For over twenty years, Reverends Michael and Faith Moran experienced great happiness, success, and popularity serving as ministers together in each of their New Thought Unity ministries in Spokane and Bellevue, Washington, and Sacramento, California. They were literally living the life of their dreams and loving it when, in 2004 at the peak of their careers and contentment, Faith was diagnosed with Posterior Cortical Atrophy (PCA), a rare neurological condition for which there is no cure or treatment. The news was devastating and their lives immediately turned upside down. Thus began a four-year journey on a roller-coaster ride that plunged them into devastatingly painful and confounding lows and then would catapult them to unimaginable highs of spiritual insight and wonder. As he watched his beautiful wife's mind dissolve and disappear a millimeter a day for years, Michael questioned every stubbornly held or sacred belief about life, fairness, justice, family, purpose, and God. Nothing went unexamined. As word of Faith's illness spread, thousands of messages of well-wishes poured in from all corners of the earth. Faith, in her humble and joyous manner, had touched many lives in ways she never imagined. These well-wishes and expressions of love enfolded them as they moved along on their new journey of faith. Many people asked to be kept updated on their journey. As Faith was slowly disappearing, Michael started writing a weekly message to keep everyone informed of her condition and to keep himself connected to their spiritual community. These weekly messages became his way of dealing with all the questions and experiences that arose as they journeyed together through her illness. The messages include personal revelations that were sometimes difficult to write; Michael offers his best advice, amusing us, touching our hearts, telling us the lessons he has learned and sometimes struggled to know so that he could share them with others. Loved Beyond Measure is about love, and compassion, and judgment, and karma and self-appreciation, and prayer, and many, many other everyday real-life topics. It is really about all of our lives. "Michael Moran shares stories about people and events that helped him see that life's greatest blessings so often begin as life's greatest nightmares. This book is filled with insight, humor, and inspiration. Read it and live it." Tom Zender, bestselling author of One-Minute Meditations at Work, president emeritus of Unity, professional mentor. "This is a book to savor....taking each page as if it were a delicious morsel ready to nourish your soul. This is one of the most truthful books I have read in a long, long, time. It doesn't seek to impress. It seeks to teach in a gentle, compassionate way." Maria Nemeth, PhD, master certified coach and author of two books, The Energy of Money and Mastering Life's Energies "What matters to you? If you're asking, 'Is this book going to make a difference in my life? Am I going to be spending quality time reading Loved Beyond Measure?' My answer to you is an unequivocal, 'Absolutely yes ' I can promise you this book is going to make an impact on your life. There are very few volumes anywhere that will give you as much deep joy and appreciation as Loved Beyond Measure." Mary Morrissey author of two best-selling books, No Less Than Greatness and Building Your Field of Dreams.

By comparing institutions in Hawai'i and Louisiana designed to incarcerate individuals with a highly stigmatized disease, ""Colonizing Leprosy"" provides an innovative study of the complex relationship between U.S. imperialism and public health policy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on the Kalaupapa Settlement in Moloka'i and the U.S. National Leprosarium in Carville, Michelle Moran shows not only how public health policy emerged as a tool of empire in America's colonies, but also how imperial ideologies and racial attitudes shaped practices at home. Although medical personnel at both sites considered leprosy a colonial disease requiring strict isolation, Moran demonstrates that they adapted regulations developed at one site for use at the other by changing rules to conform to ideas of how ""natives"" and ""Americans"" should be treated. By analyzing administrators' decisions, physicians' treatments, and patients' protests, Moran examines the roles that gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality played in shaping both public opinion and health policy. ""Colonizing Leprosy"" makes an important contribution to an understanding of how imperial imperatives, public health practices, and patient activism informed debates over the constitution and health of American bodies.