Bücher von Michael Fox

All too soon, the first snowflakes will fall, and we will bid farewell to America's pastime for a season. We'll enter that dark period between the last out of the World Series and the first pitch of Spring Training. I invite you to join me on a pilgrimage. I hope to scratch the itch many of us feel when we can no longer switch on a baseball game or check out a box score. Accompany me as I reflect on an extraordinary journey in the autumn of 2022 to several baseball venues of the Northeast-including moments and monuments, memorabilia and memories. It was a journey of a lifetime that confirmed why baseball resonates deep within the souls of those who love the game. And, it was a reminder that when our desire is for the Lord, he is likely to manifest in surprising ways...

Following the Formula in Beowulf, OErvar-Odds saga, and Tolkien proposes that Beowulf was composed according to a formula.

Do you ache for the consolations of home? Do you feel, at times, a sense of desolation as if you are lost in a wilderness, without a sense of direction or connection? Perhaps you've reached a season where parents and siblings and even the home place are but a fading memory. Perhaps your longing is for a home you never had. Perhaps home for you is an elusive sense of identity, safety, warmth and assurance. This unique little volume might just be your third base coach waving you home. Safe at Home explores origins through the beauty of baseball as metaphor. The author, Michael Fox, is an executive coach, a trainer, a spiritual director, a writer, a reader, a baseball historian, and a graphic designer living in Northeast Louisiana.

It may not be what you think it is. Unless you think it might be an imagined series of brief conversations between Jesus and the Apostle Paul?historical fiction; that takes place on Mount Sinai and within Ancient Israel?s tabernacle; conversations that ultimately answer where?or better, who?are the thin places where heaven and earth intersect. On the other hand, if that?s what you thought it might be, it?s exactly what you think it is.Michael Fox is an executive coach, a trainer, a spiritual director, a writer, a reader, a baseball historian, and a graphic designer living in Northeast Louisiana.

We can touch the part of a person''s body that gets used to sexual rape, but we can''t touch what gets used in emotional rape - the higher emotions of love or trust, for example.Sexual rape is a violation of the human body - emotional rape is a violation of the human soul.This book is about identifying, preventing, and healing emotional rape.It''s about telling victims that they didn''t do anything morally wrong - that they are not to blame for what happened to them and that recovery is possible.It''s about telling victims how they can recover - to become survivors.Only after this underrated trauma is properly identified can survivors begin to heal their wounds. Only when it is discussed honestly and openly can we, as individuals and as a society, act effectively to prevent the spread of this destructive behavior.

From London to Cornwall, then to Italy and France, a short, shabby priest runs to earth bandits, traitors, killers. Why is he so successful?The reason is that after years spent in the priesthood, Father Brown knows human nature and is not afraid of its dark side. Thus he understands criminal motivation and how to deal with it.The stories included are "e;The Paradise of Thieves,"e; "e;The Duel of Dr. Hirsch,"e; "e;The Man in the Passage,"e; "e;The Mistakes of the Machine,"e; "e;The Head of the Caesar,"e; "e;The Purple Wig,"e; "e;The Perishing of the Pendragons,"e; "e;The God of the Gongs,"e; "e;The Salad of the Colonel Cray,"e; "e;The Strange Crime of John Boulnois"e; and "e;The Fairy Tale of Father Brown."e;