{"id":15609,"date":"2015-07-27T08:43:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T21:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=15609"},"modified":"2015-07-25T22:44:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T11:44:37","slug":"sparklit-2015-book-of-the-year-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2015\/07\/27\/sparklit-2015-book-of-the-year-shortlist\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparklit 2015 Book of the Year: Shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sparklit\u00a0encourages life-changing Christian writing so that lives, communities and cultures are transformed as people discover Jesus in a way that is authentic and culturally meaningful.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Christian Book of the Year, Young Australian Christian Writer and Teen Writer awards are given annually for original writing by Australian citizens. These awards recognise and encourage excellence in Australian Christian writing.<\/p>\n<p>The 2015 Australian Book of the Year Shortlist details are:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornpress.net.au\/publications\/the-suburban-captivity-of-the-church-recontextualising-the-gospel-for-post-christian-australia\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">The Suburban Captivity of the Church:<\/span><\/a> Contextualising the Gospel for Post-Christian Australia by Tim Foster (Acorn Press)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigskypublishing.com.au\/Books\/Military\/Captains-of-the-Soul\/1020\/productview.aspx\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Captains of the Soul:<\/span> <\/a>A History of Australian Army Chaplains by Michael Gladwin (Big Sky Publishing)<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/ukcatalogue.oup.com\/product\/9780199890309.do\">Jonathan Edwards and the Church<\/a><\/span> by Rhys Bezzant (Oxford University Press)<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arkhousepress.com\/shop\/time-poor-soul-rich.html\">Time Poor Soul Rich<\/a><\/span> by Anne Winckel (Ark House Press)<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zondervan.com\/a-doubter-s-guide-to-the-bible\">A Doubter\u2019s Guide to the Bible<\/a><\/span> by John Dickson (Zondervan)<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"https:\/\/publicchristianity.org\/store\/product\/the-wisdom-of-islam-and-the-foolishness-of-christianity\">The Wisdom of Islam and the Foolishness of Christianity<\/a><\/span> by Richard\u00a0Shumack (Island View Publishing)<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cepstore.com.au\/what-if\">What if?<\/a><\/span> by Kristen Young (Fervr)<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bartonbooks.com.au\/books\/giving-generously\">Giving Generously<\/a><\/span> by Rod Irvine (Barton Books)<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eerdmans.com\/Products\/6776\/the-gospel-of-the-lord.aspx\">The Gospel of the Lord<\/a><\/span> by Michael Bird (Eerdmans)<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Australian Christian Book of the Year will be announced during the 2015 SparkLit Celebration Supper on <\/strong><strong>Thursday 13 August, commencing at <\/strong><strong>7:30pm (<\/strong><strong>St Alfred\u2019s Anglican Church, Blackburn North, Victoria)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/au\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_flow&amp;SESSION=ECteH-YTRpyrHrHxjkhMM32ZOdbi0bd7GDqvcPq4N8hYZyZIBjGeT9o8Tby&amp;dispatch=50a222a57771920b6a3d7b606239e4d529b525e0b7e69bf0224adecfb0124e9b61f737ba21b081985c750cb9736179f5c8aadc95fab80c37\" target=\"_blank\">Buy tickets online<\/a> or\u00a0use your credit card and call 1300 13 77 25 or write to <a href=\"mailto:admin@sparklit.org\" target=\"_blank\">admin@sparklit.org<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sparklit\u00a0encourages life-changing Christian writing so that lives, communities and cultures are transformed as people discover Jesus in a way that is authentic and culturally meaningful. The Australian Christian Book of the Year, Young Australian Christian Writer and Teen Writer awards &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2015\/07\/27\/sparklit-2015-book-of-the-year-shortlist\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15609"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15609"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15616,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15609\/revisions\/15616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}