A book presenting the story of the Bible through Indigenous Australian art, another looking at whether Christianity is compatiable with practices like yoga and mindfulness, and a third examining how your work can be used to worship God are among the 10 books on the shortlist for the 2017 Australian Christian Book of the Year Award.
Released by SparkLit late last week, the award will be announced at an awards night in Melbourne on 17th August.
The full list includes:
• David I Starling – Hermeneutics as Apprenticeship: How the Bible Shapes Our Interpretive Habits and Practices (Baker Academic);
• Louise Sherman and Christobel Mattingley (eds) – Our Mob, God’s Story: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists Share Their Faith (Bible Society Australia);
• Ross Clifford and Philip Johnson – Taboo or to Do? Is Christianity Complementary with Yoga, Martial Arts, Hallowe’en, Mindfulness and Other Alternative Practices? (Darton, Longman & Todd);
• Kara Martin – Workship: How to Use Your Work to Worship God (Graceworks);
• Andrew Schachtel, Choon-Hwa Lim and Michael K Wilson – Changing Lanes, Crossing Cultures: Equipping Christians and Churches for Ministry in a Culturally Diverse Society (Great Western Press);
• Tim Costello – Faith: Embracing Life in All Its Uncertainty (Hardie Grant Publishing);
• Kath Henry – Sam: A Family’s Journey Through a Child’s Chronic Illness (Kimbrada Publishers);
• Elizabeth Kendal – After Saturday Comes Sunday: Understanding the Christian Crisis in the Middle East (Resource Publications);
• Harriet Connor – Big Picture Parents: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Life (Resource Publications); and,
• Bernie Power – Challenging Islamic Traditions: Searching Questions About the Hadith from a Christian Perspective (William Carey Library).
Awards for Young Australian Christian Writer and Australian Christian Teen Writer Awards will also be announced on the night.
Last year’s Australian Christian Book of the Year Award was won by Jane N Dowling for Child Arise! The Courage to Stand: A Spiritual Handbook For Survivors of Sexual Abuse.
