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An illuminating book, now also a brilliant six part series on BBC TV,  A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years has everyone singing its praises.  Diarmaid MacCullough is one of the world’s best and most respected historians writing in English. He has tackled with verve the gargantuan task of telling [...]

John Shelby Bishop Spong is well-known in Australia for his controversial ideas and fighting for minority rights. In Eternal Life: A New Vision. Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven and Hell he urges us to seek God within, by living each day to its fullest. And, if we do we will come to understand [...]

There was nothing Christian, in truth or spirit, about the behaviour of the bullying leaders Behind the Exclusive Brethren when their existence was revealed in 2004.  Michael Bachelard peels back layers of lies to reveal the truth behind the sect, whose existence at all, shocked and rocked the Australian conservative community.
Out of nowhere in 2004, [...]

Drawing on sources little known to Western readers, Eugene Rogan’s The Arabs traces five centuries of Arab history, from the Ottoman conquests to the present age.

T.S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize in 1948 and became arguably the most important poet of the 20th century. A daring innovator he left a legacy of letters that provide an insight into the times in which he lived, what was integral to his character and how both impacted on his writing.
Published on the centenary [...]

Exploring the evolutionary origins of religious behavior in early humans, and tracing the cultural development of religion from its origins up until to the present day.

The Uncensored Bible: The Bawdy and Naughty Bits of the Good Book reveals all of the stories, anecdotes that you never learnt in Sunday School
We all know the story of how Eve was created from Adam’s rib. But what if perhaps “rib” was a mistranslation…. and the body part she was *really* created from was [...]

The Case For God by Karen Armstrong has been described by the Guardian as an eloquent and interesting book that takes the reader through a history of religious practice in many different cultures, arguing that in the good old days and purest forms they all come to much the same thing.
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As seen in todays Sydney Morning Herald  – God is Back: How the Global Rise of Faith Will Change the World by Economist magazine head John Micklethwait & Washington bureau chief Adrian Wooldridge is a rebuttal of the idea that religion is incompatible with the modern world and the future will be secular.
On the street [...]