http://www.journeyonline.com.au/ Opinions and Reviews from Journey en-au Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:51:00 +1000 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:51:00 +1000 PHP bruce.mullan@ucaqld.com.au osker.lau@ucaqld.com.au http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=4&articleId=2443
Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Kay Millsom, Maryborough) Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:50:52 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=4&articleId=2442 ONE OF the most common questions I’ve been asked in the past few weeks is, “What do you think about a PM who does not believe in God?” This causes us to think about how Christians engage in the political arena in a pluralist ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Rev Bruce Johnson) Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:13:58 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=5&articleId=2438 Monarch Books, 2009, RRP $19.99Tara Burton is the community liaison officer for Journey and as a teenager she suffered from self-esteem issues.SCARS AND Stilettos is a compelling story of an exotic dancer, Harmony, who found Christianity and ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Harmony Dust) Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:59:42 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=5&articleId=2441 Darton, Longman and Todd Ltd, 2010 RRP; $34.95 Michelle Cook is in Cape York Patrol and St Luke’s Weipa and is interested in helping members of her congregation see their work as part of their own ministry. This book provides a thought ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au ( Esther D Reed ) Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:02:20 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=5&articleId=2440 Fortress Press Minneapolis, 2009 RRP: $44.95 Reviewed by Bruce Bartleet, minister at the Fassifern Uniting Church Author Magnus Zetterholm attempts to focus on Paul’s relation to Judaism and on the question of whether he should be seen as a ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Magnus Zetterholm ) Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:00:19 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=5&articleId=2439 Wiley, 2006RRP: $19.95Phil Smith is a journalist, an elder at Pine Rivers Uniting Church, and has an interest in early church history.WHILE HUNTING for a biography of Saint Benedict at a council library I marvelled at how fiction such as The Da ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Rena Pederson) Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:01:54 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=4&articleId=2401 ACCORDING TO the most recent census statistics, atheism is the fastest growing “religion” in Australia. So often science is blamed for undermining the faith of people. It is still popularly believed that science and religion are in ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Rev Bruce Johnson) Thu, 1 Jul 2010 15:13:31 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=5&articleId=2419 Templeton Press, 2009 RRP $48.95  Reviewed by Pastor Jenny Coombes of Murgon, previously a high school science teacher, now exploring the area of spirituality and excited by possibilities.  IMAGINE WALKING around a crowded ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Edited by Pranab Das) Tue, 6 Jul 2010 10:57:24 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=5&articleId=2420 Templeton Press, 2009 RRP $34.95 Reviewed by Rev Heather den Houting, minister at Kenmore Uniting Church, who is fascinated by the way we hold the conversations between science and theology. THIS IS an exciting book for anyone who is interested in ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Joseph Silk) Tue, 6 Jul 2010 11:44:51 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=5&articleId=2414 Templeton Press, 2009 RRP: $48.95 Reviewed by Phil Smith THIS BEAUTIFULLY published book is the result of blending wonderful skills and life experiences. The Italian authors could easily be pigeon holed as an astrophysicist and electronics ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Marco Bersanelli and Mario Gargantini) Tue, 6 Jul 2010 15:40:05 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=5&articleId=2412  Published by Paulist Press, 2009 RRP: $39.95 Reviewed by Rev Dr Noel Park , who spent many years as a member of several medical/hospital ethics committees. An Introduction to Bioethics is a significant contribution in an evolving field of ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Thomas A. Shannon and Nicholas J. Kockler) Tue, 6 Jul 2010 11:48:23 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=5&articleId=2415 Templeton Press, West Comshohocken, PA, USA, 2009 RRP $33.95 Reviewed by Alan Cook, a computer enthusiast who teaches the not-so-young to use computers and looks after the PowerPoint at Wavell Heights Uniting Church. IN THIS relatively short ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Noreen Herzfield) Tue, 6 Jul 2010 11:10:16 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=5&articleId=2418 Lion Hudson RRP $39.95 Reviewed by Bob Warrick UNITING CHURCH people often affirm that ‘we are a pilgrim people’ but how do we understand the word ‘pilgrim’? Bradley’s ‘Pilgrimage’ adds meaning to the ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Ian Bradley) Tue, 6 Jul 2010 11:52:11 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=5&articleId=2417 Jossey-Bass, 2009 RRP $32.95 THIS IS the 85th edition of The Minister’s Manual 2010 – The Minister’s Complete Sourcebook.  In that time you would imagine that they have learned a thing or two and you would be right.  ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Edited by Lee McGlone) Tue, 6 Jul 2010 11:52:54 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=5&articleId=2416 Self published. New revised ed. n.d. RRP $14.95 Reviewed by Rev Dr Marian Zaunbrecher, Associate General Secretary of the Queensland Synod HAVING EXPERIENCED a long drawn out period of depression in my life I am attracted to any book offering ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (William Willkie) Tue, 6 Jul 2010 11:53:26 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=5&articleId=2413
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Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Rev Glenda Blakefield, Acting General Secretary of the Uniting Church Assembly) Wed, 7 Jul 2010 09:50:37 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=4&articleId=2408 Journey continues its exploration of Brian McLaren’s 10 questions that he says are transforming the church. This month we look at the gospel question. I RECENTLY came across a writer who suggested that we should be able to summarise the ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Duncan Macleod ) Thu, 1 Jul 2010 14:24:08 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=4&articleId=2406 A YOUNG child went walking with her dad in a forest. As some children do, she wandered off without the adults noticing. Creating obvious panic he searched in vain, calling in everyone to help. Night fall descended and the search had to be called ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Michael Knight) Thu, 1 Jul 2010 15:56:01 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=4&articleId=2405 I BELIEVE one of the greatest and most powerful ways we can experience God is through his creation. I have found this in my own experience of God and seen others, both believers and non-believers, find God in nature. There is nothing quite like ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Rebeccah Weatherford ) Thu, 1 Jul 2010 16:09:25 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=4&articleId=2404 CREATION HAS an apparent randomness. Some people I meet demonstrate this more than others. If I were the creator there would have been a lot more straight lines involved. There is a natural tendency to seek methods and procedures that bring order. I ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Eric Woodrow) Thu, 1 Jul 2010 16:08:15 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=4&articleId=2403
Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Dr Frank Stootman) Thu, 1 Jul 2010 13:42:36 +1000 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?categoryId=4&articleId=2402 I HAVE enjoyed two DVDs recently that have made me think about the relationship between faith and belief in a higher power and the mind. Both films originate from a very secular understanding of faith, which is one of the things I enjoyed about ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au (Mardi Lumsden, Editor) Thu, 1 Jul 2010 10:49:52 +1000