Entries categorized as Books
too fond of books
I have just finished writing a book about books, art and music. For the last month every spare moment has been devoted to tidying up the ends – checking footnotes, reading copy edits, checking permissions…
This morning I woke from a strange Alice In Wonderland kind of dream, in which I was lost in a world More...
new blogging
I’ve been doing some work with the person who redesigned this blog. He has been revising my blogging habits with me.
When I started blogging seven years ago I wasn’t writing books. Since then I’ve written a lot of articles and three books. A couple of days ago I mentioned the conception of another book. This More...
Giving it Up
It’s not long now till Lent. Have you got your Lent book yet? There is plenty of good stuff out there…
My Lent book for 2010 is called Giving it Up. It’s a book of 47 short chapters, so you can read one every day through Lent. This is the theme: most people associate Lent with More...
Scapegoats, shambles and shibboleths
I like finding out about the origins of words and phrases – someone noted the other day that I rarely preach a sermon without mentioning the etymology of at least one word. One of the most entertaining sidelines of my research on S T Coleridge was discovering how many of the words and phrases in More...
Angels and Announcements
I’m going to lead a quiet day tomorrow in Ely, based on themes from my Advent book, Beginnings and Endings (and What Happens in Between): Daily Bible Readings from Advent to Epiphany
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welcome to the new blog!
Today my new book is out, and I’m celebrating with a new blog site
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Creation at Worship
Chris Voke is Deputy Principal at Spurgeon’s College in London, and his new book is a very readable and well argued account of why we need a good doctrine of creation.
He starts out by showing how protestant worship in some places tends to separate spiritual concerns from physical ones, implying (in almost a gnostic More...
Genesis: nothing left to the imagination
Robert Crumb talks about his new comic-strip Genesis, (which I previously blogged here) saying that it is a multi-layered text, full of imaginative possibilities. Nick Baines, Bishop of Croydon says on the piece that it teases the imagination. I’m not sure that Crumb’s work teases so much as leaves nothing to the imagination, but I More...
Why I’m not Emergent
A while ago, I read a book called “Why we’re not emergent (by two guys who should be)”.(see below)
It’s an interesting read, by two young ministers who identify (to some degree) with the cultural issues that the Emerging/Emergent church have highlighted, but who don’t go along with the Emerging/Emergent narrative.
I’ve kept meaning to write a More...
Halloween, and Tales of Terror
I've been talking through mentoring issues with a couple of people today – how to get a grip on what they do and make it better. One of the topics of conversation was how to present preching better. There's a whole lot of ways you can use a five minute preaching slot; you can teach More...
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author musician theologian
Maggi has kept a blog since September 2003, writing about theology and faith, the arts and literature, and a little about life and random nonsense...
This title focuses on the importance of understanding who God is - and who he is not. It explores the core Lenten idea of 'giving up', taking it beyond the traditional idea of simply abstaining from something.
This book compares and contrasts the different Gospel narratives of Christ's coming. It is designed specifically for use in 2007, highlighting links to the Church calendar. It is intended for those wanting daily Bible readings for Advent.
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