Experiments in black and white in Norfolk
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 Hank 8. There’s now a cafe and you can wander round the remaining buildings and ruins. Lovely. […]
Autumnal Clouds, Silhouettes & Reflections
Been in Norfolk for children’s half term – have had some beautiful skies. I love big skies… Here are a few…
Istanbul at night and other photographic highlights
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 and when there were very few people around. Wonderful. Here are a few snaps. Top: […]
Avoiding the Keller challenge? Steve Turner’s poetic exposure of our inaction
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 the Sheep and the Goats, which is a text Keller picks up on in his […]
The gauntlet laid by Tim Keller’s Generous Justice
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 political tightrope Speaking as a transatlantic observer, it seems to me that one of the acute […]
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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 Quaerentia offers. This gives you an extra £1 off the already discounted price. But QUICK […]
Provocations and Grace from Tim Keller’s Generous Justice
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 him to write of the crying need for Evangelicals to engage with issues of justice […]
Bernard Lewis’ What Went Wrong: Reflections on Islam & The West (2)
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 have stagnated and even regressed. How did this happen? Hermetically Sealed Isolation One factor was […]
Bernard Lewis’ What Went Wrong: Reflections on Islam & The West (1)
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 Islam is a Jewish, British-born and now naturalised American, professor emeritus at Princeton. He has […]
This book made me feel…?? 20 Questions to ask of Novels
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 done for years, even before it became seriously commercial and gigantic, is to give staff […]
You can help: A family tragically bereaved by an Albanian bloodfeud.
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 few years back, although of course not by name. His story was one that i […]
European Shouting Maps – international prejudices galore
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… Check out the others and the fuller explanations. Below are maps of Europe from:
