A radical, ground-breaking examination of the role of ancient myth in the origins of Christianity, challenging the idea of the Gospels as historical truth. Harpur contends that Christianity is built on a history that didn’t happen, upon a series of miracles that were never performed, and on allegories scavenged from the teachings and myths of ancient cultures. His message is clear: our blind faith in literalism is killing Christianity and dividing religions. Only a return to an inclusive belief system where Christ lives within each of us will save it.

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An imaginative collection of original liturgies appropriate for a wide range of church styles and situations. Divided into three sections: High Days, Ordinary Sundays and Special Occasions, these pieces offer a fresh approach to worship while retaining traditional liturgical structures. Current issues and concerns are reflected in vivid modern liturgies including: creating space for friendship across faiths, an insert for a marriage between divorced people and meditations on giving or receiving an organ donation. A comprehensive choice of resources for worship that can be used or adapted with confidence. (Some material has appeared in the author’s earlier books.)

Experiencing The Heart of Christianity: A 12 session program for groups. 158pp (with DVD) Wood Lake, Canada $59.95.

Based on Marcus Borg’s popular book, this is not just a traditional programme guide.

Instead, it is a catalyst for group process that will help adults to explore the matters that are of greatest consequence in their lives. Delve into topics such as: the Bible, God, Jesus and how to live in a multi-faith pluralistic society.

Also order these Marcus Borg books from Epworth Books:

• The heart of Christianity $29.95

• Meeting Jesus again for the first time $29.95

• Reading the Bible again for the first time $34.95

• The God we never knew $34.95.

Fundamentalism is the new ideology. Religion has become a more potent force in world affairs than it has been for generations and religious fundamentalism has become a metaphor for dogmatic solutions to complex social situations. Our desire to be safe with certainty is shaping decisions in unprecedented ways.

The compelling writers in this Griffith University review title reveal with stunning insight why and how fundamentalism has become the new f-word and how it may affect us all.

What’s happening on the edges of the church? What’s on the horizon and how fast is it closing in? Steve Taylor, (pastor at Opawa Baptist Church, Christchurch), tells us what he is finding inside the emerging church around the globe.

Taylor has included lots of comments from others as sidebars in each chapter, so the book includes a wide range of voices and ideas.

Positive and thought-provoking reading.

For many in the Christian church, exposure to the techniques and experience of Reiki, Therepeutic Touch and Healing Touch has rekindled an intense curiosity about healing in the Christian context.

This book is based directly on the experience of those who have raised energy-touch healing ministries in congregational settings. An important guide for people wishing to nurture an energy-touch ministry.

Wesley Church has been a focus for worship and community for Methodists in Wellington since it was built in 1880. Today Wesley Church comprises four congregations: 10AM (English language), Samoan, Tongan and Fijian, who all treasure and nurture their own cultures and distinctive ways of being church.

This book celebrates and documents 125 years on the present site. It also highlights the early history of Methodism in the central city since the first service was held in 1839.

Have you ever felt frustrated with the words of the worship songs that we sing? Why are they so forgettable? Why are they filled with such weird language? Page analyses how worship song writers have bought into a disposable, ‘pop-song’ model; how they have filled their songs with a kind of semi-Biblical code and how songs suffer from poor technique and a lack of specialist lyric writers. Page says writers need to make sure their lyrics are really communicating the truth about God. Passionate, provocative and funny.

Shirley Erena Murray’s warm and direct words gently invite us in, even as they challenge us with the heart of the Christian gospel. The bright thread of Christian joy and hope runs through these verses as revealing the light of God’s love and the transforming fire of the Spirit’s presence.

16 hymns written 1992-2004. Each set in full harmony plus melody line and with separate lyrics.

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