I've authored eight books that draw on my experience and training in adult psychological and spiritual development:

LIFESPIRALS:
Exploring Your Ascent Through the Seven Transformations That Propel Humanity’s Dreams

Theory-and-practice games and exercises that guide you through the seven stages of adult maturity. I help you re-collect the important people, places, and events of your early years in order to reach your fondest dreams and create even greater ones.

 

THE FIVE DIVORCES OF A HEALTHY MARRIAGE:
Experiencing the Stages of Love
(St. Louis: Chalice Press, 1986), 160 pages.
$15.95 softcover

Here's how a marriage goes through the stages of adult psychological development.
I take three typical couples through the "five divorces" and the "six thresholds" of peak love.
You can see which marriage most closely resembles yours as they navigate the equilibriums and
disequilibriums essential to growing in adult intimacy.

UNKNOWN TEXAS:
The Lone Star State As Seen Through the Eyes of Larry McMurtry, Woody Guthrie,William Lee Brammer, Robert Caro, and Others
(New York: Macmillan, 1988), 425 pages.
$21.95 softcover; $27.95 hardcover

Creating this anthology of sense-of-place literature with my friend Jonathan Eisen spurred my realization that the important places in our lives are characters in our life stories.

TALKING FAITH AND POLITICS.
(St. Louis: Christian Board of Publication, 1999) 80 pages.
$6.00

They say you're not supposed to discuss religion or politics in polite company, but LifeSpirals offers an approach for bringing conviction with civility to your most deeply held political views and religious beliefs.

 

GOD'S LITTLE LESSONS ON LIFE FOR DADS.
(Tulsa, Honor Books, 1999), 224 pages.
$11.95 padded hardcover gift edition

I selected and re-shaped 54 stories to illustrate the challenges and achievements of fathers, some famous, some obscure, but all providing insight into the nature of nurture and the difference between success and wisdom.

THROUGH THE BIBLE WITH THOSE WHO WERE THERE
A Guide to the Scriptures
(Chicago: Tyndale House, 1975). 270 pages.
$15.95 softcover

With my wife Carole I wrote this survey of the Bible for "advanced beginners." It's our way of presenting complex material for general readers, using the "SURE" adult-learning method I've developed-Sequential - Universal - Retentive - Exponential .

I'm a principal contributor to two family reference books published by Reader's Digest Book Division that have sold over a million copies each:

ABCs OF THE BIBLE:
Intriguing Questions and Answers about the Greatest Book Ever Written


Reader's Digest Association (1991) I wrote 18 entries, including Moses the Lawgiver, Judges, Prophets, Good and Evil, The Beatitudes, and The Scripture Today.

 

 

WHO'S WHO IN THE BIBLE:
(1995), 480 pages in full color.$32.95 hardcover

Brief life stories of over 150 kings, queens, prophets, apostles, rebels, and emperors.