An MP3 recording of my most recent sermon in Above Bar Church is now available to download from this site. It’s on Nehemiah 5, which is about the people of Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile trying to rebuild Jerusalem’s walls. Having faced significant opposition from neighbouring rulers, Nehemiah found himself dealing with some serious complaints [...]
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I’m beginning to feel like I’ve overdosed on Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code. Hardly suprising I guess since it’s been such a huge bestseller since publication and especially given the amount of over-the-top hype from Sony (which is, frankly, setting people up to be disappointed with the film – all the advertising makes people [...] The second book (technically it’s number 2, but it was published at the same time as Sex and the Cynics) is on one of the hottest issues in our culture: how do we relate to people with different worldviews and moralities? What does tolerance really mean? Here’s the blurb and contents list: ‘Why can’t you be more [...] The Salvation Army published a very positive review which you can read on their website. Here’s the blurb and contents of the first book in the Talking About series. Love: one of the deepest longings of the human heart, yet increasingly viewed with cynicism. Many people have been hurt too often to believe in love [...] As well as writing or co-writing Dark Matter: A Thinking Fan’s Guide to Philip Pullman and Back in Time: A Thinking Fan’s Guide to Doctor Who, I have been editing a series of books which goes under the name of the Talking About series. Each of the books takes the basic ingredients of what Nick [...] I co-wrote Back in Time: A Thinking Fan’s Guide to Doctor Who with Steve Couch and Peter Williams, which was published in November 2005. It mainly relates to the 2005 series, but with lots about earlier material too. With the 2006 series in full flow, now would be a good time to start thinking [...] Dark Matter: A Thinking Fan’s Guide to Philip Pullman was published on 22 September 2004. Response has been very positive from readers and the few reviewers who ever saw a copy. Unfortunately, it fell foul of major changes in the way Damaris books were published and distributed so it had virtually no marketing. You can [...] |
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