{"id":1077,"date":"2017-12-26T16:05:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T16:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.com\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2017-12-26T17:21:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T17:21:33","slug":"top-reads-december-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/top-reads-december-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Reads: December 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, hasn’t it been an interesting year. Off the back of my November post, this will be the final ‘Top Reads’ post of 2017 – and so it includes a range of things.<\/p>\n

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  1. The Best Books I Read in 2017<\/a> – Sheridan Voysey, an author and social media person I follow online, has written an interesting look back at what he read in 2017. I’ll probably take some recommendations off of this list for next year.<\/li>\n
  2. Being Disciples by Rowan Williams<\/a> – I’m late to the party on this book (it came out in 2016!) but this is a great little book on discipleship.<\/li>\n
  3. No, the Bible doesn’t command we ‘stand with Israel<\/a> – contentious, but presented without comment. An interesting article on one of this world’s hotspots.<\/li>\n
  4. Piper’s Best Tweets<\/a> – a light hearted summary that points to some serious things. This is a collection of Tweets by John Piper, which (if, like me, you like JP and are active on the internet) is well worth mulling and giggling over.<\/li>\n
  5. Why Marriage is Increasingly for the Royals – and the Rich<\/a>. This is a provocative but potentially really important Spectator article about how marriage is gradually becoming an unobtainable luxury…<\/li>\n
  6. Book Review: Sin, Grace and Free Will<\/em><\/a>. This new book by Matthew Knell is a brilliant introduction to some vital topics – rooted in historical sources.<\/li>\n
  7. Spine: Mark Read & Toxic People<\/a><\/em> – I love it when my colleagues do awesome stuff and get recognised for it. As well as this, this is a fascinating insight into the creative process of book cover design.<\/li>\n
  8. The Babylon Bee’s Top Ten Books of 2017<\/a> – this is a bit of Christian satire that I found very amusing.<\/li>\n
  9. Why Charismatics and Calvinists need each other<\/a>. This is a great article from The Gospel Coalition recognising the importance of unity and dialogue between two tribes in the Church that I strongly identify with.<\/li>\n
  10. ‘A Spiritual Battle:’ How Roy Moore tested White evangelical allegiance to the Republican Party<\/a>. This incisive piece by Sarah Pulliam Bailey is a fascinating look into the complexities of ‘evangelical’ as a label in the USA, and offers some provocative things to think about in terms of Christianity and politics. Watching a range of friends argue on the internet (And, to a lesser extent, in real life) about ‘evangelical’ as a label makes me think I’m probably going to be writing about it a lot in the next year.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    At some point in January I’ll probably distill all these top tens into one post – I’ve read some interesting things!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Well, hasn’t it been an interesting year. Off the back of my November post, this will be the final ‘Top Reads’ post of 2017 – and so it includes a range of things. The Best Books I Read in 2017 … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57,13,26,88,589,453,312],"tags":[490],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077"}],"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=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1135,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/1135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}