I’m not one of those people who keeps a note of the books I read. This year, I’ve read a fair bit of fiction; my standard reading on when I’m travelling or relaxing, but less theology and serious reading than usual. My ‘books to read’ pile keeps getting bigger; one day, I’ll get it down […]
Month: December 2011
I wonder how history will remember the year 2011? Will it be for the Arab Spring, the ongoing financial crisis, or perhaps the leadership transition in North Korea? It could be that history will reveal the most important event this year was something that didn’t even hit our news-screens at the time it happened, but […]
Let’s get one thing straight: just because people have been repeating an argument for 2,000 years or more doesn’t mean that they are right. It could simply mean that they haven’t learned by their mistakes. For example, speaking about the Jamaican Patois Bible Project, Bishop Alvin Bailey, of the Portmore Holiness Church of God near […]
Top Ten Posts of the Year
A number of blogs are posting a list of their top ten posts of the year, and always desperate for ideas, I’ve decided to do the same thing. You can see the ranked list of our top posts below (I have not included visits to the home page). What is interesting in this list is […]
Comment is Free
Yesterday, I found a message on my desk asking me to contact Andrew Brown, the belief editor on the Guardian’s Comment is Free Section. Over the last few days, Bible Translation has been in the news, thanks to the publicity that the Jamaican Patois translation has received. Mr Brown wanted to know whether I would […]
This excellent talk by Roger Welch gets to the heart of why British Christians find it hard to engage with Scripture. It is well worth taking the forty minutes that it takes to listen. Applying the Bible to all of life View another webinar from Wycliffe Bible Translators
Global Christianity
The Pew Foundation have just published a very thorough report on the size and distribution of the World’s Christian population. The full report, which I’ve not had time to work through weighs in at 17Mb and comes complete with graphs, charts and all sorts of other exciting things. I’m looking forward to getting to grips […]
Blog of the Year 2011
It’s that time of the year again; the time when I select what is, in my opinion, the best blog of the year. This eagerly awaited award is a bit of a poisoned chalice. Last year’s winner, Onesimus Online more or less went offline as soon as I gave it the award! I’m not sure […]
This year has seen the four hundredth anniversary of the Authorised Version of the Bible marked with a good deal more publicity than ever attended its orignal publication. Yesterday, in a speech delivered to clergy in Oxford, the Prime Minister added his voice to the many who have spoken up over the last year (read […]
Some Thoughts on the Cross
This is an extract from my (much delayed) book on the story of the Bible and the Church: It is very important to recognise that it was Jesus who achieved all of this through his death on the cross. Human beings can be forgiven and reconciled to God because of what Jesus did. There is […]