Radical prayers challenge conventional "collect" prayers, offering a refreshing alternative to the often bland and predictable language found in traditional church practices. Born from the author's personal struggle, these prayers aim to invigorate both individual and communal worship, providing nourishment and inspiration for deeper spiritual engagement.
Graham Turner critiques the slow and inadequate responses to the financial crisis, emphasizing that timely and radical measures like quantitative easing were necessary but not implemented effectively. He analyzes policy errors, including the flawed market-led approach of the Obama administration and central banks' misfocus on inflation. Turner warns of impending political instability in post-Soviet states due to economic collapse and argues that understanding past mistakes is crucial to avoiding a depression worse than that of the 1930s.
Silence is a mysterious and unfathomable realm, perhaps the most under-used of all resources, and one our modern culture has all but obliterated by turning up the volume control. Graham Turner explores the power that can be found in silence through interviewing monastics, religious leaders, composers, actors, psychotherapists, prisoners and peace workers about their experiences of practising silence. Ranging from Christian contemplation in the Egyptian desert to Vipassana meditation in India, from the shared silence of Quaker meetings in Oxford to the profound stillness of the Alps, this is a powerful book about a great gap in modern human awareness.
Housing Bubbles, Globalisation And The Worldwide Economic Crisis
The book presents a compelling argument that the ongoing financial turmoil reflects a significant crisis in globalization, posing a direct challenge to the established free market economic model. It explores the implications of this crisis, analyzing how it may reshape economic policies and practices worldwide. Through critical examination, the author highlights the vulnerabilities of the current system and suggests potential pathways for reform in response to these unprecedented challenges.
Hearing God's call in the modern age
Graham Turner challenges common assumptions about the Old and New Testament by focusing on two central themes: personal spirituality and social justice. Through his exploration, he aims to reveal deeper insights into the scriptures, encouraging readers to reconsider their understanding of these religious texts and their relevance to contemporary issues.
That Other Voice tells the story of a journey, by Graham Turner - a senior journalist for nearly fifty years - in search of an answer to the ultimate spiritual mystery: whether God, or a higher power of some kind, can communicate with us directly.
A highly illustrated history of the Wars of the Roses based on the medieval art of Graham Turner.The period of civil strife in the second half of the 15th century known as the Wars of the Roses is one of the most dramatic in English history. It is rich with political events, outstanding protagonists, battles and campaigns, and culminates in the defeat of Richard III, brutally killed at the battle of Bosworth in 1485, and the rise to the throne of the House of Tudor.Since first being inspired by a visit to Bosworth battlefield over 25 years ago, renowned historical illustrator Graham Turner has built a worldwide reputation for his renderings of this colourful and intense era. This new study contains a unique and comprehensive collection of his paintings and drawings, which provide meticulously researched details of arms, armour and settings, while at the same time bringing to life the human stories behind the turbulent events.Fully illustrated with artwork and prints prized by historians and collectors for their dramatic and atmospheric compositions, The Wars of the Roses is an unmissable visual tour which showcases the technical, contextual and human facets of one of England's most dramatic historical periods.
In today’s security-conscious environment, the loyalties and allegiances of migrant communities are increasingly being brought into question. Drawing on the collected knowledge of a number of Australian experts investigating interwar issues of security, surveillance and civic rights from the perspective of migration studies, this book aims, through the examination of individuals and groups in Oceania who were targeted for potential subversion or believed to hold National Socialist sympathies (including local National Socialists, Italian-Australians, Russian exiles, members of the right-wing movements the New Guard and Australia First), to consider how issues of security were regarded at another critical point in world history and what lessons we may learn from that period today. This book examines a variety of motives for embracing National Socialism and investing hope in the Third Reich. Attitudes shifted over time from enthusiasm to scepticism and disappointment. But, most importantly, beyond support and opposition, there was a surprising level of disengagement and indifference from sister movements on the radical right. This groundbreaking study defies easy answers and previously-held understandings, and will stimulate debate and further research.
Tudorovský rytíř byl první obrannou linií, využívanou panovníky od Jindřicha VIII. až po Alžbětu I., a zároveň také posledním představitelem rytířských tradic majících původ v 11. století. Rytířstvo prošlo v období vlády Tudorovců značnými proměnami, co se týče náboru vojáků, vzhledu, a především výcviku a vybavení. Kromě tohoto kniha detailně přibližuje i rytířův vzhled, život na válečné výpravě a zkušenosti z bojů ve Francii, Skotsku a Irsku. Jsou zde také popsány rytířské ideály, jejichž nejnázornějším vyjádřením se stalo ceremoniálně pojaté setkání Jindřicha VIII. s francouzským králem Františkem I. nazývané „bitva chvastounů“, ke kterému došlo v roce 1520 nedaleko Calais.
