Gerald McDermott

A retelling of the La Fontaine fable in which a stork finds a way to outwit the fox that tricked him.

Raven, a Pacific Coast Indian trickster, sets out to find the sun.

Zomo the Rabbit, an African trickster, sets out to gain wisdom.

All the birds enjoy the song-like flute music of Jabuti, the tortoise, except Vulture who, jealous because he cannot sing, tricks Jabuti into riding his back toward a festival planned by the King of Heaven.

Papagayo, the noisy parrot, helps the night animals save the moon from being eaten up by the moon dog.

Zomo the Rabbit, an African trickster, sets out to gain wisdom.

Tasaku is a lowly cutter of stone who longs for power.

TV evangelist scandals. More varieties of Christianity than Baskin-Robbins has flavors. These are times of pluralism and disenchantment with organized religion. How do Christians today know which leaders and companions in faith to trust? For help, Gerald McDermott returns to the work of Jonathan Edwards, the eighteenth-century pracher and college president widely regarded as the greatest American Theologian ever. Edwards wrestled expertly with similar...

Arguably, the church's greatest challenge in the next century will be the problem of the scandal of particularity. More than ever before, Christians will need to explain why they follow Jesus and not the Buddha or Confucius or Krishna or Muhammed. But if, while relating their faith to the faiths, Christians treat non-Christian religions as netherworlds of unmixed darkness, the church's message will be a scandal not of particularity but of arrogant...

An adaptation of the Pueblo Indian myth which explains how the spirit of the Lord of the Sun was brought to the world of men.