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 see the rest here. The observant may well be able to discern themes and current…
Q Marks the Spot 134 (December 2019)
Sacred Treasure One man mission - a fascinating story about reviving Welsh chapels - and fascinating it gets such a high profile on the BBCJames Hannam has written one of my favourite books of history (God's Philosophers: How the Mediaeval…
Q Marks The Spot: Treasure Map 127 (May 2019)
Sacred Treasure This is great - a constantly updated list - Biblical references in U2 lyrics!Tom Holland is on cracking form here - Thank God For Western ValuesIan Paul outlines the issues well for the perennial questions at this time…
When Uncle John wrote a letter that actually did change the world
Regulars will know that John Stott is a frequent focus here. I've just finished reading Alister Chapman's excellent, scholarly engagement with John Stott's legacy: Godly Ambition. A fuller review may come in time... But I will say this. Having spent 12…
Q Marks The Spot – Treasure Map 113 (January 2018)
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…
Taking the UK’s social temperature: Spurgeons 2017 Parent Report
An old friend, Ross Hendry, is the chief exec of Spurgeon's Children's Charity, a UK organisation (no, that's not him on the left, that's Spurgeon). The charity was founded by its illustrious namesake, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, and continues today to…
Some thoughts on John Stott’s understanding of Christian Unity
IVP has been running a blog series on John Stott's thought - they've produced a number of short videos about it, accompanied by relevant posts. So I was delighted to contribute, writing the article to accompany the great David Turner.…
What Angels Long To Read: Accompanying graphics to download
We are looking at ways to add value to the publication of What Angels Long To Read yesterday. So the first element of this is to make the graphics I made for the book (see right) available for download, in…
Confronting Africa’s Holocaust at Elmina Castle
A week's meetings in Accra, Ghana last month gave the chance to visit a place I'd long known about but couldn't visualise. There are many of these horrors dotted along Africa's Atlantic coast. One of the most intact is Elmina…
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…