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The Western church has gone feminist. God has given men authority in the home, church, and society. Yet the church has rebelled against God's design and embraced the unbelieving world's teaching that women should take on the same roles and duties as men rather than focus on the home and children. Christian scholarship and Bible commentaries are dominated by feminist arguments that both husband and wife should submit to each another (mutual submission), that women may be pastors and preach sermons to men, and that the Apostle Paul's teaching on men and women was limited to Greco-Roman culture and has been transcended by our unity in Christ.
Sadly, the conservative response to feminism-complementarianism-compromised several historic Christian teachings and has thus given feminism an even stronger foothold in the church. Many complementarians fail to root gender roles in the differing natures of men and women. As a result, they have refused to apply the Bible's teaching about men and women beyond the home and church, leading to the embrace of women in civil office and military combat. In addition, the vast majority of complementarians have adopted the novel interpretation of 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 (the women should keep silent in the churches) that Paul only prohibited women from evaluating prophecy, which has opened the door to women preaching and teaching men in the church.
The result is that the Western church has become effeminate and weak. Pastors are afraid to teach important Bible passages on the roles and duties of men and women, and it is no surprise that young Christian women are trading babies for careers outside the home and that churches are regularly capitulating to subversions of biblical sexual ethics. What the church needs is to recover its masculine calling, where men embrace their God-given authority-and responsibility-in the home, church, and society. This book affirms the historic Christian teaching on men and women, critiques feminist scholarship, and urges complementarians to hold a more robust and consistent position. This is a call to return to the Bible's teaching on men and women. This is a call to Masculine Christianity.
In today's evolving business landscape, challenges are inevitable, but they can be the very catalysts for your greatest growth. Thrive Through It: Transforming Career Challenges into Leadership Success by Brittany N. Cole isn't just a book; it's a powerful roadmap for those ready to turn obstacles into opportunities and emerge as resilient leaders.
Brittany redefines resilience- not as how fast you bounce back, but how fully you recover. Drawing from her personal journey and work with top global corporations, this guide helps professionals navigate career grief, setbacks, and transitions with grace and grit. Through compelling case studies, actionable strategies, and inspiring exercises, you'll develop a thriving mindset, harness adversity as a growth tool, and lead authentically in any environment.
Whether you're a seasoned executive, emerging leader, entrepreneur, or navigating a career pivot, Thrive Through It provides the insights and tools to not just survive but truly thrive. Redefine success on your terms, reimagine your priorities, reinvent your personal brand, and transform challenges into your greatest triumphs.
Everything I know is a lie.
For twenty-five years, I believed there wasn't much to my mundane life. Then, the unimaginable happen, landing me in a world that shouldn't be real, yet feels oddly familiar.
A father I didn't know existed is dying and only their king can save him. Except he's refusing to do so unless I make good on the contract I supposedly signed...five hundred years ago.
King Asher is beloved by his people, too attractive for his own good, and...a wolf god. He calls me his mate and his future queen, but I'm neither of those things. I'm just a human who was in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
I'm not the lost wolf princess.
At least that's what I tell myself until my memories start to return. I want to believe this is nothing more than a dream, but the longer I'm in Lunara, the more I realize...
My reincarnation didn't just happen to go wrong. I was murdered, cursed to forever be reborn on Earth.
Now I need to figure out who's responsible before it happens again and try not to lose my heart along the way.
How can Christian men and women live faithfully in a world confused over sexuality and gender? Surely we must be reminded of what Scripture teaches. Yet as God's design for sexuality is being suppressed and denied in the modern world, we need to hear it articulated in a fresh and accessible way. God's Good Design presents the historic, biblical view of sexuality in a manner that is appealing even to those who have been conditioned to believe it is scary or oppressive. Readers will be persuaded of the goodness of God's design through straightforward biblical reasoning, personal illustrations, practical applications, and lots of I never thought of it that way insights.
The modern conversation on biblical sexuality is dominated by either politically correct social justice warriors or over-the-top shock jocks. Clary's plain spoken approach is refreshing and helpful. There are no cheap shots but neither are there any pulled punches.
-Michael Foster, pastor, East River Church, Batavia, Ohio; author, It's Good to Be a Man
Michael Clary has written a profound and important book. In it he addresses a subject that many powerful and influential people wish he hadn't addressed. I wish those people were just outside the church, but unfortunately, they're in it as well. He has had the temerity to speak clearly, and persuasively as an advocate for sexual sanity in an insane time. He's joined a small resistance movement by doing so. I'm pleased that he's quoted me-but he also quotes a number of my friends and acquaintances. That says something. There aren't many of us. A few years ago, it seemed like there were many men and women who could be counted on to endorse sanity. I'm sad to say that has not proven to be the case. But you hold in your hands an invitation to join our intrepid band as we make an appeal for moral and biblical sense in a world of sexual nonsense.
-C. R. Wiley, author of The Household and the War for the Cosmos and In the House of Tom Bombadil
God the Father. Male and female he created them. Jesus as the bridegroom to his bride, the church. All throughout Scripture, we see God's creational design for the two sexes. Yet our culture has so suppressed the significance of manhood and womanhood that they are now not just interchangeable but exchangeable. Michael Clary offers a deep, biblical corrective to the gnostic thinking that has plagued the Western world for at least six decades now. The irrefutable truth he presents takes the American church to task for its complicity in suppressing God's good design and reminds us of our call to be distinct from the culture in the matters of sex and sexuality.
-Megan Basham, reporter for The Daily Wire
A child in distress. The feeling of being stalked. What have Claudia and Sherrie gotten themselves into again and can they get out while keeping a young boy safe.
Book four in The River Bend series bring Claudia and roommate Sherrie agree to babysit a seven-year-old boy goes who goes missing while under their watch at the same time someone is tracking their movements.
While navigating the boy's disappearance, Claudia must confront her feelings about her recent breakup and new feelings for an old friend.
With the boy's caregiver nowhere to be found, Claudia and her roommate must decide weather to obey the woman's last cryptic message. And now she fears the family's troubled criminal background has painted a target on both their backs.
With nothing as it seems, can Claudia and her roomie stumble their way out of deadly danger?
SPARROW is the captivating fourth book in The River Bend Series of character-driven mysteries. If you like endearing characters, suspenseful rides, and twisted humor, then you'll love TJ Makkai's small-town thriller.
Everything I know is a lie.
For twenty-five years, I believed there wasn't much to my mundane life. Then, the unimaginable happens, landing me in a world that shouldn't be real, yet feels oddly familiar.
A father I didn't know existed is dying and only their king can save him. Except he's refusing to do so unless I make good on the contract I supposedly signed...five hundred years ago.
King Asher is beloved by his people, too attractive for his own good, and...a wolf god. He calls me his mate and his future queen, but I'm neither of those things. I'm just a human who was in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
I'm not the lost wolf princess.
At least that's what I tell myself until my memories start to return. I want to believe this is nothing more than a dream, but the longer I'm in Lunara, the more I realize...
My reincarnation didn't just happen to go wrong. I was murdered, cursed to forever be reborn on Earth.
Now I need to figure out who's responsible before it happens again and try not to lose my heart along the way.
This is the first standalone novel written within the Wolves of Lunara series. If you love wolf shifters, romantic fantasy, fated mates, reincarnation, and so much more, then you don't want to miss this one!
One night. One decision. That was all it took.
I'm certain my life has reached a new low when I decide to put myself up for auction at a charity event. Except letting billionaire men bet on me is nothing compared to what happens afterward.
I saw something I wasn't supposed to and now people want me dead. Dangerous men I didn't even know existed in our city. Lucky for me, the man who had the winning bet for a date with me is equally as menacing.
Or maybe not so lucky.
I'm stuck in the middle of a mafia war that I want no part of. Escaping only leads me closer to death and the man keeping me safe-Luca Monroe-he just might be the worst human being on Earth.
Except for the moments when he promises to keep me safe.
As tensions erupt between us, I begin to see him as something other than the monster I met in that alleyway. A decision I'm sure to regret. That is if I can survive long enough to do so, but with a price on my head...
The odds aren't in my favor.
This is the first in a two book series, told in dual POV, and it does end on a cliffhanger. If you love mafia romance, forced proximity, and enemies-to-lovers with a dash of found family, don't miss out on this book!
This richly illustrated book is the first devoted to scenic Third Cliff, a magical meeting place of land, river, and sea, and to those who have called it home. It traces the transformation of seacoast Scituate from a colonial town of the 1600s into a summer destination of the 1900s, and the conversion of farmland into summer colonies.
On a Cliff is the latest book from historian Lyle Nyberg, author of Summer Suffragists (2020). His work is published in the state's database of historic resources, and has appeared in magazines and newspapers. F For more about the author, or more about the author,
Antisthenes: The Founder of Cynicism by Charles Chappuis is a little gem of a book; translated from the French, it puts Antisthenes (444-365 BC), the founder of the Cynic school of Greek philosophy, in his rightful place beside Socrates, his teacher for twenty-four years; beside Plato, a fellow pupil of Socrates and competitor in ideas to Antisthenes: while Plato was teaching at the Academy, Antisthenes, a νόθοι [illegitimate child], was teaching at the Cynosarges; beside Diogenes, his own pupil and the subsequent head of Cynicism; and so on and so forth, in a long line of esteemed philosophers from Diogenes to Crates to Zeno of Citium, the founder of Stoicism, and later to Epictetus and even to Marcus Aurelius...
The earliest known nominalist in antiquity, Antisthenes developed a logic that denies rational knowledge and general ideas, suppresses all definition, and rejects contradiction and error. He is consequently about as philosophically far from Plato as a philosopher can get. It may not be surprising to know that the two of them became enemies later in life.
As for ethics, Antisthenes puts wisdom in behavior, virtue in actions, and makes exercise, work, and toil the condition of the good. While the school of the Cyrenaics conflatesthe good with pleasure, Antisthenes identifies it with virtue, and virtue with effort and toil.
I had a plan, then fate laughed in my face.
Three years ago, I was banished from my home for protecting my family. I've had to learn to survive on my own, while also heeding my mother's warnings.
Never let anyone know who you truly are.
Which proves almost too easy for me to do until my fated mate stumbles out of a newly opened portal.
Drake Cage is a wolf shifter from the shadow world. Not only is he cursed, but he comes with problems I don't need in my life.
I try to reject him, but he's determined to show me he's worthy. With each word he speaks and every action he takes, I'm finding him harder to resist.
Until one call threatens everything I've been fighting for.
My mate's vengeance soon becomes my own and, if I'm not careful, neither me nor my heart will ever be the same again.
**Cage Me is a spicy standalone read set in the Immortal Vices and Virtues Universe. Every book is a guaranteed happily ever after with a satisfying ending and no cliffhangers. Perfect for fans of Immortals After Dark, Black Dagger Brotherhood, and the Demonica series.**
Ever wonder what those ditches are in the marshes, and how old they are? This book answers these questions and more. The book explores the history of ditching, ditches' roles in fighting mosquito breeding grounds, and today's threats to our salt marshes. Sea level rise and perhaps some of those ditches threaten this vital natural and ecological resource. The book has an extensive bibliography with hotlinks to important sources of information on these key issues, including recent ecological and other scientific studies.
English colonists dug ditches in the salt marshes of northeast North America to help feed their livestock with salt marsh hay. Then in the early 1900s, even before the Depression years of the 1930s, ditches were dug in marshes to eliminate mosquito breeding grounds. Most marshes are covered by these ditches.
This book is presented by a historian who lives close to salt marshes and appreciates their contribution to our world.
...and the Cathedral Fell to the Ground: The Lonesome Death of Rock & Roll is a collection of vignettes highlighting key rock & roll moments in the life of a Gen Xer against the backdrop of a slowly changing zeitgeist amidst rock's inevitable decline and disappearance from the center of pop culture.
Everyone has their own experiences with the cracks in the foundation. There are countless stories to tell. This is one of them. Or several.
What is Fascism is a collection of essays, newspaper articles and interviews, discourses and polemics on the subject of fascism by Giovanni Gentile (AD 1875-1944), the philosopher of Fascism. The collection was written (or spoken and later transcribed) over the course of several years prior to its publication in book format, in 1925, under the Italian title of Che cosa è il fascismo.
Trained as a philosopher, Giovanni Gentile spent many years as an academic, writing books and teaching. He held multiple posts as professor of philosophy, at various Italian universities including the University of Rome. Later, he served as the Minister of Public Education during the Fascist government of Benito Mussolini. His major contribution to the history of philosophy includes his own brand of absolute idealism, or new-Hegelianism, known as actual idealism.
Readers new to Gentile, or to fascism in general, may be surprised, if not shocked, depending on their political leanings, to understand how close fascism is or was to the liberalism of the 19th century. Seeing that, in part, fascism is liberalism: at least the liberalism of men who sincerely believed in freedom, and had however an austere concept of it... liberalism, as I understand it and as the men of the glorious Right of the Risorgimento understood it, the liberalism of freedom in the laws and consequently in the strong State and in the State conceived of as an ethical reality.
Southeast of Boston is a most scenic coastline. With 70 splendid photos in color by local pilots/photographers, this book covers Scituate's beaches, oceansides, rivers, islands, marshes, and harbors.
This is the first scenic survey of Scituate's fascinating seacoast. The book describes the views and their centuries-long histories. The book's cover, for example, shows Scituate Harbor and its iconic Scituate Light, built in 1811. The book adds historical maps for context.
Seacoast Scituate By Air is the latest book from historian Lyle Nyberg, author of Summer Suffragists (2020) and On a Cliff (2021). His work is published in the state's database of historic resources, and has appeared in magazines and newspapers.
All three authors live in Scituate and enjoy its beautiful seacoast. Gary and Bill provided an aerial photo for the cover of Lyle's book On a Cliff. Gary Banks, former USAF pilot and retired American Airlines Captain, wrote and published Trysting Pasture and Other Musings (2013), available at Scituate Historical Society, 43 Cudworth Rd., Scituate, MA 02066. Bill Richardson, Airport Planner and Site Designer, graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design, and is a former chairman of the Scituate Conservation Commission. He has been flying and taking photos for more than five decades.
My one-night stand was a mistake.
At least that's what I keep telling myself, but the universe has other plans.
After getting a promotion at work, I want nothing more than a night out to celebrate with my two best friends, but when neither of them show, I find myself in the bed of a handsome stranger.
Bentley Abbott isn't like the usual men I'm attracted to. He's rich, gruff, and uptight, and I should have known better. When he kicks me out after our night together, I'm furious and hope to never see him again.
Only I don't get so lucky.
My new position at work comes with volunteer duties and when I show up for my first meeting, Bentley is there. Not only that, we're paired up to help with a fundraiser for the animal shelter.
I want nothing to do with him and his grumpy attitude, but when we're forced together on more than one occasion, and he starts to show a side of himself that I don't expect... Now, I'm not sure I can stay away even when I think I should.
A Mutually Beneficial Mistake is a grumpy/sunshine and spicy romantic comedy with some forced proximity thrown in for fun. It's told in dual POV, and is a full-length standalone included in The Unexpected Series that can be read in any order, but best consumed consecutively.
Septentrion by Jean Raspail is a dystopian novel set in the year 2041. Itʼs a story of beauty and sadness, a story of the ugly things that happen in the world, and the courage of an elect few who happen, against all odds, to hold a line, to preserve a culture, a civilization, a way of life that they love and embody, but which is on the verge of extinction, assaulted. The enemy: the demos, the grey masses, todayʼs people. Unwilling to compromise, and unlikely to succeed, they flee - north, the only place left to escape to - on a train, through the dark forests and the snow-clad steppes of Septentrion.
The signs were accumulating, all across the north of the country, far from the capital and its golden steeples, without our noticing their exact consequences. Vaguely we understood how, without really knowing why. Everything happened so quickly... We understood barely that a sort of different eternity was advancing rapidly, in an inform and inexorable way. Nothing would be the same, nothing would ever change again, once it happened.
One cannot be a man, fully, from the moment one admits that others exist. For one is no more than a copy, a vague facsimile drawn from a billion examples. One mustnʼt know anything about others, or at least by ruthless choice, unless it is how to invent oneself on oneʼs own, - everything has been so repeated.
Septentrion by Jean Raspail is a dystopian novel set in the year 2041. Itʼs a story of beauty and sadness, a story of the ugly things that happen in the world, and the courage of an elect few who happen, against all odds, to hold a line, to preserve a culture, a civilization, a way of life that they love and embody, but which is on the verge of extinction, assaulted. The enemy: the demos, the grey masses, todayʼs people. Unwilling to compromise, and unlikely to succeed, they flee - north, the only place left to escape to - on a train, through the dark forests and the snow-clad steppes of Septentrion.
The signs were accumulating, all across the north of the country, far from the capital and its golden steeples, without our noticing their exact consequences. Vaguely we understood how, without really knowing why. Everything happened so quickly... We understood barely that a sort of different eternity was advancing rapidly, in an inform and inexorable way. Nothing would be the same, nothing would ever change again, once it happened.
One cannot be a man, fully, from the moment one admits that others exist. For one is no more than a copy, a vague facsimile drawn from a billion examples. One mustnʼt know anything about others, or at least by ruthless choice, unless it is how to invent oneself on oneʼs own, - everything has been so repeated.
Facing fate just might be a death sentence.
Cait
With a deadline set by the Supernatural Council, I have less than a month to figure out how to remain out of their grasp. Being their magical slave isn't part of my plan.
As the clock keeps ticking, I focus on Roman and the growing bond between us. No matter what happens, I know that as long as we stay together, everything else will find a way to work itself out... that is if nobody tries to claim what's mine.
Roman
Keeping Cait safe should have been easy, but when unknown foes continue to interfere, it will take every bit of my strength to keep from destroying everything in my path.
Cait is my world now and there isn't anything that can keep me from her. Not even death.
This is the final book in Heather Renee's Luna Marked series, part of her Mystics and Mayhem world. Next, check out the complete Broken Court series-also part of Mystics and Mayhem-while you wait for Vampire Heir, Scorned by Blood, Book One releasing Fall 2021!
On Huysmansʼ Tomb (Sur la tombe de Huysmans originally) is a collection of critical essays written by Léon Bloy about his erstwhile friend, Joris-Karl Huysmans. Written between 1884 and 1893, and published in book form in 1913, six years after Huysmansʼ death, it is an appraisal of Huysmans himself and his most important work at that time: À Rebours, En Rade, Là-Bas, - as nobody other than Léon Bloy could have written, with keen psychological insight into Huysmansʼ mind and personality, and providing first-hand information about the inception of those works, particularly Là-Bas, that satanic masterpiece of Huysmansʼ that originally was intended to look up (Là-Haut), rather than down.
The intensity of a writer like Huysmans is, principally, in his contempt... The well-known author of À Rebours has not at all the ignivomitous allures of an imprecator, and the torrential flux of green bile is, in him, merely the literary illusion of some prickly vanity... Huysmans had finally divested himself of the pedagogic reminiscences of his art education, in order to enter upon certain originality, ... The synoptic pessimism of des Esseintes appeared to many as a stopping place or as a refuge, and the agonizing future of that anchorite of analysis excited the emulation of a large group of dreamers...
En Rade does not appear to be a work fated to modify the destiny of that reprobate [des Esseintes]. The pessimism of À Rebours has merely been strengthened and consolidated... No counterweight, from now on, to the deep despondency of souls. No pale brightness, no wan glimmer of the skies... Never has hope been so positively dismissed...
The appendix includes a review by Jules Barbey dʼAurevilly on À Rebours.
