Product Description: Two ace fighter pilots-one American, one Iranian-equally matched in skill and machinery. Sworn enemies destined to meet in nose-to-nose combat in the wartorn skies above the Persian Gulf-Where one must triumph...and one must die. Mike Dunn-a U...read more

Product Description: “Christian laughter is a maze: you could easily get snarled up within it.” So says Michael A. Screech in his note to readers preceding this collection of fifty-three elegant and pithy essays. As Screech reveals, the question of whether laughter is acceptable to the god of the Old and New Testaments is a dangerous one...read more

Product Description: The laughter of delight has gone unheard in the Western tradition. This work brings new light to the notion, and has a consistent leitmotif: the delighted laughter of the matriarch Sarah in the book of Genesis, when she gives birth to her son Isaac...read more

Product Description: While organizing a community interfaith Thanksgiving event, a pastor discovers that people of all religious traditions laugh in the same language. He explores the connections between faith and laughter, examining his own holy heritage in dialogue with followers of other faiths...read more

Product Description: Here's a different angle on humor-it can be a spiritual practice, an expression of a theology of joy, hope, and grace. Humor is so valuable, for it offers self-care, healing, and renewal, precious gifts in times of pressure and tension...read more

Product Description: Two ace fighter pilots-one American, one Iranian-equally matched in skill and machinery. Sworn enemies destined to meet in nose-to-nose combat in the wartorn skies above the Persian Gulf-Where one must triumph...and one must die. Mike Dunn-a U...read more

Product Description: No one likes ticky-tacky houses spread all over the landscape and invading the suburbs, least of all the people who already live there. But are environmentalists and suburbanites right when they object? Bernard Frieden, Professor of Urban Planning at MIT, doesn't think so...read more