After reading deeply into the New Testament Gospels, E. Kent Rogers began to find that Jesus’s miracles were speaking to modern-day problems on many levels. With this guidebook for group study, he discusses twelve of these messages.... Read More

In his eighth novel, the second with protagonist Los Angeles detective Dale Lipinski, Californian Roberto de Haro weaves a tale about the unsavory bedfellows of crime and politics. The killing at the heart of "Murder at the Villa Museum"... Read More

“Maybe it’s stupid to live in a place like Fairbanks where fall is only a week long, but it sure is a beautiful week.” This line from the third story in "The City Beneath the Snow" could just as well have been used to preface the... Read More

“Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy,” said Siegbert Tarrasch, one of the many past masters we meet in "Counterplay", by Robert Desjarlais. A tournament chess player and professor of anthropology at Sarah... Read More

Moral choices often seem obvious in the abstract, but they may not compel those whose psychological structure permits them to sacrifice the well-being of others when it conflicts with their own. When Jason Snow signs up for a guided... Read More

In his disturbingly perceptive poem, “Musée des Beaux Arts,” W.H. Auden delineated the perpetual disconnect that exists between the comfortable, workaday world and the monumental suffering that’s always going on at its margins. He... Read More

Years ago, Archibald Morgan made a deal with the devil: he helped Hermann Goering hide his memoirs and twenty-five million dollars in gold. Today that deal has come back to haunt both him and Flora, the Romany woman who helped him do it... Read More

I thought I was in a prison, but the prison was just myself. We are all caught in ourselves. —Camus, from The Stranger The unconscious mind every so often hands a writer an intact narrative, like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or Robert... Read More