Thoughts,reports and reviews relating to Christian faith
Having grown up in the (in those days) still strongly protestant south of England, where adherents of the various denominations criticised each other’s doctrines and were scarcely aware that other
Introduction My small obsession of searching out literary novels of Christian experience1 led me a couple of years ago to George Macdonald’s Thomas Wingfold, curate, the first novel of his
I have just read the introductory chapter to Christopher Watkin’s Biblical Critical Theory,1 and I am blown away by it. His prose is a pleasure to read, his reading is
A review of N.T. Wright, History and eschatology: Jesus and the promise of natural theology. 2019. London: SPCK. History and eschatology is a difficult read. It is detailed and scholarly.
Patrick Süskind, Das Parfum: die Geschichte eines Mörders. Diogenes, 1985 Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The story of a murderer. Translator: John E. Woods. Vintage International, 1986. Again a long break since I last
I suppose it’s inevitable that my search for novels of Christian experience should bring me back to Graham Greene. The Heart of the Matter is a novel of Christian experience
Introduction I have long thought that when someone wrongs us, we should forgive them, not only for their sake, but also for our own. If we don’t forgive, the memory
Michael F. Bird, Religious freedom in a secular age: A Christian case for liberty, equality and secular government. Zondervan, 2022. I don’t usually read books about the politics of being