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Gamaliel's Advice
Based on true events... A veteran's beautiful granddaughter fights to save his War Memorial Cross in an atheism vs. faith drama based on America's longest-running religious freedom lawsuit. Kelli Peters and the City of San Diego take on an undefeated civil libertarian attorney who has judicial connections in a scrappy, blistering and hairpin twenty-five-year legal and political battle patterned after the Mount Soledad controversy. This fictional drama snakes its way to the Oval Office and culminates in a monumental Supreme Court decision that shakes a nation. LaCosta brings to life the drama of the longest-running religious freedom case in the history of the nation. -Charles LiMandri, President and Chief Counsel, Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund This story chronicles the ongoing battle to save the cross of the Mt. Soledad War Memorial in San Diego, California. The cross' demise will signal a tipping point in America." -"New York" Myke Shelby, Owner, San Diego Harley Davidson
Dirty John and Other True Stories of Outlaws and Outsiders
A collection of newspaper stories by award-winning Los Angeles Times reporter Christopher Goffard—including “Dirty John,” the basis for the hit podcast and the upcoming Bravo scripted series starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana. Since its release in fall 2017, the “Dirty John” podcast—about a conman who terrorizes a Southern California family—has been downloaded more than 20 million times, and will soon premiere as a scripted drama on Bravo starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana. The story, which also ran as a print series in the Los Angeles Times, wasn’t unfamiliar terrain to its writer, Christopher Goffard. Over two decades at newspapers from Florida to California, Goffard ...
"I'll Get You!" Drugs, Lies, and the Terrorizing of a PTA Mom
School volunteer and PTA mom Kelli Peters relates the details of a plot against her by fellow Plaza Vista Elementary School parents Jill and Ken Easter, that in the end included planted drug evidence and a $5.7 million dollar civil judgment in Kelli's favor.
Theology in Stone
Thinking about church architecture has come to an impasse. Reformers and traditionalists are talking past each other. Statements from both sides are often strident and dogmatic. In Theology in Stone, Richard Kieckhefer seeks to help both sides move beyond the standoff toward a fruitful conversation about houses of worship. Drawing on a wide range of historical examples with an eye to their contemporary relevance, he offers new ideas about the meanings and uses of church architecture.
Capturing Nature
Over a period of some twenty years, Mexican-born artisan Dionicio Rodríguez created imaginative sculptures of reinforced concrete that imitated the natural forms and textures of trees and rocks. He worked in eight different states from 1924 through the early 1950s but spent much of his early career in San Antonio, where several of his creations have become beloved landmarks. More than a dozen of Rodríguez’s works have been included on the National Register of Historic Places. Patsy Pittman Light has spent a decade documenting the trabajo rústico (“rustic work”) of Rodríguez, along with its antecedents in Europe and Mexico, and the subsequent work of those Rodríguez trained in San ...
The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 5
This anthology collects the ten winners of the 2016 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, an event hosted by the Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism at the University of North Texas. First place winner: Terrence McCoy, “It Was an Accident, Baby” (The Washington Post), relates how a family in Alabama coped after the family’s four-year-old accidentally killed his nine-year-old sister. Second place: Hannah Dreier, “A Child’s Scraped Knee” (Associated Press), which depicts how medical supply shortages in Venezuela turned a simple injury into a life-threatening condition for a three-year-old. Third place: Billy B...
