Stop by again later this evening, when special celebrity guests FReeper authors Alamo-Girl and betty boop plan to join the thread to add to the celebration.
FRiends, my book is one that challenges our destructive secular legal culture, and offers a positive, hopeful, and healing Christian perspective on the law. I pray it will be a blessing to you and many others!
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Congratulations!
Congratulations! I have started writing many books. I have finished writing . . . 0. It’s an accomplishment.
Bump!
Congrats!
Good work. It sounds really worthwhile.
A-h-h-h...the first book. I remember mine well. When I received a skid of boxes for public appearances and book signings and such, I opened up one of the boxes, picked up MY book, looked at the cover and floated through the house for at least an hour.
It’s a wonderful feeling.
And then you have to sell it, probably harder at times than writing the book.
If you need a few tips, let me know. I’m 8 books deep.
Congratulations!
Is the book available now?
Regards.....
Thank you Light Light for the info.
I couldn’t find it yet in Amazon.com.
Where are you selling it?
Ok, here’s the description of your book:
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Ok, I found your book and as of right now it is being sold here, fyi.
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The Believer’s Guide to Legal Issues
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Stephen Bloom
Living Ink / 2008 / Trade Paperback
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May God bless your endeavor, LikeLight.
Congratulations! I look forward to reading the book. For over 30 years now I have had to choose between what The Church teaches and what the Law or my clients allow or want. In the end though, as I have gotten older, I have found that its easier to do the right thing.
I am reminded of a comment made to me some years back at a Red Mass luncheon. A chief judge of one of the circuits was the speaker. He is a close friend of Justice Scalia. Once he asked Scalia, J what he was to do when presented with an abortion case, follow what The Church teaches or Rowe v. Wade. Scalia allegedly said that he had no choice at all...he had to resign. That’s stuck with me all these years. Scalia, of course, is right.
Thanks for the ping. I’ll look foward to trying to read a bit of it. Is there a particular publishing house the book comes from?
The answer to the question of the title is: Yes. The second part of the title gives the reason why people should read your book. It deals with everyday things that can happen to human beings, and also the critical decisions each of us inevitably faces in life, which we sometimes must make, not only for ourselves, but for our loved ones. It does so, first, from the legal perspective.
But this is just to lay the ground for the Christian witness that you bring to this work. You maintain that God’s higher law is the final standard in these matters, and demonstrate this with case studies, or “Life Lessons,” on each of your topics: litigation avoidance, divorce, pre-nuptial arrangements; criminal defense; estate planning, living trusts, Medicaid planning, living wills, bankruptcy, taxation, real estate. And then you present your observations and provide information and practical advice informed by Biblical insights.
I particularly appreciated your thoughts on business ethics. You point out that Christian ethics requires that a businessman treat his customers, suppliers, employees, stakeholders, creditors whole-heartedly under Jesus’ command to love our neighbor as ourself. Obviously this is a huge step up from the currently fashionable doctrine of the Voice of the Customer, a business philosophy that posits the customer as the primordial, essential driver of ALL business value. The problem is, nobody knows how to implement VOC. Or even what it actually means. (How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?)
Christianity tells us the “customer” is sacred, as are all the members of the business community, in the sight of God. And so we should each deal with each other accordingly, as our Good Lord bids us to do, in His Name, by His Spirit, to the glory of God Almighty.
The book concludes with “The Christian Conciliation Alternative” and an “invitation to a Contract with God.” Here we are moving in the dimension of soul as an actor in the general society. Here it is asked: What can Christian soul, sacrifice, spirit bring to alleviate the dysfunction of so many social and political institutions today, which accrue because of the general lapse from Truth in our time?
Having said all that, may I also add that I found your book amazingly entertaining??? Your “Life Lessons” draw on characters that I found engaging, persuasive, and very “well-rounded.” I can’t tell you how very much I enjoyed meeting “Kent Kipp” (in the business ethics section), and the serious pickle you got him into, and its final satisfying denouement…. (Kudos! Very well done!) :^)
Also, there were passages of your prose that were perfectly lyrical….
A very fine, lovely, gracious, prayerful work.
Recommended without qualification to all, Christian and non-believer alike. This book speaks to souls, and perhaps may help to bring souls to our Lord Jesus Christ.
But even if it didn’t in particular cases, I would still highly recommend this book to anybody who thinks he wants to “go to law” for whatever reason. Chances are, your “problem” is covered here. In this book you will find lucid, jargon-free descriptions of the legal environment you are entering, and wise observations regarding the “pros” and “cons” you would face in making — and living with — your decision.
LikeLight, congratulations on your accomplishment!
I always thought the Class of ‘98 was special.
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