We celebrated 5th November en famille early - and here was a jammy shot from above of everyone watching a rocket head out. Yesterday we visited Langley Abbey - a family-run farm built up around a pre-Reformation Abbey, dissolved by…
Been in Norfolk for children's half term - have had some beautiful skies. I love big skies... Here are a few...
Was in Istanbul last week doing some Langham training each evening. Which meant that I never got back to my B&B until quite late. Which also meant that I was able to pass some of the great sights after dark…
Having had a bit of a Keller-fest on the last few postings, it struck me as rather fitting to conclude with this piercing and poignant little number from the inimitable Steve Turner. It picks up the themes of Jesus' parable of…
So having been motivated by the biblical appeal to action in Keller's Generous Justice (see previous post), what's the difference? It would hardly be right to leave us as armchair activists with an impetus to think but not act. The…
One or two have been in touch to say that getting hold of Tim Keller's excellent Generous Justice through Amazon is proving tricky. Well, help is at hand. The dudes at 10ofThose have come up with another of their exclusive…
I have been waiting for years for someone to write this book. And so I’m hugely grateful to Tim Keller. He’s clearly the man for the job - his years of ministerial experience, academic ability and personal integrity well qualify…
Following on from yesterday's post, Lewis offers a very helpful articulation of how the Western and Islamic worlds diverged so drastically over the last 500 years. From a situation of great and proud cultural preeminence, the Middle East seems to…
I'd not really appreciated before quite how controversial Bernard Lewis (left) is seen in some circles (perhaps especially because he was regularly consulted by the Bush administration - though others had before him). But one of the foremost western scholars of…
I was in Waterstones the other day - and I didn't buy anything! A remarkable feat. But that's not because there were no temptations. Whole shelves of lovely books to read one day... One of the nice things Waterstones has…
I've visited Albania to speak on Langham conferences 5 times now - and one or two delegates have been to every single event. One of them is Dritan (known as 'Tani') Prroj. I actually alluded him in a post a…
Strange Maps has done it again. This is great – maps full of prejudices, stereotypes and cross-cultural offence. But could there not be some truth to some of them!? No smoke without fire etc. Although some are definitely weird…
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