I have really been enjoying this series of meditations on Psalm 27 from Paul Tripp recently.
There are 52 meditations on a psalm with just 14 verses, so it’s slow and meditative without any sense of needing to rush on through. The meditations don’t go through the psalm in order, though sometimes there will be [...]
I’d love to join Karyn for a virtual course, reading and discussing Hofstadter’s “Gödel, Escher, Bach”. This is the course description:
How are math, art, music, and language intertwined? How does intelligent behavior arise from its component parts? Can computers think? Can brains compute? Douglas Hofstadter probes very cleverly at these questions and more in [...]
…is now available on Amazon here, and doubtless at all good book shops near you.
Just to be clear, it is not written by The Vicar’s Wife but by a mutual friend.
Last week I had the pleasure and privilege of proofreading a novel written by the very talented James Cary. It was funny, intriguing, tender and a jolly good read. How can you not love a novel with a cryptic crossword to solve in the middle of it?
In Jam’s words:
It’s about a [...]
I notice that the papers from the EA Symposium on the atonement from summer 2005 have finally been published. I haven’t read it but I have just skimmed through the contents list (see the sample pages here and I’m struck by both the omissions and the inclusions. Here are the chapters (one of [...]
John Hobbins has challenged Bible bloggers to take on the world of children’s literature. John has a five-year-old daughter who many find a number of the books being reviewed a little too much just now. My choice, however, should be ideal bedtime reading. I adored Paddington when I was little. The cartoons on TV with [...]
David Field has a little odd-one-out quiz.
The answer is clearly (a) since the other two might actually be worth the time taken to read them. Nor are they massively overrated nonsense.
Friedrich Nietzsche would, it seems to me, make an excellent subject for a sitcom. The Ed Reardon of Polish existentialism was pompous, self-absorbed, sexist, racist, rude and utterly unaware of his own failings.
At no moment of my life can I be shown to have adopted any kind of arrogant or pathetic posture.(p. 45)
Arrogant? [...]
Idly thumbing through my mother’s copy of the Church Times while waiting for some bread to defrost, I happened to notice this week’s book reviews. Lester Grabbe’s latest book on the history of ancient Israel looks to be a fairly standard historical study with not much new to offer.
But it was the second volume [...]
No really! Well, almost.
Penguin are once again giving out books to bloggers. You sign up, they send you a book and you undertake to write a review of it within 6 weeks. See here for more details. They’re sending me something by Nietzsche but not everything is that scary. One of my friends is getting [...]
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