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Sr Anthony is a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of Nazareth. She has taught for many years in schools throughout Australia and in her native Scotland where, in 1977 she was nominated, 'Teacher of the Year for Scotland'.She has a wide variety of interests including Tai Chi, poetry, gardening, birdwatching, environmental issues, social justice and methods of prayer from different cultures. Sister Anthony is also an active member of 'Dr...

This collection includes a large number of previously unpublished poems, as well as poems published on my website and my two previous collections, In The Water Was The Fire and Souvenirs of Spirit. It also reprints a number of prayers and blessings related to Mercy, some of which were commissioned by Mercy International Centre, Dublin. These poems and prayers are essentially about encounter: encounter with the Divine, the natural world, the Ce...

As the U. S. A. Provincial of the Blessed Sacrament Congregation shuffled the responses of the delegates at the General Chapter in Chicago on the desk before him, it dawned on him that one of the delegates was quite unlike the others, that he was in effect, a mystic and worse, a POET! That delegate, dear reader was none other me. See page 41-42 , IN THE LAND OF GOD to see what the fuss was about.

Denise Scott lives with her 2 children in Canberra in the A.C.T. She suffered antenatel and postnatal depression with her second child. Her work experience has included Nursing and family support work. Since graduating from the Australian Catholic University's Bachelor of Social Work in 1998, Denise has worked in Child Protection Services, Disability Services, and is currently working for Centacare providing individual, family and relationship...

In Cassocks in the Wilderness, the author tells the story of his highly regulated life as a young seminarian locked away in the isolation of a sandstone building in the Blue Mountains. He reveals how he came to be there, the characters he lived with, his teachers and his companions. His memory of events and occasions is captured with a certain barbed humour, sharp and surprisingly honest, but at times with a touch of sadness and a dose of ange...

This book opens up a fresh dialogue about marrying and raising a family. To make clear the newness of his approach the author has used the verb "marrying" in the title for this book rather than the abstract noun "marriage".Don Burnard shifts the emphasis from defending marriage to exploring how a dynamic and committed partnering can become a psychologically rich life style. Because marrying is the most individualistic and personal behaviour a ...

With familiar candour and colour, John Bodycomb excoriates church leadership for evading, and layering over with platitudes, two huge questions:• What future for organised religion in Western societies? and (in light of this) • What future for the so-called 'religious professional'?Fifty years a sociologist of religion, specialising in the ups and downs of organised religion, Bodycomb is plain-spoken and provocative. Institutional Christianity...