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The Irresistible Revolution By Shane Claiborne Zondervan RRP $14.95 I was immediately drawn in by the provocative title of Shane Claiborne’s compelling and challenging book and. Claiborne is a founding member of an Intentional Christian Community called The Simple Way (www.thesimpleway.org) in Philadelphia, USA. In his 30s, Claiborne has studied under Tony Campolo and others at Eastern University and served ...

Get Ready! By Dr Rocktrin and the Groovemeisters Emu Music Australia RRP $19.95 Those involved in children’s ministry will find Get Ready a good addition to their resource library with an interesting mix of musical styles from country to rock and just plain quirky, and a range of options for using them with children. One of the added benefits of ...

Take My Life By Garage Hymnal Emu Music Australia RRP $29.95 Garage Hymnal’s debut CD is an “impressive” contribution to the worship song repertoire available to the Australian Christian church for a number of reasons. Take My Life is a collective work with its origins in 2004 in the band assembled for Sydney University’s Evangelical Union Annual Conference. The attractively ...

In Paradisum By Canticum Music CDIndependentRRP $25Australian choral music is a vast and wonderful genre and Canticum’s In Paradisum has captured part of that world. Canticum must be commended for joining the growing number of ensembles commissioning and touring the work from Australian composers, such as 24-year-old Joseph Twist. In Paradisum comprises works performed by Canticum at the 7th World ...

The Other Side of You By Salley Vickers HarperCollins RRP $32.95A novel about psychotherapy featuring a story from the Gospel of Luke, a poem by T. S. Eliot and a painting by the Italian artist, Caravaggio, The Other Side of You is a feast of ideas and insights. Vickers was trained as a psychoanalyst, of the Jungian kind, and writes ...

Elevation Music CDProduced by 96.5FM RRP $2.50 plus postage and handling Elevation is the annual sampler release by Brisbane radio station 96.5 Family FM. As Brisbane’s Christian radio station, 96.5 FM has access to some great local and overseas Christian music talent. Immediately recognisable names like Superchick, John Reuben (of Hillsong fame), and Soulframe (recent guest artists at Aspley Uniting) ...

Various Artists EMI Music CD RRP $19.95 This album is not a soundtrack as such, but is “music inspired by the movie”. But having said that a high quality of sound and music. Featuring Steven Curtis Chapman and Rebecca ST James and others, this collection of music is meant to inspire images of the movie or of the original books. ...

X-Men: The Last Stand Starring Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry20th Century Fox recent releaseRated M X-Men: The Last Stand is the third and apparently final in the X men movies. Most of the main characters from the previous two movies return (including Patrick Stewart, Halle Berry and Australia’s own Hugh Jackman as the ever popular “Wolverine”) with some new ...

Dinner With a Perfect Stranger: An Invitation Worth Considering By David Gregory Hodder & Stoughton RRP $14.95 Dinner With a Perfect Stranger: An Invitation Worth Considering is a winner. It’s relatively short, easy to read, no big words, thought provoking and leaves the reader with questions for self examination. It certainly packs a punch. The title got me in from ...

Country Life and the Church By Rol Mitchell Glenlea Publishing RRP $39.00 post paid from 28 Western View Drive Albury NSW 2640 This book is a record of Rol Mitchell’s six years research which included an 18 month “live in” study of “Countrytown”. It explores as an academic social research project the significance of the Christian Church in an Australian ...