Humans Audiobook Winners announced!
After the competition last week to win a free download of the latest Audiobook of WHAT MAKES US HUMAN, it gives me great pleasure to announce the winners. In answer to the question: I feel less than human when I lack _________! The 5 wittiest (or rather, least unwitty!) entries are: HU_ Marie-Madeleine B […]
Q Marks the Spot – Treasure Map 92 (May 2016)
Sacred Treasure A photographer revives his faith through shadowing a vicar for a year. Two new startup websites have appeared to offer interviews with interesting and influential people from a theological perspective. First is from a filmmaker and thinker, David Moore, who kindly helped me get A Wilderness of Mirrors a bit of space last […]
Brexit Schmexit: some (VERY) random Bremainer thoughts
I’m no economist. I’m no political scientist. I’m no international relations boffin. And I’m horribly aware of the complexity of the issues – which, incidentally, means there is surely no place the shrill tone of those who accuse their opponents of being moronic, venal or naive. I’ve been on the receiving end of some of […]
Q Marks The Spot – Treasure Map 91 (April 2016)
Sacred Treasure John Stevens has a useful overview of the Brexit/Bremain issues – i’m actually mid-posting my own thoughts on this too – watch this space (though I’m sure you can hold your breath) Archbishop Cranmer on the importance of silence in the din Topical Treasure The sublime narcissism of getting offended on others’ behalf. An […]
We saw a great light in the east (over Mt Kenya)
Eleven years ago, almost to the day. Our last few months in East Africa before moving back to London (although we didn’t know that for sure at the time). We’d driven over to Kenya from Kampala for Easter, to stay with the Harrises, Rachel’s cousins then working at Turi School. Turi is situated in the […]
Q marks the spot – Treasure Map 90 (March 2016)
Sacred Treasure Chris Green on a chillingly fascinating biography of New York’s most powerful man – and its telling if unexpected resonance for pastors. David Jackman is one of my heroes of the faith and mentors – and it’s just wonderful that his teaching is now being systematically recorded for posterity on video – even […]
A Sky Unsullied by Clouds: William Wilberforce gives hope to a 14 year old girl in pain
Last weekend, my wife Rachel was going through some old boxes in her parents’ attic. That kind of thing is usually quite a chore. But not this time. She’s got quite the pedigree from British Christian history, has Rachel. It includes a bunch of names like Elizabeth Fry, Thomas Barnardo, Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, so […]
Simeon and Stott: Parallel Lives, Parallel Legacies
I’ve been musing on this for the last few months, sparked by my prep for a talk at a Langham consultation last Autumn. It’s rather snowballed since, and so just as I was about to post about it, I kept finding something else to add or think about. This is just the beginning of something […]
Q marks the spot – Treasure Map 89 (February 2016)
Sacred Treasure Scotty Smith has written a rather wonderful prayer for those who are weary and overwhelmed. Michael Kruger has a good overview of the question of whether or not Jesus’ divinity was invented by the Council of Nicaea. Ian Paul speaks sense about the recent CofE stats dipping below 1million for the first time […]
Q Combinations 12: Kavanagh faces Failure and Gormley in Another Place
This poem is more positive than it first appears. Nevertheless, it is pointed and painful. But then, how can the sense of failure not be? There’s no indication of what specific failure is in sight. But that is immaterial, not least because it universalises the poem. Failure brings such weight – a ‘dead clod’. Kavanagh […]
Q Competition Time: HUMANS Goes AUDIO!!
Well, I didn’t even know that this was on the cards – but it seems that my short book WHAT MAKES US HUMAN (available in print and as an ebook from the Good Book Co) has now been produced in by ChristianAudio as an audiobook. The reader is Derek Perkins who is one of the […]
Facing up to the power in the pulpit
It was a joy to get to know Matt Woodley for a few hours as he was passing through London last summer, and I’m really grateful to him for the opportunities to write for PreachingToday of which he is editor (it’s an online journal part of Christianity Today family in the US). He had been reading A […]
