Dale a Johnson

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 expression of self-hatred, mental illness, and intergenerational suffering that only requires love to break its hold on a family.

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 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.

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 used in the investigation.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 created to be Good Samaritans in our most fully developed form.

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 of Christianity under the veil of Islam.

This book studies the development of a pattern of education for ministry within nineteenth-century English evangelical Nonconformity. This development played a major role in the emergence of discussions on the nature of ministry while also influencing thought on religious authority, theological reconstruction, and religious identity. Johnson argues that too many interpretations of this facet of Nonconformity's history (especially those concerning the Congregationalist, Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian traditions) have tended to regard such development as a decline from earlier pinnacles of religious vitality and appeal. His book instead considers this phase a serious and necessary effort on the part of Nonconformity to come to terms with modernity while also retaining a responsible understanding of what it meant to be evangelical.