Mark Scott
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Lance Corporal George Hackney of the 36th Ulster Division was an ordinary Belfast soldier who, contrary to military law at the time, took his camera away to war in 1915. The images he took have become an exceptional and rare collection that documents The Great War firsthand.
George's images of soldiers training, travelling to France, and relaxing with friends and comrades, contrast with his later images from the first day of the Battle of the Somme,...
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Post-Traumatic Stress and Disorderly is one man's story growing up in Liverpool UK and his fight with the mental health condition PTSD, manifested by multiple horrific ordeals.
Symptoms first surfaced as a young teenager after being targeted by the notorious Liverpool Bogeyman during the eighties, stalked and bullied until a violent confrontation was the only way out of the harrowing situation, thus becoming the catalyst for the debilitating mental...
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"Known Unto God"
It was the war to end all wars and became one of the bloodiest and cruellest conflicts in history.
Into the hands of author Mark Scott came a poignant survivor of those nightmare years — a notebook carried through the trenches by his great grandfather, Jimmy Scott, nestled in the pocket of his uniform. In it was a list of names, written with the tiny pencil still attached to the fragile cover.
With this family heirloom in his...
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The problem of evil perennially vexes theology, but many theologians have abandoned the project of theodicy, or the theological explanation of evil, as either fruitless or hopeless. Academic studies on theodicy, moreover, typically succumb to theological deficiency and abstraction, often devoid of any concrete connection to Christian life and practice. In Pathways in Theodicy, designed for students and scholars alike, Mark S. M. Scott reinvigorates...