Top Reads: July 2018
After a busy June (With a week at SVS!) and a range of events that got vaguely alluded to in my previous June selection of top reads, it’s good to be rather back to normal. So, without further ado, here … Continued
Book Review: Camino Island
How does one review a novel? Well, I don’t, because for me novels are less objective than other kinds of books. One of my favourite authors, for when I want to lose myself in a world, slightly raise my pulse, and … Continued
Leadership is making hard decisions.
I noted with interest Ian Paul’s recent blog post sharing some reflections on where the Church of England is in regards to its teaching document on human sexuality. One line that jumped out, with reference to the pastoral implications: “I … Continued
Book Review: Undivided
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I’ve been looking forward to reading Vicky’s first book ever since she shared, on Twitter, that she was writing one. Vicky Beeching may or may not be known to readers of this blog – I’veactually been engaging with her online … Continued
Why not try #DefaultVeg?
One of the side effects of getting interested in how humans have been created, and the Doctrine of Creation more generally, is that you end up bumping up into questions of what to eat when. Back when Amy and I … Continued
Book review: The Healing Tradition of the New Testament
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A modified version of this review may appear in the journal Churchman. This review is based on a copy provided by the publisher for that purpose. In many ways this is a unique book. Posthumously published, broadly cessationist but not unconcerned … Continued
The Vineyardists: a new podcast
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A few months ago, someone posed a question on a large facebook group that I’m part of around what podcasts would be good to listen to from a Vineyard perspective. Various suggestions were made – but they all seem to … Continued
Book Review: For All The Saints
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One area which has always interested me as a Christian person are the wildly different views that different Christian and nearly/non-Christian folk and organisations have regarding what happens when we die. I recently rediscovered and read Tom Wright’s little book For … Continued
Top Reads: June 2018
I’ve tried to be accountable and careful about what I’m reading – one way that I do this is to share what I’ve been reading in each calendar month. Glen Scrivener Wedding Video – the Royal Wedding Sermon dominated … Continued
Book Review: This is my body
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As part of my ongoing attempt to think theologically and helpfully about the way that the Church and LGBT*(1) folk can better talk and relate, I’ve been starting to read beyond the L and G, and into the B and … Continued
