Transformed Lives

The move of God that shook

the New Zealand Church

Castle Publishing, compiled

by Bev Montgomery with

George Bryant

Reviewed by Ian McCleary

To choose 20 ‘ordinary’ people and let them reflect on their experience of the beginnings of the Charismatic Movement in the 1960s was a good idea — so much more readable and effective than a traditional historical approach.

A Field Guide To Narnia

By Colin Duriez

Sutton Publishing

Reviewed by Chris Gardner

CS Lewis fans will find something familiar in Colin Duriez’s A Field Guide To Narnia.

Duriez, who authored the now out of print The C S Lewis Encyclopedia, shows off just how much he knows about the 20th century’s greatest apologist for the Christian faith, some of the many influences that went into the seven Chronicles of Narnia, and explains just how Lewis’ friend JRR Tolkien, a devout Catholic, fits into Narnia lore.

Five Years On – Continuing Faith Journeys of Those

Who Have Left The Church

By Alan Jamieson, Jenny McIntosh and Adrienne Thompson

(The Portland Research Trust, $24.99)

Paperback, 136 pages

You probably need to have to read A Churchless Faith to appre-ciate Five Years On to its full extent and I haven’t.

The authors of this book return to the same group of 108 church leavers they interviewed five years ago to see what has changed.

The original research categorised the leavers as Displaced Followers, Reflective Exiles, Tran-sitional Explorers, Transi-tioning to an Alternative Faith or Integrated Way-finders, and predicted the Exiles and Explorers were the most unstable faith positions. The Exiles (64 per cent) and Explorers (72 per cent) exhibited the greatest faith change over the five year period.

Return to Baragula

By Mary Hawkins

(Ark House Press)

Reviewed by Elizabeth Gardner