Books
Just Decisions
Sunday, January 11, 2009 Just Decisions by Alistair Mackenzie and Wayne Kirkland Just Decisions is a book about ethical decision making in the sphere of work and commerce, in conversation with the resources of the Christian faith. The book is a welcome addition to the growing body of religious literature that shifts the focus from […]
Institutions
‘Thought-tailoring to please institutions means that over time we don’t really know who we are. We become an echo rather than a voice’.
Barack Obama: Dreams from my Father & The Audacity of Hope
My friend Dr. Geoff Pound has reviewed both of Barack Obama’s excellent books… 1. Dreams from my Father Among many questions in this book Obama asks: Who am I? What does it mean to be black? Where do I belong? What am I to do in life? Who is my family? Where does faith come […]
Book Review – The Trouble with Paris
Book Review – The Trouble with Paris, Mark Sayers, 2008 I believe Mark Sayers’ book, The Trouble with Paris, should be compulsory reading for all Christians living in our affluent western culture. Taken from a comment from a friend of Mark’s who talked about moving to Paris to freshen up her life, and from another […]
The 12 Days of Christmas
[Another provocating offering from my Episcopalian/humanist friend…] It’s Not Over Yet Harry T. Cook 12/28/08 A Sermon for the Fourth Day of Christmas One vexing thing about Christmas in America is that it effectively begins around November 1 and comes to a screeching halt when the 11 o’clock news comes on Christmas night. In every […]
Why Greer is wrong on [the movie] Australia
Why Greer is wrong on Australia * Marcia Langton * December 23, 2008 GERMAINE Greer should catch up on Australia’s “history wars”. During the past decade, nitpicking writers persecuted and pilloried historians of the tragedy that befell Aborigines. The denialists must be rubbing their hands with glee at the claims made by Greer, especially her […]
Disaster and Triumph
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster/ And treat those two impostors just the same… (From the famous Rudyard Kipling poem ‘If…’) Here are two very different, but very interesting and challenging books on dealing with disasters: 1. Stephen Robinson, Ministry in Disaster Settings: Lessons from the Edge (2007). Media news broadcasts highlighting human […]
Christmas Nostalgia
Muzak Reverie Harry T. Cook 12/19/08 The older I get, the more nostalgic I become as I remember “how it was then” — “then” being when I myself was a child or when my now-adult offspring were children or even when my grandchildren were infants. My first cognitive awareness of life around me came toward […]
101 ‘Best Books Ever Published’
I note that the Bible did not make the Top Ten and was beaten by Harry Potter and the Da Vinci Code. The Bible only just beat The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 101 Best Books Ever Published Australian bookseller Dymocks has come up with a list of the 101 best books ever published, […]
Metaphors vs Literalism
Metaphors and Symbols for Religious and Spiritual Experiences By Arlene F. Harder, MA, MFT “How, in the contemporary period, can we evoke the imagery that communicates the most profound and most richly developed sense of experiencing life? These images must point past themselves to that ultimate truth which must be told: that life does not […]
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