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The United States spends enormous sums on helping people—$3.8 trillion on healthcare, $182 billion on prisons, and $604 billion on higher education—and yet these systems routinely fail us. When we seek to improve how they function, our efforts focus on policy debates, technical solutions, funding, and data. But if these systems are to truly improve, we have to start with the human values behind them. Broken explores the deeply human dimensions we must consider if we want to rebuild the policies, technologies, processes, and most importantly, the heart we use to serve people.

Democracy is in trouble. Populism is a common scapegoat, but not the root cause. More basic are social and economic transformations eroding the foundations of democracy, ruling elites trying to lock in their own privilege, and cultural perversions like making individualistic freedom the enemy of democracy's other crucial ideals of equality and solidarity. In Degenerations of Democracy, three of our most prominent intellectuals investigate democracy gone awry, locate our points of fracture, and suggest paths to democratic renewal.

Discover how to integrate meditation practices into your modern Christian life. Explore a wide variety of meditations, paired with scriptural passages and prayers that you can make your own. The open-ended topics in this meditation journal can apply to your own experiences at work, at home, or at church. 

In his classic best-selling book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni laid out a groundbreaking, new approach for attacking the dangerous group behaviors that destroy teamwork. Here, he turns his focus to the individual member of a team, revealing the three indispensable virtues that make some people better team players than others. Lencioni’s latest fable is the story of a leader desperate to save his company by cracking the code on the virtues that define a true team player.

When Martin's raiding guild join the latest virtual reality MMO, they discover a challenge like no other. Strata Online is a 100-floor mega-dungeon, filled with an ever-shifting ecosystem of monsters. Martin's team soon find themselves in a race against the world’s strongest guilds, all competing to be the first to reach the unbeatable game's lowest depths. But unlike other games, Martin will need as much courage as skill to progress. Because the deeper he goes, the darker Strata gets.

I was asked to leave school. No qualifications, no plan, no money. What I had was a knack for spotting an opening before anyone else noticed it was there, and the nerve to walk through it. This is the story of where that took me over more than forty years. Managing rock and roll bands in England...

Nobody in the ancient world left behind more of himself than Marcus Tullius Cicero. Speeches, letters, treatises, private grumbles, public boasts, jokes at dinner parties recorded for posterity — the paper trail is so vast that we know his moods better than we know those of most politicians...

Snowbound Truths is an astonishing book daring to delve into the greatest mystery mankind desires to solve. Get ready for many wonderful and new twists to what eternity holds, utilizing quantum physics and true religion found in our everyday lives. Science answers eternal questions to reveal the...

A child born of darkness…A priest haunted by the past…And a terror the world was never meant to survive…In a hidden temple deep within the Gahlesh Woods, the fallen Ethra Archimedes gathers his faithful for a ritual meant to break the chains of his exile. But when a desperate young mother...

IT'S NEVER TOO LATE is a story of faith, family,perseverance,and purpose.From growing up in Lagos to building a new life in America, Obi Egwuatu shares challenges, setbacks, blessings,and lessons that shaped his journey.Through every season, one belief remained constant:God's timing is the best...

Something feels off. You can't always name it, but somewhere between the programs, the titles, and the packed calendar, you find yourself wondering — is this really what church should look like? The New Testament church didn't have an org chart or a membership drive. What it had was the Holy...

This book took shape as an attempt to help Narrate, and those adjacent to it, reconcile its past with its present and future. It is not a how-to manual or a theological argument, but a story: one about uncovering a need that emerged unexpectedly. Through personal narrative, theological reflection, and gentle exploration, it invites listeners to contemplate the value added by ancient Christianity—not as a retreat into the past, but as a missional path forward.

Logan Dodge and his family are on the trip of a lifetime. A summer adventure up north in a Grumman Albatross. Exploring majestic fjords, admiring towering waterfalls, and even visiting an island nicknamed the “Key West of the North.” But after returning home just in time to catch a tropical sunset, the former Navy SEAL meets with an old friend and discovers a horrific tragedy.

The Reach is the first story set in Rainy's world and can be enjoyed as a standalone novel. Michael returned from war carrying more than scars. Haunted by the death of his closest friend and convinced that the world is governed by loss, he abandons the life waiting for him and turns away from...

Florida, middle 1800s. Mary, a freed midwife, has purchased her independence at a steep cost. Hoping to begin anew in Wauchula, she soon discovers that freedom does not guarantee dignity in a world still bound by prejudice and cruelty.

Will O'Brien is a discredited former Pulitzer Prize winner who now works for a tabloid because no reputable media organization will hire him. While pursuing a scandal story for his tabloid, Will discovers an older senator's recent death from a heart attack was an assassination. He makes that claim in his weekly tabloid article, which produces a mysterious informer who tells him of an incredible conspiracy by a DC lobbyist who represents South American governments, and clandestinely, drug cartels, to murder selected senators.

When a Marine officer returned from Afghanistan only to find himself jobless and drowning in debt, he made a desperate decision that would lead him to Southeast Asia where he became the leader of American business in one of the world's most dangerous countries. Finding Our Voice chronicles Adam Castillo's extraordinary journey from unemployed veteran to crisis leadership in Myanmar during a military coup, mass violence, and economic collapse. As diplomats fled, Castillo stayed, dodging bullets while evacuating employees and transforming a dying chamber of commerce into a thriving community.

A Publishers Weekly Editor’s Pick A darkly funny 1991 road novel about two actors touring a stripped-down Huckleberry Finn through a hostile America—perfect for listeners of Paul Beatty’s The Sellout and Percival Everett’s James. Axel Emerson isn’t chasing a dream—he’s running from...

In the long-awaited sequel to one of the world’s most beloved and widely read books of the last twenty years—The Shack—unrivaled storyteller Wm. Paul Young leads us back to the great questions of human existence: How does life go on in the face of irreconcilable loss? How can the...

In his brand-new book, bestselling author & award-winning adventurer Ross Edgley details the science, psychology and history of heroism, uncovering what drives ordinary people to do extraordinary things. *With a foreword from Chris Hemsworth* Written during his historic 1,000-mile (1,600-km)...