Sixteen-year-old Eli Harwell knows what it means to work hard ground.On his family's rural property, there are fences to mend, animals to tend, and chores that do not wait for anyone to feel ready. But beneath the ordinary rhythms of work and family, Eli is beginning to discover another kind of ground, the hidden places where faith is tested, wounds take root, and a young man must decide what kind of person he will become.As pressures inside and outside the Harwell family b...

Ditching the Checklist was written to help Evangelicals and other Christians who, due to grounding the assurance of their salvation in evidences of their new birth instead of Christ alone, struggle over whether or not they are saved. Evangelical leader J. D. Greear describes anxiety over whether or not one is saved as a major problem among Evangelicals. With ample testimony from Scripture and appealing to the thinking of Luther, this booklet addresses this anxiety head on. Mark Ma...

Houses of the Holy is a riveting true story of survival, perseverance, and a fight for justice that cuts to the heart of corruption. In this deeply unsettling exposé , Mark Harris pulls back the curtain on a powerful nexus where the federal government, state officials, far-right extremists, religious leaders, the mob, and the secretive world of Freemasonry converge in unholy alliances. This unprecedented journey reveals the depths of influence wielded by money and religion over politics an...

Planet Pragmatism is a bold, clear-eyed call to action in an era of complexity, division, and climate crisis. In his fourth book, award-winning author and sustainability strategist Mark C. Coleman offers a grounded manifesto for meaningful progress—one rooted not in idealism, but in what he calls common sense for the common good.Drawing on more than 25 years of advising businesses, governments, and emerging leaders, Coleman lays out a practical philosophy he calls Planet Pragmatism...

What happened to the reign of God when it visited John's world? At first glance, it looks like it got short shrift, appearing in just two verses (John 3:3, 5). However, what if, like the ubiquitous reign of God in the Synoptic Gospels, its two verses are the early planting of a seed that grows and spreads through the book? What if the diction of a parable of God's reign is diffused throughout the text, as is arguably the case with the wildly generous father and his prodigal son? What if th...

Mark C. Rosenzweig's This Without That is a collection born from the surrealist tradition but operating in a new key. Published by Sulfur Editions, a press rooted in the global, living surrealist milieu, these poems are an act of imaginative refusal. They resist the linear, the literal, and the legible, instead mapping what Rosenzweig calls "the architecture of absence." Through a poetics of ellipsis and recursion, the work aligns itself with a movement that insists on continuing—...

Why did the fall of the Berlin Wall, and then the Soviet Union, come as such great surprises? Could the tragedies of the Vietnam War have been avoided? How did the US and USSR manage not to use nuclear weapons they had built at such great cost? The Cold War dominated world affairs for nearly half a century, but its sheer scope and complexity make it difficult to address some of its most compelling mysteries. We are also burdened by partial information, selective memory, and underappreciate...

What if the texts of the canonical Gospel authors provide commentary alongside the texts they created? That is the interpretative question pursued in many of these essays that supplement the collection done in 2012 for Wipf and Stock. Taking a cue from Aratos and Vergil, among others, these studies point to configurations of letters that reference some aspect of the topic dealt with in already integral words in the main text. Attention to letters sprinkled throughout a passage may uncover ...

In the bustling streets of New York City, Sara, a passionate young artist, crosses paths with Alex, a charming musician. Their encounter sparks an inexplicable connection, igniting a whirlwind romance that defies all logic and reason. As they got deeper into their newfound love, they find themselves unraveling the mysteries of attraction, chemistry, and the power of fate. But as their bond grows stronger, they must confront the challenges that threaten to tear them apart, testing the limit...

In an age marked by industrial turmoil and economic uncertainty, the workplace has become a battleground for the soul. Are you weary of the daily grind? Do troublesome colleagues and relentless superiors drain your spirit? In these turbulent times, the fear of job loss looms large.Enter "The Toxic Work Environment Survival Guide," authored by renowned psychotherapist Mark C. Allison. Within its pages lies your salvation—a roadmap t...

In the cozy embrace of a new relationship, Mark experienced the usual surge of joy tempered with apprehension. The anxiety of premature ejaculation (PE), which had formerly plagued him, returned when things between him and his lover heated up. It had turned into an ongoing nightmare, a ghost that watched over his efforts at closeness and threatened to ruin his relationships and self-esteem.But Mark's narrative is not one of failure; rather, it is one of victory over a hardship that...

Rosenzweig's poems seem to be crystaliza-tions of dark, angular and dangerous im-pulses. Subliminal images, dislodged and juxta-posed, create his nocturnal etudes, gnostic miniatures The incantations here try to create momen-tary incandescences in which we see these obscure, secreted hieroglyphs decoded, messages perhaps found scratched on the walls of reason and lucidity and then etched with acid, transcribed, on the belly of Ve-nus. He invites the reader to enjoy these enig-matic, yet ur...