I desire mercy, not sacrifice. Echoing Hosea, Jesus defends his embrace of the unclean in the Gospel of Matthew, seeming to privilege the prophetic call to justice over the Levitical pursuit of purity. And yet, as missional faith communities arewell aware, the tensions and conflicts between holiness and mercy are not so easily resolved. In an unprecedented fusion of psychological science and theological scholarship, Richard Beck describes the pernicious (and largely unnoticed) effects of the psychology of purity upon the life and mission of the church.

Sexual anti-Semitism and pornotopia: Theodore Dreiser, Ludwig Lewisohn, and the Harrad experiment -- The prestige of dirty words and pictures: Horace Liveright, Henry Roth, and the graphic novel -- Otherfuckers and motherfuckers: reproduction and allegory in Philip Roth and Adele Wiseman -- Seductive modesty: censorship vs. Yiddish and Orthodox tsnies -- Conclusion: Dirty Jews and the Christian right: Larry David and FCC v. Fox.

Are the unclean food laws strictly for the Jews? Did Isaiah 66 err in stating that those eating unclean foods will be destroyed at the second coming? If Jesus sanctioned eating unclean foods during His ministry, why did Peter refuse to eat it during his vision in Acts 10? Is unclean food the only abomination from the Old Testament that is now allowed today? Did the physiological makeup of the pig's one stomach change at Calvary? Why did Paul write the equivalent of an epistle to the Gentiles trying to convince them to continue eating what they were accustomed to eating? Find the answer to these questions and more as you read what the Bible says regarding this issue that is not only of health, but of salvation.

Many people have misconceptions about the biblical teaching on clean and unclean meats. What does scripture really reveal on this subject? -- Inside this booklet: -- Clean and Unclean Meats: Does God's Word Draw a Distinction? -- How Should We Understand Scripture? -- Understanding 'Unclean' in Romans 14 -- Does the New Testament Abolish Meat Distinctions? -- Not Only a Matter of Diet -- Which Animals Does the Bible Designate as 'Clean' and 'Unclean'? -- A Matter of Health? -- A Matter of Proper Cooking? -- A Telling Event From Jesus Christ's Ministry

The Realm of the Dark and the Realm of the Light have been at war since the casting out of Lucifer. The Dark have six agents trying to fulfill a prophecy that will allow them to take every person on Earth's soul. The Light have two agents who must stop the Dark Dawn. With no restrictions in time and anywhere on the planet accessible, this is the final conflict...

Historical Fiction: This is about a young leper girl driven off to live in the wilderness, out of sight and memory of others. The story tells of the sufferings and rejections of an outcast child who finds a special person not afraid to care. An ancient social worker and Roman citizen named Sousanna, Hebrew for Susan, who embraced an unlovable.