Hey all!

Just got word from Julianne Giovanelli at Koorong, Australia’s biggest Christian bookstore, that they are now planning to stock Anthony’ book “Life of unlearning”!?!? Can i recommend that you go through the more time consumming process of ordering your copies of Anthony’s book from here …so that they are encouraged to have his book regularly stocked on the shelves!?

Their major store is at West Ryde (and others including Gosford and the new one in Newcastle at Argenton) otherwise use the link below to their website etc. You can order it using the following ISBN 9781741105469 or the Catalogue Code: 259479 and the price is $22.95.

Wouldn’t it be great if we can muster enough interest here in order for them to put his book in one of their catalogues …or even in the top ten best selling list!?!?

iain

http://orders.koorong.com.au/search/details.jhtml?code=9781741105469

…ignore their mistakes with Anthony’s name and title!? lol!

http://orders.koorong.com.au/cgi/order.exe?mint=openchnl

http://www.koorong.com

i found it on there but it is out of stock for 3-5 weeks. I am definately getting it there though

Koorong actually stocks Walter Wink’s ‘Homosexuality and the Christian Faith’ and Robin Scrogg’s ‘The New Testement and Homosexuality’ which do not take the conservative approach. So they don’t ALL portray us as dirty. Not that I recomend eaither of the book above, some of the suff is far-fetched enough to raise an eyebrow.

Tee Hee. Yay! I’m excited. It’s about freaking time Koorong had a balanced perspective. It was a lot of their books on the dirty homosexuals that made me feel awful in the first place.

It was me who bought them though, so it’s not really their fault. 🙂

Yay!

I’m so excited too! I can’t wait til go to Koorong and redecorate the section where Anthony’s book is put it in a prime section with pink feather boa and sparkles! If I can’t do that,, then I’m going to buy my book and just squeal! Then go into the cafe area and read the book… and drnk coffee and ignore everyone and stay there all day reading that one book! I can be a dork you know. Yay! 😆 giggles.

Ultimately, our lives arn’t our own. We shouldn’t be picking and choosing our academic reading with a bias in mind, how then do we learn anything? We owe it to our saviour and we owe it to ourselves to find out the truth about homosexuality. A truth that lies behind the bias and we are not helping ourselves by picking books that tell us thing we want to hear. If that was so I wouldn’t have read at least a third of the bible…much of it doesn’t glorify me.

I know, I can be very vain at times. 😮 It was my attempt to be humous.

Hmmm I do know what you mean… the kind of book I can’t be bothered with are those who write just to make money and not for the real issue. You know those kind of books. I guess its a preventative measure that I to control the amount of books I buy 😀 . The book at darlinghurst in the religion sections have some very good books and not neccesaryily supportive of Gay but they state their reason and back them up and they have done the work… and the argument they present are sound. A good book helps you see things clearly and understand some of the issues of what we are what we are. The books I loath are the ones that really appears to be touching the surface, can be very critical without any basis or use scripture in a degrading way, and they are aimed at non-gay people who then have problems about us being Gay and Christian.

This is why I like Anthony’s book because it comes from his own experiences and a good book helps you come closer to God. When you read those books who condemns us, it’s not the sort of book that God would like us to read. If our body is to be pure and holy then we shouldn’t be reading books that attacks us in the same way we should never have to put up with nasty behaviour from others who do not like us. The book of Leviticus is really an interesting book in the bible and a lot of us don’t really understand that its really for the priesthood and it applies to a specific tribe ie. the Levi’s.

When you get to my age, it easier to pick out a good constructive book. If I want a book that glorifies me and makes me ok being gay I can go to any Gay bookshop and get that, as well as a balanced book. In the Christian bookshop 9 times out of 10 its a book that’s against us and lables us as perverted, twisted individuals and its sometimes a book written that supports another book written by someone else. And it becomes clear they have no idea what they are looking at and how to present a good written prose.

Hope that answers or elaborates my statement.

I also learnt in primary school how to pick out a good book… is to read the back and then read the first chapter, you can make up your own mind is it worth reading it and why.

Craig