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Easter Dinner with the Devil
(This looks interesting) Matt Porricelli 2007 ISBN 978-160461483-1 Blurb: Porricelli has come up with a fictionalised account of Jesus’ debate with Satan during the three days he spend in hell following the crucifixion – a debate which touches on all the major christian issues. On the first day, sharp, captivating dialogue occurs between Satan and […]
Death Women Walking
Book Review: Death Women Walking by Jennifer Su (Monarch Books: Oxford, UK, 2007) Death Women Walking is about the startling stories of three women whose lives are plagued with addiction, idol worship and abuse. It is about the work of Elisabeth Weinmann, an OMF missionary, among working-class Taiwanese, where less than 0.5% of them are […]
Decolonizing God: The Bible in the Tides of Empire
Mick Dodson helps to “decolonize God†by Dr Fiona Hill Australian of the Year, Professor Mick Dodson, has launched a book debunking notions that the Bible can be used to justify dispossession of Australian Indigenous peoples. The book, Decolonizing God: The Bible in the Tides of Empire by Melbourne academic Dr Mark Brett was released […]
Parker J Palmer, Let Your Life Speak
Parker J Palmer, Let Your Life Speak (2000). Here’s a very readable short book, written with an elegant simplicity, and transparent honesty, about ‘being who you are’ rather than ‘being what others want you to be’. It’s a modern commentary on the adage ‘To thine own self be true… And it must follow as the […]
Power and the Church ( M L King)
M L King in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail: “There was a time when the church was very powerful–in the time when the early Christians rejoiced at being deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular […]
Darwin, biblical narrative and Christian history
Two reviews by Darren Cronshaw Charles Darwin is undoubtedly one of the catalysts for the modern-to-postmodern transition that we are starting to navigate through. These two books offer background on the influence of Darwin on contemporary society, the place of the church and our understanding of the gospel. The first, The Story We Find Ourselves […]
Eugene Peterson
From a pastor-friend: I have so loved reading Eugene Peterson over the years. This week I’ve picked up /The Jesus Way/ for nighttime reading and for some inspiration for preaching. Last month I read a chapter on Sabbatical from one of his books that inspired me to plan some good value-adding LSL next year. Peterson […]
Major treatise on religious liberty published online in the USA
By staff writers 12 May 2009 The First Amendment Center in the USA has placed online the once unavailable five-volume treatise of the late Rev Dean M. Kelley, the internationally known National Council of Churches USA executive for religious liberty. The Law of Church and State in America has been described as “a 20-year research […]
Orthodoxy (G K Chesterton)
ORTHODOXY By by G.K. Chesterton (1874~1936) Published by Harold Shaw Publishers A Quick Focus The Book’s Purpose Articulate a response to the prevailing secular mindset Elucidate a positive and romantic defense of the Christian faith Relate the author’s personal journey of faith Communicate the sufficiency of orthodox Christianity as the best response to modern man’s […]
‘They Told Me I Had To Write This’
Parker Palmer, in his brilliant little book ‘Let Your Life Speak’, bemoans the fact that many/most of us live lives ‘other than one’s own’. We allow what happens to us – especially the wounds inflicted deliberately or unintentionally by others or by circumstance – to rob us of our true/free self. As a result, no […]
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