Voices from every direction beckon us, even push us, toward better and faster technology, with the promise of more wealth, more pleasure, and, consequently, more happiness. But have we become so bewitched by the siren song of material progress that we've lost the ability not just to achieve, but to discern what true happiness is? What criteria do we use to plan for the future, for retirement? At the end of our earthly lives, how will we measure our fruitfulness? In this book Marcus Grodi discusses what he and his family discovered, mostly by surprise, after moving from the city to twenty-five acres of Ohio farmland. This move involved a radical shift in priorities for all of them, but mostly it helped them to discover some critical truths about our relationship to nature and to nature's Creator that apply regardless of where a person lives. He offers wonderful reflections on his going-back-to-the-land experience as a metaphor for drawing closer to God.

The selections are from different writers of prose such as Stephen Hawking, Bernard Shaw, Jawaharlal Nehru and others. The notes have a short write-up about the author, a glossary, paragraph by paragraph explanations for each piece, and a short list of reference tasks and writing tasks.

In this critical time in world history when many spirits and bodies are plagued (by AIDS, covid, monkeypox, hunger, bird-flu, mad-cow disease, and other ailments) and many communities are broken (by wars, juntas, climate crises, domestic abuse, poverty, and other shitstems), this book stirs up the ends of Liberation Theology – re(l)ease. As long as the world is plagued and broken, the re(l)ease that Liberation Theology seeks are needed. Bringing together a diverse and global array of theologians who have taken up the liberative mantel, this book will demonstrate why liberation theology today needs releasing from its illusions and assumptions, and what comes next once it does so. With contributors including Miguel A. De La Torre, Anna Kasafi Perkins and Michael Jaggesar, the book demonstrates that Liberation Theology is not passé or dead. But it needs some stirring up.

This book is a five-year ethnographic study of the lesbian culture built at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. The study explores the construction of an Amazon consciousness and its manifestation in symbol, myth, and ritual performance at the Festival. It also explores the ways womyn build homes, families, and sacred traditions during the Festival.

Siklsi is now a young man and must protect his family from bloody horrible trials and tribulations ranging from the deep sea into the great heavens. Evil lurches everywhere, only to find their Queen, who is also rooting for this family full of love and passion. The family discovers they are on an adventure in the lands of great mysteries and phenomena. Their joy and comfort forsake them as they are placed into the hands of death, which has no mercy on their loving hearts. Siklsi risks everything by joining an unknown species in saving all that they know. The risk proves a success as he watches those who killed his wives vanish in time. Trouble continues to burden them as some unknown force has altered these Progenitors future generations. They receive a new family member that works with them to save all life, which is now in jeopardy. She in turns helps save other great future leaders of love and passion they stem from this crucial bloodline. This growing family return to their homes and hope to, once again, begin their lives full of love and passion, which now has the scars of hate and pain chained in the dark pits of their past.