Postcards from Palookaville

`Any evening, any day, any time you're Lambeth way, you'll find 'em all doin' the Lambeth walk!' So goes the old song my granny taught me; but not any more, apparently. According to The Daily Torygraph, some bishops will be boycotting the Lambeth Conference this year. Read/watch it here . Just out...

Sorry to disappoint all my 'friends' out there. This is not my demise but that of one of the greatest church historians Britain ever produced, a man whose erudite writings opened up the world of the early church for many of us: Henry Chadwick. You can find an obituary, written by Rowan Williams,...

Sorry to disappoint all my 'friends' out there. This is not my demise but that of one of the greatest church historians Britain ever produced, a man whose erudite writings opened up the world of the early church for many of us: Henry Chadwick. You can find an obituary, written by Rowan Williams,...

Del's asked about summer reading. Here's mine: Theology: Johannes Vanderkemp, The Heidelberg Catechism ; David F Wells , The Courage to be Protestant. Two books on my passions: Jeremy Schaap, Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics. After Emil Zatopek, Owens has to be one of...

Del's asked about summer reading. Here's mine: Theology: Johannes Vanderkemp, The Heidelberg Catechism ; David F Wells , The Courage to be Protestant. Two books on my passions: Jeremy Schaap, Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics. After Emil Zatopek, Owens has to be one of...

A friend brought a fascinating article on the internet to my attention. You can find it here . It's worth reading for a number of reasons, not least the image of a virtually blind Nietzsche banging away at an early typewriter and realising how the very technology he is using is changing his prose...

A friend brought a fascinating article on the internet to my attention. You can find it here . It's worth reading for a number of reasons, not least the image of a virtually blind Nietzsche banging away at an early typewriter and realising how the very technology he is using is changing his prose...

Bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali, has urged the church to make efforts to convert Muslims to the Christian faith. See http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1022491/Bishop-says-collapse-Chr... High-ranking support seems minimal: the Mail (OK, it's the UK equivalent of Fox News.....) says...

Bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali, has urged the church to make efforts to convert Muslims to the Christian faith. See http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1022491/Bishop-says-collapse-Chr... High-ranking support seems minimal: the Mail (OK, it's the UK equivalent of Fox News.....) says...

Just received these helpful additions to my earlier post on Barth from an interested reader: Here are some things that would make my reasons-for-Barth list: • Barth is more than a sparring partner, he seemed to be deeplydevoted to the church of Christ and its survival in the midst ofintellectual...