Every story has another side. . . you just have to look for it.
Would you sacrifice a life to save your village?
Bronze Winner in Historical Fiction the CIPA 2025 Book Awards!
This fact-based novel tells the story of two remarkable women. Maria, mindful that the CIA-advised army has wiped out hundreds of Mayan villages, struggles to save her own village from the soldiers’ rapes, bullets, and flames.
Brenda tries to lead a normal life in Texas, Manhattan, and Vermont after being tortured by CIA-advised secret police. Both women strive to defeat their denial and make the hard choices needed to persevere. An Author’s Note at the end of the book relates the facts on which it is based.
What, if anything, do I believe about God?
From Midwest Book Reviews — The Christian Studies Shelf
“Overdue Heresies” asks many questions and questions many traditional answers. It is not for people who seek certainty or believe they have found it — but for those that are still seeking.
Critique: Eloquent, erudite, iconoclastic, informed, informative, thoughtful and thought-provoking, the essays of Malcolm Bell comprising “Overdue Heresies and the Search for Truth” from Fresh Look Press is especially and unreservedly recommended for church, seminary, community, and college/university library Christian Studies/Theology collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists. It should be noted for the personal reading lists of pastors, preachers, priests, seminary students, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject that “Overdue Heresies” is also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $6.99).
https://www.midwestbookreview.com/sbw/jul_24.htm#christianstudies
From a life of varying privilege to one working with Sanctuary
Follow the author’s journey from a conventional life of privilege and the values thereof, to the real privilege of helping people in need. Two significant decisions shaped his course. The first was to stop devoting a fourth of his precious Harvard education to becoming an officer when the army inevitably took him, and instead to spend nearly two years as a private with zero privilege—a decision that broadened him in ways he hadn’t expected. Later came the decision in his early forties to leave the conventional practice of civil litigation and devote the rest of his career to the criminal side.
Two milestones followed. The first came when as a New York State prosecutor, he blew the whistle on the State’s sham effort to hold accountable the police who perpetrated the 1971 Attica prison massacre. He paid a price, and unexpected rewards came his way.
The second began when he met his wife Nancy, who was a Quaker, and he became one himself. Together they joined the Sanctuary Movement and went on to join the quest for truth, justice, and peace, and against US-aided mass torture and homicide, in Central America and beyond.
The Attica Turkey Shoot tells a story that New York State did not want you to know. In 1971, following a prison riot at the Attica Correctional Facility, state police and prison guards slaughtered thirty-nine hostages and inmates and tortured more than one thousand men after they had surrendered. State officials pretended that they could not successfully prosecute the law officers who perpetrated this carnage, and then those same officials scurried for shelter when a prosecutor named Malcolm Bell exposed the cover-up.
Bell traveled a rocky road to a justice of sorts as he sought to prosecute without fear or favor—in spite of a deck that the officials had stacked to keep the police from facing the same justice that had filled the Attica prison in the first place. His insider’s account illuminates the all-too-common contrast between the justice of the privileged and the justice of the rest.