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[[Category:Spirituality and Religion|*]]__NOTOC__ <!--Remove -->{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Jankel -->{{Frontpage|-author=Frederic Seager| styletitle="widthJesus, the Man and the Myth: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|A Jewish Reading of the New Testament[[image:1999731506.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co4.uk/dp/1999731506/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Spirituality and Religion|summary===[[Spiritual Atheist by Nick Seneca Jankel]]=== [[image:2star I was brought up in a family where religion played little or no part.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:Spirituality Culturally Irish Catholic on one side and Welsh Methodist on the other, nobody really discussed religion and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] the adults around me ranged from lapsed to agnostic to atheist. Other than the odd church wedding or baptism or the school nativity play, I didn't think too much about faith or what people did or didn'Spiritual Atheist'' is a new 'bible' for the spiritual not the religious, according to the tagline. This is a taboo smashing book which solves t believe.|isbn=B092BWWG9Y}}{{Frontpage|author=Peter Owen Jones|title=Conversations with Nature|rating=5|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary= One of the problem of modernity and explains how to be a comments made when I was offered this beautiful book for review was that it'spiritual technologists not very long. Having read the book twice over, I' who can live and love freely in m brought back inescapably to the Spanish proverb that Life may be short, but it is broad. In this case I'spiritual fullness' without relying on a belief in godm brought to the idea that the length of life is not the point; the point is its depth. Peter Owen Jones dives deep. Touching on everything from 'brain science' to AI, Jankel offers a |isbn=1912992418}}{{Frontpage|author=Richard Brook|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User'path s Guide to meaning', allowing us to move beyond consumerism towards an ethical lifeLife|rating=4. [[Spiritual Atheist by Nick Seneca Jankel5|Full Review]]genre=Lifestyle <!-- Hill -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Hill_Atlas|summary= I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of the latter.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1783706961?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1783706961]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Atlas of Monsters by Stuart Hill and Sandra Lawrence]]=== Not so very long ago, if 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 favourable review [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children''full disclosure The Bookbag's Non-Fiction|Children'u.s Non-Fiction]].p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the book, [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ]– but also because it is a book I needed to read, [[:Category:Confident Readersright now.|Confident Readers]]isbn=1800461682}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Hill_AtlasThere are monsters and mysterious characters, such as trolls, leprechauns, goblins |title=The Atlas of Monsters|author=Stuart Hill and minotaurs. TheySandra Lawrence|rating=4|genre=Children're the s Non-Fiction|summary=There are monsters and mysterious characters, such as trolls, leprechauns, goblins and minotaurs. They're the stuff of far too many stories to remain mysterious, and every schoolchild should know all about them. There are monsters and mysterious characters, such as Gog and Magog, Scylla and Charybdis, and the bunyip. They are what you find if you take an interest in this kind of thing to the next level; even if you cannot place them all on a map you should have come across them. But there are monsters and mysterious characters, such as the dobhar-chu, the llambigyn y dwr, and the girtablili. To gain any knowledge of them you really need a book that knows its stuff. A book like this one… [[The Atlas of Monsters by Stuart Hill and Sandra Lawrence|Full Review]] <!-- Micheal -->}}{{Frontpage|-isbn=1999731506| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Spiritual Atheist|author=Nick Seneca Jankel|rating=2[[image:Micheal_Revelation.jpg|leftgenre=Lifestyle|linksummary=https://www.amazon.co''Spiritual Atheist'' is a new 'bible' for the spiritual not the religious, according to the tagline.uk/gp/product/1524666866?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1524666866]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Revelation Ch:25 - A Letter To The Churches From The 24th Elder by Edward K Micheal]]=== [[image:1This is a taboo smashing book which solves the problem of modernity and explains how to be a 'spiritual technologist' who can live and love freely in 'spiritual fullness' without relying on a belief in god.5star.jpg|link=Category:{Touching on everything from 'brain science' to AI, Jankel offers a 'path to meaning', allowing us to move beyond consumerism towards an ethical life.}}{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:AutobiographyFrontpage|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Spirituality and Religionisbn=1789015200|Spirituality and Religion]]title=Be Your Higher Self|author=Samesh Ramjattan|rating=4Edward K Michael has taken the brave step |genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=There are a lot of laying out his spiritual journey for all to see. It is a deeply personal book and heself-help books about: it's honest enough - genuine enough - to wonder if he would have taken a different path if he had known then what he knows nowone of the most thriving sections of the average bookshop, but heit's generous enough too not always easy to hope that people will find comfort in the supernatural manifestations he has seen. Before you begin reading book you will need to accept that the . Samesh Ramjattan has addressed this problem in ''Be Your Higher Self'', a book seems which allows us all to have been written without editorial intervention: you are hearing make sense of our place in the real man speak world, as most of us only glimpse our true potential and what you will read is very close to stream of consciousnessfew people ever achieve it. [[Revelation Ch:25 - A Letter To The Churches From The 24th Elder by Edward K Micheal|Full Review]] <!- Even with hard work and dedication, obstacles present themselves and it's difficult to understand why or how they can be overcome. Ramjattan offers us a guide to the spirit world, the chakras, karma and reincarnation as well as information about the age of Aquarius and the ego. It's a slim book - Mahnke just 128 pages -->so can it provide us with the answers we seek?}}{{Frontpage|-isbn=Mahnke_Lore| styletitle="widthThe World of Lore, Volume 1: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Monstrous Creatures|author=Aaron Mahnke[[image:Mahnke_Lore.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1472251652?ie5|genre=UTF8&tagSpirituality and Religion|summary=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1472251652]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The World of LoreEvery country, Volume 1: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke]]=== [[image:4every town, every village has a folktale – a story passed down through generations that often focuses on the dark and unexplained.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Reference|Reference]], [[:Category:Spirituality No matter how the modern world moves on, there's a still a part of everyone that is vulnerable to a good tale. From ghosts to werewolves, by way of wendigos and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] Every countryelves, every town, every village has a folktale – a story passed down through generations that often focuses on author Aaron Mahnke delivers the dark and unexplained. No matter how reader legends from all over the modern world moves on, therewhilst examining how they's a still a ve become part of everyone that is vulnerable to a good tale. From ghosts to werewolvesour collective imaginations, by way still striking fear into the hearts of many of wendigos and elves, author Aaron Mahnke delivers the reader legends from all over the world, whilst examining how they've become part of our collective imaginations, still striking fear into the hearts of many of us today. [[The World of Lore, Volume 1: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke|Full Review]] <!-- Saxena -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Saxena_Jaya.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1594749779?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1594749779]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Basic Witches by J Saxena and J Zimmerman]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] Before 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. Unsurprisingly, I was wrong. However, what I was met by was a book that explores the origins of witchcraft, teaches you how to dress and act like a witch and contains spells ranging from accepting compliments to conjuring up a relaxing Netflix binge. [[Basic Witches by J Saxena and J Zimmerman|Full Review]] <!-- Wright -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Wright_Universe.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1524682012/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Universe and Life but Not Everything by Anthony Christian Wright]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] I often wonder - usually after a moment of shaking my fist at the news on TV - what my manifesto for life and society would look like were I to write it down. I have all sorts of thoughts about these things, from the metaphysics of who we are and where we come from, right down to detailed critiques of quite insignificant government policies. I've never done such an exercise - mostly because I lack the time, the patience and the diligence required. It seems like an enormous task. [[The Universe and Life but Not Everything by Anthony Christian Wright|Full Review]] <!-- Santiago -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Santiago_Returning.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1504305272/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Returning Home by Stephan Santiago]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] [[:Category:Stephan Santiago|Stephan Santiago]] has experienced life in a way that's led him to believe we're all on a soul journey back home – that place we inhabited before we were born. This book is a guide as to how we can optimise this journey for ourselves, those around us and our children. [[Returning Home by Stephan Santiago|Full Review]] <!-- Moore -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Moore Buddha.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/9381182299/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Buddha: An Enlightened Life (Campfire Graphic Novels) by Kieron Moore and Rajesh Nagulakonda]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] I don't do religion, but still there was something that drew me to this comic book. For one, the whole Buddhist faith is still a little unknown to me, and this was certainly going to be educational. Yes, I knew some of the terms it ends up using, but not others, such as bhikshu, and had never really come across the man's life story. Yes, I knew he found enlightenment and taught a very pacifist kind of faith, but where did he come from? What failings did he have on his path, and who were the ones that joined him along the way? [[Buddha: An Enlightened Life (Campfire Graphic Novels) by Kieron Moore and Rajesh Nagulakonda|Full Review]] <!-- Wilbourne -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Wilbourne_Shepherd.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0283072709/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Shepherd of Another Flock by David Wilbourne]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] [[:Category:David Wilbourne|David Wilbourne's]] CV looks like a career path for people who are hard-of-humoured. Banker, teacher of Ancient Greek, vicar, bishop…none of these are jobs normally connected in our minds with a jovial twinkle. Yet in David's case we'd be totally wrong to assume. The current Bishop of Llandaff takes us by the hand to show us episodes from his life as vicar of the character-packed Yorkshire parish of Helmsley proving that tears of sorrow are equally shared with tears of laughter. [[Shepherd of Another Flock by David Wilbourne|Full Review]] <!-- Pigliucci -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Pigliucci_How.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/184604507X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[How to be a Stoic by Massimo Pigliucci]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] ''Stoicism is about developing the tools to deal as effectively as humanly possible with the 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 the inevitable failure to stick to them, this is an intensely reassuring sentence. Pigliucci certainly makes Stoicism an appealing philosophy, one which can sit alongside religious faith but doesn't have to, one which doesn't demand Aristotelian heights of intelligence, beauty or riches in order to truly succeed in life, and one which recognises life's messy difficulties. [[How to be a Stoic by Massimo Pigliucci|Full Review]] <!-- Pearce -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Pearce_Biblical.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1524677280/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Biblical Theology Behind Music, Praise, and Worship by Dr Mark Pearce]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] Music used in religions and worship itself goes back to the beginning of humankind. In this book musician and theological academic [[:Category:Dr Mark Pearce|Dr Mark Pearce]] explores its Biblical history in a Christian context as well as providing tips and suggestions for those involved in worship in the present day. [[A Biblical Theology Behind Music, Praise, and Worship by Dr Mark Pearce|Full Review]] <!-- Iles -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Iles_Thoughts.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1524676691/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Thoughts and Inner Journey of Dr. John Dee by Clair Iles]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] [[:Category:Clair Iles|Clair Iles]] is, in her own words, a normal person who was educated at a normal comprehensive school. However, she's a normal person who hears dead people. Yes, Clair is a spiritualist with ability to hear from those who have passed on. In the past they had generally been relatives or everyday folk. Imagine, then, her surprise when she felt she was hearing from Elizabethan court polymath John Dee. Over a period of time she could feel his dictated thoughts and ideas in her mind and this book of the channelled words is the result. [[The Thoughts and Inner Journey of Dr. John Dee by Clair Iles|Full Review]] <!-- Chaplin -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Chaplin_Stone.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/190557083X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Stone Cradle by Patrice Chaplin]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] ''The Stone Cradle'' is a remarkable book from the author Patrice Chaplin. It is a biography, the third in a series set in the Catalonian city of Girona. It is also an enduring love story and a journey into mystery and spirituality. The city has drawn artists, writers and philosophers for centuries. Rich in Kabbalistic thought through Azriel, the most famous student of Isaac the Blind, it has always been a home for mysticism and secrets. The magnetism and resonance of the city has had a hold on Patrice Chaplin since she first visited it in the fifties. The series of 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 mysteries of Rennes le Chateau, the small French village, made famous by the Da Vinci Code and the Holy Blood and The Holy Grail. Linking the two places through sacred geometry to the mountain of Canigou. [[The Stone Cradle by Patrice Chaplin|Full Review]] <!-- Woodcock -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Woodcock_Becoming.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781400105/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Becoming Reverend: A diary by Matt Woodcock]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] [[:Category:Matt Woodcock|Matt Woodcock]] is enjoying life: successful journalist, happily married and a new dream home bought and heavily mortgaged. The only cloud on the horizon is their struggle to have children but they have faith in the IVF treatment as it's early days yet. Then comes the funny turn Matt has on the way to a story one day. This takes him by surprise but the resulting clergy collar comes as a total shock. He's a normal bloke who always thought of himself as more pint than piety believing in a God who's happy for him to remain in the pews. Errrrm… whoops! [[Becoming Reverend: A diary by Matt Woodcock|Full Review]] <!-- Vonnegut -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Vonnegut_Sun.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1609807243/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Sun Moon Star by Kurt Vonnegut and Ivan Chermayeff]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]], [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] In his own delightfully imaginative way, Kurt Vonnegut tells the story of the birth of Christ in this unique and long out of print children's book. Told from the perspective of the new born infant in his first hours of birth, this charming little story feels different to other children's Christmas books whilst at the same time goes back to the basics in exploring the true nature of Christmas. [[Sun Moon Star by Kurt Vonnegut and Ivan Chermayeff|Full Review]] <!-- Midzi -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Midzi_Forbidden.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1524661910/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Forbidden Tree: History or Folklore? by Jabulani Midzi]]===us today.}}{{Frontpage[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] Engineer Jabulani Midzi applies his professional logic to the Bible, asking us to consider if and to what degree it's the word of God. He examines this via categories including the Creation, the Fall of Man, heaven and hell and punishment and forgiveness. [[The Forbidden Tree: History or Folklore? by Jabulani Midziisbn=Saxena_Jaya|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|} {{newreviewtitle=Basic Witches|author=Bhakti Mathur|title=Amma, Tell Me About Diwali!J Saxena and J Zimmerman

|genre=For SharingSpirituality and Religion|summary=Klaka had celebrated Diwali Before I started this book I was expecting to be thrown into the world of magic and it had been great fun - would know how to levitate by the end of the first chapter. Unsurprisingly, I was wrong. However, what I was met by was a wonderfulbook that explores the origins of witchcraft, beautiful day teaches you how to dress and act like a witch and tonight the city is lit contains spells ranging from accepting compliments to conjuring up by thousands and thousands of lightsa relaxing Netflix binge. Amma }}{{Frontpage|isbn=Wright_Universe|title=The Universe and daddy had given many gifts to their boy and Klaka and his brother had lit the earthen oil lamps known as diyasLife but Not Everything|author=Anthony Christian Wright|rating=3. They didn't just eat 5|genre=Spirituality and have Religion|summary=I often wonder - usually after a good time moment of shaking my fist at the news on TV - they also offered their prayers what my manifesto for good fortunelife and society would look like were I to write it down. I have all sorts of thoughts about these things, prosperity from the metaphysics of who we are and health where we come from, right down to Ganeshadetailed critiques of quite insignificant government policies. I've never done such an exercise - mostly because I lack the time, the God of new beginnings patience and the diligence required. It seems like an enormous task.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1850788332|title=Rosie: Note to LakshmiSelf |author=Claire Connor and G P Taylor|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=In the first of a five book deal Claire Connor, writing in partnership with GP Taylor, brings us a modern romance based loosely on the Goddess story of wealthRuth from the Bible. But Klaka This is total chick-lit, and from the first few pages I thought it was curious: just going to be a very light, funny romance story. ''Amma'' he saidHowever, ''tell me about Diwali''the story quickly takes a depressing turn and the rest of the book is as much an exploration of grief as it is a romance novel.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Santiago_Returning|title=Returning Home|author=Stephan Santiago|rating=3.5|genre=Spirituality and Religion|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>9881502888</amazonuk>[[:Category:Stephan Santiago|Stephan Santiago]] has experienced life in a way that's led him to believe we're all on a soul journey back home – that place we inhabited before we were born. This book is a guide as to how we can optimise this journey for ourselves, those around us and our children.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cees Nooteboom and Laura Watkinson (Translator)Wilbourne_Shepherd|title= Letters to PoseidonShepherd of Another Flock|author=David Wilbourne|rating= 45|genre= TravelSpirituality and Religion|summary= A serviette, [[:Category:David Wilbourne|David Wilbourne's]] CV looks like a glass career path for people who are hard-of champagne taken outside a fish restaurant in the open-air Viktualienmarkt in Munichhumoured. Banker, all taken to celebrate the first day teacher of springAncient Greek, vicar, prompt Cees Nooteboom into Proustian reveriebishop…none of these are jobs normally connected in our minds with a jovial twinkle. Upon the paper napkin is written Yet in blue capitals the word POSEIDONDavid's case, the Greek god who has preoccupied Nooteboomwe's thoughts for several summersd be totally wrong to assume. The blue colour reminds him current Bishop of Llandaff takes us by the sea viewed hand to show us episodes from Mediterranean garden of his villa in Menorca. Taking this prompting life as a moment vicar of the character-packed Yorkshire parish of Helmsley proving that tears of benign synchronicity, he later begins a correspondence sorrow are equally shared with this sea-deity. He seeks to inquire how this somewhat unreliable ancient Greek Olympian sees aeons tears of time and sends him letters and legenda; meditations and stories to be read, both poetic and tragic, from the arts and the contemporary worldlaughter. He is not expecting a reply.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782066209</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Pigliucci_How|title=How to be a Stoic|author=Alison PickMassimo Pigliucci|rating=3.5|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=''Stoicism is about developing the tools to deal as effectively as humanly possible with the 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 the inevitable failure to stick to them, this is an intensely reassuring sentence. Pigliucci certainly makes Stoicism an appealing philosophy, one which can sit alongside religious faith but doesn't have to, one which doesn't demand Aristotelian heights of intelligence, beauty or riches in order to truly succeed in life, and one which recognises life's messy difficulties.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Pearce_Biblical|title=Between GodsA Biblical Theology Behind Music, Praise, and Worship|author=Dr Mark Pearce

|genre=AutobiographySpirituality and Religion|summary= Alison Pick's paternal grandparents escaped Czechoslovakia just before Music used in religions and worship itself goes back to the Holocaust by bribing the Nazis beginning of humankind. In this book musician and theological academic [[:Category:Dr Mark Pearce|Dr Mark Pearce]] explores its Biblical history in a Christian context as well as providing tips and suggestions for visas to Canada; those involved in worship in the rest present day.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Iles_Thoughts|title=The Thoughts and Inner Journey of the family died Dr. John Dee|author=Clair Iles|rating=3.5|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=[[:Category:Clair Iles|Clair Iles]] is, in Auschwitzher own words, a normal person who was educated at a normal comprehensive school. They spent their whole lives trying to pass as Christians However, and Pickshe's fathera normal person who hears dead people. Yes, too, was reluctant Clair is a spiritualist with ability to hear from those who have anything to do with Judaismpassed on. In the past they had generally been relatives or everyday folk. Pick only learned he Imagine, then, her surprise when she felt she was Jewish through hearing from Elizabethan court polymath John Dee. Over a conversation overheard when period of time she was 11could feel his dictated thoughts and ideas in her mind and this book of the channelled words is the result.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472225090</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher DellWoodcock_Becoming|title=MythologyBecoming Reverend: An Illustrated Journey Into Our Imagined WorldsA diary|author=Matt Woodcock

|summary=What does [[:Category:Matt Woodcock|Matt Woodcock]] is enjoying life: successful journalist, happily married and a rainbow mean new dream home bought and heavily mortgaged. The only cloud on the horizon is their struggle to have children but they have faith in the IVF treatment as it's early days yet. Then comes the funny turn Matt has on the way to you? a story one day. How would you explain This takes him by surprise but the creation resulting clergy collar comes as a total shock. He's a normal bloke who always thought of himself as more pint than piety believing in a God who's happy for him to remain in the world if you had no science as suchpews. Errrrm… whoops!}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Chaplin_Stone|title=The Stone Cradle|author=Patrice Chaplin|rating=5|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=''The Stone Cradle'' is a remarkable book from the author Patrice Chaplin. It is a biography, or the changing of third in a series set in the seasons? What other kinds Catalonian city of natures – chaotic trickeryGirona. It is also an enduring love story and a journey into mystery and spirituality. The city has drawn artists, writers and philosophers for centuries. Rich in Kabbalistic thought through Azriel, evil personae or even the characteristics most famous student of goats – people your world? And why is Isaac the Blind, it that has always been a home for mysticism and secrets. The magnetism and resonance of the answers man and woman have collectively formed to such questions have been so similar across city has had a hold on Patrice Chaplin since she first visited it in the oceans fifties. The series of books detail her journey and across the centuries? This highly pictorial volume looks at her encounters with the mythologies esoteric society that formed those answers, have protected its mysteries since ancient times. 'The Stone Cradle' also gives a new life and locks on direction to a multitude the mysteries of subjects – bloodRennes le Chateau, musicthe small French village, godly activity – made famous by the Da Vinci Code and the Holy Blood and The Holy Grail. Linking the two places through sacred geometry to show us what has followedthe mountain of Canigou.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500291519</amazonuk>