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In The Riddle of the Sands, a gripping spy story set amongst the shoals and mists of the North Sea coast in the years before the First World War, Erskine Childers fathered the modern genre of spy adventures, as well as writing a great yachting classic. Unlike John Buchan or John le Carre, however, Childers himself led a life involving spying, gun-running and conspiracy, and a constant search for adventure and danger, which led in the end to his execution by firing squad in Ireland in 1923.

The Tragedy of Erskine Childers tells the extraordinary story of a brilliant and highly...

Sie brauchte ein Kindermädchen.
Ich brauchte eine Hauptdarstellerin.
Irgendwie wurde ich Mr. Nanny.

Ich habe schon nicht mehr daran geglaubt, als Drehbuchautor in L.A. durchzustarten. Aber zu meinem Glück hat mein Agent vor ein paar Wochen einen Investor gefunden. Hurra, alle meine Probleme sind gelöst! 

Der Haken? Der Investor ist nur bereit, meinen Film zu finanzieren, wenn ich eine bestimmte Schauspielerin verpflichte. Und natürlich muss es dieselbe Schauspielerin sein, die ich vor ein paar Monaten über den Tisch gezogen habe. Aber...

Everyone wants a life that sings. We all desire to have a life of beauty. Sometimes, though, circumstances cloud our vision. My circumstances were anything but beautiful; they were downright ugly. I was tired, worn out, and my eyesight had grown dim to the beauty and goodness of God. I struggled to find beauty in my life. In the midst of the mundane and madness, I had lost my song.

I learned that beauty is not defined by circumstances but by my reaction to the circumstances. Each of us has a story and a song, but will we leave the world with a gorgeous melody or an off-key tune? A song...

"We pastors are being killed by the professionalizing of the pastoral ministry," he writes. "The mentality of the professional is not the mentality of the prophet. It is not the mentality of the slave of Christ. Professionalism has...

Does it take a miracle to read the Bible?

God wrote a book, and its pages are full of his glory. But we cannot see his beauty on our own, with mere human eyes.

In Reading the Bible Supernaturally, John Piper aims to show us how God works through his written Word when we pursue the natural act of reading the Bible, so that we experience his sightgiving power--a power that extends beyond the words on the page.

Ultimately, Piper shows us that in the seemingly ordinary act of reading the Bible, something miraculous happens: we are given eyes to...