The award-winning journalist uses interviews with survivors, parents, and friends of victims to delve deeply into the Columbine shooting and its consequences for the nation.

Day of Reckoning: Columbine and the Search for America's Soul

Politics & Social Sciences

Zoba, Wendy Murray

Sociology

Brazos Pr

In the modern university, religion is often taken to school-primarily in the sense of being critiqued, disciplined, and domesticated. In this provocative book, Stephen Webb steps into the middle of current controversies about the place of religion in secular high schools and colleges. 
Speaking explicitly as a Christian theologian, Webb offers penetrating analysis and vivid autobiographical reflections that will benefit professors of religious studies, high school teachers of religion, students, seminary- and university-based theologians, and all others concerned with the many points of contention over religious education in our day.

Taking Religion to School: Christian Theology and Secular Education

Education & Teaching

Webb, Stephen H.

Schools & Teaching

A collection of quotes from people who knew Jesus includes the words of Mary Magdalene, Judas Iscariot, St. Peter's wife, and thirty others.

He Was Here: Those Who Knew Jesus Speak

Religion & Spirituality

Kauffman, Ivan J.

Christian Books & Bibles

In Darwin's God, biophysicist Cornelius Hunter argues that the theory of evolution, from its origins with Charles Darwin up to its present-day proponents, is motivated at bottom by theological concerns. Behind the scientific story is the story of Charles Darwin's grappling with questions about God, reality, and the nature of the universe. Ultimately, Hunter shows how Darwin's inability to reconcile his understanding of a benevolent God with the cruelty, waste, and quandaries of nature led him to develop the theodicy called evolution. Importantly, the tale Hunter has to tell is not merely historical. He demonstrates how today's theory of evolution continues to rely on Darwin's metaphysics. Contemporary Darwinists such as Kenneth Miller, Mark Ridley, Niles Eldredge, and Stephen Jay Gould rely on Darwin's God to justify evolution as much as Darwin did. Ironically, we discover that the theory that supposedly made God unnecessary is predicated upon dearly held beliefs about the very nature of God.

Darwin's God: Evolution and the Problem of Evil

Hunter, Cornelius G.

Jacobs explains the art of the moral essay, then illustrates the actual execution of the moral essay on subjects such as Harry Potter, TV animal documentaries, and luckydipping in the Bible.

A Visit to Vanity Fair: Moral Essays on the Present Age

Literature & Fiction

Jacobs, Alan

History & Criticism

A reading of the New Testament seeks to reveal the paradoxical beauty of Christ's death on the cross and its world-changing effects, providing a compelling narrative and portraits of everyday people to offer a different perspective on the Passion of Christ.

A Scandalous Beauty: The Artistry of God and the Way of the Cross

Schmidt, Thomas E.

Offers guidance to those raising children in a Christian home, with narrative essays exploring the challenges of handing down faith from one generation to the next.

Growing Pains: Learning to Love My Father's Faith

Balmer, Randall

Christianity Incorporated: How Big Business is Buying the Church

Critically explores the growing popularity of spirituality in business circles and how it can be distorted by the drive for profit.

Christianity Incorporated: How Big Business Is Buying the Church

Brimlow, Robert W.

Budde, Michael L.

Theologians from around the world explore the causes and effects of violent terror, and suggest religious resources for preventing and overcoming terror.

Surviving Terror: Hope and Justice in a World of Violence

Religious Studies

The claims of evolution and, more recently, the proponents of artificial intelligence have brought into question what it means to be human. Denying the existence of the soul apart from the body, many contemporary scientists are devout materialists‹putting the traditional Aristotelian and Thomistic conception of the human being far out of fashion. 
However, Ric Machuga argues convincingly that our nature "is an essential unity of both the material and the immaterial," that we not only have a soul but that we are a soul. The body is a necessary‹but not sufficient‹condition for human existence. 
In Defense of the Soul is an accessible and timely treatment of a timeless topic: what it means to be human. Not only will it attract readers interested in artificial intelligence, evolution, and the intelligent design debate, it¹s ideal for introductory college and seminary courses in philosophy. It includes an appendix that specifically assesses intelligent design, as well as a thick bibliography that provides an excellent guide to other sources on the topic.

In Defense of the Soul: What It Means to Be Human

Machuga, Ric

Philosophy

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