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William McClemans made a lasting contribution to the state of Western Australia through his work as a parish priest and in helping establish St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls, Guilford Grammar School and Christ Church Grammar School. This biography, which traces the threads of triumph and tragedy through this remarkable life, tells of his early life in Ireland, his ministry to various parishes and his contributions to education. It also cov...

Norm Habel is an Australian, an Earth child and a Lutheran who has survived accusations of heresy many times in his life.Why on Earth are you still a Lutheran? is not quite an autobiography. After all, Habel is many more things than a Lutheran " a family man, a social justice advocate, an amateur ecologist and a poet " but still a Lutheran. The scenes from his experiences are not an effort to define being a Lutheran in any official or unoffici...

A literalist interpretation of the Genesis origin myth of the Fall is simply not compatible with proven science about the evolution of the universe and the human species. So how does a modern Christian understand the doctrines of Atonement and Original Sin that emanated from the origin myth of the Fall? Kevin Treston proposes a telling of the Christian story from the perspective of Emergence, rather than Fall, as an evolutionary faith journey....

Where does the word Easter come from? Why is Lent called Lent? We are immersed in the liturgical year and impelled across the weeks by the liturgical calendar, but how did it come about? Earth Unites with Heaven reveals the impulse behind the seasons and ceremonies, the colours and prayers, the structures and priorities of the liturgical year. The book is a more than a useful guide to the background of our order of worship. It opens up the way...

Theophile Berengier, who was born around 1827, was a monk of Solesmes, the Benedictine monastery near Le Mans in north-western France. In 1868, he met Bishop Salvado, who was on his second European tour raising funds and seeking recruits for New Norcia. In 1879, Berengier published his Histoire. This is the first modern translation of Berengier's book and is an important contribution to our understanding of the history of the New Norcia missio...

Honest to GOoD is the story of a personal journey in search of spiritual wholeness with intellectual integrity.     It is written in the hope that it will encourage others to explore the spiritual dimension of their lives and not be satisfied with easy answers or pronouncements by religious authorities, especially when they conflict with reason and personal experience.   The writer asserts that we should recognise and affirm the presence of th...

This series of reminiscences recalls the people, personalities, events, challenges, disappointments, successes and controversies that shaped the life and ministry of Leonard Faulkner, formerly Bishop of Townsville and Archbishop of Adelaide. The book is not an autobiography but a personal anthology of memories, stories and images of a life spent seeking the will of God for himself and his people, and an invaluable and intimate story of what it...

Reinventing Church is a story of hope in the context of change, loss, and sadness. Four Anglican communities of faith in Tasmania, Australia (New Norfolk, Channel/Cygnet, St Helens, and Hamilton) faced long-standing decline and the possibility of closure.   Instead, they chose to adopt a new type of ministry called "Enabler Supported Ministry"¿ where local Christians voluntarily take on the work of parish ministry. In so doing, they forged a n...

These stories of being a father come from around the world " Cuba, India, the USA, Australia, England, Switzerland, Sweden and elsewhere, but they have in common an honesty about the gift and work of being a father.  The Dad Book is not about how to be a better Dad. It's about being a Dad " the struggles, the regrets, the things we got wrong, and the things we get right. The moments of joy and wonder, the things we learn along the way and the ...

Beginning and ending at home in Australia, John May tells the story of his journey from unquestioning Catholicism through Christian ecumenism to the developing relations between the world's religions. He brings into sharp focus the questions raised for theology by interreligious relations and the challenge such questions raise: are we capable of truly imagining the ecumenical in all its implications for our religious convictions and the future...

From unlikely beginnings, Eugene Lincoln Napoleon Veith established a business that became the largest capital city metropolitan parcel organisation in Australia. Yet despite his grand name and success, Eugene Veith always described himself as an ordinary bloke. He grew up in rural Victoria amidst illness and poverty, and his adolescence was turbulent and painful. ¿ It was also the time when his childhood faith burst open in an event that was ...

Like many in the mainline churches, the author was encouraged to read the Bible through a single, safe, traditional lens, ensuring that the truth of the Bible could be discovered only through that way of interpreting the text. The book tells the story of what happens when other lenses appear, other ways of engaging the text, other fresh ways of connecting the text to its origins, its people and its context.  These other ways involve not only t...

Raffaele Martelli arrived in Fremantle in 1853 and spent the rest of his life in Western Australia where he died in 1880. The authors have studied the nearly two hundred letters in the Archives from Martelli to his great friend, Bishop Salvado of New Norcia. From the letters, we gain an insight into Catholic and colonial life in 19th century Western Australia.

I never learned English grammar is the lament of many students beginning their study of Hebrew and Greek, the languages of the Old and New Testaments. This book is designed as a companion to the learning of either Greek or Hebrew, to help you to understand better what is going on when textbooks of Greek and Hebrew use English grammar to introduce the various forms of the new language. The book will sharpen your appreciation of the gift of lang...

This book emerges from an extensive research project into the area of transformative learning in theology in the Australian context. The project was stimulated by the recognition of the rich prior life experience of the typically older students enrolling in undergraduate theological degrees and the common claims made by various theological colleges that they provide a transformative educational experience. It set out to test these elements aga...

Dimity Knights powerful and compelling Joined at the Fingertips grew out of her life as mother of an autistic son and will strike chords particularly in the hearts of those who have faced the problems of a child who is in any way different from the norm. Yet the books relevance and appeal are broader, this collection of poems explores in simple and moving verse the complexities of relationships between all parents and offspring. Her poems are ...

The evangelisation of Aneityum, the southernmost island in the New Hebrides (now called Vanuatu) seemed little more than a remote possibility in 1848 but within a decade there was a thriving Christian community there and it became the home base for work on the other islands which made up the New Hebrides. It is a story of triumphs and disasters, breakthroughs and setbacks. At a time when Christian missionary activity is viewed with suspicion o...

When those who have been abused, especially sexually abused, hear stories of Jesus passion with an Interpretation that suggests they unite their suffering to those of Jesus so that they too may experience resurrection, they may be led to believe that their abuse is part of a divine plan. This book offers a fresh listening to the gospel passion narratives and overturns such an interpretation, for these are stories of humiliation and abuse that ...

This book of interviews is a timely one. At a time when Christianity and religions in general, are under sustained attack from new atheists such as Richard Dawkins and the late Christopher Hitchens, there is an urgent need for intelligent, thoughtful, clear and honest reflections on faith which can be widely accessed and understood. In A faith to live by many of the interview subjects explain how they are able to believe in, and live by, their...

This book is written from an intentionally progressive Christian perspective. It draws together multiple strands from the authors personal and professional life: critical biblical scholarship, field archaeology, parish ministry, seminary teaching and personal religious practice. It presents a profile of what Jesus may have been like within the context of Second Temple Judaism as well as certain aspects of the Jesus tradition within the earlies...