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Five Mile Press RRP: $49.95 You won’t find dozens of traditional churches and cathedrals in this splendid coffee table book featuring hundreds of beautiful colour photographs and explanatory text. Rather, Sacred Places is a collection of 60 of the world’s most magnificent and awe-inspiring sites, some of which have associations with the world’s religions and many which are simply the ...

Published by Monarch Books RRP: $19..95 Having enjoyed Faith Like Potatoes, Buchan’s first book, I impulsively expected this would be a sequel. In a way it is, although it’s actually a book of daily devotional readings. From the moment I read the first entry – that for New Year’s Day – I was ‘hooked’. The selected verse, appropriately, is from ...

Fourth Estate 2007RRP $27.99 Patrick Gale’s latest novel takes the reader into a world of Quaker funerals, Cornish beaches, Canadian asylums, and Oxford art colleges. "Notes from an Exhibition" sounds exotic and distant. But it is, in fact, familiar and intimate. Rachel Kelly is the central character, a famous and eccentric Canadian artist who has married Antony Middleton, an honourable ...

Jossey-Bass, 2006. $32.95. Practices of Faith Series, Dorothy C. Bass, Series Editor. This book is refreshing in its attention to integrating our prayer with the contemporary dilemmas and issues we face. From praying in the context of discerning a wise choice in an election, to looking at various stances and ways to pray on issues of injustice that are about ...

This thought-provoking 88 page book is a gem for us all! A bible study on a modern issue, it is presented in two parts: 1. Optimism from the Words of Jesus 2. Going Deeper-Studies with St. Paul However there are also many references to O.T. passages. Each chapter ends with 6 reflective questions making this a significant resource for individual ...

Emu Music RRP $24.95 Bring on the Day is a worthy successor to 2006’s Take My Life (the debut CD from Garage Hymnal), harking from evangelical Anglican circles in Sydney, and with a close alignment with Sydney University’s Evangelical Union. Purchase of Bring on the Day entitles the buyer to access a range of resources from the Garage Hymnal website ...

RRP $32.00 If you worry about your electronic diary’s batteries going flat, perhaps you keep a hard copy diary. The Australian Religious Diary 2008 is meant to charge your batteries as you jot in your reminders. Of course it has all the big events, as well as the dates you might have missed. The second Sunday in Easter next year ...

Monarch Books RRP $19.95 The title of this book introduces us to the question of life and all its significance. The short prologue is very modern and pithy challenging everyone to move on and discover individual answers. Both new Christians and those who are thinking about Christianity will find the style appealing. The illustrations and vocabulary are very topical covering ...

Rated G No Arms, No Legs, No Worries follows motivational speaker, evangelist and self confessed ‘hug machine’ Nick Vujicic as he aims to positively empower children, young adults and parents. Nick Vujicic knows how hard growing up can be. Being born with no limbs and with no medical explanation, he has experienced extreme lows and highs in his life. This ...

Paulist Press RRP  $45.00Preaching to the Converted contains short reflections (less than 750 words) on the gospel readings from the full three-year lectionary cycle. These ‘story-based’ reflections are not meant to be replacement, or even model, homilies: they are not grounded in any relationship between a pastor and any particular congregation, and although the author is Australian, the reflections are ...