John Newton: 40 books

• Stories of Jesus that speak to the grace of God • Builds upon the Jesus Movement and evangelism initiatives in the Episcopal Church Its momentum building, the “Jesus Movement” is unfolding, with Episcopalians longing to embody our branch of the movement in the world. John Newton’s contribution...

“I have stood by their side in the grim conflict,” wrote Union Captain John Chamberlin of the Corps d’Afrique. “Woe to the nation that long withholds their rights from them.” Chamberlin spent nearly five years in the South during and after the Civil War. A well read, observant and articulate...

John Newton is now best remembered as an Anglican clergyman and the author of the hymn Amazing Grace. For the first thirty years of his life, however, he was engrossed in the slave trade. His father planned for him to take up a position as slave master on a West Indies plantation but he was instead...

'This is a book about Australian food, the unique flora and fauna that nourished the Aboriginal peoples of this land for over 50 000 years. It is because European Australians have hardly ever touched these foods for over 200 years that I am writing this book.' We celebrate cultural and culinary diversity,...

Second Lieutenant Sam, USMC, traces his thirteen month tour in dreams and flashbacks trying to define the young man who left on a January Viet Nam bound air plane, and in so doing realizes that that young man never returned. The lights that once danced in his eyes are out. Home,the memory of which...

The white colonisers of Australia suffered from Alliumphobia, a fear of garlic. Local cooks didn't touch the stuff and it took centuries for that fear to lift. This food history of Australia shows we held onto British assumptions about produce and cooking for a long time and these fed our views on...

A behind-the-scenes look at the business and fun of sport from the man who has run the Football Federation of Australia and currently heads the Australian Rugby Union John Eales holding the Webb Ellis Cup aloft after Australia's triumph at the 1999 Rugby World Cup. John Aloisi tearing off his...

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The sincere account of an eventful life in 14 letters written to a friend. After having been a sailor, a slave, a slave merchant, the author lived a sudden conversion and dedicated his life to the Church. He wrote a large number of hymns, one of which is still famous today: Amazing grace…

The nature and effects of that unhappy and disgraceful branch of commerce, which has long been maintained on the Coast of Africa, with the sole, and professed design of purchasing our fellow-creatures, in order to supply our West-India islands and the American colonies, when they were ours, with Slaves;...

Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade  is a Christian argument against slavery, written in the late 18th century.

• A focus on the Christian spiritual life from the perspective of grace, not works • Popular new and emerging author • Study guide included for personal or small group reflection Jesus was quite clear that we must lose our life before we find it. This book gives a hopeful and realistic look...

• A fresh, new voice in the Episcopal Church addresses traditionally un-Episcopal questions that Episcopalians (and Christians in general) are asking today • An emergent, yet Anglican and orthodox, perspective on Biblical theology, grounded in today’s context of human behavior • Includes questions...

“In the world today freedom of religion is often talked about rather than put into practice.” - Pope Francis. Today being a Christian could cost you your life. Catholic thinking on religious freedom believes that secular states should grant religious freedom to everyone who lives in them, and...