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After a\u00a0totally planned and not accidental<\/strong> break in August, my ‘top reads’ blog post returns for September. Here are ten things I think are well worth reading, for a variety of people, for a variety of reasons:<\/p>\n 1. Tom Holland: Why I was wrong about Christianity<\/a> – one of my favourite authors\/historians\/tweeters writes powerfully in The New Statesman.<\/p>\n 2. “Transgenderism” isn’t a thing by Giacomo Sanfilipo<\/a> – a\u00a0very<\/strong> provocative-ly titled and powerful read on a crucial cultural and social issue.<\/p>\n 3. ‘What Christians Should Think about the Shack<\/a>‘ – a short piece calling for discernment around one of the most popular spiritual books of our time.<\/p>\n 4. Why religion is not going away and science will not destroy it<\/a> – a longer piece, by Peter Harrison, which makes for interesting reading.<\/p>\n 5. How is your church’s “on ramp”?<\/a> – by my friend and Vineyard pastor\/theologian Luke Geraty, this is an old but gold post. Have a read, have a chew, and think about it.<\/p>\n 6. Laura Kuenssberg hiring a bodyguard was depressing. Then it got worse<\/a>. Gaby Hinsliff writes for the Guardian about the nasty underbelly of party conferences.<\/p>\n 7. Reformation Anniversary: How is the Reformation Still Relevant to Evangelicals Today?<\/a> John Stevens, National Director of the FIEC, writes a helpful and firm but graceful post.<\/p>\n 8. ‘Eddie Izzard: ‘Everything I do in life is trying to get my mother back’<\/a>. A sobering and brilliant piece of writing in the Guardian. Well worth reading, and pondering the stories hidden behind people’s faces.<\/p>\n 9. What’s changed in Britain since same-sex marriage?<\/a> This interesting little article from The Australian Spectator is a sobering read for those of us in the UK.<\/p>\n 10. Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) – Is the Amputation of Healthy Limbs Ethically Justified<\/a>. This academic article is\u00a0well<\/em> outside of my specialisms, but is a fascinating examination of a growing phenomenon in human identity.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After a\u00a0totally planned and not accidental break in August, my ‘top reads’ blog post returns for September. Here are ten things I think are well worth reading, for a variety of people, for a variety of reasons: 1. Tom … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[453,312,56],"tags":[335,462,575,574],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}