A little while ago I reviewed The Longest Week by Nick Page, which took a look from an historical point of view at the last week of Jesus’ life in Jerusalem. Having enjoyed it so much, I was pleased to find that Page soon followed it with a ‘prequel’ if you like, The Wrong Messiah, which I duly … More The Wrong Messiah by Nick Page
Virtually anyone who knows me knows that I am a huge fan – and most definitely a snob – when it comes to coffee. Those who would identify with that, read on. I bought a book on Amazon recently just on a whim: Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World … More In praise of coffee
I posted a little while back commenting on Leonard Verduin’s treatment of the case of Michael Servetus in whose death John Calvin seems to have played some kind of significant part. Well, I’m still reading that book (The Reformers and Their Stepchildren). My incessant bad habit is starting books before I’ve finished. This begins to … More Leonard Verduin writing about the Cross
Before you read this post I must reject two possible assumptions you may have formed by looking at the title: 1. That I’m about to comment on anything in particular that Barack Obama might have said or done lately – frankly I have no idea what he’s been up to lately; 2. That the title … More The Audacity of Obama
There’s a lot of spew all over the interweb about John Calvin, and indeed in particular about Calvin and Michael Servetus, a “heretic” who was burned at the stake on October 27th, 1553, in some way under the watchful eye of Calvin. “In some way,” I say, because it has been argued the extent to … More Verduin on Calvin’s burning of Servetus
I’m reading a great book at the moment, “America, Empire of Liberty”, which is basically a recent, re-thought history of America written by Cambridge professor David Reynolds. Helpfully for European readers like myself it obviously lacks the shallow patriotism and misrepresentation of facts which often comes with what is associated with American history as it … More The Paradoxes of American History
The Longest Week – Nick Page Hodder & Stoughton, 2009 Nick Page’s book The Longest Week has been beautifully published by Hodder and Stoughton in hardback and more recently, paperback. I personally bought the hardback version after seeing Roger Forster, who heads up our church Ichthus Christian Fellowship, reading it. Roger is a great reader … More Book Review: The Longest Week by Nick Page
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