{"id":2478,"date":"2019-07-01T06:45:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T05:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2019-06-30T19:10:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T18:10:59","slug":"top-reads-june-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/top-reads-june-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Reads: June 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Readers will notice a Pauline flavour this month – Steve Chalke’s new book on Paul has come out – so apologies if you don’t like Paul. Anyway, here are the top ten things I’ve read this month (With a few bonus links, to thinks I liked less or flesh out the recommended reads!)<\/p>\n

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  1. Pondering Paul? Paul Behaving Badly<\/em> is the book on Paul most of us should read.<\/li>\n
  2. David Robertson has written a robust piece for Christian Today about Steve Chalke’s new book<\/a>. TLDR? Read this before you read the book (I’ve also reviewed<\/a> it)<\/li>\n
  3. I re-read Tim Chester’s book\u00a0You Can Change<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and reviewed it. TLDR? Read this book if you want to pursue holiness and become more like Jesus.<\/li>\n
  4. David Ould has an excellent piece on the Bible’s clarity<\/a>, particularly on issues of marriage. TLDR? Marty Percy might not be the authority he thinks he is.<\/li>\n
  5. Michael Bird has an interesting list of the Top Ten Books on Paul<\/a>. TLDR? Don’t have time to do a PhD in Paul? Here are some things to read.<\/li>\n
  6. Andy Frost’s new book\u00a0Long Story Short<\/em><\/a> is brilliant. TLDR? Stories matter – which ones do you believe?<\/li>\n
  7. Veteran LGBT+ campaigner Peter Tatchell has a fascinating and probing piece in the Guardian on why Pride has effectively sold out<\/a>\u00a0to ‘rainbow-coloured capitalism’ (his words, not mine!). TLDR? Well worth reading, so I won’t summarise it.<\/li>\n
  8. Steve Burnhope, a friend and fellow Vineyard Pastor, has a new book,\u00a0Atonement and the New Perspective<\/em><\/a>. TLDR? Long, academic, and provocative, if you care about the atonement, this is worth reading. Read my review and interview with Steve<\/a> for more to help you decide.<\/li>\n
  9. Mike Smith, an Anglican Vicar and school governor has a thought-provoking article for Church Society titled ‘No Outsiders’<\/a>. TLDR? Good reflections on true tolerance in our culture.<\/li>\n
  10. Klyne Snodgrass’s book\u00a0Who God Says You Are<\/em><\/a> is SUPERB. TLDR? READ THIS BOOK, PLEASE!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Readers will notice a Pauline flavour this month – Steve Chalke’s new book on Paul has come out – so apologies if you don’t like Paul. Anyway, here are the top ten things I’ve read this month (With a few … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478"}],"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=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2560,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions\/2560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}