Gunner and Mark Wales are a father and son detective team who solve international crime related to Asia. Gunner is a polymath and eccentric, scholar of many languages and odd bits of knowledge. His... More > son Mark is a detective in the United States who is a dedicated professional who is reluctantly drawn by his father into murder mysteries that require his skill and his father’s quirky interests.< Less
In this story the sacred honor of Guan Yin is attacked. Gunner Wales, polymath, and slightly eccentric foreigner who lives in China, learns that this sacred name is being desecrated by the... More > announcement of the development of a Guan Yin Theme Park. Gunner is so horrified he challenges the developers to consider building a temple or museum if he can find archaeological evidence which he suspects in on the property site. Unfortunately he is double-crossed by the developer. But someone or some group is also angry that the development is going forward. Construction workers are killed and the other workers go on strike thinking that they have been cursed by the spirit of Guan Yin.
In a strange turn of events the Land Development Company partially owned by his university friend, Hudson Wang, and now mayor of the town of Suining, birthplace of Guan Yin, asks Gunner to privately solve the murder crimes before the police chief finds out.< Less
This book proposes a theory that the Christians who arrived in China via the Silk Road were transformed from their Syriac and Nestorian origins into a unique and authentically indigenous Chinese form... More > of Christianity.< Less
This book proposes a theory that the Christians who arrived in China via the Silk Road were transformed from their Syriac and Nestorian origins into a unique and authentically indigenous Chinese form... More > of Christianity.< Less
These are selections from the Notebook of Abbot Philip Lawence that describes the life of monks in a monastery in New Mexico. Abbot Lawrence reveals the day to day existence and principles of what it... More > takes to live a life of prayer, obedience, and perseverance in a Benedictine Abbey.< Less
Gunner and Mark Wales are a father/son detective team who work together across cultures to solve murders. Gunner the eccentric polymath uses his broad and eccletic knowledge to supply his noble son... More > with clues to solve international mysteries.< Less
This is a series of essays about near forgotten Syriac speaking Christians who contributed an extraordinary culture of scientific, linguistic, theological, and diplomatic genius. Generations of... More > Syriac scholars nearly by themselves recovered the Greek wisdom of Galen, Aristotle, and Plato among other writers and works for Arab, Latin, and European cultures. Enormous contributions to math, medicine, and geography could not have been made without them. Western and Eastern cultures depend on the bridge built by Syriac genius.< Less
This is an analysis of Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist documents related to cross cultural understandings of Jesus within past historical contexts. A Buddhist Gospel on the life of Christ, a Sufi... More > tract on the words of Jesus, and a Semitic Christian text are presented to the reader in clear and concise language with an analysis to help understand the origins and motives of the writings.< Less
This is a series of essays that proposes that Christianity in China became indigenous and uniquely Asian. China moulded and was moulded by Asian Christians who used Confucian ritual, Buddhist and... More > Taoist language to communicate the faith.< Less
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