Month: June 2020

Whatever Jesus intended, he is a central figure in human history, his story has fascinated generations. “Reluctant Messiah” recreates his life and times with a rich cast of characters.

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“Soaring With Cockatoos” tells, among other things, of the friendship of two loners, an English migrant to Australia and an Aborigine expelled from his tribe. But the racial tension destroys their friendship as they take opposite sides.

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Sometimes siblings are so different you wonder how they could have grown up in the same family. That is the case with the characters in “The Photo Album”. Though they differ in their politics and religion an elemental family tie holds them together.

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The disappearance of the Tasmanian Aborigines in the 19th century was a tragedy relevant to today: the cause was less cruelty of the Europeans than ignorance and lack of empathy. Read “Paradise Stolen”.

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An Australian visitor not sure why he’s in the Soviet Union. An Estonian girl alienated from her over-nationalistic mother. A mighty superpower tottering. These are some elements of “Love Amid The Ruins”.

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He, a journalist collapsing under the mental strain of his work. She, the daughter of a “renegade” priest. The place: a beautiful Pacific island devastated by a tsunami. The villain: an international corporation. The result: a story named “God Has No Church”.

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Fatal Empires” is a panorama of events in Oceania in the “glory days” of European colonialism. Certainly a period of great historical interest, but fatal to ancient ways of life. But not all Europeans were willing to carry out imperialist orders.

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In the 1920’s and early 1930’s German journalism produced brilliant and courageous men, the type we need today. Those Germans paid a big price for their stance, as are many journalists today. Read about it in “As Though Everything Depended On Me”.

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You were only a boy when the SS dragged you from your eastern European country to be a slave labourer in their Reich. Meanwhile your once eminent family has been decimated post war by the Stalinists. You are in Germany but hate the Germans. This is one thread in “Winter 1968”

 

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Will Jesus eventually go the way of Baal, Zeus, Jupiter and the other dethroned gods? In contrast to them, he did exist as a human being, and he must have been impressive. Read this imaginative creation of his life in “Reluctant Messiah”.

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