Kirjahaku

Defending the Good Society - The Assault on Order, Justice, and Freedom The good society is inhabited by a people who have constructed and maintain a high degree of moral and social order founded upon and held together by the glue of eternal truths, norms, human universals, mores and traditions, distant voices of the past, and most importantly faithfulness to God and the prescriptions of the Bible. In such a society will be found a high degree of order, justice, and freedom. It is at this point that many non-Christians who approve of and value the attributes and provisions of the good society will reject the God of the Bible as the fountain of truth from which the good society must draw its pattern and sustenance. But that cannot be as will be shown throughout this book. Any source other than God's perfect truth as shown in His creation and revelation to the ancient Israelites and first century Christians is less than perfect. Over the course of time, that source will be revealed as flawed and inevitably lead to disorder and disintegration of any society based on imperfect truth. I ask that that the skeptic continue reading and reserve judgment on this point until the end of the book. This book's hypothesis is that the ongoing efforts to destroy the good society are a consequence of applied humanism as it is imposed on the everyday life of Americans in the grip of forced equality. The dominant humanistic concept of forced equality is disintegrative because of its nature and presents not only a false philosophy and view of the world but is doing significant if not fatal damage to American society and the world. From these premises and perspective, the author has titled this book Defending the Good Society - The Assault on Order, Justice, and Freedom.

Tar Creek - A History of The Quapaw Indians, the World's Largest Lead and Zinc Discovery, and The Tar Creek Superfund Site. When this book was conceived, it was intended as a straightforward recounting of the story of the world's greatest discovery of lead and zinc located in the far northeast corner of Oklahoma. I soon realized that this 1915 discovery was strongly linked to prior as well as current events and that those events should be a part of the story. Because of the interconnectedness of the present with the past, the story grew and quickly encompassed the Quapaw Indians and their ancient history, the founding of the United States, the Louisiana Purchase, the transition of Oklahoma and Indian Territories to statehood, the discovery and mining of lead and zinc in the Tri-State region, and the making of the oldest and largest environmental Superfund site in America. This book does not claim to do justice to any of these topics but attempts to tell an interesting story from a perspective not seen before. Parts of the book deal with grand themes and momentous events. Other chapters deal with the mundane and minutia of life in frontier mining camps. As time progresses, some of the events and players in our story rise to prominence and then recede into obscurity. Other seemingly insignificant actions and events create ripples that become waves that become tsunamis that etch a lasting mark on the shores of history. The discovery of lead and zinc deposits in 1915 on the Quapaw Reservation at Picher, Oklahoma, serves as the focal point of the book. Several events and links to the past preceding the discovery are chronicled. Events and actions from that discovery to the present are also noted. One might visually describe this story as an hourglass with the discovery of lead and zinc at Picher as the skinny neck through which all of the interconnected acts and events preceding the discovery (the top half of the hourglass) are slowly moving toward (causing or impacting) that discovery. The bottom half of the hourglass is literally the fallout from the discovery or, as one might put it, the repercussions ninety years later. Larry G. Johnson

God's Frozen Chosen is not a religious book-in that none of its key characters are immersed in conventional faith settings. Nevertheless, providence is an undergirding theme throughout. The story chronicles both the agony of tragic losses and the thrill of redemptive second chances-as beings embrace the "gifts" of providential interventions.This volume is the third installment in The War Baby and Miss Bizzy Belle series. It is yet another stark reminder that life is about fulfilling individual destinies. If attuned, inspiration often comes from the most unlikely of sources.The writer has his pivotal character, Walt Williamson say: "What a relief it is not to have to know everything all at once. Think of three words starting with the same letter. Being open to whatever, to whenever, and to wherever is the first step in embracing the possibilities-as their moments in time announce themselves."Those were not just random terms strewn together in a work of fiction. Rather the assertions are personal reflections of the author's own sentiments. Becoming a writer was not even a whatever possibility until it declared itself. God's Frozen Chosen is his third novel in the trilogy that includes The War Baby and Miss Bizzy Belle.Neither was being an accomplished photographer something he set out to do. His book Frozen in Time is a photo journal of some exceptional snapshots with poignant stories to go with them. One reader remarked that the author/photographer must have spent hours waiting to get some of the pictures. Johnson responded. "No-I just snapped what was right in front of me at the time."The author also had Walt say: "People have to be who they are. And some folks just do an outstanding job of being who they are." Then, he chuckled to himself, "Thank God, I am one of them." While most folks speculate about their significance and contemplate the nature of their being, Larry G. Johnson does not just stop there. He welcomes and grasps-whatever, whenever, and wherever-one moment at the time

This book is not just a ghost story but a ghost's story. The author has fashioned a spirited narrative shared through the eyes of Pearly Ghost. Based on his personal experiences with a friendly poltergeist, it is highly entertaining, heartwarming, sometimes heart-wrenching, and often thought-provoking.