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A young person‿s entry into biblical views of relationships. Chastity is a word that isn‿t used much these days, but it means exercising sexual self‿control in line with the moral teachings of the Bible. It means honoring God, respecting others, and embracing the liberating beauty of God‿s order. But how do we do that in today‿s recreational dating culture? And how do we think about dating and, ultimately, marriage? David Ayers has written thi...

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This book ... arms pastors and laypeople alike to face what is the most pressing issue of our day." --Carl R. TruemanEquipping the church to recover from sexual confusion. In After the Revolution, David J. Ayers provides the Christian heirs of the sexual revolution a resource to understand their challenges and social context to find a way forward. Drawing on social sciences and history, Ayers traces recent worldview shifts in North America and...

Explores the impact of the Russian Revolution and League of Nations on British modernist culture.

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Why should we care about marriage? There is a lot of confusion about the purpose of marriage today: outside the church as well as within it. Written by a distinguished Christian sociologist, Christian Marriage is a theologically rich, biblically robust, and sociologically informed treatise on the nature and value of marriage. Drawing on recent social science research, empirical data, and social history, Ayers paints a picture of marriage as an...

With an attention to time as the defining nature of history, this book offers students a view of American history as a compelling narrative. It emphasizes the intertwined nature of three key characteristics of time - sequence, simultaneity, and contingency.

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Teaching Toward Democracy examines the contested space of schooling and school reform with a focus on the unique challenges and opportunities that teaching in a democratic society provides.

English literature of the 1920s is commonly treated in terms of its position within european or anglo-american modernism. Ayers argues that english literature of the period can be better understood when examined in the context of a more local social and literary history. Focusing principally on the novel, it sets modernist works alongside non-modernist and popular forms. Exploring the engagement of these texts with social concerns, including s...

English literature of the 1920s is commonly treated in terms of its position within european or anglo-american modernism. Ayers argues that english literature of the period can be better understood when examined in the context of a more local social and literary history. Focusing principally on the novel, it sets modernist works alongside non-modernist and popular forms. Exploring the engagement of these texts with social concerns, including s...

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AMERICAN PASSAGES, International Edition places a unique emphasis on time as the defining nature of history--how events lead to other events, actions, changes, and often-unexpected outcomes. The authors offer readers a sensible, step-by-step, compelling narrative with balanced coverage of political, economic, social, cultural, military, religious, and intellectual history.

This is Volume I (to 1877) of AMERICAN PASSAGES, SECOND EDITION that examines U.S. history the way people live--in the flow of time. Rather than pursuing one topic (such as politics, culture, society, reform, the military, or economics) at a time, each chapter of the text interweaves important themes and issues into one interrelated narrative. Through this method of presentation, students can observe the many ways that events, movements, and g...

This short introduction to Modernism analyses the movement from the perspective of English and American literature. Provides a critical overview of some of the central texts of literary Modernism. Covers both established works and those that have only recently come to critical attention. Includes detailed discussion of major authors, including T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Wallace Stevens and H.D.

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Dr. David Ayers, creator of the Preacher's Kids comic strip, brings the characters together for their first book appearance. Join the boys, Aaron and John David, as they search for the meaning of faithfulness. Being faithful is a choice. See if the Preacher's Kids make the right choices as they get ready to celebrate Aaron's birthday.The preacher and his two sons, Aaron and John David made their debut March of 2001 in a local paper located in ...

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