20th Century
Best books of 2023
So here is a brief rundown of my favourite books from 2023. There were others I could have chosen too, but you have to draw
22nd December 2023
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memoirs
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21st Century
Best Reads of 2022
A brief rundown of my favourite books from 2022: essentially those I awarded 5* on my Goodreads page. Fiction (no particular order) I’ve always loved
4th December 2022
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20th Century
Hearing the Unheard: 2. Five Black Theologians to listen to
Inevitably, this series’ lists are very personal and limited. It’s primarily a way of honouring those who have had an impact on me, but they’re
21st June 2020
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20th Century
Echoes from Eternity 16: John Stott’s Cross of Christ
It is Good Friday so the subject matter for the day’s reading presented itself easily enough. Choosing what to read, however, was a very different
10th April 2020
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20th Century
2019: Reading Highlights
These are in no particular order and I’ve picked them out as the ones I gave 5* to on my Goodreads page – you can
17th December 2019
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20th Century
Promoted to Glory: the incomparable Frances Whitehead
Despite the relative freedom that singleness brought him, John Stott would never have achieved everything he achieved in his 90-year life were it not for
2nd June 2019
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CHRISTIAN LIFE
Sofia’s story: 1. The Memory of that Blue Line
This is, I hope, the first of several posts from Sofia. Our friendship goes back a couple of decades and we’ve kept in touch for
11th February 2019
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20th Century
The flicker of a smile from the unsmiling man
Shostakovich is a personal hero of mine. He walked a tightrope between the Gulag and compromise in the vortex of Stalinist Russia. But more than
22nd December 2018
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animation
When Darkness Seems My Closest Friend – 1st promo short is out!
We’ve had some fun… thanks to the talents of the great John Bowen (who made the shorts for A Wilderness of Mirrors). This is coming
10th May 2018
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BOOKS/WRITING
5 Writing Tips Gleaned Along The Way
There are loads of advice lists from writers out there. But I think I can safely claim to be a writer now. And bizarrely enough,
30th July 2017
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apologetics
The Black Dog (10 years on) 8: SOME LITERARY COMPANIONS…
William Nicholson wrote Shadowlands, the play (which became the film) inspired by C.S.Lewis’s extraordinary testimony A Grief Observed. In it, he gave Lewis this lovely
21st August 2015
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BOOKS/WRITING
The Paradoxes of Loneliness from Jean Vanier’s Becoming Human
Depression isolates and introverts. It’s a brutally vicious circle. And so when one occasionally gets swept up by outbreaks of energy, they are often focused on desperately trying
13th January 2015
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