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Each detailed review is based on a thorough reading, and provides an excellent introduction to the text and its usefulness for students, preachers and church leaders.
The book’s back cover explains that it ‘examines the church’s response to the rise of far-right thinking in UK society and explores how it can respond more effectively’. A book review my Martyn Whittock for Preach magazine.
Read MoreA book review for Elizabeth Oldfield’s Fully Alive. ‘An insightful commendation of Christianity, written with an easy, yet polished style, that speaks to a generation that has found the faith wanting, without actually considering it.‘ by Peter Crumpler
Read MoreThe book is very well written, as one would expect from a journalist, and its aim is to attract support for what Matt’s charity, Menindanca, is doing, and not to convert. I recommend it as a good read, an inspiring story, and insight into what people can do if it matters enough to them that something should be done.
Read MoreI found myself being drawn into the sermons and learning much from them. Reading this book is both instructional and devotional, so it’s best not to be read through it at a canter, but to savour each address and learn from it.
Read MoreArranged into four, six days a week short chapters, with commentary, to cover the Advent season, each prefaced by an outstanding poem, this beneficial study manual will immerse you in the buoyant, baptismal waters of an elevated poet of the senses, and literary surgeon of the soul.
Read MoreAs Wear puts it, ‘we have allowed [political] parties to become brands and sources of identity.’ These ‘identities’ have divided churches, families and communities. With the USA facing another polarised presidential election in November, the need to address this situation is pressing.
Read MoreIn 2009, Londoner Pete Portal moved to Cape Town, to start working with and living alongside drug dealers and violent criminals. A thriving and beautiful city, Cape Town also has one of the highest crime rates in the world, and much of that crime is committed in Manenberg, the area to which Pete moved. Only by living there, he believes, can he and those with him truly reach their neighbours, and the book has quite a lot of reflections on what Christianity should look like, as well as what it often looks like.
Read MoreThis short book invites us on a journey in to the complex present reality of Artificial Intelligence. Its remit is broad and covers technological, philosophical/theological and practical overviews for the intended reader, a Christian looking to understand the ethical landscape in this area.
Read MoreThis book is a guide to anyone who wishes to share the biblical vision of what it is to be human. It is difficult, however, to determine to whom the book is aimed. Parts of it will resonate with individuals seeking to live their lives according to their personal vision and experience of biblical teaching but, for others, it is how they live in a multi-cultural society.
Read MoreThe book’s basic premise is simple: we face huge and important environmental challenges, but we have the solutions to most of them. With urgent optimism, we can and must build a sustainable future.
Read MoreThe author’s central point is that any activity of the Holy Spirit should always point, and direct, toward Jesus. Jesus is the end goal of any spiritual gift. Working from this point, she looks beyond church practices and explains how the arts, work, and worship can be prophetic.
Read MoreIt is a book whose benefit will come when the thoughts presented have a chance to percolate. Being able to dip into it, read an article which takes perhaps 5-10 minutes and have a moment to pause for thought all make it handy to keep on the coffee table, to help when we need a break to help clear the mind.
Read MoreI recommend this book for all those who work with others, but read it yourself first. It carries huge credibility, because Steve has lived through all this pain and disappointment, and yet held onto his positive attitude.
Read MoreIf you are looking for fresh inspiration for articulating and expressing the Christian faith, then this book delivers. It breathlessly lists the activities and the considerable efforts the team made to set up and protect what amounts to installations and performance art in contested public spaces.
Read MoreDavid Coffey followed a career as a Baptist pastor with stints as the General Secretary of the Baptist Union, and President of the Baptist World Alliance. He did a lot of preaching in that time, and travelled to over 80 countries. This book, originally simply intended as a memoir for his grandchildren, presents some of the best of those sermons, together with articles and addresses.
Read MoreIn four brief chapters, Reeves uses Scripture to examine attitudes toward revelation, redemption, regeneration and God. In each, Reeves reminds the reader that it is possible to be close to authentic spiritual experience and yet be a million miles from it.
Read MoreOne of the chief questions we might ask when wrestling with Judges 19 is, ‘Why is it in the Bible?’ Paynter shows us that it’s in the Bible because God cares deeply about the victims of gender-based violence and exploitation, and if God cares, we should too.
Read MoreWhy do Christians lose their faith, and leave their churches? Having gone through her own ‘unravelling of faith’, Olivia Jackson, in her new book, Uncertain, sets out to ask them, and to see what the church needs to learn.
Read MoreIn Raised to Stay, Natalie Runion – pastor, preacher, teacher, worship leader – addresses the problem of those who, particularly through hurt inflicted by others, are ready to quit their ministry or, in extreme cases, the Christian faith.
Read MoreHow can Christians finish life well? Isn’t the end of life inevitably a downturn? It doesn’t have to be, according to John Wyatt, in this new book, The Final Lap. Preparation is all.
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