The authors take a fresh look at the widespread belief that U.S. gender equity is light years ahead of Japan's.

After unbearable losses, unresolved griefs, mistakes made, and at the lowest point in her life, the author returns home to Widnes and receives an invitation from a baroness to go with her to Armenia and a war. Extraordinary events and encounters, signals and messages, set her on a life-changing path. She experiences flashbacks to World War II, the miracle of Dunkirk, and in Dover, glimpses of the channel ghosts. She tells the story in a clear new voice with a lyrical quality throughout, compelling us to turn every page, making us want to believe again. An epilogue includes the Beatles. "Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart and you'll never walk alone." Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein 1945

To muster the smart brigade of one hundred outhouses exhibited in this book, eight dedicated photographers headed by Londie Padelsky have fanned out over the boggy backways of our nation and rallied into service stalwart sentinels of every style and state of repair. Each redolent image in Outhouses: Images and Contemplations is ornamented by an aid to contemplation in words-whether seasoned aphorism (Cicero), subtle arriere-pensee (La Fontaine), inverted innuendo (Swift), cutting couplet (Pope), or purgative panegyric (Roethke)-all tastefully selected to gratify the large philosophico-poetic appetites that are awakened by the Littlest House on the Prairie.

Servanthood of Song is a history of American church music from the colonial era to the present. Its focus is on the institutional and societal pressures that have shaped church song and have led us directly to where we are today. The gulf which separates advocates of traditional and contemporary worship—Black and White, Protestant and Catholic—is not new. History repeatedly shows us that ministry, to be effective, must meet the needs of the entire worshiping community, not just one segment, age group, or class. Servanthood of Song provides a historical context for trends in contemporary worship in the United States and suggests that the current polemical divisions between advocates of contemporary and traditional, classically oriented church music are both unnecessary and counterproductive. It also draws from history to show that, to be the powerful component of worship it can be, music—whatever the genre—must be viewed as a ministry with training appropriate to that. Servanthood of Song provides a critical resource for anyone considering a career in either musical or pastoral ministries in the American church as well as all who care passionately about vital and authentic worship for the church of today.