The Political Pulpit Revisited examines a set of arguments originally made in 1975 about church-state relations in the U.S. Scholars have long wondered how a nation of some two thousand different religious denominations has been able to remain relatively calm about such matters. Controversial issues like abortion rights, war-time pacifism, sanctuary for illegal aliens, clerical abuse of children, non-taxation of church property, and other matters conA-tinually roil the political waters. The first edition describes how church and state tensions are worked out symbolically rather than...

Maxwell Frei claims to be a photographer to qualify for cheap office space in an art collective known as The Warehouse. In fact he's a counsellor, and though his degree is not in psychology he has studied the subject and knows the score. Anti-depressants don't work and he has the evidence to prove it. As for the many therapies out there, they aren't worth a row of beans. His attitude is simple: he doesn't listen to the experts, he listens to his clients. And everything goes well till one of them steps in front of a moving car and the police come knocking on his door. Now the focus of a...

It isn't planned, nothing he does ever is, but when Frank is burned out of his flat he ends up living where he works. A maintenance man in a large department store, this is easier for him than most, and everything might just have worked out if he'd told other people what he was doing, especially his girlfriend, Pamela. But he doesn't, and his secret life soon becomes a comedy of unintended consequences, the only thing he has in common with the ambitious but hot-tempered Preston Blair. Set in 2004, when analogue is giving way to digital and family-owned stores are losing out to the...