Continuously popular since it first appeared in 1977, TheIncorruptibles remains the acknowledged classic on the bodies of saints that did not undergo decomposition after death. Many remained fresh and flexible for years, or even centuries. After explaining both natural and artificial mummification, the author shows that the incorruption of the saints' bodies fits neither category but rather constitutes a much greater phenomenon that is unexplained...

Modern interpreters typically attach revolutionary significance to Luther's Christology, on account of its unprecedented endorsement of God's ontological vulnerability. This passibilist reading of Luther's theology has, sourced a long channel of speculative theology and philosophy, from Hegel to Moltmann, which regards Luther as an ally against antique, philosophical assumptions, which are supposed to occlude the genuine immanence of God to history...

The searing record of four decades of terror and oppression distilled into one abridged volume Drawing on his own experiences before, during, and after his eleven years of incarceration and exile, Solzhenitsyn reveals with torrential narrative and dramatic power the entire apparatus of Soviet repression. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims, we encounter the secret police operations, the labor camps and prisons, the uprooting or extermination...

The Disqualification Center is a dystopian/utopian novella that unfolds in a time of accelerated climate destabilization and pandemics after the dissolution of the United States and civil war. The reader accompanies a transient undergoing immigration procedures on the border of Aia and the Inter-Entity Zone occupied by UN peacekeeping forces. Our tale begins in medias res with Transient 2-0-5-3-9-1-9-C-1-8-6 passing through a gauntlet of medical screening...

With all the turmoil and unrest in our nation, it seems many have turned our eyes away from the prize, we began this race to win. We have forgotten we are not running for a corruptible crown that will fade away. We have forgotten we chose to run this race because we desired to win the incorruptible crown. Our cross of self-denial has become too cumbersome and our race too arduous, too demanding. We have become more concerned with enjoying this life...

Day-to-day parenting for most single parent homes becomes a challenge when one parent has the sole responsibility for caring for the children. Not only does life become complicated, most of the time it becomes overwhelming. Most parents are often caught in the cycle of survival, rather than becoming empowered to handle the role for whatever period of time is required to prepare their children for adulthood. If a bitter divorce is any part of the equation,...

Mark 4:30-32 "Then He said, "To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what parable shall we picture it? (31) It is like a mustard seed which, when it is sown on the ground, is smaller than all the seeds on earth, (32) but when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater than all herbs, and shoots out large branches, so that the birds of the air may nest under its shade. "Our Lord Jesus, when He was on the earth, stated that the kingdom of...

Marry new technology to old-fashioned policing and you've got something special. The car is found just outside Picketsville, Virginia, a smoking ruin of twisted metal and shattered glass. It takes only a glance to confirm that this is Ike Schwartz's car. Ever since he left the CIA, the incorruptible Picketsville sheriff has made enemies at home and abroad. Now, one has caught up with him, with a bomb powerful enough to turn quiet Main Street into...

Lesley Rowan was a rising star investigative reporter at Dallas's top rated news television station, WDLL. Smart, fearless, photogenic, she had trained under the best the industry had to offer, including the late Manny Zammorra, the incorruptible editor of the Brownsville Daily Leader. It was her connection to Zammorra that sparked the station's news director, Mac Withers, to send Lesley to the South Texas city to cover the funeral and the federal...

First published in 1935, this is widely regarded as the most definitive and comprehensive biography of Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (1758-1794), the French lawyer and politician who would become one of the best-known and most influential figures associated with the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. As a member of the Estates-General, the Constituent Assembly and the Jacobin Club, Robespierre was an outspoken advocate...