Romero makes contact with Vince and encourages him to locate a black book unwittingly stolen by the brothers.

The book acknowledges head on the tendency of the Church down the ages and in our own day to be dogmatic and narrow-minded, to oppress, to fail to reflect God's love for all, to be reluctant to acknowledge that there are no easy answers to why there is so much suffering in the world. The pair can bond before Jay leaves, eventually reuniting with Sharon and Tyler in a woodland cabin. The brothers arrive to and take shelter in the Desert Dream, taking the Walkers, owner Joyce, and handyman Paul hostage, intending to hide until dusk. Stan Grant is the Vice Chancellor’s Chair of Australian-Indigenous Belonging at Charles Sturt University and the ABC‘s International Affairs Analyst.

Its narrative is a multi-generational story about "two families whose trajectories collide in the Arizona desert in 1998.

The black book details Romero's corrupt dealings including bribes and criminal money, all held in a single offshore account. A series of chapters on the seven last words of Christ take us well beyond the normal boundaries of Christian thinking. The Intellectual Forum will be hosting a book launch on 12 January 2023, where Paul will discuss his book and signed copies will be available. I hope The Falling of Dusk will help religious communities and those who are sceptical about religion alike. Sheryl’s unique vision of the dramatic light penetrating the vast skies is recognisable as her distinctive style.

I hope people can enter the book with a sense of hospitality, openness, and charity to views that they may not ordinarily find themselves inclined to welcome at first. In only a few short decades, we have come a long way from Francis Fukuyama's declaration of the 'end of history' and the triumph of liberal democracy in 1989. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants something that doesn't just pose the normal run of questions usually found in Lent books. On this episode of Democracy Sausage, acclaimed journalist and author Stan Grant joins Mark Kenny live at The Australian National University to discuss the major challenges facing the world and his new book, With the Falling of the Dusk. In an age of uncertainty and suspicion, Paul Dominiak explores how each of the seven last words attends to doubt as the refining fire of faith, rather than as its enemy.