Book Review: Advent
Ever since starting to work for SPCK back in 2016, I’ve come more and more to appreciate the season of Advent – and have used various different books to ‘lean in’ to this vital season of the Church’s year. Recently … Continued
2019’s Reading in Review
Following on from my post of similar content last year, here is a rough overview of what I’ve read this year, broadly subdivided by a few categories… (I’ve also tried putting stuff into GoodReads for the last year, though that … Continued
Book Review: Listening to the Animals
One of the things I love that I don’t write about here that much is the animal kingdom – particularly dogs – and this love has been fuelled in recent years by a fascinating program, ‘The Supervet’, about Noel Fitzpatrick. … Continued
My Top Ten Books of 2019
posted in: Being Human, Church History, Culture, Eschatology, Gospel, History, Identity, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Prayer, Reading, The Bible, Theology, Top Reads |
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I’ve been watching with interest various people and organisations post their ‘book of the year’ lists, and have held off doing my own largely because I was finishing up a few books that I wondered if they MIGHT sneak into … Continued
Book Review: Looking Beyond Brexit
posted in: Anglicanism, Being Human, Book Review, Church History, Culture, Jesus, Leadership, Matthew, Politics, Reformation, Relationality |
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Bishop Graham opens this short book with a simple dedication: To all my friends who voted either Leave or Remain Looking Beyond Brexit: Bringing the country back together is a short (around 50 pages) book is a concise and focused piece … Continued
It is Better by Far…
posted in: 1 Thessalonians, Being Human, Charismatic, Eschatology, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Kingdom of God, Matthew, Philippians |
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Sometimes, just sometimes, disparate threads in a story are drawn together in such a way that the reader can but marvel at the authors skill. Sometimes, just sometimes, we see the same thing happening accidentally in the real world. I’ve … Continued
Book Review: The Creaking on the Stairs
Rosaria Butterfield writes of this book in her commendation that this is “the most disturbing book that I have ever read. I cannot recommend it highly enough“. While I might disagree with her first sentence, the second is one I … Continued
The SVS 2020 Call for Papers!
Just parking this here for anyone interested – the Call for Papers for the Society of Vineyard Scholars 2020 is now live! Check it out here. This is one of my favourite conferences to attend – both from … Continued
Book Review: Swipe Up
Books about Christianity and sexuality are fairly easy sells at the moment – whether it is an expose of the Church’s idiocy, or attempts by the faithful to explain why we are so wierd. In fact, I’ve written one of … Continued
Unburying the Lede: Dominion
posted in: Apologetics, Being Human, Charismatic, Colossians, Culture, Eschatology, Evangelicalism, Genesis, Identity, Image of God, Isaiah, Jesus, Justice, Kingdom of God, Leadership, New Testament, Politics, Theology |
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I recently posted a review of a book that I couldn’t recommend, and have found the responses to that review on social media and in private correspondence very interesting. A trusted friend, with vastly more wisdom and learning than I, … Continued
