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Towards mutual affirmation
An introduction to Jewish-Christian Relations by Edward Kessler. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978 0521705622. £17.99. That the seeds of the Holocaust are to be found in the pages of the New Testament is perhaps the starkest and harshest summary of the troubled historical relationship between Jews and Christians. Yet even… -
From painful origins new writing brings hope
The Galloping Stone. ISBN 978 0955882968. £5. Available from www.newwritingnorth.com/shop/shop.php. The result of Gillian Allnutt’s six months as writer in residence for the North East centre of The Medical Foundation for the Care of the Victims of Torture, this book is varied and interesting in format. The clients’ – victims’…
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A land to call home
People often ask me why there isn’t more news and information about what’s happening in Zimbabwe, and Quakers often ask about the impact of the years of oppression on Hlekweni, the Quaker training centre near Bulawayo. The continued awfulness of the situation there seems to have numbed press interest, even…
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No-nonsense guide to religion
The No-Nonsense Guide to Religion by Symon Hill. New Internationalist. ISBN: 978 190 65232 99. £7.99. This No-Nonsense Guide series is new to the reviewer and judging by their first list, it is welcome, slipping into a pocket, readable and contemporary. This Guide to Religion also does what is says…
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The Scouting book for boys
Can most Friends remember their ‘coming-of-age’ summer, I wonder? I certainly can, and, like the two young people in The Scouting Book for Boys, mine also involved a caravan park. And waving fields of golden corn. Plus absent parents, of course; that’s pretty much an essential ingredient. I don’t think…
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In comes the citizen approach
Beyond the Profits System: Possibilities for a Post-Capitalist Era by Harry Shutt. Zed Books. ISBN 978-184813-417-1. £12.99. How are we to get through the current global financial and economic crisis? Harry Shutt, who saw the storm clouds approaching several years ago, offers some radical solutions to the problems with which…
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It’s the economy, clever
The end of money and the future of civilization by Thomas H Greco Jr. Floris Books. ISBN 978-086315-733-2. £12.99. Prosperity without growth by Tim Jackson. Earthscan. ISBN 978-1-84407-894-3. £12.99. Back in the 1970s, an academic called Theodore Roszak roused some of us with fighting talk of a counter-culture. Was capitalism…
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Honouring death through dance
Soul Play is a gentle and intimate dance-theatre duet that explores the moments following a young man’s death. Kate Flatt devised it in response to her own grief upon the death of family members. A secondment at a local hospice as part of a Rayne Choreographic fellowship encouraged this further,…
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Lent talks on BBC Radio 4
Novelist Will Self could be labelled an angry old man. But he has charisma and can certainly put over an argument. The ingenious suggestion he makes in the first BBC Radio 4 Lent talks (24 February) is that we are worshipping art rather than God these days. The churches are… -
The O of Home
The O of Home by Jennifer Kavanagh. O Books. ISBN: 978 1 884694 264 8. £11.99 When I went to Jennifer Kavanagh’s launch of this book at the Quaker Centre I wasn’t sure what to expect. Home – how would I define it? Is it the flat above the Meeting…
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