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• A New Climate for Theology
  Review posted by Sue Emeleus - 1 May 2009
  A New Climate for Theology, Sallie McFague, Fortress Press, Mineapolis, 2008  There are many reasons why this book is relevant to us. After her wonderful book, Life Abundant, she wasn’t... More...
  
  
• Blessed Twice
  Review posted by Sue Emeleus - 1 May 2009
  Blessed Twice, Lynn Galli, Outskirts Press, Inc, Denver, Colorado, 2008.  This is a novel, not especially well written but interesting because it tells, in a fairly matter-of-fact way, the story of... More...
  
  
• Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church
  Review posted by Clive H Norton - 15 May 2008
  Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church: Reclaiming the Spirit of Jesus. John Garratt Publishing, 2007. Available from Aquinas Academy 02 9247 4651.Bishop Geoffrey Robinson’s book was first published... More...
  
  
• Dark Nights of the Soul
  Review posted by Mary Emeleus - 8 June 2010
  Dark Nights of the Soul by Thomas Moore (Piatkus, 2004) This is a book I have returned to many times. It is also a book I have had to replace many... More...
  
  
• Finding Sanctuary: Monastic Steps for Everyday Life
  Review posted by Hedley Beare - 15 May 2008
  Finding Sanctuary: Monastic Steps for Everyday Life by Christopher Jamison, London, Phoenix Paperback, 2007 ($24.95)In 2005 the Benedictine Abbey at Worth in Sussex invited five men to sample the monastic... More...
  
  
• Great Souls: Six Who Changed the Century
  Review posted by David Cohen - 15 May 2008
  Great Souls: Six Who Changed the Century by David Aikman, Word Publishing 1998.The author, a former Senior Correspondent for Time magazine, has written what has been described as a book... More...
  
  
• Holy Conversations: Strategic planning as a spiritual practice for congregations
  Review posted by Doug Dargaville - 3 August 2009
  Holy Conversations: Strategic planning as a spiritual practice for congregations by Gil Rendle and Alice Mann, Alban Institute 2003   Over the last 50 years there have been a number of... More...
  
  
• In the Eye of the Storm
  Review posted by Sue Emeleus - 1 August 2008
  In the Eye of the Storm: Swept to the Center by God by Gene Robinson, Seabury Books, New York, 2008.  I agree with Joan Chittister that this book is grounds for... More...
  
  
• Into the Silent Land
  Review posted by Anne B Udy - 15 May 2008
  Into the Silent Land by Martin Laird, OSA. Oxford University Press, New York, 2006. This book is, as Rowan Williams says, ‘a rare treasure’. The abbess of Redwood Monastery in... More...
  
  
• Meeting Jesus Again For The First Time
  Review posted by Harry Graves - 15 May 2008
  Meeting Jesus Again For The First Time by Marcus Borg, Harper Collins, USA, 1995.I have been reading Meeting Jesus Again For The First Time. It richly rewards a return visit.... More...
  
  
• No Fixed Address - Faith as Journey
  Review posted by Douglas Dargaville - 8 June 2010
  No Fixed Address - Faith as Journey by John Bodycomb  The title is intriguing. I have visited John at home and he doesn’t appear to be moving out! But as he... More...
  
  
• No god but God: the Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
  Review posted by Val Webb - 15 May 2008
  No god but God: the Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan, Random House, New York 2006.This is a highly readable account of the evolution of Islam by... More...
  
  
• Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope
  Review posted by Anne Bailey - 3 August 2009
  Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope by Joan Chittister, W B Eerdmans 2005   In Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope, Sr Joan Chittister, OSB takes the Bible story of Jacob... More...
  
  
• The Coming of Lileth
  Review posted by Sue Emeleus - 1 May 2009
  The Coming of Lilith: essays on Feminism, Judaism and Sexual ethics, 1972-2003; Judith Plaskow (edited with Donna Berman), Beacon press, Boston, 2005  Judith Plaskow became a feminist in 1969, the year... More...
  
  
• The Gift of Years - Growing Older Gracefully
  Review posted by Shirley Parkin - 24 June 2010
  The Gift of Years - Growing Older Gracefully by Joan Chittister, OSB (BlueBridge Books, NY, 2008)  This is not just a book about ageing. It is about life, lived fully... More...
  
  
• The God Problem—Alternatives to Fundamentalism
  Review posted by Jonathan T Dixon - 15 May 2008
  The God Problem—Alternatives to Fundamentalism by Nigel Leaves, Polebridge Press 2006. The author of this 81 page book is the Warden and Dean of Studies of the John Wollaston Anglican... More...
  
  
• The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
  Review posted by Peter Correy - 15 May 2008
  The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis S Collins, Free Press, New York 2007 (paperback). This book raises issues which may be of interest to... More...
  
  
• The Last Protector
  Review posted by John Wiley - 3 August 2009
  The Last Protector by Cameron Raynes, Wakefield Press 2009  William Penhall was the last Chief Protector of Aborigines in South Australia, from 1939–1954. Extensive research by Adelaide historian Cameron Raynes... More...
  
  
• The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions
  Review posted by Sarah Carew - 3 August 2009
  The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions by Marcus J Borg and N T Wright, HarperOne 1999   Borg is one of the leading liberal scholars of our time, and Wright a... More...
  
  
• The Misunderstood Jew
  Review posted by Sue Emeleus - 1 May 2009
  The Misunderstood Jew: the Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus, Amy-Jill Levine, Harper Collins, New York, 2006  In the introduction, Amy-Jill Levine tells of her Catholic friends and school... More...
  
  
• The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity
  Review posted by Peter Correy - 3 August 2009
  The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity by Philip Jenkins, Oxford University Press 2002  In a careful and well documented analysis of the present and the possible future, Philip... More...
  
  
• The Old Creed and the New
  Review posted by Eric Stevenson - 3 August 2009
  The Old Creed and the New by Don Cupitt, SCM Press, 2006   Don Cupitt assumes that traditional religion is ‘rapidly breaking down and melting away’ and discounts the significance of... More...
  
  
• The Search for Spirituality: Our Global Quest for a Spiritual Life
  Review posted by Val Webb - 3 August 2009
  The Search for Spirituality: Our Global Quest for a Spiritual Lifeby Ursula King, New York: BlueBridge 2008  In this book, Ursula King gathers together the global threads of the elusive... More...
  
  
• Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality
  Review posted by Harry Graves - 3 August 2009
  Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality by Richard Rohr, St Anthony Messenger Press 2008   Reading this book is for me an exhilarating adventure of ‘feet on the ground’, renewal, liberation and... More...
  
  
• Three Books
  Review posted by Sue Emeleus - 15 May 2008
  Like Catching Water in a Net: Human attempts to describe the Divine (by Val Webb, Continuum, New York, 2007)Sex and the Sacred: Gay identity and spiritual growth, by Daniel A... More...
  
  
• Too Soon Old. Too Late Smart
  Review posted by Peter Willis - 15 May 2008
  Too Soon Old. Too Late Smart by Gordon Livingston, Hachette Australia, 2004. As a wounded healer and now well over 60 with one son dead from childhood leukaemia and one... More...
  
  
• What Is The Point Of Being A Christian?
  Review posted by Greg Latemore - 3 August 2009
  What Is The Point Of Being A Christian? by Timothy Radcliffe OP, Burns & Oates 2005   Tertullian wrote in the second century that people were astonished at how Christians loved... More...