Book Review: Scars Across Humanity
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
Top Reads: April 2017
Slightly late off the bat with this – given that it is now May. But I hope you’ll forgive me. A really clever, if offensive and confusing video advert, from Thailand. See if you can guess what they are selling before … Continued
Book Review: Impossible is a Dare
Working for SPCK, the UK’s leading and largest Christian publisher, means I get to read alot of books. Some of them are brilliant. Some are average. Some are awful. Some, though, make you sit up, read them at the weekend, and … Continued
Make a Splash
This is a new page on the website. Not sure what it’ll be yet. The hope is eventually to make a splash. But you can’t make a splash without a good understanding of physics, engagement in reality, and a deliberate … Continued
Book Review: Identity and Idolatry
One of the books in my 2017 reading challenge, this is a book I was meant to review for Churchman Journal back in 2015! I’ve finally got round to reviewing it, and you’ll likely see snippets from it popping up … Continued
God With Us: The contribution of Rowan Williams for a Vineyard Sacramental theology of Worship’
I am looking forward to presenting a very tentative debut paper at the SST 2017 Conference at the University of Nottingham. My paper sits in the Sacramentality, Liturgy and Theology stream, and echoes a number of my interests at this … Continued
Book Review: Knowing Christ
This review will be published, depending on when you read it, in ‘Foundations’ the theological journal of Affinity. It is reproduced in shorter form here. Nearly 50 years ago the great Evangelical theologian J. I. Packer wrote and published Knowing God. That … Continued
The Beginning of Justice
Recently, I’ve been starting to think about Justice. Ahead of the Vineyard UK Theological Symposium in June, I’ve been batting around a variety of ideas for a paper, echoing my more diverse reading in 2017, as well as my wider … Continued
Book Review: Christian Tradition and the Practice of Justice
Working for SPCK, the UK’s leading Christian publisher (And, incidentally, the 3rd oldest British Publisher), I get the opportunity to read and review quite a few books. Today’s review is of a book by one of the SPCK Trustees, who … Continued
Top Reads: March 2017
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