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Darton, Longman and Todd RRP $29.95 This is a probing spiritual journal recorded by well-known writer and Dutch Roman Catholic priest Henri Nouwen when he chose to spend seven months in a Trappist Monastery (Henri died in 1996). Nouwen immersed himself in the contemporary day-to-day life at Genesee in New York. His desire was to experience the life of work ...

Darton, Longman and Todd $24.95 This is a dangerous book! If you are courageous enough to let it, it will change you because it is about the challenge of emptying yourself and becoming another Christ. God of Surprises will help the committed reader get in deeper touch with self, including the inner desires and fears that are at the core ...

William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company $39.95 From Adam and Eve to Peter, Paul and of course Mary, the Bible is full of characters – both good and undeniably evil. Pharaohs, prophets, kings, soldiers, slaves, merchants, mothers, mistresses, sons, daughters, heroes, saints, sinners, angels, demons and many more are included, some only once. Others are much more fully described in the ...

Paraclete Press RRP $24.95 I remember sitting in our lounge room at a bible study discussing some part of the Sermon on the mount. Being the wise old minister in training one of my good friends asked if there was another way to understand this passage on murder or money or marriage [I can’t remember which] because she could never ...

Bluebridge –United Tribes Media Inc. RRP: $29.95 Attempting to read this work from cover to cover does it an injustice. Simple Ways: Towards the Sacred is a book to come back to, time and time again, focussing on the particular entry that seems right for you at that point in your life journey. The four sections of the book, (Our ...

Published by Blue Bottle Books Sydney 2008. RRP $17.95 (Includes mini album of songs). Over the past few years depression has been more openly discussed than has been the case in the past. As it has been recognised as an issue for public personalities, actors, entertainers and others we have seen increased support for organisations such as Beyond Blue. Despite ...

Orbis Books, New York. RRP $28.95 Wow! This book is a page turner! Despite being very dense and somewhat daunting to read – given the smallness of the text size and also the depth and sensitivity of the topic – the book opens up a whole new understanding of Christ in Evolution. A brief discourse is given on ‘Evolution, Christ ...

Orbis Books R.R.P $27.95 No Room at the Table provides an insight into the many situations that children around the world find themselves in because of their social and economic status. This book looks at many of the issues faced by children in the developing world such as; Child Soldiers, Human Trafficking/Prostitution, Child Labour, homelessness, Hunger, Refugees and AIDS and ...

David Lovell Publishing, 2007 Love and Politics is a short but interesting book about Frederick Ozanam, co-founder of the St Vincent de Paul Society. Ozanam lived at one of the most tumultuous time in European history and played an active part in the church and politics at the time of the barricades in Paris in 1848-9. While in Paris to ...

Wakefield Press 2008 This fascinating book gives the reader a unique road map to Melbourne’s culinary history. Its ten chapters lead you through from The Indigenous Pantry to the modern era entitled Olympic Appetiser. We read of early Melbourne (which Charmaine quaintly calls “the town that mutton built”) through the fabulous gold rush days when the Chinese, the first significant ...