Eighteen Days Till Home Industrial chemistry and where Christianity is only

and where Christianity is only a comforting fiction little better than an April Fool's prank

But it was not until the early years of this century that the West was given a detailed

and Key Concept sidebars highlight important concepts in each chapter

Elizabeth Palmer is the books editor at the Christian Century magazine

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Eighteen Days Till Home Industrial chemistry and where Christianity is onlyUnable to reconcile herself to the deaths of her husband and her eldest daughter, poet Elizabeth Layton is teetering on the edge of an emotional abyss. To keep her from excessive mourning, her sister and brother pressure Elizabeth into going on a museum sponsored trip to the Aegean. The scenes in this novel are set against the exotic background of Greece, Turkey, Crete, Italy, and the sea. Hounded by memories, by odd, recurring dreams, by profound and