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Even small fish have big dreams. Dreams can come true unless you allow fear to stop you from trying. In Finley the Fish With Tales from the Sea of Galilee: A Story of Faith, a small fish dreams of winning the big race. The problem is he is afraid of almost everything. Finley sets out to visit his grandfather to learn about faith. It might be just the thing he needs to help him have the courage and strength to win. While traveling to his grandfather's house, the water grew cold and dark causing a current of danger to swirl around the small fish.Things were about to...

To call this simply a book of sermons does not do it justice. They are sermons?preached over a thirty-five-year period?to differing congregations, but they are also lessons on life and living. Biblically based to be sure, but the scriptures are filtered through a mind steeped in the classics, open to what's going on in the world, and not afraid to raise questions that challenge the very faith that is being preached. Although Rev. Starnes is known for his preaching skills, he is primarily a writer, who, as someone says, ?knows how to string words together.? A note worthy comment made when...

Closely Guarded is written by a man who was privy to some of the most closely guarded state secrets in Canada. From 1942 to 1973, John Starnes was engaged in such areas as communications intelligence and, during his tenure as the first civilian director-general of the RCMP Security Service, in counter-espionage and counter-subversion. His recollection of these confidential activities and the part he played in them is supported by a wealth of formerly classified official documentation recently released under the Access to Information Act.

This is a highly personal narrative,...

Colin Starnes radical interpretation of the long-recognized affinity of Thomas More's Utopia and Plato's Republic confirms the intrinsic links between the two works. Through commentary on More's own introduction to Book I, the author shows the Republic is everywhere present as the model of the "best commonwealth," which More must first discredit as the root cause of the dreadful evils in the collapsing political situation of sixteenth-century Europe. Starnes demonstrates how More, once having shorn the Republic of what was applicable to a society that had for a...