{"id":2894,"date":"2019-12-01T13:42:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T13:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/?p=2894"},"modified":"2019-12-02T16:34:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T16:34:09","slug":"top-reads-november-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/top-reads-november-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Reads: November 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In my first full month back at IVP (October was somewhat disrupted by three weeks in Australia!) I’ve been having a great time reading a few things. Here are the things I’ve read this month that have got me thinking.<\/p>\n

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  1. David Firth’s new book\u00a0Including the Stranger<\/em><\/a> is a superb read. TLDR? Read this if you are wondering about ethnic diversity in a polarised world.<\/li>\n
  2. The Chronicle of Higher Education had a great article about approaching academic book editors<\/a> at conferences. TLDR? Helpful post, pitch me<\/a>!<\/li>\n
  3. One of my books of the year will be Karen Swallow Prior’s\u00a0On Reading Well<\/em>. TLDR? This book does exactly what it wants to, and well.<\/li>\n
  4. A great blog post<\/a> (I’m 3 years late…) on why Christians love books. TLDR? More interesting than you think.<\/li>\n
  5. Another book I’ve thoroughly enjoyed is David Smiths’\u00a0God in the Whirlwind<\/em><\/a>. TLDR? This book is beautiful, soul-searching theology for every wrestler.<\/li>\n
  6. My friend Johnny wrote a blog post a while back about why we should consider voting ‘for losers’<\/a>. TLDR? Read this if you struggle to vote.<\/li>\n
  7. Tom Camacho’s\u00a0Mining for Gold<\/em><\/a> is a book we didn’t know we needed – making ‘coaching’ biblically rigorous. Great leadership development!<\/li>\n
  8. An important Guardian article about politics and publishing<\/a>. TLDR? Why can’t we agree to disagree?<\/li>\n
  9. N. T. Wright’s\u00a0History and Eschatology<\/em><\/a> is a blockbuster. TLDR? It’s a long book, but if it interests you, definitely read it.<\/li>\n
  10. A sobering Spectator article<\/a> about the influence of\u00a0The Life of Brian<\/em>. TLDR? What if a film had a negative effect, but not in they way we were warned?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In my first full month back at IVP (October was somewhat disrupted by three weeks in Australia!) I’ve been having a great time reading a few things. Here are the things I’ve read this month that have got me thinking. … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[312,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894"}],"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=2894"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2906,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions\/2906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}