Reflections for Dawn, Day and Dusk
A profound book based on many years of spiritual practice with the Brahma Kumaris. The tone is poetic and reflective, inviting the busy mind to…… Read More »
Book Reviews
In the Stillness - Meditations to Read
The title exactly describes this small book that aims to guide the mind away from 'the turbulence of spinning thoughts' and access deeper levels of…… Read More »
Answering Your Call - A Guide for Living your Deepest Purpose
This book invites readers to a deeper exploration of their life and purpose in terms of a calling. It analyses the process and perserverance required,…… Read More »
Unlimited Love - Altruism, Compassion and Service
Stephen Post is a professor of biomedical ethics who is also director of the newly founded Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, set up with…… Read More »
A Clone of Your Own?
The author of this informative and well-written account is a bioethicist and lawyer, so she is well placed to assess the various aspects of the…… Read More »
Reading the Bible in the Strange World of Medicine
An unusual book by a professor of religion analysing what the Bible might have to say across a range of bioethical considerations, but not in…… Read More »
Parish Nursing - Stories of Service and Care
Authors: Harold G Koenig, Verna Benner Carson
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Pastoral Care / Faith And Health
Parish nursing is a relatively recent development in the US arising out of the coming together of faith and health concerns partly in response to…… Read More »
Spontaneous Regression - Cancer and the Immune System
You may be surprised to learn that medical journals refer to an average of four cases of spontaneous regression from cancer every month. This book…… Read More »
When Food Kills
Author: Hugh Pennington
Reviewer: David Lorimer
This book about e coli, BSE and disaster science is written by the professor of bacteriology at Aberdeen, who also chaired the inquiry into the…… Read More »
The Moons of Jupiter
This rather stunning book draws on some of the 6,000 images transmitted back to earth by the Galileo orbiter as well as the Voyager and…… Read More »