- The Centre for Public Christianity (CPX) has posted two recent interviews with Paul Fiddes. And there’s more Fiddes here on ‘The End of the World: A Work in Progress’.
- Frank Rees posts on ‘Christian Freedom’ and a free church.
- John Pilger on why Tony Blair must be arrested.
- A public lecture by Professor Steve Reicher (professor of social psychology at the University of St Andrew’s) titled ‘Beyond the Banality of Evil’. The lecture, which goes for about 85 minutes, critically addresses Hannah Arendt’s hypothesis on the banality of evil arguing that those who commit extreme acts are not aware of the consequences of their actions; rather, they celebrate these consequences as moral.
- Jim Gordon posts on R S Thomas, the Crucified God and the virtue of metaphysical humility.
- Rick Floyd posts on Disability and Grace.
- Kimlyn J. Bender reviews Gunton’s The Barth Lectures. My own review of Gunton’s volume can be read here.
- Sung-Sup Kim reviews David Gibson’s Reading the Decree: Exegesis, Election and Christology in Calvin and Barth. My own review of this is here.
- Ben Myers, aka Mr Tomato Plant, shares two chapters of his forthcoming Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel on gelato and the girl who buttons her coat as her ‘dad arrives to close the shop’.
- Here’s two books I’m waiting for: The Pastor: A Memoir by Eugene H. Peterson, and Defending Constantine: The Twilight of an Empire and the Dawn of Christendom by Peter J. Leithart
- Finally, I’m enjoying U2’s Go Home: Live from Slane Castle.
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“forthcoming Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel” – ha, what a great line! I can imagine someone using this in a job interview or a CV: “my forthcoming prize-winning book…” =)
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