Top Reads: February 2018
Following on from last month’s roundup, here are some of the things I’ve enjoyed reading this month. I hope they are of interest. God Has a Name – by John Mark Comer. This helpful book considers what it means … Continued
An Amateur Theologian blundering around the Kingdom of God
Following on from last month’s roundup, here are some of the things I’ve enjoyed reading this month. I hope they are of interest. God Has a Name – by John Mark Comer. This helpful book considers what it means … Continued
What does it mean to be happy? What does it mean to cry? How do we understand the literary concepts of comedy and tragedy – particularly in line with the notion of divinity that the message of Jesus invites us … Continued
I was fortunate to be leading on a youth camp (proper camping, under canvas, in a field, in the rain) over the weekend, so I missed the ‘live’ Jubilee celebrations. I’ve been slowly working my way through the various bits … Continued
This book found its way on to my reading list in a way I can’t remember – but I am very glad it did. The contributors read like a who’s who of intelligent evangelicalism; David Mathis, Rick Warren, Al … Continued
Originally published in 2014. This blog post may not entirely work. It draws together two threads. And it tries to see in them what the Father is doing, and what the Father has done. For those of you who don’t … Continued
As part of my 2017 Reading Challenge (which is reimagined this year in a 2018 Reading Plan, following the lessons I learned from reading just under 100 books), I intended to read J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy: A memoir of a family … Continued
I’m reading an excellent book at the moment, “Thinking. Loving. Doing.”, which is a “call to holistic Christianity“, with contributions from a fantastic range of writers and thinkers including Francis Chan, Al Mohler, Rick Warren and John Piper. I’ll … Continued
There’s a new name in the trendy Christian explaining ideas to Christians book space. Working in Christian publishing, with an eye on the wider sector and pretty active on social media, I’d’ve have to have been blind not to see … Continued
Today I want to talk about something I’ve been pondering for a little while. A mini-series if you will. A set of questions I think are important but are also very niche. This little mini-series is a brief attempt to explain … Continued
Working in Christian publishing, it is rare that a book I’ve been working on (Yes, sorry, this is one of those reviews) gets profiled in the print edition of the New York Times, or the author gets interviewed by TIME, and … Continued