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 Pollard has written in one of his articles for Idea magazine, and develops them into something more substantial, but still light and easily digested. Nick significantly develops his 800-word article into the opening chapter of each book. Then come some extra ingredients: a biblical perspective on the issue; articles on key aspects of the central theme; study guides on relevant films, books or television programmes; and an introduction to one or more key thinkers whose work still influences our culture. Some of these chapters have been developed from material published on Damaris’ CultureWatch website (www.culturewatch.org), others have been commissioned especially for the books. Finally, sprinkled throughout the mix are some relevant quotes (many of these quotes have come from another Damaris resource, www.ToolsForTalks.com – a collection of tools for Christian speakers.
I’ll introduce the books so far in separate posts.
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