Book Review: The Fruitful Home
I seem to be making an annual habit of reading a book by a Benton at the start of the year! I was privileged to sit under the inistry of John Benton for many years at Chertsey Street Baptist church, … Continued
An Amateur Theologian blundering around the Kingdom of God
I seem to be making an annual habit of reading a book by a Benton at the start of the year! I was privileged to sit under the inistry of John Benton for many years at Chertsey Street Baptist church, … Continued
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
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
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
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
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
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
Reviewing books by N. T., or Tom, Wright is always an adventure. Partly because there are so many of them, partly because he has fans and detractors in similar numbers, and partly because his output is so broad, covering both … Continued
Jeremy Marshall’s short new book on living with incurable cancer is one of the most inspiring stories I’ve read this year. Published 10ofThose, who kindly sent me a review copy, I’ve got to know the author online a little bit … Continued
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