Dean Tolson was one of the top prep basketball players in the state of Missouri his junior and senior years at Central High School in Kansas City. So, when the colleges came running, he accepted a full ride to the University of Arkansas. Despite being unable to read or write, he went on to be one of the most prolific players to grace the Razorbacks' campus. In 1974, Tolson was the first basketball player to be drafted by both the NBA and the ABA, having been selected by the Seattle Supersonics and the New York Nets, respectively, ultimately playing for the legendary Bill Russell in Seattle. Following his basketball career, Tolson made the courageous decision to re-enroll at the University of Arkansas, and repeated all four years, this time legitimately. At the age of fifty-two, he returned to the university for three more years, earning a master's degree and graduated magna cum laude. Tolson's gripping story from his childhood in an orphanage to his academic achievements is not only an indictment of a system that would just "pass you along" from grade to grade as a hot basketball prospect without any educational accountability, but also an inspiring story of overcoming great odds to find success.

A growing sense of unease is beginning to affect more and more Americans. Making sense of the world is becoming increasingly difficult. Long held assumptions about the economy, our political leadership, our culture, America's place in the world, and the future in general are being challenged as never before. There is a growing feeling that what looms just over the horizon is bad...very bad. The Omega Confluence uses the lens of faith to reveal the reasons for the uneasiness. By examining the historical trends that explain how and why the American condition has undergone such a radical deformation, the destiny of mankind is laid out with stunning clarity. Relying on the inerrant accuracy of Biblical prophecy, the Omega Confluence provides a roadmap of the future demonstrating unequivocally that we are the generation of humanity that will witness some of the most spectacular miracles in history, including the Rapture. These miracles foreshadow a dark future for those left behind. In the horrors to unfold, more than one half of the world's population - including two thirds of the Jews - will perish in the grotesque brutality of unrestrained evil, nuclear wars, demonic genocide, famines, pestilences, and diseases that will scour the earth from a maelstrom centered on Jerusalem. The Omega Confluence is a clarion call to prepare for what lies ahead. In clear, unambiguous terms it explains why such eclectic matters as flying saucers and space aliens, China's policy on population control, research into sexuality by Alfred Kinsey, Darwinian evolution and America's inevitable decline and fall are inextricably bound in God's elegant plan for mankind. More importantly, the Omega Confluence explains what we need to do to avoid the horrors yet to come.