Lee Cotton is a black boy born white-skinned in segregated Eureka, Mississippi, in 1950. Over the course of Lee s first twenty years, he will fall in love with the daughter of a local Klansman, get kicked senseless and left for dead on a freight train headed north, end up in St. Louis as a white man, and be drafted into the psych-ops corps in Nevada. There, a drunken accident will separate Lee from another part of his identity and change his fate yet again. Before he returns to Mississippi, he will experience up close and personal the women s liberation movement and the dawn of the Lesbian...

Passage into Discipleship is designed to help older children and youth more faithfully prepare for the act of baptism by teaching what it means to walk a Christian journey. This book incorporates four different learning models that stimulate young people in being excited about becoming followers of Jesus. Learning models include classroom instruction, community and communal hands-on experiences, mentors that guide youth throughout the process, and a daylong retreat that concludes the curriculum. Topics discussed in the book include confession, contrition, covenant, community, and connection,...

What does a person have to do to achieve success in the workforce, or more broadly, in life? If you've ever asked yourself these questions, look no further than here. Author Christopher Wilson's BA to Boardroom with No BS, Skills for Life delivers an answer that's straightforward, sensible, and, as the title suggests, devoid of all the "BS" clouding most forms of career advice these days. Described by Paul F. Levy, former CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, as "one of those essential life guides that everyone should have," BA to Boardroom with No BS gives readers what they need to...