Michael Thompson

Every man has a kingdom. Not every king rules well. You can. Like a living piece in life's checker game, you are moving across the board toward your time of greatest authority and impact. But what kind of king will you be? Your kingdom is always being watched, and your family and core relationships look to you to come through. You have an ancient adversary who is playing for keeps. You also have a fiercely loving Advocate who desires to guide you,...

In this new work, political theorist Michael J. Thompson argues that modern societies are witnessing a decline in one of the core building blocks of modernity: the autonomous self. Far from being an illusion of the Enlightenment, Thompson contends that the individual is a defining feature of the project to build a modern democratic culture and polity. One of the central reasons for its demise in recent decades has been the emergence of what he calls...

You do not need to be rich to think rich, but you need to think rich to get rich. This book is for people who want to change the way they think so that they can begin to live life on their terms. It will help them to look deeply within themselves and examine the beliefs and values that are subconsciously holding them back. Different people think in different ways: the poor think like the poor, the middle class think like the middle class, and the...

We desperately need to recover the critical components of a much Larger Story, the pieces of a Larger Gospel that have been lost, misplaced, misunderstood, underestimated or worse, stolen. Search and Rescue is an invitation to look for what has been lost in our lives and more importantly, to actually be the one that needs to be searched for, rescued and restored. In Search and Rescue, Michael Thompson encourages Believers and those curious to the...

For Tony, his plans, upon arrival in the city of Rome, was to use the clues he had received in the mail several months prior, and see where they might lead. For Isabella, her desire to clear an old relative's name of a dastardly deed motivated her to seek help from a soothsayer. Soon, she was circling into Tony's orbit, and together, their quest began, leading them to events of which they could never dream. Along the way, their physical attraction...

Every man has a kingdom. Not every king rules well. You can. Like a living piece in life's checker game, you are moving across the board toward your time of greatest authority and impact. But what kind of king will you be? In King Me, Michael Thompson guides you through the six stages of the masculine journey in order to release you forward, oriented and equipped. Continuing beyond where his second book, The Heart of a Warrior, left off, Michael...

For God and Globe recovers the history of an important yet largely forgotten intellectual movement in interwar America. Michael G. Thompson explores the way radical-left and ecumenical Protestant internationalists articulated new understandings of the ethics of international relations between the 1920s and the 1940s. Missionary leaders such as Sherwood Eddy and journalists such as Kirby Page, as well as realist theologians including Reinhold Niebuhr,...

Since the early days of the American republic, political thinkers have maintained that a grossly unequal division of property, wealth, and power would lead to the erosion of democratic life. Yet over the past thirty-five years, neoconservatives and neoliberals alike have redrawn the tenets of American liberalism. Nowhere is this more evident than in our current mainstream political discourse, in which the politics of economic inequality are rarely...

Presents a new way of thinking about fundamental political concepts such as freedom, justice, and the common good. In an age of rising groupthink, reactionary populism, social conformity, and democratic deficit, political judgment in modern society has reached a state of crisis. In The Specter of Babel, Michael J. Thompson offers a critical reconstruction of the concept of political judgment that can help resuscitate critical citizenship and democratic...

When a young girl and her family move next door to Brooklyn's famous Green-Wood Cemetery, she begins her exploration of the ancient park with some surprising consequences. Along the way, Tamisha meets up with a cast of characters who seem extremely knowledgeable of particular graves. They educate her about the rich history that is buried deep within while imparting advice for her to grow on. In the four seasons in that one year, Tamisha comes to...