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Review: Thoughts to Make Your Heart Sing

February 11th, 2013

I was recently enormously honoured to be asked to be Godmother to the delightful youngest daughter ...
Books, On Faith, Reviews
Dilemma: Do I Recommend this Book?

January 29th, 2013

Towards the end of last year I found myself with time to spare in Foyles, one ...
Books, Reviews
On Reading

January 26th, 2013

Confession: I'm one of those geeky-types that keeps a record of all the books I read ...
Books
Bodies of Evidence

December 20th, 2012

Here's another post I wrote recently for ThinkTheology but forgot to share with you. Sorry! ----------------- At the ...
Body or Soul?, Personhood, Things that matter, ThinkTheology
I’m not in denial!

September 22nd, 2012

In 50 days' time, I will turn 40. I'm not really bothered by it, but that's partly ...
On the Lines, Personhood
You are what you read

October 21st, 2011

On the way to work this morning, were you reading the Metro, The Financial Times, the ...
Books, On Faith
The stories we tell ourselves

June 14th, 2011

CONGRATULATIONS to Peter Pollock, Caren Carter and Joanne Harman, winners of last week's competition! The Hiding Place by Corrie ten ...
Books, On the Lines
Grateful for a flea?

June 8th, 2011

I hope you've all been thinking about the lives that inspire you. Thank you to those ...
Books, On Faith, Things that matter
Cartography as culture-making

May 9th, 2011

In 1854, cholera struck London. Again. The disease was a frequent visitor to the capital, and ...
Body or Soul?, Books, Things that matter
“Visionary works of art inspired by blind rage”

May 4th, 2011

So ran the headline of the advertising blurb for a documentary by Andrew Lloyd Webber in last ...
Arts, Books
Review: Redeeming Love

November 10th, 2010

Redeeming Love Francine Rivers I don’t read much Christian fiction. It’s almost universally poorly written, with trite, uncompelling ...
Books, Reviews
Review: Leadership

August 18th, 2010

Leadership Rudy Giuliani (Little, Brown 2002) Nearing the end of his tenure as New York City Mayor, Rudy Giuliani decided ...
Books, Leadership
Supply and demand

June 16th, 2010

In America, apparently, there’s a church called the ‘Scum of the Earth Church’. There’s also a ...
Books, Things that matter
Review: New Challenges for Christians

June 15th, 2010

New Challenges for Christians: From test-tube babies to euthanasia Robin Gill My interest in engaging with culture to ...
Books, Reviews, Things that matter
The Lion Mark

June 4th, 2010

In The Radical Disciple, the book by John Stott mentioned in a post last week, I finally found ...
Body or Soul?, Books
What gets measured gets done

June 2nd, 2010

This was a phrase I picked up from Bill Hybels' Courageous Leadership, at about the same ...
Books, Leadership, Things that matter
We have given things priority over persons, we have built a civilisation based on things rather ...
NewSong: Dependence

May 28th, 2010

I don't want to be a burden. This is often seen as the clinching argument in the ...
Between the Lines, Books, Movies, On the Lines, Things that matter
Review: Protect and Defend

May 24th, 2010

With abortion in the news again, I thought I'd post the following review that I wrote for ...
Books, Reviews, Things that matter
Book Review: Home

April 26th, 2010

Home by Marilynne Robinson One reviewer describes this book as 'A quietly moving novel of faith and forgiveness,' ...
Books, Reviews
What is the point of organised religion? What good does faith do for a person, or ...
“You must think, Baldrick…”

March 31st, 2010

...so says the eponymous anti-hero in a classic episode of Blackadder; "Thinking is so important." As fans ...
Books, Leadership, Things that matter
The first act of mercy

March 26th, 2010

You know how sometimes a particular book of the Bible, or even just a section or ...
Body or Soul?, Books
Freedom vs Fairness

March 17th, 2010

Last night I attended another book launch, this time in the City of London. The ...
Books, On the Lines, Things that matter
Body or Soul?

March 10th, 2010

A new biography of Lord Shaftesbury was launched today - the first for over 20 years. ...
Body or Soul?, Books, Things that matter

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Review: Thoughts to Make Your Heart Sing

Dilemma: Do I Recommend this Book?

On Reading

Bodies of Evidence

I’m not in denial!

You are what you read

The stories we tell ourselves

Grateful for a flea?

Cartography as culture-making

“Visionary works of art inspired by blind rage”

Review: Redeeming Love

Review: Leadership

Supply and demand

Review: New Challenges for Christians

The Lion Mark

What gets measured gets done

NewSong: Dependence

Review: Protect and Defend

Book Review: Home

“You must think, Baldrick…”

The first act of mercy

Freedom vs Fairness

Body or Soul?

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