Love being the last thing to be forgotten.Allister and Gede's retirement plan: savor their remaining years on the pond behind their home and enjoy the visiting birds and butterflies while drinking tea in Gede's garden. Together they experience their final challenge—Allister's journey into dementia, where the fragments of a life become a masterpiece of love.In the quiet of their Georgia garden, Allister remembers his life—a career teaching literature at Colu...

Greg Boyd and his father, Ed, were on opposite sides of a great divide. Greg was a newfound Christian, while his father was a longtime agnostic. So Greg offered his father an invitation: Ed could write with any questions on Christianity, and his son would offer a response.Letters from a Skeptic contains this special correspondence. The letters tackle some of today's toughest challenges facing Christianity, includingDo all non-Christians go to hell?How can we...

For ten years, the assassin Grayshade has eliminated threats to the Order of Argoth, the Just God. Within the towering walls of Cohrelle, all bow to the Order's authority, even while the city officials publicly distance themselves from its actions.As the supreme executor of the Order's edicts, Grayshade dispatches his targets with protocol and precision. But when an assignment breaks these rules, he does the most dangerous thing an Acolyte of Argoth can do: he asks why. Now a targe...

In this bold and compelling work, Gregory Boyd undertakes to reframe the central issues of Christian theodicy. By Boyd's estimate, theologians still draw too heavily on Augustine's response to the problem of evil, attributing pain and suffering to the mysterious "good" purposes of God.Accordingly, modern Christians are inclined not to expect evil and so are baffled but resigned when it occurs. New Testament writers, on the other hand, were inclined to expect evil and fight against it. Mode...

In Inspired Imperfection, Gregory A. Boyd adds another counterintuitive and provocative thesis to his corpus. While conservative scholars and pastors have struggled for years to show that the Bible is without errors, Boyd considers this a fool's errand. Instead, he says, we should embrace the mistakes and contradictions in Scripture, for they show that God chose to use fallible humans to communicate timeless truths. Just as God ultimately came to save humanity in the form of a human, God c...

The Millennial Cantor and Conductor is a practical resource for choral conductors and worship leaders. This work may be used as a textbook for introduction to conducting classes, particularly in Christian Higher Education settings. The text may also be used for personal exploration of conducting fundamentals. The resource also includes an introduction to worship band techniques. The author, Gregory Woodward, studied conducting with William Weinart, Tim Koch, Rodney Eichenberger, and Andre ...

Stop guessing how much borax to use, where it belongs, and whether it could damage the surface you are trying to clean.Borax can support many everyday cleaning, laundry, stain, and odor-removal tasks, but using too much, choosing the wrong formula, or applying it to an unsuitable material can leave residue, dull finishes, weaken fabrics, and waste money.The Complete Borax User Guide gives you a practical, organized system for using borax wi...

Stop learning Revit as a collection of disconnected commands. Start using it the way real building projects come together.Autodesk Revit can feel overwhelming when you are faced with hundreds of tools, unfamiliar BIM terminology, families, parameters, schedules, views, sheets, and settings without understanding how they connect.Autodesk Revit 2027 for Beginners & Professionals takes a different approach. Instead of asking you to memorize bu...

Music theory was birthed by the church toward the end of the first millennium AD. Thus, the church offers not only a unique perspective on music theory but a richly established vantage point. The text will emphasize the standard Western historical settings for the development of music theory: Middle Ages, Renaissance, Classical, Romantic, and Twentieth Century. Additionally, the text provides a particular emphasis on the sacred and philosophical underpinnings of the standard historical per...

**The astonishing, never-before-told story of the greatest rescue mission of World War II—when the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia.“An amazing, riveting tale of unsung heroes who went above and beyond.”—James Bradley, New York Times bestselling author of Flags of Our Fathers**During a bombing campaign over Romanian oil fields, hundreds of American airmen were shot down in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia. Local ...

Texonomics is not just another economics textbook. It's a revolution in perspective. Written from within the walls of incarceration at the Fremont Correctional Facility in Canon City, Colorado, but aimed at the hearts and minds of free thinkers everywhere, this book fuses rigorous economic theory with lived experience, unapologetic truth, and the pulse of real people struggling—and thriving—on the margins.Across thirteen powerfully structured chapters, Texonomics delivers a full-sp...

Loyalty runs deep. But what happens when it drowns you?Gregory "Big Tex" Thomas is the charismatic, cowboy-hat-wearing Mayor of Dallas—a man forged by the streets, raised in faith, and married to chaos. His wife, Keisha Hardy-Thomas, once the beloved First Lady of Dallas, is now a woman consumed by heroin and secrets she's never shared—not even with him.As his political enemies circle like vultures, Greg refuses to let go of the woman he loves, even as her addiction threate...