Culture

Disclosures: Conversations Gay and Spiritual By Michael FordDarton,Longman & Todd Ltd RRP $29.95 This book is confronting, and reading it can hurt. Michael Ford interviews 25 people from a wide range of backgrounds – men and women, African, British, and American, Greek Orthodox, un-churched, Anglican and Roman Catholic. While the brevity of each interview leaves us wanting to know more, ...

A Penny for Your Thoughts By Penny Harland with Sarah Patterson RRP $29.95 In A Penny for Your Thoughts, author Penny Harland (with the help of co-author Sarah Patterson) courageously shares herself as she tells her lifelong journey of finding abundant life in the midst of increasing disability. Penny is both blind and deaf. In early childhood she lost both ...

Turtle Egg Day by Ruth Thompson Illustrationed by Bindi Waugh and Ruth Thompson Black Ink Press RRP $15 Turtle Egg Day tells a day in the life story of an indigenous girl who goes hunting for turtle eggs for the very first time. She discovers a whole lot of new things that day, as do they children as they read ...

Psalms for the SecularA collaboration between Stewart Levitt, Poet and Geoff Todd, Artist (and works by Rodney Overby II and Odelia Carmon) Saray Publishing (2005). RRP $34.95 Psalms for the Secular is a beautifully crafted book. It is a pleasure to hold this small book and let the pages fall open at random for reading a poem and looking at ...

by Private Roy Ramsay AIF (edited by his son Ron J. Ramsay)Rosenberg Publishing, 2005, $29.95 PDF order form available at http://www.ramsaybook.com/ There is a poignant moment in Private Roy Ramsay’s memoir when, at age 22 in July 1919, he wrote: "Unfortunately most of the folks at home, except our immediate families, have forgotten us now that the war is over ...

Hotel Rwanda Directed by Terry George Starring Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte, Joaquin Phoenix M (2005) RRP $39.95 Set in 1994 as the Hutu militia massacred almost 1 million people in 100 days, Hotel Rwanda is the powerful, true story of one man’s efforts to protect over 1000 people, including his wife and children, from certain death. As manager ...

River Girl: Growing Up Around The Murray RiverBy: Glenda Andrew Blank Ink Press. 2005. The front cover of River Girl adequately describes in pictorial form the setting for this self-account of a young girl who grew up in and around ‘the Murray’. It is obvious that it concerns a different culture (Aboriginal) from many of us white European Australians. Notwithstanding, ...

The Future of Jesus – The Boyer Lectures By Dr Peter Jensen ABC Books 2005 RRP $22.95 What is the place of Jesus in our culture and memory? For this most recent Boyer lecture series the ABC chose Jensen, outspoken conservative and controversial Anglican theologian, to address Jesus’ place in contemporary society. Jesus looks invisible, as four Australian academics nonchalantly ...

The Jewish Approach to God: A Brief Introduction for Christians By Rabbi Neil Gillman Jewish Lights Publishing RRP $29.95 Ever thought of becoming a liberal Jew? Rabbi Neil Gillman sets smartly forth his modern theology of the nature of God as a taster for you in his latest work The Jewish Approach to God: A Brief Introduction for Christians. Admittedly, ...

Walk the LineDirected by James MangoldStarring Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon Rated M for drug use, moderate themes, infrequent coarse language Walk the Line is a great movie about the power of soulful music in the 1950s and 1960s, describing the lives and romance of country singers Johnny Cash and June Carter. Cash (played by Joaquin Phoenix) married Carter (played ...