Book Review: Race and Place

8 Oct 2018

Book Review: Race and Place

by Tom Creedy | posted in: Being Human, Book Review, Culture, Ecclesiology, Embodiment, Image of God, Jesus, John, Justice, Kingdom of God, Mission, Power, Reading, Relationality, Theology | 1

In the run up to, and after, the 2018 Society of Vineyard Scholars Conference, I’ve been reflecting a little on what it means for Christians to think theologically and seriously about ‘place’. This book, Race and Place: How Urban Geography Shapes … Continued

3 Oct 2018

Book Review: 5 Things to Pray for your City

by Tom Creedy | posted in: Being Human, Book Review, Ecclesiology, Evangelicalism, Jeremiah, Kingdom of God, Mission, Prayer, Revival | 1

This will be a relatively brief book review, as this is a relatively short book! I’ve been watching The Good Book Company publish a series of these slim ‘5 things to pray for…’ books for a little while, and wondered … Continued

15 Aug 2018

Book Review: MORE

by Tom Creedy | posted in: Anglicanism, Book Review, Charismatic, Ecclesiology, Evangelicalism, Holy Spirit, Identity, Mission, Power, Prayer, Reading, Relationality, Revival, The Bible, Theology, Unity, Vineyard | 3

In the busy, madcap year that (for me, at least) was 2012, this was one of my favourite books. I’d read things about the Christian life, and the Holy Spirit, before. I’d also read books by Simon Ponsonby before, but … Continued

5 Aug 2018

Book Review: Stay in the City

by Tom Creedy | posted in: Being Human, Book Review, Culture, Evangelicalism, Gospel, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Mission, Theology, Unity | 0

This will be a short review, because this is a short book, which is at least in part a bit of a trailer for a longer book by the same authors, which I am now quite excited to read. Gornik … Continued

5 Jul 2018

Book Review: This is my body

by Tom Creedy | posted in: Being Human, Book Review, Disability, Embodiment, Genesis, Identity, Kingdom of God, LGBT, Mental Health, Mission, Theology | 0

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

21 Jun 2018

Book Review: A Christian Theology of Place

by Tom Creedy | posted in: Being Human, Book Review, Church History, Culture, Embodiment, Eschatology, Mission, Prayer, Sacraments, Theology | 0

One of the side-books that I found fascinating during my MA, and that I’ve been reading (on and off!) over the few years since, is John Inge’s brilliant and surprisingly readable exploratory essay, A Christian Theology of Place. Published by Ashgate, this … Continued

19 Mar 2018

Two New Papers

by Tom Creedy | posted in: Charismatic, Colossians, Ecclesiology, Eschatology, Evangelicalism, Luke, Mission, Personal, Philippians, Preaching, Reading, Theology | 0

At the moment, my study/research/writing/praying/thinking about/pondering of theological themes is going rather well. In light of this, I’ve got two papers to present, within a fortnight of each other, in different places and on different themes that are important to … Continued

24 Feb 2018

Book Review: Divine Comedy

by Tom Creedy | posted in: Book Review, Mission | 0

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

11 Feb 2018

Billy Graham: The Big Issue

by Tom Creedy | posted in: Being Human, Eschatology, Evangelicalism, Gospel, Mission, Politics, Theology | 0

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

8 Feb 2018

Book Review: God has a name

by Tom Creedy | posted in: Book Review, Exodus, God the Father, Jesus, Kingdom of God, Mission, The Bible | 0

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

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