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Trauma affects almost everyone in our society. War, rape, physical and emotional abuse, untimely loss, and many other events can traumatize those who survive the experience. Oftentimes, the traumatized are left struggling to hear the voice of God and thus, they sink into despair. This forty-day devotional focuses on the journey that traumatized people can take in order to move from despair to hope. Using scripture such as the Psalms and stories of others who have been traumatized, this devotional uses forty days to represent times of trials and tribulations in scripture. The journey from despair to hope is one that takes people from a time of disorientation to a new understanding of God and his relationship to us. While "forty" is symbolic, the journey inspired by this devotional is a real journey that leads to hope and peace for those who seek God.

In a refreshing and encouraging volume of cultural essays Nayeli Riano presents nineteen reflections from the intersection of hope, memory, and modernity. Her work assists readers in strengthening the human spirit in a secular world. Emphasizing the spiritual pulse within each person, she finds hope for the future in the humanities and works of the past. Riano analyzes various works of literature, art, and music featuring essays on poets, composers, artists, and philosophers. Each of these individuals presented ideas regarding hope and memory and the importance of them to the human spirit. In a world where many search for meaning and coherence, the voices of the past presented in this volume remind us that there is structure and purpose in our world. Among the subjects presented are essays on the work and thought of: T. S. Eliot Christina Rossetti W. B. Yeats J. R. R. Tolkien Paul Henry George Santayana Samuel Taylor Coleridge Franz Liszt Fyodor Dostoevsky Diego Velázquez Nayeli Riano is a widely-published freelance writer of politics, religion, and art. She is a graduate student at Georgetown University pursuing a Ph.D. in political theory. Previously, Nayeli attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she completed her B.A. in English and French studies. She then studied at the University of St Andrews, where she completed an M.Litt. in Intellectual History.

In Confessions of a Flash Artist, performance artist Dr. Humphrey Humdinger makes the case for "Dramatic Exposure" as an avant-garde art form capable of achieving new heights of dramatic expression. How he invented this art, his first crude attempts in it, his final mastery of it, and all the aesthetic and philosophical notions that occurred to him along the way, make his memoir a groundbreaking and seminal document. It also serves as an inspiration for people who, as he says in his closing pages, "persevere in maintaining their ideals in the face of hostility, closed-mindedness, and outmoded notions of the public weal."