An unlikely adventurer, a Christian college professor named Michael Jernigan, takes a classroom full of students on a fascinating journey through an ancient Cambodian text called The Five Crossings. The mysterious lessons on life, art, philosophy, and religious truth are explosively punctuated by an all-too-realistic terrorist plot in southern California. Because of his rare language abilities, Jernigan is called upon to translate some intercepted messages and finds himself thrust into an incredibly tense situation where thousands of lives are at stake.
The Village Enlightenment in America: Popular Religion and Science in the Nineteenth Century – Hardcover
The Village Enlightenment in America focuses on three nineteenth-century spiritual activists who epitomized the marriage of science and religion fostered in antebellum, pre-Darwinian America by the American Enlightenment. Through the lives and work of these three influential men, The Village Enlightenment in America opens a window to a time when science and religion, instead of seeming fundamentally at odds with each other, appeared entirely reconcilable.