Books
Tim Winton’s Dirt Music
Hi Have just begun to read Tim Winton’s Dirt Music and it’s superb. Vintage Winton, which means it’s gritty, real and crude at times. But boy does he get inside people and the land. It’s a story set in a fishing community at a mythical place called White Point in WA and is shot through […]
Book Review Of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter
28-Apr-2000 Dear L and S, I’ve heard so much from you and other friends about the Harry Potter books, that I’ve read both “Philosopher’s Stone” and “Chamber of Secrets”. I suppose you’re wondering what my take on it is, and whether I side with all the fundies in banning the book. It will take me […]
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship
From Books & Culture, Nov/Dec 2001 Coming of Age in Ontario: An anthropologist bonds with a tribe called “InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.” John G. Stackhouse, Jr. The Church on the World’s Turf: An Evangelical Christian Group at a Secular University by Paul A. Bradmadat Oxford Univ. Press, 2000 224 pp.; $35 To see ourselves as others […]
Film ‘The Matrix’
G’day all. Chris Ho-Stuart writes: >Haven’t seen the Matrix… but I have heard some people drawing >parallels between it and the gospel! I’m floored. You’re a geek and you haven’t seen “The Matrix”?! Next thing you’ll be telling me you’ve never seen “Tron”. 🙂 The spiritual parable film seems to be a common idea nowadays. […]
Review: Geoffrey Blackburn, ‘Beyond Imagining’
The Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Blackburn (‘Geoff’ as we affectionately call him) has had a long, fortunate life. Among Australian Baptists, he would be among the four ‘most admired’ (alongside Principal G.H. Morling, F. W. Boreham, and Dr. Noel Vose). Geoff has just (self-) published his memoirs – ‘Beyond Imagining: 65 Years of Christian Ministry’ (from […]
Book Review: Waterhole Of Hope
Dear Rowland, you may like to use this book review for your website or other discussion forums, regards, Mark “Waterhole of Hope: A story of Sue Gordon Woods and St Joseph’s House of Prayer” presented and written by Annie Patterson. Spectrum Publications, Melbourne, September 2001. RRP $26.95. Brisbane journalist, Annie Patterson, resigned her job in […]
Lessons From Reel Life
Review Lessons from Reel Life: Movies, Meaning and Myth Making by Michael Frost and Robert Banks Open Book Publishers, 2001, 229 pages, RRP $32 by Paul Arnott In Lessons from Reel Life Michael Frost and Robert Banks assert that “the best films tap deep into our private and public consciousness and establish a genuine connection […]
Think About These…
This week’s Time Magazine (December 25, 2000) has a lead article on ‘Gene Mapper’ Craig Venter, ‘the bad boy of science [who] jump-started a biological revolution.’ First, for racists: did you know that the percentage of human genome that is functionally identical in any two individuals is 99.9999% ? And for religionists and humanists: ‘We […]
How The Grinch Stole Christmas – Reviews
The inventive, although sometimes wacky, rhymes of Dr Seuss in such favorites as ‘The Cat in the Hat,’ ‘Green Eggs and Ham,’ and ‘Horton Hatches an Egg’ are cherished memories for almost everyone. But during the holiday season, thoughts turn to the tale of The Grinch that stole Christmas, whose heart was two sizes too […]
Leonard Sweet Trilogy Reviewed
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-022 (Book Review) LEONARD SWEET TRILOGY reviewed by Rod Benson Soul Tsunami: Sink or Swim in New Millennium Culture (Zondervan, 1999) Aqua Church: Essential Leadership Arts for Piloting Your Church in Today’s Fluid Culture (Group Publishing, 1999) Soul Salsa: 17 Surprising Steps for Godly Living in the 21st Century (Zondervan, 2000) Sweet […]
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