'Insurrectionist Ethics' is the name given to denote the myriad forms of justification for radical social transformation in the interest of freedom for oppressed people. It is a set of advocacy systems that usually aim at liberation for specified populations under siege in a given society. While the identities of these beleaguered groups is always intersectional, one salient criterion of group membership is often chosen to be the rallying point for solidarity. Whether the movement is "Black Lives Matter, "Gay Pride", or "Poor People's Campaign," at the nucleus of each is a cry for emancipation. The contributions in this volume put forward bold, forcefully argued, provocative claims that challenge in a fundamental and radical way the presuppositions, values, and beliefs that underwrite the systems and structures that insurrectionist ethics calls into question. The volume begins with a section defining and theorizing what insurrectionist ethics is, and then moves to a section studying insurrectionist ethics across the Americas. Additional sections focus on applications of and correctives to insurrectionist ethics, pragmatism and naturalism, and the past, present, and future of insurrectionist ethics.

A Dealer of Old Clothes: Philosophical Conversations With David Walker showcases the philosophical endeavors of David Walker, an abolitionist and intellectual who was situated in the midst of America's turbulent period of unrest just prior to the Civil War. In this text, Scriven treats Walker as a philosophical sage of sorts. He poses philosophical questions regarding race, resistance, and the problems of evil and solicits answers via Walker's text. The book contains five main chapters with three appendices containing the three respective self-edited versions of Walker's appeal, material that has never appeared together in one volume. This piece contributes to the growing body of African-American philosophy housed with the American philosophical tradition and is the first book-length philosophical treatment in Walker scholarship.

Being better is about doing better. Doing better is about forming better habits. And better habits are a product of being in a better environment. As children we inherited our environment, good or bad, and we can still see some of the ways we were shaped by it. But now we are in a position to create our own environment. No matter your circumstances. Your environment will respond to your inner life and to your habits. What you think determines what you do, and what you do determines who you are There are only a few differences between the rich man and the poor man who dreams of being rich. Read this book and find out what they are

THIS IS GREAT GIFT FOR MEN OF ALL AGES

With the help of her Daddy, Faith shares with us how she went from playing the popular board game to playing a real-life Monopoly game and buying her first investment house. She teaches us the difference between assets and liabilities, and tells all about how she came to own her first business, DFS Enterprises with her sister, Destini (age 8), and her brother Sam (age 5). Faith also explains the importance of making good decisions and being responsible with money.
From the Introduction by Dr. Tricia Edwards Scriven

I kept expecting Bishop Don Juan to walk out from backstage with a mink and some purple gators. Instead, I saw a hoard of people going berserk as if that was a normal way to behave. Pastor had just said something that resonated with the congregation and this woman walked up, threw a bill onto the pulpit, and walked back to her seat waving her hands above her head. All of a sudden, a barrage of parishioners began filing out of the pews to do the same.. . ..But all of this feels a little bit too much like Magic City to me. This Book:

-Illustrates the Church Shakedown -Clarifies the Biblical Account of Christian Tithes and Offerings -Describes How Churches Can Help Bring Their Members Out of Poverty -Reveals How Churches Can Become Self-Sufficient THIS BOOK IS A DEFINITE MUST READ

Darryl Scriven presents, in this work, the first rigorous philosophical investigation of a myriad of issues found in David Walker's only book "The Appeal." Scriven introduces Walker as a sage able to offer valuable philosophical insights into problems we as a nation are even now still confronting; thus marking Walker's work as timeless and rightfully so.

Some of the issues investigated include the concepts of race, truth, esteem, human nature, racial consciousness, moral obligations, and the aim of social and political philosophy. By engaging Walker in a discussion about these issues and others, Scriven is able to present Walker as not just a sage who is quite prophetic, but as a true philosopher, political theorist, theologian and revolutionary pragmatist.

No one who reads this work should doubt that Walker, although he has not been remembered as he should have been, at the time he published his pamphlet had a marked impact on the political and social landscape of this nation. Through this current dialogue between Scriven and Walker those who are careful to listen may well find a new hope, new insights, and perhaps even a new commitment to praxis at a time when our nation is still troubled and struggling to develop a sustainable, modern democracy.
--From the Foreword by Daphne Rolle

Scriven believes Charles Stanley to have brought out one aspect of the Eternal Security Debate in a clear, methodical, and convincing way. Thus, his text is the one Scriven has chosen to enter into dialogue with. Scriven say 'his text' because Scriven means to critically engage Stanley's argument for eternal security, not his person or his relationship with Christ. In this text, Scriven shakes the foundation of the traditional debate and argues that the Doctrine of Eternal Security is not valid as the exclusive biblical presentation of Christian Salvation. Through all of the prior discussions of Eternal Security in the fifteen years since Stanley's book came off of the presses, no sustained dialogue exists between teachers of the bible on a mass public scale that has not fallen into mere debate, rebuttal, parting, or an occasional renunciation of one or the other position. Instead of a search for the other's renunciation, reconciliation should be the goal of believers in any exchange--most of all, exchanges regarding the believer's security in salvation.