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Some histories arrive in the public mind already simplified. They become a handful of images, a small collection of names, and a few repeating phrases that are passed from generation to generation until they begin to feel like the whole story. The Lakota have suffered that kind of compression more than most people. In the popular imagination, they are often reduced to war bonnets, cavalry charges, and a tragic snow-covered hillside called Wounded Knee.

Years before he wrote the Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis published another fantastical fiction series: the Ransom Trilogy. Yet these three novels – Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength – have never enjoyed the same widespread popularity as Narnia or any of Lewis’s apologetical works, whether in mainstream culture or among Christians.

From the very beginning, the Lord's Supper has stood at the heart of Christian worship. If Jesus lives in us, and the Holy Spirit is poured out on us, why do we need to eat bread and drink grape juice or wine? Does it really matter? It does matter—and it's life-changing, says leading Pentecostal theologian Jonathan Black. With warmth and depth, he explores not only how the table is still a powerful place of transformation and encounter with Jesus, but also how we can experience Christ's promise of presence, glory, healing, forgiveness, victory, and intimacy.

Drew is caught in a world of light - just inches away from the dark What if...there was a world beyond our vision, a world just fingertips beyond our reach? What if...our world wasn’t beyond their influence? Tragedy and heartache seem to be waiting for Drew Carter at every turn, but college offers Drew a chance to start over—until an accident during a physics experiment leaves him blind and his genius friend, Benjamin Berg, missing.

Linc Jackson and his buddy Rick Weaver thought they'd seen it all on the brutal battlefields of Desert Storm, but found themselves displaced and forgotten men when they came back to the States. Now, a year later, the opportunity of a lifetime suddenly drops in their laps.... That is, if they don't mind tiptoeing on the dark side to make the score. During a freak flood that causes havoc in the downtown business hub of Chicago, Linc and Rick put everything on the line as they execute a heist that they hope will put them on Easy Street for the rest of their lives.

A six thousand year war rages and now the demonic Fallen are coming for him—the one man shrouded in mystery. Only Validus stands in their way. Validus is the last and least of God’s angels, but he’s seen much across the millennia since his creation. Empires have risen and fallen as angelic and demonic forces battle in a raging war that will determine humanity's fate – and the fate of his defeated brothers.

Sherlock Holmes, arguably the greatest fictional character ever created, returns along with his faithful friend, Dr. Watson, in five new stories pitting his deductive skills against all manner of gaslight villainy.

Enter into the world of Hallow! Trouble at the Tavern is an immersive real-play D&D campaign podcast meant to make you laugh, cry, and everything in between! Come follow 'Team "Not The Time"' as they disastrously roll their way into trouble every step of the way! Follow Hartley Fanson, Maggie Pelude, and Michael Pugacewicz as they set along the road to become heroes in a world stripped of its former glory. Listen to us encounter all types of problems set out by the prodigious Dungeon Master, Chris Black.

In the summer of 2011, McCain and Black embarked on a balls-out, cross-country tour. Along the way, they spoke to politicians, gun lovers, abortion-rights advocates and opponents, gay parents, flag burners, Muslims, poker players, Tea Partiers, Minutemen, veterans, teen moms, bikers, fast food...

The case wasn't just cold - it was ice-cold. But the murder of Miriam Walker had a pretty high profile in the middle of a tough re-election campaign, so the Cook County sheriff assembled a task force to get results... and put Sergeant Frank Leal on it.

Saints & Feasts Homilies delivers Catholic reflections tied to the yearly cycle of Catholic Masses and rooted in the deepest of deep traditions.

Ex-army ranger Steve Wolf is hoping to clear his name for a war crime he didn’t commit. But when a mysterious fixture in his life resurfaces with a dire warning for him and his mentor, Big Jim McNamara, he discovers that his past has once again come back to haunt him. Wolf is being stalked by powerfully corrupt foes—plural.

That’s what Steve Wolf is starting to believe after a carefully planned appeal to clear his name—an appeal his high-priced lawyer assured him was a slam-dunk—mysteriously disappears from the Military Court of Appeals docket.

Ex-Army Ranger Steve Wolf is wondering just that after receiving a desperate call home from his mother. His younger brother, Jimmy, is in trouble. As Wolf heads back to North Carolina to set things straight, he realizes that things have changed—and not for the better.

Will redemption ever come? That’s the question former Army Ranger Steve Wolf keeps asking since he served time for a war crime he didn’t commit.

Saints and Feasts of the Catholic Calendar: Volume III provides historically rich and spiritually vivid portraits of the greatest men and women who have ever lived in concise reflections that elevate the mind and challenge the serious Christian. Volume III covers all of the saints and feasts on the Church's official liturgical calendar in July, August, and September.

Saints and Feasts of the Catholic Calendar Volume II profiles all of the saints and feasts on the Church's liturgical calendar in April, May, and June, and includes reflections for Lent and Easter. Each reflection is rich in historical and spiritual detail, inspiring the listener to emulate the greatest men and women who have ever lived.

Aunt Emilia calls Kamar to reveal shocking news as he is battling his murky past. He has to face the atrociousness of the days gone by to find solace in his present ones. When We Were Boys, Book II starts with Young Kamar being separated from his mentally ill guardian, supposedly for his own good. But even after that, Kamar has yet to know what “good” seems like. He has yet to know what a real and loving family feels like — because all he knew was a dysfunctional and nightmarish one. The one that just might shove you in front of a moving vehicle then leave you for dead.

In this in-depth interview show, Black takes listeners into the minds of some of today’s most fascinating celebrities and newsmakers to discuss the process of how they became, well, amazing. Brought to you by PRX.

Join us on our epic journey through the film career of Michael Caine, reviewing every movie spanning seven decades, from the Oscar winning performances to the dumpster fire movies that would have incinerated a lesser actor. Journalist Michael Foley is joined by Steven Black, the creator and thumbs behind the hugely popular Mallow News satirical Twitter feed to pore over every Caine performance and explore films that range from eternal classics to incomprehensible duds, all in our tireless and yes, inexplicable, quest to figure out what makes the Mark of Caine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...