I wonder a lot about what God is doing in the world. And why He picks some of the people he picks to do the things He has them do. I even wonder why He picked me to do what He said He wanted me to do. So I asked Him. And He told me. Told me about that Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Told me about Noah and his big boat. About Abraham and Jacob and Joseph down in Egypt - And Moses and that Goat. Told me about Joshua and the Walls of Jericho. Job on the dung heap. Made me feel better about myself. I was hesitant to ask Him about His own Son, Jesus. But He talked to me just as if He thought I might be able to understand. And Peter and Paul. And how a man could be struck blind and have his eyes opened all at the same time. I was still wondering, more than ever. And he took me back again to that Tree of Knowledge and I thought that Tree must be the most wonderful Tree in all Creation. But a greater wonder is that He would talk with me, and give me such a special job to do. I wondered: Why me? Then He said to me. Write it down. And get it right this time. So I wrote it down just the way He told it to me. Now I wonder if I have got it right. And if you who read my tale will get it right because you are one of His People too. I hope.

Myths in the Bible grew out of the controversy over the Bible. Is every word the factual truth, just like God gave it to the men whom He inspired to write it? Or is it a book of myths written by the hand of man to tell us what happened to them when they met God? The answer hinges on the meaning of myth which is a special way of telling a story to show how God gets His point across to man. So myth is truth, but truth that is not dependent on facts to undergird it. Myths in the Bible tells the truth about God and man in the struggle of life. Myth is God's Hand reaching out to man. It is man trying to get a hold on God's Hand. It is God and man, hand in hand, facing life on this earth.

A Letter to the Editor is a collection of letters written over a period of more than a half century. The first was in May 1954. It was the herald of the racial crisis called the Civil Rights Movement. It got the author hanged - in effigy.

Many of the letters are about the wars in the Middle East, but others are about the issues that have arisen while war raged, and involved people in unusual circumstances.

The letters were written at the time the events were at the top of the news. They are sometimes indignant, bitingly critical, insightful, and even humorous at times, but always honest.

The 'Three Hundred Dollars' letter got the most attention. The 'Jill Carroll' letters reveal the deepest tragedy of our wars. Letters to and from Presidents reveal the author's concern for the nation and the Presidents growing interest, in his correspondent.

'The Only Good Woman in Texas' stirred a hornet's nest among the female readers.

Overall, A Letter to the Editor is a history of this nation at war, and broke, and torn, and trying to heal itself, but not yet succeeding.

A Letter to the Editor is a collection of letters written over a period of more than a half century. The first was in May 1954. It was the herald of the racial crisis called the Civil Rights Movement. It got the author hanged - in effigy.

Many of the letters are about the wars in the Middle East, but others are about the issues that have arisen while war raged, and involved people in unusual circumstances.

The letters were written at the time the events were at the top of the news. They are sometimes indignant, bitingly critical, insightful, and even humorous at times, but always honest.

The 'Three Hundred Dollars' letter got the most attention. The 'Jill Carroll' letters reveal the deepest tragedy of our wars. Letters to and from Presidents reveal the author's concern for the nation and the Presidents growing interest, in his correspondent.

'The Only Good Woman in Texas' stirred a hornet's nest among the female readers.

Overall, A Letter to the Editor is a history of this nation at war, and broke, and torn, and trying to heal itself, but not yet succeeding.

'Essays' is Doctor Buchanan's thoughts on just about everything. Here he tells the reader what he knows about the society we live in and what he believes about the way human society ought to be.

Sometimes the author has his tongue in his cheek, and sometimes he has his poison pen in his hand, but always he is seeking to express the Truth that Life has taught him in his ninety years. His essays are sometimes his own experiences and sometimes they are his reflection on the parade of Life that he watches and has recorded over a period of many years. The essays are political; they are religious; they are personal. They are always an attempt to grasp Truth by the forelock and to wrestle manfully with his adversary.

Buchanan's 'Essays' cover the range from an easy approach to life at home to a serious attempt at public office. It is his understanding of ancient mythology that sets his work apart and opens it to vistas of a modern view of Man and God.

In his art of piddlin' and doing nothing Buchanan reveals a hidden achiever and when he writes about Man and God he reveals the mind of the minister struggling to understand himself and the people he feels God has made his responsibility because of his calling to be a minister of the Gospel.

Myths in the Bible grew out of the controversy over the Bible. Is every word the factual truth, just like God gave it to the men whom He inspired to write it? Or is it a book of myths written by the hand of man to tell us what happened to them when they met God? The answer hinges on the meaning of myth which is a special way of telling a story to show how God gets His point across to man. So myth is truth, but truth that is not dependent on facts to undergird it. Myths in the Bible tells the truth about God and man in the struggle of life. Myth is God's Hand reaching out to man. It is man trying to get a hold on God's Hand. It is God and man, hand in hand, facing life on this earth.

The book, Alfie and Papa's Other Boys, is the fourth in a series which began with 'Alfie's Story, Little Boy Growing Up.' After that the exciting story of 'Alfie and the Moonshiners.' Next came 'And the Rest of Alfie's Story.' I really thought that was the rest of the story. It wasn't. Now we have these tales, beginning with Papa's Missing Toe, and ending with 'Tis a Mark of Distinction. There is not a dull moment in between these two fascinating pictures of Papa's role in the lives of his four boys. Willie is the oldest, the "ring leader" in all their mischief, and the embodiment of primogeniture because Margaret died. There is Cliff. Gran'ma characterized him when she said "Give that boy a wheel and he will roll it off the edge of the world." And Junior is Alfie's nemesis; he is just enough bigger than Alfie to taunt him, and not bigger enough to control him. Lastly, there is Alfie, the Baby, impulsive, irrepressible and curious beyond belief. But always the Baby until the arrival of Jody, ten years late for this book of Alfie tales.

"Little Chicken Tales" is the story of a small flock of Bantams whose loves and conflicts and social order parallel the family and society of the human race. They fight for the right to mate and reproduce themselves. They brood, protect and teach their young chicks, and when danger and death come, they sound the alarm, and are grief stricken. But they learn from their experiences, and they find ways to cope with the predators who threaten them. They also find their way into the feelings and thoughts of the person who feeds and cares for them. The reader will love and care for them, too, sharing both their happiness and their grief. And their triumph over the threat to their lives.

Election of the new President of Iran touches of f the controversy over our deteriorating relations in the Middle East. The new President of Iran is determined to have nuclear power. President Tom Walker Two of the U.S. is determined to block Iran's efforts. The three old curmudgeons: the Professor, the Deacon and Abner P., debate the heated issue with Otis, the walking mail carrier, Missus Bulwinkle, the religious fanatic, and Brother Hawkins, the Baptist preacher. Location: The Sunrise Cafe in Scarrsville Kentucky. Otis would nuke all aspirants to nuclear power, especially Iran. Missus Bulwinkle would send all heathens to hell. The preacher would convert them. The Professor and his friends oppose our meddling and advocate talking with Iran. The worsening situation in Iraq overshadows all, and the Iranians are now involved in Iraq, giving Tom Walker Two the ground for attack on Iran whose nuclear ambitions are seen as a threat to the U.S. The Professor and his cohorts see madness in Tom Walker Two's opposition to Iran's development of nuclear energy. Otis and his group see the President as the Savior of America. The heated argument in the Sunrise Cafe is the microcosm of the controversy now engaging the world. Will Iran join the Nuclear Club? Will Tom Walker Two, in his final year in office, maddened with power, threatened by the loss of that power, attack Iran and set the Middle East in flames? Or will his efforts to keep Iran from having a nuclear weapon save America from being attacked by Islamic forces? We are at war with Iran. But not yet.

Nine Eleven was a dastardly attack on America. Or was it payback and a warning to the Super Power? Anyway, America responded to stamp out the evil forces in the world, and became enmeshed in the Civil War the efforts for Freedom and Democracy created. Henry Buchanan has created the Debate, bringing over the main characters from his Devil and Tom Walker, with the Professor, - the Deacon and Abner Pea opposing, and Otis, Missus Bulwinkle and the Baptist Preacher advocating the American foreign policy. The main character, Tom Walker Junior, is even more deadly than his father. The three old curmudgeons, the Professor as main spokesman, believe the President has lied about the reason for going to war, and has misled the American people into a hopeless quagmire Their opponents believe the President is doing the right thing; they consign all enemies to the flames of hell. The book is a daily account of the buildup to war, the terrible engagement, and the heart rending aftermath of the war. It is an incisive examination of the moral, religious, and political issues of the War, the character of America''s leaders, and the future of the nation, the world''s Super Power starting out to be the Knight in Shining Armor, and end ing up the vulnerable Goliath, struck down by a stone from David''s sling. The Professor''s moral insights, strengthened by the Deacon''s commonsense religion and barnyard philosophy expressed with humor and lethal wit, match the "nuke ''em" policy of Otis, and the "send them all to hell" relgiosity of Missus Bulwinkle- Atone; Pea, World War Two veteran, is a balance wheel, and Brother Hawkins typifies the religious following of the President. Terror Terror and Tom WalkerTwo is epic warfare in epic debate.

THE SHELLMAN STORY is the story of a Pastor and his Church locked in battle over the racial issue in the early fifties of the twentieth century because the Supreme Court had said black children could go to school with white children in Shellman Georgia, and the Pastor of the Shellman Baptist Church said it was the right thing to do. But the people of that little Church in that little town said they would not allow their Pastor to say such a thing because it was contradictory to their hallowed traditions. The Pastor insisted on preaching this new teaching, so they fired him, after the hanging in effigy did not convince him that he was wrong about what he believed was right. But there was a Remnant of the Church who stood by their Pastor and the Remnant is the true Glory of the Church. Here in THE SHELLMAN STORY Henry Buchanan has told how it all happened fifty years ago. But because it seemed so strange to the people who heard him and saw it all happen in Shellman Georgia, Buchanan has included some tales from his boyhood which show how the boy who grew up in a racially stratified home and community became the man would challenge the Southern Tradition of his own people, and be hanged in effigy for it, and in the end be fired by the Church he served as God's spokesman in a time of great crisis and turmoil because he believed he was Right.

I wonder a lot about what God is doing in the world. And why He picks some of the people he picks to do the things He has them do. I even wonder why He picked me to do what He said He wanted me to do. So I asked Him. And He told me. Told me about that Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Told me about Noah and his big boat. About Abraham and Jacob and Joseph down in Egypt - And Moses and that Goat. Told me about Joshua and the Walls of Jericho. Job on the dung heap. Made me feel better about myself. I was hesitant to ask Him about His own Son, Jesus. But He talked to me just as if He thought I might be able to understand. And Peter and Paul. And how a man could be struck blind and have his eyes opened all at the same time. I was still wondering, more than ever. And he took me back again to that Tree of Knowledge and I thought that Tree must be the most wonderful Tree in all Creation. But a greater wonder is that He would talk with me, and give me such a special job to do. I wondered: Why me? Then He said to me. Write it down. And get it right this time. So I wrote it down just the way He told it to me. Now I wonder if I have got it right. And if you who read my tale will get it right because you are one of His People too. I hope.

"Oedipus Revisited" is a love story turned romance turned stark tragedy. Claude Rousseault, brilliant Jewish physician, is aided by Chaplain Steve McAlister, and opposed by his wife Jessica and son Barrie. He struggles against tragic fate--but the gods are too strong.

Like the mythic Leander, the hero of this story is caught in the choppy waters of an unhappy marriage to Heloise and a tragic love affair with Marian. He has great promise as a poet, but he struggles under the wrath of the gods.

NO GREATER LOVE is the story of a highly successful young Baptist preacher who found the meaning of his ministry in the love of a woman not his wife, and in finding it, lost his ability to serve in the ministry.

This book is a tale of married love. About Oscar and Ethel, a cranky old married couple. Beginning in a garden, they go on the road and come back home to that damn?

After more than seven decades of living, Alfie looks back at life with his father.

A charismatic madman enslaves his followers, corrupts the women, offends church leaders, and finally brings his own world down in flames.

THE TALE OF THE CAT WHO HAD NO TAIL is a collection of humorous stories mixed with deep insights into human nature. The little yellow Manx cat, rescued from the big oak tree, is the real hero of this book.

A modern myth in which Christ, in the person of Charles, confronts the issue of abortion, challenges the Supreme Court in God's name, and makes the ultimate claim for life. His followers then bomb an abortion clinic. Is this "Apocalypse Now"?

More than crops grow in the tobacco patch, as Kentucky farmer Elmer Crummins discovers. In order to save his son, Elmer must turn against the livelihood that has sustained him his whole life.