Culture

Boolarong Press, 2010 RRP $12.50 Reviewed by Paul Clark. What a delightful little book! Ruth M. Tracey shares with us some of the many insights that have come to her through the animal kingdom, working backwards through the alphabet from the Zebra to the Aardvark. What should you never do for baby turtles? How do Zebra’s recognise their mothers when ...

Darton, Longman & Todd, 2011 RRP $12.95 Reviewed by Karyl Davison. Ever read the book of Judges? There’s not much call for it in our regular Sunday worship, largely because it is full of stories of murder, genocide, rape, deceit and even infanticide. This little book, part of a new series DLT Books of the Bible, provides the complete book ...

Darton, Longman & Todd, 2011 RRP $12.95 Reviewed by Karyl Davison. This little book, part of a new series DLT Books of the Bible, provides the complete book of Galatians, with an original introduction by R.T. Kendall in which he reflects on the importance of Paul’s letter to his own understanding of the Christian faith, as well as Paul’s main ...

RRP $19.95 2011 Reviewed by Graham Hall. THIS CD is a collection of 15 hymns which would be well known and loved by the older members of the Church. For example, the first four are Praise the Lord, the Almighty, the king of creation, I vow to thee my country, Be thou my vision, and Abide with me. I hoped ...

Black Ink Press, 2009 RRP $17.00 Reviewed by John Ruhle. Gundanoo’s Christmas is another great kid’s book written and illustrated by Indigenous people and supported by Black Ink Press publishers. The ethos and goals of Black Ink Press are worth highlighting. “Black Ink Press is a community-based Indigenous writing, illustrating and publishing project based in North Queensland. It trains and ...

IVP Books, 2009, RRP $28.95 Reviewed by Karyl Davison. AS MEMBERS of Western society, most of us live under the influence of a number of seasons: the end of the financial year, school terms, tourist high seasons and let’s not forget the natural seasons. Most major religions are marked by seasons. For Jews think Passover, Yom Kippur and Sukkot. For ...

HiddenSpring, 2011, RRP $17.95 Reviewed by Rev Brian Lee. A FEW years ago on a visit to India I was introduced to Anthony de Mello’s Prayers of the Frog, a delightful, stimulating and challenging series of very short stories and sayings gathered from centuries of Central Asian and Middle Eastern story tellers, a few Christian, most not. He is described ...

 Harper One, 2011, RRP $36.99 Reviewed by Karyl Davison. AT A TIME when a huge percentage of people in our society know very little about the gospel story or our Christian faith, we need to be able to tell our story in language that people understand. But do we really understand what key concepts in the Christian faith, such as ...

Ballantine Books, NY 2011 (read as an e-book) Reviewed by Marian Zaunbrecher. NOT TOO many of us would not have heard of Ashley Judd, star of Double Jeopardy and many other successful films. I reluctantly decided to read her autobiography, not terribly excited to read about the successful life of yet another Hollywood star. I was extremely surprised by what ...

IVP Academic (Downers Grove), 2009, RRP $33.95 Reviewed by Peter Harvey, Frontier Services, Flinders Patrol Minister. BRINGING THEOLOGY to Life is an attempt to “maintain the strenuous pleasures of precision, clarity, and lively confrontation that are mutually empowering and that keep us accountable to one another, to the responsible reading of Scripture, and to the God we serve.” Author, Darren ...