A timeless, little-known literary classic to engage a new generation of readers As the Black Death ravaged London in 1608, in the midst of societal chaos and tragedy, playwright Thomas Dekker wrote Four Birds of Noah’s Ark, a book containing fifty-six prayers for the people of London and all of England. The prayers in this book bear witness to Dekker’s deep faith with a power and poignancy that few written prayers in English literature achieve. Bringing Dekker’s devotional classic back into print for the first time since 1924, editor Robert Hudson has annotated the prayers and modernized their language without sacrificing their enchanting beauty and simplicity. Hudson’s substantive and illuminating introduction is a gem in itself.

"Noah was a righteous man," says Isaac Bashevis Singer, so he and his family were to be saved from the flood. But rumor had it that only the best of all living creatures were to be taken aboard the Ark with Noah. In Why Noah Chose the Dove, a fresh and lively approach to the age-old account, Isaac Bashevis Singer sets down the dialogue of the animals as they vie with one another for a place on the Ark.

Illustrations accompany the Biblical text telling how Noah obeyed God's command to build an ark in order to survive the great flood.

Do you desire an intimate and transformative relationship with the Trinity of Love? Will you choose love or bitterness, joy or pain, light or darkness? These are the questions pondered and presented in The Healing Eyes of Mercy. This true account tells the story of a prodigal daughter in desperate need of love and surrounded by the damaging effects of infertility, mental illness, loneliness, and despair. As her family of three is led on a miraculous journey, she eventually finds her heart's truest desire deep within the Healing Eyes of God's Mercy. From heartbreak to ultimate triumph, you too can experience a visceral, full-bodied discovery of faith and see firsthand the redemptive mercy available to every man, woman, and child made in the image of God. Utilizing prayer, sacred devotionals, reflective questions, and scripture meditations, this book is full of invaluable tools that will warm the heart and guide the soul. "The Healing Eyes of Mercy: A Trinity of Love is a marvelous piece of work! Hopefully, many people reading it will have their eyes opened to the Eyes of Mercy in their own lives! God would be so please to usher them into His Bountiful Love!" - Paulette Renaudin, Magnificent Ministries "One of the most inspirational book manuscripts I've ever been given the privilege to read. This book is going to touch the hearts and souls of many, and I dare say, they will never be the same!" - Page Rosato, WINE (Women in the New Evangelization at CatholicVineyard.com)

Many today find the Old Testament a closed book. The cultural issues seem insurmountable and we are easily baffled by that which seems obscure. Furthermore, without knowledge of the ancient culture we can easily impose our own culture on the text, potentially distorting it. This series invites you to enter the Old Testament with a company of guides, experts that will give new insights into these cherished writings. Features include • Over 2000 photographs, drawings, maps, diagrams and charts provide a visual feast that breathes fresh life into the text. • Passage-by-passage commentary presents archaeological findings, historical explanations, geographic insights, notes on manners and customs, and more. • Analysis into the literature of the ancient Near East will open your eyes to new depths of understanding both familiar and unfamiliar passages. • Written by an international team of 30 specialists, all top scholars in background studies.

Stone maps the force, vivacity, and stories within our most mundane matter, stone. For too long stone has served as an unexamined metaphor for the “really real”: blunt factuality, nature’s curt rebuke. Yet, medieval writers knew that stones drop with fire from the sky, emerge through the subterranean lovemaking of the elements, tumble along riverbeds from Eden, partner with the masons who build worlds with them. Such motion suggests an ecological enmeshment and an almost creaturely mineral life. Although geological time can leave us reeling, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen argues that stone’s endurance is also an invitation to apprehend the world in other than human terms. Never truly inert, stone poses a profound challenge to modernity’s disenchantments. Its agency undermines the human desire to be separate from the environment, a bifurcation that renders nature “out there,” a mere resource for recreation, consumption, and exploitation. Written with great verve and elegance, this pioneering work is notable not only for interweaving the medieval and the modern but also as a major contribution to ecotheory. Comprising chapters organized by concept —“Geophilia,” “Time,” “Force,” and “Soul”—Cohen seamlessly brings together a wide range of topics including stone’s potential to transport humans into nonanthropocentric scales of place and time, the “petrification” of certain cultures, the messages fossils bear, the architecture of Bordeaux and Montparnasse, Yucca Mountain and nuclear waste disposal, the ability of stone to communicate across millennia in structures like Stonehenge, and debates over whether stones reproduce and have souls. Showing that what is often assumed to be the most lifeless of substances is, in its own time, restless and forever in motion, Stone fittingly concludes by taking us to Iceland⎯a land that, writes the author, “reminds us that stone like water is alive, that stone like water is transient.”

Retells the Old Testament story of how Noah and his family built the ark and saved the animals from the Great Flood.

Relates stories from the Bible from the perspective of a dove on the ark, David's slingshot, the star of Bethlehem, and more. Includes discussion questions for adults and children.