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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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:
The generous web: Clay Shirky again, on generations, revolutions and Gutenberg
The Blair autobio was far too chunky for me take on the plane to Albania, last week, so instead I took Clay Shirky’s followup to the wonderful HERE COMES EVERYBODY, from which I’ve posted before. He’s called it Cognitive Surplus, which is perhaps rather an intimidating and opaque title. Nevertheless, he’s still his readable, informative […]
Rob Pepper draws All Souls… with a red phonebox
A few months ago, while working on the All Souls history/tourist guide, I came across an interesting artist online, Rob Pepper. He’s done some beautiful line drawings of various London and other landmarks, as well as paintings and a daily sketch blog. So i thought it would be fun to get him to do All […]
Escalating Resonances in Paul’s First Missionary Journey
We’ve done a short series on Acts 13-14 recently, and I had the job of wrapping things up, with just the last 8 verses or so. I have to say that I slightly panicked at what I initially, but erroneously, assumed was a rather slight and inconsequential passage. It’s actually quite key to understanding what […]
Passion, Drive and Provocation: The Arrows’ debut album Make Believe
I’d never heard about The Arrows until I noticed a tiny, one para review of their debut album Make Believe in CT. I don’t think I’ve ever got hooked on an album as the result of reading a CT review before – I actually listen to very little specifically CCM (contemp Christian music). But the […]
