In 1989, Bill Porter, having spent much of his life studying and translating Chinese religious and philosophical texts, began to wonder if the Buddhist hermit tradition still existed in China. At the time, it was believed that the Cultural Revolution had dealt a lethal blow to all religions in China, destroying countless temples and shrines, and forcibly returning thousands of monks and nuns to a lay life.

But when Porter travels to the Chungnan mountains -- the historical refuge of ancient hermits -- he discovers that the hermit tradition is very much alive, as dozens of monks and nuns...

Do Miracle's Really Happen, is a story about some life changing events that happened in the life of the Author, and his wife, during a period of several years. It tells of some things that God worked, that are without question, things that just couldn't happen without the working of an Almighty Power. Not magic, but power that comes from unwavering faith in God, and trusting in Him to do what just seemed, could not be done. It speaks of a Miracle Peach Crop, that happened in Colorado, where an old dilapidated orchard brought forth more peaches than one could imagine, when all the other...

My name is Delinda Rodgers, the mother of the little girl, Lacey Rodgers, who will be the subject of this story. I'm writing this book, because I feel like the Lord wants me to tell about the marvelous things He was willing to do for our family, during the time that our daughter Lacey, was sick with leukemia, took her chemo, and recovered from the cancer that came into her life, like it does to so many other wonderful children. I feel like God would want me to share this with other families that are, and might be going through what we went through during this very difficult time. I know in my...

To travel upon the Silk Road is to travel through history. Millennia older than California's Camino Real, and perhaps even a few years senior to the roads of the Roman Empire, the Silk Road is a network of routes stretching from delta towns of China all the way to the Mediterranean Sea - a cultural highway considered to be essential to the development of some of the world's oldest civilizations. It was upon this road that that Chinese silk traveled and was exchanged for incense, precious stones, and gold from India, the Middle East and as far the Mediterranean, contributing to the great...

Chinese civilization first developed 5,000 years ago in North China along the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. And the Yellow River remained the center of Chinese civilization for the next 4,000 years. Then a thousand years ago, this changed. A thousand years ago, the center of Chinese civilization moved to the Yangtze. And the Yangtze, not the Yellow River, has remained the center of its civilization. A thousand years ago, the Chinese came up with a name for this new center of its civilization. They called it Chiangnan, meaning "South of the River," the river in question, of...