An entry from John Wesley’s journal 20 October 1743 Wesley was in Leeds and wrote ‘To attempt to speak was vain; for the noise on every side was like the roaring of the sea. So they dragged me along till we came to the town, where, seeing the door of a large house open, I…
Your mind matters : the place of the mind in the Christian life by John Stott IVP, 1972 47 pagesISBN 0 851 100 333 John Stott was a fine example of a leading Christian who used his mind to advance the gospel. In this public address from 1972, he strikes a healthy balance between arid…
There is a plethora of faiths around the world today – political, economic, social and, of course, religious. We are familiar with the many religions practised in our time – the well-known ones like Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Shintoism, Confucianism, atheism, Satanism, Mormonism, Jehovah’s Witnesses and many others not so well known. Of the…
The Father dvd, 2021 with Anthony Hopkins 94 minutes £6.99 This film is a powerful and disturbing portrayal of the relationship between a daughter and her father. It is a study of the growing onset of dementia in an old man although the word never appears in the dialogue. Powerful for its narrow, concentrated focus…
The Bible in translation : Ancient and English versions by Bruce M MetzgerBaker Academic, 2001 200 pages £12.99 ISBN 978 0 801 022 827 Bruce Metzger (1914-2007) was Professor of New Testament Language and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary for 46 years.. In the wide-ranging survey of many translations (and some paraphrases) of the Bible…
Making sense of the Trinity : 3 crucial questions by Millard J Erickson Baker Books, 2000 £8.99108 pages ISBN 978 0 801 062 872 This is an excellent book dealing with a difficult doctrine in the Christian faith. Millard Erickson is an American scholar, a professor of theology. In answering three crucial questions Is the…
The Sunflower : on the possibilities and limits of forgiveness by Simon Wiesenthal and othersSchocken Books, NY Revised and expanded edition, 1997 ISBN 978 0 805 210 606 Simon nWiesenthal is a Holocaust survivor and well-known as the founder of the Jewish Historical Documentation Centre which, through its investigations, brought more than 1000 Nazi criminals…
Candle in the Dark : the story of William Careydvd, Christian History Institute, 1998 $11.99 97 minutes plus 2 hours of additional material ISBN 1 563 647 826 William Carey (1761-1834) is regarded as the father of modern missions just as Isaac Watts is seen as the father of modern English hymn writing. This 97…
The Magna Carta of Humanity ~: Sinai’s revolutionary faith and the Future of Freedomby Os Guinness IVP, 2021 250 pages £14 ISBN 978 0 830 847 150 Available on Kindle The overarching theme of this magnum opus is freedom.Os Guinness explores the maelstrom of areas in which freedom is certain to be found and where…
Moral or ethical dilemmas face us all pretty well every day of our lives; some are wrestled with; others blithely ignored. Some are easy; some not so easy. During the Second World War, Simon Wiesenthal, a Jewish prisoner in the German camps was confronted with an ethical problem, difficult enough to last a life time…