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This new series of reflections on the Sunday Gospels in the year of Luke is not concerned primarily to be commentary on the text but on the message of the text, their purpose is not so much to inform as to inspire and to discover Lukes teaching about how we are to live with one another in the stuff of the everyday. Written for priests and preachers, parents and teachers and for all who seek the transformation and fullness of life God offers us...

For Christians, a strange dislocation often seems to exist between the ecological crisis and a heritage that includes a Creator God. This book turns to the prophetic tradition - a tradition generated in the dislocation of crises in the past Î"Ã+ÿ and draws this tradition into engagement with the ecological humanities and with ministry studies. The author discovers root memories that hold. Here is a wisdom that could unleash our passion and en...

This fine collection of scholarly articles welcomes us into a conversational space, engaging the concept of mission in a changing world where past approaches are assessed, and new challenges engaged, in a process of redefining the meaning and focus of mission in an increasingly secular but multicultural and religiously diverse world. Consideration of important questions is the driving force for research: What theological resources does the chu...

Graeme Rutherford suggests that while many people in the churches have collected over their lifetimes various bits and pieces of information about the Bible " stories, personalities, histories, teachings, psalms " often they lack a way of putting it all together in a meaningful way. He acknowledges that many Christians simply have no awareness or understanding that the Bible has an overarching storyline. His book provides what he calls a "~clo...

The untimely death in June 2014 of Bishop John McIntyre of Gippsland deprived the Anglican Church of Australia of a rare prophetic voice. He spoke out powerfully on behalf of Indigenous people, asylum seekers, gay people, the victims of war and conflict, the disadvantaged, and the environment. A man whose heart lay with the alien and the outsider, he challenged the church to become a more inclusive, open-hearted and prayerful community fully e...

One of Australia's leading biblical scholars offers a wonderful gift to the Church to help Catholics and other Christians celebrate the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy proclaimed by Pope Francis. In this book, she combines deep scholarship and insight into the biblical text with an enthusiasm to uncover the richness of the "~mercy texts' that abound in the books of Old and New Testaments. The Blessing of Mercy is also an ecological exploration ...

Your Final Choice is not a how-to book, but a how-to-think-about book, on a controversial and emotional topic: hastening your death when terminally ill. I have now read this book twice, each time at a single sitting! It provides an easily accessible framework for consideration of the issues around the end of life and language for expressing and justifying personal choices, whatever they may be. I wish all my patients had it and talked to th...

Celebrating two hundred years since his birth, these reflections recall the life and spirituality of Don Bosco whose Salesian order has touched the lives of millions of young people, offering them support, hope and future. They also call on today's Salesians to consider the current situation of young people and challenge them to re-express their Founder's vision in the reality of each day for the future of youth the world over.

Lukas Vischer (1928-2008) was Director of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches 1966-1979. The re-issue of his seminal book, first published in 1980, explores the concept of Intercession in Old and New Testaments and in the tradition of the Church, and urges Christians to take seriously his call for those in the churches to pray - deliberately and regularly - for all who call on Christ's name.

Hard work never killed anybody" is a mantra repeated by everyone from prime ministers to workers, but this national belief contributes to injury and death in the workplace every day. In his ministry to bereaved families and injured workers John Bottomley has noted how the ideology of hard work has been exaggerated to the point of becoming an idolatry. This book confronts that idolatry with Bottomley's long experience, personal stories, and the...

What was Jesus hoping to accomplish by laying down his life for his friends? And what has his death on the cross 2000 years ago got to do with us today? These are the questions CRUX answers, by re-examining the place of the story of the cross in the process of transformation. This book contends that the cross has the power to inspire a faith that can challenge the status quo and infuse our work for love and justice with infinite significance, ...

Out And Out has been written in response to the questions that Dave Andrews, the radical Christian community worker, has been asked again and again by Christian community workers all over the world. And the answers that he shares with us in this book have been forged and tested in the fire of his own personal, vocational and professional experience as a grass roots community worker. Out And Out is an attempt to explore what he calls Christian ...

Down Under has been written in response to the questions that Dave Andrews, the world-renowned Australian community worker, has been asked again and again by community workers all over the world. And the answers that he shares with us in this book have been forged and tested in the fire of his own personal, vocational and professional experience as a grass roots community worker. Down Under addresses the adverse effects of professionalisation ...

Something in the Blood is a collection of vampire stories with a difference. Ever wondered what would happen if a group of Christian writers were each asked to write a vampire story?   That's exactly what occurred in the case of the contributors to this volume.   Given the fascination seen in many novels and films with vampires, and the usual darkness of these stories, one group of Christian authors decided to engage the genre rather than igno...

Reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians continues to tear at the heart of Australia, exposing our struggle for soul. In the deepest sense, this quest is not just political and social, but also spiritual and human. Reconciliation: Searching for Australia's Soul remains timely as Norman Habel explores the significance of the continuing reconciliation process for the spiritual dimension as part of Australias identity. He ...

Wilhelm Habel is my great grandfather. This is his story and my reading of his life. As I researched his journey, I began to wonder whether there was a hidden link between his spirit and mine or whether the strong connection is simply genetic. I became curious as to whether my great grandfather had an influence on my identity even before I knew his story. After considerable research, reflection and analysis of the family stories, a radical cha...

Bishop Rosendo Salvado's 1883 Report to Propaganda Fide provides a detailed account of the Benedictine mission among the Noongar people of Western Australia, illustrated by the origins, development and condition of New Norcia from 1844 to 1883. A primary source for those interested in the history of the Benedictine mission of New Norcia, or with an interest in Colonial Australia and the history of multi-cultural contact between Indigenous Aust...

Things that Jesus said treats parables of Jesus in all four Gospels. Usually, most scholars think of parables restricted to the first three Gospels, the Synoptic Gospels. The first half of this book examines Synoptic parables. Unusually, a few scholars identify parables in the Fourth Gospel. This book is in the unusual category. In the second half there is an analysis of Johannine parables. This book is designed for personal and group study of...

There's nothing more likely to concentrate one's mind on survival than to be in a disabled transport aircraft, almost out of fuel, the cabin depressurised and the landing gear stuck. Especially when it happens at 80ËSSouth above a vast, chill white desert that is Antarctica.Such an experience focused the author's mind on those life and death events from which some people walk away unscathed, while for others an unforgiving Antarctic is their t...

Many lay people in the Christian churches have not been kept up to date with the latest scholarship about their faith.   Many have left the churches because a faith expressed in ancient mythological language and images no longer seems credible in our postmodern, secular, scientific world. God, Ethics and the Secular Society  not only re-examines Christian faith in terms of the best contemporary scholarship, and its relationship to modern scien...