Entries categorized as Books
from blog to book deal
People have started asking me lately why I blog. “Why do you write a blog when you are a published author?”, they say.
Keeping a blog has done several things for me. The first is that it’s one of the few modes of writing that you publish instantly, and get an instant response. Not everyone wants More...
The Writing on the Wall: Reviews round-up
Here’s what people have been saying about The Writing on the Wall
Kim Fabricius at Faith and Theology:
Biblical illiteracy in the UK is pandemic in popular and high culture alike. Enter Maggi Dawn, Cambridge college chaplain and star blog babe, to give us an education in this fabulous and fluent book, which takes what used to More...
The clean sea breeze of old books
There are lots of different methods recognised in theology. Theology is often taught under the titles “Systematics” or Dogmatics” but in fact not all theology is systematic in method or dogmatic in the popular sense.
One of the things I always recommend to people when they are reading a new thinker is to take careful note More...
Writing on the Wall
My new book is out! it’s available on Amazon. It should appear in bookshops any day now. It’s written for anyone who likes literature, art and music, and wants to know how the foundational stories and ideas and traditions of the bible have shaped them. If you are into literature, art or music and know More...
The Writing on the Wall
Here is my new book. Coming out late June.
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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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