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...

Monday Morning is a collection of coach-able moments, initially sent every, well, Monday morning to clients and friends. This fourth volume features 154 brief essays-many followed by challenging inquiries. They're not designed to be read quickly; they're intended for contemplation. You'll be challenged and affirmed; you may shed tears or smile as you drink in the word, wisdom, and wonder of the living Word. May these pieces prove encouraging, that together we might be "transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him" (2 Corinthians 3:18, The Message).

What moved Abraham to open his home to his young, self-absorbed nephew, Lot, and later to wage war against a powerful alliance of kings to rescue his young charge? What moved Boaz, a near kinsman of Ruth, to marry her, to lift her up out of poverty? What moved Jesus to empty himself of the nature of God and to take upon himself the nature of man-indeed, the nature of a servant-to surrender his life on the cross to redeem humankind? What moved them was a sense of allegiance. A sense of family. A sense of tribe.

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.

Mickey Burns took pride in his dead-end job: It wasn't everybody who got to say they worked for the Queens District Attorney's Office. So what if it was a dead-end job. At least he got to work on his stand-up comedy routine. Unfortunately he had another hobby. . . gambling. And now he had to come up with twenty-five thousand dollars to pay off his bookie. That was about as low as Mickey Burns could go, until his best friend was arrested for the murder of a cop.Jack Moran, once a great cop and now hip deep in the bottle, asked Mickey for a favor, a favor he was willing to pay for. So what if it was illegal? Mickey could use the money to pay off his gambling debts. Mickey's investigation leads behind the shiny facade of a police shield to the seamy underbelly of law enforcement-a place where pay-offs and rip-offs are as much a part of the job as handcuffs and Miranda warnings. They soon find out how scarce friends become once they cross the thin blue line. Luck to Lose blurs the line between cops, prosecutors and criminals until the only thing that can be trusted is a man's word.

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;