Val Webb

Now available in USA and Australia. Available in the UK in December 2010

Today, our doctor may be Muslim, our lawyer Jewish and our best friend Buddhist, a plurality multiplied by global travel and politics. In her last book Like Catching Water in a Net, Webb discussed how humans have described the Divine. This companion book describes how humans have engaged the Divine across religions and centuries, through rituals, art, sacred places, language and song.

I couldn’t put it down. It was like living through history as Edmund de Waal, renowned potter and academic, traces the history of his Jewish ancestors from the Ukraine, to Odessa, to Paris, to Vienna and then to Japan. De Waal builds the story around a collection of netsuke, the intricate Japanese miniature carvings that [...]

by Dr. Val Webb © Copyright belongs to Val Webb. This cannot be reproduced/published without author’s permission.             A few years ago, terrible bush fires swept through Victoria, killing over two hundred people and destroying animals, forests and houses in their wake.  The psychological wounds and physical devastation of Black Saturday are still raw.  I [...]

By Dr. Val Webb Centre for Progressive Religious Thought Freedom to Explore, Sydney, October 2011 © Copyright belongs to author. This article cannot be reproduced or published without author’s permission.             The Crimean War of 1854-6 gave us the cardigan, the balaclava, the raglan sleeve, the Charge of the Light Brigade and a reluctant [...]

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