the waiting country

Tim Keller has a new book (Counterfeit Gods) out soon on the subject of idolatry. His own personal reflections on idolatry in ministry are w...

There's been a lot of debate in various places of late about the idea of 'virtual church' (people meeting for the purposes of ...

Don't be put off by the cover of this book (it proudly announces it was chosen by the Oprah Book Club.....) - Bret Lott's tale of th...

Back in the 50s, Dad was stationed at RAF Cranwell. Whilst he was there, the base was used in a film called High Flight and starring Ray Mil...

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked u...

In letter 15, Screwtape urges his nephew to focus his subject's thoughts on the future. He notes, The humans live in time but our enemy ...

I know someone who's reading Paul Miller 's A Praying Life - sounds like a great book. Here's a really helpful quote from it (a...

Preparing to preach on Psalm 65 , I came across this helpful observation by John Goldingay : ...food is the first thing God gives humanity (...

When he was stationed at RAF Cranwell back in the 50s, Dad had a walk-on part in a movie that was made at the camp - High Flight , starring ...

It won the Booker Prize for Hilary Mantel and has just made its way into my study, in readiness for some holiday reading in the next few wee...

Kevin Vanhoozer on the type of preachers we need: The preacher is a “man on a wire,” whose sermons must walk the tightrope between Scriptur...

From the pen of Tim Keller It is only through doing people-work that you become the preacher you need to be - someone who knows sin, how the...

ok, you may not 'get' them; they're a relatively acquired taste - but for those who do get it, some good news: remastered kraftw...

The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath 's celebrated semi-autobiographical account of a descent into clinical depression and its treatment, of th...

well, playing for radio 2 anyways (he's on tour soon & has a new greatest hits package to promote) saw him in concert in early '...

George Orwell's fable of the Russian revolution is simple & enjoyable, clear & salutary. Its celebrated lines have already passe...

I was talking with someone today and they made reference to a poem by the Irish poet, Thomas Moore (no 'Sir'). The poem is known as ...

Here's an interesting anecdote I wasn't aware of: Many of the rules that apply in businesses were set years ago and have endured by ...

Continuing the sequence of major prize-winning literature that this list is turning into - an Orange, & two Bookers to date - we now rea...

Susan Boyle on top form. Honest.