This book supplies both theoretical and practical strategies for integrating faith and learning at the Christian college and university level. Aimed primarily at faculty, it is useful for students also.

The aliens arrived without warning and knocked down everything we threw at them. They had little interest in humanity, other than removing them as they went about their own pursuits. A few survivors have crawled out of the destruction and must try to stay alive while maintaining their basic decency and building some kind of civilization. Death and love live side by side in this terrifying landscape. But when all is lost there all still older, stronger Gods still around. The question is, what do they want?

This book is a distillation of Buddhist thought and tradition stripped down to its basics for Americans. There are few foreign and strange terms, no incense or chanting, nor monks in orange robes. This book breaks down how at its beginnings Buddhism was a philosophy and a way of life, not a religion. Much has been added over the years as it spread, but the core thoughts are very simple. If you read this book with an open mind you may well discover a new way of looking at life, and find a new richness and contentment in your mind and spirit.

Life had become very hard for Emily. She was stuck in a low wage job, and had a small daughter to support along with a disabled mother. Every day was a grind, with no hope of things getting any better. Then she heard about the mysterious Mr. Gold. He was a wealthy man that liked to have pretty young girls come and keep him company and amuse him. And he would pay well for that amusement. She had no illusions what that would entail, but it seemed such a small thing to do when her situation was so desperate, and then she could walk away after she built up a little money. She would put the whole...