I know this is a curious title, and people who have never experienced the rejection of a son at his wife's behest won't understand it. But those who have been through this experience-whose sons have married and turned against them as if they were dirt after all the years of love and care the parents gave them-will rejoice at finding this book and knowing they aren't alone. Actually, the desertion of parents by married sons is not uncommon. Would that it were! Almost every psychologist or counselor with whom I have talked knows of several instances in which it has happened. They speak of the great sorrow and agitation of the parents, mother and father alike, who can't understand why a child has turned against them. ANNE KATHRYN KILLINGER has been a concert pianist, a college professor, a Parisian model, and the wife of a widely known clergyman. She has lived in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Nashville, Birmingham, Paris, and Oxford, and now resides near Washington, DC. She is also the author of An Inner Journey to Christmas and An Inner Journey to Easter, as well as the novels, Pendleton Farm and Rachel Remembers.

A Son Is a Son Till He Gets a Wife

Politics & Social Sciences

Killinger, Anne Kathryn

Social Sciences

Parson's Porch Books

If Only I Had Known... is a collection of meditations and reflections of and by mostly New Testament biblical characters in the form of monologues and soliloquies. The author, the Rev. Dr. William R. Russell, originally presented these soliloquies as special sermons that were enthusiastically received by worshipers. Deeply touching, relevant, and captivating, these sermon soliloquies and monologue meditations cover the full sweep of the nativity, ministry, triumphal entry, passion, death, and resurrection of Christ. Born a Canadian and raised a Presbyterian, Dr. Russell studied philosophy at the University of Toronto and theology at Princeton Seminary. For four decades, he served as pastor of churches large and small in both Canada and the United States.

If Only I Had Known . . .

Religion & Spirituality

Russell, William R.

Christian Books & Bibles

Millennium tells the story of Cassidy Owens and her murdered brother and mother at the hands of their ex-law enforcement father and husband. Based on a true incident that takes place in a county in North Carolina, Cassidy finds herself between a rock and a hard place, powerless to comprehend the events of that holiday week when her father took his gun and shot his ex-wife and his own son who moved to protect his mother and took a bullet instead before the father went off into the woods and shot himself in remorse. This is a powerful story of how a saintly grandmother and other strong figures such as her Aunt Patty and Uncle Joel, along with her college advisor, Dr. Potter, and Dena, the director of a women's shelter, provide the support that helps Cassidy overcome the tragedy that threatens to take control of her life.

Millennium

Literature & Fiction

Stump, Phyllis

Contemporary

This is the first of three parts of the sixth volume in a seven-volume collection - published between 1864 and 1890 - comprising Venetian and other northern Italian state papers relating to England. Translator and editor Rawdon Lubbock Brown (1806&#x2013;83) lived for many years in Venice, had unrivalled access to the Venetian archives and travelled widely to find documents in other Italian libraries and archives. He had previously published two volumes of Sebastian Giustinian's dispatches to Venice from Henry VIII's court (also reissued in this series). This first part of the sixth volume contains documents from the years 1555&#x2013;6, the early years of Mary I's reign, an important period for the Italian states when papal authority was reinstated in England and Mary married Philip of Spain - documented here by the correspondence of, among others, the papal legate Cardinal Pole. The editor's preface puts the various documents into historical context.

Jessie in the Smokies

John Killinger

In this sequel to Jessie in the Smokies, Jessie returns to life as a country music singer in Nashville, Tennessee, often called "the Vatican City of America" because of its numerous religious headquarters. Propelled into the spotlight by her plaintive voice and original songs, she issues a compelling call to righteousness and honesty on the religious scene. But this is soon met by staunch resistance from a number of highly placed church leaders. And when some of those leaders turn out to be underworld figures as well, Jessie's death is a foregone conclusion. She is killed during a Good Friday concert at the Grand Ole Opry. But, as it is with Jesus in the Gospel stories, this isn't the end of the narrative, for Jessie keeps a date for an extraordinary interview with a persistent reporter from one of Nashville's newspapers, and the entire city is electrified at the story of her return.

The Night Jessie Sang at the Opry

From 1960 to 1990, Charlotte Barr belonged to a religious order in Nashville, Tennessee, where she was known as Sister Mary Anthony, OP. She was a teacher for over forty years, most notably at St. Cecelia Academy and Aquinas College on Nashville's Dominican Campus. After leaving St. Cecelia, Charlotte taught of two years at the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee. Since 1992, she has taught at the Baylor School in Chattanooga, where she held the position of poet-in-residence. Charlotte retired from teaching in 2007. During her novitiate year, Charlotte began seriously to write poetry. Her early convent poems appeared in the collection, Brief Blue Season, in 1966. Over the years, Charlotte's work has been published in several periodicals and journals, including The Sewanee Review, The Cumberland Review, The Distillery, and The Spire, a publication of the Vanderbilt Divinity School. Two volumes of poetry, Sister Woman (1989) and The Bell Buckle Years (1992), were published by Maggi Vaughn at Iris Press.

The Text Beneath

Barr, Charlotte

Poetry

Feminine Faces: Portraits of Biblical Women of Faith

Hyde, Randy L.

Enjoyable, fascinating, delightful, highly recommended, enlightening, and wonderful. These are the words readers are using to describe The Shining One: 100 Things You Only Thought Were in the Bible. Dr. Jeffry L. Smith challenges commonly held misconceptions about the Bible with grace and tact. Beginning students of the Bible and seasoned readers alike will find fascinating facts within its pages.

The Shining One: 100 Things You Only Thought Were in the Bible

Smith, Jeffry L.

The story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, pastor and theologian, is the story of a man who spoke as a great prophet to a German church that was more concerned with her own security than she was with doing the work of God in the midst of oppression and human need. A real contribution to Bonhoeffer studies, performance artist Al Staggs brings this modern martyr's testimony to life with wit and sensitivity, compelling us to struggle along with Bonhoeffer with regard to the nature and expression of Christian faithfulness in the context of horrifying injustice.

What Would Bonhoeffer Say?

History

Staggs, Al

World

One of my favorite stories is the calling of Simon in Luke 5.  They've been out on the Sea of Galilee (or Gennesaret) all night, fishing, and hadn't caught a thing.  We often read this text as saying something about discipleship and evangelism and extending the Realm of God.  It does have something to say about "catching people" (Luke 5:10).  However, before Simon begins this work he has to first do something else."Look, Master, we've been out here all night and didn't catch a thing.  We're tired.  And there are all those people who keep following you around.  We just want to go home."What did Jesus ask him do?  "Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch" (Luke 5:4).  Put out into the deep water.  Let down your down nets, into the depths, for a catch.  And when they did so they had so many fish that their nets almost began to break. Simon signaled for help.  And then these both boats were filled to capacity with fish that they started to sink under the weight.  Overwhelmed by the abundance of the depths!Jesus' invitation to let down our nets into the depths has guided my life for decades.  When Jesus tells us to put out into the deep, I can't help but hear this as a summons to go down and in, to enter into the depths of my being, my soul, my heart, my psyche--they're all synonymous for me. The sea is a metaphor for the heart, a symbol of the unconscious, that which lives below the surface of awareness.  It's an invitation to go down and in, to an abundance, an overabundant yield that cannot be contained.  -From the Introduction 

Out Of The Depths Sermons And Essays

Kenneth E. Kovacs

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