Some Holy Week thoughts and provocations
Ongoing writing means lack of ongoing blogging, as ever. But the end is in sight. On the home straight for getting full draft editor by 1st Jun. But here are a few links for this Holy Week
Facing up to the UK Adoption crisis
For some reason, the British church has been very slow to take up the challenge of adoption. This is a tragedy. As things stand at the moment, there are apparently 5000 children awaiting adoption, and around 9000 needing fostering. The Evangelical Alliance’s Krish Kandiah is an old friend who has not only taken up the gauntlet […]
Help, please, with the Jesus conspiracy behind Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code
Work on my book on suspicion, spies, conspiracies and the like continues apace (hence minimal blog posting) – but I’m wondering if some of you can help me a little bit. I’m currently working on some of the conspiracy theories that float around Christianity and the church. Perhaps the most notorious is the one popularised by Dan Brown […]
Q marks the spot – Treasure Map 67 (April 2014)
Sacred Treasure Giles Fraser nails it on euthanasia Kevin de Young on celebrity pastors etc Andrew Brown writes an inspiring obituary of Margaret Spufford (mother of one of my literary heroes, Francis)
