The book for review is Martin Warner, The Habit of Holiness: Daily Prayer, Morehouse 2004, pp 194, $39.95 (it’s a prayer book)

 

And news like this

 

 

World Refugee Day
On June 20, people all over the world will gather around events and activities to commemorate this day. READ ON The dark side of Australians. READ ON

Church embraces Moot new ways
A pioneering new form of church will get official recognition when a minister is ordained to serve a church based on relationship rather than location. READ ON Cost cutting and fresh expressions of church. READ ON

Good Friday footy no-no
Church leaders have condemned a bid to turn Good Friday into a great day to go to the football. READ ON

Presence
New patterns for rural English worship. READ ON

Let justice roll
US faith-community partnership announces national election-year initiative. READ ON Resources to challenge candidates, voters to address poverty. READ ON

Australian churches say: Vote [1] No More Poverty
Australian religious welfare agencies, including UnitingCare, have invited politicians and media to the launch of the Vote [1] No More Poverty campaign in Canberra, June 24.
READ ON

Poverty - what do you mean?
Poverty is better understood as "capability depravation". READ ON Queensland Synod resolution. READ ON Cost-benefit analysis. READ ON “The cancellation of debts owed to the IMF would remove a major impediment to poverty eradication and economic growth in Asia, Africa and Latin America and enable the nations to invest their own resources in health care, education, and poverty reduction.” READ ON Lectionary reflections on food and justice. READ ON Hunger-based responsive readings. READ ON

Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition
... to be exaggerated into a kind of legend. READ ON

Clergy in danger of being left behind
More religious leaders engage in their sermons and classes the media expressions of religion. READ ON

Website taps into rich spiritual legacy
The Henri Nouwen Society has launched a new website. READ ON

What have we become?
Morality lost, as Australia refuses to acknowledge its implication in torture. READ ON Fair place a "pleasant fiction". READ ON

WCC calls for Year of Indigenous Languages
A delegation from the World Council of Churches' (WCC) Indigenous Peoples Programme has called for a UN-sponsored "International Year of Indigenous Languages" in 2006. READ ON

 

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I’m going to try for at least one Monty Python headline a month

 

Have a good weekend

 

Stephen

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