Istanbul at night and other photographic highlights
Was in Istanbul last week doing some Langham training each evening. Which meant that I never got back to my B&B until quite late. Which
26th October 2010
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crossing cultures
Bernard Lewis’ What Went Wrong: Reflections on Islam & The West (2)
Following on from yesterday’s post, Lewis offers a very helpful articulation of how the Western and Islamic worlds diverged so drastically over the last 500
15th October 2010
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You can help: A family tragically bereaved by an Albanian bloodfeud.
I’ve visited Albania to speak on Langham conferences 5 times now – and one or two delegates have been to every single event. One of
11th October 2010
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European Shouting Maps – international prejudices galore
Strange Maps has done it again. This is great – maps full of prejudices, stereotypes and cross-cultural offence. But could there not be some truth
11th October 2010
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The perils of well-intentioned cross-cultural assistance
Am in Vlorë, a dusty and concrete port city situated in a beautiful area of southern Albania, for a Langham conference (here’s the sunrise from
23rd September 2010
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Yang Yongliang’s Artificial Wonderland
Every now and then I come across something that takes my breath away. And recently, I’ve found this happen more and more with contemporary Chinese
27th July 2010
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Coming to a church near you…
Following in the footsteps of Charlie Brooker’s now famous generic news report, here’s the pervasive cliché that is so many ‘contemporary’ church services! HT Janet
2nd July 2010
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Cold war faith in Romania
Having visited Romania a couple of times, and talked to a number of Romanians when in Hungary for the ELF, I had heard amazing stories
11th June 2010
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Alan Ayckbourn on the nuances of English
Richard Eyre’s anthology of interviews with various thesps and drama types (Taking Theatre) has been a fun book to dip into – the perfect filler
17th March 2010
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The fate of Christians in Iran
A friend, who is an Iranian Christian, sent this to me the other day, and was happy for me to post it – just as
9th March 2010
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Pepsi’s OH AFRICA ad
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
8th March 2010
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Q marks the spot – Treasure Map 18 (March 2010)
Sacred Treasure Tim Keller has 5 Big Issues facing the western church. Challenging but utterly realistic stuff. But here is the flip side: Demand for
1st March 2010
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