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Christian hope should revolutionise our thinking and be as attractive and motivational to us as sweet nectar is to the honey bee We should want to share this infectious message with everyone we meet. The traditional teaching, which limits the gospel invitation to this lifetime and proclaims an endless hell, fails to inspire this response. Little wonder that hope is rarely discussed in the church and final judgment even less. This book takes a fresh and reassuring look at what the Bible has to say about the outworking of the cross in eternity.

Laud Humphreys (19301988) was a pioneering and fearless sociologist, an Episcopal priest, and a civil rights, gay, and antiwar activist. In graduate school during the late 1960s, he conducted extensive fieldwork in public restrooms in a St. Louis city park to discover patterns of impersonal sex among men. He published the results in "Tearoom Trade." Three decades later the book still triggers many debates about the ethics of his research methods. In 1974, he was the first sociologist to come out as gay. "Laud Humphreys: Prophet of Homosexuality and Sociology" examines the groundbreaking work...

In what has been called the Dred Scott decision of our times, the US Supreme Court found in McCleskey v. Kemp that evidence of overwhelming racial disparities in the capital punishment process could not be admitted in individual capital cases-in effect institutionalizing a racially unequal system of criminal justice.Exploring the enduring legacy of this radical decision nearly three decades later, the authors of Race and the Death Penalty examine the persistence of racial discrimination in the practice of capital punishment, the dynamics that drive it, and the human consequences of both.