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[[Category:Spirituality and Religion|*]]__NOTOC__ <!--Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clair IlesFrederic Seager|title=The Thoughts Jesus, the Man and Inner Journey the Myth: A Jewish Reading of Dr. John Deethe New Testament|rating=34.5|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=[[:Category:Clair Iles|Clair Iles]] is, I was brought up in her own words, a normal person who was educated at a normal comprehensive schoolfamily where religion played little or no part. However, she's a normal person who hears dead people. Yes, Clair is a spiritualist with ability to hear from those who have passed Culturally Irish Catholic on one side and Welsh Methodist on. In the past they had generally been relatives or everyday folk. Imagineother, then, her surprise when she felt she was hearing nobody really discussed religion and the adults around me ranged from Elizabethan court polymath John Deelapsed to agnostic to atheist. Over a period of time she could feel his dictated thoughts and ideas in her mind and this book of Other than the channelled words is odd church wedding or baptism or the resultschool nativity play, I didn't think too much about faith or what people did or didn't believe. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524676691</amazonuk>B092BWWG9Y

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrice ChaplinPeter Owen Jones|title=The Stone Cradle Conversations with Nature

|genre=Autobiography Spirituality and Religion|summary= One of the comments made when I was offered this beautiful book for review was that it'The Stone Cradle' is a remarkable book from the author Patrice Chaplins not very long. It is a biography, Having read 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 Azrielbook twice over, I'm brought back inescapably to the most famous student of Isaac the BlindSpanish proverb that Life may be short, but it has always been a home for mysticism and secretsis broad. The magnetism and resonance of In this case I'm brought to the city has had a hold on Patrice Chaplin since she first visited it in idea that the fifties. The series length 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 is not the mysteries of Rennes le Chateau, point; the small French village, made famous by the Da Vinci Code and the Holy Blood and The Holy Grailpoint is its depth. Linking the two places through sacred geometry to the mountain of Canigou Peter Owen Jones dives deep.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190557083X</amazonuk>1912992418

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matt WoodcockRichard Brook|title=Becoming ReverendUnderstanding Human Nature: A diaryUser's Guide to Life

|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=[[:Category:Matt Woodcock|Matt Woodcock]] is enjoying life: successful journalistI am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, happily married and a new dream home bought and heavily mortgagedsometimes books choose us. The only cloud on In my case, this is one of the horizon is their struggle to latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have children skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but they it would not have faith 'hit home' in the IVF treatment as way that it's early days yetdoes now. Then comes the funny turn Matt has on the way I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a story one day. This takes him by surprise but the resulting clergy collar comes as a total shock. Hefavourable review [ '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!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781400105</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kurt Vonnegut and Ivan Chermayeff|title= Sun Moon Star|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing|summary= In his own delightfully imaginative way Kurt Vonnegut tells the story of the birth of Christ in this unique and long out of print childrenfull disclosure The Bookbag's booku. 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609807243</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jabulani Midzi|title=The Forbidden Tree: History or Folklore?|rating=3p.5|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=This is indeed that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a good question that not even Christians can agree on. The spectrum goes from the right wing Evangelical literalists who believe right down predisposition towards expecting to like the creationbook, even if it doesn's 7 days being just t always turn out that, all the way over to the left wing Anglo Catholic liberals, some of whom take issue with the virgin birth and the crucifixion. Staking my colours to the mast, I'm in the middle, believing that the Bible should be taken in historical context, that ' ] – but also because it does contain Old Testament myths and some accounts clearly written in is a one-sided way but book I firmly believe in Jesusneeded to read, the miracles etcright now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524661910</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bhakti MathurHill_Atlas|title=Amma, Tell Me About Diwali!The Atlas of Monsters|author=Stuart Hill and Sandra Lawrence

|genre=For SharingChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Klaka had celebrated Diwali There are monsters and it had been great fun - a wonderfulmysterious characters, such as trolls, leprechauns, beautiful day goblins and tonight minotaurs. They're the city is lit up by thousands and thousands stuff of lights. Amma and daddy had given far too many gifts stories to their boy remain mysterious, and Klaka every schoolchild should know all about them. There are monsters and his brother had lit the earthen oil lamps known mysterious characters, such as diyas. They didn't just eat Gog and have a good time - they also offered their prayers for good fortuneMagog, prosperity Scylla and health to GaneshaCharybdis, and the God bunyip. They are what you find if you take an interest in this kind of new beginnings and thing to Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealthnext level; even if you cannot place them all on a map you should have come across them. But Klaka was curious: ''Amma'' he saidthere are monsters and mysterious characters, such as the dobhar-chu, the llambigyn y dwr, ''tell me about Diwali''and the girtablili. To gain any knowledge of them you really need a book that knows its stuff.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9881502888</amazonuk>A book like this one…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cees Nooteboom and Laura Watkinson (Translator)1999731506|title= Letters to PoseidonSpiritual Atheist|author=Nick Seneca Jankel|rating= 42|genre= TravelLifestyle|summary= A serviette, ''Spiritual Atheist'' is a glass of champagne taken outside a fish restaurant in new 'bible' for the spiritual not the open-air Viktualienmarkt in Munichreligious, all taken according to celebrate the first day of spring, prompt Cees Nooteboom into Proustian reverietagline. Upon the paper napkin This is written in blue capitals a taboo smashing book which solves the word POSEIDON, the Greek god problem of modernity and explains how to be a 'spiritual technologist' who has preoccupied Nooteboomcan live and love freely in 's thoughts for several summersspiritual fullness' without relying on a belief in god. The blue colour reminds him of the sea viewed Touching on everything from Mediterranean garden of his villa in Menorca. Taking this prompting as a moment of benign synchronicity'brain science' to AI, he later begins Jankel offers a correspondence with this sea-deity. He seeks 'path to inquire how this somewhat unreliable ancient Greek Olympian sees aeons of time and sends him letters and legenda; meditations and stories meaning', allowing us to be read, both poetic and tragic, from the arts and the contemporary worldmove beyond consumerism towards an ethical life. He is not expecting a reply.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782066209</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Pick1789015200|title=Between GodsBe Your Higher Self|author=Samesh Ramjattan

|genre=AutobiographySpirituality and Religion|summary= Alison PickThere are a lot of self-help books about: it's paternal grandparents escaped Czechoslovakia just before one of the Holocaust by bribing most thriving sections of the Nazis for visas average bookshop, but it's not always easy to Canada; find the rest book you need. Samesh Ramjattan has addressed this problem in ''Be Your Higher Self'', a book which allows us all to make sense of our place in the family died in Auschwitzworld, as most of us only glimpse our true potential and few people ever achieve it. They spent their whole lives trying to pass as Christians Even with hard work and dedication, obstacles present themselves and Pickit's fatherdifficult to understand why or how they can be overcome. Ramjattan offers us a guide to the spirit world, toothe chakras, was reluctant to have anything to do with Judaismkarma and reincarnation as well as information about the age of Aquarius and the ego. Pick only learned he was Jewish through It's a conversation overheard when she was 11.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472225090</amazonuk>slim book - just 128 pages - so can it provide us with the answers we seek?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher DellMahnke_Lore|title=MythologyThe World of Lore, Volume 1: An Illustrated Journey Into Our Imagined WorldsMonstrous Creatures|author=Aaron Mahnke

|summary=What does Every country, every town, every village has a folktale – a rainbow mean to you? How would you explain story passed down through generations that often focuses on the creation of dark and unexplained. No matter how the modern world if you had no science as suchmoves on, or the changing there's a still a part of the seasons? What other kinds of natures – chaotic trickeryeveryone that is vulnerable to a good tale. From ghosts to werewolves, evil personae or even the characteristics by way of goats – people your world? And why is it that the answers man wendigos and woman have collectively formed to such questions have been so similar across the oceans and across elves, author Aaron Mahnke delivers the centuries? This highly pictorial volume looks at reader legends from all over the mythologies that formed those answersworld, and locks on to a multitude whilst examining how they've become part of subjects – bloodour collective imaginations, music, godly activity – to show still striking fear into the hearts of many of us what has followedtoday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500291519</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Femi BolajiSaxena_Jaya|title=God Tells the Sun to Shine: An Amazing Story of Love Basic Witches|author=J Saxena and ForgivenessJ Zimmerman

|summary=Jacob Before I started this book I was expecting to be thrown into the second born world of twin boys magic and resented the privileges that would come know how to Esau who was, after all only a few minutes older than him, but would get twice levitate by the end of the inheritance from their fatherfirst chapter. Unsurprisingly, Isaac, than that which would come to Jacob. Even in his teens Jacob plotted to usurp Esau’s position. What would happen if Esau died? But Esau I was fit and a born hunterwrong. Jacob thought about killing himHowever, but the stories of what had happened to Cain and Abel came to mind and he I was met by was determined a book that he would not make explores the mistakes which Cain had madeorigins of witchcraft, so he developed an alternative plan teaches you how to dress and took advantage of Esau’s well-known greed: he was always desperate for something act like a witch and contains spells ranging from accepting compliments to eat. Esau is the man who sold his birthright for conjuring up a bowl of lentil stewrelaxing Netflix binge.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1482802120</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rowan WilliamsWright_Universe|title=The Edge of Words: God and the Habits of Language|rating=4|genre=Spirituality Universe and Religion|summary=This, Rowan Williams' first book since standing down as Archbishop of Canterbury, is based on a series of lectures that he delivered as Gifford Lectures in Edinburgh in 2013. Gifford Lectures are famous for their examination of developments in natural theology; a branch of theology that argues the existence of God based on reason and nature. In these lectures Rowan sort to examine how we as human beings develop use and process language, particularly when it comes to the use of language around faith and our perception and understanding of God.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472910435</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Like a Tramp, Like A Pilgrim: On Foot, Across Europe to Rome|author=Harry Bucknall|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=What links London and Rome? Their capital city status for one, of course. One has a St Paul's cathedral, the other a St Peter's (although pedants will say not). They both have a football team who wear red and white. Oh, and the ancient pilgrim route called the Via Francigena – although the pedant will again say that that strictly starts at that other pilgrimage site, Canterbury. As for Harry Bucknall, the Via starts at St Paul's and should end at St Peter's. Whether or not Harry himself will connect the two cities – and entirely on foot – is the subject of this travel book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408187248</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=An Atheist's History of Belief|author=Matthew Kneale|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=I’ve been an atheist since I was old enough to take a view on the subject. (Many atheists would argue that we’re all atheists at birth, but that’s not a subject for a book review). I did have to take Religious Studies at school Life but have entirely forgotten almost everything I learned!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584425</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Reverend Adam Smallbone|title=The Rev Diaries|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=Adam Smallbone wasn’t always a vicar. He used to work for the Bristol Housing Department, enabling his father-in-law to tell everyone he worked 'in property'. From there, his initial calling was to a rural church in Suffolk which did nothing to prepare him for this, his current London inner city parish. Indeed, he's not prepared for Adoha (the Nigerian parishioner with 19 grandchildren and 'the bottom of God') or Colin, the homeless alcoholic who has adopted Adam and his wife Alex (Mrs Vicarage to Colin). But then Alex also has a lot to get used to; after all, she didn't actually marry a vicar.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718178394</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Burqas, Baseball, and Apple Pie: Being Muslim in AmericaNot Everything|author=Ranya Tabari IdlibyAnthony Christian Wright|rating=43.5

|summary=I can’t imagine it’s that easy to be often wonder - usually after a Muslim in most areas moment of shaking my fist at the USAnews on TV - what my manifesto for life and society would look like were I to write it down. Even if you don’t ‘look like’ a MuslimI have all sorts of thoughts about these things, even if you don’t drop to your knees in from the direction metaphysics of Mecca 5 times a daywho we are and where we come from, even if you give your kids arguably Jewish names. And being openly Muslim cannot have got any easier in the wake right down to detailed critiques of 9/11quite insignificant government policies. This book examines one MuslimI've never done such an exercise -American family’s life and mostly because I lack the constant challenges they face from friendstime, neighbours the patience and teachersthe diligence required. It seems like an enormous task.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230341845</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1850788332|title=The Atheist's PrayerRosie: Note to Self |author=Amy R BiddleClaire Connor and G P Taylor

|summary=I don’t shy away from In the first of a five book deal Claire Connor, writing in partnership with GP Taylor, brings us a little edge, in fact [[:Category:Chuck Palahniuk|Chuck Palahniuk]] is one modern romance based loosely on the story of my favourite authors and his books can be so sharp you can shave with themRuth from the Bible. On This is total chick-lit, and from the surface ''The Atheist’s Prayer'' would seem first few pages I thought it was just going to be courting controversy; why else have such a provocative title? very light, funny romance story. ButHowever, the story quickly takes a depressing turn and the rest of the book is as much an exploration of grief as it really that shocking? Nope. This is a story about how people deal with the modern world and what happens when dangerous ideals infect a vulnerable groupromance novel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780995822</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Santiago_Returning|title=Mindfulness and the Natural WorldReturning Home|author=Claire ThompsonStephan Santiago|rating=3.5

|summary=[[: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 appealed to me for is a couple of reasons; I have recently completed a workshop on mindfulness and have been attempting to put some of the ideas into practice throughout my daily life, and I love nature and spending time outdoors cycling. Therefore, this seemed the perfect choice guide as to learn more about combining the two and exploring fresh perspectives in my everyday life. I began reading how we can optimise this hardcover with high expectations, particularly as the book was beautifully laid out with unique artwork and philosophical quotes included. Howeverjourney for ourselves, although there were some insightful ideas those around us and inspiring thoughts presented amongst the five chapters, overall I was a little disappointed in what the book had to offerour children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401024</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Wilbourne_Shepherd|title=Rogerson's Book of Numbers: The culture of numbers from 1001 Nights to the Seven Wonders Shepherd of the WorldAnother Flock|author=Barnaby RogersonDavid Wilbourne|rating=45

|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 are important, up against a world where a six-pointed star holds so many meanings… It[[:Category:David Wilbourne|David Wilbourne's obvious from just ]] CV looks like a quick dash through the most schoolboycareer path for people who are hard-friendly parts of religion that numbers are important-humoured. This bookBanker, although counting down from multitudes to that late-comer zeroteacher of Ancient Greek, brings them all to usvicar, bishop…none of these are jobs normally connected in our minds with brief notes about why they all hold relevance where whichever country, civilisation or religion is concerneda jovial twinkle. In the end, I'm sure itYet in David's a lot more user-friendlycase, interesting, and will we'd be a lot more popular, than the original Book totally wrong to assume. The current Bishop of Numbers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250995</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Inventing Llandaff takes us by the Enemy: Essays on Everything|author=Umberto Eco|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Imagine a sumptuous Italian feast in the sunlit-bathed ancient countryside near Milan. Next hand to you a gentleman talks and eats with furious energy. He tells of Dante, Cicero, and St Augustine and quotes a multitude show us episodes from his life as vicar 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 character-packed Yorkshire parish of information but in the flow Helmsley proving that tears 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 sorrow 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 equally shared with tears of reading Eco’s essays in ''Inventing the Enemy''laughter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099553945</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Pigliucci_How|title=Sisters of the East EndHow to be a Stoic|author=Helen BattenMassimo Pigliucci

|genre=Historical FictionSpirituality and Religion|summary=Katie Crisp had never intended ''Stoicism is about developing the tools 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 of a stroke victim, she had a vision that changed her life. She saw herself dressed deal as effectively as a nun humanly possible with a large silver cross hanging from her neck. She decided to follow her calling and join the community of St John the Divineensuing conflicts, does not demand perfection, a group of Anglican nuns dedicated to nursing and midwiferydoes not provide specific answers. She thus shed her old identity and became known as Sister Catherine Mary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091951771</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Anti-Judaism: A History of a Way of Thinking|author=David Nirenberg|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=Initially the choice of title seemed '' For many readers, living in an odd one on account age of rules to make us happy and the more widely used term, anti-Semitism. The distinction is quickly made though, that unlike the latter, anti-Judaism does not need real Jews inevitable failure to stick to flourishthem, but this is fuelled by an idea alone. In fact this is a core tenet of Nirenberg’s thesisintensely reassuring sentence. Throughout history the idea of ‘Judaism’ is raised as Pigliucci certainly makes Stoicism an existential spectre in societies where there may be no Jewish members at all. This is a chilling realityappealing philosophy, and Nirenberg charts the course of how this came one which can sit alongside religious faith but doesn't have to be. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781851131</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Carolyn Mathews|title=Transforming Pandora|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=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 hadnone which doesn't been his first heart attack and he had reduced his workload but this attack was fatal. He was only demand Aristotelian heights of intelligence, beauty or riches in his fifties 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 order to an Evening of Clairvoyance she runs out of excuses to refuse truly succeed in life, and although sheone which recognises life's not exactly ''convinced'' by what she hears there's a lingering doubtmessy difficulties. 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wm Paul YoungPearce_Biblical|title=Cross RoadsA Biblical Theology Behind Music, Praise, and Worship|author=Dr Mark Pearce

|summary=Wm. Paul Young's debut novel ''The Shack'' was a revelation Music used in many ways. Whilst many disagreed with his theology, it was refreshing religions and worship itself goes back to see such an overtly faith based book on the bestseller listsbeginning of humankind. Personally, I found it In this book musician and theological academic [[:Category:Dr Mark Pearce|Dr Mark Pearce]] explores its Biblical history in a very moving story Christian context as well as providing tips and whilst I thought it helpful on some points, it tended to skim over otherssuggestions for those involved in worship in the present day. Now we get to see if Young can repeat his success with his new novel, ''Cross Roads''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444745972</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danaan ElderhillIles_Thoughts|title=The Magic Book Thoughts and Inner Journey of CookeryDr. John Dee|author=Clair Iles

|summary=Back [[:Category:Clair Iles|Clair Iles]] is, in the seventeenth century in what was then the Kingdom of Bohemia there 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 coven of witchesspiritualist with ability to hear from those who have passed on. As was common at that time witches were hunted and In the past they had to hide their beliefsgenerally been relatives or everyday folk. The Friends of EuphrosyneImagine, as they called themselvesthen, turned to this deity (her surprise when she felt she's one was hearing from Elizabethan court polymath John Dee. Over a period of the three graces time she could feel his dictated thoughts and there to remind us to have fun) ideas in their time of need her mind and developed rituals which could be assimilated into social gatherings, allowing them to hide in plain sight. Their this book - The Magic Book of Cookery - vanished along with the coven when they were discovered but Danaan Elderhill wants us to benefit from its ancient wisdom - and its funchannelled words is the result.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0092BX6O0</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charity Seraphina FieldsWoodcock_Becoming|title=I am not a BuddhistBecoming Reverend: A diary|author=Matt Woodcock|rating=34.5

|summary=''I am not [[:Category:Matt Woodcock|Matt Woodcock]] is enjoying life: successful journalist, happily married and a Buddhist'' is an individual through Buddhism new dream home bought and its principles seen from the point of view of one heavily mortgaged. The only cloud on the path. Charity Seraphina Fields attempts - through her own musings on this ancient Eastern philosophy - to explain why Buddhism horizon is better suited their struggle to have children but they have faith in the IVF treatment as it's early days yet. Then comes the rich West than funny turn Matt has on the poorer Eastway to a story one day. For Fields, This takes him by surprise but the question isn't ''Why am I suffering without all those things I want?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. The right question is actually ''Why am I still suffering even though I have everything I want?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1475085664</amazonuk> Errrrm… whoops!

 {{newreview|author=Eamon Duffy|title=Saints, 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 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>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Timothy RadcliffeChaplin_Stone|title=Take the Plunge|rating=4|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=There appears 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 outputs, or because I'm noticing it more. Timothy Radcliffe's ''Take the Plunge'' is taking a more or less opposite view to that of Dawkins, exploring the importance of baptism in everyday life and arguing that there is no aspect of life that cannot be touched if you are baptised and therefore living with faith.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441118489</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewStone Cradle|author=Youssef Ziedan and Jonathan Wright (translator)|title=AzazeelPatrice Chaplin

|summary=Atheist culture has recently become more mainstream, thanks in part to the success of Richard Dawkins' book, ''The God DelusionStone Cradle''is a remarkable book from the author Patrice Chaplin. HoweverIt is a biography, religion does still have the third in a series set in the Catalonian city of Girona. It is also an enduring love story and a part to playjourney into mystery and spirituality. The city has drawn artists, writers and philosophers for centuries. Rich in Kabbalistic thought through Azriel, with Prince Charles urging the United Kingdom to be more tolerant towards faiths other than most famous student of Isaac the Church Blind, it has always been a home for mysticism and secrets. The magnetism and resonance of England he was raised as part 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 even her encounters with the Prime Minister talking about faith issuesesoteric society that have protected its mysteries since ancient times. Since 1888'The Stone Cradle' also gives a new life and direction to the mysteries of Rennes le Chateau, the Gifford Lectures have been given to 'promote small French village, made famous by the Da Vinci Code and the Holy Blood and diffuse..The Holy Grail.Linking the two places through sacred geometry to the knowledge mountain of God'Canigou.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847065244</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen FrenchVonnegut_Sun|title=The Hidden Geometry of LifeSun Moon Star|author=Kurt Vonnegut and Ivan Chermayeff|rating=24.5

|summary=''The Hidden Geometry In his own delightfully imaginative way, Kurt Vonnegut tells the story of Life'' aims to explore the esoteric and often mystical meanings contained birth of Christ in ''shapes this unique and patterns [that] represent ideas and distil the essence long out of reality'print children's book. This mystical angle was a little bit Told from the perspective of the new born infant in his first hours of a unpleasant surprise for birth, this reader. I should have had a better look at Karen Frenchcharming little story feels different to other children's Amazon pages and previous work, but I was attracted by an exciting-sounding title, attractive cover and and references Christmas books whilst at the same time goes back to author's artthe basics in exploring the true nature of Christmas.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780281080</amazonuk>