Book Review: Letter to a Christian Nation
This is an old, old review. I’ve reproduced it for reference, and as an experiment. I hope it is still of use to someone! It originally appeared on my old blog, and is dated accordingly… This book review will be … Continued
Book Review: Heresies and How to Avoid Them
Edited by Ben Quash and Michael Ward, two Anglican theologians, and with contributors from a range of traditions, this is an edited volume of pithy essays on an important topic. Too easily these days does intra-Christian discourse jump to using … Continued
Some Thoughts on the Discipline of Reading
I don’t know about you, but I often feel bombarded by perspectives and teaching on ‘spiritual disciplines’, ‘spirituality’, and so on. I’m a big fan of the power of prayer, quiet times with God, fellowship and sacrament with a … Continued
Book Review: Surprised by Hope
In the Reformed Conservative Evangelical wing of the Church that I grew up in, N.T.Wright is currently seemingly in exile over his views on justification and Paul. But he is also one of evangelicalism’s greatest scholars. His ‘magisterial’ books on … Continued
Book Review: Jesus, the Only Way to God?
This is the question that keeps many well-meaning Christians up at night. The question that different passages of Scripture can be seen to answer. The question that divides denominations, friends and sometimes the entire church. It is a question … Continued
Book Review: The Compassion Quest
This book was intriguing enough that I ended up ordering the authors previous work, “Finding Hope and Meaning in Suffering“. That, however, does not constitute a full review! Trystan Owain Hughes, the Anglican Chaplain at Cardiff University, has given the … Continued
Book Review: Unbreakable
This is a short review of a useful short book that I found very helpful in different contexts over the summer. Andrew Wilson will likely be known to many readers of this blog, and he’s worth following on Twitter as … Continued
Book Review: How to Like Paul Again
Conrad Gempf is the Lecturer in New Testament at the London School of Theology, and this represents a popular-level engagement with some key New Testament themes, centred on the person of Paul. Paul, in most Christian understanding, is an author … Continued
Suicide and the Sovereignty of God: Part 5
Concluding a series of posts (a modification and serialisation of one of my MA-level essays) thinking through a Christian response to suicide, today we reach the end of this discussion. Following an introductory post, a post about suicide and the … Continued
Suicide and the Sovereignty of God: Part 4
Continuing a new series of posts (a modification and serialisation of one of my MA-level essays) thinking through a Christian response to suicide, today we reach our third post. Following an introductory post, a post about suicide and the biblical … Continued
