Unearths the practical social theology of the 19th century church in ScotlandMany believe that the church was largely mute on the widespread poverty and deprivation which accompanied the rapid expanse of urban life in Scotland. This study shows that the church was not lacking in commitment to improving such conditions, through the example of theologian Robert Flint and the parish minister Frederick Lockhart Robertson. For example, publication of Flint's 'Christ's Kingdom upon Earth' led the Church of Scotland in Glasgow to investigate slum housing conditions and to the conclusion that religion could not be complacent about the need for social action.

In this epic account of an extraordinary life lived during remarkable times, Jay Kirk follows the adventures of legendary explorer and taxidermist Carl Akeley, who revolutionized taxidermy and environmental conservation and created the famed African Hall at New York's Museum of Natural History. Akeley risked death time and again in the jungles of Africa as he stalked animals for his dioramas and hobnobbed with outsized personalities of the era, such as Theodore Roosevelt and P. T. Barnum. Kingdom Under Glass is "a rollicking biography...an epic adventure...[and] a beguiling novelistic portrait of a man and an era straining to hear the call of the wild" (Publishers Weekly).

"Avoid the Day truly seems to me to push nonfiction memoir as far as it can go without it collapsing into a singularity and I am at a loss for words. You are just going to have to read it." –Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk A surreal, high-wire act of narrative nonfiction that redefines the genre, Avoid the Day is part detective story, part memoir, and part meditation on the meaning of life—all told with a dark pulse of existential horror. What emerges is an unforgettable study of mortality and the artist’s journey. Seeking to answer the mystery of a missing manuscript by Béla Bartók, and using the investigation to avoid his father’s deathbed, award-winning magazine writer Jay Kirk heads off to Transylvania, going to the same villages where the “Master,” like a vampire in search of fresh plasma, had found his new material in the folk music of the peasants. With these stolen songs, Bartók redefined music in the 20th Century. Kirk, who is also seeking to renew his writing, finds inspiration in the composer’s unorthodox methods, but begins to lose his tether as he sees himself in Bartók’s darkest and most personal work, the Cantata Profana, which revolves around the curse of fathers and sons. After a near-psychotic episode under the spell of Bartók, the author suddenly finds himself on a posh eco-tourist cruise in the Arctic. There, accompanied by an old friend, now a documentary filmmaker, the two decide to scrap the documentary and make a horror flick instead—shot under the noses of the unsuspecting passengers and crew. Playing one of the main characters who finds himself inexplicably trapped on a ship at the literal end of the world, alone, and under the influence of the midnight sun, Kirk gets lost in his own cerebral maze, struggling to answer his most plaguing question: can we find meaning in experience?

There are many people in the kingdom of God who are illiterate concerning God's language and wonder why they cannot experience the abundant life God promises them. One reason could be their lack of knowledge of what Christ demands; another could be their lack of desire to study God's word; and still another could be their hesitancy to follow what Christ has told them to do. Regardless of the reasons, Christians are not to be "functional illiterates" concerning their walk with God. Forgiveness is one area where this illiteracy abounds. Forgiveness is a spiritual dynamic that affects the lives of every human being, but more so, the lives of all born again believers in Jesus Christ. Whether you have been the victim of an offense or you have been the one offending someone else, you will eventually have to deal with forgiveness at some point in time. Kingdom Language - Volume Two - Forgiveness was written to bring biblical insight and wisdom into the hearts of those born again believers in Jesus Christ who struggle and sometimes fail with the command to "forgive as the Lord has forgiven you." The journey begins with an examination of the deception that an apology is forgiveness and ends with the examination of God's utilization of the believer as a minister of reconciliation - an ambassador of Christ in the stewardship of the grace of God in the extension of forgiveness. Take a moment and allow the knowledge of this volume of Kingdom Language to bring illumination and edification into your heart and mind that will transform your life, forever.

Provides a fresh engagement of the debated relationship between Paul's writings and the portrait of Jesus contained in the Gospels.