George M Papa

I first met Joshua Rich when he attended a class I was teaching as a volunteer in the Arizona Maricopa County Jail system. When he explained his story, I knew it would make a positive impact as to prison sentencing, reform and rehabilitation. I asked him to write down the details of his life, and I would turn it into a book. He did so, and the book became two books. This is the first one. It all started innocent enough. Just a little curiosity, which...

Michelangelo was a most improbable art genius. His mother died, when he was a child and his shiftless father deposited him with a rural nursemaid, whose husband worked in a quarry. Consequently, little Michelangelo began to shape pieces of marble with his tiny hammer and chisel. At age eight, his uncle shamed his father into entering him into school, so he could at least learn to read and write. However, that school was most boring to Michelangelo. One...

No other man has stirred more, religious controversy, or fervor, than Joseph Smith. Over a 24-year period of time, from 1820 to 1844, he received scores of published revelations, plus power from Jesus, to restore His Authority, Priesthood and original New Testament Church, complete with twelve living and divinely chosen Apostles to serve upon this earth. Due to wickedness and persecution, Christ's N.T. Church no longer existed within about 150 years...