What Is the Bible? by Valerie Carpenter is a wonderful illustrated book that teaches children three to six years old about God's Word. This helpful book is a great way to introduce young children to God and the life lessons, comfort, and guidance God has provided for us in his Word. This book features meaningful truths in rhyme and key Bible verses paired with captivating and colorful illustrations. Precious Blessings series invites young children to dive deeper into the heart of God. Each book provides a clear, precise, and true answer to a common question kids ask about different aspects of the Christian life. These books are helpful guides in answering difficult questions that children may have as well as in bringing clarity to their relationship with God. With rhyming text, captivating illustrations, and a connecting Bible verse on each spread, children will be empowered to walk with Jesus wholeheartedly... one step at a time!

Teaching is an essential skill in becoming a faculty member in any institution of higher education. Yet how is that skill actually acquired by graduate students? Teaching as if Learning Matters collects first-person narratives from graduate students and new PhDs that explore how the skills required to teach at a college level are developed. It examines the key issues that graduate students face as they learn to teach effectively when in fact they are still learning and being taught. Featuring contributions from over thirty graduate students from a variety of disciplines at Indiana University, Teaching as if Learning Matters allows these students to explore this topic from their own unique perspectives. They reflect on the importance of teaching to them personally and professionally, telling of both successes and struggles as they learn and embrace teaching for the first time in higher education.

Teaching is an essential skill in becoming a faculty member in any institution of higher education. Yet how is that skill actually acquired by graduate students? Teaching as if Learning Matters collects first-person narratives from graduate students and new PhDs that explore how the skills required to teach at a college level are developed. It examines the key issues that graduate students face as they learn to teach effectively when in fact they are still learning and being taught. Featuring contributions from over thirty graduate students from a variety of disciplines at Indiana University, Teaching as if Learning Matters allows these students to explore this topic from their own unique perspectives. They reflect on the importance of teaching to them personally and professionally, telling of both successes and struggles as they learn and embrace teaching for the first time in higher education.

What Is Worship? by Valerie Carpenter is a wonderful illustrated book that teaches children three to six years old about the various ways we can worship our amazing God. This helpful book is a great way to introduce young children to God and to launch them on their spiritual journey with the spiritual habit of worship. This book features meaningful truths in rhyme and key Bible verses paired with captivating and colorful illustrations. Precious Blessings series invites young children to dive deeper into the heart of God. Each book provides a clear, precise, and true answer to a common question kids ask about different aspects of the Christian life. These books are helpful guides in answering difficult questions that children may have as well as in bringing clarity to their relationship with God. With rhyming text, captivating illustrations, and a connecting Bible verse on each spread, children will be empowered to walk with Jesus wholeheartedly... one step at a time!

Science is beginning to prove what ancient cultures fully embraced: your voice can become one of the most powerful agents of transformation in every facet of your life. Free Your Voice offers you the liberating insights and personal instruction of music healing legend Silvia Nakkach, whose four-decade immersion in the voice as a creative force makes her a uniquely qualified educator. With co-author Valerie Carpenter, Silvia shows how to reclaim the healing potential of your voice (regardless of training or experience) through more than 100 enjoyable exercises that are steeped in spiritual tradition and classical vocal technique and backed by the latest science. Free Your Voice invites us to savor a banquet of our own divine sounds as we practice breathwork, chant, and other yogic techniques for emotional release, opening to insight, and much more. Supplemented by 32 downloadable digital audio tracks offering Silvia's guidance through many of the exercises, here is a definitive resource for implementing the voice as an instrument of healing and fulfillment, exploring:

• How to develop a practice of breath and voice, performed with consistency and imagination, where sound designs its own landscapes through the expressive power of the voice
• A series of sonorous yogic practices that involve subtle movements and the sustained focus of the mind in sound
• A gentle path for developing a voice that is fully embodied, uniquely expressive, and played like a fine musical instrument
• Invocatory words and ancient seed sounds that deliver explicit spiritual information for expansion of consciousness and well-being
• A beginning repertory of mantras and chants from many cultures that you can build on and share as you deepen your practice
• Techniques for vocal improvisation to engage your singing imagination and enrich your musical offerings
• How to foster confidence and kindness toward yourself as a vulnerable chanteur of the universal song
• How to cultivate singing as a spiritual practice for yourself and to serve a larger community