. On the flip side of that, he also made films with legendary "bad" filmmakers Al Adamson, Ed Wood, and lots of lesser-known B-movie directors.As a director, Graver helmed more than 20 feature films you've probably never heard of. Additionally, he directed hundreds

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This book is a compassionate yet practical guide, written specifically for empaths and highly sensitive people. Through powerful affirmations, exercises, and real-world examples, you'll learn how to shift from overwhelmed people-pleaser to empowered empath—without losing your kindness, generosity, or authenticity.Stop living for everyone else and start living for yourself. It's time to reclaim your energy, honor...

After small-time mobster Joe D'Amato gets attacked by a werewolf, his life takes a dark turn, and he begins a transformation towards a new, twisted life.As corpses start piling up, two cops suspect there is something unnatural on the loose, and they have a suspect. When nobody listens to their theories, they go rogue and start digging for clues.Soon, forces both natural and supernatural clash, and all hell breaks loose.This book contains graphic sex and violence...

A collection of 20 weird and far-out stories, these unique tales cover a lot of ground.“Searching for Dirty Jesus” follows a live-action roleplayer on a search for his father's killer. In “Chicken Car” a down-on-his-luck man devises a plan to achieve notoriety, through any means necessary.What if a man with a Gila-Monster head decided to try his luck with online dating? What if the government conducted a secret experiment in which they altered the color of people's skin? Wh...

Three psychological thrillers by Andy Rausch, now available in one volume!Let It Kill You: Chino Genetti, an alcoholic hitman, breaks the first rule of his profession: don't fall in love with your target. When he's assigned to eliminate beautiful jazz singer Ericka Green, love clouds his judgment and he puts himself in danger. Fleeing from assassins, Chino makes a deal to live in peace, but old wounds and retribution threaten to take away everything he loves. To pr...

UNESCO aims to tackle Africa’s under-representation on its World Heritage List by inscribing instances of nineteenth- and twentieth-century modern architecture and urban planning there. But, what is one to make of the utopias of progress and development for which these buildings and sites stand? After all, concern for ‘modern heritage’ invariably—and paradoxically it seems—has to reckon with those utopias as problematic futures of the past, a circumstance complicating intentions to preserv...