Happy New Year Y'all! Sacred Treasure Tim Keller wrote a helpfully argued piece for the New Yorker last month: Can Evangelicalism Survive Donald Trump and Roy Moore. Chris Green has a good piece on sermon illustrations Ian Paul asks whether…
Dan at Redeeming Sound asked me to write something for his blog. So naturally, I decided to write on U2… They’ve had a new album coming out any minute for years – latest is that it will be sometime this year… but they recorded a song for the soundtrack to the new Mandela movie starring Idris Elba: Ordinary Love (more…)
I have just finished Kofi Annan’s fascinating memoir Interventions. Annan is clearly a man of great stature and influence, who strained every sinew to bring about peace and dialogue during his 10 years as UN Secretary-General but tragically often failed. For all kinds of reasons. But as one might expect (and indeed hope), he has great wisdom to share, even if he cannot claim a string of personal triumphs.
But before a few gems, here’s my brief Amazon review (which you may want to find ‘helpful’?!): (more…)
Sabbaticals bring many benefits. One is obviously time for reflection: on the past, present and future; on what matters; on what has made us who we are. And I can say without hesitation that, for good and sometimes perhaps for ill, our Uganda years made a far greater impact on me than any other four-year period as an adult. Of course, one never realises it at the time. Life goes on, you blithely persevere from one thing to the next, you never stop to think. (more…)
Nearly 10 years ago, a dear friend of mine was addressing a gathering of Ugandan MPs in the Parliament building in Kampala (around the 40th anniversary of independence). It included those from all shades on the political spectrum, including not a few post-colonial firebrands. My friend is certainly no great apologist for imperialism, but he posed two simple questions.
Sacred Treasure The dilemma for Iraqi Christians Charts showing the difference between NIV2011 and previous versions, and here. (HT Antony Billington) Full schedule of Lausanne III at Cape Town to see videos of main talks etc Bring Advent to life…
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…
Just been sent the link by the Cape Town gang to these fantastic images of Soweto, taken by the photographer Jodi Bieber to publicise her new book. Check them out...
Sacred Treasure If you're a fan of J C Ryle's classic Holiness (or if you're not yet, you should be!), then you will be very pleased that someone has produced a study guide to the book (HT JCRyle Quotes) Pete…
I'm not normally in the habit of contributing to advertisers viral campaigns- in fact that goes completelyagainst my grain. But I just love this ad for the world cup run up. Captures so many things that I love about Africa: