Soulstream is an all-ages fantasy superhero comic book series about a team of magic-wielding teenagers fighting to save another dimension, created by Saida Woolf and published by Scout Comics. It’s almost the end of Winter Break, and Marie is on a reluctant hike through the woods with her brother when they discover a mysterious portal and find themselves in another dimension. Marie is contacted by the Mage Goddess, who gives her the magical Ocean Bracelet, an item that allows her to transform into the superhero Soulstream. With her newfound powers, and the help of her friends, she embarks on a quest to save the Shattered World.

The Mancer Epic is the first of a nine-book epic series, entitled Soulstream. It is about ordinary teenagers who discover that they were worshiped and revered as gods in an earlier lifetime. Unlocking the mysteries of the universe, they race against time to save others like them from being hunted and killed by a secret society, OZONE, that wants them only to exist in mythology. Using uncanny powers from the Soulstream, which humans call Heaven, these characters, known as Mancers, prepare for an inevitable war that could end the world as we know it.

THE EMERGENCE OF SOUL, MEANING AND IMMORTALITY The grand religious stories that gave meaning to life and death in the past have crumbled under sceptical scrutiny. The dominant mainstream philosophy is now scientific objectivism, which describes a universe that exists for no reason and a life that ends in oblivion. Pioneering philosopher Tim Freke addresses the "soul crisis" in modern culture that has arisen from lack of meaning. He offers an intelligent "spiritual" perspective on life and death to help us make sense of a paradoxical world, which is sometimes bleak and banal, but also can be magical and full of significance. He presents a revolutionary paradigm shift in our understanding of reality that integrates the deepest insights of science and spirituality to create a new model of human identity, which makes the idea of the immortal soul intellectually credible. He explores the process of evolution, not as blind chance, but as the momentous story of the self-realising universe. The development of the material world has led to the emergence of "psyche" or "soul," which you are experiencing right now as a stream of thoughts and images that don't exist in space and aren't made of matter. We are not insignificant specks in a vast purposeless cosmos. We are significant participants in the magnificent and meaningful story of soul. The universe is coming to know itself through each one of us and this process doesn't end at death, because the evolution of soul has also been the evolution of immortality.

Step into a world where being the alpha of your pack is just the beginning of your journey. At sixteen, Kellen Masters has a lot on his plate: juggling school, guarding his pack’s secret from the humans around him, navigating the complexities of courting his mate-to-be, Amarice. . . All in all, it can be a downright headache, which is why all Kellen wanted was a simple Friday night surf to blow off some steam. Only, fate had a different plan: a portal opens, thrusting the pack back to the world of their ancestors—their ancestors and the monsters who created them. The door to that world was supposed to be sealed, they were supposed to be safe. Now, Kellen and his pack find themselves stranded in a strange new world with only a boy named Echo to rely on. Echo with his jade green eyes, who makes Kellen feel things he didn’t think he was supposed to, not when he has Amarice, not when his life is already mapped out. Worse, the pack has stumbled into a storm of civil unrest. War is brewing, and those like Echo—the ones still chained by their masters—are determined to use the opportunity to break free. But this isn’t Earth. The stakes are high, and Kellen doesn’t understand the rules. To get home, he must strike a bargain with the resistance. . . but can he trust them? Embark on this epic journey of love, loyalty, and survival, where an alpha’s duty extends beyond the pack, beyond the boundaries of trust, beyond even love, in a world unlike any other.

Have you ever metaphorically thrown the baby out with the bath water? Sometimes we don't realize we've done this until many years later. Thirty-five years after leaving the Catholic Church, Shauna Gill agreed to an opportunity to take a new look at the practice of observing Lent. Her contemplative journey has allowed her to consider the practice in a refreshing new light. In this small but stimulating book, Shauna invites you to come alongside her for the journey.

Whether our notions of ‘god’ are personal projections or inherited traditions, author and theologian Brad Jersak proposes a radical reassessment, arguing for A More Christlike God: a More Beautiful Gospel. If Christ is “the image of the invisible God, the radiance of God’s glory and exact representation of God’s likeness,” what if we conceived of God as completely Christlike—the perfect Incarnation of self-giving, radically forgiving, co-suffering love? What if God has always been and forever will be ‘cruciform’ (cross-shaped) in his character and actions? A More Christlike God suggests that such a God would be very good news indeed—a God who Jesus “unwrathed” from dead religion, a Love that is always toward us, and a Grace that pours into this suffering world through willing, human partners.