The Liberty Tree: One Hundred Faces of America is an illustrated history of Liberty in America

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Liberty is the ability to make our own life decisions according to our own sense of what is best.

This book tells the story of Liberty in America through profiles of one hundred Americans.

The story begins with a native woman meeting English settlers on the East Coast in 1610. It continues to a seven-year-old child today, blissfully unaware of how fragile his home and family are.

In between we meet Americans great and small, famous, infamous, and unknown, all playing their own role in this dance of American Liberty.

We meet those enslaved and those who enslaved them, those who sacrificed for Liberty and those who fought against it. We encounter stories of those who escaped bonds to become free, and those who spent their liberty in service to others.

The Liberty Tree ends with a note of cautious hope. Liberty has deep roots among us and its future may be bright...if we allow it to be.

Meet these one hundred Americans, and discover your own place among them!

Mandalas: A Graphic Prayer Book is a collection of drawings and meditations. It is written to broaden and deepen the reader's spiritual life and growth. The work explores significant themes from the Bible as well as insights from South Asian theologians.

The Latin Testament Project Bible is a translation of The Vulgate, the Latin language version of the Bible constructed by Saint Jerome between 382 and 405 AD. The work translates Biblia Sacra Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem, Fourth Revised Edition, published by the German Bible Society in Stuttgart. The Latin Testament Project Bible subdivides the ancient text as follows. The Old Testament section follows the division in Jewish tradition between Torah, Nevi'im, and Kethuvim. As such, the order of books varies slightly from the order found in most English Bibles. The Apocrypha section includes those chapters and books that were included in The Vulgate, but were not included in the Masoretic Hebrew text on which the Authorized King James Old Testament was based. These books have been left out of many Protestant editions of the scripture. The New Testament section follows the consensus order. The Color and Text Key for the version is as follows. Blue Text indicates words attributed directly to God, the Lord, or the Lord's Angel. Red Text indicates words attributed directly to Jesus. Black Text marks verse numbering, as well as the wording of the canonical text apart from the exceptions listed above. Italic Text indicates words added in the English translation to make better sense of the Latin original, which often leaves out words necessary for standard English grammar. Midnight Blue Text marks writings in the Apocrypha. Purple Text indicates Chapter and Subject headings.

This book presents the Christian Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, in a color-coded, Greek-English, verse by verse format. Each verse of the original Greek is followed by its English translation. The work also includes brief guidelines for language instructors, and detailed outlines of the Gospels themselves. The Greek text is adapted from The New Testament in the Original Greek, originally published by Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort in 1881.

Italic Text indicates words added in the English translation to make better sense of the Greek original. Since Greek lacks an indefinite article ('a' or 'an'), for instance, these must always be added.

Blue Text indicates words spoken by the Father or by the Lord's Angel. The endnote numbering in each Gospel also appears in blue.

Red Text indicates words spoken by Jesus.

Green Text represents quotations from scripture.

This rough, unpolished story, first written down in the vulgar Greek of ancient Rome's eastern traders and travelers, fixed for all subsequent generations the outline of Jesus' life and ministry. Through these words, the story of a Galilean Jew, crucified on a Roman cross, became the story of the world's Redeemer, through whom and by whom all other stories will be judged. Translated afresh by John Cunyus, The Gospel According to Mark becomes the latest volume in Searchlight Press's Latin Testament Project.

Paul's Letter to the Romans is presented in a Latin-English, Verse-by-Verse format, as the latest edition in Searchlight Press's Latin Testament Project. Each verse of the Latin text is followed by its English translation. I welcome the translation of the Vulgate . . . The Latin language and particularly the Vulgate have had an enormous impact on the Christian Church and our liturgical and theological formation. Daniel Cardinal DiNardo Archbishop of Galveston-Houston

This book presents the New Testament portion of Saint Jerome's Vulgate Bible, as reconstructed by the German Bible Society. Each verse of the Latin original is followed by its English translation. St. Jerome, working between 383 and 405 AD, pulled together the various Old Latin versions of New Testament books and combined them with fresh scholarship still available at the time through sources since lost to the vagaries of history. Dr. Cunyus's version seeks to create the same terse translation as found in the Latin: no one word out of place and no extraneous vocabulary.

Grief Relief from the Bible: A Workbook on Finding Strength in Times of Loss draws on the wisdom of scripture and the insights of secular therapists to help those dealing with loss. The book is divided into two sections.
1. The first section defines grief, provides opportunities for detailing our own grief, then outlines some biblical and secular approaches for dealing with it.
2. The second section contains the 104 grief passages from the Bible, with brief attached descriptions and questions to help you go deeper.

Who grieves?
The Lord grieves.
Human beings grieve.
Peoples and nations grieve.

What causes their grief?
Human wickedness is the first cause of grief in the Bible
Loss also causes grief:
of a spouse, of a parent, of a child
of a family member, friend, companion, leader
of familiar places, things, and practices

However fractured our society may be, grief is one experience nearly all of us have in common. Furthermore, secular societies like our own often have trouble helping the grieving. At some point in grief, the distractions cease to distract, the denials ring hollow, and the medications stop working. With that comes a realization:
If what we trust doesn't help us deal with grief, can we find something that will?

Here is Grief Relief from the Bible.
...help for those who are hurting.

The Gospel According to John: A Greek-English, Verse by Verse Translation renders the Westcott-Hort version of the New Testament Gospel of John into a contemporary English translation. The work contains the Greek version of John's Gospel in its entirety. Each verse of the Greek original is followed by its English translation. With a brief introduction to the Gospel and its author, a detailed outline, and a review of the Greek alphabet, the book is designed to lead laity, students, and clergy to a deeper appreciation of John's account.

The sense that freedom meant license infected the Corinthian church in the first years of its existence. The gospel message of freedom in Christ had been misunderstood by some in the Corinthian setting, and the congregation soon fragmented over it. Paul, as founding missionary and overseer of the young congregation, wrote forthrightly in response to these internal struggles. Through these letters, God through Paul transformed the trials of a struggling congregation into enduring lessons on the basics of Christian faith. 1 and 2 Corinthians: A Greek-English, Verse by Verse Translation contains a Greek text based on Westcott and Hort's The Text of the New Testament, from 1881. Each verse of the Greek original is followed by its English translation. The book also contains a brief introduction to the Apostle Paul and the Corinthian setting.

In 587 BC, Jerusalem's Temple, God's dwelling place on earth, was reduced to a smoldering ruin. Its faithful worshipers were in exile, stripped of homes, possessions, and places of worship. Where was God's promise amidst such destruction? From catastrophe, something utterly new emerged. A physical Temple was replaced with a portable one, in the form of the written Word. The books that emerged from the Temple's destruction included Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. These works, rendered into Latin in the late 4th Century of the Christian Era by Saint Jerome, appear here in a Latin-English, verse-by-verse edition. Each verse of the Latin text is followed by its English translation. The Latin text of the Vulgate, used by permission from the German Bible Society, is drawn from Roger Gryson's masterful 1994 Edition of Biblia Sacra Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem. These works, translated afresh by John Cunyus, are the latest in Searchlight Press's Latin Old Testament Project.

In this masterful, Latin-English edition of scripture, the Gospel of Luke and the biblical Book of Acts are combined in a single volume, as when they were originally written. Each verse of the Latin original is followed by its English translation. With the Latin text drawn from the German Bible Society's 1994 version of Biblia Sacra Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem, Luke-Acts: A Latin-English, Verse-by-Verse Translation is the latest edition in Searchlight Press's Latin Testament Project.

This rough, unpolished story, first written down in the vulgar Greek of Rome's eastern traders and travelers, fixed for all subsequent generations the outline of Jesus Christ's life and ministry. Through these words, the story of a Galilean Jew, crucified on a Roman cross, became the story of the world's Redeemer, through whom and by whom all other stories will be judged.