Peter Bentley’s review of Christopher Watkin’s Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible’s Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture Given the sheer volume of reviews around, I did wonder if I could say anything of use, and up… Continue Reading
By Peter Bentley A Review of Keeping Faith: How Christian Organisations Can Stay True to the Way of Jesus (2023) by Stephen Judd, John Swinton, Kara Martin. One could think this is a perennial topic, but it has only had… Continue Reading
BOOK REVIEW by Penny Reeve Raising Tech-healthy Humans was a well-deserving shortlisted book in this year’s Australian Christian Book of the Year. Written by productivity consultant Daniel Sih, this book encourages families to pre-empt the screen/tech balance before things get… Continue Reading
Fizkes/Shutterstock Hugh Breakey, Griffith University Yasha Mounk’s new book, The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time, explores a radical progressive ideology that has been taking the world by storm. From its unlikely beginnings in esoteric… Continue Reading
Most Christians are more concerned with heaven and the narrow path to get there, but what of the broad path that Jesus told us leads to destruction? (Matthew 7:13-14 KJV) What “destruction” means is at the centre of what the… Continue Reading
Launching his book “Being Christian After Christendom” Rietveld explained that one effect of the radical change in the social landscape after the fall of Christendom – the time when Christian assumptions pervaded society – has been to make Christianity less… Continue Reading
“Freeing men and women to be who they were created to be” is how Marty Woods describes his 50 years of mentoring mostly young men, a form of ministry that has grown hundreds of disciples who make other disciples. Woods,… Continue Reading
Seek, a new book, not the employment website, comes with a subhead that promises “Real world questions / Real world answers.” That’s exactly what the author David Robertson, a Scott currently serving in the Sydney Anglican diocese, provides – he… Continue Reading
A very practical application for prayer in a time of crisis was recounted by Amy Brown, who lost her job as a result of the attempt by National Party leader John Barilaro get a top job as trade commissioner for… Continue Reading
A new book, Statements from the Soul, gathers essays that read as cries from the heart from religious leaders who back a positive response to the Uluru Statement from the Heart, including Indigenous Voice in some fo… Notable essays for… Continue Reading