Bøger af Matthew Butler

A Christian Drug Addict's true story. He was mom's perfect little angel, until he became the nightmare son. This is a book that you can read in an hour. It's made to be simple. I share with you some information on my up-bringing and how just a few wrong decisions put me in with a crowd of people that took this wanna-be Christian preacher way off track.I'll share with you my struggle to get clean and how I managed to do it. I'll give you some advice on how to deal with an addict in your family and how to support them without enabling them.This book is made for you to read and share. Don't keep it. Pass it around your family. It's short enough that even the busiest of folks can find time to read it.

Mexico's Spiritual Reconquest brings to life a classically misunderstood pícaro: liberal soldier turned Catholic priest and revolutionary antipope, "Patriarch" Joaquín Pérez. Historian Matthew Butler weaves Pérez's controversial life story into a larger narrative about the relationship between religion, the state, and indigeneity in twentieth-century Mexico.Mexico's Spiritual Reconquest is at once the history of an indigenous reformation and a deeply researched, beautifully written exploration of what can happen when revolutions try to assimilate powerful religious institutions and groups. The book challenges historians to reshape baseline assumptions about modern Mexico in order to see a revolutionary state that was deeply vested in religion and a Cristero War that was, in reality, a culture clash between Catholics.

Arcade is the student literary magazine at University of Central Missouri.