abuse
Reflections on ‘Bleeding for Jesus’
Many of us have been waiting for Andrew Graystone’s book about the John Smyth abuses and Iwerne camp culture for a while now. Well, it’s
12th October 2021
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Trinity
art & painting
Echoes from Eternity 18. John Donne
John Donne’s poetry is often difficult, sometimes perplexing and troubling, but always rewarding if closely attended to. He completely loses me quite often. But I
14th April 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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AFRICA
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
1st January 2018
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BOOKS/WRITING
If only I’d thought of saying that: Chris Russell’s TEN LETTERS
We’ve all had that frustration of suddenly realising the mot juste to clinch an argument … long after it has been lost and forgotten. ‘If
11th March 2013
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apologetics
Sam Allberry’s new ‘Connected’
Bizarrely, two new books from the same author arrived in the post on the same day. Sam Allberry’s new IVP UK book on the Trinity
23rd July 2012
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John’s Gospel: LIFE, LIGHT & GLORY
One of my big tasks every summer is to do the talks for our church week away, usually all from one book. It’s a challenge,
3rd October 2010
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‘Inverted Vertigo’: an analogy?
Robert MacFarlane’s The Wild Places is one of the most beautifully written and evocative books I’ve read. It is the sort of book that reminds
7th March 2010
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Further Shack Ramblings
My previous post generated some discussion on and offline, which is great. But I suspect that a few more comments are in order. I’m not
4th September 2008
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Relishing the Trinitarian Dynamic – passing time in THE SHACK
How on earth do you articulate what it is like to know God? I’m not just referring to knowledge about God – but knowledge of
28th August 2008
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