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by Phillip Jensen
Phillip Jensen speaks on Anger as part of a series on emotions in the Christian life, delivered at the Australia Day Convention 2010
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Books
Kara Martin heads Sydneyanglicans.net's team of experienced book reviewers. She is a lecturer with School of Christian Studies, and the resident book reviewer for the national radio program The Open House.

This was my book recommendation for summer reading, but as I started reading it I regretted mentioning it. I have never read a book so explicit.
What will you be reading in 2010? How do you choose your books?
While I am aware of the enormous effort that goes into writing books, in my opinion the 'biggest waste of time' award goes to...
There have not been many books this year which have made me laugh out loud. The curiously named The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society made me guffaw several times.
In 1929 there were 20 million telegrams sent; the equivalent today would be 80 million telegrams a year; by contrast we send 600 million emails every 10 minutes!
We need to challenge ourselves with books like Jane Eyre. We need to slow down and give reading the attention it deserves.
The closing chapters of Dan Brown's latest book read like an essay for his own version of religion, and play no part in the book. It therefore deserves rebuttal.
What is lacking in this book is an emphasis on the evangelical history of Australia. Keneally mentions the Johnson's pet kittens, but fails to describe his great concern for convicts.
I have never attended a writing class, although I would LOVE to.
The World Beneath is a novel about cultural gaps, but the cultures are gender and generational. It is a very good examination of modern disjointed family life.
Although Does my head look big in this? is about a Muslim girl, it is astonishingly relevant to Christians as well.
I was not thrilled to be handed two huge tomes of scientific material to plough through. However, these books are surprisingly clear and their conclusions are astonishing.
This is a book of great depth and wit, and complexity. It defies classification...
A truly post-modern story about the Somali creation story, famine, western imperialism, and one boy's struggle to find peace far from home.
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