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Anglican Youthworks, July 2010 RRP $16.95 Reviewed by Bevan Lobley who has a young family and is very interested in finding ways for families to grow in their faith together. As I began to read this book, I  realised that the only real way to review it was to go through several of the devotions with my family and gauge ...

The Alban Institute, Virginia, 2008 RRP $24.95 Reviewed by Karyl Davison.It would be hard to find a preacher who would argue against preaching with personal integrity. While that may be so, this is no easy task. It is very challenging to practice integrity in our preaching, particularly at times of controversy, after there’s been a local or national crisis or ...

Monarch Books Oxford, 2010 RRP $24.99 Reviewed by Rev Dr Noel Park, minister-in-association in the Nambour congregation. NEARLY 20 years ago I was one of five Australians chosen to attend a World Congress on Suicide Prevention held in Hamburg, Germany. One of the speakers was an elderly psychiatrist from a strong Freudian background. He told how he had been completely ...

Lion Hudson, 2010 RRP $6.99 Reviewed by John Ruhle. SEE AND Say: Baby Jesus Stories helps children experience the sounds of the stable in Bethlehem at Christ’s birth. You can clip-clop with the donkey, sing with the angels, gasp with the shepherds, and moo with the cow. The See and Say series also includes stories on the lost sheep, creation, ...

Seabury Books, New York, 2006 RRP $21.95 Reviewed by Karyl Davison, Rural Ministry coordinator for the Central Queensland and Mary Burnett Presbyteries. THIS LITTLE book is a practical guide to prayer and how it can and should be incorporated into our busy lives. Ms Roth suggests that our physical breath can become a metaphor for the different ways of praying. ...

Monarch Books, 2010 RRP $24.99 Rev Tim Griggs is the Youth and Families Resource Minister for Mary Burnett Presbytery and is passionate about ministry with young people. THE THINK Tank will certainly get youth and their leaders thinking about the 195 topics covered in this book from ecology to using our talents, cyber-bullying to toxic relationships and justice fatigue. This book ...

Liturgy Training Publication USA (Archdiocese of Chicago), 2010 RRP $24.95 Reviewed by Trish Milne, chaplain at St Stephen’s Hospital Maryborough and Hervey Bay and member of Maryborough Uniting Church. THIS RESOURCE book has been compiled to “help those in parishes, schools, institutions, religious communities and other Catholic faith communities understand the liturgy and how the liturgy transforms our lives.” As ...

Lion Children’s, 2010 RRP $14.99 Reviewed by Jenny Coombes, Pastor at Murgon Goomeri Uniting Church and someone who enjoys the beauty and mystery of our world. THIS DELIGHTFUL collection of prayers for children is themed around the environment. The titles of each group of prayers – For Planet Earth, For Creatures Great and Small, For Green and Growing Things, For ...

HiddenSpring, 2010 Reviewed by Karyl Davison Reading this little book while much of Queensland struggles with the devastation of unprecedented flooding, gives added poignancy and relevance to its contents. When Fr Leonard’s sister suffered catastrophic injuries in a vehicle accident, his own response, and that of other Christians forced him to think through the age old question “Where the hell ...

By Jany Fournier-Rosset, Liguori, Missouri, 2010, RRP $24.95 Reviewed by Barbara Bailey. THIS ENCHANTING publication links the medieval world with the twenty-first century. Jany Fournier-Rosset, a mother and chef who is also a lay oblate with the order of St. Benedict, has brought the wisdom of the twelfth century St. Hildegard to us as a recipe book infused with the ...