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Tuesday, 30 July 2024
| Stephen Davis
History’s shadows will never find rest / Until the wanderer finds love and care
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Tuesday, 23 July 2024
| Darren Mitchell
J.D. Vance’s memoir was extolled as bringing enlightenment to ignorant elites who no longer understood white working-class America, providing an explanation for how Trump won over the resentful victims of decades of growing inequality. In the subversive interpretation of Howard’s film version, Hillbilly Elegy is a timely elegy for American democracy.
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Monday, 22 July 2024
| Gordon Preece
For young and mature Christians alike, Siu Fung draws on Christ, Paul’s and his own experience, offering a rich blend of suffering and sustainable spirituality for the long haul. But he also draws on the global experience of suffering Christians in poverty and persecution as a great encouragement to western readers.
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Tuesday, 16 July 2024
| Caitlin Buchanan
Snowflakes tickle the tops of the trees, / Snow-kissed, sun missed, blanketed in the frigid snow.
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Friday, 28 June 2024
| Karly Michelle Edgar
Eve’s Return is an in-depth, comprehensive, at times challenging, but deeply invitational reflection on how we live together in community. Andrea leaves more than enough imaginative room to draw out the parallels and disconnections to our own reality.
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Tuesday, 18 June 2024
| Paul Tyson
In our visual learning culture, catechesis is an increasingly strange and foreign idea; its slow and oral work runs deeply counter to the spirit of our times. Charles Ringma’s pocket catechism seeks to re-centre our minds on deep and time-tested Christian truths.
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Monday, 10 June 2024
| Miriam Dale
God must have had such fun making you! / With layers of heart in your fingertips / Everything you touch, stitched / With your care and courage.
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Monday, 3 June 2024
| John Kidson
Monday, 27 May 2024
| Andrea Do Santos
The idea of getting something for nothing goes against the grain of human nature. Baird’s book shows us how grace lights our daily lives as much as the Sun starts our days and the Moon signifies our nights.
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Wednesday, 15 May 2024
| Chris Marshall
The magpie trills a joyful refrain, / A song of Australia it is
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