I purchase this book ten copies at a time and give them away.
I recently expressed to one of the authors, William Emerson, that if I could, I would get a megaphone and announce it from the rooftops. Remembering Our Home is a most gently written, beautifully illustrated book that invites the reader to reflect on the earliest and most impressionable moments of being human--in the womb. If at first this strikes you as improbable to do, consider the countless life dreams and aspirations you, or people you know have had, and somehow, someway fulfillment seems to be just out of reach. Remembering Our Home can help build bridges across the gaps to fulfillment by revealing potential blocks, that can form in our first experiences of feeling physically and emotionally. Some examples of causes of these blocks discussed in the book are being born early, or late, toxins like niccotine or drugs, and parents in a stressful environment. Throughout the book there are suggested processes and tools for accessing our earliest potentials. I was born with a disability, and working with this, and the ample additional referals in the book is transforming the quality of my daily life. I am learning from it to benefit myself and all the babies and children in my world.

H. Richard Niebuhr's The Responsible Self is a classic in Christian ethics. Niebuhr argues that humans are neither simply 'goal seeking' creatures nor simply 'rule-following' creatures, but are 'responsive' and hence, responsible. We are 'answerers' who must first ask "What is going on here?" and then respond to that assessment with a 'fitting' answer. The importance of this short and readable work should not be underestimated. Niebuhr's approach spawned an interest in perspective and vision in ethics that is carried on by contemporary thinkers such as James Gustafson and Stanley Hauerwas.

Sam is Mom Jo's right hand man. He has to take care of her, because she doesn't have a husband to do it for her. Sam and his sister Karen, their brother Georgie, and cousin, Blake, all live with Mom Jo, who is not really their mom at all, but their aunt.

Being twelve, and the man of the house, Sam naturally knows what Mom Jo needs. She needs a husband. A handsome husband, (because Mom Jo is pretty) a rich husband, (because she deserves nice things) and a husband who likes kids, (since she has four.) But for some reason, all of the handsome, rich men Sam finds are scared away. What is it that Mom Jo says to make them leave? Why does she have to say it at all? And why doesn't it scare away that other man, Jill's Dad? He isn't handsome, and he must be really poor, 'cause he drives a beat up van. His kids (he has four too) are kind of fun, and he doesn't mind messy stuff, like fishing, and toad races, but he isn't rich, and besides, Sam isn't sure he want's to give up his place as right hand man. He had better take the bull by the horns before this gets out of hand!

I've lived in Denver for 5 years and still learnt a lot from this book. Great info for Front-Range dwellers. I've also used it for trips over to Utah and Yellowstone. I've used Rough Guides since 1989 for trips through Europe and the Middle East. They are the best and I was very happy to find that they'd produced a guide to my own back yard. Enjoy!

I am currently reading this and have found it very helpful. I am glad to see it is still in print!

This book offers a new perspective on the idea of sacraments by looking at life lived sacramentally. The Vogels move beyond church traditional thinking about sacraments (Eucharist, Baptism, and others) to think about friendships, hospitality, sharing gifts, being present to others as sacraments. They invite readers to think about the whole of life as sacred and they see aspects of the sacred in all facets of life.

Samson Occom And The Christian Indians Of New England is a classic scholarly biography written at turn of the century by a Congregational minister. This reissued paperback is introduced by Margaret Connell Szasz, professor of history at University of New Mexico and author of Indian Education in American Colonies 1607-1783, and editor of Between Indian and White Worlds: The Cultural Broker. She correctly categorizes Love's biography of Samson Occom as "fin de siecle, a work of its time," and she describes Occom as an intellectual giant, a "cultural intermediary (who) strode across the cultures of his time and place (p.xv)."

Both Mohegan and Christian, Occom dazzled Euramerican contemporaries with his intellectual sermons, calm demeanor, and impassioned requests for educational support for Indian students. Crucially instrumental to the founding of Dartmouth College, which was to be "Fro the education and instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land in reading, writing, and all parts of Learning which shall appear necessary and expedient for civilizing and christianizing children of pagans as well as in all liberal Arts and Sciences; and also for English Youth and any Others," he nevertheless became disillusioned when his fundraising efforts were used by his partner Mr. Wheelock to be subverted for a college that served English rather than Indian students. This was to be but one of many betrayals in the life of Samson Occom.

Szasz concludes that Love, in his biography of Samson Occom "in some instances...belied his times by demonstrating a degree of understanding about Occom's world view that moved beyond mainstream attitudes toward American Indians (p. xxv)." The biography contains a valuable impetus to contrast to the present day ethnographic biographer who would theoretically present Occam more from a native viewpoint for analysis. An example would be Occam's conflicted role in 18th century Modegan society. In this and other areas, Love's Samson Occom highlights further truths to be mined for. It is a mirror of our Western emergence from Eurocentrism.

There is much to be gained from further study of Samson Occom. One additional resource suggested is The Sprit Of The New England Tribes (1986) by William Simmons. The search for cultural continuity is a valuable theme for today's ethno-historian/biographer. Samson Occom And The Christian Indians Of New England is a challenge and a piece of the puzzle that remains tantalizingly uncompleted. May it teach us to examine, question, or perhaps recraft entirely our cultural assumptions today as well.

Nancy Lorraine, Reviewer

Published in 1996, when everyone had a job, this book is even more pertinent in times when so many are looking for work. A thoughtful reevaluation of the role of work in our lives.

This book is one of the most down-to-earth, clearly comprehensible books that I have read in a long,long time.
People, Men and Women, must take time to take inventory of their self-worth and be the responsible adults that they can be. This book really sums it up!!! The messages in this book are direct and to the point. Thanks Brenda Williams for making life more easily understood and especially for sharing what we all, as people, should try to get out of life while we have one.
May God Bless You!!!

There is an old maxim: Going to church won't make you Christian any more than going to the garage will make you car.

This book takes that one step further, showing that even those who go to Church with zeal, work with fervor, and strive to be good Christians, often put their works ahead of God. It's a good study of the effects of becoming more goal oriented than your spirituality can handle.

The writing is good, the chapter divisions are well placed, and it makes for thought-provoking reading for any serious disciple of the Living God. Give it a read!