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
Book Review: Looking Beyond Brexit
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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
Book Review: Ambition
Emma Ineson is the Bishop of Penrith, and before that was the principal of Trinity College, Bristol, and so by some standards is an ambitious person who has achieved things that some of us dream of. However, this isn’t a … Continued
3 Advent Books
Whilst you might have not noticed my reviews of three different Advent books, particularly as I published them at odd moments in the year, I thought I’d collect them all up in this post now, as this is the sort … Continued
Book Review: Epiphanies of the Ordinary
Sometimes you read a book, and it’s by someone you’ve been aware of for years, but never read anything by, and you are furious at yourself for not having got round to it earlier. Epiphanies of the Ordinary by Charlie Cleverly … Continued
Book Review: Knowing Our Times
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This review will be quite short, because the book it is about is quite short, and I think it is well worth reading. If you are a pastor, church planter, or otherwise involved in church and mission in the UK, … Continued
Thinking Carefully about Spiritual Abuse
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Following recent revelations publicly about a leading Anglican evangelical and abuse, and with a new book about Spiritual Abuse just published, I was prompted again (whilst reading Escaping the Maze of Spiritual Abuse) of the need to think carefully about this … Continued
An Overview of Anthony Thiselton – Part 1
Those of you who read between the lines of some of my blogs, tweets, and statii, will know that I am very interested in Imago Dei/Theological Anthropology. This interest was, in part, spawned out of engaging with 1 Corinthians and … Continued
Book Review: Reconciliation
I received a copy of this book from the publisher, SPCK, in exchange for an honest review. I hope that doesn’t cloud my or your reading. Lent starts very soon, and whether you are a veteran of the church calendar … Continued
Top Reads: January 2019
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Whilst you might be bored of my reading recommendations – having just shared my Top Ten Books of 2018, and indeed a brief summary of everything I read last year, I’m still trying to read more broadly and widely. So, … Continued
