First Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith. From the editors of KillingTheBuddha.com, an engaging collection of ambivalent confessions, skeptical testimonies, and personal revelations of religion lost and found and lost again.

How Christianity Traded Love of this World for Crucifixion and Empire. An ambitious and surprising examination of the idea of Paradise in the history of Christianityfrom the centrality of the idea of this world as a potential Paradise during Antiquity, to the ongoing historical consequences of the ousting of Paradise as the Church began to focus on imperial power.

How Caregiving Fathers Breadwinning Moms and Shared Parenting Are Transforming the TwentyFirstCentu. Blending history, testimony, manifesto, and social analysis, Twenty-First-Century Dad, is a nuanced, articulate look at an increasingly important social phenomenon stay-at-home and caregiving dads, and the families they belong to.

America's Obsession with Youth Sports and How It Harms Our Kids.

The Virtues of a Messy Lawn or Learning to Love the Plants We Dont Plant. A charming defense of weeds, from a weed scientist, mother, and suburban homeowner.

A Journey from the Gulf War to the Gulf of Mexico. A classic American river journey down the Mississippi is recast as a veteran's antiwar memoir.

Reclaiming the Abandoned of Radical Gay Sexuality.

Revised and Expanded Edition of the Classic Guided Meditation for Achieving the Miracle of Mindfuln. A revised edition of guided meditation exercises from one of the best known and most respected Zen masters in the world today.

Three distinguished religious thinkers, representing the three major religions, speak out on the conflict among Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, addressing important questions of deep spiritual and religious significance and providing stories and teachings of reconciliation and understanding to bring peace among the religions.

Letters to families from principals of two small schools: an urban public elementary school in Boston, and an exurban charter secondary school thirty miles west in Devens, Massachusetts.

Discovering African American History through Songs and Speech Sermons.

Traces the history and origins of Santeria, describes the author's experiences participating in the religion, and looks at Santeria as an expression of African heritage.

A Journey from the Gulf War to the Gulf of Mexico.

Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty. Reveals the chasm between the two food systems of America - the one for the poor and the one for everyone else.