Just Disconnect
It was said of John Henry Newman that he was never less alone than when alone. Newman liked the peace and quiet of isolation: it allowed him to read, to think and to write. I confess to some sympathy for…
Tag Christianity and Culture
Much Better Than The Daily Mail
A Review of Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert (Crown and Covenant Publications, 2012). With the exception of Augustine’s Confessions, I am not a big fan of Christian testimonies and autobiographies. Generally, they exhibit one of…
Much Better Than The Daily Mail
A Review of Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert (Crown and Covenant Publications, 2012). With the exception of Augustine’s Confessions, I am not a big fan of Christian testimonies and autobiographies. Generally, they exhibit one of…
Pragmatism
The former British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling (he of the white hair and black eyebrows), has written a memoir of his time at No.11 Downing Street. It’s called Back from the Brink and provides a fascinating insight into…
Pragmatism
The former British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling (he of the white hair and black eyebrows), has written a memoir of his time at No.11 Downing Street. It’s called Back from the Brink and provides a fascinating insight into…
An Important and Positive Lesson from the Liberals (which you might not hear elsewhere)
Readers of this column will know the various chips I have on my shoulders. At least I hope they do. I try to wear my chips with a certain amount of unapologetic panache, after all. One of them is disco…
On Being a False Teacher
his year’s Christmas season was a mixture of highs and lows. The highs: England cricketers retaining the Ashes in Australia (if you are American, you probably will not understand the remarkable nature of that statement – indeed, to offer a…
Review: Charles F. Raven, Shadow Gospel
Rowan Williams and the Anglican Communion Crisis (Latimer Trust, 2010) The Latimer Trust (www.latimertrust.org) has a long history of publishing some fine booklets on the history and theology of Reformed Anglicanism. Many of us outside the Anglican fold are grateful,…
J.I. Packer and the Evangelical Future
J.I. Packer and the Evangelical FutureEdited by: Timothy George253pBaker (October 2009) Festschrift, like schadenfreude and blitz, is reckoned to be an untranslatable German word. The OED has a go, however: a festschrift is ‘a collection of writings presented to a…
The Elder
The ElderBy Cornelis Van Dam320 p.P&R Publishing (November 2009) Dr. Cornelis Van Dam, professor of Old Testament at the Theological College of the Canadian Reformed Churches in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada has written a very helpful and informative work entitled The…