Culture

2011 $69.95 AS our current society is all about choice, it is understandable that our Bibles are presented to us in a variety of ways: the content of scripture is the same but the packaging and extras are varied. This version, published in 2011 is the Common English Daily Companion Bible. The intent of the editors is to present a ...

Currach Press 2011 Reviewed by Wendy Scott, Kenmore Uniting Church. DIFFERENT! Intriguing! Readable. The style is part history, part social commentary and part life story. The autobiography covers book collector Philip Murray's life in Ireland. The book is unusual in that his entire life story is left out except his passion to finding or acquiring a new love with books. ...

Dover Publications Reviewed by Julie Price. TO know Africa is to know the stories of their past. I was initially attracted to this book, having visited Africa (Kenya) about 5 years ago. These well described stories are for children to understand how to live in a community. So many of the stories are of animals that are described within a ...

30 June 2012, Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre ON 30 June, Carrie Underwood graced the Brisbane Exhibition and Convention Centre with an amazing live performance. Her first ever concert in Australia was worth the wait. Winner of American Idol 2005 and several Grammy awards, Carrie Underwood has taken the country world by storm. Even those without a particular interest in ...

Heritage Film Distribution 2012 Reviewed by Matt Gees. The movie Machine Gun Preacher gives a quick overview of the background and the early days after coming to faith for Sam Childers. The film focuses in on the orphanage he built and the struggle and toll to him personally, his family and the orphans he was helping in Sudan and Uganda. ...

Currach Press, 2011 Reviewed by Wendy Scott, Kenmore Uniting Church. Different! Intriguing! Readable. The style is part history, part social commentary and part life story. The autobiography covers book collector Philip Murray's life in Ireland. The book is unusual in that his entire life story is left out except his passion to finding or acquiring a new love with books. ...

The Bible Reading Fellowship 2012, RRP $15.95 Review by Rev [retired] Anneli Sinkko [MPhil], Buderim Uniting Church. When I asked for this book to be reviewed I was thinking that I myself am in the second half of life. But, shock and horror – I was well past it. However, when I started to read it, and I must tell ...

IVP Books RRP, $23.95 Reviewed by Ann Hewson. Juliet Brenner's training and passion for her subject shine through her careful, very readable and detailed guide. She helps the reader to begin to appreciate the work of the artists step by step. This is truly an education in how to appreciate both these paintings and therefore all art work in a ...

Darton, Longman and Todd 2011, RRP $26.95 Reviewed by Rev Dr Clive Ayre, Eco-Mission Consultant for Qld Synod. At first thought one may wonder what the writings of a Trappist monk who died in 1968 may have to do with us, but Thomas Merton is well known to scholars of religion; one of his main contentions which is reflected in ...

Text Publishing, 2012, RRP $32.95 Reviewed by Rodney Eivers. In some respects this is a sad book, as typified by the author quoting a number of times, "For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world" (2 Timothy 4:10). Yet the autobiography of Richard Holloway (formerly Bishop of Edinburgh and Primate of the Anglican Church in Scotland) is a ...