This Week in America with Ric Bratton

GAMBLING FOR GOOD MAIL by Evelyn Cole ​ Felicia Wood is a lovely woman whose husbands leave her soon after marriage because she clutters their lives too much with purchases from catalogues. Although she’s a licensed nurse, its too depressing a career for her. She prefers trying various sales organizations. She visits a drive-in church where the minister is projected onto a giant screen and Roy Rog...

The Gospel "Lite": Four Witnesses by Edwin Alan Salhany Taking a unique approach to harmonizing the Biblical accounts, Edwin Alan Salhany expertly weaves the four Gospel stories together into one continuous chronological narrative, removing duplication, and yet preserving all the details and nuances of the different writers.  Using the venerable King James text, this is not a paraphrase, but a re-...

Code Name - Zeus: A Geo-political Saga by Gary Andersen Government agencies and sinister organizations in the United States and around the world closely follow the activities in and around the small town of Kursk, Texas. The town and surrounding area, settled by German Russian immigrants in the early twentieth century, suffered greatly from the dual impact of the Dust Bowl years and the Great Depr...

Finding a Soulful Love by Lucinda Johnson This novel traces the journey taken by Cynthia as she began to search for love. Her grandmother, who she thought was her mother until she was thirteen, raised her. She never felt any love from her new family, so she reached out to find it with her friends. She found sister love with her best friend Teresa and a family love with her college friend Christine...

Fear Not by Nathan Moore This book is about how fear can prevent you from succeeding in your life. It talks about how we all have some type of fear that we battle to get over, but it teaches you how to fight to get what you deserve. Nathan Moore is a young man with dream, goal, and a lot ambition. He is also motivated person that will not allow FEAR to control his life! https://www.amazon.com/Fear...

                  A SPIRITUAL DOG "BEAR" by J. Wesley Porter ​The story is about an awesome dog who was in an animal shelter our family adopted when he was eight weeks old. Our dog Bear was a little puppy with jet-black curly hair, very adorable and cute. He soon grew into a twenty-eight-pound adult size dog who was a ball full of energy during his thirteen years of life. Bear gave love to us and...

Shadow of the Rainbow by Randa Lynne Zollinger The Hansens seemed to be a contented, happy family when the kids were young. Brandon, the oldest, was the perfect son, continuing the tradition of being a great athlete like his father and grandfather before him. The twins, Jaden and Jenny, revered their older brother and sought to emulate him. As Brandon started high school and the twins began middle...

Chop! Chop! Chaplain: Chaplain Ministry in a Beef Processing Plant by Rev. Heidi Revelo What does ministry look like in a 2,800-employee beef-processing plant? Chaplain Heidi takes you by the hand as she gently pulls back the thin layer of veneer of real experiences with Muslims, Christians, languages, cultures, customs, traditions, and a splash of corporate policy. It's a merry-go-round of colorf...

THE DIGNITY OF SERVICE: THE POWER OF SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP by Nathan W. McKie, Sr. In 2018, Nathan published a book entitled, The Dignity of Profit: Building Community through Entrepreneurship. In it he described the call that we have as Christians to go out into the field to make a difference and the landscape that awaits those servants who do. A general approach to the way this plays out at fi...

The Bible Is a Single Book by H. Doyle Smith God is omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent. The Bible tells of his powers and more. Everything we need to know to be saved are all in the Bible. Most people, though, think the Bible is simply a written recording of anecdotes of God and his interaction with humans and the testament of his power. That is, however, not all of it. The scholars have excluded...

Health Benefits of Kindness with Susan Smith Jones, PhD You've heard the uplifting stories: Passersby dropping scads of cash into charity collection buckets or anonymous donors paying off hospital bills for strangers. People helping victims during storms and natural disasters. Or the simple act of someone bringing food to an elderly, sick neighbor or taking care of their garden while they recupera...

NINETY DAYS by Chyenne  Daley This book is a collection of poems that will take the reader through the journey of love and heartbreak. Ninety days is a personal look at the events that have scarred and inspired the author. The collection attempts to capture the nuances of love, and some of the hardships that come with shattered relationships. Ninety days is separated into six sections: Attraction,...

Water for the Rose by Wayne Luthi Our world is a sea of poetry, yet with everyday demands for our attention and our survival, we are almost forced solely into the expedient. With little room left for a faculty that requires us to slow down for it to function, imagination, reflection, and wonder have to hitchhike to find their way to our deeper places. Like the old phonographs that played vinyl rec...

AUTHOR WILBUR SHAPIRO Wilbur Shapiro always had a penchant for writing. He has produced over 58 publications in the technical literature, and 10 patents.  Regardless of advance age he is still sharp as a tack.  After his retirement from Engineering he began a writing career including poetry and fiction.  Now, he has 8 promising books on Amazon and passionately continues to write as his new mission...

WALKING IN THE POWER OF THE ALMIGHTY CREATOR by Luis A. Gonzalez The author personally met the Creator, the God of the Bible, in the spring of 1994. The Lord of all the earth, as He is also known, manifested Himself to him and gave him a vision, which would, in turn, be a life-changing moment. As a result, his life and beliefs were fundamentally transformed, and he was given a new perspective on l...

THE WORLD THAT WAS THE WORLD OF THE BLACKMAN: AND WHAT HAPPENED TO IT by Hadja Aisha Cassana Maddox Nablisi Cassana Maddox Nablisi was born Cassana Virginia Chestnut, on January 4, 1930, in New York City, New York, the daughter of James Samuel Chestnut and Bessie Anna Hairston-Chestnut. She attended high school at Seward Park High School in Manhattan, joined the United States Navy where she served...

Love Letters from the Marine Wolf: A US Hospital and Transport Ship, an Army Medic Afloat, and a War Bride in World War II by Michele Makros  A timepiece World War II biography of the US hospital and transport ship SS Marine Wolf told through the lens of love between Ship’s Complement Surgical Technician Michael Makros Jr. and his homefront warbride Maria. "Love Letters from the Marine Wolf” has b...

Origins of the Lost Poetic Archives from an Unknown Scholar (Memoirs) by B-poet ​While venturing alone during his expedition of the Lost Poetic Archives in 2015, B-poet spends days apart from his understudy Jennifer Reigns* and writes a reflective account on his hieroglyphical experiences outside and within the Lost Poetic Archives. B-poet’s interpretations of these symbolic experiences were later...

COME FILL UP MY CUP by Jean Murray Munden​ On a trip to Scotland, Robin Lindsay, a 45-year-old Canadian widow, meets James Maclachlan, a Scottish widower. James is haunted by his poor relationship with his wife, who died under mysterious circumstances nearly 10 years ago, leaving a daughter and infant son. The couple fall in love, but events emerging from the past, and violent murder in the presen...

Joe's Alamo Unsung by Lewis E. Cook Remember the Alamo! is a slogan known worldwide for courage in battle against overwhelming odds. In that historic stand less than two hundred volunteers fought against five thousand soldiers for thirteen days. According to Joe, the only male survivor, all races and religions fought and died there. Lead by William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett the Alamo def...

One Lifetime is not Enough! by Rex Nelson Greenwald Take time to appreciate the moments, for they will soon be memories. "One Lifetime is Not Enough" is mostly a true story. However, the essence of the story is about not judging anyone or anything by outward appearances, and that we are to find the inner character and follow the guiding principle of love that God shows and gives each of us willing...

THE 66 BOOKS OF NATHAN: SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDINGS by Nathan La-monta James  Author Nathan La-monta James was not born and raised in a religious structure like most of God's children, but he was born and raised in light of his spiritual protection for a specific purpose of participating in His perfect plan. This, The 66 Books of Nathan , reflects these spiritual events that happened in his lifetime....

Colossians: Verse by Verse by Dr. Jack Hetzel The reason for this writing was to hopefully give fuller understanding of every major subject Apostle Paul mentioned in the book of Colossians by writing a short chapter on each subject. At times when Paul used a word, I would write a chapter on that particular word. Not that I am smarter than the reader, but perhaps placing what knowledge I have of th...

To Tell the Truth... Ethics Unwrapped by Fred Fox Your life is about you. Born of a peak experience in 1993, To Tell the Truth... centers on the basic element of humanity -- the individual -- and why, being the only you who ever was, is, or will be, you must be important. After all, you're an integral piece of the big picture, which can't be truly complete without you. This alone puts you on the f...

THE WINDOW by Christa L. Tarpley ​ It is about a Frog name Teddy , who lived in a small town and wanted to become king , Teddy did not consider all of the heart-ship and responsibilities that came along with king-ship but only saw one thing and it was becoming king and exercising his authority, he wanted to rule the world and show others what he could do. Teddy assumed that he had many friends; bu...