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[[Category:Spirituality and Religion|*]]__NOTOC__ __NOTOC__ <!--Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=An Atheist's History of BeliefFrederic Seager|authortitle=Matthew KnealeJesus, the Man and the Myth: A Jewish Reading of the New Testament
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|genre=Politics Spirituality and SocietyReligion|summary=I’ve been an atheist since I was old enough to take brought up in a view family where religion played little or no part. Culturally Irish Catholic on one side and Welsh Methodist on the subjectother, nobody really discussed religion and the adults around me ranged from lapsed to agnostic to atheist. (Many atheists would argue that we’re all atheists at birthOther than the odd church wedding or baptism or the school nativity play, but that’s not a subject for a book review). I didn't think too much about faith or what people did have to take Religious Studies at school but have entirely forgotten almost everything I learned!or didn't believe.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099584425</amazonuk>B092BWWG9Y
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Reverend Adam SmallbonePeter Owen Jones|title=The Rev DiariesConversations with Nature|rating=4.5|genre=HumourSpirituality and Religion|summary=Adam Smallbone wasn’t always a vicarOne of the comments made when I was offered this beautiful book for review was that it's not very long. He used to work for Having read the Bristol Housing Departmentbook twice over, enabling his father-in-law to tell everyone he worked I'in property'. From there, his initial calling was m brought back inescapably to a rural church in Suffolk which did nothing to prepare him for thisthe Spanish proverb that Life may be short, his current London inner city parishbut it is broad. Indeed, he In this case I's not prepared for Adoha (m brought to the Nigerian parishioner with 19 grandchildren and 'idea that the bottom length of God') or Colin, life is not the point; the homeless alcoholic who has adopted Adam and his wife Alex (Mrs Vicarage to Colin)point is its depth. But then Alex also has a lot to get used to; after all, she didn't actually marry a vicarPeter Owen Jones dives deep.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718178394</amazonuk>1912992418
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Burqas, Baseball, and Apple Pie: Being Muslim in AmericaRichard Brook|authortitle=Ranya Tabari IdlibyUnderstanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life
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|genre=Spirituality and ReligionLifestyle|summary=I can’t imagine it’s am a firm believer that easy to be a Muslim in most areas sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of the USAlatter. Even Not so very long ago, if you don’t ‘look like’ I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a Muslimfavourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, even if you don’t drop so there is a predisposition towards expecting to your knees in like the direction of Mecca 5 times a daybook, even if you give your kids arguably Jewish names. And being openly Muslim cannot have got any easier in the wake of 9/11. This it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book examines one Muslim-American family’s life and the constant challenges they face from friendsI needed to read, neighbours and teachersright now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230341845</amazonuk>1800461682
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Hill_Atlas|title=The Atheist's PrayerAtlas of Monsters|author=Amy R BiddleStuart Hill and Sandra Lawrence|rating=3.54|genre=General Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I don’t shy away from a book with a little edgeThere are monsters and mysterious characters, such as trolls, leprechauns, in fact [[:Category:Chuck Palahniuk|Chuck Palahniuk]] is one goblins and minotaurs. They're the stuff of my favourite authors far too many stories to remain mysterious, and his books can be so sharp you can shave with every schoolchild should know all about them. On There are monsters and mysterious characters, such as Gog and Magog, Scylla and Charybdis, and the surface ''The Atheist’s Prayer'' would seem bunyip. They are what you find if you take an interest in this kind of thing to be courting controversythe next level; why else even if you cannot place them all on a map you should have come across them. But there are monsters and mysterious characters, such a provocative title? Butas the dobhar-chu, is it really that shocking? Nope. This is a story about how people deal with the modern world llambigyn y dwr, and what happens when dangerous ideals infect the girtablili. To gain any knowledge of them you really need a vulnerable groupbook that knows its stuff.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780995822</amazonuk>A book like this one…
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1999731506|title=Mindfulness and the Natural WorldSpiritual Atheist|author=Claire ThompsonNick Seneca Jankel|rating=32|genre=Spirituality and ReligionLifestyle|summary=''Spiritual Atheist'' is a new 'bible' for the spiritual not the religious, according to the tagline. This is a taboo smashing book appealed to me for a couple which solves the problem of reasons; I have recently completed a workshop on mindfulness modernity and have been attempting explains how to put some of the ideas into practice throughout my daily life, be a 'spiritual technologist' who can live and I love nature and spending time outdoors cyclingfreely in 'spiritual fullness' without relying on a belief in god. ThereforeTouching on everything from 'brain science' to AI, this seemed the perfect choice Jankel offers a 'path to learn more about combining the two and exploring fresh perspectives in my everyday life. I began reading this hardcover with high expectations, particularly as the book was beautifully laid out with unique artwork and philosophical quotes included. Howevermeaning', although there were some insightful ideas and inspiring thoughts presented amongst the five chapters, overall I was a little disappointed in what the book had allowing us to offermove beyond consumerism towards an ethical life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401024</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789015200|title=Rogerson's Book of Numbers: The culture of numbers from 1001 Nights to the Seven Wonders of the WorldBe Your Higher Self|author=Barnaby RogersonSamesh Ramjattan
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|genre=Spirituality and Religion
|summary=One book, split into two testaments, regarding a holy trinity, the principal part known from four writers, in a world abutting another where five pillars There are important, up against a world where a sixlot of self-pointed star holds so many meanings… Ithelp books about: it's obvious from just a quick dash through one of the most schoolboy-friendly parts thriving sections of religion that numbers are importantthe average bookshop, but it's not always easy to find the book you need. This Samesh Ramjattan has addressed this problem in ''Be Your Higher Self'', a book, although counting down from multitudes which allows us all to that late-comer zeromake sense of our place in the world, brings them all to as most of us, with brief notes about why they all hold relevance where whichever country, civilisation or religion is concernedonly glimpse our true potential and few people ever achieve it. In the endEven with hard work and dedication, I'm sure obstacles present themselves and it's difficult to understand why or how they can be overcome. Ramjattan offers us a lot more user-friendlyguide to the spirit world, interestingthe chakras, karma and will be a lot more popular, than reincarnation as well as information about the original Book age of NumbersAquarius and the ego.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250995</amazonuk> It's a slim book - just 128 pages - so can it provide us with the answers we seek?
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 {{newreview|title=Inventing the Enemy: Essays on Everything|author=Umberto EcoFrontpage|ratingisbn=4|genre=History|summary=Imagine a sumptuous Italian feast in the sunlit-bathed ancient countryside near Milan. Next to you a gentleman talks and eats with furious energy. He tells of Dante, Cicero, and St Augustine and quotes a multitude of obscure troubadours from the Middle Ages. He repeats himself, gestures flamboyantly, nudges you sharply in the ribs, belches and even breaks wind. His conversation contains nuggets of information but in the flow of his discourse there is a fondness for iteration and reiteration. He throws bones over his shoulder and when he reaches the cheese course - definitely too much information on the mouldy bacteria! When you finally get up things the elderly gentleman has said prompt your imagination. You are better informed, intrigued and prodded to examine his discourse again and again, even if only to challenge what you have heard. Such are the effects of reading Eco’s essays in ''Inventing the Enemy''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099553945</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMahnke_Lore|title=Sisters of the East End|author=Helen Batten|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Katie Crisp had never intended to become a nun. Raised by non-religious parents, her family frowned upon organised religion and when Katie started secretly going to church, they strongly disapproved. When Katie ran to the aid The World of a stroke victimLore, she had a vision that changed her life. She saw herself dressed as a nun with a large silver cross hanging from her neck. She decided to follow her calling and join the community of St John the Divine, a group of Anglican nuns dedicated to nursing and midwifery. She thus shed her old identity and became known as Sister Catherine Mary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091951771</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Anti-JudaismVolume 1: A History of a Way of ThinkingMonstrous Creatures|author=David NirenbergAaron Mahnke
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|genre=HistorySpirituality and Religion|summary=Initially the choice of title seemed an odd one Every country, every town, every village has a folktale – a story passed down through generations that often focuses on account of the more widely used term, anti-Semitismdark and unexplained. The distinction is quickly made thoughNo matter how the modern world moves on, there's a still a part of everyone that unlike the latter, anti-Judaism does not need real Jews is vulnerable to a good tale. From ghosts to flourishwerewolves, but is fuelled by an idea alone. In fact this is a core tenet way of Nirenberg’s thesis. Throughout history wendigos and elves, author Aaron Mahnke delivers the reader legends from all over the idea world, whilst examining how they've become part of ‘Judaism’ is raised as an existential spectre in societies where there may be no Jewish members at all. This is a chilling realityour collective imaginations, and Nirenberg charts still striking fear into the course hearts of many of how this came to beus today. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781851131</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carolyn MathewsSaxena_Jaya|title=Transforming PandoraBasic Witches|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summaryauthor=When we first meet Pandora Armstrong in the spring of 2003 she's grieving for her husband, Mike, who had died just a few weeks before. It hadn't been his first heart attack and he had reduced his workload but this attack was fatal. He was only in his fifties J Saxena and Pandora feels that he'd been snatched away from her as they'd only been married for a few years. When a friend suggests that she goes with her to an Evening of Clairvoyance she runs out of excuses to refuse and although she's not exactly ''convinced'' by what she hears there's a lingering doubt. A spirit voice mentioned her children and Pandora was adamant that she didn't have any children - it's actually quite a sore point - but that wasn't true of Mike.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780997450</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Wm Paul Young|title=Cross RoadsJ Zimmerman
|rating=4
|genre=Spirituality and Religion
|summary=WmBefore I started this book I was expecting to be thrown into the world of magic and would know how to levitate by the end of the first chapter. Paul Young's debut novel ''The Shack'' Unsurprisingly, I was a revelation in many wayswrong. Whilst many disagreed with his theologyHowever, it what I was refreshing to see such an overtly faith based met by was a book on that explores the bestseller lists. Personallyorigins of witchcraft, I found it teaches you how to dress and act like a very moving story witch and whilst I thought it helpful on some points, it tended contains spells ranging from accepting compliments to skim over others. Now we get to see if Young can repeat his success with his new novel, ''Cross Roads''conjuring up a relaxing Netflix binge.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444745972</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danaan ElderhillWright_Universe|title=The Magic Book of CookeryUniverse and Life but Not Everything|author=Anthony Christian Wright
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|genre=Spirituality and Religion
|summary=Back in the seventeenth century in what was then the Kingdom of Bohemia there was I often wonder - usually after a coven moment of witches. As was common shaking my fist at that time witches the news on TV - what my manifesto for life and society would look like were hunted and they had I to hide their beliefswrite it down. The Friends I have all sorts of Euphrosynethoughts about these things, as they called themselves, turned to this deity (she's one of from the three graces and there to remind us to have fun) in their time metaphysics of need who we are and developed rituals which could be assimilated into social gatheringswhere we come from, allowing them right down to hide in plain sightdetailed critiques of quite insignificant government policies. Their book I've never done such an exercise - The Magic Book of Cookery - vanished along with mostly because I lack the time, the coven when they were discovered but Danaan Elderhill wants us to benefit from its ancient wisdom - patience and its funthe diligence required. It seems like an enormous task.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0092BX6O0</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charity Seraphina Fields1850788332|title=I am not a BuddhistRosie: Note to Self |author=Claire Connor and G P Taylor
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|genre=Spirituality and ReligionGeneral Fiction|summary=''I am not a Buddhist'' is an individual through Buddhism and its principles seen from In the point first of view of one a five book deal Claire Connor, writing in partnership with GP Taylor, brings us a modern romance based loosely on the path. Charity Seraphina Fields attempts - through her own musings on this ancient Eastern philosophy - to explain why Buddhism is better suited to story of Ruth from the rich West than the poorer EastBible. For Fields, the question isn't ''Why am I suffering without all those things I want?''. The right question This is actually ''Why am I still suffering even though I have everything I want?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1475085664</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eamon Duffy|title=Saintstotal chick-lit, Sacrilege and Sedition|rating=4|genre=History|summary=In the introduction to this book Eamon Duffy, Professor of the History of Christianity at Cambridge History, points out that all too often historians have written about the English Reformation from strongly polarised views. Taking two extreme examples, he cites one which states that the people of England, formerly happy medieval Catholics, were forced by King Henry to abandon their religion, and England was never merry again, alongside another which speaks of the English being oppressed by corrupt churchmen until King Henry gave them the Protestant nation for which they longed. On the following page, he suggests that first few pages I thought it had long been an axiom of historical writing that the success of the Reformation in England was an inevitable consequence of the dysfunction and unpopularity of late medieval Catholicism. Such remarks were evidently made by writers with an axe to grind. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441181172</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Timothy Radcliffe|title=Take the Plunge|rating=4|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=There appears just going to be more Christian literature around than ever before at the moment. I don't know whether this is a response to Richard Dawkins' ''The God Delusion'', which has meant that Christian writers and publishers have increased their outputsvery light, or because I'm noticing it morefunny romance story. Timothy Radcliffe's ''Take However, the Plunge'' is taking story quickly takes a more or less opposite view to that depressing turn and the rest of Dawkins, exploring the importance book is as much an exploration of baptism in everyday life and arguing that there grief as it is no aspect of life that cannot be touched if you are baptised and therefore living with faitha romance novel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441118489</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Youssef Ziedan and Jonathan Wright (translator)Santiago_Returning|title=Azazeel|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=An archaeologist in a time and place close to that of modern troubled Syria discovers thirty scrolls. These are the writings of a Coptic Christian monk born into Roman dominated Egypt in AD391. A door thus opens into an ancient world and the emerging vista stretches from the present into the distant past, as if eliciting an omnipresent dimension to reality. The fluent evocative prose flows like a meandering river or a ribbon connecting continuously the present moment with the ancient world. A panorama emerges dominated by Rome and Constantinople and extends to Alexandria, Jerusalem and Antioch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848874278</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewReturning Home|author=Roger Scruton|title=The Face of God: The Gifford LecturesStephan Santiago
|rating=3.5
|genre=Spirituality and Religion
|summary=Atheist culture [[:Category:Stephan Santiago|Stephan Santiago]] has recently become more mainstream, thanks experienced life in part to the success of Richard Dawkins' book, ''The God Delusion''. However, religion does still have a part to play, with Prince Charles urging the United Kingdom to be more tolerant towards faiths other than the Church of England he was raised as part of and even the Prime Minister talking about faith issues. Since 1888, the Gifford Lectures have been given to way that'promote and diffuse...the knowledge of God'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847065244</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Karen French|title=The Hidden Geometry of Life|rating=2.5|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=''The Hidden Geometry of Life'' aims s led him to explore the esoteric and often mystical meanings contained in believe we''shapes and patterns [re all on a soul journey back home – that] represent ideas and distil the essence of reality''place we inhabited before we were born. This mystical angle was book is a little bit of a unpleasant surprise guide as to how we can optimise this journey for this reader. I should have had a better look at Karen French's Amazon pages and previous workourselves, but I was attracted by an exciting-sounding title, attractive cover those around us and and references to author's artour children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780281080</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Grace McCleenWilbourne_Shepherd|title=The Land Shepherd of DecorationAnother Flock|author=David Wilbourne
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Grace McCleen's debut novel, ''The Land of Decoration'' paints an original, unsettling, sometimes dark and generally rather wonderful picture. Narrated by ten year old Judith, raised by her father who is a fundamental religious follower of the end of the world is nigh variety, it looks at bullying, both at school and in more general society, faith and the possible rejection thereof and the strength of childhood imagination.
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{{newreview
|author=Roman Krznaric
|title=The Wonderbox: Curious Histories of How to Live
|rating=5
|genre=History
|summary='How should we live?' asks author Roman Krznaric. To answer this ancient question, he looks to history. 'I believe that the future of the art of living can be found by gazing into the past', he says. Creating a book which is as full of curiosities as a Renaissance 'Wunderkammer', he has a stab at the big questions: love, belief, money, family, death. The result is a pot-pourri of delights which left this particular reader stimulated and invigorated.
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{{newreview
|author=David Malouf
|title=The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World
|rating=4
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=There's something quite uplifting about the physical brevity of David Malouf's 'The Happy Life' which is subtitled 'The Search for Contentment in the Modern World'. It suggests that it is easy to find, when of course, the whole point of the book is that despite, or perhaps because of, scientific and technological advances that have taken away many of the causes of true unhappiness in the world, it remains elusive for most. Who can say that they are truly happy? The book runs to less than 100 pages if you take out the Notes section, and the typeface is large. It is, by any reckoning a slim offering.
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{{newreview
|author=Christina Goodings and Annabel Hudson
|title=My Look and Point Bible
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
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This version of the bible for toddlers has been cleverly retold to engage little ones, with lots of illustrations, pictures to point at and words to learn. It includes stories from both the old and new testaments, from the creation and Noah through to the birth of Jesus as well as some of his parables and the crucifixion.
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{{newreview
|author=Alexandre Christoyannopoulos
|title=Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel
|rating=4.5
|genre=Spirituality and Religion
|summary=Whilst I[[:Category:David Wilbourne|David Wilbourne've long been s]] CV looks like a Christiancareer path for people who are hard-of-humoured. Banker, teacher of Ancient Greek, vicar, I've never considered myself an anarchistbishop…none of these are jobs normally connected in our minds with a jovial twinkle. My thinking is that anarchy is something youYet in David's case, we're more likely d be totally wrong to see on the news than on 'Songs of Praise'assume. However, there is a school The current Bishop of Llandaff takes us by the hand to show us episodes from his life as vicar of thought that suggests that Jesus' teachings were so counterthe character-cultural and so against Roman law packed Yorkshire parish of Helmsley proving that it constitutes anarchismtears of sorrow are equally shared with tears of laughter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845402472</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen ArmstrongPigliucci_How|title=In the Beginning: A New Interpretation of GenesisHow to be a Stoic|author=Massimo Pigliucci|rating=43.5
|genre=Spirituality and Religion
|summary=Armstrong's background (there's a page right at Stoicism is about developing the tools to deal as effectively as humanly possible with the beginning) is certainly diverse ensuing conflicts, does not demand perfection, and does not provide specific answers.'' For many readers, living in an age of rules to make us happy and interesting so I was looking forward the inevitable failure to reading what she had stick to saythem, this is an intensely reassuring sentence. And thankfullyPigliucci certainly makes Stoicism an appealing philosophy, I didnone which can sit alongside religious faith but doesn't have to rummage around looking for my own copy , one which doesn't demand Aristotelian heights of the bible (I've now located it) as Armstrong obligingly provides Genesis (intelligence, beauty or riches in order to truly succeed in beautifullife, old-fashioned typeface) here. So roughly two thirds is given over to her investigative prose and the remaining third is the actual book of Genesis, for handy referenceone which recognises life's messy difficulties.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555476</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Pearce_Biblical|authortitle=Yangzom Brauen A Biblical Theology Behind Music, Praise, and Katy DarbyshireWorship|titleauthor=Across Many Mountains: Three Daughters of TibetDr Mark Pearce
|rating=4
|genre=Biography
|summary=Fleeing your home can never be easy but when you are six, your only shoes are roughly hand-sewn and stuffed with hay, and your route is over the world's highest mountain range then it must be particularly challenging. This was the journey that Yangzom Brauen's mother took with her parents when they fled Tibet after the Chinese invasion of 1959. They were leaving behind all that they knew and travelling to India in the hope that they could find sanctuary in the country where the Dalai Lama was in exile. 'Across Many Mountains' is their story.
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{{newreview
|author=David Ovason
|title=Shakespeare's Secret Booke: Deciphering Magical and Rosicrucian Codes
|rating=3
|genre=Spirituality and Religion
|summary=One group of people that were convinced Music used in religions and worship itself goes back to the Chilean miners, Los 33, would be relieved beginning of their ordeal, were numerologistshumankind. For hundreds of years, it seems, they have held the number thirty-three In this book musician and theological academic [[:Category:Dr Mark Pearce|Dr Mark Pearce]] explores its Biblical history in good stead. It represents a lot of expression of the ego, or the soul, or Christian context as well as providing tips and suggestions for those involved in worship in the transformation of the spirit from one world to another. It doesn't boil down to just the 33 years Christ was supposed to have held His human incarnation, but refers to many ethereal, magical, alchemical transformations from state to statepresent day. And who can deny the Chilean mine was 2010's most vivid embodiment of hell - and that the 33 were reborn in coming back to life on earth?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905570260</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Leon DavisIles_Thoughts|title=Running Scared: For 22 Years He Was a Fugitive - The Corrupt Cop Busted by GodThoughts and Inner Journey of Dr. John Dee|author=Clair Iles
|rating=3.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Robert Davis was the eldest of nine children all living with their grandmother in New Orleans – on welfare. His grandmother was a good, honest woman and Davis loved and respected her, but money was so tight that he resorted to thieving to bring some extra food in for the family. He knew that she would be deeply upset about it, but hunger is hunger. In your heart you can't blame him and it seems that all is coming good when Davis becomes a respected police officer in the mid nineteen-seventies. He's living with a good, decent woman and looks set to have a good career. Great, you think, sometimes life ''is'' fair and it works out.
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{{newreview
|author=Carol Richards
|title=Columbanus: Poet, Preacher, Statesman, Saint
|rating=4
|genre=Spirituality and Religion
|summary=Richards [[:Category:Clair Iles|Clair Iles]] is , in her own words, a normal person who was educated at pains to point out straight away that the reader mustn't confuse Columbanus with Columba of Ionaa normal comprehensive school. She informs us that the latter did not travel extensively but the formerHowever, the subject of her book, did travel throughout parts of Europeshe's a normal person who hears dead people. She gives her subject Yes, Clair is a terrific introduction spiritualist with ability to hear from those who have passed on . In the coverpast they had generally been relatives or everyday folk. Imagine, describing him as 'poetthen, preacher, statesman, sainther surprise when she felt she was hearing from Elizabethan court polymath John Dee.' And then goes into much more detail about these areas Over a period of time she could feel his lifedictated thoughts and ideas in her mind and this book of the channelled words is the result.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845401905</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=G Willow WilsonWoodcock_Becoming|title=The Butterfly MosqueBecoming Reverend: A Young Woman's Journey to Love and Islamdiary|author=Matt Woodcock
|rating=4.5
|genre=AutobiographySpirituality and Religion|summary=This memoir is told in the first person so straight away there [[:Category:Matt Woodcock|Matt Woodcock]] is enjoying life: successful journalist, happily married and a connection with the readernew dream home bought and heavily mortgaged. The story starts - not in Egypt - only cloud on the horizon is their struggle to have children but they have faith in the USAIVF treatment as it's early days yet. Willow (lovely name) says she's ''in Then comes the funny turn Matt has on the market for way to a philosophystory one day.'' And in this search she is extremely thorough. She looks at mainstream religions - Christianity, Buddhism to name This takes him by surprise but two and puts them under the microscope, so to speakresulting clergy collar comes as a total shock. She dismisses all of them before settling on Islam. It appears to offer what she is after, what she is looking for, that enigmatic thing. But also, thereHe's some little twist which helps make her mind up. But not before she digs deep and seeks answers to complex and awkward questions. She reads and researches Islam and finds out surprising facts, which she shares with the reader. Willow is well-read and well-educated. She seems set for a good career normal bloke who always thought of her choice on American soil. Why not settle for that? But shehimself as more pint than piety believing in a God who's set on travel happy for him to remain in the Middle East come what maypews.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843548283</amazonuk> Errrrm… whoops!
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin WatersChaplin_Stone|title=A Pregnant Ghost and Other Sexual HauntingsThe Stone Cradle|author=Patrice Chaplin
|rating=5
|genre=Spirituality and Religion
|summary=This ''The Stone Cradle'' is a remarkable book that does what it sets out to do on from the author Patrice Chaplin. It is a biography, the third in a series set in the tinCatalonian city of Girona. It is also an enduring love story and a journey into mystery and spirituality. The city has drawn artists, writers and does so philosophers for centuries. Rich in almost glorious fashionKabbalistic thought through Azriel, the most famous student of Isaac the Blind, it has always been a home for mysticism and secrets. The back cover blurb promises hilarity magnetism and tittilation, but this will also fit resonance of the city has had a hold on Patrice Chaplin since she first visited it in the shelf fifties. The series of any academic looking into books detail her journey and her encounters with the esoteric society that have protected its mysteries since ancient times. 'The Stone Cradle' also gives a new life and direction to the hornier side mysteries of Rennes le Chateau, the Fortean worldsmall French village, as well as anyone relishing made famous by the Da Vinci Code and the Holy Blood and The Holy Grail. Linking the two places through sacred geometry to the most singular collection mountain of ghost legends that I can remember readingCanigou.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089902</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A N Wilson, Nick Cave, Richard Holloway and Blake MorrisonVonnegut_Sun|title=The Four Gospels with introductionsSun Moon Star|author=Kurt Vonnegut and Ivan Chermayeff|rating=4.5
|genre=Spirituality and Religion
|summary=I wasn't entirely sure what to expect from this book. I only skimmedthrough In his own delightfully imaginative way, Kurt Vonnegut tells the description on Amazon, and understood that four modernwriters were introducing story of the four Gospels. What I hadn't really takenbirth of Christ in was that the introductions are brief - a few pages each - this unique and thatthe bulk long out of print children's book. Told from the book consists perspective of the Authorised Version (known as theKing James Version new born infant in his first hours of birth, this charming little story feels different to other children's Christmas books whilst at the USA) of same time goes back to the Gospels. The whole is publishedbasics in a fairly trendy looking paperback format, with exploring the idea true nature ofappealing to people who are not particularly religious, but who seethe Bible as valuable ancient literatureChristmas.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847678351</amazonuk>
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