Culture

Wombat Books, 2011 RRP $16.95 Reviewed by Rev Anneli Sinkko, a retired Uniting Church minister on the Sunshine Coast. As a retired minister I thought, why not review a book. But, as I started to read Brisbane-based performer Aliki Flodine’s small masterpiece, I soon began to realise that this book was reviewing me! On every page I was put under ...

Jossey-Bass, 2011 RRP $24.99 Reviewed by Graham MacKay. Mr Rohr develops ideas in this book that have been emerging in his teaching ministry. He looks at life as a whole and sees that we should be experiencing an important transition around the ages of 35 to 55. In our earlier life we should be building a strong “container” or identity ...

Heritage HM Film Distribution 2012 Reviewed by Pauline Halloway. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I started watching this DVD, but I knew that I enjoy watching any type of history story, especially involving World War Two. Based on Anna Mieszkowska’s book Mother of the Children of the Holocaust: The Story of Irena Sendler, this film was a joint ...

The Bodley Head, Random House, 2011 Reviewed by Karyl Davison. AT their best, all religious, philosophical and ethical traditions are based on the principle of compassion. And few would argue that we don’t need more compassion in our world today. Karen Armstrong, former Roman Catholic nun and author of the best selling The Case for God, draws on a wide ...

Harper Collins,  2010 RRP $21.00 Reviewed by John Coles. “AS in heaven” reminds us that God’s will for creation was always there and ever the same, but that window of opportunity opened in the first century CE and “as in heaven” became “so on earth”. That is what John says most accurately and poetically at the start of his gospel: ...

iUniverse, Bloomington, 2011 Reviewed by Jocelyn Braddock. I HAVE long been interested in the spiritual questing of my contemporaries and those who helped to create the faith and freedom that I enjoy. Thus my interest in this book. Patric Coffey is a Canadian, a retired surgeon and lifelong committed Christian. He is also a Roman Catholic so I met numbers of ...

 Blue Bridge Books, 2009, New York US RRP $15.95 Reviewed by Bill Adams. This is a very interesting and informative read, presenting a study of “angels through the ages and their meaning for us”. I don’t know how many people nowadays are bursting with urgency to make a study of angels, as I expect most, like me, are somewhat agnostic ...

Black Ink Press, Townsville 2011 Reviewed by Barb Bailey.THIS is another superb publication from women involved in the lives of indigenous Australians. Author Althea McKeown and illustrator Monique Russell are related through their grandparents. The author, a mother of five and grandmother of two spent her early years in Thursday Island. Althea who is a passionate children’s worker was confronted ...

Jane Curry Publishing, 2010 RRP $24.95 Reviewed by Karyl Davison. FIRST published in 2003, this book is a must have for ministry agents, indeed anyone who wishes to help the people around them through the common celebrations and losses of life. We often need to create a symbol or symbolic act to move, against the odds, into hopefulness and healing. ...

Wombat Books, Capalaba Reviewed by Barb Bailey. RARELY would you find a witty fictitious story based on ecological and environmental issues published by a Queensland business and supported by the Queensland Government and a local council! Well here is such a find. The target audience for Jade and El-Sea is secondary school students but my belief is that upper primary ...