Books (in title alphabetical order)
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A Call to Action Jimmy Carter Amazon Bloomberg As one Amazon reviewer says: "This is stuff you need to know"
Alpha: Questions of Life Nicky Gumbel Amazon
A Man Cleansed by God John Beahn An inspiring novel based on the life of Saint Patrick in Ireland Amazon I first read it in 1965 and have enjoyed reading it several times since then
An Ordinary Man Paul Rusesabagina Amazon see movies: Hotel Rwanda How he saved 1,200 people at his hotel during the genocide in Rwanda
Chasing the Dragon Jackie Pullinger Amazon Wikipedia Over the past five decades, no one has helped more Hong Kong people than Jackie Pullinger to come off drugs
China's Silent Army Guardian review Frightening
Christianity Rediscoverd Vincent Donovan ... a US missionary who lived with the Masai people in Tanzania .. a provocative challenge to all those engaged in issues of evangelism and multiculturalism. Amazon
Dying to be Me Anita Moorjani Amazon c.f. Near Death Experience file
Five
Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work Eugene
H. Peterson These are just two of the many excellent books by Eugene
Peterson, producer of The
Message Bible (so easy to read!) Five
Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work (1995
Interview with EP) (&
U2)
Run
With The Horses (Jeremiah)
Fred Hollows: Autobiography Amazon "His altruism and indefatigable effort to aid the health of the poor will remain with me forever"
Freeing Celibacy Donald Cozzens Amazon See also: The Changing Face of the Priesthood
From the Holy Mountain William Dalrymple Amazon The more complicated the situation in the Middle East becomes, the more relevant this classic work ....to understand the background of what is happening now
Gandhi Fischer, Louis Amazon Whole book in PDF is free here! This book was the basis for the Academy Award-winning film Gandhi (1982)
Healing Francis MacNutt Amazon One of the most important books I have ever read. Wish I'd known about it earlier. Has helped many individuals and families. For me, Francis MacNutt is the number one author on praying for healing. All of his books are gold mines. I cannot recommend them highly enough. All of them are listed at his website here
Healing the Family Tree Kenneth McAll Amazon
Hiroshima Nagasaki - The real story of the atomic bombings and their aftermath Paul Ham Amazon Paul Ham argues against the use of nuclear weapons, drawing on extensive research and hundreds of interviews to prove that the bombings had little impact on the eventual outcome of the Pacific War. Yet still today most people believe they ended the Pacific War and saved millions of American and Japanese lives.
Impossible Love &Amazon The True Story of an African Civil War, Miracles and Hope against All Odds. Once you start reading, not easy to put down!
Inquisition. The Reign of Fear Toby Green Guardian Amazon The Inquisition was about power, not religion, says Green. A gripping, although saddening book. As the Guardian review points out, Green's reflections about the reign of fear have application today re the "war on terror"
Joshua Joseph Girzone Amazon If I had to recommend just one book in this whole file of books, Joshua would be my choice. Followed by others written by Girzone: Joshua and the Children, Joshua in the Holy Land, The Shepherd. The whole series is listed here. I've read them all. All are truly inspiring
Long Road to Freedom Nelson Mandela Inspiring from start to finish. See the first of 932 reviews at Amazon
Maalika Valerie Browning Amazon Barbara May Foundation website "Inspiring and shocking biography of Valerie Browning, an Australian aid worker living and working amongst the Afar nomadic tribes of Ethiopia in one of the most God forsaken places on the planet"
Peace not Apartheid Jimmy Carter Wikipedia Amazon Carter's response to criticism of this book A must read for understanding the Middle East situation c.f. Pope at Wall
Poverty in the Midst of Affluence Leo Goodstadt SG Talk Amazon Excellent PDF summary Leo's website
Prison to Praise Merlin Carothers I have read and highly recommend the first few books listed here
Robert Morrison and the Birth of Chinese Protestantism Christopher Hancock Global China Centre Wikipedia Photos of Morrison's grave in Macau (scroll down to 4th row)
Sealed Orders Sanford, Agnes: (Francis MacNutt's teacher)....born in China 1897....died USA in 1982): Sealed Orders (her autobiograhy The Healing Light The Healing Gifts of the Holy Spirit (I have read all of these books, more than once)
Something Beautiful for God Malcolm Muggeridge The story of Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Sunday - The Lord's Day Pope John Paul II
Testing Prayer Candy Gunther Brown Amazon Huffington Post In Candy Gunther Brown's view, science cannot prove prayer's healing power, but what scientists can and should do is study prayer's measurable effects on health
The Age of Consent George Monbiot My special review
The Changing Face of the Priesthood Donald Cozzens Amazon "With astonishing candor, Cozzens zeroes in on some of the more provocative issues among clergy; his discussions of celibacy, homosexuality, and sexual abuse of children are particularly insightful"
The Davidson Affair Stuart Jackman
The End of Poverty Jeffrey Sachs (hard to put down once you start reading)
The Future of Mankind Teilhard de Chardin Amazon
The Homeless Bishop Joseph Girzone Amazon Book review by John W An inspiring book that predicts a "Francis" will become pope!
The Hospital by the River Dr Catherine Hamlin Amazon Australian doctors beautiful work in Ethiopia
The Light in the Window June Goulding - a tragic and shameful story about the church in Ireland
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America George packer A broad and compelling perspective on a nation in crisis....the unsettling feeling that the nation and its people are adrift ...a story of how wealth has concentrated itself in the United States
What Went Wrong George R. Tyler Amazon How the 1% Hijacked the American Middle Class . . . and what other countries got right. .... a subset of rich and powerful looters have prevailed in getting an economic agenda that favors their interests at the expense of absolutely everyone else
Who will break the bread for us? Brendan Hoban Author's introduction About the rapidly declining number of priests in Ireland
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