Bøker av Tobias Thornes

For thousands of years the Psalms have been at the heart of theistic worship, originally as songs sung by the ancient Jewish people whose history the Old Testament records. Many of the 150 Psalms are ascribed to King David; others'' origins are unknown, and their subject matter hints at a later date. Their words may have brought comfort and hope to a people that ended up in exile, far from home.Christians, too, have found in the Psalms both wonder and wisdom, containing as they do the whole spectrum of human emotion. In the Psalms you will find sorrow and anguish, joy and praise, homesickness, loneliness, dejection and thanksgiving. There is a psalm for every occasion, and it is little wonder that they are said or sung, as part of public services or alone, every day by Christians of many denominations.The aim of this book of ''psalm poems'' is not to replace existing translations of the psalms into English, many of which very powerfully evoke the sentiments of the original authors so many centuries ago. Rather, by translating the Psalms into rhyming verse - whilst trying to keep as much of the meaning as possible - the poet TJW Thornes allows them to be read through a fresh perspective that regains some of the musical rhythm otherwise lost in translation.

It is becoming increasingly clear that the way in which our society treats our planet and our people needs to change. In this book, I argue that the state of affairs from which we are eager to escape is that of a money-based, capitalist society, and that many of our environmental and social problems stem from a focus on monetary profit at the expense of more essential components of human wellbeing. At the heart of our society is a fundamental misnomer: the conviction that money is a necessary commodity, that it has worth in and of itself and that we should be concerned with 'making' money. This work calls for new ways of organising our economy that focus instead on what is truly important: providing a safe, healthy and fulfilling life for all.