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Charting the path forward for our churches and ministries in providing care—not a cure— for our non-straight sisters and brothers who are living lives of costly obedience to Jesus.At the start of the gay rights movement in 1969, evangelicalism's leading voices cast a vision for gay people who turn to Jesus. It was C.S. Lewis, Billy Graham, Francis Schaeffer and John Stott who were among the most respected leaders within theologically orthodox Protestantism. We see with them a positive pastoral approach toward gay people, an approach that viewed homosexuality as a fallen condition experienced by some Christians who needed care more than cure.With the birth and rise of the ex-gay movement, the focus shifted from care to cure. As a result, there are an estimated 700,000 people alive today who underwent conversion therapy in the United States alone. Many of these patients were treated by faith-based, testimony-driven parachurch ministries centered on the ex-gay script. Despite the best of intentions, the movement ended with very troubling results. Yet the ex-gay movement died not because it had the wrong sex ethic. It died because it was founded on a practice that diminished the beauty of the gospel.Yet even after the closure of the ex-gay umbrella organization Exodus International in 2013, the ex-gay script continues to walk about as the undead among us, pressuring people like me to say, "I used to be gay, but I'm not gay anymore. Now I'm just same-sex attracted."For orthodox Christians, the way forward is to take a close look at our history. It is time again to focus with our Neo-Evangelical fathers on caring over attempting to cure.With warmth and humor, as well as original research, Still Time to Care provides:Guidance for the gay person who hears the gospel and finds themselves smitten by the life-giving call of Jesus.Guidance for the church to repent of its homophobia and instead offer gospel-motivated love and compassion.

Charting the path forward for our churches and ministries in providing care--not a cure--for our non-straight sisters and brothers who are living lives of costly obedience to Jesus.At the start of the gay rights movement in 1969, evangelicalism's leading voices cast a vision for gay people who turn to Jesus. It was C.S. Lewis, Billy Graham, Francis Schaeffer and John Stott who were among the most respected leaders within theologically orthodox Protestantism. We see with them a positive pastoral approach toward gay people, an approach that viewed homosexuality as a fallen condition experienced by some Christians who needed care more than cure.With the birth and rise of the ex-gay movement, the focus shifted from care to cure. As a result, there are an estimated 700,000 people alive today who underwent conversion therapy in the United States alone. Many of these patients were treated by faith-based, testimony-driven parachurch ministries centered on the ex-gay script. Despite the best of intentions, the movement ended with very troubling results. Yet the ex-gay movement died not because it had the wrong sex ethic. It died because it was founded on a practice that diminished the beauty of the gospel.Yet even after the closure of the ex-gay umbrella organization Exodus International in 2013, the ex-gay script continues to walk about as the undead among us, pressuring people like me to say, "I used to be gay, but I'm not gay anymore. Now I'm just same-sex attracted."For orthodox Christians, the way forward is to take a close look at our history. It is time again to focus with our Neo-Evangelical fathers on caring over attempting to cure.With warmth and humor, as well as original research, Still Time to Care provides:Guidance for the gay person who hears the gospel and finds themselves smitten by the life-giving call of Jesus.Guidance for the church to repent of its homophobia and instead offer gospel-motivated love and compassion.

This book provides readers with a solid understanding of game development, design, narrative, charaterization, plot, back story and world creation elements that are crucial for game writers and designers as they create a detailed world setting, adventure, characters, narrative and plot suitable for possible publication. Game design and development issues such as writing for games, emergent complexity, risk reward systems, competitive and cooperative game play will be investigated, analyzed and critiqued. Examples will be used to highlight and explain the various concepts involved and how the game development process works.Key FeaturesProvides the critical skills any good game designer should have, such as narrative, characterization, progression, challenges, world building, plot, and rewardsUsing a hands-on, learn-by-doing approach, this book teaches prospective game designers how to excel in creating their own worlds and adventures without having to learn any programming or technical computer skillsIncludes clear and concise chapter objectives, chapter overviews, examples, case studies, key terms and multiple in-depth analysesMultiple case studies are provided and thoroughly analyzed so that readers will be familiar with the concepts and methodologies involved in each taskOver the course of the book, readers will develop a professional level asset for inclusion in a portfolio of work suitable for submitting to job applications

Greg Johnson's latest collection of stories offers insights both subtle and startling into the workings of the human heart, from a child's-eye view of marital strife and a thoughtless betrayal of first love to the expansive reveries of complicated, conflicted adults looking ahead to new lives or back on past missteps and misfortunes. Johnson also delves into his literary roots with tales of imaginary encounters with Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, and Flannery O'Connor--who, in the title story, engages in a fierce battle of wills with a precocious eleven-year-old boy. Through it all, Johnson demonstrates his gift for describing that telling detail--a sentence, a gesture, a memory--that instantly reveals a personality, as if illuminated by lightning. Praise for I Am Dangerous: "A bravura literary performance. He rings a hundred changes on the emotional issues with which he deals, keeping them always interesting, always mysterious, changing and evolving before our eyes."--Pinckney Benedict, Chicago Tribune Book World

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) of 1990 provides a legal framework within which Native Americans can seek the repatriation of human remains and certain categories of cultural objects - including ""sacred objects"" - from federally funded institutions. Although the repatriation movement among Native Americans has heretofore received scholarly attention specifically focused on this act, ""Sacred Claims"" is the first book to analyze the ways in which religious discourse is used to articulate repatriation claims. Greg Johnson takes this act as one instance in a larger context wherein native peoples around the globe must engage legal arenas in order to preserve their heritage. Methodologically, ""Sacred Claims"" is based on a close reading of government documents concerning the law and participant observation in a variety of NAGPRA-related events and provides the background and legislative history of the law, the life history of the act's axial term cultural affiliation (the most delicate and least understood aspect of NAGPRA), and several case studies of highly visible and contentious Hawaiian repatriation disputes. Johnson then moves beyond the strictly legal context to analyze NAGPRA discourse in the public realm. He concludes by way of a theoretical treatment of the foregoing issues, arguing that religious language was the chief means by which native representatives ultimately persuaded non-native audiences of the applicability of widely held human rights principles to their cultural remains. Theorizing modes of cultural vitality in the repatriation context, Johnson argues that living tradition is not found in the objects themselves but is instead located in struggles over them. With the law on the brink of receiving crucial tests, and repatriation issues making daily headlines in Native American and Hawaiian news, ""Sacred Claims"" is a timely and necessary examination of these issues.

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) of 1990 provides a legal framework within which Native Americans can seek the repatriation of human remains and certain categories of cultural objects - including ""sacred objects"" - from federally funded institutions. Although the repatriation movement among Native Americans has heretofore received scholarly attention specifically focused on this act, ""Sacred Claims"" is the first book to analyze the ways in which religious discourse is used to articulate repatriation claims. Greg Johnson takes this act as one instance in a larger context wherein native peoples around the globe must engage legal arenas in order to preserve their heritage. Methodologically, ""Sacred Claims"" is based on a close reading of government documents concerning the law and participant observation in a variety of NAGPRA-related events and provides the background and legislative history of the law, the life history of the act's axial term cultural affiliation (the most delicate and least understood aspect of NAGPRA), and several case studies of highly visible and contentious Hawaiian repatriation disputes. Johnson then moves beyond the strictly legal context to analyze NAGPRA discourse in the public realm. He concludes by way of a theoretical treatment of the foregoing issues, arguing that religious language was the chief means by which native representatives ultimately persuaded non-native audiences of the applicability of widely held human rights principles to their cultural remains. Theorizing modes of cultural vitality in the repatriation context, Johnson argues that living tradition is not found in the objects themselves but is instead located in struggles over them. With the law on the brink of receiving crucial tests, and repatriation issues making daily headlines in Native American and Hawaiian news, ""Sacred Claims"" is a timely and necessary examination of these issues.

This book provides readers with a solid understanding of game development, design, narrative, charaterization, plot, back story and world creation elements that are crucial for game writers and designers as they create a detailed world setting, adventure, characters, narrative and plot suitable for possible publication. Game design and development issues such as writing for games, emergent complexity, risk reward systems, competitive and cooperative game play will be investigated, analyzed and critiqued. Examples will be used to highlight and explain the various concepts involved and how the game development process works.Key FeaturesProvides the critical skills any good game designer should have, such as narrative, characterization, progression, challenges, world building, plot, and rewardsUsing a hands-on, learn-by-doing approach, this book teaches prospective game designers how to excel in creating their own worlds and adventures without having to learn any programming or technical computer skillsIncludes clear and concise chapter objectives, chapter overviews, examples, case studies, key terms and multiple in-depth analysesMultiple case studies are provided and thoroughly analyzed so that readers will be familiar with the concepts and methodologies involved in each taskOver the course of the book, readers will develop a professional level asset for inclusion in a portfolio of work suitable for submitting to job applications

Jonah trapped in the dark, slimy, acidic, putrid insides of the dag gadol - the great fish - where he spiritually wrestled with God; Abraham, dazed and confused, angry and shocked at God's command to sacrifice his only son; Joseph, beaten, abandoned by his family, and essentially discarded as trash only to become the second most powerful man in the most powerful nation on Earth. What do these Biblical accounts, and many others, possibly have to do with the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus? This Messianic novel tells the story of two weary, heartbroken, and bewildered students of The Lord as they traveled from Jerusalem on their way towards Emmaus nearly two thousand years ago, following the unimaginable and horrific execution of their Lord and Master, the One Whom they thought to be the Messiah - the Savior of the world - a stranger appeared to them and began to explain to them how everything in the Scriptures, "Beginning from Moses and all the prophets" pointed to the Messiah, and to the events that they had witnessed during the past few days of their lives. However what this stranger actually said to them was not recorded in the Scriptures, but has remained a mystery through the ages, open to much speculation and interpretation. In this book, the reader is transported back in time to walk along the road with the stranger and the two students of the Messiah, and eavesdrop on what that conversation may have been. As the stranger peels back the years and retells familiar Biblical accounts, yet bringing them to life in new and fascinating ways, the two students are amazed and slowly begin to grasp the significance of everything that had been right in front of them all the time. By the time their conversation is over, their hearts, minds, and eyes are opened to the whole truth, and they see not only the depth and beauty of God's plan, but there, right in front of them, their Risen Lord and Savior, Who had changed their lives forever. Told in a Messianic Jewish style, this story attempts to be true to the historical and cultural "feel" of that day so many years ago in the hopes of presenting the reader with a new and fresh perspective that will enable them to also rediscover for the first time what has been right in front of their eyes all these years. It is the author's sincere hope and prayer that not only will the reader be entertained through these pages, but much more importantly, see the Scriptures, and subsequently our Lord, in a new light, and like those first two travelers, have their lives and faith walk changed in new and unimaginable ways. To all who are eager to take that walk, come along and listen.

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The trial of Socrates is a pivotal event in world history. Before Socrates, philosophy had put society on trial. Now society was striking back. The Trial of Socrates first presents the case for the prosecution based on Aristophanes' comedy Clouds, which mocks Socrates as a preacher of atheism and moral corruption. The case for the defense is drawn from five of Plato's dialogues, which explore the permanent tensions between intellectual freedom and social order, as well as how they might be harmonized. "Socrates was the pivotal figure in the emergence of Western philosophy. Greg Johnson's The Trial of Socrates is the clearest and most incisive introduction to the life and teachings Socrates that I have ever read." -Collin Cleary, Ph.D., author of Wagner's Ring & the Germanic Tradition "In The Trial of Socrates, Greg Johnson guides us through the difficult and ambiguous evidence concerning one of the most crucial turning points in the West's cultural history: the career and eventual execution of the Athenian philosopher Socrates. In doing so, he brings the reader close to the heart of our tradition and what it means to be an heir of that tradition today. -F. Roger Devlin, Ph.D., author of Sexual Utopia in Power "Plato's Apology of Socrates is the court report of the trial and death sentence of history's most famous philosopher. Greg Johnson's The Trial of Socrates is an important companion to anyone approaching the text for the first time, providing the historical context to bring this key text back to life." -Mark Gullick, Ph.D., author of Vanikin in the Underworld "Nietzsche's hope to 'reestablish the broken link with the Greeks' finds very few adherents in academia today. Teachers with the enthusiasm, talent, learning, and seriousness for such a task have been driven out of our colleges and universities. Where does one turn for guidance? With the publication of The Trial of Socrates-a lively, engaging, and accessible introduction to the fundamental moral-political and philosophic problems embodied in the life of Socrates-Greg Johnson steps into the void and helps fulfill a vital need in our destitute time." -Anonymous Heidegger Scholar

Greg Johnson's Toward a New Nationalism is a companion volume to his The White Nationalist Manifesto. Toward a New Nationalism offers a White Nationalist analysis of race realism, white identity, the problems with conservatism and libertarianism, "hate," "white privilege," American ethnic identity and nationalism, technological utopianism, freedom of speech, metapolitics, the Jewish question, the rise and fall of the Alt Right, and the ethos of idealism, duty, and self-sacrifice that white advocates need to cultivate if they are to change the world.

Greg Johnson's Toward a New Nationalism is a companion volume to his The White Nationalist Manifesto. Toward a New Nationalism offers a White Nationalist analysis of race realism, white identity, the problems with conservatism and libertarianism, "hate," "white privilege," American ethnic identity and nationalism, technological utopianism, freedom of speech, metapolitics, the Jewish question, the rise and fall of the Alt Right, and the ethos of idealism, duty, and self-sacrifice that white advocates need to cultivate if they are to change the world.

Greg Johnson's Against Imperialism collects thirty of his best pieces of political commentary written primarily in 2022 and 2023 on such topics as imperialism vs. ethnonationalism, the Ukraine War, sovereignty, international relations, abortion, and the Gaza conflict-as well as such figures as Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, Christopher Rufo, Kanye West, Dave Chappelle, Elon Musk, and Richard Hanania-all from a pro-white point of view. These essays display all of Greg Johnson's trademarks: careful argumentation, moral clarity, political idealism, and a willingness to take unequivocal stands on controversial issues.