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The book of Revelation is perhaps the most theologically complex and literarily sophisticated text in the New Testament. In this commentary John Christopher Thomas and Frank Macchia make the brilliant but challenging text of Revelation more accessible and easier to understand on its own terms, rather than as a futuristic prophecy. In addition to their literary, exegetical, and theological analysis of the text, they offer sustained theological essays on the book's most significant themes and issues, accenting especially the underappreciated place of the Holy Spirit in the theology of the book.

Christopher White points to ways that both spiritual practices and scientific speculation about multiverses and invisible dimensions are efforts to peer into the hidden elements and even existential meaning of the universe. Creatively appropriated, these ideas can restore a spiritual sense that the world is greater than anything our eyes can see.

Aeromonas and Plesiomonas are ubiquitous in natural and municipal water sources, lending to contamination of water-related food commodities, such as fish and seafood, as well as introduction into other foodstuffs through unsanitary processing and handling. Although gastrointestinal disease is usually mild or even asymptomatic, both organisms are invasive and can lead to septicemia and other extraintestinal infections in immunocompromised individuals. Major risk factors for disease include consumption of raw and undercooked seafood, foreign travel, especially to developing countries with inadequate sanitation, and underlying hepatobiliary disease and malignancies.