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This is a story about the feminine deities Xi Wang Mu and Guan Yin of China. It weaves together ancient detail in a modern form blending East and West.

Gunner and Mark Wales are a father and son detective team who solve international crime related to Asia. Gunner is a polymath and eccentric, scholar of many languages and odd bits of knowledge. His son Mark is a detective in the United States who is a dedicated professional who is reluctantly drawn by his father into murder mysteries that require his skill and his father's quirky interests.

This is a brief analysis of a painting by an Italian Jesuit artist in the Manchu court of the 18th century. Considered by some as the last official Jesuit in China, this artist spent over 50 years of his life in the Qing Dynasty court.

This is an overview of the presence of Christianity in China over 20 centuries. It is not meant to be an exhaustive review but a personal exploration for lost Churches and Christian communities who entered China along the network of roads we call the Silk Road.

The Emperor's Regret are a collection of stories based on Chinese themes. I have experimented with fiction. In the first story, The Emperor's regret I experiment with combining fiction story form with non-fiction use of footnotes. In the second story I experiment with western and eastern story forms. In the third story I experiment with contemporary reality with ancient fantasy.

I hope that people who read this book will see a true story in fictional form about the horror of inter-generational violence and how lives are destroyed, and happiness abandoned, and human hearts remain homeless. At the same time, I hope the reader will see a story of redemption and salvation even though it takes generations. I hope the reader will read a story that uses fiction to reveal a deeper and universal story of violence as an express...

This is the fifth book in a series of Mahjong murder mysteries featuring the father and son detective team of Gunner and Mark Wales. This is the first book in the series with a science fiction theme focusing on time travel.

I believe it takes a lifetime to learn how to be an authentic human being. When we are young we think we know how to live. The bruises and battles of life condition us to eventually realize that we are not yet wise. We look at the young as did Plato and shake our heads. Somehow in the midst of growing up and maturing we begin to develop an inner wisdom unless we throw away the lessons we learn along the way. It is a perilous journey. In a sens...

Altruism is biological in origin but depends upon proper social and environmental conditions. The author posits a developmental model of Altruism modulated by genetic capacity and social constraints that is variable in its outcome in each human being. Yet, the human being, and perhaps other creatures, seem to transcend their biological and social constraints and act in a way that we can only describe as love toward another. We seem to be crea...

The author and the translator have used this book in Chinese classrooms to teach oral English, translation, and philosophical ideas for debate. The text weaves together three strands made of the ten ox-herding paintings of Buddhist tradition, the author's personal biography, and Christian theology. These strands are woven into a fabric of thought to stimulate discussion about psychology, philosophy, and American culture.

This is a short story followed by two poems that illustrate the search for the foundations and roots of character and personal truth.

The ox herding paintings are used to show the reader a path to serenity. The author uses personal biography and universal truths drawn from many sources to weave together an uplifting book in this Chinese edition.

This is a series of monographs related to the Language of Jesus and the author's search for the lost churches in China.

This is a revision of a monastic Rule adapted to the 21st century.

Covers the period from the English Renaissance and Reformation to contemporary debates over women's ministries and the construction of a feminist theology. Divided chronologically and topically.

In this book, the contributors explore the Vanderbilt Divinity School's history. Conflict has played an important part in shaping this history, from struggles over initial visions to questions of financial support and institutional control, from local debates over academic freedom to national issues of social justice.

This is the commemorative edition for the 4th International Conference on the Church of the East in China. This is a collection of essays used as background research to seek and find the lost churches of the Silk Road. The author has used the "Da Qin Jing Jiao" Stone to provide clues for searching for the reported churches and monasteries that we built during the Tang dynasty. For later periods material from Mogao and other artifacts have been...

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This is a collection of summaries, diary entries and letters from the famed British explorer, Gertrude Bell who later went on to become an adviser to Winston Churchill and founded the Baghdad Archeology Museum. The focus of the book is on her contribution to the photographic and archeological record she made of a region of forgotten Christians, called Tur Abdin in present day Turkey, who had preserved the language of Jesus and a Semitic form o...

Why should Christians care about the United Nation's Goals on poverty and hunger? Does not God want us to prosper? Will not the poor, the sick, the homeless just drag us down? Are we our brother's keeper? The author gives us compelling reasons why we must care, not because we are a Christian, Buddhist, or Moslem, but because we are human beings and we are inter-connected to the plight of every other human being.