Publisher's Synopsis
After theological training in Switzerland, Tim Costello's ministry in a Melbourne bayside suburb - as famous for its sex and drugs and "no-hopers" as for its ethnic mix and cosmopolitan cultures - was to test his prejudices as a lawyer, his convictions and himself. This is his story of this formative time: the encounters and characters, the ideas and values - about family, sex and spirituality, caring and charity, the law and the powerless, and about the need for community in an age of insecurity.;Having defended local democracy as Mayor of St Kilda, the Reverend Tim Costello has evolved into a streetwise public activist. With the same passion, he now leads a campaign against state-supported gambling, advises bankers on ethics and has helped to shape history at the Constitutional Convention. Costello is now regarded by many as a symbol of the power the church could have as champion of the common good, and articulator of a vision for a republic with a conscience which growing numbers of fellow Australians are coming to share.
