Arthur White was a World Champion power-lifter, a successful businessman and happy family man. Until his life spirals out of control. Cocaine, steroids and an affair change everything. Arthur loses his business and his family and his own health is severely threatened. Death seems the only way out until an incident with a knife...Arthur's story is straight out of the annals of an East End crime thriller and his conversion to the Christian faith dramatically demonstrates the reality of God's amazing grace.

Plague and Pleasure is a lively popular history that introduces a new hypothesis about the impetus behind the cultural change in Renaissance Italy. The Renaissance coincided with a period of chronic, constantly recurring plague, unremitting warfare and pervasive insecurity. Consequently, people felt a need for mental escape to alternative, idealized realities, distant in time or space from the unendurable present but made vivid to the imagination through literature, art, and spectacle. Pope Pius II experienced both plague and war during his reign and he exhibited many escapist behaviors...