Reading:

• An Educated Clergy: Scottish Theological Education and Training in the Kirk and Secession, 1560–1850 by Jack C. Whytock. I am unaware of any other book which attempts to do what Whytock has done here. This book fills a real gap.
• Duck, Death and the Tulip by Wolf Erlbruch. This is one of the most extraordinary books I’ve ever read.
• Exploring Forgiveness edited by Robert Enright and Joanna North.
• Reformed Theology by R. Michael Allen.
• Reformed Theology in Contemporary Perspective: Westminster, Yesterday, Today – and Tomorrow? edited by Lynn Quigley.
• The Sinners of Cramond: The Struggle to Impose Godly Behaviour on a Scottish Community, 1651–1851 by Alison Hanham. Absolutely fascinating.
• The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg.
• The Darien Disaster: A Scots Colony in the New World, 1698–1700 by John Prebble.
• Holy Fairs: Scotland and the Making of American Revivalism by Leigh Eric Schmidt.
• Beer Is Proof God Loves Us: Reaching for the Soul of Beer and Brewing by Charles W. Bamforth.
• Angina Days: Selected Poems by Günter Eich.
• The Cambuslang Revival: The Scottish Evangelical Revival of the Eighteenth Century by Arthur Fawcett.
• George Whitefield: The Life and Times of the Great Evangelist of the Eighteenth Century, Volume II by Arnold A. Dallimore.

Listening:

• The Ministry of the Exterior/Interior by Malcolm Gordon et al. Malcolm and Co. have gifted us with yet another collection of outstanding songs. Thank you so much guys. BTW: I’ve posted a review of Gordon’s first album, One Voice, here.
• Officium Novum by Jan Garbarek & The Hilliard Ensemble.
• Haunted by Janita.
• Clapton by Eric Clapton.
• Love On The Inside, Enjoy the Ride and Twice the Speed of Life by Sugarland.
• The Union by Elton John & Leon Russell.
• Working Class Hero: The Definitive Lennon by John Lennon.
• Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antartica.
• Seven Summers.

Watching:

• Rev (Series 1).
• Simon Schama’s The American Future: A History.
• My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?.
• Into Great Silence.
• Amish Grace.
• An Idiot Abroad (Episodes 1 & 2).