the waiting country

Great to see some Adrian Snell albums appearing on spotify. Let's hope it isn't long before his whole catalogue is available there. ...

Much of this article struck me as being relevent to pastors, too.

But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night. A universe of in...

What sadness attends this final post in the series! But The Cutter by Echo & The Bunnymen almost makes me want to start a sub-genre: s...

Well, many weeks back I was convinced I'd have to include Glen Campbell 's Wichita Lineman in this list but then I heard Rhinestone...

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...