Culture

Wakefield Press RRP $34.95 The impact of mental illness on people within our community can be devastating and far reaching, both for those who suffer the diagnosis and for those around them such as families, friends, and carers. In a series of interviews, Marianne Broug opens up the journeys of 17 individuals who have ‘been through the system’. The interviewees ...

Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2007 Spirited Practices is divided into the themes of Disconnection, Illness and health, Loss and death, Violence, Stigma and discrimination” and “Cycle of hopelessness and hope. It is an anthology which reflects and acknowledges the richness and diversity of human spiritual and religious tradition. Religions and spiritualities covered are Christianity, Hinduism, Aboriginal spirituality, Islam, Eco-spirituality and ...

(CD version) RRP $31.95 This CD is based on the book of the same name, written after Henri Nouwen was deeply affected by Rembrandt’s painting, The Return of the Prodigal Son. It is intended as a Lent course for groups but could be used at any time of the year by either groups or individuals. The book led Mr Nouwen ...

Jossey-Bass 2007 RRP $33.95 The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything reports a watershed legal trial in America in which the School Board at Dover, Pennsylvania, defended its actions in introducing Intelligent Design to the school curriculum and in requiring that students be read a statement criticising evolution. These actions may constitute teaching religion in public schools and that is ...

Darton Longman and Todd, 2008 RRP $19.95 I love Lenten studies and was very interested in reading this set based around three films. The study can be used if participants have not seen The Chronicles of Narnia’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Shadowlands, but it is recommended that the films are viewed shortly before the course begins. ...

The Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia, 2008 RRP $9 In just 39 pages, Andrew Dutney offers an easy-to-read, insightful look at the Uniting Church, in the style that many of us have appreciated since his Manifesto for renewal in 1986 and Where did the joy come from? Mr Dutney gives us a look at the history behind this ...

Moreton Rivers Presbytery, 2009 RRP free Elders are not always oldies! God calls people of all age groups to this special ministry in the congregation, giving them gifts for serving the people of God. A resource study book, Eldership: A Three-Part Series offers useful and encouraging opportunities for people to enrich their understanding of the role to which Elders are ...

Lion Hudson 2008 $22.95 Over 2000 years on, and despite the decline of the Christian church in the Western world, there is still enormous interest in the person of Jesus. Movies and books from across the fiction/non-fiction spectrum abound – all making claims about the man from Nazareth. In his latest book, Dickson sets out to produce an ‘accessible and ...

Orbis Books 2007 RRP $24.95 Albert Nolan is a Dominican priest from South Africa who writes, ‘My aim is to look … at what Jesus might mean to you and me and our contemporaries in the twenty-first century. This is a book about spirituality, Jesus’ own spirituality, which I have chosen to call a spirituality of radical freedom’. Jesus Today ...

A Dancing Star Foundation Book RRP $31.95 Donkey is a loving, light-hearted but comprehensive history of donkeys down through the ages written by two people who have loved and owned donkeys from a young age. There are numerous photos of these loved animals. They describe the qualities of the donkeys they have known, giving them almost human attributes and then ...