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Freud wrote that the greatest problem facing humanity is its destructive urge. There is no one factor that solves the issue. The Challenge of Being Human explores tendencies that make us up and capacities that try to meet them. The shock of ourselves is perennial. We are challenged by our own aliveness and a need to open doors as yet unknown. We are not done evolving, growing, learning, feeling, caring. Growth of capacity to tolerate and work with experience is part of our evolutionary challenge. This book seeks to support us in whatever ways we can begin to meet this challenge.

Life has been a series of newspaper stories to a boy who pretended to be a journalist and grew up to be an actual reporter, editor, and book author. His seventy-year journey is condensed into the confines of fanciful and outrageous daily exclusives. This whimsical memoir lampoons conventional wisdom with parody, pathos, and some surprising gut punches.

In a perceptive philosophical study, the award-winning novelist examines the role of humankind in the universe, addressing such concepts as the existence of time and space, relativity, and language in terms of the question of what the universe would be like if human beings were not around to observe or interpret it.

The wheat and the tares live together, but no matter how long a tare lives amidst wheat it will never become wheat, likewise the wheat will never become a tare. The day of harvest is coming and it is difficult to tell the difference between the wheat and weeds; not because the weeds try to blend in with the wheat but because the wheat envies the tares. Are we not made a new creature in the likeness of Christ? How is it that we who are made righteous defile ourselves with base, unholy, and unrighteous deeds. It is not enough to be a Christian in name, Christ is coming back and He knows the sheep from the goats.

Michael Brown has played the background as a freelance comedy writer. Hulu, Peacock, Netflix and Comedy Central are familiar with his work. Actors perform his material in front of an audience at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. It's raw, uncut and no edit. For the first time you get to read his short stories like: What OJ Simpson told me, COVID-19-End My Marriage and pilot screenplays such as: Rick and Casualty. This was all done while he was in prison.