Jay Michaelson

Queering the Text

World Religions

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Tales of an Urban Mystic

History & Biography

“Eli Andrew Ramer has had many identities over the years: storyteller, angel-whisperer, channeler, prophet, sage. Here, he stands before us naked—yet surrounded by the magical beings, synchronicities, and spirits who have been his guides since before he was born. In these tales, the mundane mingles with the supernatural, the painful with the profound. I can say with certainty that you have never read a memoir like it.”

What Are Drugs For?

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“This is one of the most important books ever written about mind-altering substances. Theologically literate, historically critical, and ethically rigorous, What Are Drugs For? offers several persuasive answers to its titular question. Grounded in Christian ethics but epistemically humble and pluralistic, Timothy McMahan-King takes us from the Temple in Jerusalem to the opium dens of England, finally arriving at a place of neither condemnation nor cheerleading but reverence for the powerful psychoactive compounds that humankind has explored, venerated, and sometimes abused throughout its history.”