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Lion RRP $19.95 In this UK-published book, Roger Baker describes ’emotional processing’- a theory of emotional healing that has emerged recently in psychology. A practicing clinical psychologist, he draws from substantial experience treating emotional disturbances, such as phobias and post-traumatic stress disorder. After a brief survey of the different historical perspectives on emotions, he ponders their role today: should they ...

Publisher: Ridley Hall Cambridge RRP $16.95 This little book is a Lenten journey with a difference. His journey our journey follows the journey of Jesus to Jerusalem using daily readings from Luke. With each passage there is reflection written by a trainee minister. The reflection is very personal as the writer uses their own experience to add insight to the ...

Upper Room Books Approx. $25 Daniel Benedict, until recently served as director of worship for the General Board of Discipleship of the United Methodist Church in the USA. He is one of that church’s foremost liturgical scholars, writers and practitioners, with a strong interest in areas such as discipleship and the catechumenate; not to mention being an all round good ...

Candle Bible for Toddlers: Carry Along Bible Fun. RRP: $16.95 Candle Bible for Toddlers: The Very First Christmas (Sticker Activity Book) RRP: approximately $8.00 Candle Bible for Toddlers: Memory Game RRP: $12.95 Christmas Giant Floor Puzzle RRP: approximately $11.00 A bright and colourful resource for the young believer is the Candle Bible for Toddlers range and related materials. Looking for ...

Community Books Australia RRP: $26.00 There is a school of thought that posits that any but celebrities who write memoirs do so out of a misplaced sense of their own importance and that is sometimes the case. However, the diaries and memoirs of so-called “ordinary” people are often well worth taking the time to read. I must point out that ...

Paulist Press RRP $24.95 Rarely has a book left me so angry and disturbed. It is not that this short book isn’t well written. The four lectures, their study questions and case studies are easy reading and provocative and that is the point. It disturbs you and makes you think. It is worth reading even though as US centric book ...

Harper Perennial RRP $22.99) "Seminary Boy" is a memoir by a renowned historian about his schoolyears at a ‘minor’ seminary, called Cotton College, in the West Midlands of England. Cotton, which closed in 1987, was one of five similar institutions in England in which students prepared for ‘senior’ seminary and the Roman Catholic priesthood. This book is satisfying on several ...

Abingdon Press RRP $16.25  Available from MediaCom – phone toll free: 1800 811 311 or order online at www.mediacom.org.auAs hospital chaplains in a busy hospital, we are called upon to pray, or minister in some other way, to patients, staff, volunteers and families, countless times every week… this book may well be a handy resource for chaplains (paid or volunteer) ...

Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc. RRP $33.95 Unstoppable Global Warming presents as a scientific treatment of the phenomenon of global warming, and as such, it is clearly a minority view. The authors are both scientists; Singer is a climate physicist, while Avery is a biologist. But we are entitled to ask if this is really about science. At one level, ...

Free Press RRP $34.95 Become a Better You is not only about becoming a “better you” but about helping people live the life that the author believes God has created people to live. A life where “….a progressive God….wants every generation to be increasing in happiness, success and significance.” Become a Better You reads like a “self help” book drawing ...