the waiting country

Sometimes a single sentence can work so much in a person. I came across this one by Oliver O'Donovan here and feel it worthwhile sharin...

He smiled understandingly - much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, tha...

Reading this made me wonder: when I have been seeing someone in a pastoral counselling situation, have I been more conscious & careful ...

Over at Between Two Worlds , there is this quote for preachers to mull over (non-preachers views also welcome here, as always...): I have a ...

This selection was very difficult. In some ways, I think that Can't Get You Out Of My Head is a better song and a more compelling perfo...

You do not evaluate a risk by the probability of success but by the worthiness of the goal. We were willing to fail because the goal we sens...

From their album Making Movies this is Dire Straits at their best. Great musicianship, songwriting and, more unusually, singing. And if I ...

Engaging with contemporary debates about the cross of Jesus, Chris Wright makes this very astute observation (emphasis mine): Please bear wi...

No doubt The Badger and I will get around to a list of all-time great albums in due course. And this album by Echo And The Bunnymen proba...

Chris Wright has a very fine chapter on the issue of the extermination of the Cannanites in his book The God I Don't Understand . In ch...

For some, this is probably all the proof they need that a list like this is principally nostalgic - not because Summer of '69 looms lar...

I read a fascinating interview yesterday that Tim Challies did with Doug Groothuis on the subject of his 1997 book, The Soul In Cyberspac...

I'll happily confess I have very little grasp of what dear Kate Bush is singing about in this song ....but I love it. I love the way it...

We want to know where evil comes from. Why did God allow Satan to tempt Adam and Eve? And where did he come from? How did he become evil? Ch...

In Housegroups this week we were looking at 1 Peter 4 and the various ways in which people who follow Jesus can suffer at the hands of those...

Light My Fire by The Doors just bursts open from the very first note and delivers in spades. For once, I'm not going to comment on the...

I realise this is an extremely hard song to listen to, for all sorts of people and for all sorts of reasons. I'm not including it here b...

In introducing the section of his book, The God I Don't Understand , that deals with evil and suffering, Chris Wright makes this valuab...

The River was among the first Bruce Springsteen tracks I remember hearing, along with Hungry Heart and Sherry Darling off the same album...

Ever worry that the ever-increasing barrage of status updates from Facebook, Twitter and every other real-time, hey-look-what-I’m-doing and ...