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This study aims to: 1) obtain an overview of the Professionalism of Teachers PAK counseling guidance, Parenting patterns and youth members of Church with the Christian character of students 2) to know the significant relationship together between Teacher Professionalism PAK Counseling Guidance, Old and Young Teachers of Church with the Christian character of junior high school students in North Tapanuli District. This research uses quantitative approach with descriptive method of correlation purposive sampling (non random). Data collection is used closed questionnaire with 727 respondents – eight grade students. The results of the study showed that: 1) Teacher Professionalism PAK Counseling Guidance, Parent Pattern and adolescent law of church with Christian characteristic of junior high school students in North Tapanuli Regency in medium category. The results indicate that Teacher Professionalism PAK Counseling Guidance, Parenting Patterns and Teens Christian Guidance with Christian characters students able to improve students' learning motivation and 2) there is a significant relationship between Teacher Professionalism PAK Counseling Guidance, Parent Pattern and Adolescent Development of Church with the Christian character of eight Grade junior high school students in North Tapanuli Regency totally 0,677 and Effective Contribution 67,7%.

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Parenting and Education for the Christian Family #crawfordsville #orthodoxy #indiana

Parenting and Education for the Christian Family #crawfordsville #orthodoxy #indiana

The hosts of The Christian View discuss the lines of corporal punishment and Biblical guidelines for parenting.

Top headlines for Friday, February 2, 2024 In today's episode, we dive into the growing debate over gentle parenting sparked by a critique from The Gospel Coalition. We discuss its compatibility with Christian teachings, focusing on love, forgiveness, and redemption. Then, we shift our focus to Capitol Hill, where over 70 faith leaders recently convened to discuss the Israel-Hamas conflict, advocating for U.S. support for Israel. Lastly, we touch on free speech with The Babylon Bee's petition to the Supreme Court regarding state laws targeting social media censorship. Subscribe to this Podcast • Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-christian-post-daily/id1620468647?uo=4) • Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/0mGQm3e03S2p0s7zTCwDfW) • Google Podcasts (https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy50cmFuc2lzdG9yLmZtL3RjcGRhaWx5) • Overcast (https://overcast.fm/itunes1620468647) Follow Us on Social Media • @ChristianPost on Twitter (https://twitter.com/christianpost) • Christian Post on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ChristianPost.Intl) • @ChristianPostIntl on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/christianpostintl/) • Subscribe on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@TheChristianpost) Get the Edifi App • Download for iPhone (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/edifi-app/id1493412618) • Download for Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.edifi.cordova) Subscribe to Our Newsletter • Subscribe to the Freedom Post, delivered every Monday and Thursday (https://www.christianpost.com/freedom-post.html) • Click here to get the top headlines delivered to your inbox every morning! (https://www.christianpost.com/newsletter/landing.html) Links to the News • Debate over 'gentle parenting' arises following TGC article | U.S. News (https://www.christianpost.com/news/debate-over-gentle-parenting-arises-following-tgc-article.html) • Christian, Jewish leaders join forces to lobby support for Israel | World News (https://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-jewish-leaders-join-forces-to-lobby-support-for-israel.html) • IHOPKC probe finds Mike Bickle likely engaged in misconduct | Church & Ministries News (https://www.christianpost.com/news/ihopkc-probe-finds-mike-bickle-likely-engaged-in-misconduct.html) • Babylon Bee asks SCOTUS to stand against social media censorship | Politics News (https://www.christianpost.com/news/babylon-bee-asks-supreme-court-stand-against-social-media-censorship.html) • Oklahoma pastor Mike Keahbone to be nominated for SBC president | Church & Ministries News (https://www.christianpost.com/news/oklahoma-pastor-mike-keahbone-to-be-nominated-for-sbc-president.html) • Fmr. DNC chair: Religious freedom can't be abused to discriminate | Politics News (https://www.christianpost.com/news/fmr-dnc-chair-religious-freedom-cant-be-abused-to-discriminate.html) • Candace Cameron Bure reveals son's 'Holy Spirit'-filled wedding | Entertainment News (https://www.christianpost.com/news/candace-cameron-bure-reveals-sons-holy-spirit-filled-wedding.html)

Top headlines for Friday, February 2, 2024 In today's episode, we dive into the growing debate over gentle parenting sparked by a critique from The Gospel Coalition. We discuss its compatibility with Christian teachings, focusing on love, forgiveness, and redemption. Then, we shift our focus to Capitol Hill, where over 70 faith leaders recently convened to discuss the Israel-Hamas conflict, advocating for U.S. support for Israel. Lastly, we touch on free speech with The Babylon Bee's petition to the Supreme Court regarding state laws targeting social media censorship. Subscribe to this Podcast • Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-christian-post-daily/id1620468647?uo=4) • Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/0mGQm3e03S2p0s7zTCwDfW) • Google Podcasts (https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy50cmFuc2lzdG9yLmZtL3RjcGRhaWx5) • Overcast (https://overcast.fm/itunes1620468647) Follow Us on Social Media • @ChristianPost on Twitter (https://twitter.com/christianpost) • Christian Post on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ChristianPost.Intl) • @ChristianPostIntl on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/christianpostintl/) • Subscribe on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@TheChristianpost) Get the Edifi App • Download for iPhone (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/edifi-app/id1493412618) • Download for Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.edifi.cordova) Subscribe to Our Newsletter • Subscribe to the Freedom Post, delivered every Monday and Thursday (https://www.christianpost.com/freedom-post.html) • Click here to get the top headlines delivered to your inbox every morning! (https://www.christianpost.com/newsletter/landing.html) Links to the News • Debate over 'gentle parenting' arises following TGC article | U.S. News (https://www.christianpost.com/news/debate-over-gentle-parenting-arises-following-tgc-article.html) • Christian, Jewish leaders join forces to lobby support for Israel | World News (https://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-jewish-leaders-join-forces-to-lobby-support-for-israel.html) • IHOPKC probe finds Mike Bickle likely engaged in misconduct | Church & Ministries News (https://www.christianpost.com/news/ihopkc-probe-finds-mike-bickle-likely-engaged-in-misconduct.html) • Babylon Bee asks SCOTUS to stand against social media censorship | Politics News (https://www.christianpost.com/news/babylon-bee-asks-supreme-court-stand-against-social-media-censorship.html) • Oklahoma pastor Mike Keahbone to be nominated for SBC president | Church & Ministries News (https://www.christianpost.com/news/oklahoma-pastor-mike-keahbone-to-be-nominated-for-sbc-president.html) • Fmr. DNC chair: Religious freedom can't be abused to discriminate | Politics News (https://www.christianpost.com/news/fmr-dnc-chair-religious-freedom-cant-be-abused-to-discriminate.html) • Candace Cameron Bure reveals son's 'Holy Spirit'-filled wedding | Entertainment News (https://www.christianpost.com/news/candace-cameron-bure-reveals-sons-holy-spirit-filled-wedding.html)

Top headlines for Friday, February 2, 2024 In today's episode, we dive into the growing debate over gentle parenting sparked by a critique from The Gospel Coalition. We discuss its compatibility with Christian teachings, focusing on love, forgiveness, and redemption. Then, we shift our focus to Capitol Hill, where over 70 faith leaders recently convened to discuss the Israel-Hamas conflict, advocating for U.S. support for Israel. Lastly, we touch on free speech with The Babylon Bee's petition to the Supreme Court regarding state laws targeting social media censorship. Subscribe to this Podcast • Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-christian-post-daily/id1620468647?uo=4) • Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/0mGQm3e03S2p0s7zTCwDfW) • Google Podcasts (https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy50cmFuc2lzdG9yLmZtL3RjcGRhaWx5) • Overcast (https://overcast.fm/itunes1620468647) Follow Us on Social Media • @ChristianPost on Twitter (https://twitter.com/christianpost) • Christian Post on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ChristianPost.Intl) • @ChristianPostIntl on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/christianpostintl/) • Subscribe on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@TheChristianpost) Get the Edifi App • Download for iPhone (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/edifi-app/id1493412618) • Download for Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.edifi.cordova) Subscribe to Our Newsletter • Subscribe to the Freedom Post, delivered every Monday and Thursday (https://www.christianpost.com/freedom-post.html) • Click here to get the top headlines delivered to your inbox every morning! (https://www.christianpost.com/newsletter/landing.html) Links to the News • Debate over 'gentle parenting' arises following TGC article | U.S. News (https://www.christianpost.com/news/debate-over-gentle-parenting-arises-following-tgc-article.html) • Christian, Jewish leaders join forces to lobby support for Israel | World News (https://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-jewish-leaders-join-forces-to-lobby-support-for-israel.html) • IHOPKC probe finds Mike Bickle likely engaged in misconduct | Church & Ministries News (https://www.christianpost.com/news/ihopkc-probe-finds-mike-bickle-likely-engaged-in-misconduct.html) • Babylon Bee asks SCOTUS to stand against social media censorship | Politics News (https://www.christianpost.com/news/babylon-bee-asks-supreme-court-stand-against-social-media-censorship.html) • Oklahoma pastor Mike Keahbone to be nominated for SBC president | Church & Ministries News (https://www.christianpost.com/news/oklahoma-pastor-mike-keahbone-to-be-nominated-for-sbc-president.html) • Fmr. DNC chair: Religious freedom can't be abused to discriminate | Politics News (https://www.christianpost.com/news/fmr-dnc-chair-religious-freedom-cant-be-abused-to-discriminate.html) • Candace Cameron Bure reveals son's 'Holy Spirit'-filled wedding | Entertainment News (https://www.christianpost.com/news/candace-cameron-bure-reveals-sons-holy-spirit-filled-wedding.html)

Top headlines for Friday, February 2, 2024 In today's episode, we dive into the growing debate over gentle parenting sparked by a critique from The Gospel Coalition. We discuss its compatibility with Christian teachings, focusing on love, forgiveness, and redemption. Then, we shift our focus to Capitol Hill, where over 70 faith leaders recently convened to discuss the Israel-Hamas conflict, advocating for U.S. support for Israel. Lastly, we touch on free speech with The Babylon Bee's petition to the Supreme Court regarding state laws targeting social media censorship. Subscribe to this Podcast • Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-christian-post-daily/id1620468647?uo=4) • Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/0mGQm3e03S2p0s7zTCwDfW) • Google Podcasts (https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy50cmFuc2lzdG9yLmZtL3RjcGRhaWx5) • Overcast (https://overcast.fm/itunes1620468647) Follow Us on Social Media • @ChristianPost on Twitter (https://twitter.com/christianpost) • Christian Post on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ChristianPost.Intl) • @ChristianPostIntl on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/christianpostintl/) • Subscribe on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@TheChristianpost) Get the Edifi App • Download for iPhone (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/edifi-app/id1493412618) • Download for Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.edifi.cordova) Subscribe to Our Newsletter • Subscribe to the Freedom Post, delivered every Monday and Thursday (https://www.christianpost.com/freedom-post.html) • Click here to get the top headlines delivered to your inbox every morning! (https://www.christianpost.com/newsletter/landing.html) Links to the News • Debate over 'gentle parenting' arises following TGC article | U.S. News (https://www.christianpost.com/news/debate-over-gentle-parenting-arises-following-tgc-article.html) • Christian, Jewish leaders join forces to lobby support for Israel | World News (https://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-jewish-leaders-join-forces-to-lobby-support-for-israel.html) • IHOPKC probe finds Mike Bickle likely engaged in misconduct | Church & Ministries News (https://www.christianpost.com/news/ihopkc-probe-finds-mike-bickle-likely-engaged-in-misconduct.html) • Babylon Bee asks SCOTUS to stand against social media censorship | Politics News (https://www.christianpost.com/news/babylon-bee-asks-supreme-court-stand-against-social-media-censorship.html) • Oklahoma pastor Mike Keahbone to be nominated for SBC president | Church & Ministries News (https://www.christianpost.com/news/oklahoma-pastor-mike-keahbone-to-be-nominated-for-sbc-president.html) • Fmr. DNC chair: Religious freedom can't be abused to discriminate | Politics News (https://www.christianpost.com/news/fmr-dnc-chair-religious-freedom-cant-be-abused-to-discriminate.html) • Candace Cameron Bure reveals son's 'Holy Spirit'-filled wedding | Entertainment News (https://www.christianpost.com/news/candace-cameron-bure-reveals-sons-holy-spirit-filled-wedding.html)

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I speak with Dr. Christian Conte, mental health specialist, author, and creator of Yield Theory—an approach to communication focused on reducing defensiveness. Dr. Conte has worked with people ranging from inmates in solitary confinement to elite athletes. What happens when we try to communicate with someone who's defensive? Dr. Conte's Yield Theory offers insights for navigating difficult conversations, especially with adolescents and young adults. Dr. Conte explains that meeting people where they are isn't just a nice sentiment—it's the only effective way to communicate. Using the metaphor of a "fool on the mountain" who yells down instructions that can't be heard, he illustrates why we must first join others where they stand. We explore key elements of Yield Theory: humility, curiosity, and non-attachment to beliefs. Dr. Conte describes his three-step approach—listen, validate, explore options—and why it works even in challenging settings. We delve into parenting applications, including how to set firm boundaries while maintaining compassion, why timing matters with teens, and the importance of natural consequences. Dr. Conte shares examples from raising his own daughter, demonstrating how sitting with uncomfortable emotions builds resilience. Our conversation also examines masculinity and what therapy gets wrong about men. How has "toxic masculinity" become problematic? Why do many men feel they cannot express themselves? What does healthy self-control really mean? What happens when we get trapped in what Dr. Conte calls our "cartoon world" of expectations versus reality? Can we learn to align our expectations with how people actually think, feel, and behave? Dr. Christian Conte is a nationally recognized mental health specialist, speaker, and creator of Yield Theory, a powerful approach to communication and emotional management that has transformed lives around the world. With a Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision and over 25 years of experience, he has worked with thousands of people - from the depths of solitary confinement in maximum security prisons to elite athletes, military personnel, police and corrections officers, first responders, and high-level professionals.  He is known for his direct, compassionate, and no nonsense style, blending ancient wisdom with modern psychology, to teach self-mastery, emotional strength, and inner peace. Dr. Conte's work has been featured on television, in universities, and inside some of the most intense environments on earth.  Above all, he is devoted to helping people become the strongest, clearest, and most authentic versions of themselves. Books by Dr. Conte: https://amzn.to/3GXkOqa ROGD REPAIR Course + Community gives concerned parents instant access to over 120 lessons providing the psychological insights and communication tools you need to get through to your kid. Use code SOMETHERAPIST2025 to take 50% off your first month. http://rogdrepair.com/ TALK TO ME: https://calendly.com/sometherapist/ ORGANIFI: Take 20% off with code SOMETHERAPIST at http://organifi.com/sometherapist Watch NO WAY BACK: The Reality of Gender-Affirming Care. Use code SOMETHERAPIST to take 20% off your order. Follow us on X @2022affirmation or Instagram at @affirmationgeneration. https://nowaybackfilm.com/ SHOW NOTES & transcript with help from SwellAI: https://www.swellai.com/?via=somether... MUSIC: Thanks to Joey Pecoraro for our song, “Half Awake,” used with gratitude & permission. https://www.joeypecoraro.com/ PRODUCTION: thanks to Pods By Nick! Looking for help launching or producing a podcast of your own? Mention my podcast and get 20% off your initial services. https://podsbynick.com/

I speak with Dr. Christian Conte, mental health specialist, author, and creator of Yield Theory—an approach to communication focused on reducing defensiveness. Dr. Conte has worked with people ranging from inmates in solitary confinement to elite athletes. What happens when we try to communicate with someone who's defensive? Dr. Conte's Yield Theory offers insights for navigating difficult conversations, especially with adolescents and young adults. Dr. Conte explains that meeting people where they are isn't just a nice sentiment—it's the only effective way to communicate. Using the metaphor of a "fool on the mountain" who yells down instructions that can't be heard, he illustrates why we must first join others where they stand. We explore key elements of Yield Theory: humility, curiosity, and non-attachment to beliefs. Dr. Conte describes his three-step approach—listen, validate, explore options—and why it works even in challenging settings. We delve into parenting applications, including how to set firm boundaries while maintaining compassion, why timing matters with teens, and the importance of natural consequences. Dr. Conte shares examples from raising his own daughter, demonstrating how sitting with uncomfortable emotions builds resilience. Our conversation also examines masculinity and what therapy gets wrong about men. How has "toxic masculinity" become problematic? Why do many men feel they cannot express themselves? What does healthy self-control really mean? What happens when we get trapped in what Dr. Conte calls our "cartoon world" of expectations versus reality? Can we learn to align our expectations with how people actually think, feel, and behave? Dr. Christian Conte is a nationally recognized mental health specialist, speaker, and creator of Yield Theory, a powerful approach to communication and emotional management that has transformed lives around the world. With a Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision and over 25 years of experience, he has worked with thousands of people - from the depths of solitary confinement in maximum security prisons to elite athletes, military personnel, police and corrections officers, first responders, and high-level professionals.  He is known for his direct, compassionate, and no nonsense style, blending ancient wisdom with modern psychology, to teach self-mastery, emotional strength, and inner peace. Dr. Conte's work has been featured on television, in universities, and inside some of the most intense environments on earth.  Above all, he is devoted to helping people become the strongest, clearest, and most authentic versions of themselves. Books by Dr. Conte: https://amzn.to/3GXkOqa ROGD REPAIR Course + Community gives concerned parents instant access to over 120 lessons providing the psychological insights and communication tools you need to get through to your kid. Use code SOMETHERAPIST2025 to take 50% off your first month. http://rogdrepair.com/ TALK TO ME: https://calendly.com/sometherapist/ ORGANIFI: Take 20% off with code SOMETHERAPIST at http://organifi.com/sometherapist Watch NO WAY BACK: The Reality of Gender-Affirming Care. Use code SOMETHERAPIST to take 20% off your order. Follow us on X @2022affirmation or Instagram at @affirmationgeneration. https://nowaybackfilm.com/ SHOW NOTES & transcript with help from SwellAI: https://www.swellai.com/?via=somether... MUSIC: Thanks to Joey Pecoraro for our song, “Half Awake,” used with gratitude & permission. https://www.joeypecoraro.com/ PRODUCTION: thanks to Pods By Nick! Looking for help launching or producing a podcast of your own? Mention my podcast and get 20% off your initial services. https://podsbynick.com/

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Deut 6: 4-9

Deut 6: 4-9

Deut 6: 4-9

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A discussion about child discipline from Christian perspective. 

124 p. ; 23 cm

124 p. ; 23 cm

124 p. ; 23 cm

Tony Evans Sermons

Christian parenting isn't easy but here's what I've learned from youth ministry, seminary, personal experience, and great examples! Link to my Romans Masterclass: https://howtofaithalife.samcart.com/products/romans-masterclass-course Link to the Bible Reading Plan here: https://howtofaithalife.samcart.com/products/grace-bible-reading-plan My aim is to encourage and inspire you to have a greater Biblical understanding! And as always, my goal with my channel is to encourage and equip you to taste and see that God is SO GOOD- by growing in your relationship with the Lord in new ways every single week! I post videos Mondays and Fridays at noon EST so turn on notifications so you don't miss a single video! Free downloadable bible study on "How to Grow Closer to God": https://successful-maker-3959.ck.page/ccd1c41f1a To hire Faith to speak at your church conference, email: [email protected] Link to my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/howtofaithalife #christianparenting #biblicalparenting #christianyoutuber This description may include affiliate links(some of the links give me a commission). Instagram: @mrsfaithwomack How to Faith a Life PO box #706 Kingstree, SC 29556 email: [email protected]

119 pages ; 21 cm

119 pages ; 21 cm

119 pages ; 21 cm

119 pages ; 21 cm

119 pages ; 21 cm

Sermon on the subject of parenting from a Christian perspective to help our children know God.

Sermon on the subject of parenting from a Christian perspective to help our children know God.

Sermon on the subject of parenting from a Christian perspective to help our children know God.

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Includes bibliographies and index

Includes bibliographies and index

Includes bibliographies and index

Includes bibliographies and index

Includes bibliographies and index

Should you spank your kids? How can parents discipline children without yelling, anger, or shame—and still raise them to respect authority and grow in character? In this video, we dive into how to discipline your kids in a godly, calm, and effective way, especially if you’ve ever wondered about spanking. We walk through biblical parenting principles, the difference between discipline and abuse, and a simple step-by-step game plan for correcting your kids in love. You’ll learn: What the Bible says about physical discipline and correction When spanking is appropriate—and when it’s not Practical alternatives like timeouts, grounding, and removing technology Why discipline must always include grace, forgiveness, and instruction How to stay calm and lead with purpose, not emotion Whether you're dealing with toddlers, strong-willed kids, or teens, this video will give you a parenting strategy that honors God, builds connection with your child, and lays the foundation for long-term respect and obedience. If you’ve ever felt lost when it comes to discipline or confused about how to apply your faith to parenting, this is for you. We're not just raising obedient kids—we’re raising kids to become healthy, mature adults who thrive in marriage, parenting, and life.

Should you spank your kids? How can parents discipline children without yelling, anger, or shame—and still raise them to respect authority and grow in character? In this video, we dive into how to discipline your kids in a godly, calm, and effective way, especially if you’ve ever wondered about spanking. We walk through biblical parenting principles, the difference between discipline and abuse, and a simple step-by-step game plan for correcting your kids in love. You’ll learn: What the Bible says about physical discipline and correction When spanking is appropriate—and when it’s not Practical alternatives like timeouts, grounding, and removing technology Why discipline must always include grace, forgiveness, and instruction How to stay calm and lead with purpose, not emotion Whether you're dealing with toddlers, strong-willed kids, or teens, this video will give you a parenting strategy that honors God, builds connection with your child, and lays the foundation for long-term respect and obedience. If you’ve ever felt lost when it comes to discipline or confused about how to apply your faith to parenting, this is for you. We're not just raising obedient kids—we’re raising kids to become healthy, mature adults who thrive in marriage, parenting, and life.

Should you spank your kids? How can parents discipline children without yelling, anger, or shame—and still raise them to respect authority and grow in character? In this video, we dive into how to discipline your kids in a godly, calm, and effective way, especially if you’ve ever wondered about spanking. We walk through biblical parenting principles, the difference between discipline and abuse, and a simple step-by-step game plan for correcting your kids in love. You’ll learn: What the Bible says about physical discipline and correction When spanking is appropriate—and when it’s not Practical alternatives like timeouts, grounding, and removing technology Why discipline must always include grace, forgiveness, and instruction How to stay calm and lead with purpose, not emotion Whether you're dealing with toddlers, strong-willed kids, or teens, this video will give you a parenting strategy that honors God, builds connection with your child, and lays the foundation for long-term respect and obedience. If you’ve ever felt lost when it comes to discipline or confused about how to apply your faith to parenting, this is for you. We're not just raising obedient kids—we’re raising kids to become healthy, mature adults who thrive in marriage, parenting, and life.

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1King Coal

By Upton Sinclair

King Coal is a book by Upton Sinclair, first published in 1917, that exposes the dirty working conditions in the coal mining industry in the western United States during the 1910s. As in an earlier work, The Jungle, Sinclair expresses his socialist viewpoints from the perspective of a single protagonist, Hal Warner, caught up in the schemes and plots of the oppressive American capitalist system. The book itself is based on the 1914-1915 Colorado coal strikes. (Summary by Wikipedia)<br /></br><i>Reader's note: In Book 4, there is no chapter numbered Section 16 in the public domain Gutenberg e-text. However, no actual text from the book appears to be missing.</i>

2Jungle

By Upton Sinclair

It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be realized. In fact, just the opposite is quite likely to occur. Jurgis, the main character of the novel, has brought his father Antanas, his fiancée Ona, her stepmother Teta Elzbieta, Teta Elzbieta's brother Jonas and her six children, and Ona's cousin Marija Berczynskas along. The family, naïve to the ways of Chicago, quickly falls prey to con men and makes a series of bad decisions that lead them into wretched poverty and terrible living conditions. All are forced to find jobs in dismal working conditions for their very survival. Jurgis, broken and discouraged, eventually finds solace in the American Socialist movement. <br><br>This novel was written during a period in American history when “Trusts” were formed by multiple corporations to establish monopolies that stifled competition and fixed prices. Unthinkable working conditions and unfair business practices were the norm. The Jungle’s author, Upton Sinclair, was an ardent Socialist of the time. Sinclair was commissioned by the “Appeal To Reason”, a Socialist journal of the period, to write a fictional expose on the working conditions of the immigrant laborers in the meat packing industry in Chicago. Going undercover, Sinclair spent seven weeks inside the meatpacking plants gathering details for his novel. <br><br>The Reader wishes to gratefully acknowledge the assistance, and patience, of Professor Giedrius Subacius (University of Illinois) and the folks at <a href="http://www.lituanus.org">Lituanus</a> for their invaluable support as I struggled with Lithuanian pronunciations. Truly, this audio book would have been far more difficult, and far less authentic, without their help. <br><br>And now, feel free to wander into The Jungle……. (Summary by Tom Weiss)

3Moneychangers

By Upton Sinclair

A story of white collar crime and intrigue told from the point of view of Montague, a member of the privileged class of New York. Montague witnesses the manipulation and upset of the stock market by high financier Dan Waterman who is motivated by revenge. Waterman's character is loosely based on J.P. Morgan. (Summary by Margaret)

4Hidden Places

By Bertrand W. Sinclair

Hollister, returning home from the war physically scarred but otherwise healthy and intact, finds life difficult among society, and so chooses to roam about a bit seeking a future for himself. He eventually leads himself to a remote area in British Columbia, which begins the tale of the next phase of his life; a life which becomes far richer in totality than he would have imagined in his old unwelcoming haunts. A life among the hidden places. (Summary by Roger Melin)

5Prisoner of Morro

By Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair, born in 1878 was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author. He wrote over 90 books in many genres. Best known for his muckraking novel, <a href="http://librivox.org/the-jungle-by-upton-sinclair/">The Jungle</a href>, Sinclair also wrote adventure fiction. Many of these works were written under the pseudonym, Ensign Clark Fitch, U.S.N. A Prisoner of Morrow, published in 1898 when Sinclair was but 20 years old, is one of these efforts. The period for this work is the ten-week Spanish–American War which occurred in 1898. Revolts against Spanish rule had been prevalent for decades in Cuba and were closely watched by Americans. The main issue of the war was Cuban independence from Spain. The war was notable for a series of one-sided American naval and military victories and led to the downfall of Spain as a colonial power. Clif Faraday, a naval cadet, is the main character in this novel. Stationed on a gunboat off the Cuban island as part of the U. S. naval blockade, Clif survives a series of confrontations at sea and treacheries on land. He is captured while on the island during a mission and lands in a Cuban prison called Morro, renowned for its cruelty. Clif receives aid from an unlikely source when all seems lost and survives to show commendable leadership and canny judgment. If you are looking for social commentary from Sinclair, this is not the book. If you want an entertaining listen reminiscent of “old-time” radio weekly serials where the hero faces dire consequences at the end of the each week’s program, then you should enjoy this story. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia and modified by the Reader)

6Profits of Religion

By Upton Sinclair

"The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation" is a non-fiction book, first published in 1917, by the American novelist and muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair. It is a snapshot of the religious movements in the U.S. before its entry into World War I. In this book, Sinclair attacks institutionalized religion as a "source of income to parasites, and the natural ally of every form of oppression and exploitation." (Summary from Wikipedia)

7Machine

By Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair is best known for his novel The Jungle, an expose of the meatpacking industry. He was also a playwright whose works for the stage reflected the same progressive viewpoints found in his other writing. In The Machine, published as part of Sinclair's 1912 collection Plays of Protest, Socialist activists show a rich man's daughter the truth about the society in which she has been raised. (Summary by wildemoose)<br><br> <strong>Cast:</strong><br>Julia Patterson, a magazine writer: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1259">Elizabeth Klett</a><br>Jack Bullen, a parlor Socialist: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/5659">Dale Burgess</a><br>Laura Hegan, Hegan's daughter: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3536">Arielle Lipshaw</a><br>Allan Montague, a lawyer: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3657">Bellona Times</a><br>Jim Hegan, the traction king: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6754">ToddHW</a><br>Annie Roberts, a girl of the slums: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3615">Lucy Perry</a><br>Robert Grimes, the boss: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/4547">John Steigerwald</a><br>Andrews, Hegan's secretary: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6333">Max Körlinge</a><br>Parker, a clerk: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6035">Marty Kris</a><br>Narrator: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/5796">Linette Geisel</a><br><br><strong>Audio edited by:</strong> Arielle Lipshaw<br>

8Book of Life

By Upton Sinclair

Faith and reason, love and virtue, morality and mortality! In these two short volumes the famous novelist, essayist, and playwright, Upton Sinclair, confided his most prized worldly wisdom for generations to come. His kind and witty personal advice both provokes and enlightens page by page. (Summary by Rom Maczka)

9They Call Me Carpenter

By Upton Sinclair

The story takes place in the fictional city of Western City circa 1920. It begins with a man named Billy who is attacked by a mob of ex-servicemen outside a theater after watching a German film. Billy stumbles into a church to escape the mob and is visited by Carpenter, that is Jesus, who walks out of the stained glass window of the church. Carpenter is shocked and appalled by his observations of greed, selfishness, lust, sorrow, and the ultimate division between rich and poor. The story then roughly follows the ministry of Jesus. (Summary from Wikipedia and modified by the Reader)

10Land of Frozen Suns

By Bertrand W. Sinclair

Bertrand W. Sinclair was known for his novels which centered in and around the rugged and frozen terrain of Montana and later, British Columbia. The Land of Frozen Suns is primarily an action and adventure novel which takes place near the northern most reaches of British Columbia at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.<br /><br /> Bob Sumner, after having been shanghaied onto a boat heading north up the Mississippi from his comfortable home town of St. Louis, is put to work on the "New Moon" and finds himself in the much less comfortable territory mentioned earlier, where he is forced to learn all about treachery, double-crossing, and finds his trust in fellow man questioned more often than he was accustomed to. At the same time, he finds himself needing to learn how to survive in an environment which seemed the antithesis to his old style of life. (Summary by Roger Melin)

11Samuel the Seeker

By Upton Sinclair

What would happen to you if you tried to make your way in the world believing all the clear, simple things you had ever been taught growing up? Here we have one response to that question, a commentary by the great novelist, journalist and political activist Upton Sinclair, on what we are to encounter as we make our way in this world we live in. It is set against the backdrop of its time (about a hundred years ago) and place (a capitalist microcosm called "Lockmanville" in upstate New York) and the viewpoint of its author. Young Samuel Prescott, having been robbed penniless, encounters the expected cast of characters, from the fiendish and jaded Capitalists to the sainted Socialists, with the righteous religious and the purchased politicians and police along the way, all perched upon the backs and shoulders of the poor and the powerless. But we can all find ourselves in here somewhere, and seek for the truth and the way forward. (Summary by D Pranitis)

12100%: The Story of a Patriot

By Upton Sinclair

"100%: The Story of a Patriot" dramatically recounts the adventures of a poor uneducated young man who lives by his wits and guile, as he becomes politicized during his involvement in the sometimes violent struggle between American “patriots” and “Reds”. The author wrote in the Appendix, which is not included in this recording: "Everything that has social significance is truth.... Practically all the characters in "100%" are real persons." This exciting, polemical novel was published in 1920. Sinclair (1878-1968) wrote nearly 100 novels, many based on industrial abuse. One of his best known, "The Jungle", was influential in initiating the regulation of food safety in the United States. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. (Lee Smalley)

13Audrey Craven

By May Sinclair

In May Sinclair’s remarkable first novel, Audrey Craven is a beautiful young woman who has by her idiosyncrasies acquired a thoroughly undeserved reputation for originality. In fact, Audrey is a shallow, selfish, malleable person of negligible intelligence, with a fastidious horror of anyone who might be considered a nobody. Her pursuit of the stimulation of extraordinary minds (and her persistent fantasy of being somebody’s Muse) brings her into contact with serious women and men representing the profoundest passions of art, religion, science, and love. The question is, will these encounters prove to be her salvation, or will her vindictive self-centeredness damage the ardent lives she touches? (Expatriate)

14Three Sisters

By May Sinclair

Fascinated as she was by the lives of the Brontë siblings, May Sinclair loosely based her subtly sensual, quietly insurrectionary 1914 novel The Three Sisters on the Haworth moor milieu of the three literary Brontë sisters. Alice, Gwenda, and Mary Cartaret are the daughters of the Vicar of Garth, an abusive father with rigid, selfish expectations for female behavior. Hope of rescue seems to dawn in the person of an idealistic young doctor in the village, but this is no Austen romance. Described with Edwardian restraint, it is still sexual passion that is the underlying theme of the story: the rebellion of human sensuality in almost every major character in the story against the artificial constraints of conventional Society and Religion. Sinclair, herself a fascinating hybrid of Victorian and modern, shows the desperate, inertial ennui inherent in the lives of unmarried late-Victorian women dependent on their male guardians but fired by dreams and desires of their own. Sinclair's gently seditious fiction is always deeply imbued with philosophy as well as human psychology, giving it rich layers of interest. - Summary by Expatriate

15Life and Death of Harriett Frean

By May Sinclair

Harriett Frean is a well-to-do, unmarried woman living a life of meaningless dependency, boredom, and unproductivity as she patiently cares for her aging parents, waiting for a man to marry. When her opportunity for Love finally comes, she is offered a moral dilemma: the man is engaged to her best friend. Should she sacrifice what, according to the priorities of the time, seems like her "one chance for happiness," or should she seize the moment? Can she make something meaningful of her life without significant others? May Sinclair, as always gently ironic in tone, succeeds in skewering the conventions of her society while laying bare the hopeless realities for so many women of the era who were given so few chances really to live. ( summary by Expatriate)

16Journal of Impressions in Belgium

By May Sinclair

In 1914, at the age of 51, the novelist and poet May Sinclair volunteered to leave the comforts of England to go to the Western Front, joining the Munro Ambulance Corps ministering to wounded Belgian soldiers in Flanders. Her experiences in the Great War, brief and traumatizing as they were, permeated the prose and poetry she wrote after this time. Witness of great human pain and tragedy, Sinclair was in serious danger of her life on multiple occasions. This journal makes no attempt to be anything more than a journal: a lucid, simple, heart-breaking account of war at first hand. - Summary by Expatriate

17Romantic

By May Sinclair

As a simple story told, "The Romantic" is one of Sinclair’s tightest and most compelling. Charlotte Redhead, a young British secretary, finds herself in a degrading extra-marital affair with her boss. In reaction, she renounces Sex and links herself platonically to a handsome young Bohemian (John Conway) she meets by chance, tramping in the fields. Together, under a powerful romantic excitement, the two rush off to Belgium in the early weeks of World War I, having organized their own little volunteer ambulance corps. The romance of the adventure begins to break down when the various ambulance corps start to back-stab each other, each selfishly seeking to one-up the others for glory. The real crisis comes when the central characters begin to reveal the true human characters behind their romantic delusions, in the end turning the attention back to the genuine human suffering that was the real story of the hideous Great War. An indictment of the author’s own thrill-seeking past, as revealed in her "Journal of Impressions in Belgium," and showing some of the concerns of the so-called Lost Generation that included Hemingway and Dos Passos and Woolf, "The Romantic" weaves together a number of fascinating themes, re-interpreting with Sinclair’s inimitable frankness post-war attitudes about sex, war, patriotism, and even the new psychology. (Summary by Expatriate)

18Tysons

By May Sinclair

Another frank May Sinclair exploration of fin de siècle English love and sex, marriage and adultery, "The Tysons" is the story of the caddish Nevill Tyson and his beautiful but frivolous young wife Molly. Sinclair uses a different narrative voice than we hear in much of her fiction, a sort of witty Jane Austen archness as she dissects the characters of the provincial village Drayton Parva. As always, she demonstrates an intriguing mixture of Victorian prudishness and modern free-thinking, particularly in her rendering of the sexual escapades of her characters. The step-by-step fragmentation of the Tyson marriage seems predestined from the start, but the novel reveals, as Sinclair's novels always do, a passion for profound understanding of the human comedy and why we do what we do. Even though the story is told from the perspectives of mostly masculine characters, Sinclair uses their voices to shine a stark light on the many ways in which women were victimized at the time by being the chattel of the men in their lives, in particular the denigration of the female intellect in favor of the merely decorative feminine beauty which existed only for the male ego. - Summary by Expatriate

The philosophy of Idealism, revived in eighteenth-century Europe by George Berkeley, argued against philosophical materialism by maintaining that Reality is a creation of the Mind. Despite its flourishing under the leadership of Hegel, Fichte, Schopenhauer, and Schelling, Idealism had definitely fallen into decline late in the nineteenth century and early in the twentieth. May Sinclair, the writer of many popular but philosophically provocative novels and part-time World War I ambulance corps-person, was an unlikely one to take up the torch of the old school and try to revive it yet again for the twentieth century. Most notably, in this treatise she tried to formulate a union of Idealistic Monism with the New Realism as epitomized by Bertrand Russell and his mathematics-based philosophy. How successful she was is a matter for the reader to judge, but this volume and its sequel (The New Idealism) provide fascinating insights into the mind of Sinclair herself, helping the twenty-first century reader better to understand this highly significant author as she wrote in the very midst of the Great War. - Summary by Expatriate

20Naturewoman

By Upton Sinclair

The Mastersons, a wealthy Bostonian family, await the arrival of their cousin Anna in the wake of her grandfather's death. Though born in Boston, Anna, who prefers the name Oceana, spent most of her life on a tropical island in the Pacific with her father. A free spirit, her practices and values surrounding proper dress, romance, and entertainment clash with those of her conservative relatives. What will happen as patience and tolerance wear thin for both parties when alluring Oceana catches the eye of a married man?<br><br>Upton Sinclair, though best known for his novel The Jungle, an expose of the meatpacking industry, was also a playwright whose works for the stage reflect the same progressive viewpoints found in his other writing. Published as part of the collection Plays of Protest in 1912, this play was heavily influenced by the character of "Nature Man," an American hippie in Tahiti, from Jack London's book The Cruise of the Snark. This production is dedicated to <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/26">Denny Sayers</a>. (Mary Kay) <br><br><b>Cast List:</b><br>Oceana Talbot: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/1259">Elizabeth Klett</a><br>Mrs. Sophronia Masterson: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/9392">CJ Plog</a><br>Quincy Masterson, M.D: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/6754">ToddHW</a><br>Freddy Masterson: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/9647">Joseph Tabler</a><br>Ethel Masterson: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/9001">Mary Kay</a><br>Mrs. Letitia Selden: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/9921">April Walters</a><br>Henry Selden: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8425">Larry Wilson</a><br>Remson: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/6065">David Olson</a><br><br>Narrated by <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/26?">Denny Sayers</a><br><br>Editor: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/9001">Mary Kay</a><br>Prooflisteners: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/9937">baileyspring</a> and <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/7510">Kathrine Engan</a>

Here are two gemlike novellas in one volume, written in May Sinclair’s clearest and cleverest prose and exploring the many ways in which a woman can be held captive, held back from the “intoxication of freedom.” In “The Cosmopolitan,” Frida Tancred is a wealthy heiress trapped by family obligation in a dismal provincial estate, hopelessly longing to see all the glories of the world and with no way of escape but the conventional one of marriage. In “Superseded,” spinsterish Miss Juliana Quincey has been teaching arithmetic in a London girls’ school for twenty-five years when she suddenly falls in love with a much younger man and begins to question the assumptions of her life. So dramatically different in terms of characters, plot, and style, both novellas are united in a passionate quest of freedom and a like determination on the part of two very different women to achieve freedom on their own terms. The “Question” of which Sinclair is demonstrating the “Two Sides” seems to be this: Does a woman need a man in her life in order to define herself? In coming to her conclusions, Sinclair explores many layers of human life: art, philosophy, education, science, social class, religion. The marvel is that she is able to do all this in two such small, luminous novels. ( Expatriate)

22Anne Severn and the Fieldings

By May Sinclair

Written in an era of cheap, formulaic romantic fiction, the nuanced, seditious, quietly erotic novels of May Sinclair stand out like literature from another era entirely. There is romance in “Anne Severn & the Fieldings,” but it’s romance of the best and profoundest kind, set in the context of authentic human personalities and tragic historical events. The motherless Anne Severn is adopted into the Fielding family and grows up in intimate friendship with the three Fielding sons, all of whom love her. World War I explodes into their lives with hideous effect, sending all three sons back damaged in one way or another. Anne herself sees the horrors of war as an ambulance driver, meeting along the way (in a whimsical little self-referential sentence) a “queer little middle-aged lady out for a job at the front” whom we recognize as May Sinclair herself, who volunteered for just such an adventure in 1914. Sinclair always was half-Victorian, half-modern, so it is no surprise to find her using subtle, lovely, dreamlike, decorous prose to undermine social conventions on all sides. Most startling, perhaps, is the unambiguous sexuality that complicates the lives of her characters, troubling marriages and consummating true love. She creates personalities about whom we care much more than we care about proprieties and social boundaries, and Anne Severn stands as one of Sinclair’s most courageous and compelling heroines. - Summary by Expatriate

23Mr. Waddington of Wyck

By May Sinclair

May Sinclair’s 1921 novel tells the story of the ridiculous Mr. Horatio Bysshe Waddington, a pompous, self-deluded poser making his way through life caring only for the impressions he makes on others. His long-suffering wife Fanny, his secretary Barbara, and the young scapegrace Ralph watch his daily performances with delighted, affectionate fascination as if they are spectators watching a play or scientists observing a new species, wondering every day how far he will go to fulfill his outrageous pretensions. As usual, Sinclair’s light, deceptively innocent prose camouflages a tale of sexual passions and human foibles with philosophical implications about her post-war world. (Summary by Expatriate)

Ranny Ransome is an idealistic young man, devoted to exuberant gymnastic exercises and to fighting “flabbiness” in his own life, body and soul. He loves the girlish and athletic Winny Dymond, and particularly loves participating with her in the Combined Maze, a choreographed, intricate, exhilarating group gymnastic ritual in which the young men and women of the Polytechnic Gymnasium demonstrate their skills. Unfortunately, Ranny falls under the spell of the seductive Violet, a sexual free spirit who wants nothing more than to live an untrammeled life on her own terms. When, to her astonishment and horror, Violet becomes pregnant, Ranny dutifully marries her against her will, entangling himself and her in a deadly new Combined Maze of social conventions intended to suppress and subdue the elemental passions that give color to Life. May Sinclair draws her readers in with a quiet, unobtrusive, Victorian prose that seems completely in tune with the conventional proprieties of her society, but goes on in the same seditious, unassuming tone to tell stories of sensuality, adultery, seduction, divorce, and betrayal, quietly protesting the smothering conventions of a society that feared passion in all its forms. Ranny’s mesmerizing struggle to maintain his fundamental decency while remaining true to his real love hangs in the balance to the last page. (summary by Expatriate)

In this May Sinclair wartime masterpiece, dashing newsman Walter Furnival is an absurdly good catch: handsome, successful, athletic, intelligent, an upstanding epitome of manhood and rectitude. Tasker Jevons is a puny, preposterous, impossible-looking, bombastic sports writer, without one single redeeming social grace. Imagine the jealous mortification of Furny when his enchanting young typist and love interest Viola Thesiger chooses the clownish Jevons as a lover, seeing in him a remarkable inner beauty not evident to anyone but her and (as he grudgingly but magnanimously admits) the long-suffering and devoted Furnival. But despite the title, the central character of this extraordinary novel is not the redoubtable Jevons but the rebellious feminist Viola, determined against all odds not only to revolt against every enslaving conformity of her upbringing, but also to burn all her boats behind her, ruthlessly leaving herself no possibility of a return to the soporific decorum of her cloistered family and past. This extraordinary menage, however, is broken apart by the irruption of the Great War into their lives. (Expatriate)

Jane Holland is a genius, the greatest of a group of extraordinary literary friends. She has an intense artistic and intellectual kinship with George Tanqueray, another remarkable novelist. Despite this keen spiritual relationship, both Holland and Tanqueray allow themselves to fall against their wills into more conventional romantic commitments, leading to agonizing crises of heart and mind and art. Another of May Sinclair’s marvelous philosophical novels, this masterpiece explores the great dilemmas of artistic Genius and the obstacles posed to it by Love, by philistine society, by the two-faced allure of popularity, by human jealousy, by the conventions of marriage and family. More deeply, Sinclair here lays bare the excruciating choices required particularly of a woman genius, and the double standards applied to her in a society that allowed so much indulgence to a man considered to have such artistic gifts. Demonic or angelic, curse or blessing, affliction or joy, the involuntary gifting of Genius sets any human being apart from the uncomprehending and judgmental society in which she must live, a condition delineated in “The Creators” with delicate subtlety and fierce passion. ( Expatriate)

27Flaw in the Crystal

By May Sinclair

One of May Sinclair’s “uncanny” stories, this novella explores many of Sinclair’s most treasured themes: the bounds of marriage, the conflict between flesh and spirit, the complexity of human emotions in relation to other humans, the practical everyday implications of philosophical Idealism. In the story, when Agatha Verrall enters into an extra-marital affair with Rodney Lanyon, she struggles to keep the relationship on a spiritual plane without falling into the physical passion that she fears. To her astonishment, she discovers that she has an extraordinary paranormal ability to manipulate the psyches and even the physical states of the people around her. At first, she uses it in a way that seems harmless to her, coaxing the oblivious Rodney to visit her whenever she wants him. Before long, she learns that her powers have tremendous potential for good, for healing psychological disorders untouched by ordinary medicine. But the exercise of her Power leads to terrifying dangers for herself and her beneficiaries, proving that it might be beyond her ability to harness without vast harm. ( summary by Expatriate)

The genius of May Sinclair lies in her brilliant bridging of the Victorian and the modern eras, in her determination never to become ossified in an outdated way of thought or of Art. Though a generation older than the famous literati of the postwar era, she clearly perceived what was worth saving of the old and what was worth embracing of the new. This is clear, of course, in her remarkable fiction, particularly in the astonishing “Life and Death of Harriet Frean,” “Mary Olivier,” and “Tree of Heaven,” in which she broke new ground in psychological and stream-of-consciousness fiction. It is also true, however, in her crystal-clear philosophical works, “In Defense of Idealism” and “The New Idealism.” Though philosophical Idealism had become passé to many in the new era of scientific and mathematical Realism, Sinclair saw an opportunity to transmute her beloved, hard-won philosophy into a new kind of Idealism, one which absorbed the valuable insights of realists such as Einstein, Samuel Alexander, Alfred North Whitehead, and Bertrand Russell rather than rejecting them, producing a keen-eyed new view of transcendence and mystical meaning in the Universe. ( Expatriate)