As a dominant voice in our society, Western Christianity (including fundamentalism) is dying despite the growing tendency of people to identify as spiritual but not religious. In the face of this reality, churches continue to preach the same message of sin, judgment, and guilt in order to be saved, or in the case of more progressive churches, feel-good messages. No wonder Western Christianity is failing. If it is ever to regain its viability, Christianity must rethink its total devotion to Christ and look again at its roots. A new Christianity must start over with the original vision of God's...

GHOST STORIES AND MORE IN THIS ALL NEW COLLECTION . Amazing Paranormal Encounters Volume 3. The follow-up book to the TWO top 10 best sellers in Supernatural, Horror, and Unexplained Mysteries on Amazon starting in October 2015. AMAZING PARANORMAL ENCOUNTERS VOLUMES 1 ( August 2015) & 2 (February 2016) Bone-chilling tales of ghosts and more written by authors, investigators, radio show hosts and other people in the paranormal field. This chilling anthology reveals some of the strangest and most frightening experiences they have ever had and in some cases, these experiences are what brought...

Samuel Beckett’s Legacies in American Fiction providesan overdue investigation into Beckett’s rich influences over American writing. Through in-depth readings of postmodern authors such as Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Paul Auster and Lydia Davis, this book situates Beckett’s post-war writing of exhaustion and generation in relation to the emergence of an explosive American avant-garde. In turn, this study provides a valuable insight into the practical realities of Beckett’s dissemination in America, following the author’s long-standing relationship...