Brian McLaren Trilogy - A Real Bargain

I've been wanting to buy emerging church author Brian McLaren's classic trilogy A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey, The Story We Find Ourselves In: Further Adventures of a New Kind of Christian, and The Last Word and the Word after That: A Tale of Faith, Doubt, and a New Kind of Christianity, for some time. Apart from it being difficult to get them all in Australia, they are expensive at $32.95 each from Koorong.

Amazon.com have all three books in a boxed set for US$19.75. Check it out here: McLaren Boxed Set (A New Kind of Christian; The Story We Find Ourselves In; The Last Word and the Word After That).

The great thing about this, apart from the US$46.09 saving, is that it ships as one item instead of three, so you save another US$9.98 on postage. With the Aussie dollar over US$0.83 at present this works out pretty reasonable.

Poems of Cameron M. Semmens

How’s this for a briliant commentary?

a current-er prayer

Our media,
whose art is manipulation
hollow be thy game.
Thy cameras come, it will be done
on Nine as it is on Seven.
Give us this day our daily sensation,
and feed us our fears
as we feed the fear of others.
Lead us on with misinformation
and deliver us from thinking.
For thine is the king-maker
with the power of the story,
forever and ever,
amoral.

If you want to see more of poet and performer Cameron Semmens’ writings, or Cameron himself, then check out his website.