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...

Songs of the Dead is a collection of nineteen short stories with varying themes, ranging from creepy to the supernatural.In "The Dinner Guests," a man finds himself experiencing an unusual hunger.In "She Had a Good Heart," a young heart transplant survivor meets her donor's family for the first time. What could go wrong?In "Dobie's Last Ride," a man finds himself at odds with a seemingly harmless black Lab, who turns out to be a bit less harmless as he firs...

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...

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...

Six-Guns Blazing contains two explosive short novels featuring historical figures from the Old West in wildly fictional new adventures.The first, Wyatt Earp and the Devil Incarnate, pits the legendary lawman and his right-hand man, Doc Holliday, against a deadly serial killer leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake.The second novella, Emmett Dalton Rides Again!, imagines notorious bank robber Emmett Dalton picking up his guns as an elderly man in 1933 and robbing banks a...

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...

A fast food joint under attack. A chicken car crashing parades. A man who won’t die.In BURGERS ON THE SABBATH, Andy Rausch unleashes a chaotic blend of dark humor, surreal horror and satire across 13 unforgettable short stories.Meet a group of extremists storming a burger joint and witness a deranged dreamer chasing infamy. Follow the haunting trail of a man who messages his dead brother... and gets a reply. In this world, even death row can’t contain a man who simply won’t...

Are you ready for some football? Many people consider football to be America’s favorite sport. Fans fill seats in stadiums and couches in living rooms to cheer for touchdowns and boo bad calls. From first kickoff to the Super Bowl, read up on the world of professional football in this high-interest title.

“The Suicide Game is dark, twisted, no-holds-barred fun.” - Jason Starr, author of Bust, Slide, and The MaxEveryone’s playing an angle in the City of Angels.The Suicide Game tells the stories of a black hitman who doubles as a university professor, a Catholic priest who longs to be a gangster, a would-be author from Kansas, a gay phone sex operator who claims he’s straight, a group of rich twenty-somethings playin...

After five years of living a quiet life in rural Oklahoma, hitman Lefty Collins and his daughter Layla's past comes back to haunt them when the Detroit mob boss who let them go kidnaps Layla to force Lefty and his former rival Orlando Williams to do his bidding.This time, the job isn't murder - they must track down a deadly serial killer. With time running out, Lefty and Orlando must work together to find the killer before it's too late.From acclaimed author Andy Rausch com...