Truth Wars: Talking About Tolerance

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 [...]

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Sex and the Cynics: Talking About the Search for Love

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 [...]

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Talking About series

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 [...]

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Doctor Who

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 [...]

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Dark Matter

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 [...]

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More on the book

Here’s an outline of what the book will include:

Part 1: Chapters about Philip Pullman, the influences on him, etc., and chapters about the three volumes of His Dark Materials.

Part 2: Chapters about the big philosophical and theological themes which Pullman explores.

Since it’s a ‘thinking fan’s guide’ it will be both enthusiastic [...]

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Philip Pullman book

True to my word, here I am telling you a little about the book I’m writing on Pullman. The focus, of course, will be on his magnum opus, His Dark Materials. It will be the second in a series of ‘thinking fan’s guides’ from Damaris Publishing. I was a contributor to the first book, [...]

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