Books
What If?
Obama’s Nobel Speech: What If? by Jarrod McKenna 12-17-2009 What if? What if Obama’s speech had not simply referenced Gandhi and King but followed them in following the way of Jesus? I have a number of friends, like Nobel Prize nominee John Dear and Ken Butigan, who have articulately raised concerns about Gandhi and Martin […]
Think about these…
Not heard these before: 1. What’s your favourite computer-keyboard key? 2. You can make cheese-on-toast by putting it into your toaster, and turning it sideways! And a reminder from T S Eliot’s The Rock: ‘Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the […]
Intellect
“There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect – G.K. Chesterton “
What Difference Do It Make?
Book Review – What Difference Do It Make?, Ron Hall, Denver Moore, and Lynn Vincent, 2009 This book builds on the extraordinary influence of its predecessor, Same Kind of Different As Me. It tells stories of how readers of that book were influenced by the story of wealthy art dealer Ron, and homeless man Denver, […]
Power of a lyric – The Special Two
‘lies will lock you up with truth the only key’ – Missy Higgins, The Special Two There is something about Missy Higgins’ lyrics that evoke a raw honesty. This song is a story of someone who is agonizing with regret over a sexual affair which has torn their relationship apart. It is a beautiful song […]
Welcome to the real Narnia (Bishop Tom Wright)
Welcome to the real Narnia The hidden medieval message at the heart of C. S. Lewis’s classic Chronicles Tom Wright Our age is dominated by Saturn, and it is time to rediscover Jupiter. It is safe to say that few if any of the millions who have read C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia would […]
Book Review – The Depression Cure, Stephen S. Ilardi
This very good book starts by hammering home some truths that speak powerfully to our Western way of living and explain quite clearly how depression has become nothing less than an epidemic in our culture. The author, Stephen Ilardi, highlights the fact that our modern way of living is a wonderful recipe for depression. Although […]
Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire
A Review of William T. Cavanaugh’s Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2008. Review by Paul Tyson Is there a highest common good, a true final goal, for human life, or, is any universal and transcendently referenced human telos unknowable? The answer you give to this question will powerfully […]
Decolonizing God
The following is an excerpt of a book review written by Anne Elvey (Monash University and Melbourne College of Divinity) of Mark Brett’s (Whitley College and Melbourne College of Divinity), Decolonizing God. A shorter version will appear in Pacifica: Australasian Theological Studies (http://www.facebook.com/l/fcccf;www.pacifica.org.au) MARK G. BRETT, Decolonizing God: The Bible in the Tides of Empire […]
Review: Don’t Trust the Abbott: Musings from the Monastery
Don’t Trust the Abbott: Musings from the Monastery, Jerome Kodell OSB, Liturgical Press, 2009. Jerome Kodell is abbott of Subiaco Abbey in Arkansas. These ‘musings’ are reproduced from some of his newsletters, at the request of his many friends, visitor-retreatants and others… As such this book has a special appeal to those who know Jerome […]
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