What Shall We Say

Tsunamis, earthquakes, famines, diseases, wars -- these and other devastating forces lead Christians to ask painful questions. Is God all-powerful? Is God good? How can God allow so much innocent human suffering? These questions, taken together, have been called the "theodicy problem," and in this book Thomas Long explores what preachers can and should say in response ... he offers biblically based approaches to preaching on theodicy, guided by Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares and the "greatest theodicy text in Scripture"--The book of Job. - from book jacket.

A thoroughly readable volume on the beliefs and practices of Primitive Baptists. The author addresses subjects such as: Primitive Baptist Doctrine The Existence of God The Deity of Jesus Christ The Difference in Primitive Baptists and other Christian Groups How People are Born Again The Meaning of John 3:16 The Purpose of the Gospel The Place of Good Works Spiritual Gifts ...and many more.

What Shall We Do Now? by Dorothy Canfield Fisher is an interesting collection of games for adults and children. Fisher's games are interesting in that they instill a sense of know-how in young children as preparation for the broader world. Excerpt: "​​In the following pages, which have something to say concerning most of the situations in which children find themselves, at home or in the country, out of doors or in, alone or in the company, a variety of answers will be found. No subject can be said to be exhausted, but the book is perhaps large enough. Everything which it contains has been indexed so clearly that a reader ought to be able to find what he wants in a moment."

The story is "What Shall I call it?" and that is the real story of a casket hunter who is looking for the coffins that floated away in the great flood of 1922. The boxes contain the remains of people who are insured for a million dollars... Wiley Tel Cleave is his name and he is what is known as an "exact". He has two right hands and he works for the Judges of The "Perfect" City of Villa Village located in the "Rain Forest" of Texas. He goes from Texas to California and on to Nevada and many other places all over the U.S. in the underground cavern of the nation. He is great at jumping out of windows and landing on his feet. He is sometime believed to be the killer of the people he is looking for in these floating caskets. He is a very mysterious kind of guy and some times really pitiful. He is not a great fighter and can dive off three hundred feet bridges and land on his feet but he is a little afraid of his girl friend. He will make you wonder if there is really a rain forest deep in the heard of Texas. And is there really a man traveling in the cravens of the U.S.A. looking for the people who were sat sail in the great flood? What is "Wind Bucket"? What are the other "exact" people like? Two heads, or lips? Did a man really make a billion dollars insuring these people already dead? So what is that under your feet? A bookworm or what are you anyway???

Musings of a sophist ignorant of Cosmogony and Theogony.

Leo Tolstoy became very interested in love and relationships. He saw the world around him, much like it is now, as the world is, filled with emptiness (if you pardon the ironic phrase). And yet he felt within him a draw and yearning, and, yes, an inner knowledge that there is more, and that there are answers to our questions. "Let us be diligent," that inner light says, as if together within ourselves, we have all we need, or ever would need to find the way forward. This is a paraphrase in my own words of the attitude of these later works by Leo Tolstoy, the great Russian novelist -- and great thinker -- regardless of region. The volume includes two works, the first 100,000 words of which is the treatise, What Shall We Do, perhaps a more accessible work to be acquainted with Tolstoy's soul-searching and concerns of systematic contemporary life. The second work is a shorter yet worthy essay, providing insights as the title suggests. This edition has been lovingly and carefully edited by Alan Lewis Silva.