Well known Australian author Dorothy McRae McMahon's latest book In Life and In Death offers a treasure trove of liturgies for life's harder times. Each has been written in response to requests from churches, aware that in many pastoral situations a liturgical framework is helpful for working with, or bringing closure, to some person or group. Key themes are: * Journeying with pain, death and dying * Reconciliation, healing and forgiveness * Changes and challenges in the life of the church * Living with the Earth *Prayers for the Earth