A nursery for crime: John Le Carré on teaching at Eton!
As part of my ongoing trawl into the literature and culture of the Cold War, I came across this classic description from John Le Carré (nom de plume of David Cornwell) of his 2 years’ teaching at Eton. It is from a collection of transcribed interviews spanning 40 years – which is itself fascinating, because of […]
Capturing a legacy: A Portrait of John Stott by his friends
On 27th April, John Stott will celebrate his 90th birthday. In the coming years, there will be a great multitude claiming to be inheritors of the Stott legacy. Just has happened with a towering figure like Bonhoeffer, so will it happen to Uncle John. And it is not as outlandish to put them in the […]
In the service of his king:What Baldwin hadto do for King John
My parents have been doing what we in our family call ‘rootling’ – searching through family roots, trees and provenance. They’ve been doing some digging on their area in Norfolk and suddenly came across this utterly bizarre little mediaeval detail. It is a scan from Blomefield’s Topographical History of Norfolk published c1739 – and I […]
Harnessing Nature’s Power – James Watt & The Steam Age
It was slightly surreal – an invitation to a mere blogger, who occasionally and with the reckless confidence that comes only from profound ignorance, dabbles in the realm of science. I guess it was because of past raves about books like The Age of Wonder and God’s Philosophers that someone somewhere had the random idea […]
Smiley Romance! But doesn’t he seem a little old for her…?
Another classic from last week’s New Yorker…
Fully Immersed into Babel and Ghost towns: Susan Hiller’s WITNESS & J STREET
Most of the exhibition is bathed in unobtrusive but artful lighting. But then one is led down a dark passage into a pitch-black space, with minimal, if any, lighting. In fact there are a number of rooms like this in the exhibition. But two in particular blew us away. We were at the Tate Britain […]
Society, you’re a crazy breed…
One of the most moving films of recent years has been Into the Wild (dir by Sean Penn). Here are some clips backing the version of Jerry Hannan‘s song Society, sung by Eddie Vedder (who did the whole soundtrack). The song has a bewitching melancholy – but also carries a prophetic voice about the absurdities […]
It’s not advice, it’s news! Reflections on Tim Keller’s King’s Cross
After years of literary restraint – during which he has knuckled down with study, ministry and planting – Tim Keller now seems to be on a roll. Every 12 months or so, he produces a new distillation of some aspect of his teaching. And in some ways, the latest, King’s Cross, lies at the heart of […]
The four levels of hearing a divine word
Hebrews 3 has always held a fascination for me because of the way that the writer skillfully weaves 3 or even four (if you assume he had future generations like ours in mind) together to understand the way God speaks. So it was great to get the chance to delve a little deeper in my […]
We’re equals… aren’t we, 007?
For International Women’s Day, M & 007 got together for this great little clip – the stats towards the end are deeply concerning: (HT: kouya)
So you want to be a better person…?
Just love it – by one of my favourite cartoonists, William Haefeli – from the New Yorker, Oct 2009
Reflections on a God who has spoken
As part of our BibleFresh events, I put this little presentation together to gather thoughts from Psalm 119.
