Jesus, Paul, and the Gospels, James DG Dunn Eerdmans, £13.99 Simply Jesus, Tom Wright SPCK, £9.99 (Kindle £5.99). James Dunn and NT Wright have both written major scholarly works on the life of Jesus but they are also both gifted with the ability to distil their scholarship in to readable, popular books. They have an [...]
By Jeremy Moodey About a year ago a newspaper headline caught my eye. It read something like “Rowan Williams and Annie Lennox fight forest privatisation”. I wondered at the time what had prompted our scholarly primate and the former Eurythmics singer to combine to challenge government policy on the future of the Forestry Commission. In [...]
George Clooney has already scooped a Golden Globe for his performance as Matt King in Hawaii-set The Descendants (cert. 15), itself the winner in the drama category. (The Artist won best film in the comedy or musical category, but this has not stopped some British cinemagoers demanding their money back when they realised it was [...]
Nazareth have certainly had their ups and downs over the last four decades, but this re-mastered live collection is one of the highlights. With Spirit keyboard player John Locke and especially guitarist Billy Rankin added to their number, the Scottish riff-rockers have vital extra torque that they missed in their heyday (although Locke under-uses the [...]
Food and Faith in Christian Culture Edited by Ken Albala and Trudy Eden, Columbia University Press, £55 hb/ £18.50 pb Alone among the major western faiths, Christianity has by and large laid down no unvarying dietary strictures for the ordinary believer. Members of monastic communities may have been subjected to particular regimens, often depending on [...]
By Amaris Cole The award-winning writer and director, Murray Watts, recently showcased two of his plays at The King’s Head Theatre. Here, the man who brought us The Miracle Maker speaks of Mr Darwin’s Tree and First Light, as well as taking us back to where it all began. Your work has won many awards [...]
Anglican Life Latimer Trust By Margaret Hobbs What is an ‘ethical investment’? A year or two ago when the financial crisis was just breaking, I heard of an Investment manager asking his clients whether they were willing to invest in a fund consisting of “distressed assets”. But I am told that that sounds much more [...]
The Queen is inviting the entire nation to join the Big Jubilee Lunch on Sunday 3 June. Millions of people will eat together with neighbours and friends as part of the official Diamond Jubilee celebrations marking the Queen’s 60 years of service. A specially-written Grace – a prayer of thanks – starts the lunch. Churches [...]
by Graham Gendall Norton Bismarck is hardly known in our islands for his wicked political wit. A pity: tongue in cheek, he proposed a solution to the thorny Irish Question in the 19th century. “Move all the Dutch to Ireland, and the Irish to Holland. The industrious Dutch will make Ireland one of the richest [...]
By Julian Mann The agreed biblical agenda in the diocese of Jos, Nigeria, was the most inspiring and humbling feature for a visiting English Anglican. That is not to say that Jos Diocese does not face internal problems in addition to the constant threat to its churches from Islamist terrorism. During my visit to the [...]
