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The Anglican Church has produced more than its share of eccentric clergy. But Owen was not one of them. The same could be said of pompous bishops. But he was not pompous. He was simply Owen.This view - expressed by author Bruce Stevens in his short Introduction - captures essentially everything written in this short biography. It is an account that is full of warmth, sympathy, appreciation, affection and friendship. It is also the story of human frailty, occasional failure, some disappointment. It is the honest story of someone whose entire life was dedicated to the Anglican Church of Australia. We learn of his enthusiasm for liturgical development, especially in the area of music at which he excelled, and his concern for deepening spirituality in clergy and laity in Australia and beyond. The biography also reflects what was happening in the Anglican Church in those times, especially the controversy over the ordination of women to priestly orders - his part in those debates, his commitment to what he believed were God's purposes for the church to which he dedicated his entire life. This is an honest account of a bishop remembered for his many gifts of church leadership, rich family life and innovative contributions to the life and witness of the Anglican Church of Australia.

Like all literature, the words Christians use in worship reflect the times in which they were written and often, as language changes, the words of hymns can become old fashioned, even archaic. Hymn and song writing needs to marry together the musical, the poetic, and the social and theological concerns of the community in which it lives and grows. The words not only need to make sense but have some theological nourishment in them. A hymn has to have something worth saying and singing, even if it's only two lines long.Songs in Season gladly acknowledges the beauty of music that has sustained Christian communities long enough to become familiar. It offers fresh words to that music while remaining faithful to the witness of the Scriptures and the foundational doctrines of the universal Church.

Most Catholics, baptised as infants, have no memory of how they became Catholic; probably just as many have no memory of a specific time when they decided they no longer belonged in the Church. Bob Cameron describes such Catholics as 'collapsed' Catholics and suggests that, like him, many of them have a confused as well as a clouded memory of belonging to the Catholic tradition. 21 Days Back to God describes his personal journey of how he became a 'self-exiled' Catholic, how he stopped running away from the Church and the various steps that were part of his pilgrimage of return. The book includes his own simple program of revival and renewal, offered to other seekers and pilgrims. It is a voyage of rediscovering the meaning of life, a new sense of belonging - above all, the joy of coming home.

Wounded World and Broken Church offers encouragement to those who have become disenchanted with versions of Christian believing and living that are no longer credible.

Informed, challenging, accessible and encouraging, Church Matters is an important book in these difficult times for the churches in Australia and beyond.

Aiming for Excellence is the story of 50 years of YTU - the change & development in how theological education and formation began, adapted, transformed & the contribution of religious sisters & lay people.

The purpose of Beyond the Boundaries is to rediscover the place of religion in our society and how we might engage as faithful Catholic Christians with the wider Australian culture.

How can we live as people of faith in this world? What does it mean to believe, to belong, to risk, to serve, or to find true life? At times of trouble, how does faith strengthen and sustain us? And how is God alongside to guide us on the way? This book shows how a life of faith is one of joy and compassion, as gifts from God for how we can live, and live with others, to become the people God knows we can be.Joy and Compassion offers more than eighty story-oriented reflections to support your faith life. Each reflection has an accompanying prayer and one or more questions/comments to prompt further thought, discussion, or action. The reflections show how 'story' is an immensely powerful means for understanding ourselves, our experiences, and our relationship with God, as we live in faith and seek to be as Christ to others. Stories are drawn from the Bible and many other sources, including literature, movies, art, sport, politics and the simple ordinary events and moments of life, like losing your keys, getting hurt, being in the dark, or having to wait.Joy and Compassion is ideal for individual or small group contemplation, and as a resource in ministry contexts such as pastoral care, chaplaincy, family and youth ministry, or spiritual direction. Each reflection is concise and focuses on a specific aspect of faith life; and written in a style that is personal, interactive, and accessible.These 'Stories and Prayers for a Life of Faith' reflect the author's long experience as a school chaplain, family/children's minister, hospice/hospital pastoral carer and telephone crisis counsellor; and draw on her extensive background in leading worship across many settings.

These are anxious times for Catholic Christians, especially in Australia where the findings of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse revealed massive failures of leadership and shameful revelations of sexual abuse. It also revealed a culture of clericalism that resisted change, especially change that would threaten the previously accepted balance of authority in the Church.We too: The Laity Speaks! is a response to this culture and the challenges that face the church here and elsewhere. In a series of essays, Australian Lay Catholics - educators, theologians, historians, missionaries, philosophers, lawyers, mystics - offer stories, concerns, reflections, experiences and insights that reflect their own journeys in faith and, above all, their hope that the message of Jesus Christ in the Gospels can be recovered, experienced and lived in the community called the Church of God.The authors accept that our world is changed and changing. Contemporary expressions of belief and belonging can no longer be based on understandings and language about God, the cosmos and our place in the created world that made sense in earlier centuries. Their call is for a Church that remembers the teachings of the Second Vatican Council and the emphases of Pope Francis, that welcomes the discoveries of contemporary science and theology, that respects the gifts of scholars to the subtleties of the tradition, that values the rich contribution of women in the Church's history and their legitimate aspirations to be heard and honoured.Above all, the compilation is an expression of confidence in the Holy Spirit who blows where it chooses. And a hope that theirs may be a useful contribution to the constant seeking within the Church to be faithful to the gospel tradition they have received and continue to cherish.

Pray without ceasing is a reminder that it is the free gift of the Holy Spirit that works in each of us, helping us to grow in prayer, allowing us to describe what prayer is and what it means to pray without ceasing.