Water spells life on the high desert: A migrant is found and rescued at the point of death; a village finds its supply failing; a rancher loses his water source in a drunken card game; a developer'...więcej »
On the back cover of one of his most groundbreaking solo albums, . . . Nothing like the Sun of 1987, Sting (Gordon Matthew Sumner, b. 1951 in Wallsend, UK) somberly stands close to a statue of Mary...więcej »
Written when the author was in his early and mid-twenties, Until the Sun Breaks Down is a contemporary American Kunstlerroman modeled on Dante's Divine Comedy. In three parts and one hundred chapte...więcej »
I'm not dead.
My first thought when I opened my eyes to the brilliant white room at Zepail and the felling like life has been dragged from my bones. It probably has, because the last thing I remem...więcej »
Anyone who has read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer or been fascinated by the Civil War will be enthralled by Tom's adventures in this novel. A graduate of West Point, Tom develops a friendship with H...więcej »
Justice has been the dominant cultural framework of people in the West for two centuries, ever since the rise of constitutional democracies. Consciously or not, most people in the West have a st...więcej »
""To many students of the New Testament the environment into which the Christian gospel was born is an unknown world. They read it only in the light of their own time and interpret it by their own ...więcej »
From the nativity to the resurrection, from the healings on the road to the teachings at the well, the lives of women shine prominently in the Gospel. In Wisdom's Daughters, Elizabeth Watson tells ...więcej »
There's a war going on . . . and you have what it takes to win. Christians are engaged in a cosmic war between good and evil, a war waged on many fronts -- in our hearts and minds, in our churches,...więcej »
Erhard S. Gerstenberger is Professor Emeritus at the University of Marburg. He is the author of numerous books, including Theologies in the Old Testament, Yahweh the Patriarch, and commentaries on ...więcej »
Your God is too somber if your posture before him lacks a spirit of joy and a commitment to rejoice as much as possible. While life has its sadness and tragedy, the good news of Jesus Christ is tha...więcej »
Frederick Denison Maurice (1805-1872) was a highly influential theologian and philosopher of the mid-nineteenth century. He was both an Anglican priest and an academic, having been involved in help...więcej »
In this study, Andrew J. Schmutzer puts his hand to an in-depth study of the Creation Mandate, known within Reformed theology as the Cultural Mandate. His analysis focuses on key texts of God's ble...więcej »
When Paul pens his letter to the Roman believers, he writes as a missionary to strengthen a church at the center of imperial power, choosing language that is familiar to his recipients. Paul respon...więcej »