Herb Dimock helps us imagine family life today and early in our 21st century. Extending the trends going on right now, his picture turns almost apocalyptic -- a plague precipitates the collapse of the economy we have taken for granted.

But Beyond The Marry-Go-Round is more about the collapses we already see in the relations between people. And the book is actually hopeful about these, even in the face of the challenges of surviving hard times.

From this book we get plenty of inspiration to apply today to marriage and job stresses, environmental problems, and business motivation. Herb Dimock sees how the world needs to become a family and how that process does begin at home.

Set in the town of Grass Valley, CA, Beyond The Marry-Go-Round draws us into the lives of two families struggling with these problems and of the angels, it seems, who are watching over them.

Life may not be as simple as Once Upon A Desert portrays it, but this short story lets us notice things about our society that might help us move things in a more constructive direction.

Herb Dimock weaves a story of five personalities living in an oasis. They improve the place and their economy physically, but suffer at each other's hands. How they respond to a major threat against their whole livelihood will show whether their attitudes can also be improved.

Among his books heralding a new humanity, this one is definitely fun. Every page has a cute line-drawing illustration opposite it.

Our times call for wisdom. In Ten Imperatives For Century 21, we are offered wise principles of attitude and behavior that are geared to our time. They address not only the survival of humanity, but our happiness as well.

What will we do about the environment, about bigotry and greed, about politics and economic strains? Herb Dimock gives us an integrated vision with which to re-form our own lives and our culture.

This booklet is very suitable for group discussion. Besides adults, younger readers will also find much to ponder.

Abi is one of Eddy Publishing's historical fiction books. It elaborates the influence of Abishag -- the beautiful Shunammite woman the Bible says was brought to David to keep him warm.

Around 1000 B.C., King David is advanced in years and approaching death. He has brought the tribes of Israel into unity and strength. As he will no longer be able to rule, a successor needs to be chosen. Who will it be?

If you found Joseph Heller's God Knows too casual or too cynical, Abi is the antidote. With Gil Matthew, Herb Dimock shows us this one-woman peace movement, a model of a new humanity.

A Bible story for anyone facing death or politics, nursing an elder or a hope for world peace, or just willing to let ancient history nurse modern life. Worthy of treatment in a movie.

Not all history is open to us, but we want to fill in gaps that seem important. In the case of Jesus' adolescence, Herb Dimock's historical fiction, Yeshua, is fresh and imaginative. Still, we feel grounded in history because Herb is also a careful student of the Biblical world.

Young Jesus has a young man's yearnings and reasons, but as he begins to bring these to his "Abba", we see him moving toward a mature and momentous destiny as the prototype of a new humanity.

Having portrayed the hidden adolescent years of Jesus in Yeshua, Bible student Herb Dimock now gives us a convincing glimpse into the psychology of Jesus during those unhidden years -- the ministry of Jesus traditionally rendered by the New Testament gospels. Among books that attempt this, such as Christopher Moore's Lamb, Dimock's is quite convincing.

With the historical novel, Yeshua and the Intimate God, we are privy to a plausible intimate dialogue between the man sent to show the world the way of salvation and peace, and the one who sent him.

Joyful Journey, a Pilgrim's Progress-style allegory, is a small book that will give you plenty to think about, as you follow Herb Dimock along his spiritual ups, downs, sidetracks, and lostness.

Many themes are addressed in Joyful Journey: God, science, suffering, ego, depression. Herb deals with these in a heartfelt (even humorous) and philosophical manner. And, like Socrates of old, he finds that philosophy develops itself best in the form of a dialogue.

Golden Marriage is an unusual autobiography of a marriage -- we are taken through five decades of marital reality by the two alternating authors, Herb and Margaret Dimock.

But the book is also a reminder of world events from last century, and a tender look at two people intent on bucking its negative trends with their idealism and with their marriage, which is still going strong after 67 years.

Herb Dimock chronicled the formative years of Seattle's First Avenue Service Center when he corresponded with his son away at graduate school in the late 1960s.

Now Dimock's exciting years as the Director of this ministry to street people comes across as a heartfelt diary -- almost a war diary: Skid Road Letters.