Top Reads: December 2019
December was a good month for reading – a full month back at IVP/SPCK, and lots of interesting things. Here are Ten Things I think other people should read. David Firth’s Including the Stranger – a timely and brilliantly put … Continued
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
2019’s Reading in Review
Following on from my post of similar content last year, here is a rough overview of what I’ve read this year, broadly subdivided by a few categories… (I’ve also tried putting stuff into GoodReads for the last year, though that … Continued
Book Review: Listening to the Animals
One of the things I love that I don’t write about here that much is the animal kingdom – particularly dogs – and this love has been fuelled in recent years by a fascinating program, ‘The Supervet’, about Noel Fitzpatrick. … Continued
My Top Ten Books of 2019
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
Book Review: Looking Beyond Brexit
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
It is Better by Far…
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
Book Review: The Creaking on the Stairs
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
The SVS 2020 Call for Papers!
Just parking this here for anyone interested – the Call for Papers for the Society of Vineyard Scholars 2020 is now live! Check it out here. This is one of my favourite conferences to attend – both from … Continued
Book Review: Swipe Up
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
