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On the 40th anniversary of Neil Postman's prophetic book Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), Scrolling Ourselves to Death gathers today's most incisive writers to think critically about the shaping power of contemporary technology. This book explores Postman's insights, connects them to the challenges facing Christians today, and turns difficult challenges into life-giving opportunities for the church. Stepping back from their screens, listeners will be equipped to live faithfully, and grow spiritually, in a "scrolling ourselves to death" world.

Former professional sportsman Joe Williams shares his struggles with mental illness and reveals what has helped him survive and thrive. Former NRL player, world boxing title holder and proud Wiradjuri First Nations man Joe Williams was always plagued by negative dialogue in his head, and the pressures of elite sport took their toll. Joe eventually turned to drugs and alcohol to silence the dialogue before attempting to take his own life in 2012. In the aftermath, determined to rebuild, Joe took up professional boxing and got clean. Defying the Enemy Within is both Joe's story and the steps he took to get well.

In the heart of Emberwood lives Beast Drakwyn — a gentle, fluffy creature with a warm, glowing flame in his chest. Every morning, the forest wakes to the light of the Spark… until the day it suddenly disappears. With the forest growing dim and worried, Beast and his friends — Brinrose the emberwinged fairy, Lirien the playful leaftrickster, Thalwyn the wise Spiral Guardian, and Gravemurk the gentle stone giant — set out on their very first adventure.

A strange shimmer spreads through Emberwood… and Beast Drakwyn feels it in his Little Flame. When silverwhite leaves begin falling from the sky — leaves that don’t belong to any tree in Emberwood — Beast and his friends follow the trail into a quiet, glowing part of the forest no one has ever seen before. There, they discover the Silver Grove, a hidden woodland filled with soft light, whispering branches, and a guardian who has suddenly gone missing. Without its guardian, the grove’s magic is fading — and the silver leaves are falling faster every hour.

In a world etched with spirals and bound by trials, four companions stand at the edge of eternity. Beast Drakwyn, the flame scarred protector, carries the burden of prophecy and the fear of becoming a weapon. Brinrose, the emberborn guardian, steadies the group with warmth and remembrance. Gravemurk, the fissure scarred keeper of oaths, holds the Codex that binds legacy. Velmira, the grief blooming healer, weaves sorrow into renewal. Together, they face the Archives final demand: not eternity, but infinity.

An Expert's View of the Big Cat's Fight to Find Its Wild During a time when most wild animals are experiencing decline in the face of development and climate change, the intrepid mountain lion -- also known as a puma, a cougar, and by many other names - has experienced reinvigoration as well as...

Beast Drakwyn carries the fire of prophecy, a flame that remembers. Beside him walks Brinrose, the Hearthward Flame, whose emberlight steadies grief and anchors memory. Together they step into Spiralwood, where every breath awakens symbols older than time and every choice reshapes the Codex itself. But the spiral does not burn — it waits. Gravemurk, the Silent Shield, must bear the weight of grief alone. Veilra, the Mistguard, shields sorrow with silence. Solaira and Solenfyr, bound by flame and rebirth, struggle to hold back collapse.

Deep in the heart of the Silverwood, the forest has fallen quiet. The Spark glows softer than ever, and the creatures who once sang together now struggle to find their voices. Beast, Lirien, Brinrose, and their friends must journey into the stillness to discover what has dimmed the forest’s song. But not every silence is empty. Some silences are waiting.

In Echoborne Ascension, the myth deepens. Kaia, Riven, and Solin step into the shimmer, not as children of prophecy but as threads of becoming. Their glyphs twist, split, and braid under the Loom’s gaze, each echoing a truth the myth tried to forget. Elias holds the sixth thread, unbraided and waiting. Rosalie carries Spiral breath across Circlebound flame. Lucious, Luke, and Makena stand at the edge of memory, guarding glyphs that no longer obey. And beyond them, the Threadless stir—Ashen burns, Thorne feeds, Velra dreams—and Elrose begins to return.

In a mythic world where breath becomes syntax and silence is never empty, the Loom has fallen quiet. But when grief braids into resonance, a forgotten glyph awakens, and Elias returns not as a child but as a convergence of wolf, dragon, and phoenix. Born of memory and myth, Elias’s rebirth stirs the Loomwake Children—Kaia, Riven, and Solin—triplets whose forms are chosen not by prophecy but by pulse. As Phoenix-Wolf, Dragon-Wolf, and Shadow-Wolf, they become the first of a new mythic category: Loomwake Shifters. But the Loom is not at peace.

In the aftermath of shattered threads and rising shadows, Elias and his flamebound allies face a world that no longer trusts myth. The Binder has failed, but mimicry lingers. Vampires hunt legacy. The Iron Pact demands restraint. And deep beneath the valley, something older begins to stir. As Rosalie’s wings flare and Lukas howls against the silence, Elias must forge a new glyph—one not of power, but of choice. With phoenix flame, werewolf rhythm, and shadow braided into memory, the group stands at the edge of a new age. But the myth isn’t done testing them.

In the twilight between Spiral and Circle, a new myth begins. Rose stands at the Hollowfire Gate, her glyph braided with flame, silence, memory, echo, and a thread yet unnamed. The ley lines pulse with contradiction, rewriting not history but possibility. As the Spiral unbraids and the Circle rewrites itself, the flame wrought children awaken, carrying a legacy no guardian can hold alone. Elias, the threadkeeper, must guide the Circle through trials of convergence, surrender, and remembrance. Rosalie walks the Echo Gate. Lucious and Luke face the Anchor Trial.

In the twilight-scorched realm of the Ashen Caldera, glyphs pulse with ancient rhythm and the sky splits with silver flame. Rosalie, a phoenix-dragon hybrid haunted by unstable shifts and fractured shadows, discovers a glyph etched in moon-iron—impossible, alive, and calling her toward a forgotten myth.

Rosalie has survived storms and darkness, but nothing has prepared her for the dawn that is coming. Legends whisper of a Circle unbroken—wolf, dragon turtle, and now the awakening flame of the phoenix. When a cosmic void threatens to erase not just her world but every story ever told, Rosalie and Lucius must face sacrifice and transformation beyond myth. Joined by Elara, Makena, and a new generation of shifters, the Circle will fight old enemies, unmask the pain of the Ashbound Prince, and blaze into battle against Nyxara, the Voidweaver.

In the neon-drenched city of Neo-Veridia, freedom is as scarce as sunlight, and everyone’s being watched—until Elias Thorne, a weary forklift operator with a mysterious family legacy, stumbles on a secret buried beneath the rust and steel. When a vibrant artist named Rose brings unexpected color—and hope—into his world, they uncover something even more astonishing: a hidden surveillance network, dreams of a legendary dragon, and a signal that could awaken rebellion.

When danger shadows the land and old magic stirs, wolfshifter Rosalie and her steadfast knight, Lucius, must unite courage and love to protect their world. As a dark sorceress plots revenge with forbidden spells, Rosalie’s wild forms—wolf and dragon turtle—will be tested to their very limits. From haunted forests and cursed rivers to stormlashed seas, their journey demands sacrifice, trust, and the kind of hope that endures through every night.

When Rose and Lukas welcome the birth of their legendary triplets, the ancient ley lines pulse, the packs gather in awe, and the world’s fate shifts. The children—Kaia, Riven, and Solin—carry the desperate hopes and potent magic of a fractured land, awakening the long-slumbering Catalyst: a relic of fire and memory foretold to blaze only when the world is ready for change. As family and Circle unite to guide these Flame-Wrought Children, new trials emerge—spirits awaken, ancient lines fracture, and the sanctity of the sanctuary is challenged greater than ever before.

They were born into a world remade—children of every bloodline, carrying song and magic in their bones. On the North Ridge, Rose and Lukas have watched a new generation rise: braver, stranger, and more powerful than even legend foretold. But as the moon-iron veins hum beneath the snow, ancient tests awaken, summoning both kin and rivals to their doorstep. When unity is shattered by betrayal and old magic stirs in the depths, it falls to the children to forge a pact that might outlast war, division, and the hunger of the world itself.

After the domes fall and the Filter shatters, Mira and her companions lead a fragile new community into the vast, uncharted sky. But freedom brings new dangers: children struck by memories that aren’t their own, caravans vanishing in the wilderness, and coded signals from distant settlements that may be invitation—or trap.

After centuries in the shadows, the world awakens to the impossible: a bioelectric song that can be felt from the wild North Ridge to the halls of power. Rose, a brilliant technologist, and Lukas, the legendary Anchored Wolf, have built a fragile peace for their gifted son, Elias—a peace shattered by the arrival of armies and ancient forces desperate to control the scion’s power. As enemy drones darken the forest and the pack’s magic collides with science, the family is driven underground.