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A "kerygma" is an unwritten history-- a chronical of significant events passed down from one person to another or from generation to generation by verbal transmission. For instance, the stories collected in the Gospels about the life of Jesus circulated for thirty years before being recorded...

Breathe. It is the most important thing that you do. It is the common denominator that touches every dimension of your life mind, body and spirit. Every thought that passes through your mind, every word that you speak, every muscle you move, every beat of your heart depends on the steady flow of oxygen...

Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...

While todays real world slowly grapples with the causes and consequences of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the flood of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border of the United States, Stan Rogers, the entrepreneurial hero of Don Andersons trilogy (Deadly Calm; Seas the Day; and Golden...

Since 2008 scientists have conducted experiments in a hyperenergized, 17-mile supercollider beneath the border of France and Switzerland. The Large Hadron Collider (or what scientists call "the LHC") is one of the wonders of the modern world—a highly sophisticated scientific instrument...

Tales of Carbons Creek is a collection of short short stories about a small town in the West after the civil War. Some of the characters play the part of narrators and some talk in "illiterate" English.The newspaper plays an important role in Carbons Creek and Sarah, the publisher of the paper, also...

Okanagan Odyssey is a quirky and lyrical examination of British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley. Sticking to the backroads and byways, Gayton gently pokes and prods local ecosystems, histories, vineyards and people. From Osoyoos in the south to Armstrong at the head of the Valley, the author revels in...

In 1948 the Second World War is over, but mercenary pilot James Williamson is still flying for the legendary Clair Chennault in China. The sands of time, however, are running out for the Nationalists, and Williamson escapes into Burma with a young Chinese refugee. It's a move he never regrets even as he and the girl struggle to remain ahead of a CIA agent intent on their demise.

“Combines enneagram personality types with recovery movement techniques of releasing undesirable traits and affirming desirable ones.” —Library Journal To heal, one must truly know, and face, one’s self. But finding that inner, honest analysis of our own personalities is difficult to...

This novel for young people ages thirteen to a hundred and ten, set in the middle of the Second World War, in the Rockaway, Long Island of Radio Days, is powerfully relevant to all readers in light of September 11 and the new reality. The young heroes and heroine are under attack by a Nazi espionage...

This collection, which won the 2015 Costa Poetry Award, is an exhibition of the Dundee-born poet’s stunningly accomplished adoption of the sonnet’s ancient structure This collection from Don Paterson, his first since the Forward Prize–winning Rain in 2009, is a series of forty luminous...

A 16 year old girl has disappeared. The police believe she is a runaway. Her parents believe she has been taken and is being held against her will. When the parents enlist the services of Frank Rozzani, a former police officer turned private detective, a series of events begins to unfold that implicates...

"Wayward Pines: An Unauthorized Guide" is based on the Fox Network's television mini-series and Blake Crouch's wonderful print trilogy. "Pines," "Wayward Pines" and "The Last Town."What is the truth? Are the residents of Wayward Pines dead or alive-or both?" Who is Dr. David Pilcher...

Issue #103 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Dean Wells and Don Allmon.