Chris reviews a new book by the designer Thomas Heatherwick.
Category: books
Healing the Divides is such a good and important book, that I’m not really going to review it, merely praise it.
Isn’t abuse something that should make us angry? Isn’t standing up for the victim something God’s people do? Something the leaders of God’s people are supposed to do?
As always, Jim Packer stiffens your spine even as he warms your heart and clears your mind.
Christians have a vested interested in the Christianised Middle Ages; was it really a time of mud and ignorance? Or is that a piece of ignorant mud-slinging?
If we are to understand China, we need to face it as it is, not as it was, nor how we might wish it to be.
How are Christians in China facing its new, urban – but totalitarian – future? A book review for pastors.
Here is the single, most devastating sentence in the book: ‘“I am pretty sure a smart, productive atheist could do my job well,” said a successful pastor.’
A book of wonderful treasures
This book is quite superb. Thoroughly researched, beautifully written, expertly selected, and dizzyingly clever.
Hutchmoot has just happened, in the UK for the first time. What, you ask, is a Hutchmoot? Well, let me tell you a story. In Nashville, Tennessee, lives the wonderfully talented Andrew Peterson. He’s a novelist, and a publisher, and a family man, and he keeps bees, but he is also, and above all, a
When I see younger leaders stuck in the mud, it’s often because they haven’t learnt one of Maxwell’s eleven lessons.
Let me make a prediction: if you read this brief book, and rethink some of your preaching and evangelistic conversations in the light of it, you will do yourself, the gospel cause, and the people you’re speaking to a huge service.
The issues at stake in this important book shape the inner life of almost every member of the church. Including you.
Seven lessons from a superb new biography of a remarkable man.
The idea of the Pastors’ Book Group is that we all read the same book, and then meet up to discuss it over lunch. so what are we reading next, I hear you ask…
This is an honest book, written by a sensitive Christian for a Christian readership, to help us to understand, embrace, sit with and pray for our sisters and brothers who face depression as a daily reality.
So here’s an idea. A group of pastors get together, to discuss a book that will be relevant for their ministry. Once a quarter.
Interested?
There are occasions where you need to know a lot, and maybe be exhaustive. But that habit can hurt us badly when it comes to other, more practical, areas.
It’s time to revisit your New Year’s resolution to read a major theologian this year
