Top Reads: May 2017
Most months of the year, I try to share a list of things that have really affected my thinking. This ties in to my 2017 reading challenge – to read, mark and learn a number of texts beyond my normal literary … Continued
An Amateur Theologian blundering around the Kingdom of God
Most months of the year, I try to share a list of things that have really affected my thinking. This ties in to my 2017 reading challenge – to read, mark and learn a number of texts beyond my normal literary … Continued
I’ve never really done a listicle before. It certainly isn’t a way I would want to ‘do’ theology. But I also want to persuade you (Especially if you are part of a Vineyard Church, leading in a Vineyard Church, … Continued
n. b. I originally wrote this review whilst working at LST, before working at SPCK (who publish the book and used to employ me) [Update 11th December 2-18 – Scars has been named the winner of ‘Book of the Year’ in the … Continued
Following on from my 10 in January and 11 in February, here are ten of the things I found really interesting in March. 1. Lackademia: Why Do Academics Lean Left? by Noah Carl – a really interesting paper that is … Continued
From time to time I like to interrupt my preoccupation with my planned reading and engage with something that a friend has written, partly because it is from someone I know, and partly because the topic is so interesting. I’m … Continued
Do you like the movie Forrest Gump? It is most definitely among my favourites. The humorous heartwarming bittersweet story of one man and his quest for love and meaning in a world that doesn’t quite understand him. Interwoven amongst … Continued
This book has been on my radar and on my bookshelves for a number of years. Written over twenty years ago, back when I was six and the Third-wave charismatic movement (of which I am now theologically a part) was grappling … Continued
This, I think, is probably the best book I’ve ever read against something. In “Atheist Delusions”, Academic and Christian, David Bentley Hart, attacks the intellectually bankrupt and incoherent ideas of the New Atheists. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of Church and … Continued
Published by IVP, with a foreword by John Stot, and a recommendation from Jonathan Aitken, this was always going to be an interesting book! Jonathan Lamb, currently director of Langham Preaching and formerly very involved with IFES, has written a … Continued
“We Don’t Do God” is a small and reasonably slim volume, coming in at under 180 pages. The Careys ask a lot of good questions, and provides some superb answers. The author writes from a perspective of years in the … Continued