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Rebuilding the Foundations
In this unique volume, father-and-son team Walter and John Brueggemann take a close look at our fractured American society and suggest ways for improvement. Using six themes identified by some scholars as the moral foundations of society--care, fairness, liberty, loyalty, authority, and sanctity--they examine the unsustainable patterns of our contemporary society and reveal how those patterns played out in the ancient world of the Old Testament. Brueggemann and Brueggemann demonstrate how comparing the current state of these moral foundations with what God wanted them to be can help us better respond to the challenges of today. They assert that achieving any significant change will require the work of all of us and will be grounded in a vision of neighborliness. Rebuilding the Foundationswill inspire readers to reorient toward a better way of living, both for themselves and for all living things.
Rich, Free, and Miserable
Compared to much of the rest of the world, America and its citizens are rich. But many people are also deeply miserable—at work, at home, or both. In this provocative book, author John Brueggemann unpacks why so many people are struggling, both emotionally and financially, in a nation that looks so prosperous on the surface. From a hospital patient reduced to a balance sheet to a parent working such long hours that he misses dinner, Brueggemann argues that market thinking has permeated every corner of our lives. In the pursuit of more and better, relationships erode, to the detriment of individuals, communities, and the nation as a whole. Rich, Free, and Miserable not only outlines these pressing social problems, but also offers practical suggestions for people looking to make a positive change.
Force of Nature
A thrilling read set in the American West from New York Times bestseller C.J. Box, award-winning author of the Joe Pickett and Cassie Dewell series, now adapted into the hit TV shows Joe Pickett and Big Sky. Nate Romanowski faces the battle of his life: one he may very likely lose. Nate knows too much about Special Forces Black Ops in Afghanistan – and he must be silenced. Nate's former comrades know the time has come to end the threat once and for all. And they do it by incorporating many of the same tactics that served their unique and secret unit well in the Middle East: recruiting locals. Nate can trust no one except Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett, who is constrained by his oath and duty to the law and the state. But Nate must involve Joe because he knows his enemy will strike at his friends in order to draw him out. The entire Pickett family will be a target. Nate can only fight back outside the law, and Joe must make a choice: help his friend or keep the peace? Reviews for Force of Nature 'Force of Nature shines on every level.' Billings Gazette 'Another amazing thriller from C.J. Box.' Chicago Sun-Times
The C.J. Box Set
C.J. Box is the award-winning author of the Joe Pickett and Cassie Dewell series, now adapted into the hit TV shows Joe Pickett and Big Sky. Now for the first time you can enjoy a huge selection of C.J. Box's acclaimed work in one volume with The Box Set. This boxset includes 22 Joe Pickett novels featuring Game Warden Joe as he takes on crimes and sinister goings-on in the dramatic landscape of Wyoming and beyond, and 6 novels in the Cassie Dewell series featuring private investigator Cassie, whose exploits are the origin of the TV show Big Sky. The omnibus also contains Shots Fired, a compilation of short stories featuring some familiar characters, and two gripping standalone thrillers, Three Weeks to Say Goodbye and the award-winning Blue Heaven. This truly is the best of Box: the best of contemporary crime and thriller fiction set in the modern-day American West. Reviews for C.J. Box 'Box is the king of contemporary crime fiction set in the West.' Publishers Weekly 'Box remains square on target throughout.' Booklist 'Box delivers the goods!' Robert Crais
Delivered out of Empire
The Pivotal Moments in the Old Testament Series helps readers see Scripture with new eyes, highlighting short, key texts—"pivotal moments"—that shift our expectations and invite us to turn toward another reality transformed by God's purposes and action. The book of Exodus brims with dramatic stories familiar to most of us: the burning bush, Moses' ringing proclamation to Pharaoh to "Let my people go," the parting of the Red Sea. These signs of God's liberating agency have sustained oppressed people seeking deliverance over the ages. But Exodus is also a complex book. Reading the text firsthand, one encounters multilayered narratives: about entrenched socioeconomic systems that exploit th...
Think Red
Have you ever wondered what the church would look like if Christians began to take the words of Jesus seriously--the words some Bibles print in red? What if Jesus actually meant for us to do the things he said? What if those who "believe in Jesus" really did value the things he valued? Would the church look different? Would your neighborhood stay the same? In Think Red, Larry Stoess takes a close look at the values, the vision, and the mission of Jesus, and then holds up a mirror for us to see if our communities look anything like Jesus. If we dare look in the mirror we may be inspired to leave behind our obsession with consumer-based religion and follow the way of Jesus. Those who do will be set free to imagine creative and whimsical expressions of community.
Journal of Moral Theology, Volume 4, Number 1
TECHNOLOGY Volume 4, Number 1, June 2015 Edited by James F. Caccamo and David M. McCarthy Natural Law in a Digital Age Nadia Delicata Faith in the Church of Facebook Matthew John Paul Tan Progress and Progressio: Technology, Self-betterment, and Integral Human Development Joseph G. Wolyniak Containing a "Pandora's" Box: The Importance of Labor Unions in the Digital Age Patrick Flanagan We Do Not Know How to Love: Observations on Theology, Technology, and Disability Jana M. Bennett Unmanned: Autonomous Drones as a Problem of Theological Anthropology Kara N. Slade Learning With Digital Technologies: Privileging Persons Over Machines Mary E. Hess What's in a Tech? Factors in Evaluating the Morality of Our Information and Communication Practices James F. Caccamo
Undermining Race
Undermining Race rewrites the history of race, immigration, and labor in the copper industry in Arizona. The book focuses on the case of Italian immigrants in their relationships with Anglo, Mexican, and Spanish miners (and at times with blacks, Asian Americans, and Native Americans), requiring a reinterpretation of the way race was formed and figured across place and time. Phylis Martinelli argues that the case of Italians in Arizona provides insight into “in between” racial and ethnic categories, demonstrating that the categorizing of Italians varied from camp to camp depending on local conditions—such as management practices in structuring labor markets and workers’ housing, and t...
Tortillas and Tomatoes
Based on interviews with Leamington greenhouse growers and migrant Mexican workers, Tanya Basok offers a timely analysis of why the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program is needed. She argues that while Mexican workers do not necessarily constitute cheap labour for Canadian growers, they are vital for the survival of some agricultural sectors because they are always available for work, even on holidays and weekends, or when exhausted, sick, or injured. Basok exposes the mechanisms that make Mexican seasonal workers unfree and shows that the workers' virtual inability to refuse the employer's demand for their labour is related not only to economic need but to the rigid control exercised by the Mexican Ministry of Labour and Social Planning and Canadian growers over workers' participation in the Canadian guest worker program, as well as the paternalistic relationship between the Mexican harvesters and their Canadian employers.
Social and Behavioral Science for Health Professionals
Social and Behavioral Science for Health Professionals examines various social and behavioral factors that affect health and illness, with a particular focus on how these phenomena inform clinical practice. The book introduces interdisciplinary insights from fields like sociology, psychology, and epidemiology to elucidate important and often problematic features of patient care routinely confronting physicians, nurses, and other allied health practitioners. Each chapter provides clear learning objectives and is organized around core concepts to facilitate clinicians’ abilities to think in new and expanded ways about health and illness, as well as patient and professional interactions. The ...
