Mike: 6654 books

The media-driven world places enormous pressure on people to conform to its secular point of view—and young people are especially susceptible to this ploy. Writing to a student audience, authors Mike and Daniel Blackaby (the grandsons of Experiencing God author Henry Blackaby) explain how Christians...

In October of 1994, the author and a Korean American young lady go on a hike to Big Bradley Falls in the Blue Ridge Mountains. It is a perfect fall day ... until a misstep.Very closely based on a real event. Only some proper nouns have been changed.Approximately 3,300 words.Another...

Author of The Girl With All the Gifts Mike Carey presents the second book in his hip supernatural thriller series featuring freelance exorcist Felix Castor. Felix Castor has reluctantly returned to exorcism after a successful case convinces him that he really can do some good with his abilities---"good,"...

What It's Like to Die-from Someone Who Did. Why are we afraid of dying? Where does death lead? Is there an afterlife? I Shook Hands with Death offers the answers as Pastor Mike Robertson shares his heartfelt account of dying at 19 in an east Texas lake, seeing his lifeless body, and then suddenly...

A short story. Rusty and Bobby spend a day looking for their father.

**Winner of two Catholic Press Association Awards: Design and Production (Second Place) and History (Honorable Mention). The star of Bethlehem exemplifies the birth of Jesus, the Wittenberg Door is synonymous with the Protestant Reformation, and “the pill” symbolizes the sexual revolution....

Fresh, Useful Perspectives on the Spiritual Dynamics of Prayer Better music, better sermons and better prayer books can only go so far. Many innovations have been tried around the world, and no doubt, synagogue leadership will continue to think creatively about improving services. But deep and lasting...

Discipleship means being like the Big Twelve disciples, right? But when you read the Gospels and Acts, it’s clear the disciples weren’t always on top of things. In fact, the disciples were clueless, selfish, erratic, inconsistent, and faithless at least half the time. But Jesus loved them and...

Despite God's call on our lives, most of us spend a fair amount of time running in the other direction, chasing after our own plans and desires. Like Jonah, however, we eventually discover we've made a mess of things; we're rowing against the storms God is using to pull us back on course. In...

In Mike Zealy’s collection of strong, tragic, and humorous stories he showcases the American South in all its complexity. In “Alabama Rehab,” the narrator asks “how in the hell was a redneck with a high school diploma going to make me all better?” Zealy’s imperfect heroes and heroines answer...

A tale of family, faith and love; of the quest for knowledge and the value of education; of the wages of war and the will to survive; of kindness and coincidence; of life and death and the power of dreams.

Mike Breaux doesn’t do life halfway—maybe that’s why he thinks a "cannonball” is the only suitable entry into a swimming pool. “Deep down, I think all of us sense we were put on this planet to do something significant—to touch someone’s life; to do some good.” Again and again,...

Run, Rinse, Repeat is Coach Mike Bozas story of his 2011 Plant High School cross country teams quest to win a historic state championship and his own preparation for the 2012 ING Miami Marathon. The Hall of Fame coach shares his passion for running and valuable insights into training, racing and coaching...

Reimagining press freedom in a networked era: not just a journalist's right to speak but also a public's right to hear. In Networked Press Freedom, Mike Ananny offers a new way to think about freedom of the press in a time when media systems are in fundamental flux. Ananny challenges the idea...