Alternative Spiritualities
Spring 2008

The New Spiritualities -Alison Gentle
The most helpful image in understanding the New Spiritualities is a smorgasbord… Spiritual seekers may pile their plate up with offerings from traditions others might see as incompatible, the spiritual equivalent of combining satay, lasagna and tabouli.

Christ for Easternised Westerners -Matt Stone
…if you walk into Borders or Dymocks bookstores today, chances are you’ll find more books on the Dalai Lama than on the Pope.

Celtic Spirituality - Denis Woodbridge
The outdoors spirituality of earlier ages still found forceful expression among the Celtic Christians, shown in their reverence for holy wells and sacred springs and the delight they felt for woodlands and individual trees and all the creatures that lived in them.

Naga Yoga: a Christian practice - Visier Sanyu
Christians who come to my class often comment that it was a great relief to find a Christian yoga teacher, as they had always wanted to do yoga, but either their Christian friends or their church did not approve.

Fasting and Feasting - Alison Sampson
For me, to think about what we eat and drink and wear has meant challenging all sorts of assumptions about what we buy; it might mean eating less meat, which I, for one, find a constant challenge.

Not such a big country after all - Peter Crabb
When it comes to good agricultural land, Australia is not a big country, in fact it is much better described as a smaller country scattered over a vast area.

Bill Henson: what does the Bible say? - Bryce Amner
Much of Bill Henson’s art depicts young teens coming to terms with their incipient sexuality. But rather than make these discoveries in the Edenic backyard, they look as if they have been prematurely expelled from and Age of Innocence, into a dark and fallen world.

BOOK & FILM REVIEWS

Beyond the burning times
Australian Soul
Christianity in the post secular west
Community of the Transfiguration
The Grand Experiment
The lamb enters the Dreaming
White Christ, Black Cross
Spiritual leadership in the entrepreneurial business
The Heavenly good of earthly work
Wounded Beauty (CD)
Fragments of Hope (CD)
Michael Clayton