Culture

2008 Interface: a Forum for Theology in the World Volume 10 No. 2. ATF Press Adelaide RRP $19.95 Reviewed by Jenny Coombes, a Pastor at the Murgon/Goomeri Uniting Church congregation. The collection of papers in this edition of Interface – a Forum for theology in the World, covers a variety of topics related to the spirituality of children and adolescents ...

Religious and Moral Education Press, 2008 RRP $16.95 Reviewed by Don Whebell. In 24 pages, Terence Copley gives us the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whose legacy of witness to Christ has been one of the great treasures of the Christian faith during and since World War II. Bonhoeffer’s story is well known through his books, letters and papers written in ...

Authentic Media, 2007 RRP $18.95 Reviewed by Bob Warrick, a retired Uniting Church minister. It is many years since I came across the ‘Christmas IQ Test’. Comparing the Christmas story according to Christmas Carols and popular myth with the Biblical Christmas story, it always added something to the plethora of pre-Christmas events. The Christmas Mystery includes the NRSV text of ...

Canterbury Press, 2008 RRP $19.95 Reviewed by Jan Bryde, a home group leader and member of the Tully Uniting Church. The Cast of the Kingdom is a study for Lent. The 47 days are numbered beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending on Easter Sunday. Each day begins with a Bible reading accompanied by an insight from one of the contributors. ...

Lion Hudson, 2009 RRP $16.95 Reviewed by Sally Algate, a member of The Gap Uniting Church The 8 Secrets of Happiness delivers what its title suggests – eight ways of achieving a happier life. But first it explores the idea of what happiness is. It concludes that, “Happiness is not a goal so much as an outcome of particular ways ...

SkyLight Paths Publishing RRP $19.99  Reviewed by Rev Lucie Bennett, an animal lover who enjoys spending time contemplating nature and what it can teach us about God.  As the title suggests Blessing the Animals: Prayers and ceremonies to celebrate God’s creatures, wild and tame is a collection of poetry, prayers and prose from a variety of spiritual traditions on various ...

Dartman, Longman and Todd, 2008 RRP $39.95  Reviewed by Barbara Bailey, a retired Uniting Church minister.  Written over 20 years, the Anglican priest and writer of this volume, Michael Mayne (who died in 2006) offers reflections on life to his two grandchildren. The pages are certainly food for the journey. The reader is captivated by wonder as Mr Mayne creatively ...

Running time 138 minutesRated M Reviewed by Joanne Styles, a freelance writer based on the Sunshine Coast  Angels and Demons is an action- packed adventure taking the audience on a thrilling chase across Rome and inside the Vatican City . Based on the novel by Dan Brown, author of the controversial The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons is somewhat ...

Lion Hudson Plc; illustrated edition, 1995 RRP $19.95 Reviewed by Bob Warrick This collection of 37 stories from the Old Testament and 38 from the New is designed to be read aloud, shared with children or grandchildren, a school class or a children’s group at church. The popularity of Hartman’s writing is indicated by the fact that the first edition ...

Darton, Longman and Todd, 2008 RRP $37.95 Reviewed by Mel Perkins, Family Minister at Aspley Uniting Church and Chaplain at the Aspley Early Childhood Education Centre. This very interesting book is not one you can pick up and read all at once; it is one that has to be pondered over; one that you might sit with on a park-bench. ...