Was involved today at a great initiative - the EA's BibleFresh. Krish Kandiah has done a fantastic job spearheading it - and there will be all kinds of different resources developed, gathered and hosted at the BibleFresh site. So keep…
That time of year again for my favourite literary event: The Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title. In 2009, the field was particularly strong. But at last, the results are in. Click on each book if you want to invest…
Does such a man exist? Can such a man exist? Love this cartoon by Roz Chast from last week's New Yorker. Genius.
Yesterday, I took our All Souls Apprentices on a study afternoon to the Tate Modern, and so had the chance to take a few snaps...
Slavery is a fraught subject - and for too many, it's no historical artefact or long-gone curiosity. Its effects are still pervasive. Furthermore, it's not simply a matter of its legacy for African-Americans in the US or the Caribbean. UN…
This was made by a US network to plug their broadcast of the Tudors series. Its Spooks-like opening seems a bit OTT. But the point of posting this is not Natalie Dormer (who played Anne Boleyn) but the fact that…
One edition of this book (more recent than the 1997 edition that I had pictured here) begins with a preface by someone who suggests (apparently) that it is impossible as an outsider really to understand or empathise with what happened…
Have already drawn from Robert Macfarlane's The Wild Places - and I think I will do so a few more times. One striking motif from the book is the way in which the natural world, and especially wild places, puts us…
Amazingly, had a free evening last night - so Joshua and I toddled off to Westminster, armed with a tripod and some slow shutter speeds, and played around with night shots. Here are a few results (click the pics for…
Richard Eyre's anthology of interviews with various thesps and drama types (Taking Theatre) has been a fun book to dip into - the perfect filler for 5 minute slots (e.g.when people are late for a meeting). Lots of gems inside,…
We went to the Van Gogh exhibition at the Royal Academy the other day. There's far too much verbiage around about him and I'm certainly not qualified to add to it. It's just that I was simply blown away by…
Next up in my trawl of digital spirituality writing is Jesse Rice's mildly provocatively titled Church of Facebook. Rice is has been a youth worker and worship leader, and now appropriately enough, lives in Palo Alto in Silicon Valley which…