Month: July 2017

Can you really read a book a week?

I’m increasingly seeing the same thing said about some remarkably high-powered people.  Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Rick Warren, are all among the people of whom I’ve heard it said that they all read a book a week. I think that is extraordinary, and while I have no doubt that the stories are true – for

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Three books to make you think like Tim Keller: No. 3, ‘Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism’, by Larry Siedentop

This brilliant history of the growth and impact of Christianity in Europe will make your brain fizz.

Three books to make you think like Tim Keller: No. 1,  The World Beyond Your Head

If I said that this was the most important piece of secular philosophy I have read in a long time, you’d probably switch off.  But it is, and I want you to read it.

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