Archive for the 'books and dvd's' Category

Reading Pooh again for the first time

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

Have just started reading The Tao of Pooh and the Te of Piglet which is simply fabulous:
“What’s this you’re writing?” asked Pooh, climbing onto the writing table.
“The Tao of Pooh,” I replied.
“The how of Pooh?” asked Pooh, smudging one of the words I had just written.
“The Tao of Pooh,” I replied, poking his paw away with […]

The Sky is Falling

Monday, November 6th, 2006

Andrew has posted this little review of Alan Roxburgh latest book:
The Sky is Falling:
I posted this review on Alan Roxburgh’s book a couple of weeks back on the Amazon site seeing no one else had…
Alan Roxburgh is a pastor, teacher, writer, mentor and intellectual. He has had various professorships in distinguished academies and seminaries and […]

Exiles : Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

Michael Frost is publishing a new book next month.
The blurb on Amazon:
“Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture presents a biblical, Christian worldview for the emergent church—people who are not at home in the traditional church or in the secular world. As exiles of both, they must create their own worldview that integrates their […]

The Da Vinci Code ruckus

Saturday, June 17th, 2006

Michael Hidalgo has a interesting article over at the ooze about the ruckus in the reaction to Dan Brown’s book the Da Vinci code. He poses an interesting question….
“Many people are agitated by the “facts” contained in The Da Vinci Code. Maybe there is something more important than whether or not all the facts are […]

Brian McLaren on the Da Vinci code

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

Sojourners has an interview with Brian McLaren about the Da Vinci Code. To see the whole thing, free sign up here. Whilst saying that the book is fiction, he seems to say that it is revealing of a yearning for a new image of Jesus:
I think a lot of people have read the […]

books and movies impact

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

Katherine has left a comment that she would like a thread on any books or movies that have changed people’s view about their faith.
And so here it is a thread that you can post up that movie or book that has had an impact on your faith.
Katherine has also requested it be a thread that […]

The Da Vinci Code

Saturday, March 4th, 2006

Jonny Baker links up this interesting resource on the davinci code. As the movie is coming out soon,  I am sure we will be talking amongst our family and friends more about the claims made by the book (and movie).

expressions: The Da Vinci Code
“The Da Vinci Code, with over 30 million copies in print, […]

traveling together

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

I am reading traveling together – a guide for disciple-forming congregations at the moment. So far I have found it excellent. In particularly, I have loved the way the author (Jeffrey Jones) has summarises the book of Acts. It has energised me to read the book of Acts through again - maybe using Eugene Petersen’s […]

Your generator will work

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

One of my guilty pleasures is the fiction of Ayn Rand, in particular The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. It’s a guilty pleasure because I find that Rand’s philosophical principles half-baked and potentially dangerous, but nonetheless, there are few books of a thousand pages or so that I will happily re-read over and over. […]

out of bounds church

Thursday, May 5th, 2005

Over my holidays and in between gardening and generally chilling out, I have began to flick through Steve Taylor’s new book “The out of bounds Church”. Steve will be launching the book at nccc next Wednesday (11th May at 7.30pm). Details on the book launch are here.
The book is designed as a set of postcards […]