Entries categorized as Books

The Accidental Pilgrim

On January 27, 2011 / By maggi dawn / 5 Comments
My next book has just been re-titled Accidental Pilgrim. It will be published by Hodder and Stoughton on 24 June 2011. Part-autobiographical, it tells the story of how, through journeys made in my own life, I gradually came to understand the three grand ideas of pilgrimage: pilgrimage to places, life itself as a journey, and the inner More...

The Writing on the Wall: Reviews round-up

On October 13, 2010 / By maggi dawn / 2 Comments
Here’s what people have been saying about The Writing on the Wall Rachel Thorpe, writing for Evangelicals Now, says: In The Writing on the Wall, Maggi Dawn sets about doing what John Stott called ‘double listening’ — ‘it means that we’re called to listen both to the Word of God, and to today’s world, in order to More...

Chasing Francis

On September 30, 2010 / By maggi dawn / 1 Comment
Four years ago, almost to the day, I reviewed a new book, sent to me by its author. I liked it a lot, and gave it a warm review. Just recently there seems to have been a new spurt of interest in it – which pleases me, as since I read the book I met More...
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from blog to book deal

On August 19, 2010 / By maggi dawn / 15 Comments
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 clean sea breeze of old books

On July 14, 2010 / By maggi dawn / Comments Off
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

On June 23, 2010 / By maggi dawn / 7 Comments
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

On April 12, 2010 / By maggi dawn / 2 Comments
Here is my new book. Coming out late June. More...

too fond of books

On March 10, 2010 / By maggi dawn / 3 Comments
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

On March 4, 2010 / By maggi dawn / 3 Comments
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

On January 29, 2010 / By maggi dawn / 7 Comments
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...