Book Review: Gender Ideology
In my day job, I read quite a few books, and outside of my day job, I read a few more. I’m lucky enough to get sent several books a month to review – and occasionally ask for a few … Continued
Book Review: The Possibility of Prayer
If I had to count, I’d say I’d read more than a hundred books on prayer, in it’s different guises and from different perspectives. The book I’m reviewing today, John Starke’s The Possibility of Prayer: Finding Stillness with God in a … Continued
Three New Coronavirus books
This post is less a book review than a set of book notices! I’m running a little bit behind on book reviews, due to a) having a newborn, b) work being busy and c) there being a global pandemic on. … Continued
Book Review: Aren’t They Lovely When They’re Asleep?
In something of an amusing mashup of blast-from-the-past and very timely post, kind Aunt and Uncle sent me a copy of this little book when our daughter was born. They were well aware that Ann Benton is married to John, … Continued
Book Review: A Long Obedience in the Same Direction
Eugene Peterson should need no introduction – though I confess that I am late coming to this excellent book. With all the recent noise about spiritual formation and rhythms of grace, I thought I’d go pseudo-retro and dig out this … Continued
Eugene Peterson on Worship and Christian Wholeness
One of the things I’ve found that I’m missing most of all in the Coronavirus situation has been gathered worship and prayer with my local church. I’m blessed to live with my wife and daughter – so I don’t have … Continued
Book Review: Coronavirus and Christ
As those of us who work in publishing might expect, and those of you who read books might assume, there has been an exponential increase in books about Coronavirus/COVID19. In the Christian marketplace, from the UK at least, 10ofThose released … Continued
Top Reads: March 2020
March has been a crazy month – our first daughter arrived (early!) and the world was gripped by the Coronavirus pandemic. In spite of both of those momentous, life-changing events (or, in the latter, perhaps because of!) I managed to … Continued
Book Review: Grieving a Suicide
This book is not an easy one to recommend, but it is an important and beautifully written tool for anyone who is in the process of grief, whether from suicide or not. Al Hsu writes from the persepctive of one … Continued
This is not normal. And that is ok.
Wow. Who would have expected that an almost universal embrace of ‘online church’ would be one of the outcomes of a global pandemic. I use those quote marks because I believe that the activities that we are engaging on online … Continued
