Bøger af Thomas Davis

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An uplifting, encouraging reminder that God works through his imperfect people.  Evangelism is crucial, it is urgent, it is exciting, it is wonderful. There is nothing more thrilling than to see God at work in people‿s lives and to see men, women, boys and girls discovering the incredible joy and peace that comes from knowing Jesus.   But it is also hard. Really hard. Often, sharing our faith with other people is the area of our Christian lives where we feel at our most useless.  The Bible contains a wealth of theological truth that is a powerhouse of encouragement for evangelism, including the basic truths that God is God and you are you. God is who he has always been: infinite, eternal, unchangeable, all‿powerful, at work in his world. You are you; you don‿t need to become someone you are not. God has not called a select group of elite Christians to tell the world about Jesus; he has chosen his weak, insecure, ineloquent people. He has chosen you.

It's been 10 years since the unprovoked Arez attack on Lhasa Space Colony. The war between humanity and the Arez is in full swing with no end in sight. Countless heroes have been struck down by the alien hordes. The orbital cannon on the moon of Titan is the only thing keeping the Arez armada from penetrating further into Terran space.The courageous Captain Jake Takeda has been dispatched to Titan along with the rest of his elite Strike Team. Their mission is to defend the orbital cannon from the viscous Arez ground forces stationed on the exotic moon and to defeat their cruel leader. The dreaded general known only as The Crimson Death.

The Weirding Storm is an epic poem. Witches, dragons, malevolent spirit animals, dire wolves, hate, war, community, peace, and love spill out of the lines in a dance of words. After watching a young girl whose mother has died in the remote cottage below the dragon cliffs, a great dragon lands in front of a hunter from the nearest human village. Ssruuanne tries to tell Ruarther, the hunter, about the small human girl, but he sends an arrow bouncing uselessly off her scales. Her fiery breath sets a tree behind him alight, and the hunter runs, even though he had always told himself he would never quail before a dragon's power. Thus begins an epic story poem flowing out of a witch's death into the courage of a young girl and the terrifying build-up to a dragon/human war. Dragons, in their immense caverns and tunnels, face extinction, searching desperately for a way to control young rebel males in their midst. Humans, in the village below where the young girl is left alone to face a brutal winter, struggle against the coming war. Desperate to escape war, they search for dormant arts and powers long denied. Then, as Wei, the young girl, achieves an impossible transformation, war and the realms of death loose dire wolves and a storm of extinction as an epic climax threatens humans and dragons alike even as the possibility for human and dragon redemption takes flight into winter skies. Written in blank verse, or iambic pentameter, it is a formal epic featuring most of the elements that are characteristic of this ancient form of storytelling which has been around since the time of Beowulf and Homer's Odyssey. The Weirding includes an 'invocation' to the poetic muse, a hero's visit to the realms of death, and a story that encompasses a spirit so large it can be told only through a long poem. "Thomas Davis has taken a literary form that goes all the way back to the great sagas of antiquity's oral literature, and fashioned a contemporary tale that will enthral both adults and their children. Davis has heard the song/Dredged from the ancient dragon memories and given us a story-poem that is part Beowulf and part Game of Thrones. Filled with witches, dragons, warriors, battles a wondrously stark universe comes to life in The Weirding Storm." Terence Winch, winner of the American Book Award and author of fifteen books of poetry and prose. "In his epic poem, The Weirding Storm: A Dragon Epic, Thomas Davis discovers vivid and often stunning language to explore both ancient worlds and our present world with its ongoing cycles of death and resurgence, war and peace. Here you will find language and story that mesmerize the reader, that transport one to places where words and stories are born. This epic poem serves as a bridge between realms: substance and spirit, beast and human, reality and dream, none of which are separate in any moment of life." James Janko, winner Association of Writers and Writing Programs Prize for the Novel; author of Clubhouse Thief and Buffalo Boy and Geronimo.

Thirty years ago, tribal college educator and poet Thomas Davis began writing poems about the tribal college movement, beginning with the founding of College of Menominee Nation in Northern Wisconsin. He had no intention of developing a book out of the poems, using napkins and scraps of papers to create a mostly free verse poetry that chronicled the events and people trying to build a new kind of educational system that would preserve and evolve Indigenous language, history, and culture. Davis gave these poems away and many were lost. Until now. Meditation on the Ceremonies of Beginnings is a new kind of narrative poetry, an informal history of the tribal college movement and the World Indigenous Higher Education Consortium told through poetic verse. It recounts, as acclaimed poet Kimberly Blaeser (Ojibwe) says, "the liquid fire of oratory" becoming "the great song a movement sings." Meditation on Ceremonies of Beginnings captures the dreams and vision of Indigenous leaders in higher education. It tells their story, illuminating how two great movements set out to change the world and succeeded in a multitude of ways, both big and small.