Book Review: New Testament Prayer for Everyone
Those of you who have been reading this blog for a while will know that I’m lucky enough to be on SPCK’s ‘blog reviewer’ program, which means from time to time they send me some tasty goodies to read and … Continued
Book Review: Matters of Life and Death
Published by IVP, this book has a foreword by John Stott, and the author is a professor of Ethics and Perinatology (me neither, this is “the branch of obstetrics [medicine relating to childbirth] dealing with the specific period of time … Continued
Book Review: Connecting Like Jesus
Over the last couple of days I’ve been reading a new book, published by SPCK, and authored by Tony Campolo and Mary Darling. “Connecting Like Jesus” is an interesting book, its subtitle “Practices for Healing, Teaching, and Preaching”, making it … Continued
Book Review: Enabling Church
A short review of a short book today! I was interested to read this little gem of a book aimed at equipping churches to be more inclusive of disabled people. This book – with two authors, Gordon Temple and Lin … Continued
Book Review: The Lion’s World
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this, Archbishop Rowan Williams latest book. Published by SPCK, this is a real gem – Rowan looking critically, kindly, and intelligently at C.S.Lewis’ Narnia, and in particular the character of Aslan. Whilst this release could … Continued
Guest Post: The Death of Relativism
Be careful what you wish for: The Death of Relativism For many years, people of strongly held beliefs have attacked the inconsistency and hypocrisy of flabby, late 20th Century relativism. The relativism of recent decades has often led to a … Continued
Book Review: The God of Intimacy and Action
Tony Campolo and Mary Albert Darling are both provocative and innovative thinkers, with whom I agree in part and disagree occasionally! I enjoyed, for what it was, their previous effort, and today’s book is similar in my response. In “The … Continued
Book Review: The Later New Testament Writers and Scripture
At the time of writing this review, I had not been employed by SPCK for two years. At your time of reading this, you should know that I’ve worked there, but don’t any longer. By way of introduction, this is … Continued
Book Review: Justification, Five Views
The issue of the Doctrine of Justification has long been a contentious one. As this volume recounts in its superb introduction, it was not a central issue of debate in the early centuries of the Church, but was a … Continued
Book Review: Celtic Christian Spirituality
In a similar vein to my previous review of “Simple Ways” by Gunilla Norris – a book on meditation, witha Christian bent – this is not a book I would necessarily choose to read, but it’s something I think is … Continued