Why Islam Is Different Than Other Religions is not a book of slogans, apologetics, or fear.
It is a forensic examination of an idea—one that has shaped civilizations for fourteen centuries and continues to influence global politics, culture, and conflict today. Drawing from historical sources, psychological analysis, and the Qur’an’s own internal structure, Roderick Edwards traces how a message that began in a cave transformed into a system that reshaped continents.
Across its pages, Edwards demonstrates how Islam’s evolution from Mecca to Medina created a uniquely political and expansionary religious framework—one that differs fundamentally from Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and every other major tradition. As the book states plainly, “Islam is different than other religions because it is presented through violence”—a conclusion reached only after hundreds of pages of historical evidence and textual comparison.
This is not a book that flatters, softens, or sanitizes. It is a book that insists on clarity in an age of euphemism. Whether you agree with Edwards or not, you will leave these pages with a deeper understanding of Islam’s origins, its internal contradictions, its civilizational impact, and the modern ideological struggle between Western pluralism and Islamic absolutism.
In the year 872, a fatherless Norse boy named Arne discovers a mysterious runestone bearing a single name: Lutro. What begins as a search for identity becomes an epic journey spanning more than a millennium, carrying one family through Viking Norway, Norman conquest, medieval England, troubled Ireland, and the untamed frontiers of America.
Kings rise. Empires fall. Religions change. Nations are born and destroyed.
Yet the line endures.
Through warriors, settlers, rebels, farmers, immigrants, and dreamers, The Saga of Lutro follows generation after generation as they struggle against war, betrayal, famine, exile, and the relentless passage of time. Each descendant inherits more than blood—they inherit a story, a mystery, and a connection to ancestors they will never know.
Blending historical fiction, genealogy, myth, and family saga, this sweeping novel explores one timeless question:
How much of who we are was decided long before we were born?
From the fjords of Scandinavia to the forests of America, The Saga of Lutro is a powerful tale of ancestry, identity, resilience, and the invisible threads that bind the living to the dead.
A 1400 year-long tale of blood and bone, of ice and stone.
The Saga of Lutro is the story behind the history. If the documentary explains where your ancestors came from, this novel lets you walk beside them. It transforms names, migrations, and forgotten history into the life of one boy whose search for his father becomes the search for an entire people.
For readers who love:
Multi-generational family sagas
Viking and Norse historical fiction
Genealogical mysteries
Epic historical adventures
Stories of migration and survival
Mythic explorations of identity and heritage
Some families know their history.
The descendants of Lutro lived it..
The Repatriated Series is a sweeping 300‑year alternate‑history epic that begins with a single, world‑altering divergence: what if every African American were forcibly repatriated to West Africa in the early 1800s? From that moment, a new Liberia emerges—one forged not by chance, but by collision, conflict, and the relentless will to survive.
Across three novels, a compressed companion volume, and a prequel the series follows the Freeman lineage and the nation they help shape as Liberia transforms from a fragile settlement into the philosophical center of a reimagined world. The story blends historical realism, political drama, generational saga, and speculative philosophy into a unified mythos about identity, belonging, power, and the fragile coherence that holds civilizations together.
Do you like to dive into a series? 300+ years of story. The Repatriated series covers 5 books:
Book #1 = Condensed "explainer" book without spoilers.
Book #2 = Freeman's Flee USA.
Book #3 = A Nation is born.
Book #4 = A world rises & falls.
Book #5 = A backstory told
Book 1: Repatriated — The America That Might Have Been
The companion "explainer" volume is a distilled, high‑density retelling of the entire 300‑year saga. It functions as a structural map, a conceptual index, and a narrative bridge—perfect for readers who want the full scope of the series in a single, streamlined experience. It is not nonfiction; it is the series in its most concentrated form without spoilers.
Book 2: Repatriated — Re‑Roots
The series opens in the 1820s as Americo‑Liberian settlers (Dongo), indigenous Gola tribes, Freeborn elites, and Congo recaptives collide in a land none of them fully understand. Through Josiah Freeman, Mercy, Elijah/Gbawa, Sarah Dunbar, and Kpannah, the novel explores the birth of a nation that should not exist—yet refuses to die. This is the century of roots: fragile alliances, cultural clashes, political awakening, and the first meaning of Measuagoon—“One Word, One People.”
Book 3: Repatriated — Sons of the Soil
Spanning the late 1800s through the mid‑1900s, the second novel chronicles Liberia’s transformation into a functioning state and a contested power. The phrase “sons of the soil” becomes both a unifying idea and a political weapon. Gold discoveries reshape the coast. Foreign covenants test Liberia’s sovereignty. Internal factions rise and fall. The Freeman family becomes a symbol of both unity and division. This is the century of power—nation‑building, betrayal, ambition, and the first great fractures that threaten to tear Liberia apart.
Book 4: Repatriated — Coherence
The final novel expands the story into a global, philosophical epic. Beginning in the aftermath of World War II and extending into the next century, Liberia becomes the unlikely center of world order. The Wordkeepers, the Measuagoon Charter, and the Coherence movement redefine how humanity understands truth itself. But global alliances crumble, ideological insurgencies rise, and the world fractures under the weight of its own contradictions. Liberia faces its greatest test as AxisA, the Waking, and the Reclaimers push civilization toward collapse. This is the century of truth—where the fate of the world hinges on whether coherence can survive chaos.
Book 5: Repatriated — Stayed
Prequel flashback to a time before the Repatriation, before the Freeman family, before Liberia. See how some tried to stay.
Across all volumes, the Repatriated Series explores the deepest questions of identity and destiny:
Who belongs to a land? Who inherits a history? What binds a people together when everything else falls apart?
And most importantly:
Can a nation built from rupture become the last coherent society in a world unraveling at the seams?
The Repatriated Series is not just an alternate history. It is a meditation on humanity itself—its fractures, its ambitions, its myths, and its enduring hope for coherence.
In an era where political factions increasingly call for drastic changes to the U.S. Constitution, author Roderick Edwards offers a bold and unflinching analysis in his newest book, Updating the Constitution. This thought-provoking work explores who truly has the moral and historical authority to amend America’s foundational document—and why reckless changes may lead to unintended consequences.
With sharp historical insight and unapologetic clarity, Edwards defends the Constitution as an enduring framework built not merely by "old white men" but by visionaries who, despite their flaws, articulated a universal truth: natural rights apply to all people. The book contrasts the deliberate amendment process with the emotional and sometimes destructive impulses that have historically driven reform efforts. From the Articles of Confederation to modern controversies over same-sex marriage and voting age, Updating the Constitution forces readers to ask: Are we building a better union—or dismantling it?
Leaving preterism isn’t just a doctrinal shift—it’s a psychological and spiritual reawakening.
In this bold and unflinching guide, Roderick Edwards—once a committed full preterist for over 15 years—walks readers through the tangled reasoning and emotional dependence that traps people in this fringe eschatology. With decades of firsthand experience, Edwards helps readers understand why preterism appeals, why it fails, and how to move beyond it.
This is not another academic proof-text exchange. This is a lifeline for anyone trying to escape or help someone else break free from the theological echo chamber of preterism.
When someone says a person is of “good stock” they are speaking of their lineage, their ancestry either back one generation to their parents or further back to their ethnicity. Vikingstock is about the untold history not only of people who have ancestry from Norway; the home country of the “Norse” or the “Northmen” as Vikings were often called by the Europeans, but Vikingstock is about the history and particular influence of the culture and people that have come to be known as Vikings.
Most people have heard of Anne Frank and her story of hiding from the Nazis but another side of history is how an Austrian girl could get caught up in the political revolutionary chaos of the time. From Hitler to Here is the true story of a post WW2 mother and her two young children fleeing the ravages of war and from their own homeland to find themselves in a new world as hostile as the one they left. This book treks the time from the late 1940s to 2024 and beyond!
Forest Living in central Florida is the real Florida. The longleaf pine and live oak forests make up more of Florida than the white sand beaches and Disney World. If you want to understand what real Florida looks like, this book is for you. Packed with historical and current content., this book explores Florida in a way no mere tourist guide would. Loaded with pictures and links so that the reader will have more than enough to go even deeper into the woods and weeds (pun intended). This book is bound to contain information that even life-long Floridians didn't know.
Preterism is the belief that the Bible teaches Jesus already came back and that most if not all of the attending events happened in the first century. This 4-part series first explains to the reader everything they need to know ABOUT PRETERISM. How and why someone might adopt the view. Its logical arguments. Its biblical arguments. Its history as a theological movement from the late 1800s, to its revival in the 1970s, to its peak in the 1990s, to its current fractured state.
AFTER PRETERISM is book 2 of the series and continues where the first left off. It fills in the hanging questions a reader might have. It answers what happens in the short and long term AFTER someone adopts the preterist view. It gives real-life examples, not speculation or theories. Finally, understand what this theological perspective does to a person's worldview. Vetted by actual current and former preterists, this book is packed with no-nonsense information the reader can't get anyplace else. This is not another debate or refutation book. It is a book for really understanding preterism and the effects of believing, practicing, and advocating it.
AGAINST PRETERISM is book 3 in the series and follows along nicely to help explain why all forms of preterism should be rejected, not only by Christians but by non-Christians as well. Taking a new approach, rather than the typical proof-texting battle, this book is the one to "end debate"...at least from a logical standpoint.
HOW TO DEBATE A PRETERIST is book 4 and is the 30+ year, field tested apologetics book every layman and clergy Christian needs if and when they encounter a preterist; online or in their church or at a coffee shop. Preterism is the heresy in the 21st century church just as much as Arianism in 3-4th century. Allowing it to fester or pretending preterists are "brothers" in the communal faith of historical Christianity invites the Trojan Horse into the walls. This book provides multiple methods to debate a preterist so that you can tailor your style as well as giving the reader a lengthy list of debate examples. This book will prepare you not only for specific preterist arguments but also against the overall premises of preterism.
PRETERISM FROM THE BEGINNING is book 5 and takes the reader back to start not only of preterism as a word, as belief, and a movement but also to the start of many first things bible doctrines and how preterism affects those doctrines. What does a belief in preterism do to the idea of creation, of Adam and Eve as the first created humans, to the concept of original sin, to the Flood account, and many other foundational doctrines. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SZKQ83X
With the raging culture war, the underlying "race war" is rarely addressed in a more reasoned way. Roderick Edwards, author of many taboo-challenging books takes on the controversial topic of what part other white people played in colonization and slavery. The Other White People is a detailed look into the history and contributions of peoples such as the Vikings and the Russians; white people that did NOT participate in the colonization of the Americas nor the Atlantic Slave Trade of Africans.
AFTER PRETERISM is the long-awaited sequel to the highly successfully book, About Preterism. After Preterism explores what happens after someone believes, practices, and advocates this endtimes view that claims Jesus already came back in the first century.
Following actual current and former preterists as they explain how they entered into the preterist movement and how some of them moved beyond it. The effects of being an adherent and leaving the view behind.
AFTER PRETERISM is written for people that already know what preterism is about, however any person with a little Bible knowledge can pick up without having to read the first book. But why not get ABOUT PRETERISM as well? The author specifically keeps the costs to a minimum.
Third in a series of true stories of WW2 cargo pilots that flew missions over the Himalayan mountains, made famous in film by the movie The Hump. Follow four tentmates lives as they join the military from their hometowns, train to fly a variety of planes and travel to India where they are stationed for three years of their lives.
This book isn't about combat but rather about humans and their struggles and accomplishments.
Compiled from preserved documents and photographs, this book and the two before it recount the daily situation of being a C47 pilot in World War Two.
A true story about a WW2 cargo pilot that comes home and uses his knowledge of aeronautics and photography to design USA's first satellites launched into space. But even more, it is a story of perspective change, of looking up, of dreaming and doing greater things.
Finally, a no nonsense look at not only the history of Africans in Africa, but Africans as they migrated or were brought to other lands. A history of societal development and the obstacles to advancement. A history of oppression, discrimination, slavery AND accomplishments despite those situations. This objective look into the REAL history and future of black people touches on all the hot button issues as well as exploring the context. If you are ready to break though all the noise of narrative and see the interesting, documented facts of black history which is human history, this is the book for you.
What if you found a box full of old photos and documents? Would you just throw it out or would you attempt to preserve the past? Would you save the "lives" of those people frozen in time or would you cart off those old memories to the dustbin of history? Should've Been With Me is a book not only of a WW2 cargo pilot in the China-Burma-India theater of war. It is not only a book about the engineer of some of USA's first satellites. It is a book about your parents, your grandparents and the legacies they leave behind. We need not be war heroes or NASA space pioneers to be important in the lives of others. Our memories and accomplishments should be preserved for the next generation. This is what this book is about.
With the world seemingly on the cusp of revolution; with ideologies clashing more than ever, with protests and riots everywhere now is the time to consider why and how governments are overthrown. This book not only will help the reader understand but even consider what happens after. The coming years promise to be full of conflict due to the divergent worldviews of globalism, nationalism, individualism and outright anarchy all vying for dominance in the minds of the people. Add to this volatile situation, social media and mass media propaganda and you have the perfect mix to start revolutions not just in one nation but in the entire world. This could usher in a world-wide revolution, not just another world war. This time, it would be the people against the elites. Not a class war but a war for common sense to prevail.
